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==Products==
==Products==
A Shards of Alara block all-foil booster packs were released for US$11.99<ref>http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/arcana/364</ref>
A Shards of Alara block all-foil booster packs were released for US$11.99<ref>{{DailyRef|mtg/daily/arcana/364|Opening the Foil Booster|"[[Magic Arcana]]"|Thursday, January 14, 2010}}</ref>


==Theme decks==
==Theme decks==

Revision as of 02:59, 31 March 2010

The Alara block is the fifteenth block consisting of the large expansion Shards of Alara (File:Shards of Alara symbol.png) and two small expansions, Conflux (File:Conflux symbol.png) and Alara Reborn (File:Alara Reborn symbol.png). The block came out in 2008-2009.

Keywords introduced in this block: devour, exalted, unearth, cascade.

Keywords/ability words reused from the past: cycling, domain (now an ability word with Conflux), typecycling (expanded upon with basic land cycling).

Mega Cycles

Planeswalkers: Each shard has a corresponding Planeswalker. Sarkhan Vol (Jund), Ajani Vengeant (Naya), Elspeth, Knight-Errant (Bant) and Tezzeret the Seeker (Esper) were introduced in Shards of Alara while the cycle was completed with Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker (Grixis) in Conflux.[1]

Products

A Shards of Alara block all-foil booster packs were released for US$11.99[2]

Theme decks

References

  1. Doug Beyer (Wednesday, April 08, 2009). "The One, The Only, Nicol Bolas". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
  2. "Magic Arcana" (Thursday, January 14, 2010). "Opening the Foil Booster". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.

Sets

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