Planar Chaos

For other uses, see Planar Chaos (disambiguation).

Template:Expansion Planar Chaos is the forty-first Magic expansion and was released in February 2007 as the second set in the Time Spiral block.

Set details

Planar Chaos includes 165 all new cards including a 45 card "timeshifted" subset that are distributed in 15-card boosters including eight "normal" commons, three "timeshifted" commons, two "normal" uncommons, one "normal" rare and one "timeshifted" rare or uncommon card (there are three times as many "timeshifted" uncommon cards than there are "timeshifted" rare cards, making it three times as likely that an uncommon will appear in this slot).

The theme of this expansion is "the present"; to fit the theme of of the block, "time", each "timeshifted" card in this set (sometimes also called "colorshifted") is the same as a previously printed card except in a different color (and possibly with a different creature type, or referencing a different color or land type in its abilities).

Mechanics

Echo, flanking, flash, kicker, madness, morph are all keywords used in previous sets.

Split second, Suspend, Vanishing were introduced in Time Spiral.

Cycles

Planar Chaos has 10 cycles:

• Alternate legendary creatures: Each of these legendary creatures is based on a legendary creature from a past set — Crovax, Ascendant Hero (Ascendant Evincar); Braids, Conjurer Adept (Braids, Cabal Minion); Mirri the Cursed (Mirri, Cat Warrior); Akroma, Angel of Fury (Akroma, Angel of Wrath); and Jedit Ojanen of Efrava (Jedit Ojanen).
• Charms: Dawn Charm, Piracy Charm, Midnight Charm, Fury Charm, and Evolution Charm are each common modal instants with three options that are each illustrated by John Avon with artwork depicting a small stone framed in jewelery held in two hands.
• Colorshifted: The cards referenced by each of these colorshifted cards appeared in the Time Spiral expansion's timeshifted subset — Malach of the Dawn (Ghost Ship), Piracy Charm (Funeral Charm), Dunerider Outlaw (Whirling Dervish), Prodigal Pyromancer (Prodigal Sorcerer), and Fa'adiyah Seer (Sindbad).
• Common Slivers: Each of these common monocolored Slivers grant abilities that their color doesn't normally have — Poultice Sliver (regeneration), Synchronous Sliver (vigilance), Spitting Sliver (first strike), Battering Sliver (trample), and Reflex Sliver (haste).
• Enemy-color Slivers: Each of these uncommon Slivers with enemy-color mana costs have abilities that mimic previous enemy-color cards — Necrotic Sliver (Vindicate), Cautery Sliver (Goblin Legionnaire), Frenetic Sliver (Frenetic Efreet), Dormant Sliver (Jungle Barrier), and Darkheart Sliver (Dark Heart of the Wood).
• Legendary dragons: Each of these rare legendary Dragons has a mana cost of 3CDE (where D and E are the enemy colors of C), flying, a triggered ability with a cost of 2C that triggers on dealing combat damage to a player, and power/toughness of 6/6 — Oros, the Avenger; Intet, the Dreamer; Teneb, the Harvester; Numot, the Devastator; and Vorosh, the Hunter.
• Magi: Each of these each rare Human Wizard creatures has the abilities of a powerful land from the past — Magus of the Tabernacle (The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale), Magus of the Bazaar (Bazaar of Baghdad), Magus of the Coffers (Cabal Coffers), Magus of the Arena (Arena), and Magus of the Library (Library of Alexandria).
• Spellshapers: Each of these spellshapers references an instant or sorcery that was previously printed in a different color — Ghost Tactician (Scare Tactics), Dreamscape Artist (Harrow), Ridged Kusite (Guided Strike), Firefright Mage (Fear), and Sophic Centaur (Gerrard's Wisdom).
• Suspend X cards: Each of these rare creatures has power and toughness */*, an ability defining *, "Suspend X—[mana cost including X]. X can't be 0," and a triggered ability that triggers on the removal of time counters while it is suspended that improves the game state for the definition of "*" — Benalish Commander, Aeon Chronicler, Roiling Horror, Detritivore, and Fungal Behemoth.
• Vanishing creatures: Each of these are uncommon creatures with vanishing — Calciderm, Tidewalker, Waning Wurm, Lavacore Elemental, and Deadwood Treefolk.

Theme decks

The preconstructed theme decks are: Template:Theme decks

Trivia

• In keeping with the theme of alternate realities converging, Planar Chaos features numerous cards with abilities "usually" assigned to another color:
  • White received shroud (then "This creature can't be the target of spells and abilities."), regeneration, countering, returning creatures to your hand.
  • Blue received vigilance, discard, and giving creatures +X/-X or -X/-X.
  • Black received first strike, lifelink-like effects, and control effects.
  • Red received reach, trample, fear-like effects, "pump" effects, and returning opponent's permanents.
  • Green received flying, haste, life gain/damage prevention, and card-drawing effects.
• All three (red) split cards are part of a vertical cycle; they are the only split cards in Planar Chaos.
• All non-rare creature with morph are blue.
• All non-timeshifted cards with madness are black.
• There are no artifacts in Planar Chaos.

External links

• Planar Chaos product information page — Wizards of the Coast
• English Rules Primer — Planar Chaos