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

Totals

Totals and percentage breakdown by color identity can be found in the "Scryfall Statistics" section of many infoboxes across the wiki.

For example how many diffrent creatures were printed or how many cards are legal in Vintage.

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)
• New cards in a set: Ice Age (346)
• Card types used on a single card: 3
  • Both Golden Guardian // Gold-Forge Garrison and Hostile Hostel // Creeping Inn are double-faced cards with a Land on one face and an Artifact Creature on the other.
  • Omniclown Colossus was printed with three card types on the card: Artifact, Creature, and Sorcery (for the Adventure).
  • Invasion of Ravnica is a Battle that transforms into an artifact creature (Guildpact Paragon) while Invasion of Theros transforms into an enchantment creature (Ephara, Ever-Sheltering).
  • The Golem token created by Hammer of Purphoros is an Enchantment Artifact Creature.
  • Dark Ritual has been printed with three different card types: Interrupt, Mana Source and Instant.
• Art versions: Mountain (332)
  • Non-basic card: Command Tower (27)
  • Non-land card: Sol Ring (26)
• Card treatments of a single card in a single set: Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines (10 in Phyrexia: All Will Be One)
• Illustrators making their debut in a set: Mystery Booster (104)
  • In a premier set: Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty (57)
• Printed keyword on cards: Flying ([1])
• Printed subtype on cards: Human ([2])
  • Printed job on cards: Wizard ([3])
• Colored mana symbols in a mana cost: B.F.M. (Big Furry Monster) (15)
  • Non-acorn: Progenitus (10)
• Chapters on a Saga: 6 (City of Death; The Flux; Long List of the Ents)
• Expensive card: The serialized version of The One Ring (serialized 001 of 001) was sold to Post Malone in 2023 for $2,000,000.
  • In 2022, Post Malone paid $800,000 for a Black Lotus, signed by the artist, Christopher Rush.
  • Another graded Alpha Black Lotus (PSA 10), also signed by Rush, was sold for $511,100. Two years later, a similar specimen was sold for $540,000.
  • Expensive "normal" card: Black Lotus (~$1,500-$3,000) (general standard, differs with quality and editions)

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

• Longest card name (including punctuation and spaces): 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).
  • Non-Acorn English card name (combined faces): Blitzwing, Cruel Tormentor // Blitzwing, Adaptive Assailant and Hermit of the Natterknolls // Lone Wolf of the Natterknolls (56 characters)
  • Italian card name: Capitana Fendiburrasca, Razziatrice di Cosmio (45 characters).
  • French card name: Marcheur de chaînes de la Halle aux viscères and Souverain des cieux, navire amiral du consul (44 characters each).
  • Portuguese card name: Equilibrista de Corrente do Clube da Sangria (44 characters).
  • German card name: Omnath, der Sammelpunkt der Vollkommenheit and Schnibbedischnick, die Zeit hat 'nen Knick (42 characters each).
  • Spanish card name: Faucesiniestras, devastador de aerorruinas; Glacian, ingeniero de las piedras de poder and Owen Grady, adiestrador de velocirraptores (42 characters each).
  • Russian card name: Линесса, Повелительница Западного Ветра (39 characters).
  • Japanese card name: アスモラノマルディカダイスティナカルダカール (22 characters).
  • Korean card name: 아스모라노마르디카다이스티나쿨다카르 (18 characters).
  • Chinese card name: 阿司魔拉诺马尔迪卡带斯提纳酷达卡 (16 characters).
• Longest type line: The Reality Chip ("Legendary Artifact Creature — Equipment Jellyfish"), 49 characters. R&D had to break some rules to print it, and learned that they couldn't break them again.
• Longest flavor text (including punctuation and spaces): Infinity Elemental (Unsanctioned) at 448 characters.
  • Non-Acorn English card: Great Hart (Born of the Gods) at 303 characters.
• Longest time between set printings: 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.
  • Oldest card that has never been reprinted: shared by ten cards from Arabian Nights, namely Army of Allah, Camel, Desert Nomads, Jihad, King Suleiman, Pyramids, Merchant Ship, Sandals of Abdallah, Shahrazad, and Stone-Throwing Devils.
• Longest time legal in Standard: After the basic lands, Mind Rot, at 7456 days (20 years 5 months 13 days). It originally debuted in Portal but eventually was added to the core set with Seventh Edition and was in every core set since (and Kaladesh). The card left Standard when Core Set 2021 rotated out in September 2021.

Least

• Cards printed in a set with its own expansion code and set symbol: Mirrodin Pure (1)
  • In a premier set: The Big Score (40)
  • In a stand-alone release: March of the Machine: The Aftermath (50)
  • In a tentpole set: Arabian Nights (78)
• Used keyword: Absorb and Transfigure (1) each
  • Both of these cards are Futureshifted and will possibly make appearances in later sets.
• Used subtype (on the type line):
  • Artifact: Map (0)
  • Battle: Siege (36) (Battles currently only have a single subtype)
  • Creature: Ferret (Joven's Ferrets), Mite (Skrelv, Defector Mite), Oyster (Giant Oyster), Reflection (Aurora of Emrakul), Sable (Bronze Sable) and Spawn (Elder Spawn) (1 each)
  • Enchantment: Role (0)
  • Instant or Sorcery: Chorus (5)
    • In paper: Lesson and Trap (20 each)
  • 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 by Brook Trafton. Currently owned by Post Malone.

Highest

B.F.M. (Big Furry Monster)

• Mana value: Gleemax (1,000,000)
  • Non-acorn: Draco (16)
  • Non-artifact creature: Autochthon Wurm, B.F.M. (Big Furry Monster), Emrakul, the Aeons Torn, Earthquake Dragon, and Shadow of Mortality (15)
  • Non-creature artifact: The Cauldron of Eternity and Excalibur, Sword of Eden (12)
    • Vehicle: Parhelion II (8)
  • Enchantment: Nyxborn Behemoth (12)
    • Non-creature enchantment: Omniscience (10)
    • Aura: Eldrazi Conscription; Overwhelming Splendor; Spawning Grounds and Yavimaya's Embrace (8)
    • Saga: Kiora Bests the Sea God and The World Spell (7)
  • Instant: Blinkmoth Infusion (14)
  • Sorcery: Enter the Infinite; Rise of the Eldrazi and Volcanic Salvo (12)
  • Planeswalker: Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker; Nicol Bolas, the Deceiver; Ugin, the Spirit Dragon and Urza, Planeswalker (8)
  • Battle: Invasion of Fiora and Invasion of Lorwyn (6)
• 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)
  • Honorable mention: Jumbo Cactuar, which has an ability to give itself +9999/+0.
• 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 10 planeswalkers with a base loyalty of 7 (e.g. Arlinn, Voice of the Pack, Sarkhan the Mad)
• Base defense: Invasion of Alara and Invasion of Arcavios (7)
• Base life gain: Heroes Remembered (20)
• Base life loss: The Millennium Calendar (1000)
• 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 creatures, artifacts, instants, 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)
  • Battle: There are various battle cards with a mana value of 2 (e.g. Invasion of Azgol, Invasion of Tarkir).
• 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
Aether Revolt	Aether Revolt (Modern Horizons 3)	Card released after the set
Apocalypse	Apocalypse (Tempest)
Coldsnap	Cold Snap (Ice Age)
Conflux	Conflux (Conflux)	Card in the 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 the set of the same name
March of the Machine	March of the Machines (Mirrodin)	The card is plural, and 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 (Phyrexia: All Will Be One)	Card in the set of the same name
Planar Chaos	Planar Chaos (Judgment)
Prophecy	Prophecy (Homelands)
Rise of the Eldrazi	Rise of the Eldrazi (Commander Masters)	Card released after the set
Secret Lair	The Secret Lair (Heroes of the Realm)	Card released after the set (Heroes of the Realm exclusive)
The Big Score	Big Score (Streets of New Capenna)
The Brothers' War	The Brothers' War (The Brothers' War Commander)	Card in the set of the same name
Tarkir: Dragonstorm	Dragonstorm (Scourge)
Throne of Eldraine	Throne of Eldraine (Wilds of Eldraine Commander)	Card released after the set
Through the Omenpaths	Through the Omenpath (Through the Omenpaths 1)	Card in the set of the same name
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 (Heroes of the Realm exclusive)
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
• Demon Wall
• Dinosaur Egg
• 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
• Mongoose Lizard
• Ogre Berserker
• Ogre Shaman
• Ogre Warrior
• Orgg
• Phelddagrif
• Phyrexian Dreadnought
• Phyrexian Hydra
• Phyrexian Juggernaut
• Phyrexian Pegasus
• Plant Elemental
• Scarecrow
• Shapeshifter
• Skeleton Archer
• Spike Drone
• Spike Soldier
• Thrull Wizard
• Vampire Noble
• Zombie Assassin
• Zombie Ogre

Non-creatures

These are the non-creatures that have identical names and types.

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

Obsolete

These cards previously had a name and subtype(s) that were identical but have since been errata'd so they no longer match.

• Viashino Skeleton
• Viashino Warrior

Identical card names and mechanics

Cards bestowing mechanics

• Fear — Fear
• Lifelink — Lifelink
• Regenerate — Regenerate
• Vigilance — Vigilance

Card name matching the exact rules text

• Manifest dread — Manifest dread

Other cards that share a name with a mechanic

• Absorb — Absorb
• Afflict — Afflict
• Afterlife — Afterlife
• Bargain — Bargain
• Battle Cry — Battle cry
• Channel — Channel
• Connive // Concoct — Connive
• Delirium — Delirium
• Dredge — Dredge
• Enrage — Enrage
• Exile — Exile
• Explore — Explore
• Fabricate — Fabricate
• Flash — Flash
• Fortify — Fortify
• Gravestorm — Gravestorm
• Investi-Gate — Investigate
• Join Forces — Join forces
• Melee — Melee
• Overload — Overload
• Persist — Persist
• Prepare // Fight — Fight
• Provoke — Provoke
• Rally — Rally
• Rebound — Rebound
• Recover — Recover
• Repudiate // Replicate — Replicate
• Sacrifice — Sacrifice
• Start Your Engines — Start your engines!
• Suspend — Suspend
• Undergrowth — Undergrowth
• Unearth — Unearth
• Vanishing — Vanishing

Card names that combine other card names

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

Card names that are anagrams of each other

A list of card names that can be spelled with the same sets of letters (ignoring capitalization and punctuation).

First released	Anagram	Notes
Acid Rain	Acridian
Aladdin	Land Aid '04	The letter portion matches but the numbers need to be ignored for Land Aid '04.
B-I-N-G-O	Boing!	Both cards are acorn.
Chaos Warp	Chaos Wrap	Intentional reference.
Counterspell	Spell Counter	Intentional reference.
Ebon Dragon	Bone Dragon
Eye Spy	Spy Eye	Intentional reference.
Festival	Live Fast
Foresight	Ghostfire and Gift Horse
Forest	Foster
Funeral March	Funeral Charm
Guided Strike	Ridged Kusite	Intentional reference.
Malfegor	Graf Mole
Mystic Remora	Sarcomite Myr	Intentional reference.
Outbreak	Break Out
Shivan Reef	Aven Fisher
Slingshot Goblin	Goblin Slingshot	Intentional reference.
Soul Net	Onulet	Intentional, but missing an "s" due to the art only having one Onulet.
Soul's Grace	Rogue Class
Spreading Rot	Sprite Dragon
Storm Crow	Crow Storm	Acorn joke reference.
Stupor	Sprout
Tangle Asp	Tanglesap
Terminus	Sunimret	Test card joke reference.
Tinker	Reknit
Uthden Troll	Hunted Troll
Wall of Earth	Fallow Earth
Wasteland	Waste Land	Test card joke reference.
Whip Sergeant	Whisper Agent
Wolf Strike	Fowl Strike

Miscellaneous

• Including reminder text, there are only two cards in Magic: The Gathering that contain all 26 English letters—Earthshaker Khenra (Hour of Devastation) and Brazen Boarding (Alchemy: Ixalan).
  • Now I Know My ABC's (Unhinged) has all 26 letters in its flavor text.

Players

As of 2025, the average tabletop player is 30 years old, and the average player tenure is 5+ years.

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.