WotC Revamps Magic The Gathering ‘Core’ Sets

Wizards of the Coast has announced a complete revamping of its core set releases for Magic the Gathering. Starting this July the core set releases will no longer be identified by edition number–like new cars (with their forward-looking year-by-year designations), the July 2009 MTG core set release will be known as Magic the Gathering 2010 Core Set or Magic 2010 for short. Also starting this July WotC will release one new core set per year (instead of one every two years). Thus MTG will now be on a regular yearly schedule that will see the release of three expert-level expansions and one core set every year.

Unlike previous core sets, which were composed of all reprints, the Magic 2010 core set will have approximately 50% new cards—a huge departure from past practices intended to make the core sets attractive a wide range of Magic players. New cards such as “Silence” and “Wall of Frost” use game terms that both new and experienced players can understand and employ to great effect in card combat. As was the case with Tenth Edition, all core sets going forward (including the Magic 2010 set) will be black-bordered. Magic 2010 will include 249 cards including 15 mythic rare cards (9 of the 15 mythic rares are reprints, while six are brand new cards). Read more