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| {{DISPLAYTITLE:Category:''Magic'' sets}}
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| '''Sets''' are any releases of ''[[:Category:Magic: The Gathering|Magic]]'' cards. The term more often than not refers to releases of reprinted cards, or non-expansion-set sets. Examples of such sets include, but are not limited to, [[:Category:Magic core sets|core set]]s, ''[[Beatdown]]'', and the ''Duel Decks'' series.
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| ==Levels of sets==
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| ====Starter-level sets====
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| '''Starter-level sets''' are sets that are of the lowest level of ''Magic'' thematic and mechanical complexity. Starter-level sets are aimed to introduce, and teach, prospective and newer players to the game.
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| ====Advanced-level sets====
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| '''Advanced-level sets''' are core sets of the game.
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| ====Expert-level sets====
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| '''Expert-level sets''' are sets that are generally of the highest level of ''Magic'' thematic and mechanical complexity. Expert-level sets are all [[:Category:Magic sets#Expansion sets|expansion sets]].
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| ==Types of sets==
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| ===Un-sets===
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| '''Un-sets''' are non-tournament-legal mock sets with a "fun" or "joke" theme.
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| ===Expansion sets===
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| '''Expansion sets''', or '''expansions''', are subsets of sets that are often released as part of [[:Category:Magic blocks|blocks]], with [[large expansion]]s and [[small expansion]]s, and with a storyline.
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| Usually, a block, which is characterized and differentiated by its storyline, themes, and mechanics, comprises three expansion sets, one large expansion and two small expansions; but, there are variations to this organically developed model.<ref>{{DailyRef|mtg/daily/mm/68|Playing with Blocks|[[Mark Rosewater]]|December 7, 2009}}</ref>
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| ====Large expansions====
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| '''Large expansions''' are expansions that contain 200 or more cards, usually 300 or more cards, and establish the storyline, themes, and mechanics of a given block that is typically named after or similarly to the first expansion in a block, which itself is a large expansion. Basic lands are often, but not always, printed in large expansions.<ref group="note">''[[Gatecrash]]'' is a large expansion but no basic lands are printed in the expansion set; rather, the basic lands that would be printed in the expansion set are printed in the preceding expansion set, ''[[Return to Ravnica]]'', which itself is a large expansion.</ref>
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| ====Small expansions====
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| '''Small expansions''' are expansions that contain less than 200 cards, usually 150 or so cards, and build upon the storyline, themes, and mechanics of a given block in which it is featured and that are established in the large expansion(s). New themes and mechanics may be introduced, however.
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| More often than not, small expansions are the second and third sets of a three-expansion block and do not feature basic lands; however, the "large expansion / small expansion / small expansion" model is not a rule, and has previously been deviated from.<ref group="note">''[[Rise of the Eldrazi]]'' and ''[[Avacyn Restored]]'' are the third expansion sets in their respective blocks but, being "reboots" of the respective block thus far, they are large expansions.</ref>
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| ==List of ''Magic'' expansions and sets==
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| {{List of Magic sets}}
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| ==Notes==
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| ==References==
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| {{Reflist}}
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