Eighth Edition/Changes

Cards added to Eighth Edition

The following 167 cards from Eighth Edition were not printed in Seventh Edition.

Ambition's Cost Anaba Shaman Angel of Mercy Avatar of Hope Aven Cloudchaser Aven Fisher Aven Flock Balance of Power Blinding Angel Blood Moon Brass Herald Bribery Call of the Wild Canyon Wildcat Carrion Wall Catalog Chastise Choke Cinder Wall Coastal Hornclaw Coastal Piracy Coastal Tower Coercion Collective Unconscious Concentrate Coral Eel Cowardice Craw Wurm Curiosity Death Pit Offering Death Pits of Rath Deathgazer Deepwood Ghoul

Defense Grid Dehydration Demolish Demystify Diabolic Tutor Distorting Lens Diving Griffin Dusk Imp Dwarven Demolition Team Elfhame Palace Elite Javelineer Elvish Pioneer Elvish Scrapper Emperor Crocodile Enormous Baloth Enrage Execute Fecundity Fertile Ground Flash Counter Flashfires Fodder Cannon Foratog Fugitive Wizard Fungusaur Furnace of Rath Gaea's Hearld Giant Badger Glory Seeker Gluttonous Zombie Grave Pact Guerilla Tactics Hammer of Bogardan

Holy Day Horned Troll Hulking Cyclops Hunted Wumpus Index Intruder Alarm Invisibility Ivory Mask Karma Larceny Lava Hounds Lesser Gargadon Lhurgoyf Living Terrain Llanowar Behemoth Lord of the Undead Maggot Carrier Mana Leak Master Decoy Merchant of Secrets Merchant Scroll Mind Bend Mind Slash Mind Sludge Mogg Sentry Moss Monster Murderous Betrayal Nantuko Disciple Natural Affinity Naturalize Nekrataal Noble Purpose Norwood Ranger

Obliterate Oracle's Attendants Orcish Spy Panic Attack Peach Garden Oath Phyrexian Arena Phyrexian Plaguelord Plague Wind Planar Portal Plow Under Primeval Force Primeval Shambler Puppeteer Rain of Blades Ravenous Rats Redeem Revive Rewind Rhox Ridgeline Rager Royal Assassin Rukh Egg Rushwood Dryad Sage of Lat-Nam Salt Marsh Savannah Lions Sea Eagle<c> <c>Searing Wind Sever Soul Severed Legion Shifting Sky Shivan Oasis Shock Troops Silverback Ape

Sizzle Skull of Orm Slay Sneaky Homunculus Solidarity Spiketail Hatchling Spitting Spider Spreading Algae Star Compass Story Circle Suntail Hawk Swarm of Rats Sword Dancer Thieves' Auction Tidal Kraken Trade Routes Tundra Wolves Two-Headed Dragon Underworld Dreams Urborg Volcano Urza's Armor Urza's Mine Urza's Power Plant Urza's Tower Vampiric Spirit Vexing Arcanix Viashino Sandstalker Vicious Hunger Vine Trellis Wall of Stone Warped Devotion Wrath of Marit Lage Zombify Zur's Weirding

To mark the 10th anniversary of Magic, Eighth edition included at least one card from every set not made of reprints that had never been reprinted before:

• Arabian Nights: Rukh Egg
• Antiquities: Sage of Lat-Nam
• Legends: Moss Monster
• The Dark: Skull of Orm
• Fallen Empires: Orcish Spy
• Ice Age: Vexing Arcanix
• Homelands: Merchant Scroll
• Alliances: Guerrilla Tactics (was in Deckmasters 2001)
• Mirage: Foratog and Mind Bend
• Visions: Viashino Sandstalker
• Portal: Primeval Force
• Weatherlight: Cinder Wall, Lava Hounds and Llanowar Behemoth
• Tempest: Canyon Wildcat, Choke, Elite Javelineer, Furnace of Rath
• Stronghold: Grave Pact and Intruder Alarm
• Portal Second Age: Swarm of Rats and Vampiric Spirit
• Exodus: Curiosity
• Urza's Saga: Catalog, Redeem, Rewind, Spreading Algae and Urza's Armor
• Urza's Legacy: Defense Grid and Phyrexian Plaguelord
• Portal Three Kingdoms: Ambition's Cost and Peach Garden Oath
• Urza's Destiny: Emperor Crocodile, Fodder Cannon, Plow Under and Solidarity
• Starter 1999: Silverback Ape
• Mercadian Masques: over twenty, from Bribery to Vine Trellis
• Nemesis: eight cards from Blinding Angel to Sneaky Homunculus
• Prophecy: twelve cards from Avatar of Hope to Sword Dancer
• Invasion: Obliterate, Planar Portal and the taplands
• Planeshift: eight cards from Gaea's Herald to Warped Devotion
• Apocalypse: Brass Herald, Index and Phyrexian Arena
• Odyssey: 11 cards from Aven Cloudchaser to Zombify
• Torment: Mind Sludge
• Judgment: Chastise and Suntail Hawk
• Onslaught: seven cards from Demystify to Severed Legion
• Legions: Fugitive Wizard and Merchant of Secrets
• Scourge: Enrage and Rain of Blades

Changes in rarity

The following cards changed rarity from their last printing to Eighth Edition.

• Ambition's Cost was a rare in Portal Three Kingdoms and is now a uncommon.
• Brass Herald was a uncommon in Apocalypse and is now a rare.
• The Circle of Protection cycle was common in 7th Edition and are now uncommon.
• Coastal Piracy was a uncommon in Mercadian Masques and is now a rare.
• Elite Javelineer was a common in Tempest and is now a uncommon.
• Guerrilla Tactics was a common in Alliances and is now a uncommon.
• Invisibility was a common in Unlimited and is now a uncommon.
• Larceny was a uncommon in Mercadian Masques and is now a rare.
• Lava Hounds was a uncommon in Weatherlight and is now a rare.
• Lightning Blast was a common in 7th Edition and is now a uncommon.
• Mind Bend was a uncommon in Mirage and is now a rare.
• Noble Purpose was a uncommon in Mercadian Masques and is now a rare.
• Redeem was a uncommon in Urza's Saga and is now a common.
• Rewind was a common in Urza's Saga and is now a uncommon.
• Rukh Egg was a common in Arabian Nights and is now a rare.
• Sage of Lat-Nam was a common in Antiquities and is now a rare.
• Sever Soul was a common in Mercadian Masques and is now a uncommon.
• Shifting Sky was a uncommon in Planeshift and is now a rare.
• Skull of Orm was a uncommon in The Dark and is now a rare.
• Spiketail Hatchling was a common in Prophecy and is now a uncommon.
• Story Circle was a uncommon in Mercadian Masques and is now a rare.
• Stream of Life was a common in 7th Edition and is now a uncommon.
• Swarm of Rats was a common in Portal Second Age and is now a uncommon.
• Underworld Dreams was a uncommon in Legends and is now a rare.
• Urza's Armor was a uncommon in Urza's Saga and is now a rare.
• The Urzatron was common in 5th Edition and is now uncommon.
• Warped Devotion was a uncommon in Planeshift and is now a rare.
• Wrath of Marit Lage was a rare in Ice Age and is now a uncommon.

Cards removed from 7th Edition

The following 160 cards from Seventh Edition did not get reprinted in Eighth Edition.

Abyssal Horror Adarkar Wastes Æther Flash Agonizing Memories Anaconda Ancestral Memories Ancient Silverback Arcane Laboratory Baleful Stare Bedlam Befoul Bellowing Fiend Benthic Behemoth Bereavement Blood Pet Breath of Life Brushland Bull Hippo Caltrops Castle Charcoal Diamond Cloudchaser Eagle Compost Coral Merfolk Corrupt Counterspell Crimson Hellkite Crypt Rats Dakmor Lancer Darkest Hour Delusions of Mediocrity Disenchant

Disorder Dregs of Sorrow Duress Early Harvest Earthquake Elder Druid Elvish Archers Engineered Plague Equilibrium Familiar Ground Femeref Archers Feroz's Ban Fervor Final Fortune Fire Diamond Fire Elemental Fog Force Spike Foul Imp Fugue Gang of Elk Gerrard's Wisdom Ghitu Fire-Eater Glacial Wall Goblin Digging Team Goblin Elite Infantry Goblin Gardener Goblin Matron Goblin Spelunkers Goblin War Drums Gorilla Chieftain Grafted Skullcap

Granite Grip Grapeshot Catapult Greed Heavy Ballista Hollow Dogs Howl From Beyond Hurricane Impatience Infernal Contract Jalum Tome Jandor's Saddlebags Karplusan Forest Kjeldoran Royal Guard Knight Errant Knighthood Leshrac's Rite Levitation Llanowar Elves Longbow Archer Lord of Atlantis Mana Breach Mana Short Marble Diamond Mawcor Meekstone Memory Lapse Merfolk Looter Merfolk of the Pearl Trident Moss Diamond Nature's Resurgence Nature's Revolt Necrologia

Nocturnal Raid Northern Paladin Opportunity Opposition Oppression Orcish Oriflamme Ostracize Paraiah Pillage Pit Trap Pride of Lions Prodigal Sorcerer Purify Pygmy Pyrosaur Rag Man Razortooth Rats Reckless Embermage Reclaim Redwood Treefolk Reprisal Reprocess Revenant Reverse Damage Rowen Scavenger Folk Seeker of Skybreak Serra Advocate Serra's Embrace Shanodin Dryads Shield Wall Sisay's Ring Sky Diamond

Skyshroud Falcon Sleight of Hand Soul Net Southern Paladin Spitting Earth Squall Starlight Static Orb Storm Cauldron Storm Shaman Strands of Night Stronghold Assassin Sulfurous Springs Sustainer of the Realm Tainted Æther Telepathic Spies<c> <c>Thoughtleech Tolarian Winds Trained Orgg Tranquility Treefolk Seedlings Uktabi Wildcats Underground River Untamed Wilds Vigilant Drake Wall of Bone Wall of Fire Wall of Wonder Wild Growth Wildfire Wind Dancer Yawgmoth's Edict

Cards in every core set up to Eighth Edition

The following 40 cards appeared in all core sets from Beta to Eighth Edition.

Air Elemental Bog Wraith Circle of Protection: Black Circle of Protection: Blue Circle of Protection: Green Circle of Protection: Red Circle of Protection: White Crystal Rod Dingus Egg Disrupting Scepter Drudge Skeletons Fear Flight Giant Growth Giant Spider Goblin King Grizzly Bears Healing Salve Howling Mine Iron Star

Ivory Cup Jayemdae Tome Lure Nightmare Orcish Artillery Raise Dead Regeneration Rod of Ruin Samite Healer Scathe Zombies Shatter Stone Rain Stream of Life Throne of Bone Unsummon Verduran Enchantress Wall of Air Wall of Swords Wooden Sphere Wrath of God

The 20 cards that left are: Castle, Counterspell, Disenchant, Earthquake, Elvish Archers, Fog, Howl From Beyond, Hurricane, Llanowar Elves, Lord of Atlantis, Meekstone, Merfolk of the Pearl Trident, Orcish Oriflamme, Prodigal Sorcerer, Reverse Damage, Shanodin Dryads, Soul Net, Tranquility, Wall of Fire, Wild Growth.