Unglued
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| Unglued | ||
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| Expansion Symbol |  |
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| Release date | August 1998 | |
| Mechanics | Tearing Player Enchantment Opponent Manipulation Dice Rolling & Coin Flipping Extra game effects |
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| Keywords | Denimwalk | |
| Cycles | {{{Cycles}}} | |
| Size | 94 cards | |
| Magic: The Gathering Chronology |
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| Portal Second Age | Unglued | Urza's Saga |
Unglued is the name of a Magic: The Gathering expansion set, the first silver-bordered, non-tournament-legal Magic: The Gathering expansion set released. It came out in August 1998. Its symbol is a cracked egg. Among the themes of the set were chicken, dice rolling and multiplayer Magic games.
[edit] History
Unglued was originally conceived by then-lead Magic designer Joel Mick and fellow designer Bill Rose. Having helped in the creation of many of the expansion sets of the time, they began talking about cards which were cut from the expansion or were unplayable, based on the rules of the game. Thinking this through, they conceptualized an expansion where all the cards had no place in serious games.
Unglued was not entirely a commercially successful expansion, but the unique basic land cards - the only cards from the set legal in tournaments - were and still are valuable. The set also developed a cult following among casual Magic fans, and eventually a sequel set, Unhinged, was released in 2004.
[edit] Notable cards
- Ashnod's Coupon - Forces target player to get its controller a drink.
- BFM (Big Furry Monster) - A creature so large that it spans 2 cards.
- Chaos Confetti - the Alpha card Chaos Orb has to be thrown onto the table and destroys everything it touches; an urban legend involves a tournament player tearing it into shreds and throwing them all over the table, thus destroying everything. Chaos Confetti must be torn into pieces to be used, and thrown over the table.
- Blacker Lotus - A more powerful version of Black Lotus, Blacker Lotus gives its controller more mana but has to be torn into pieces to be used.
- Double Cross/Deal/Dip/Play/Take - 5 cards which do an effect in this game, and then repeat the effect in the next game with the same opponent. They also make a limerick with the flavor text, if read in order.
- Gus - gets more powerful as the caster loses more games.
- Infernal Spawn of Evil - This innocent looking mouse in a cheery winter scene poked fun on past cards whose name didn't match the art (like Richard Thomas' Hyalopterous Lemure). It also made reference to the company's then policy on demonic and satanic content.
- Look At Me, I'm The DCI - A humorous poke at the policies of the DCI regarding restrictions on cards, this card allows the player to ban one card (other than basic lands) for a whole match. It was also the only card (currently) whose art was drawn by Mark Rosewater.
- Mirror Mirror - Causes players to switch not only their life totals, but their entire board positions.
- Timmy, Power Gamer - The personification of one of the three notable Magic player types ('Timmy', 'Johnny', and 'Spike').
- Bureaucracy - A card that instructs players to play a memory game, but does so in a very difficult to understand fashion.
- The Ultimate Nightmare of Wizards of the Coast® Customer Service A blue colored card with a Red mana cost that includes three variable mana costs. Includes a phone number to call for clarification.
[edit] Unglued secret message
All 94 cards in the Unglued set each had a single word printed on the bottom of the card. Alone these single words made little or no sense but when combined in proper numerical order with other cards in the series spell out a secret message.
"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, Brother's 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."
