Eventide Magic The Gathering Cards
Eventide is an expansion set from the trading card game Magic: The
Gathering. It was released on July 25, 2008. The pre-release events for
this set were held on July 12 and July 13, 2008
Eventide is the second set in the Shadowmoor block, which is part
of the Lorwyn/Shadowmoor superblock. The two blocks mirror each other
in many different ways including flavor and mechanics. Even the
expansion symbol of Eventide has striking similarities to that of
Morningtide, its counterpart in Lorwyn: where the Morningtide symbol
suggests a full sun, the Eventide symbol suggests a mostly eclipsed
sun.
Eventide will continue the block themes of hybrid cards and color
matters that Shadowmoor started, as well as the Wither and Persist key
words. Where Shadowmoor focused on allied color hybrids, Eventide
focuses on enemy color hybrid cards. Eventide also introduces two new
mechanics:
- Retrace: this ability allows one to play a card out of one's graveyard with an added cost of discarding a land.
- Chroma: this ability word makes the number of mana symbols of a
particular color a variable which determines the effect of a card.One
card from Eventide, Phosphorescent Feast, had already appeared in
Future Sight, but without using the ability word Chroma.
Five theme decks were released as part of the set. The preconstructed theme decks are: "Life Drain" (White/Black), "Sidestep" (Blue/Red), "Death March" (Black/Green), "Battle Blitz" (Red/White), and "Superabundance" (Green/Blue).
The Hybrid Land Cycle - The cycle from Shadowmoor was joined by the enemy colored versions Fetid Heath, Rugged Prairie, Cascade Bluffs, Flooded Grove, and Twilight Mire. This makes the Hybrid Land cycle the fourth rare dual land cycle to be made for both allied and enemy colors (The others include the Dual Land from Beta, The Pain Lands from Ice Age and Apocalypse, and The Shocklands from Ravnica block).
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