What's the rarest Magic card in existence?
Power Nine
The Power Nine are considered to be among the most powerful cards in the game. All nine cards are of the rarest level of rarity and were printed only in the "", "", and "" sets in late 1993 to early 1994. Currently, all of the Power Nine cards are restricted in the Vintage tournament format and banned in Legacy, the only tournament formats where they would be legal otherwise, and all except for Timetwister are banned in the format.
T206
The T206 Wagner is the most valuable baseball card in existence, and even damaged examples are valued at $100,000 or more. This is in part because of Wagner's place among baseball's immortals, as he was an original Hall of Fame inductee. More importantly, it is one of the scarcest cards from the most prominent of all vintage card sets.
Magic's Pawn
Magic's Pawn is a 1989 fantasy novel by Mercedes Lackey. The first of "The Last Herald Mage" trilogy, the book centers around a powerful Herald-Mage named Vanyel Ashkevron, who lives in the kingdom of Valdemar. In the book, Heralds are individuals with extrasensory or psychic abilities who have devoted their lives to using their abilities to help others in the kingdom of Valdemar. A small number of Heralds have mage capabilities and are called Herald-Mages.
The Magician (Tarot card)
In French "Le Bateleur", "the mountebank" or the "sleight of hand artist", is a practitioner of stage magic. The Italian tradition calls him "Il Bagatto" or "Il Bagatello". The Mantegna Tarocchi image that would seem to correspond with the Magician is labeled "Artixano", the Artisan; he is the second lowest in the series, outranking only the Beggar. Visually the 18th-century woodcuts reflect earlier iconic representations, and can be compared to the free artistic renditions in the 15th-century hand-painted tarots made for the Visconti and Sforza families. In the painted cards attributed to Bonifacio Bembo, the Magician appears to be playing with cups and balls.
Monster Magic
Monster Magic is an out-of-print collectible card game by Trio Toys. It was released in 1995. The first and only set was called "Alpha Series" and had 104 cards. The packaging for the game suggested that four more expansions may have been released which would bring the total to 520 cards, however its unlikely they were ever released.
Magic: The Gathering
"Magic: The Gathering" cards are produced in much the same way as normal playing cards. Each "Magic" card, approximately 63 × 88 mm in size (2.5 by 3.5 inches), has a face which displays the card's name and rules text as well as an illustration appropriate to the card's concept. 18,970 unique cards have been produced for the game ,
many of them with variant editions, artwork, or layouts, and 600–1000 new ones are added each year. The first "Magic" cards were printed exclusively in English, but current sets are also printed in Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.
Magical objects in Harry Potter
In "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban", Fred and George Weasley give the map to Harry so he can travel to the village of Hogsmeade through a hidden passageway. The twins had previously stolen the map from a drawer in Filch's office that contained dangerous confiscated objects; it is revealed by Lupin that Filch probably knew what it was but not how to work it. Snape later finds the map in Harry's possession and tries to force it to reveal its secrets, but the map merely mocks and insults him. Lupin (one of the creators of the map), the current Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher, is called upon to investigate this "dark object", and confiscates it to keep Harry safe, though he returns it to Harry after resigning his post at Hogwarts. From then on, the map becomes one of Harry's most useful tools in his ongoing adventures.
Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters
Several cards were created exclusively for the anime, including unique cards that are tied to story elements, such as the fairy tale themed cards and the Golden Castle of Stromberg of the Grand Championship arc, and others created specifically for a single duel. Also, certain cards like Dark Magician and Blue-Eyes White Dragon are not nearly as rare in reality as they are in the anime.
John du Pont
Du Pont was also a philatelist. Bidding anonymously in a 1980 auction, he paid $935,000 for one of the rarest stamps in the world, the British Guiana 1856 1c black on magenta. After his death, this stamp was sold at auction for $9.5 million (inclusive of buyer's premium) at Sotheby's June 17, 2014. For the fourth time, the stamp broke the record for a single stamp's sale. The unique stamp was part of the estate of du Pont. According to du Pont's will—unsuccessfully challenged by several parties—80 percent of the sale proceeds go to the family of Bulgarian wrestler Valentin Jordanov Dimitrov and 20 percent goes to the Eurasian Pacific Wildlife Foundation, based in Paoli, Pennsylvania, a group du Pont founded to support Pacific wildlife. In 1986, competing as "John Foxbridge", he won the Grand Prix d'Honneur in the FIP Championship Class at the STOCKHOLMIA 86 international stamp exhibition for his display of "British North America". While du Pont continued to buy stamps while in prison, he was not allowed to bring them there.
Limited Edition (Magic: The Gathering)
"Limited Edition" included a number of unique cards exploring mechanics rarely seen in later sets. is a card involving dexterity, in which the card is flipped onto the play area to determine cards destroyed by the Orb. Both manual dexterity cards such as Chaos Orb & ante cards are banned in all sanctioned "Magic" formats as of 2013."Alpha" contained numerous misprints and did not adhere to close standardized wordings for similar effects seen in later sets and printings. The following cards had printing errors, most of which were fixed in the "Beta" release.
Legend (Magic: The Gathering)
Most legendary cards are ; legendary , , and also exist.
Magic: The Gathering
As of late 2013, Wizards of the Coast has expressed concern over the increasing number of counterfeit cards in the secondary market. Wizards of the Coast has since made an effort to counteract the rise of counterfeits by introducing a new holofoil stamp on all rare and mythic rare cards as of Magic 2015.
List of Pokémon Trading Card Game sets
HeartGold and SoulSilver – Undaunted is the third Pokémon trading card game set based on the Pokémon games, "Pokémon HeartGold" and "SoulSilver". The set has a total of 90 cards, including Raichu (Prime), Houndoom (Prime), Espeon (Prime), Umbreon (Prime), Scizor (Prime), Slowking (Prime), Rayquaza and Deoxys LEGEND and Kyogre and Groudon LEGEND. The set also features a Secret Rare card: Alph Lithograph. This one allows the player to return any stadium in play to its owner's hand. Heartgold and Soulsilver Undaunted continues the trend of dual-Legend cards, Legend cards depicting 2 Pokémon that allow the opponent to draw 2 prize cards when Knocked Out. The starter decks for HGSS Undaunted are Nightfall, a dark/metal type deck featuring Umbreon, and Daybreak, a grass/psychic type deck featuring Espeon. With HGSS Undaunted came out there were two changes to the Starter Deck packaging: they now contain an additional booster pack from the set as well as a cardboard deckbox which can hold a 60-card unsleeved deck.
Magic: The Gathering compilation sets
Duel Decks are a series of boxed sets for "Magic: The Gathering", each consisting of a pair of 60-card decks built around a rivalry between two forces, often planeswalkers or creature type "tribes". Typically, each deck contains a mythic rare, several rares, and a number of cards with alternate art. Most cards are reprints of cards from ; however, some duel decks contain pre-release cards from unreleased future sets.
Power Nine
Black Lotus is usually considered to be the most valuable non-promotional "Magic" card ever printed. Its "" and "" versions in particular are considered to be extremely valuable, due to the more limited print runs and black borders of those sets. The "Alpha" version is the most sought-after, with an estimated 1100 ever printed, followed by the "Beta" version, with 3300 ever printed. A "gem mint" "Alpha" version of the Black Lotus was auctioned for more than in an eBay auction in 2018.
Magic: The Gathering expansion sets, 1993–1995
"Chronicles" was released in early August 1995 and went out of print in December 1996. "Chronicles" sold in 12-card booster packs which contained three cards from the uncommon print sheet and nine from the common sheet. Of the cards from the uncommon sheet 25 were three times as common as the other 46, essentially dividing the cards from the uncommon sheet into rares and uncommons. The commons come in four different rarities. The five multicolored Legends at common are C1, appearing each once on the print sheet and thus just as common as the uncommons from the set. The seven common artifacts are C2 and the 30 common cards with a single color are C3. The remaining three commons are the Urza's lands, originally from "Antiquities". They are C4, but each has four different artworks so for collector's purposes they often counted as three C1 cards each. It is estimated that about 180 million "Chronicles" cards were produced.
Marvel Masterpieces
This set consisted of 150 standard cards, 22 "Canvas" cards, 8 "Holoflash" cards, and 2 "Mirage" cards. Artwork for the set was done by four artists: Dave Devries, Dimitrios Patelis, Peter Scanlan and Nelson. Each artist painted 38 different characters that the other artists also painted plus 9 unique characters that were only painted once. Continuing from the previous set, these cards came with parallel cards this time in the form of "E-Motion" signatures. The two mirage cards are rare, coming one to every 360 packs depending on the ratio. They are highly sought-after. These boxes have increased highly in value and are very much sought by collectors as the 1996 Marvel masterpieces boxes. Since both years have limited print run the 1995 and 1996 are by far the rarest of the Marvel boxes to date. It was unknown at the time of production but now to a list count average found and credited. It is now known that there has been less than 15,000 boxes manufactured and distributed by Fleer Corp.This set included 100 standard cards, 6 "Gallery" cards, 6 "Double Impact" cards, and 9 artwork redemption cards. The artwork redemption cards were extremely rare and bore the text "Congratulations! You have just won an original piece of painted art from the Marvel Masterpieces 1996 set!" This series was drawn entirely by Boris Vallejo and Julie Bell. It saw extremely limited distribution and therefore is one of the most expensive marvel card sets to date. Since there is no known print run available as there is for the 1995 Marvel Masterpieces makes these boxes hard to sell since there is no ratio or comparison to limitation print.
Starter (Magic: The Gathering)
"Starter 2000"' was very unusual in that it contained identical reprints of "6th Edition" cards, while other cards in the set were essentially reprints of "Starter 1999" cards, without an expansion symbol. Like other "Starter" level products, the set contained bare vanilla creatures, simple sorceries, and basic lands. "Starter 2000" was only released in a series of theme decks, and has become very hard to find due to its limited print run and sales. Also adding to its appeal for experienced players and making it harder to find, each pack contained a rare "" City of Brass, which was, and in many formats still is, essential to many tournament decks. Each theme deck shipped with a CD-ROM that gave new players step by step instruction to learn the game of "Magic", using the cards that they unpacked as a guide. The theme decks also contained limited edition promo foil cards from "Nemesis", Rhox, with alternate art that would be later used in "". The next release of the "Starter" product line was included under the "" banner, known as "7th Edition Starter", and would contain similar theme decks.
List of Pokémon Trading Card Game sets
Call of Legends is a stand-alone English set of reprints and previously unreleased cards. Contains 95 different cards. Due to the extended time period between HeartGold and SoulSilver – Triumphant and the release of the 5th generation of Pokémon video games this set was released as a filler set. It contains reprints from the HeartGold and SoulSilver sets, as well as the remaining cards from the Japanese Lost Link set. In addition, it contains cards of legendary Pokémon in shiny and non-shiny forms. The shiny Pokémon are also known as Shiny Legendaries, and for example Shiny Suicune is number SL11. There are a total of 11 shiny Legendaries.
Mark Rosewater
Rosewater's nickname is Maro. This came about because the old email system of Wizards of the Coast had a feature that could complete names based on the letters typed, and Bill Rose realized that maro was the shortest unique combination of letters needed to compose a message. In the "" expansion of the card game, a creature card named "" named after him was included; Rosewater claims that it is his favorite Magic card. is his second favorite card. He made the art of this card himself, for which he was paid a $1.00 check, which he never cashed. He is also known for his podcast, Drive to Work, where he talks in depth about various disjointed subjects, mostly himself. Rosewater considers his personality to align with that ascribed to blue-red in the game itself, and the player profile of "Johnny".
1935 Irish 2d coil stamp
The Rare 2d Coil was an experimental vertical coil stamp, denominated 2d, issued by the Irish Post Office in 1935 and is one of the scarcest, and most valuable, Irish stamps. It is often referred to by stamp collectors simply as "Scott 68b" or "SG 74b", being the Scott and Stanley Gibbons stamp catalogue numbers respectively.
Chris Pikula
Pikula is best known for creating the "Magic" card , his reward for winning the 2000 Magic Invitational. In the had a small comeback where he reached the Top 8 of another two Grand Prix events. Pikula also made Top 8 in 2017 at GP Orlando.
Masters Edition
"Masters Edition IV" has a large number of powerful and/or iconic cards. , , , , , , , , , , and are all currently restricted in Vintage. is banned from Legacy and a cornerstone of Vintage play. Finally , , , and the original dual lands are all powerful and iconic cards from the game's past. It also released either an , , or in place of a basic land.
Magic: The Gathering expansion sets, 1993–1995
"Legends" is the first "Magic" expansion to have cards of three explicit rarities: commons, uncommons, and rares. There are 75 common cards in "Legends". Of these 46 are C2, meaning that they appear two times on the print sheet and are thus twice as common as the other 29 C1 commons. 7 of the 114 uncommons are U2 and all other 107 uncommons are U1. Of the 121 rares each is R1, making them all equally prevalent.
Magic: The Gathering compilation sets
Modern Masters is a set that consists of reprints of cards which are legal in the format. Modern includes all cards from "" onwards, barring a small number of banned cards. The first "Modern Masters" ("MMA") was released on June 7, 2013. It has 229 cards (101 commons, 60 uncommons, 53 rares, and 15 mythic rares) ranging from "Eighth Edition" through "Alara Reborn". The set was released in the English language only. The original "Modern Masters" distribution was highly limited and Wizards of the Coast stated they would not like to release as much as they did with "Chronicles". Wizards of the Coast eventually loosened this, and printed considerably more of the 2015 and 2017 editions of "Modern Masters". Notable reprints in the original "Modern Masters" included Dark Confidant, Tarmogoyf, and Vendilion Clique.
Dragon Ball Z Collectible Card Game
6-Star: -Ultra Rare-
These cards are, for the most part, incredibly difficult to obtain. Several booster boxes can be opened before even one "6-Star" card is revealed. GT was the only version of the game that featured Styled cards as part of its ultra rare lineup, instead of simply personalities, Combat, or Non-Combat cards. In Z, in Base sets there were four Ultra Rares, and in Expansions there were two Ultra Rares. In GT, in Base sets there were eight Ultra Rares, while in the Expansion sets there were only four. Also to note that Ultra Rare cards are always in "Foil".
Cary Collection of Playing Cards
The Cary Collection is not merely composed of standard playing cards, but also contains tarot cards as well as cards related to cartomancy, or the divination of one's fortune based upon interpretation of various cards. The Beinecke Library guards two of the earliest still-existing tarot decks in the world, the Visconti and the Este tarot cards. Of the two, the Visconti cards are probably the most well-known. These cards were commissioned by the Visconti family in the mid-15th century and may be the oldest tarot card deck still in existence.
Clash Royale
Clash Royale first launched with 42 cards, there were 14 cards for each of the three rarities that existed at that time: Common, Rare, and Epic. The February 2016 update added a new rarity: Legendary, with the introduction of two new legendary cards to the game. , there are 90 cards in the game, coming in four rarities: Common, Rare, Epic, and Legendary. The September 2018 update changed card levels as not to confuse new players. All cards now cap at level 13, with common cards starting at level 1, rare cards starting at level 3, epic cards starting at level 6, and legendary cards starting at level 9. All cards are level 9 for all tournaments. The December 2018 update added Star Points to unlock special golden cosmetics for your Max Level cards.
T206 Honus Wagner
The next year, a Florida postal worker won the card and auctioned it at Christie's for $640,000 to collector Michael Gidwitz. In 2000, the card was sold via Robert Edward Auctions to card collector Brian Seigel for $1.27 million. In February 2007, Seigel sold the card privately to an anonymous collector for $2.35 million. Less than six months later, the card was sold to another anonymous collector for $2.8 million. In April 2011, that anonymous purchaser was revealed to be Ken Kendrick, owner of the Arizona Diamondbacks. A different card, named the "Jumbo Wagner" was sold at auction again in 2016 for a record $3.12 million. These transactions have made the Wagner card the most valuable baseball card in history.
List of Pokémon Trading Card Game sets
Black and White – Noble Victories is the third Pokémon trading card game set based on the Pokémon games, "Pokémon Black" and "White". This set introduces the final Pokémon from the 5th generation to the card game, aside from the event-exclusive Pokémon; Keldeo, Meloetta and Genesect. It features the Victory Pokémon Victini, as well as introduces the new Fossil Pokémon, Tirtouga and Archen. Full art cards in this set include Victini, Cobalion, Terrakion, Virizion and the first full art Trainer card, N. The set also includes a hidden rare Meowth. The set features Fast Daze (Accelgor) and Furious Knights (Escavalier) starter decks.
List of Magic: The Gathering sets
All expansion sets, and all editions of the base set from "" onward, are identified by an expansion symbol printed on the right side of cards, below the art and above the text box. From "" onward, the expansion symbols are also color-coded to denote rarity: black for common and basic land cards, silver for uncommon, and gold for rare. Beginning with the "Shards of Alara" set, a red-orange expansion symbol denotes a new rarity: "Mythic Rare" (the "" set featured an additional purple coloration for "timeshifted" cards). For the early expansion sets (from "Arabian Nights" to "Alliances"), the rarities of cards were often much more complicated than the breakdown into common, uncommon, and rare suggests. Cards in compilations are assigned rarity by Wizards, however, they do not necessarily match within the set, with some singletons rare and some mythic rare in a given set.
Magic Duels
The game was released primarily around the "Magic Origins" set of cards, the most recent release of the physical cards at the time of the game's introduction, with plans to expand the game to include upcoming card sets. The Battle of Zendikar, Oath of the Gatewatch, Shadows Over Innistrad, Eldritch Moon, Kaladesh, Aether Revolt, and Amonkhet sets are currently available on Magic Duels.
List of Pokémon Trading Card Game sets
The 1998 Pokémon Demo Game Pack was the earliest Pokémon card pack to be produced and released in the English Pokémon TCG and served as the first introduction to Pokémon cards in the United States. This Pokémon pack consists of 24 Base Set shadowless cards and an instruction guide manual in order to explain the rules and play the TCG. The 24 shadowless cards contained in order are; 1 Doduo, 2 Pikachu, 1 Machoke, 2 Machop, 1 Potion Trainer, 2 Lightning Energy, 3 Fighting Energy, 2 Nidoran, 1 Ponyta, 1 Charmeleon, 2 Charmander, 1 Switch Trainer, 2 Grass Energy and 3 Fire Energy cards. This card pack was printed and distributed in December 1998 to select retailers and at Magic: The Gathering (MTG) trading card shows as a limited production run. The remaining Pokémon Demo Game packs were given to guests and vendors at the annual E3 (Electronic Entertainment Expo) event which was held from May 13–15 in 1999. Since the Pokémon Demo Game Pack contains the first and oldest English cards it is considered the "Holy Grail" within the Pokémon TCG. This Pokémon pack is limited in quantity and predates all other Pokémon Set cards including the rare 1st Edition Base Set cards and shadowless holographic cards making these Demo Packs extremely valuable and collectable. This is known because the 1st Edition stamps were applied onto shadowless cards after the first print run batch of Shadowless cards and helps explain why error cards existed after the first printing of Shadowless Card Demo Packs. As of 2019 there are only 17 in Total PSA Population and only 10 are graded PSA 10. It is estimated that between 100-200 of these Pokémon Demo Game Packs remain unopened based on scarce eBay auctions and internet sales.
Bert Corbeau
A collectible hockey card featuring Corbeau from the 1923–24 season is one of the rarest cards in existence. Only a handful were made by a company that featured them in a contest. Contestants who collected a complete set of 40 cards were awarded a pair of skates. The Corbeau card was "short printed" in order to limit the number of winners.
Magic: The Gathering core sets, 1993–2007
The Summer Magic print run of "Revised Edition" were printed in the summer of 1994. This print run intended to fix some of the errors with "Revised", including the washed-out color. As it turned out, the "Summer Magic" run had problems of its own. The colors were considered too dark and the artist credited for stayed uncorrected as well as the artist credited for Serendib Efreet, although the Efreet had received its original color and art again. Also a famous new misprint occurred with the card ; the so-called "blue Hurricane" is one of the rarest and most sought-after cards in the entirety of "Magic" because of its misprint with a blue border. On the secondary market it sells for thousands of dollars. The print run was recalled and destroyed; however, about 40 booster boxes that were shipped to England and Tennessee survived. No more than 11 or 12 of each rare exists.
Magic: The Gathering
Different formats of Constructed "Magic" exist, each allowing different cards. The DCI maintains a "Banned and Restricted List" for each format; players may not use banned cards at all, and restricted cards are limited to one copy per deck. The DCI bans cards that it determines are damaging the health of a format; it seeks to use this remedy as infrequently as possible, and only a handful of cards have been banned in recent years.In "Limited" tournaments, players construct decks using booster packs plus any additional basic lands of their choice. The decks in Limited tournaments must be a minimum of forty cards. All unused cards function as the sideboard, which, as in "Constructed" formats, can be freely exchanged between games of a match, as long as the deck continues to adhere to the forty card minimum. The rule that a player may use only four copies of any given card does not apply.
Players often create their own formats based on any number of criteria. Sometimes these can be based on limiting the financial value of a deck, mixing and matching different blocks or sets, or taking an existing format and modifying the DCI Banned List. Commander (formerly Elder Dragon Highlander) was one such format, before being officially supported by wizards. One of the most popular player created formats for Limited is Cube Drafting. Similar in structure to Draft, players will instead use a collection of pre-selected cards instead of random boosters to draft from. Since 2014 player created formats are allowed as Friday Night Magic events, so long as they follow basic Magic Tournament Rules (no fake cards, no gambling etc.)
Yu Yu Hakusho Trading Card Game
In addition, a "mystery card" called "The Dark One" said to be the ultimate card. Three copies of it were given to each Score employee. It had an attack of 99000 and the effect "Since you work for Score you can choose a card in your hand or in play and change the effect of the card into anything you want for the remainder of the game." This was one of the most sought after cards in the game when it was first revealed. It was created as a marketing tool to increase the hype of the game. One of these cards was sold on eBay for over $1,000 which made it one of the most sought after cards.
Magic: The Gathering core sets, 1993–2007
Tenth Edition was a "Magic" set released on July 13, 2007, replacing "Ninth Edition" as the core set of cards for standard tournament play. The symbol for "Tenth Edition" is the Roman numeral "X." As part of their "Selecting "Tenth Edition"" promotion, Wizards of the Coast gave fans the chance to manage a part of the set's brand. The results gave the Roman numeral "X" over the number "10," along with many other card, art, and flavor text choices. "Tenth Edition" was the first core set since "Beta" to be printed with black-bordered cards, rather than white-bordered ones. Tenth Edition is also the first core set to include legendary creatures (two of each color), bringing back flavorful relics of Magic's past such as , and .
Christmas card
From the beginning, Christmas cards have been avidly collected. Queen Mary amassed a large collection that is now housed in the British Museum. The University College London's Slade School of Fine Art houses a collection of handmade Christmas Cards from alumni such as Paula Rego and Richard Hamilton and are displayed at events over the Christmas season, when members of the public can make their own Christmas cards in the Strang Print Room. Specimens from the "golden age" of printing (1840s–1890s) are especially prized and bring in large sums at auctions. In December 2005, one of Horsley's original cards sold for nearly £9,000. Collectors may focus on particular images like Santa Claus, poets, or printing techniques. The Christmas card that holds the world record as the most expensive ever sold was a card produced in 1843 by J. C. Horsley and commissioned by civil servant Sir Henry Cole. The card, one of the world's first, was sold in 2001 by UK auctioneers Henry Aldridge to an anonymous bidder for a record breaking £22,250.
Magic: The Gathering core sets, 2009–2015
Seven "" core sets have been released since 2009: Magic 2010, Magic 2011, Magic 2012, Magic 2013, Magic 2014, Magic 2015, and Magic Origins. Unlike "10th Edition" and previous core sets, roughly half of each core set was entirely new cards. Beginning with "Magic 2010", Wizards decided to introduce new cards into the Core Set so that they could be relevant for both new players as well as veterans. Starting with "Magic 2011", core sets have included "returning mechanics", or non-evergreen keywords with cards printed in just one core set. All of these core sets were released in the summer of the year prior to the year in the title - for example, "Magic 2010" was released in 2009.
Magic of Life
Magic of Life (27 January 1985 – after 2009) was an American-bred British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare. She was bred in Virginia, was sold for a world record price for a foal and sent to race in Europe. As a juvenile she showed very good form, winning three of her five races including a victory over male opposition in the Mill Reef Stakes. In the following year she recorded her most important success when winning the Coronation Stakes at Royal Ascot. She went on to have a long and successful second career as a broodmare.
List of Pokémon Trading Card Game sets
EX Legend Maker, released in February 2006, is the 28th set of 92 cards in the Pokémon Trading Card Game and the 12th set released by Pokémon USA. The set, which in Japan was named "Eidolon Forest", is set in a forest in the middle of nowhere. Its symbol is a stylized forest, a white egg-shaped area with three black acute isosceles triangles. It received the name Legend Maker due to the inclusion of Mew.
List of Pokémon Trading Card Game sets
This is also the first set to include a card exclusive to the English-language version, though it was eventually released for the Japanese counterpart, as well. As part of a promotion, an American-only Dark Raichu can be found in this set, though it is the rarest card, as a "secret" card that numbered above the regular set number: "83/82". The card was also available in Australian sets.
Richard Garfield
Richard Channing Garfield (born June 26, 1963) is an American mathematician, inventor, and game designer. Garfield created "", which is considered to be the first modern collectible card game (CCG). "Magic" debuted in 1993 and its success spawned many imitations. Garfield oversaw the successful growth of "Magic" and followed it with other game designs. Included in these are "Netrunner", "BattleTech(CCG)", "", "Star Wars Trading Card Game", "The Great Dalmuti", "Artifact", and the board game "RoboRally". He also created a variation of the card game Hearts called Complex Hearts. Garfield first became passionate about games when he played the roleplaying game "Dungeons & Dragons", so he designed "Magic" decks to be customizable like roleplaying characters. Garfield and "Magic" are both in the Adventure Gaming Hall of Fame.
EXEcutional
Carrot specializes in magic and is an expert on star magic, which is the rarest and most powerful kind of magic. His older sister is married to Holy Order in the real world. His weapon, Star Bridge, prevents Carrot's spells from being canceled. All damage received during casting, and the knock-back effects from attacks received, will be nullified. His skill is with the Quazar, which sends opponents to the center of the universe where they are killed; since their bodies are far away, it is difficult to resurrect them.
List of Pokémon Trading Card Game sets
Diamond and Pearl – Majestic Dawn, released in May 2008 is the 37th set of cards in the Pokémon Trading Card Game and the 21st set released by Pokémon USA. Its symbol is a rising sun coming over a hill, hence the name Majestic Dawn. It is the smallest Diamond and Pearl set to date with 100 cards. This set introduces Leafeon and Glaceon as two new evolutions of Eevee and includes four more Pokémon LV.X.
List of Pokémon Trading Card Game sets
Fossil, released on October 8, 1999, is the 3rd set of cards in the Pokémon Trading Card Game. Fossil contains the fewest cards of any standard set in the card game (62). Future sets would often use a gimmick to differentiate its cards from other sets.
Magic: The Gathering expansion sets, 1993–1995
"Fallen Empires" was released in November 1994. It was sold in boosters of eight cards with a box of boosters containing sixty booster packs. Each booster contained two cards from the uncommon and six from the common sheet. Of the cards from the uncommon sheet 36 were functionally rares (U1) and appeared once on the uncommon sheet. They were three times as rare as most other uncommons. The remaining uncommons were 25 U3 and 5 U2 cards. Of the common cards each is equally common if each card with a unique artwork is counted as an individual card. Counting only functionally unique cards there were 15 common cards that appeared in four versions and 20 that appeared in three versions. There was also one common, Delif's Cone, that had only one version, making it just as rare as an U3 uncommon.
Ed Lu
While on the ISS, Lu teamed up with magician James Randi (founder of JREF) to perform a card trick in outer space. Randi asked Lu to (without looking) select a card from the middle of a brand new freshly shuffled deck of cards, turn it around and reinsert the card into the deck the opposite direction. Then place the deck of cards back into its box then take them out again and fan the cards to the camera. This same procedure was being done by Randi back on Earth at the JREF headquarters in front of witnesses from the Miami Herald. Both Randi and Lu successfully selected the same card, the seven of diamonds. The remaining cards were jettisoned for weight reasons before returning to Earth, but Lu smuggled the card home. The two cards complete with autographs are framed for public view at the JREF offices in Fort Lauderdale, FL. Randi asks Lu "What are the odds that we would both choose the same card?" Lu answers "Knowing you and your tricky ways, the odds were one in one, because it's a trick!"
Magic: The Gathering core sets, 1993–2007
This print run is known primarily for its extremely scarce and valuable cards and packs. Cards are distinguished by dark coloring and a 1994 copyright date displayed at the bottom, along with the artist credit. Booster packs look identical to normal "Revised Edition" packs, and as such, telling them apart is impossible without opening them. No starter decks were made.
Magic: The Gathering core sets, 1993–2007
As of 2013, "Ninth Edition" is the last "Magic" set to be printed with white borders. The set's premium foil cards were printed with black borders. Cards made available in Cyrillic when "Ninth Edition" was marketed in Russia also were black-bordered; this marked the first time a new language had been printed for the game since Simplified Chinese was added to "Fifth Edition."
Limited Edition (Magic: The Gathering)
Being the first "Magic" set, "Limited Edition" has all of the original mechanics intrinsic to "Magic", such as "tapping" cards to use their abilities. Many of the original base keywords are "evergreen" and still used commonly in Magic design as of 2015, such as Flying, First Strike, and Trample. A few keywords have since been phased out of the game. The Banding ability was discontinued in the set "", released in 1997. According to the Wizards of the Coast designers, the Banding mechanic confused players and required too much text to explain. When old mechanics were revisited in the "" block, banding was left out for this same reason. Much later, regeneration and "landwalk" (e.g. Forestwalk, Swampwalk) were discontinued. Landwalk was removed in 2015 with the release of "Magic Origins", and no more Regeneration cards have been created starting with the "Shadows over Innistrad" block in 2016.
Honus Wagner
The T206 Honus Wagner baseball card is one of the rarest and most expensive baseball cards in the world, as only 57 copies are known to exist. The card was designed and issued by the American Tobacco Company (ATC) from 1909 to 1911 as part of its T206 series. Wagner, a nonsmoker, refused to allow production of his baseball card to continue. The ATC ended production of the Wagner card and a total of only 57 to 200 cards were ever distributed to the public, as compared to the "tens or hundreds of thousands" of T206 cards, over three years in sixteen brands of cigarettes, for any other player. In 1933, the card was first listed at a price value of US $50 in Jefferson Burdick's "The American Card Catalog", making it the most expensive baseball card at the time.
Limited Edition (Magic: The Gathering)
"Alpha", "Beta", and "Unlimited" are known for having extremely powerful cards at the higher rarities. This was an intentional choice during development; the thought was that "players (...) wouldn't be able to acquire many of the power rares, because supply would keep them actually rare." Players spending hundreds of dollars to acquire multiple copies of each of the powerful rares was not anticipated at the time, as the developers assumed players would stop at around 30-50 dollars.
Rudy Coby
He then attempts to "dethrone Harry Houdini" by performing "The World's Most Dangerous Card Trick". The trick is ultimately a joke, hyped up to humorous levels. Coby selects a child from the audience, gets him to select a card at random, and wires himself up to a cardboard bomb (telling the volunteer not to be "fooled by its cheesy cardboard-like appearance"). He tells the volunteer to detonate the bomb at an appropriate time, and after deliberately fudging up the times, gets set on fire but eventually produces the correct card, proving himself to be "The Coolest Magician on Earth".
The Magic Comic
A first issue of "The Magic comic" was sold on eBay in February 2006 for £1,250 to a collector, and it was one of only 6 copies known to exist. A 'Very Fine' copy was also sold in 1997 for £2,975. On January 20th 2015 the first 24 issues of The Magic Comic were sold for £13,000 (+20% commission; 15,600); it came to £650 per comic.
Magic: The Gathering core sets, 1993–2007
One card-printing error of note appeared on the card . This blue creature card was misprinted with a green border and a picture of another card, . The name, mana cost and rules text were all correct, though. The Revised version is now the most common due to the limited print run of the original, intended versions.
Magic: The Gathering
The original "Magic: The Gathering Limited Edition" has no overarching storyline, and the cards only have unconnected bits of lore and trivia to give the cards some individual depth. In the early expansion sets until "" there is usually no real story arc either. Instead, some of these sets are inspired from mythologies of various cultures. This is most apparent in , that takes some of the One Thousand and One Nights characters and makes them into "Magic" cards. Norse mythological influences can be seen worked into and African influences into . However, not all of the early sets can be linked as directly to earth mythology.
Magic: The Gathering core sets, 1993–2007
Like its predecessors, "" and "" Editions, "Fifth Edition" made numerous changes to the game's rules and card mix. The set's designers stated in "The Duelist" that they wanted to prune from the base set cards that were too powerful or too weak. Many overpowered cards from "Limited" and "Unlimited" Editions that had survived the past two rotations were removed from "Fifth", but a handful, including , still survived. Unlike its predecessors, though, "Fifth Edition" also removed many cards that "Magic"'s Design and Development team saw as just a little bit too good, but not quite so powerful as to heavily disrupt tournaments, including , , and . Many of these cards were brought back in later sets after the designers had re-evaluated their impact on play. A few cards that were in "" but had been cut from "" were brought back as well.
Magic Alex
Mardas put 15 items from his collection of Lennon memorabilia up for sale on 5 May 2004 at Christie's in South Kensington, London. Among the sale was Lennon's leather collar worn during 1967 and 1968 (at the launch party for the "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" LP, and on the cover of Lennon and Ono's ""), as well as a custom Vox Kensington guitar, a coloured felt pen drawing called "Strong", and a pen and ink drawing by Lennon entitled "Happy Fish". Mardas said he planned to donate the money to a charity in Greece. The 'custom Vox Kensington guitar' later sold at an auction for £269,000 on 19 May 2013. Mardas lived in Athens until his death on 13 January 2017 after a battle with pneumonia; he was aged 74.
List of Pokémon Trading Card Game sets
EX Unseen Forces, released in August 2005, is the 26th set of cards in the Pokémon Trading Card Game and the 10th set released by Pokémon USA. The set's symbol is a black silhouette of Ho-Oh's wing, superimposed on a white silhouette of Lugia's wing. it is a set of 115 cards, plus 2 secret cards (including the box topper), plus 28 Unowns. The set, which in Japan was named "GoldenSky and SilverSea", is set in Johto, and is the first set by Pokémon USA to mainly consist of Pokémon from the "Pokémon Gold" and "Silver" games, released in 2001. EX Unseen Forces is known for having more Pokémon-ex than any other set to date, with a total of fourteen (including one box topper and one secret rare card).
List of 8-Bit Theater characters
Red Mage claims to be the last surviving member of an ancient order of Red Mages and as such is the most knowledgeable and versatile, yet also the most delusional, of the Light Warriors. He firmly believes the world runs according to the rules of tabletop role-playing games (such as Dungeons & Dragons) and actively tries to use knowledge of these rules to his own advantage. While this enables him to fight as well as use both White and Black Magic, he often bends the rules to absurd degrees and has, for example survived normally lethal injuries by "forgetting" to write down the damage he suffered. After his class change Red Mage gained the ability to mimic his teammates' actions.
Fantasy Masters
Rarity of cards are set by 12 grades. From least to the most, they are: Free, Common, Uncommon, Rare, and Legend, while rarity of Basic, Trade, Upgrade, Unique, Special, Prize, and Event grades varies with individual cards.
Magic: The Gathering – Duels of the Planeswalkers 2015
Magic 2015 – Duels of the Planeswalkers (referred to in shorthand as Magic 2015) is a video game based on the collectible card game , first published by Wizards of the Coast in 1993. The game was released in July 2014 on PC (Steam), Xbox 360 (Xbox Live Arcade), iPad (iTunes), and Android devices (Google Play and the Amazon Appstore). An Xbox One version was released in November 2014. It is the fifth game in the "" series. The gameplay follows that of the original card game, however within a more restrained framework. The game, like all the previous installments, is priced $10 on most platforms. On the iPad, the game is free for the first realm (four battles) but has in-app purchases for the remaining realms, more cards and additional features.
John Hamman
Hamman created more than 100 card magic tricks throughout his career. Among the many tricks he invented, he is best known for the Hamman Count, a sleight-of-hand in which cards are falsely counted to give the impression that the magician holds more, or less, than he actually does. He authored many books and videos on magic and was invited to many local, national and international level (including FISM) magician gatherings to display his prowess and ability with cards.
Naname De Magic!
The cabinet version is extremely rare. It is still playable through MAME or similar emulators.
Kamen Rider Battle: Ganbaride
The cards come in five different rarities: Normal, Rare, Special, Super Rare, and Legend Rare. The rarer cards tend to be more powerful, with Super Rare and Legend Rare possessing gold text and holofoil backgrounds.
Magic: The Gathering core sets, 2009–2015
"Magic 2011" contains the keyword scry. This marks the first time that a mechanic from an expert level set has been printed in a core set, without making that mechanic evergreen, or permanently available for use in all future sets. Also, this set introduced the concept of "planeswalker signature cards": cards of lesser rarities that are tied directly to the central planeswalker characters of the set (ex. "Ajani's Pridemate" and "Ajani's Mantra" were included as a reference to the planeswalker "Ajani Goldmane"). These cards were made to make the identity of the planeswalkers more accessible to players, as the planeswalker cards themselves are only available in mythic rarities.
Card manipulation
Card magic, in one form or another, likely dates from the time playing cards became commonly known, towards the second half of the fourteenth century, but its history in this period is largely undocumented. Compared to sleight of hand magic in general and to cups and balls, it is a relatively new form of magic. However, due to its versatility as a prop it has become very popular amongst modern magicians.
Magic: The Gathering Pro Tour season 1996
PT Columbus is known to be the shortest Pro Tour ever. It was held at the Origins convention in conjunction with the US Nationals and had scheduled the Nationals Top 4 as well as the Swiss portion of the PT on Saturday. On Sunday, after 14 rounds of Swiss, the top 4 of the Pro Tour were played out in single-elimination to determine the winner. Columbus featured an all-new kind of format in Block Constructed, allowing only cards from and . In the final Olle Råde, also known as "the little Viking" defeated Sean Fleischman to become the first Pro Tour winner not coming from the USA. Råde was only 17 years old and had elected to play in the master division of the tournament despite still being eligible for the junior division. He won the tournament with an aggressive green-red deck. Terry Borer won the Junior Division over . Scott Johns finished amongst the best eight players as he did in the previous and would in the subsequent Pro Tour. However, as the tournament was cut to a Top 4 his three consecutive Top 8 finishes did not draw that much attention.
Magic: The Gathering compilation sets
Iconic Masters is a "Magic" compilation set; it was released at Hasbro's HasCon's 25th anniversary celebration of "Magic" in September 2017, and released to the wider public in November 2017. It is a compilation set with reprinted cards originating throughout the history of "Magic", similar to "Eternal Masters". The set is generally perceived to have had poor sales due to the two month delayed nature of its wide release, which happened only a few weeks before the release of "". Wizards of the Coast would later apologize for setting wrong expectations for the set as well as the strange scheduling after receiving negative feedback about the set.
List of Cardfight!! Vanguard characters
Ultra Rare is a popular idol group of three sisters for the card game Vanguard. One of the true objectives of Ultra Rare is to find people who have the power of Psyqualia. The reasons for finding these people are still unknown.
The red-headed and youngest sister of Ultra Rare, she is also the most childish of the group because of her tendency of patronize others in a conceited tone. One example is how she frequently teases Kourin about how she actually is interested in Aichi, to which Kourin would reply that she does not care much for him in a tsundere fashion. In season 3, similar to Kourin, Rekka transfers into the middle school division of Miyaji Academy. She becomes friends with Emi and Mai, forming a club with them called the Cardfight Group. In the manga and V-Anime uses a Neo Nectar Deck.
List of Pokémon Trading Card Game sets
HeartGold and SoulSilver – Triumphant is the Fourth Pokémon trading card game set based on the Pokémon games, "Pokémon HeartGold" and "SoulSilver". The set has a total of 102 cards, including Absol (Prime), Celebi (Prime), Gengar (Prime), Electrode (Prime), Mew (Prime), Magnezone (Prime), Yanmega (Prime), Machamp (Prime), Darkrai/Cresselia LEGEND and Dialga/Palkia LEGEND. The set also features a Secret Rare card: Alph Lithograph. This one, unlike the ones in the previous sets, allows the player to look at all of their face down prize cards. Heartgold and Soulsilver Triumphant continues the trend of dual-Legend cards, Legends depicting 2 Pokémon that allow the opponent to draw 2 prize cards when Knocked Out. The starter decks for HGSS Triumphant are Royal Guard, a Psychic/Fighting type deck featuring Nidoking, and Verdant Frost, a grass/water type deck featuring Mamoswine. It is speculated to be the last Heartgold and Soulsilver set in America. The set contains cards from the Japanese set "Clash at the Summit" and the mini-set Lost Link. One card missing from the set is the Stadium "Lost World" which introduced a new win condition to the game in Japan. The card, along with the other cards missing from the Lost Link set were released in the next expansion, Call of Legends.
Mythos (card game)
Mythos Limited Edition was distributed in Starter decks and in the three booster pack expansions (Expeditions of Miskatonic University/Cthulhu Rising/Legends of the Necronomicon). Limited Edition consists of 10 double-sided investigator cards, 50 rare, 50 uncommon, 99 common, 2 promo, 1 insert cards.
Each of the three booster expansion sets consists of 17 rare, 17 uncommon, 33 common cards.
Chaotic Trading Card Game
Two starter decks were released alongside the initial set, "Dawn of Perim: Overworld" and "Dawn of Perim: Underworld". As their names suggests, the decks contain only one type of creature card. Each starter deck contains: 52 cards (although only 48 cards would actually be used to play the game), with two non-game cards within the 52 cards; rulebook, and game mat. Three new decks (one for each tribe) were released with M'arrilian Invasion set in September 2008. Unlike Dawn of Perim and M'arrillian Invasion, Secrets of the Lost City does not show the tribe of the starter deck on the box.
Each starter deck contains three rare cards and one super rare card, chances being a one out of five that the super will be replaced with an ultra rare card.
Magic: The Gathering core sets, 1993–2007
Revised Edition (also simply known as "Revised") was the sixth set and third core set released for "Magic: The Gathering". Like previous core sets, it had no expansion symbol. "Revised Edition" cards are white-bordered and generally known for their washed-out look. The set was released in April 1994 and contained 306 cards. It was the first base set to contain cards from black-bordered sets other than "Alpha" and "Beta".
Magic: The Gathering core sets, 1993–2007
Eighth Edition, also known as Core Set, was a "Magic: The Gathering" set released on July 28, 2003. Its expansion symbol is the number 8 with 3 cards behind it. "Eighth Edition" was released to coincide with the 10th Anniversary of the original release of "Magic". Every previous expansion had at least one card reprinted in "Eighth" that had not been reprinted in the base set before, with a series of votes on the Wizards website deciding what got reprinted. "Eighth" was also the first base set with a promotional card given to players who played in a prerelease tournament. "Eighth" features many cards from older base sets and expansions. While many of these cards were powerful during their original print run, on the whole they were not perceived as measuring up to the power in Standard at the time, known for "Affinity" decks powered by cards from the "Mirrodin" block. Thus, few cards in "Eighth Edition" saw tournament play.
Magic: The Gathering core sets, 1993–2007
"Unlimited" was sold in starter packs of 60 cards and booster packs of 15 cards. It was the first set to be officially titled as something other than just "Magic: The Gathering". The "Unlimited Edition" label appears on the booster boxes, decks, and booster packs. While it is possible to distinguish "Unlimited" cards from "Revised" cards by just looking at the text (wording and type set) the cards from both sets are more easily distinguished by comparing the borders of the cards. The picture frame of "Unlimited" cards has a beveled edge which "Revised" cards have not.
Magic: The Gathering core sets, 2009–2015
M10 was the first core set to use the "mythic rare" rarity as well as the first core set to include planeswalkers, a relatively new card type which was first introduced in 2007. All five of the initial set of planeswalkers from "Lorwyn" were reprinted in M10 as mythic rares.
Wizards of the Coast has also overhauled the with the introduction of "Magic 2010". The changes included the renaming of several zones and actions of the game, eliminate the 'mana burn' rule of the game, and more relevant for gameplay, an alteration to the way combat damage is assigned. This was the first major alteration of the game rules since the introduction of "" rules in 1999, and was instituted to make the game more streamlined and intuitive; previous damage-assignment rules, for instance, would allow a creature to, in the words of "Magic" Rules Manager Mark Gottlieb, "swing its fist to punch, vanish from the battlefield, and [still] have that punch land." The rule changes, as with most rules changes, raised some controversy.
Magic 2011 was released on July 16, 2010. It was the twelfth core set for "Magic: The Gathering". The set contained 110 new cards and 139 reprints.
List of Pokémon Trading Card Game sets
HeartGold and SoulSilver – Unleashed is the second Pokémon trading card game set based on the Pokémon games, "Pokémon HeartGold" and "SoulSilver". The set has a total of 95 cards, including Tyranitar (Prime), Steelix (Prime), Crobat (Prime), Kingdra (Prime), Lanturn (Prime), Ursaring (Prime), Entei and Raikou LEGEND, Raikou and Suicine LEGEND, and Suicine and Entei LEGEND. The set also features a Secret Rare card" Alph Lithograph. This one, unlike the one in the previous set, HGSS, allows the player to shuffle his deck. There are 4 versions of Alph Lithograph. HeartGold and SoulSilver – Unleashed is the first set to feature dual-Legend cards, which consist of two Pokémon on the same two-card Legend. However, these Pokémon, when Knocked Out, allow the opponent to draw 2 Prize Cards rather than 1. The set features Chaos Control (Tyranitar) and Steel Sentinel (Steelix) decks.
Onslaught (Magic: The Gathering)
"Legions" is the only expansion in Magic to be composed entirely of creature cards. This was done to help emphasize the creature-based mechanics of the block such as Morph and Tribal. Due to the complete absence of non-creature cards and a limited number of tournament staples, Legions is considered to be one of the most controversial set releases by Wizards of the Coast among many players. The set does feature the return of a fan favorite creature type, .
Limited Edition (Magic: The Gathering)
Magic: The Gathering Limited Edition is the first "" card set. It premiered in a limited release at Origins Game Fair in 1993, with a general release that August. The initial print run of 2.6 million cards sold out quickly, and a new printing run was released in October 1993. These two runs are known as Limited Edition Alpha and Limited Edition Beta, or just "Alpha" and "Beta" for short. Although "Alpha" and "Beta" are referred to as different sets by some, officially they are the same set; Wizards of the Coast had expected that people wouldn't necessarily be able to tell the two press runs apart. "Beta" fixed a number of misprints and errors on cards. The printer accidentally used different corner rounding dies for the second run, resulting in Alpha cards being noticeably distinct in shape and appearance from Beta cards and all subsequent cards. The Beta printing also included a revised rulebook with a number of clarifications, although creator Richard Garfield's short fiction "Worzel's Tale" was removed to make room. 
The print run of Beta is given as 7.3 million or 7.8 million depending on the source. Despite the set's print run being about three times as big as Alpha's, Beta sold out as quickly as its predecessor.
Magic: The Gathering expansion sets, 1993–1995
"Arabian Nights" booster packs contain eight cards, two from the uncommon sheet and six from the common sheet. The set as a whole consists of 78 cards. 19 of these cards are U3, meaning they appear three times on the uncommon sheet, and 32 cards are U2 and are thus usually dubbed the rares of the set, although they are only 33% less common than U3 cards. Of the commons 9 are C5 and 16 are C4. Additionally the "Arabian Nights" Mountain is C1 and Desert is C11. When counting the commons with smaller, darker mana symbols as separate cards "Arabian Nights" is a set of 92 cards. The smaller darker numbers in the casting cost are referred to as series (a) and the lighter and larger numbers are referred to as series (b).
Magic: The Gathering Online
As of March 2014 with the release of "Vintage Masters", almost all Cards that are tournament legal for at least one supported format are available, most of the remaining tournament legal cards that are not printed are basically considered as tournament unworthy cards (such as cards that only trigger their ability during drafts).The earliest set available upon release was "" , which had been released in printed form in October 2000; all sets moving forward were made available online as well, with the exception of some self-parody expansion (Un-sets) and multiplayer sets (like ""). 
For the first 10 years of "Magic Online" sets released online three or four weeks after they released in paper in an effort to appease "brick & mortar" retailers. However, a policy of shortening this delay (to about two weeks) was instituted to allow professional players (who often use "Magic Online" for testing) to prepare for Pro Tour events (which usually happen two weeks after the release of a new set) and to "increase cohesion" between paper and online Magic . Wizards of the Coast has since released more pre-"Invasion" cards online. In the autumn of 2005, "" was released online, nine years after its 1996 print release. This set was chosen as the earliest set usable on "Magic Online" because it was the first to be designed with both Limited and Constructed play in mind and the first to be intended as part of a three-set block. Additionally, Wizards unambiguously owns the rights to the artwork in "Mirage" block, and "Mirage" block contains no cards (unlike "" and ""). It has been confirmed that the eventual goal of the developers was to have every expansion set from "Mirage" onward available online.
Magic (Jorma Kaukonen album)
Magic is a live Jorma Kaukonen album containing performances of acoustic songs from Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna albums recorded during his solo tour of 1984. After a brief reunion tour in 1983 with Hot Tuna, Jorma had continued to play solo and eventually landed a contract with Relix Records. In addition to releasing Kaukonen's new solo recordings, Relix also released live Hot Tuna recordings from the 1970s, with the albums "Splashdown" and "Historic Live Tuna". In 1995, Michael Falzarano remastered the album and produced a new version that Relix released as the CD "Magic Two".
List of Friday Night Magic cards
Disenchant was the last FNM card to use the old frame and the classic Shooting Star foil look. Beginning with Smother FNM cards used the frame introduced with and featured the FNM logo on top of the text box. While Crystalline Sliver is numbered 3/12 F03 it was not distributed as an FNM promo. Some of the cards were stolen and Wizards chose not to distribute the Slivers instead shifting FNM prize card schedule by one month, thus Capsize was handed out in March. Disenchant was added to the series of 2003 FNM cards and handed out in July, thus shifting the remaining cards for the year back into the original schedule. In contrast to the other FNM cards the FNM Disenchant is not numbered. Most of the lost Crystalline Slivers were later recovered and handed out at the 2008 summer events.
Beginning with Remand the FNM promo cards have new alternate artworks.
Beginning with Rift Bolt the FNM promo cards have the shooting star expansion symbol.
World Club Champion Football
The fourth and most precious of cards is the Legend and All-time Legend cards. These cards are very rare and feature some of the best players ever to grace the game of football. These cards carry huge wage bills, but they also have very rare qualities in playing the game. Just like the foil cards, the Legend and All-time Legend cards are considered to be "Shiney" with a mainly gold appearance to the card. Once again, when light hits the cards at a certain angle, the colour changes slightly.
Magic: The Gathering formats
The Vintage format, formerly known as Type 1, is another Eternal constructed format. Vintage maintains a small banned list and a larger restricted list. Unlike in the other formats, the DCI does not ban cards in Vintage for power level reasons. Rather, cards banned in Vintage are those that either involve , manual dexterity (, ), or could hinder event rundown ( and Conspiracy cards). Cards that raise power level concerns are instead restricted to a maximum of one copy per deck. Vintage is currently the only format in which cards are restricted. Because of the expense in acquiring the old cards to play competitive Vintage, many Vintage tournaments are unsanctioned and permit players to use a certain number of proxy cards. These are treated as stand-ins of existing cards and are not normally permitted in tournaments sanctioned by the DCI.
Power Nine
The Power Nine are among the very few widely recognized cards never to have received updated artwork from their original printing. As a way to rectify this, since 2003, the winner of the annual Vintage Championship has received a unique, oversized Power Nine card featuring brand-new art. These prize cards are considerably larger than actual cards, and therefore cannot be used in play. The five Mox cards feature artwork that represent the settings of the Magic expansions released in their corresponding years. Their artist, Volkan Baga, has also illustrated two other Mox cards—Mox Opal and the reissued Mox Diamond—in the same style. The following cards have been given to the winners:
Power Nine
The "Black Lotus" card can be played at zero cost, and grants three mana (the game's primary resource) when sacrificed (discarded from play). Thus, the card gives the player an enormous jump in the early stages of a "Magic" game. Former Pro player and Magic writer Zvi Mowshowitz has declared Black Lotus as the best card of its type of all time, claiming every deck in the history of the game is better with a Black Lotus in it. It has since been banned from all official tournament formats save for Vintage, but even there, it is limited to one copy per deck, compared to the normal allowance of four. The illustration on Black Lotus was painted by Christopher Rush, who was at the time a Wizards of the Coast employee. The Black Lotus illustration is a depiction of a black lotus flower over a foliage backdrop.
Scripophily
Rarity - How many of the certificates were issued? How many survived over the years? Is the certificate a low number?
Xeko
The following four types of cards are featured in the game:Each card is also assigned a rarity rating of one to four, one being the most common and four being the rarest. In the "Xeko" nomenclature, these are Common, Rare, Endangered, and Vanishing. The rarity of a card can be checked at a glance by counting the dots the bottom right-hand corner.
Magic: The Gathering
Magic: The Gathering is both a trading card and digital collectible card game created by Richard Garfield. Released in 1993 by Wizards of the Coast, "Magic" was the first trading card game created and it continues to thrive, with approximately twenty million players , and over twenty billion "Magic" cards produced in the period of 2008 to 2016 alone.
Mus (card game)
The second round is the "Chica". The two teams compete for the lowest combination of cards. The lowest cards in the Spanish deck are the Aces. In the variant game with eight Kings, there are also eight aces, with the twos being the second set of aces. For example, a hand like 'Ace-Ace-5-Knight' would be better for this round than 'Ace-Ace-5-King'.
List of Pokémon Trading Card Game sets
Diamond and Pearl – Great Encounters is the 36th set of cards in the Pokémon Trading Card Game and the 20th set released by Pokémon USA, released in February 2008 and is the second-smallest Diamond and Pearl set to date, with 106 cards. Its symbol is a triskelion inside a hexagon. The set introduces Darkrai, an event Pokémon and legendary Pokémon featured alongside Dialga and Palkia in "". The set also features four more Pokémon LV.X.
Magic: The Gathering formats
While in Pauper only common cards are legal, in Peasant a deck may contain up to 5 uncommon cards and the rest must be common. Peasant Magic was created by Rob Baranowski who felt that players with limited access to cards should still have an opportunity for competitive play. Tournaments for this format have taken place at Gen Con since 2001. However, the original banned list is considered to be outdated and most tournaments are played by the rules of the largest active Peasant community.
Magicana
Magicana facilitated the acquisition of one of the top five Golden Age magic poster collections in the world and one of the most important Houdiniana collections (renamed, the "Allan Slaight Collection") for the McCord Museum in February 2015. The $3 million collection contains 600 vintage posters and hundreds of Houdini-related books, posters, unique collectibles and ephemera making it the largest magic collection in Canada, and is housed in Montreal.
Cigarette card
Another notable and sought-after set of cards is the untitled series issued by Taddy and known by collectors as "Clowns and Circus Artistes". While not the rarest cards in existence (there are a number of series in which only one known example remains), they are still very rare and command high prices whenever they come up for auction.
Slightly Magic
Slightly Magic is an arcade adventure computer game published in 1991 by Codemasters for the Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum. It was written by Colin Jones, author of the rock star management game "Rock Star Ate My Hamster" (also by Codemasters). Colin later became known as author and publisher Colin Bradshaw-Jones.
Magic: The Gathering formats
Modern is a constructed format created by Wizards of the Coast in the Spring of 2011 as a response to the increasing popularity of the Legacy format which, although popular, proved difficult to access due to the high price of staple cards, as well as dissatisfaction with the Extended format of the time. Wizards of the Coast is unwilling to reprint some of these cards due to the Reserved List, a list of cards Wizards promised never to reprint in order to protect card prices. Therefore, Modern was designed as a new format that would exclude all cards on the Reserved List, allowing the format to be more accessible than Legacy.
Postage stamps and postal history of Mauritius
On September 21, 1847, Mauritius issued two stamps, an orange-red one penny (1d) and a deep blue two pence (2d). The words "Post Office" appear in the left panel, but were changed to "Post Paid" in the following issue, and are the source of the stamps' common name. The "Post Office" stamps are among the rarest stamps in the world, and are of legendary status in the world of philately.