Weatherlight Magic The Gathering Cards
Weatherlight was the nineteenth Magic: The Gathering set and eleventh
expert level set, third and last in the Mirage Block. It was released
in June 1997. Its expansion symbol is the Thran Tome.
Even though Weatherlight was the last expansion in the Mirage block
it does not continue the story set in Mirage and Visions. Instead, this
expansion begins a new story with new characters. It should be noted
that Sisay and the flying ship Weatherlight had been mentioned in and
played a relatively minor role in Mirage and Visions. Mechanics from
the other expansions in this block do appear as well as some new ones.
Weatherlight was based largely around the use of the graveyard.
The set boasted more ways to retrieve cards from the graveyard than
ever before, and other spells used the graveyard as a resource by
removing cards in it from the game.
Weatherlight was the last set, until Coldsnap, to use
cumulative upkeep which had been introduced in Ice Age, but the set
provided a new twist: cards with effects which became larger as their
cumulative upkeep costs increased.
Weatherlight was also the last set to use banding, a mechanic created in Alpha, because it was deemed too confusing.
Weatherlight had many so-called "cantrips", another idea that
was created for Ice Age - spells that let you draw a card in addition
to their normal effect. Weatherlight's innovation was to draw the card
as soon as the spell resolved, rather than next turn, a change which is
still used on cantrips to this day.
Though the third set in the Mirage block, Weatherlight does not
prominently feature the keyword mechanics introduced in Mirage, phasing
and flanking, which appear on only three and two cards, respectively,
in this set.
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