Magic: The Gathering/Statistics and trivia

Magic: The Gathering/Statistics and trivia

 

Statistics and trivia

 

This is a list of Magic: The Gathering statistical facts and trivia.

Totals

As of the release of Strixhaven: School of Mages:

	Total
All cards	22,049	3,329	3,267	3,317	3,298	3,267	2,965	2,414
Artifacts	2,196	44	45	32	24	17	1,977	60
Creatures	11,698	1,958	1,710	1,904	1,878	2,033	721	1,538
Enchantments	2,639	581	528	452	397	438	5	237
Instants	2,683	510	646	358	471	384	21	294
Sorceries	2,501	273	379	600	530	414	21	284

• Total lands: 791
  • Basic lands: 12
  • Snow lands: 26
• Total tribal: 56
• Total planeswalkers: 235

Acorn

As of the release of Unfinity:

	Total
All cards	624	88	90	84	89	86	153	34
Artifacts	172	17	6	0	3	1	143	2
Creatures	289	49	41	49	56	50	23	21
Enchantments	72	17	19	12	6	14	1	3
Instants	63	13	20	9	11	8	1	1
Sorceries	69	9	9	14	17	13	0	7
Planeswalkers	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	1
Lands	9	0	0	0	0	0	9	0

• Total Legendary cards: 50
• Total Snow cards: 1
• Total Hosts: 20

Most

• Cards in a set: Mystery Booster (1936)
  • Cards in a core set: Fifth Edition (429)
  • Cards in a supplemental set: Mystery Booster (1936)
  • Cards in an expansion: Time Spiral (422)
• Card types used on a single card: 3
  • Dark Ritual has been printed with three different card types: Interrupt, Mana Source and Instant.
  • Omniclown Colossus was printed with three card types on the card: Artifact, Creature and Sorcery (for the Adventure).
• Art versions: Island (287)
  • Non-basic card: Evolving Wilds (17)
  • Non-land card: Counterspell and Lightning Bolt (14) each
• Card treatments of a single card in a single set: Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines (10 in Phyrexia: All Will Be One)
• Used keyword: Flying (2417) (includes Vintage-legal sets, excludes revisions)
• Used subtype: Human (3125)
  • Used creature class: Wizard (968)
• Colored mana symbols in a mana cost: B.F.M. (Big Furry Monster) (15)
  • Non-acorn: Progenitus (10)
• Expensive card: 1996 World Champion was sold by the cards original owner, Tom Chanpheng, to a private collector for $17,500 in 2001. In 2017, it again appeared on eBay for $200,000. Magic Librarities Administrator Dragsamou verified the authenticiy of the post, though the owner did not end up selling it.
  • Expensive "normal" card: Black Lotus (~$1,500-$3,000) (general standard, differs with quality and editions)
  • A graded Alpha Black Lotus (PSA 10), signed by the artist (Christopher Rush), was sold $511,100.

Reprints

Most reprints (as of Phyrexia: All Will Be One).

Card	Reprints
Evolving Wilds	45
Sol Ring	40
Swords to Plowshares	38
Serra Angel	36
Counterspell	35
Giant Growth	35
Terramorphic Expanse	34
Command Tower	33
Llanowar Elves	33
Dark Ritual	32
Disenchant	32

Longest

• The longest English card name is Our Market Research Shows That Players Like Really Long Card Names So We Made this Card to Have the Absolute Longest Card Name Ever Elemental at 141 characters.
  • Non-Acorn English card name: Okina, Temple to the Grandfathers (33 characters).
• The longest type line is that of The Reality Chip ("Legendary Artifact Creature — Equipment Jellyfish") at 49 characters. R&D had to break some rules to print it, and learned that they couldn't break them again.
• The card with the longest period between set printings is Arboria. It was first printed in Legends (released June 10, 1994) and wasn't printed in paper again until Dominaria Remastered (released January 13, 2023) — 10293 days (28 years, 7 months) later.
• Mind Rot is the only card (so far) to have been Standard-legal for 20 years straight. It originally debuted in Portal but eventually was added to the core set with Seventh Edition and had been in every core set since (and Kaladesh). The card left Standard when Core Set 2021 rotated out.

Least

• Cards printed in a set: March of the Machine: The Aftermath (50)
  • In a premier set: Arabian Nights (78)
• Used keyword: Absorb, Gravestorm and Transfigure (1) each
  • Each of these cards are Futureshifted and will possibly make appearances in later sets.
• Used subtype (on the type line):
  • Creature: Ferret (Joven's Ferrets), Fractal (Esix, Fractal Bloom), Mite (Skrelv, Defector Mite), Oyster (Giant Oyster), Reflection (Aurora of Emrakul), Sable (Bronze Sable) and Spawn (Elder Spawn) (1) each
  • Artifact: Fortification (Darksteel Garrison) and Powerstone (The Mightstone and Weakstone) (1) each
  • Enchantment: Cartouche and Rune (5) each
  • Instant or Sorcery: Trap (6)
  • Land: Mine (Urza's Mine), Power-Plant (Urza's Power Plant) and Tower (Urza's Tower) (1) each

Rarest

There are three cards where only one copy was ever distributed:

• 1996 World Champion — awarded to Tom Chanpheng on winning the 1996 World Championships, encased inside the trophy.
• Shichifukujin Dragon — gifted to the Japan DCI Tournament Center in Tokyo.
• The serialized version of The One Ring (serialized 001 of 001) — found in an English-language The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth Collector Booster.

Highest

B.F.M. (Big Furry Monster)

• Mana value: Gleemax (1,000,000)
  • Non-acorn: Draco (16)
  • Non-creature artifact: The Cauldron of Eternity (12)
    • Equipment: Elbrus, The Binding Blade and Kaldra Compleat (7)
    • Vehicle: Parhelion II (8)
  • Enchantment: Omniscience (10)
    • Aura: Eldrazi Conscription, Overwhelming Splendor, Spawning Grounds and Yavimaya's Embrace (8)
  • Instant: Blinkmoth Infusion (14)
  • Sorcery: Enter the Infinite and Volcanic Salvo (12)
  • Planeswalker: Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker, Nicol Bolas, the Deceiver, Ugin, the Spirit Dragon and Urza, Planeswalker (8)
  • Battle: (to be released)
• Activation cost: Spawnsire of Ulamog (20)
• Base power: Infinity Elemental (∞)
  • Finite: B.F.M. (Big Furry Monster) (99)
  • Non-acorn: Yargle and Multani (18)
  • Token: Marit Lage (20)
• Base toughness: B.F.M. (Big Furry Monster) (99)
  • Non-acorn: Kharis & The Beholder (20)
    • Regular Set: Charix, the Raging Isle (17)
  • Token: Marit Lage (20)
• Power/toughness difference: Infinity Elemental (∞/5)
  • Non-acorn: Yargle and Multani (18/6)
• Toughness/power difference: Kharis & The Beholder (1/20)
  • Regular Set: Charix, the Raging Isle (0/17)
• Base loyalty: Garruk the Slayer (20)
  • Non-acorn: There are various Planeswalkers with a base loyalty of 7 (e.g. Arlinn, Voice of the Pack, Sarkhan the Mad)
• Base life gain: Heroes Remembered (20)
• Base damage to ...
  • target creature: Into the Maw of Hell (13)
  • each creature: Star of Extinction (20)
  • target player: Hidetsugu's Second Rite and Sorin's Vengeance (10)
  • any target: Aetherflux Reservoir (50)

Lowest

• Mana value: There are various creature, artifact, instant and sorcery cards with a mana value of 0 (e.g. Crimson Kobolds, Evermind).
  • Enchantment: Urza's Saga (0)
  • Planeswalker: Garruk the Slayer (0)
    • Non-acorn: Tibalt, the Fiend-Blooded and Wrenn and Six (2)
• Power: Char-Rumbler & Spinal Parasite (-1) (A creature with 0 or less power deals no damage).
• Toughness: Spinal Parasite (-1)

Sets and cards sharing names

The following sets share their name with cards:

Set	Card (First Release)	Notes
Apocalypse	Apocalypse (Tempest)
Coldsnap	Cold Snap (Ice Age)
Conflux	Conflux (Conflux)	Card in set of the same name
Conspiracy	Conspiracy (Mercadian Masques)
Future Sight	Future Sight (Onslaught)
Hour of Devastation	Hour of Devastation (Hour of Devastation)	Card in set of the same name
March of the Machine	March of the Machines (Mirrodin)	The card is plural, the set is not
Mirrodin Besieged	Mirrodin Besieged (Modern Horizons)	Card released after the set
Morningtide	Morningtide (Torment)
Onslaught	Onslaught (Exodus)
Phyrexia: All Will Be One	All Will Be One	Card in set of the same name
Prophecy	Prophecy (Homelands)
Time Spiral	Time Spiral (Urza's Saga)
Torment	Torment (Stronghold)
Urza's Saga	Urza's Saga (Modern Horizons 2)	Card released after the set
Visions	Visions (Legends)
War of the Spark	War of the Spark (Heroes of the Realm)	Card released after the set
Weatherlight	Weatherlight (Dominaria)	Card released after the set

Identical card names and subtypes

Other than the five basic lands which match their basic land types, there are a few cards where card name and subtypes match.

Creatures

This is a list of creatures whose name and creature type(s) are identical.

• Assembly-Worker
• Atog
• Aurochs
• Brushwagg
• Camel
• Centaur Archer
• Cockatrice
• Dauthi Horror
• Dragon Egg
• Dragon Turtle
• Faerie Noble
• Fungus Elemental
• Fungus Sliver
• Goblin Assassin
• Goblin Berserker
• Goblin Mime
• Goblin Mutant
• Goblin Wizard
• Homarid
• Homarid Shaman
• Homarid Warrior
• Juggernaut
• Kavu Scout
• Leviathan
• Lhurgoyf
• Lizard Warrior
• Manticore
• Masticore
• Merfolk Assassin
• Metathran Soldier
• Metathran Zombie
• Minotaur Warrior
• Ogre Berserker
• Ogre Shaman
• Ogre Warrior
• Orgg
• Phelddagrif
• Phyrexian Dreadnought
• Phyrexian Hydra
• Phyrexian Juggernaut
• Plant Elemental
• Scarecrow
• Shapeshifter
• Skeleton Archer
• Spike Drone
• Spike Soldier
• Thrull Wizard
• Vampire Noble
• Viashino Skeleton
• Viashino Warrior
• Zombie Assassin
• Zombie Ogre

Others

• Desert
• Elminster
• Mordenkainen
• Urza's Mine
• Urza's Saga
• Urza's Tower

Card names that combine other card names

• Dread Wight — Dread and Wight
• Glory Seeker — Glory and Seeker
• Restore Balance — Restore and Balance
• Stasis Cocoon — Stasis and Cocoon
• Void Shatter — Void and Shatter

Notes

^† A card is counted as a reprint if it was previously printed in another set—either eternal or acorn. Cards printed as gold bordered commemorative sets, oversized promos, digital-only promos, Salvat printings, and/or Foreign Black-Bordered or Foreign White-Bordered sets are not counted as reprints.

To prevent over-counting:

• A card's first printing is not counted.
• If a card is reprinted with multiple art versions in a single set, it is only counted as a reprint once.
• A card printed as part of The List is only counted once.
• A skinned card is counted as a reprint of the base card.
• Universes Beyond and Universes Within cards are considered the same card. A reprint of either version is counted as a reprint.
• Secret Lair printings are counted once per Secret Lair drop.
  • Bonus cards included in a Secret Lair drop are not counted if the drop already includes that card.