Eventide

General Information

Eventide was released on July 25, 2008. This is the fourth installment of the four-part Lorwyn/Shadowmoor Superblock that began with Lorwyn and is now completed by Eventide.

Eventide continues with the dual-colored card mechanics that were made popular by Ravnica: City of Guilds, and focuses on enemy color combinations.

Keywords

• Retrace - this ability allows one to play a card out of one's graveyard with an added cost of discarding a land.

• Chroma - this ability word makes the number of mana symbols of a particular color a variable which determines the effect of a card. One card from Eventide, Phosphorescent Feast, had already appeared in Future Sight, but without using the ability word Chroma.

Continuing Keywords

• Wither - Damage dealt to a creature with Wither causes that many -1/-1 counters to be put on that creature rather than behaving like normal damage. Everything else about that damage is the same - it can be prevented, and it can trigger abilities like Lifelink.

• Untap Symbol - A new feature of this block, the Untap symbol allows the player to Untap an already tapped creature to play its activated ability.