Fifth Dawn
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| Fifth Dawn | ||
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| Expansion Symbol |
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| Release Date | May 2004 | |
| Mechanics | 5 Colors, Cogs | |
| Keywords | Sunburst, Scry | |
| Size | 165 cards | |
| Sets in Mirrodin Block | ||
| Mirrodin | Darksteel | Fifth Dawn |
| [[Magic: The Gathering]] Chronology | ||
| Darksteel | Fifth Dawn | Champions of Kamigawa |
Fifth Dawn was the first set to introduce a new card front design of artifacts: inner border color became more dark, so the artifacts would be less likely confused with white cards. On a side note, it is possible to collect a few cards with the new type set from older editions as well. These cards can only be bought as reprints appearing in the Fifth Dawn theme decks. These Darksteel and Mirrodin reprints are visibly different from their original printings when placed side-by-side.
Mechanics
- Sunburst - the artifact card with Sunburst gets +1/+1 counter (if it's creature) or a charge counter (if it's a noncreature artifact) for each color of mana used to pay for it.
- Scry - "Scry N" means "Look at the top N cards of your library. Put any number of them on the bottom of your library and the rest on top in any order." While N could be any number of cards, it was always printed to be 2 and no cards at this time have been printed to increase or decrease the number of cards that you look at when you scry.
- The set also focuses on "cogs" (the artifacts that cost 1 or 0 mana, although they're not referred to as "cogs" in rules text) and on combo pieces. For example, it contains a cycle of four artifacts called stations that, when used together, formed an infinite combo, or a combination of cards that allows a player an infinite amount of some resource. They do not mention each other by name (and in fact are the first R&D designed combo not to do so), and so combinations of only two or three and some other card (such as [March of the Machines] from Mirrodin or [Mycosynth Lattice] from Darksteel) are also useful. This combo is also the first R&D-designed infinite combo; previous ones had effects that put a normally expensive creature into play or only worked if another specific card was in play.
Notable Cards
- [Door to Nothingness] - Although a very difficult artifact to put it and play and use (requiring 2 mana of each color to use) this causes an opponent to instantly lose the game.
- [Eternal Witness] is a cheap green creature that upon entering play, could return any card in its controllers graveyard to their hand. The effect is a duplicate of the out of print card [Regrowth]. Originally this card was tested as a 2/2 for 3GG instead of a 2/1 for 1GG.
- [Helm of Kaldra] is the last and crucial part of Kaldra's equipment: when you have all three of them ([Sword], [Shield] and Helm) in play you can put Kaldra token in play, equipped with these, resulting in a 9/9 indestructible creature with first strike, trample and haste. That card was given out on the prerelease events of Fifth Dawn.
- [Crucible of Worlds] - notable for being the result of You Make The Card 2 feature of magicthegathering.com. The visitors of the site "designed" the card by voting for the different aspects of the card and submitting card rules and flavor text. The Crucible has become a powerful land-recursion tool in Vintage and Legacy, allowing the player to re-use the likes of [Wasteland], [Strip Mine], man-lands (ones that can be creatures) that die, and the fetch lands from [[Onslaught (Magic: The Gathering)|Onslaught]] set.
- [Cranial Plating] is an equipment that boosts the equipped creature's power by the number of artifacts in play on its controller's side. It immediately became a staple in Affinity decks.
- [Rude Awakening] is a green sorcery that can be entwined to untap all lands and turn them into 2/2 creatures until end of turn. Its potential to cause massive amounts of damage made it a favorite finisher for green and part-green decks.
- [Krark-Clan Ironworks] is an artifact that allows its controller to sacrifice artifacts for mana. It became the foundation of a fast combo deck that used [Myr Incubator] and [Goblin Charbelcher] to kill the opponent.
- [Relentless Rats] is the first card other than the basic lands that lets you play as many as you want in your deck. The theme behind this mechanic dates all the way back to Alpha and Beta when players were allowed to play with any number of any card in their deck. The idea was to create decks that used cards like [Plague Rats] to have an interesting tie in with other cards. However this feature of game play gave rise to degenerate decks, such as the 'Forty [Lightning Bolt] Special' and '[Berserk]/[Juggernaut]' decks and so the 4 card limit was put in place.
External links
- http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=magic/expansion/5dn - Official Fifth Dawn Page
| [[Magic: The Gathering sets]] | ||
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| Core sets: [[Alpha (Magic: The Gathering)|Alpha]], [[Beta (Magic: The Gathering)|Beta]], [[Unlimited (Magic: The Gathering)|Unlimited]], [[Revised (Magic: The Gathering)|Revised]], [[4th Edition (Magic: The Gathering)|4th Edition]], [[5th Edition (Magic: The Gathering)|5th Edition]], [[6th Edition (Magic: The Gathering)|6th Edition]], [[7th Edition (Magic: The Gathering)|7th Edition]], [[8th Edition (Magic: The Gathering)|8th Edition]], [[9th Edition (Magic: The Gathering)|9th Edition]], [[10th Edition (Magic: The Gathering)|10th Edition]] | ||
| Expansion Sets | ||
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Early sets: [[Arabian Nights (Magic: The Gathering)|Arabian Nights]], [[Antiquities (Magic: The Gathering)|Antiquities]], [[Legends (Magic: The Gathering)|Legends]],
[[The Dark (Magic: The Gathering)|The Dark]], Fallen Empires, [[Chronicles (Magic: The Gathering)|Chronicles]], [[Homelands (Magic: The Gathering)|Homelands]] Ice Age Block: [[Ice Age (Magic: The Gathering)|Ice Age]], [[Alliances (Magic: The Gathering)|Alliances]], Coldsnap Mirage Block: [[Mirage (Magic: The Gathering)|Mirage]], [[Visions (Magic: The Gathering)|Visions]], [[Weatherlight (Magic: The Gathering)|Weatherlight]] Rath Cycle: [[Tempest (Magic: The Gathering)|Tempest]], [[Stronghold (Magic: The Gathering)|Stronghold]], [[Exodus (Magic: The Gathering)|Exodus]] |
Urza Block: Urza's Saga, Urza's Legacy, Urza's Destiny Masques Block: Mercadian Masques, [[Nemesis (Magic: The Gathering)|Nemesis]], [[Prophecy (Magic: The Gathering)|Prophecy]] Invasion Block: [[Invasion (Magic: The Gathering)|Invasion]], [[Planeshift (Magic: The Gathering)|Planeshift]], [[Apocalypse (Magic: The Gathering)|Apocalypse]] Odyssey Block: [[Odyssey (Magic: The Gathering)|Odyssey]], [[Torment (Magic: The Gathering)|Torment]], [[Judgment (Magic: The Gathering)|Judgment]] Onslaught Block: [[Onslaught (Magic: The Gathering)|Onslaught]], [[Legions (Magic: The Gathering)|Legions]], [[Scourge (Magic: The Gathering)|Scourge]] |
Mirrodin Block: Mirrodin, Darksteel, Fifth Dawn Kamigawa Block: Champions of Kamigawa, Betrayers of Kamigawa, Saviors of Kamigawa Ravnica Block: [[Ravnica: City of Guilds]], Guildpact, [[Dissension (Magic: The Gathering)|Dissension]] Time Spiral Block: Time Spiral, Planar Chaos, Future Sight |
| Parody Sets | Beginner Sets | Compilations/reprint sets |
| Unglued, Unhinged | [[Portal (Magic: The Gathering)|Portal]], [[Portal Second Age (Magic: the Gathering)|Portal: Second Age]], Portal: Three Kingdoms | Deckmasters 2001, Beatdown Set, Battle Royale Set, [[Chronicles (Magic: The Gathering)|Chronicles]], [[Anthologies (Magic: The Gathering)|Anthologies]] |
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