Eventide
is an expansion set from the trading card game Magic: The Gathering. It was released on July 25, 2008. The pre-release events for this set were held on July 12 and July 13 2008. [1]
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EVENTIDE TICKETS
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Set Details
Eventide is the second set in the
Shadowmoor block, which is part of the
Lorwyn/
Shadowmoor superblock.
[2] The two blocks mirror each other in many different ways including flavor and mechanics. Even the expansion symbol of Eventide has striking similarities to that of
Morningtide, its counterpart in
Lorwyn: where the Morningtide symbol suggests a full sun, the Eventide symbol suggests a mostly
eclipsed sun.
[3]
Eventide continues the block theme of hybrid cards and color matters that
Shadowmoor started, as well as further use of the
Wither and
Persist key words.
[4] Where Shadowmoor focused on allied color hybrids, Eventide focuses on enemy color hybrid cards. Eventide also introduces two new mechanics:
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- Retrace: this ability allows one to play a card out of one's graveyard with an added cost of discarding a land.
- Chroma: this ability word makes the number of mana symbols of a particular color a variable which determines the effect of a card.
The Eventide booster packs also include a rules card/token card in addition to the normal 15 game cards.
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Five theme decks were released as part of the set. The preconstructed theme decks are: "Life Drain" (White/Black), "Sidestep" (Blue/Red), "Death March" (Black/Green), "Battle Blitz" (Red/White), and "Superabundance" (Green/Blue).
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Notable Cycles
- The Hybrid Land Cycle
- The cycle from Shadowmoor was joined by the enemy colored versions , , , , and . This makes the Hybrid Land cycle the fourth rare dual land cycle to be made for both allied and enemy colors (The others include the Dual Land from Beta, The Pain Lands from Ice Age and Apocalypse, and The Shocklands from Ravnica block).