Alara Reborn
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Alara Reborn is a Magic: The Gathering
expansion set which was released on April 30, 2009. It includes 145 cards. To take advantage of International Workers' Day/Labor Day
in Europe
, it was released on a Thursday instead of the traditional Friday. The pre-release date was April 24, 2009.
Alara Reborn follows the new publishing standards set by Wizards of the Coast
in Shards of Alara
. That is, mythic rares are included in one out of every eight packs. Intro packs contain 41 cards and one booster pack, and replace preconstructed theme decks. Its tagline is, "The birth of one world. The death of five."
Alara Reborn is the first set in the history of Magic the Gathering to consist entirely of multicolored, or "gold", cards (cards which require mana of more than one color to play). It expands on the mechanics, themes and flavor laid down in Shards of Alara
and Conflux
, but creates new combinations of creatures under the influence of more than one shard, such as coloured artifact creatures from Esper that have the Bant ability Exalted.
It has also brought about the new mechanic called Cascade.
Cascade - When you play this spell, remove cards from the top of your library from the game until you remove a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the removed cards on the bottom in a random order.
Magic: The Gathering
Magic: The Gathering , also known as Magic, is the first collectible trading card game created by mathematics professor Richard Garfield and introduced in 1993 by Wizards of the Coast. Magic continues to thrive, with approximately twelve million players as of 2011...
expansion set which was released on April 30, 2009. It includes 145 cards. To take advantage of International Workers' Day/Labor Day
International Workers' Day
International Workers' Day is a celebration of the international labour movement and left-wing movements. It commonly sees organized street demonstrations and marches by working people and their labour unions throughout most of the world. May 1 is a national holiday in more than 80 countries...
in Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
, it was released on a Thursday instead of the traditional Friday. The pre-release date was April 24, 2009.
Set details
Alara Reborn is the third set in the Alara block, following Shards of Alara and Conflux.Alara Reborn follows the new publishing standards set by Wizards of the Coast
Wizards of the Coast
Wizards of the Coast is an American publisher of games, primarily based on fantasy and science fiction themes, and formerly an operator of retail stores for games...
in Shards of Alara
Shards of Alara
Shards of Alara is an expansion set from the trading card game Magic: The Gathering. It is the 47th limited-edition expansion set for Magic and was released on October 3, 2008. On Magic Online Shards was released on October 20, 2008....
. That is, mythic rares are included in one out of every eight packs. Intro packs contain 41 cards and one booster pack, and replace preconstructed theme decks. Its tagline is, "The birth of one world. The death of five."
Alara Reborn is the first set in the history of Magic the Gathering to consist entirely of multicolored, or "gold", cards (cards which require mana of more than one color to play). It expands on the mechanics, themes and flavor laid down in Shards of Alara
Shards of Alara
Shards of Alara is an expansion set from the trading card game Magic: The Gathering. It is the 47th limited-edition expansion set for Magic and was released on October 3, 2008. On Magic Online Shards was released on October 20, 2008....
and Conflux
Conflux
Conflux is a Magic: The Gathering expansion set, released on February 6, 2009. It is the 48th limited-edition expansion set for Magic and includes 145 cards.- Set Details :...
, but creates new combinations of creatures under the influence of more than one shard, such as coloured artifact creatures from Esper that have the Bant ability Exalted.
Mechanics
This set continues on the Shards of Alara set's Exalted, Unearth and Devour mechanics, as well as the Shadowmoor and Ravnica blocks' Hybrid Mechanic. Cards using the Hybrid Mechanic in this set lack the usual hybrid card border colors as they include a third color outside of the hybrid colors.It has also brought about the new mechanic called Cascade.
Cascade - When you play this spell, remove cards from the top of your library from the game until you remove a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the removed cards on the bottom in a random order.