Ninth Edition
Template:Expansion Ninth Edition (9th Edition) is the ninth Core Set. Ninth Edition was released on July 29, 2005. With Ninth Edition, came a change to the fat pack.[1] The fat pack now was two boxes with card dividers and a mini-poster built into the reverse of the card box wrapper.
Cycles
- "Lucky Charms" artifacts — Each costing File:Mana2.gif and hosting an ability that allows its controller to gain life whenever a spell of the appropriate color is played: Angel's Feather, Demon's Horn, Dragon's Claw, Kraken's Eye and Wurm's Tooth (Reprinted from Darksteel).
- Allied colored painlands: Adarkar Wastes, Brushland, Underground River, Sulfurous Springs, and Karplusan Forest are each rare lands with "T: add 1 to your mana pool. T: Add C or D to your mana pool. [This] deals 1 damage to you." C and D are allied colors of mana. These lands are called painlands because their use for colored mana is "painful," referring to the damage they do to you.
- Enemy colored painlands: Battlefield Forge, Caves of Kilios, Llanowar Wastes, Shivan Reef, and Yavimaya Coast are each rare lands with "T: add 1 to your mana pool. T: Add E or F to your mana pool. [This] deals 1 damage to you." E and F are enemy colors of mana.
Cards added to 9th Edition
Theme decks
The preconstructed theme decks are:
| Theme Deck Name | |||||
| White | Blue | Black | Red | Green | |
| Army of Justice | |||||
| Custom Creatures | |||||
| Dead Again | |||||
| Lofty Heights | |||||
| World Aflame | |||||