Legends

Legends is the third Magic expansion and was released in 1994.

Legends introduced multicolor, or "gold," cards, legendary lands and creatures, World enchantments, and the mechanics Rampage and Bands with other.

Cycles

Legends has eight cycles:

Bands-with-others land cycle: Cathedral of Serra, Seafarer's Quay, Unholy Citadel, Mountain Stronghold, and Adventurers' Guildhouse are each uncommon lands with no mana ability and each have an ability that grants legendary creatures of a particular color the "Bands with other legendary creatures" ability.

Elder Dragon Legend cycle: Chromium, Nicol Bolas, Vaevictis Asmadi, Palladia-Mors, and Arcades Sabboth are each rare legendary creatures with the creature types Elder and Dragon. They are 7/7, have flying, a casting cost of 2CCDDEE, an upkeep cost of CDE and at least one other ability.

Glyph cycle: Glyph of Life, Glyph of Delusion, Glyph of Doom, Glyph of Destruction, and Glyph of Reincarnation are each common instants with a casting cost of C and an effect that interacts with Walls. Each was illustrated by Susan Van Camp.

Anti-landwalk enchantment cycle: Great Wall, Undertow, Quagmire, Crevasse, and Deadfall are each uncommon enchantments with a casting cost of 2C and an effect that allows creatures with landwalk abilities to be blocked as though they didn't have them.

Color-wash cycle: Heaven's Gate, Sea Kings' Blessing, Touch of Darkness, Dwarven Song, and Sylvan Paradise are each uncommon instants with a casting cost of C and the effect of changing the color of any number of target creatures to a particular color.

Legendary land cycle: Karakas, Tolaria, Urborg, Hammerheim, and Pendelhaven are each uncommon legendary lands that produce one color of mana and have an additional activated ability that had some interaction with creatures and required only tapping the land to activate that ability.

Mana Battery cycle: White Mana Battery, Blue Mana Battery, Black Mana Battery, Red Mana Battery, and Green Mana Battery are each uncommon artifacts with a casting cost of 4 and the two activated abilities "2, T: Put a charge counter on [this]" and "T, Remove any number of charge counters from [this]: Add C to your mana pool, then add an additional C to your mana pool for each charge counter removed this way," where C is a specific color of mana.

Flavor text legendary creature cycle: Halfdane, Gwendlyn Di Corci, Bartel Runeaxe, Jaques le Vert, and Angus MacKenzie are each rare legendary creatures with a casting cost requiring at least three allied colors and flavor text referring to one of the legendary lands from the cycle above.

Points of Interest

The Legendary supertype replaced the "Legend" creature type when the Legend rule was updated in 2004 with the introduction of the Kamigawa block. This left many legendary creatures without any creature type.

Originally, the Restricted list included every legendary creature for flavor reasons.