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Scourge Magic The Gathering Cards
Scourge is a Magic: The Gathering expansion set. It is the third set of
the Onslaught block. There are 143 cards overall. The expansion symbol
is a dragon's skull.
Mechanics
used in Scourge are:
- Storm - Allows you to copy a spell multiple times equal to the number of other spells that have been played on the turn. This mechanic was reused in Time Spiral.
- Landcycling - A variant on cycling, this allows you to cycle a card to search your library for a land of the cycling type rather than drawing a card. For example, a card with Plainscycling 2 could be cycled for 2 mana to find a Plains.% 26nbsp;
- 'Converted mana cost' matters - There were many cards in the set that encouraged you to play high mana costed spells (six mana or more).% 26nbsp;
- Though not a mechanic, Scourge boasts a small but significant dragon theme, with more than ten cards that revolved around dragons. It had five 'dragon boons', one for each color, which would bounce back from the graveyard to enchant an expensive creature you control that comes into play.
The release of Scourge made a large impact on tournament play. In particular, the addition of Goblin Warchief greatly strengthened decks using the Goblin tribe in multiple formats. Eternal Dragon gave white control decks both a robust card advantage and finisher all in one. Vintage quickly adopted both Mind's Desire and Tendrils of Agony due to their extreme synergy with fast artifact mana and Yawgmoth's Will plus their relative immunity to disruption like Force of Will and Chalice of the Void. Almost in protest, the Scourge card Stifle also allowed decks to counter things that were previously immune, including the Scourge Storm cards.
* All cards are Mint/NM and in English unless otherwise specified.
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