Magic 2012 Announced

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Happy Tuesday MTG peeps,

As we had indicated in yesterday's post about the new Mirrodin Besieged sword, we are following up now with you about Wizard's announcement on the release of the Magic 2012 core set, due out in July, 2011.

Magic the Gathering Core Sets are base sets of cards around which some tournaments revolve. Cards from expansion sets rotate in and out of these base set of cards. The most recent edition contains 249 cards. The core set is intended to teach new players the game of Magic the Gathering without cards which may be confusing. No official storyline is used in core sets. A card's flavor text may be from any other expansion. Core Sets used to be a collection of previous reprints but Wizards had since M10 added quite a lot of excitement in the mix by providing new, never seen before cards. As of Magic 2011, only two cards will have been in every Core Set - Giant Growth and Giant Spider.

Anywhoos, to the announcement now . . . and some new art for Chandra. Word on the forums is that new card art for the five 'di rigeur' Planeswalkers would be most welcome but this is something which may or may not happen. One should also not expect the 'Ally' creature sub-type in the set with the tag-line 'Gather Your Allies'.

'Gather Your Allies'

Set Name : Magic 2012
Three-Letter Abbreviation : M12
Number of Cards : 249
Release Date : July 15, 2011
Prerelease Events : July 9-10, 2011
Launch Parties : July 15-18, 2011
Game Day : August 13-14, 2011
Design Team : Mark Globus (lead), Doug Beyer, Aaron Forsythe, Ken Nagle
Development Team : Tom LaPille (lead), Kelly Digges, Peter Schaefer, Mike Turian, Steve Warner, Dave Humpherys

Standard rotates once each year, with the release of the October large set. Magic 2012 will enter Standard on its release without knocking anything out, then Magic 2011 and Zendikar block will leave Standard with the release of "Shake." The Standard format between Magic 2012 and "Shake" will consist of Zendikar block, Scars of Mirrodin block, Magic 2011, and Magic 2012. After the release of "Shake," it will consist of Scars of Mirrodin Block, Magic 2012, and "Shake."

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Lastly, just a brief overview of the Core Sets to date . . .

Edition Set Size Released
Alpha 295 July, 1993
Beta 302 July-December, 1993
Unlimited 302 December, 1993
Revised 306 April, 1994
4th Edition 378 May, 1995
5th Edition 449 March, 1997
6th Edition 350 April, 1999
7th Edition 350 April, 2001
8th Edition 350 July, 2003
9th Edition 350 July, 2005
10th Edition 383 July, 2007
Magic 2010 249 July, 2009
Magic 2011 249 July, 2010
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