In the end, it often became a mark of banishment, a reason to dismiss the card as being something ‘less than’, Mark Rosewater, Magic: the Gathering’s head designer, explained on his blog. “Our original goal of having different color borders was to make them easy to identify, so people can tell what group the card belong to. This will allow the company to include acorn cards, as the community has dubbed them, alongside both reprints and the more tame additions in sets such as Unfinity. Instead, an acorn-shaped holofoil security stamp will replace the border treatment on cards Wizards of the Coast doesn’t intend for organised play. The galactic circus theme wasn’t the only new thing coming with Unfinity, as Wizards of the Coast decided to retire the practice of printing non-standard cards - including all un-set cards - with silver borders to denote their exclusion from tournament formats. Colloquially called “un-sets”, these collections have long been favourites of both players and designers. They might ask players to pause the game in order to play a second, separate game of MTG, tear the card into confetti or sneak a creature onto the table while nobody is watching. Unfinity was previewed last year as the fifth and latest in a recurring tradition of sets featuring intentionally bonkers cards that would normally never be printed elsewhere. “This delay is specific to Unfinity, and we'll have more information to share in the coming months.” “Due to ongoing supply chain complications from challenges associated with COVID-19, the release of Unfinity, our fourth Un- set originally slated for April 1, 2022, will be delayed until the second half of 2022,” it reads. The short post on the MTG blog page doesn’t provide details on what exactly caused the delay.
#Joke mtg card sets free#
"You're in for a nasty butt kickin'." This page has been copied from Wikipedia under the provisions of the GNU Free Documentation License.This is not an early April Fool’s joke - Magic: the Gathering publisher Wizards of the Coast announced January 20th that the upcoming Unfinity trading card game set is being pushed into the second half of 2022 due to undefined issues with global shipping and logistics. The flavor texts of the cards Double Dip, Double Play, Double Deal, Double Take, and Double Cross form the following limerick: "Here are some cards that didn't make it to print: Socks of Garfield, Hot Monkey Love, Colonel's Secret Recipe, Squee's Play, Banned in France, Spoon, Disrobing Scepter, Butt Wolf, Lotus Roach, Sesame Efreet, Needless Reminder Text, Chicken Choker, Clockwork Doppelganger, Henway, HELP I'M TRAPPED IN CARTA MUNDI, Mad Cow, Poke, Lord of Wombats, Gratuitous Babe Art, Brothers' War Bonds, Dwarven Kickboxer, Mickey's Drunk, Pact with the Wastes, CoP:BO, Urza's Chia Pet, Thallid Shooter, Shoelace, When Chihuahuas Attack, Wall of Cookies, Kobold Ninja, Mucusaur, Kjeldoran Outhouse, Bear in the Woods, Dental Thrull, Flavatog, Cereal Killer."
#Joke mtg card sets series#
Alone these single words made little or no sense but when combined in proper numerical order with other cards in the series spell out the following secret message: There is 94 total cards: 28 rares, 28 uncommons and 28 commons.Īll 94 cards in the Unglued set each had a single word printed on the bottom of the card. Unglued was the first ever Magic set that had silver borders for its cards, meaning the cards (except for basic lands) are not legal in DCI Sanctioned Tournament play.
#Joke mtg card sets code#
The official expansion code is UNG and was code-named "Wacky Set" while in development. It was the first ever joke-oriented set and was released in August 1998.