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Next Core Set: Magic 2010

By ManaNation.com ⋅ February 23, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment ⋅

Aaron Forsythe dis­cussed the new core set Magic 2010 and what changes are being made. There are some VERY big changes com­ing down the line!

To read the full arti­cle by Aaron fol­low this link.

But here are the highlights:

1. Core sets will now be annu­ally released.
2. Will now be named after the year they come out (sort of.) Rather than incre­ment the set num­ber, they will be Magic 2010, Magic 2011, Magic 2012, etc.
3. The core sets will now con­tain new cards in addi­tion to the old favorites and the known cards from other sets.
4. The Lor­wyn planeswalk­ers will be rotated into Magic 2010 but as Mythic rares.
5. These will now have pre-releases and release par­ties just like expan­sions. Pre­vi­ously core sets just had release parties.
6. Core sets no longer bump the pre­vi­ous core set out of Stan­dard. Now there is only one “rota­tion” day for the for­mat, and that is with the release of the first set of a new block. So when ‘Lights’ comes out (the first set of the block) knocks out Live Long Pros­per and Magic2010 leav­ing only Magic2011 legal. (Magic 2010 will bump 10th Edi­tion imme­di­ately though.)
7. There will only be 8 cards which have existed in every core set, where there had been 16 in 10th edi­tion. What will they be?
8. Dual lands in 2010! And they’re not shock or pain lands, they’re new!
9. There are 15 mythic rares in the set, 9 are reprints (of which 5 are newly Mythic-ed Lor­wyn Planeswalk­ers) so we have six new Mythic rares to look for­ward to.