Anthologies

Anthologies
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Set Information
Set symbol
Symbol description	Cards use the symbol of their original expansion.
Design	Bill Rose
Development	Bill Rose William Jockusch
Release date	November 1998
Plane	Dominaria, Rabiah, Rath, Ulgrotha
Set size	120 cards
Expansion code	ATH
Early Box sets
Introductory Two-Player Set Anthologies Battle Royale
Magic: The Gathering Chronology
Urza's Saga Anthologies Urza's Legacy

This article is about the 1998 box set. For other uses, see Anthology.

Anthologies is a box set that was released in November 1998, celebrating the fifth anniversary of Magic.

Set details

Anthologies contains two 60-card preconstructed theme decks made up of cards from every Magic expansion and edition from the Alpha set to the Urza's Saga expansion plus 5 token cards in each deck, and a 64-page booklet describing the past, present, and future of Magic, with personal commentary from Richard Garfield. The storage box can hold 350 cards in standard-sized sleeves. The cards are white border with copyright 1993–1998.

Decklists

Defenders of the Cause

A control-oriented deck deck. If you're able to establish a stalemate on the ground, you'll be able to win combat in the air. Even if you need to hold your flying creatures back in defense, you have a stalemate breaker in Overrun.

Defenders of the Cause

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Creatures (23)

1 Armored Pegasus

1 Benalish Knight

1 Combat Medic

1 Freewind Falcon

1 Icatian Javelineers

1 Infantry Veteran

1 Order of the White Shield

1 Pegasus Charger

1 Samite Healer

1 Serra Angel

1 White Knight

1 Youthful Knight

1 Canopy Spider

1 Carnivorous Plant

1 Erhnam Djinn

1 Giant Spider

1 Gorilla Chieftain

1 Llanowar Elves

1 Mirri, Cat Warrior

1 Scavenger Folk

1 Spectral Bears

1 Woolly Spider

1 Ranger en-Vec

Instants (4)

1 Disenchant

1 Giant Growth

1 Swords to Plowshares

1 Warrior's Honor

Sorceries (3)

1 Armageddon

1 Hurricane

1 Overrun

Enchantments (3)

1 Pacifism

1 Pegasus Stampede

1 Sacred Mesa

Artifacts (2)

1 Jalum Tome

1 Serrated Arrows

Lands (25)

11 Plains

10 Forest

1 Brushland

1 Drifting Meadow

1 Pendelhaven

1 Slippery Karst

Tokens (5)

5 Pegasus

The rares in this deck are Armageddon, Brushland, Jalum Tome, Mirri, Cat Warrior and Sacred Mesa.

Dark Alliance

An aggro-oriented deck. When in doubt, attack. This deck is designed to win the "damage race".

Dark Alliance

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Creatures (23)

1 Goblin Balloon Brigade

1 Goblin Digging Team

1 Goblin Hero

1 Goblin King

1 Goblin Matron

1 Goblin Mutant

1 Goblin Recruiter

1 Goblin Snowman

1 Goblin Tinkerer

1 Goblin Vandal

1 Mogg Fanatic

1 Mogg Flunkies

1 Mogg Raider

1 Raging Goblin

1 Uthden Troll

1 Volcanic Dragon

1 Black Knight

1 Cuombajj Witches

1 Hypnotic Specter

1 Ihsan's Shade

1 Knight of Stromgald

1 Lady Orca

1 Aesthir Glider

Instants (3)

1 Lightning Bolt

1 Pyrokinesis

1 Terror

Sorceries (5)

1 Fireball

1 Goblin Grenade

1 Pyrotechnics

1 Feast of the Unicorn

1 Hymn to Tourach

Enchantments (3)

1 Goblin Offensive

1 Goblin Warrens

1 Unholy Strength

Artifacts (1)

1 Nevinyrral's Disk

Lands (25)

12 Mountain

10 Swamp

1 Strip Mine

1 Smoldering Crater

1 Polluted Mire

Tokens (5)

5 Goblin

The rares in this deck are Goblin King, Goblin Warrens, Nevinyrral's Disk, Volcanic Dragon and Strip Mine.

Misprints

• Armored Pegasus has a mana cost of instead of .
• Carnivorous Plant was printed with a Legends expansion symbol instead of The Dark.
• Goblin Hero has The Dark's expansion symbol, even though the art is from the Fifth Edition version. Either the art should have been the original Mark Tedin version, or the expansion symbol should have been removed.
• Mirri, Cat Warrior was printed as a common with a black expansion symbol instead of a rare. Its power/toughness was misprinted as 2/2 when it should be 2/3.
• Mogg Raider was printed with a mana cost of instead of .
• Raging Goblin has the Exodus picture but the flavor text from Portal.
• Samite Healer has a mana cost of instead of .
• Warrior's Honor has a mana cost of instead of .

External links

• Anthologies Green/White Theme Deck Page
• Anthologies Black/Red Theme Deck Page