Magic 2012/Sample decks

The Magic 2012 Core Set was accompanied by ten thirty-card sample decks, consisting of basic lands, commons and 4 uncommons from Magic 2012 and the Scars of Mirrodin block. Each color had its own packaging, focusing on the planeswalkers that were featured in the set. The packaging was designed by Lisa M. Douglass, who wrapped the art from the front to the side. She used various text sizes to emphasize and dramatize key words in the personality descriptions.



White deck A
 Lands 13 Plains

Creatures 1 Alabaster Mage 2 Assault Griffin 1 Auramancer 1 Inquisitor Exarch 2 Kemba's Skyguard 1 Loxodon Wayfarer 1 Pride Guardian 1 Shattered Angel 1 Siege Mastodon

Artifacts 1 Greatsword

Instants 1 Banishment Decree

Enchantments 2 Arrest 1 Divine Favor 1 Lifelink 

White deck B
 Lands 12 Plains

Creatures 1 Arbalest Elite 1 Armored Warhorse 1 Gideon's Lawkeeper 1 Griffin Rider 2 Griffin Sentinel 1 Leonin Skyhunter 1 Loxodon Convert 1 Loxodon Partisan 1 Peregrine Griffin 1 Serra Angel

Artifacts 1 Kite Shield

Instants 1 Mighty Leap 1 Stave Off

Sorceries 1 Revoke Existence

Enchantments 2 Pacifism 1 Spirit Mantle 

Blue deck A
 Lands 12 Island

Creatures 2 Æther Adept 2 Aven Fleetwing 2 Coral Merfolk 1 Lumengrid Gargoyle 1 Neurok Invisimancer 1 Phantasmal Dragon 1 Skywinder Drake 1 Spire Monitor

Instants 2 Cancel 2 Frost Breath 1 Turn to Frog 1 Unsummon

Enchantments 1 Mind Control 

Blue deck B
 Lands 12 Island

Creatures 1 Azure Mage 1 Belltower Sphinx 1 Darkslick Drake 2 Merfolk Mesmerist 2 Neurok Replica 2 Plated Seastrider

Instants 1 Disperse 2 Negate

Sorceries 2 Divination 1 Mindculling

Enchantments 1 Ice Cage 2 Jace's Erasure 

Black deck A
 Lands 13 Swamp

Creatures 1 Child of Night 2 Devouring Swarm 1 Gravedigger 2 Mortis Dogs 1 Reassembling Skeleton 1 Sengir Vampire 1 Warpath Ghoul 1 Zombie Goliath

Instants 1 Doom Blade

Sorceries 1 Consume Spirit 1 Disentomb 1 Distress 1 Mind Rot

Enchantments 1 Brink of Disaster 1 Zombie Infestation 

Black deck B
 Lands 12 Swamp

Creatures 1 Bloodrage Vampire 1 Dementia Bat 2 Duskhunter Bat 1 Fume Spitter 2 Moriok Reaver 1 Necrogen Scudder 1 Onyx Mage 1 Tormented Soul 1 Vampire Outcasts

Instants 1 Sorin's Thirst 1 Wring Flesh

Sorceries 1 Diabolic Tutor 1 Disentomb 1 Hideous Visage 1 Taste of Blood

Enchantments 1 Dark Favor 

Red deck A
 Lands 13 Mountain

Creatures 1 Bonebreaker Giant 1 Crimson Mage 2 Fiery Hellhound 1 Flameborn Viron 1 Furnace Scamp 2 Lightning Elemental 1 Volcanic Dragon

Instants 2 Chandra's Outrage 1 Fling

Sorceries 1 Act of Treason 1 Arc Trail 1 Fireball 2 Lava Axe 

Red deck B
 Lands 12 Mountain

Creatures 2 Blisterstick Shaman 2 Goblin Arsonist 1 Goblin Bangchuckers 2 Goblin Fireslinger 2 Goblin Piker 2 Goblin Tunneler 1 Goblin Wardriver

Instants 2 Shock 1 Slaughter Cry

Sorceries 1 Goblin Grenade 1 Tectonic Rift

Enchantments 1 Goblin War Paint 

Green deck A
 Lands 12 Forest

Creatures 1 Alpha Tyrranax 1 Ezuri's Archers 2 Garruk's Companion 1 Gladecover Scout 1 Llanowar Elves 2 Runeclaw Bear 1 Sacred Wolf 2 Tangle Mantis

Instants 1 Hunter's Insight 1 Plummet 1 Slice in Twain 1 Titanic Growth

Sorceries 1 Lead the Stampede

Enchantments 1 Lure 1 Trollhide </d>

Green deck B
 Lands 12 Forest

Creatures 1 Acidic Slime 1 Brindle Boar 1 Cudgel Troll 2 Giant Spider 2 Leeching Bite 1 Quilled Slagwurm 1 Stampeding Rhino 1 Stingerfling Spider 2 Vastwood Gorger 2 Viridian Emissary

Instants 1 Withstand Death

Sorceries 2 Rampant Growth

Enchantments 1 Arachnus Web </d>