Scars of Mirrodin

From the Vault: Relics Mirrodin Besieged
Scars of Mirrodin
A hexplate beginning to corrode
Released October 1, 2010
Size 249 cards (101 Common, 60 Uncommon, 53 Rare, 15 Mythic Rare, and 20 Basic Land)
Keywords Metalcraft, Imprint, Infect, Proliferate
Mechanics Metalcraft, infect, proliferate [1]
Designers Mark Rosewater (lead), Mark Gottlieb, Alexis Janson, Erik Lauer, Matt Place, Mark Globus, Nate Heiss
Developers Mike Turian (lead), Aaron Forsythe, Erik Lauer, Mark Purvis, Matt Place
Dev. code Lights
Exp. code SOM
First set in the
Scars of Mirrodin block
Scars of Mirrodin Mirrodin Besieged New Phyrexia

Scars of Mirrodin is a Magic: The Gathering expansion that was released on October 1, 2010. It is the first set of the Scars of Mirrodin block. This block will mark the return to the plane of Mirrodin. This plane was last visited in the Mirrodin block that concluded in 2004[2]. The interim tagline for the set is "The Corrosion Begins October 1, 2010." The plans for this set were first made public by mananation.com when it was discovered that "Scars of Mirrodin", as well as "Mirrodin Pure" and "New Phyrexia" had been registered as trademarks with the US Patent and Trademark Office by Wizards of the Coast.[3]

As with the original Mirrodin block, artifacts make up the overarching theme of Scars of Mirrodin; Nearly half of all cards in the set are artifacts. In his May 24 column, Mark Rosewater confirmed that the "Infect" game mechanic in Scars of Mirrodin would bring poison counters back to Magic.

Mechanics

Below is the list of mechanics used in Scars of Mirrodin:

Notes and references