It has a 'timeshited' bonus sheet of cards from the game's past, reprinted in the old border.

Time Spiral was full of popular mechanics from old sets returning – including Flashback, notably – as well as riffs on old cards, mashups of old mechanics that never existed together in the same set before, and numerous references to the early days of Magic.Its three sets were themed after the past, present, and future:

Time Spiral's theme was nostalgia – nostalgia, specifically, for Magic's own past. Established players loved it newcomers were bewildered. Considered by many to be the apex of the game's design, it was widely regarded as a mistake by Wizards due to its high complexity and unapproachable theme. Time Spiral is the wildest block in Magic's history. In Extended, a few people tried Golgari Grave-Troll in Psychatog lists, using the troll both to fuel Psychatog, and as an annoying recurring threat in itself.īut Dredge would not reach its full potential until Time Spiral block printed three cards that worked perfectly with it. If you browse the decklists of Worlds 2005, or Pro Tour Honolulu in 2006, you will only find Dredge cards hanging out in sideboards – Darkblast, specifically, had a role in fighting some very specific strategies. This pretty much made dredge cards non-starters in any kind of normal deck. This is a fairly powerful ability, so dredge cards are usually balanced around that by being fairly weak the original 12 Dredge cards in Ravnica are all pretty below curve for the expected power level of a card. Each dredge card says how many, ranging from Dredge 1 through Dredge 6.Įssentially, you forgo a normal draw to recover a card from your graveyard, with the added bonus of dumping more cards into your graveyard. If you do, you mill some cards that is, you put them from the top of your library directly into your graveyard. What it does: Whenever you would draw a card, instead you may return a card with Dredge from the graveyard to your hand. Dredgeĭredge is a mechanic from Ravnica block, released in late 2005 following Kamigawa block.

We've reached probably the strangest part of this history, and the most perverse deck archetype of all time. Last time, I explored the history of three powerful cards from Kamigawa block.

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