Scars of Mirrodin

Magic: the Gathering is a fun and exciting, strategic collectible card game. Now manufactured by Wizards of the Coast, the lead producer of collectible trading card games, Magic has skyrocketed, experiencing a success greater than its original designer, college professor Richard Garfield, could have ever imagined.

The exceedingly overwhelming demand for new and fresh ideas for the game has led to the production of more than fifty expansion and stand-alone expansions that consist of forty to as many as nearly five hundred cards each.

As time passed, the game would spawn complete amateur tournament cycles as well as professional tournament competitions world wide.

Winners of these professional level tournaments received sponsorships from large companies and would help to design future cards that would be released to the public. Magic: the Gathering tournaments have even been featured as an ESPN world broadcast event!

After a few expansion sets were produced, they were broken down into blocks or cycles of about three expansions each for the purpose of tournament play. Each individual expansion was usually theme based, introducing brilliant new cards with new fast effects and abilities into play, as well as the revisiting of some previously out of print cards so that newer players and collectors would have a chance to experience using them in game play.

The year 2003 brought the Mirrodin expansion into print. Mirrodin would be a fictional world created by one of the game's characters, Karn, and named after the artifact mirari. In early 2010, it was leaked that an upcoming Mirrodin block would be released. The first set in the Scars of Mirrodin block would share the same name with the card block cycle and is set to for a pre-release weekend of September 25 and September 26, 2010, with an official full launch date of October 1, 2010.

The Scars of Mirrodin expansion, like its predecessor, is an artifact heavy expansion set that consist of 249 individual cards. This latest expansion will bring about the "Infect" fast effect, which really just appears to be the new name for the poison ability. The metalcraft and imprint abilities have also been introduced, which will greatly assist those whose decks center around artifacts, and proliferate, which allows players to add counters onto cards they control of the same type of counters that are already on them.

A spoiler card list was released for Scars of Mirrodin and it's safe to say that those who do not have the advantage of some of the magnificent cards and their abilities may find themselves weighed and wanting when competing against those who do have them. Purchasing cards from the Scars of Mirrodin expansion set on eBay may just be the most perfect and affordable solution to gain the cutting edge over opponents!