This is a list of Magic: The Gathering statistical facts and trivia.
Totals
Total | [1] | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
All cards[2] | 19,868 | 3,031 | 2,967 | 3,010 | 2,994 | 2,981 | 2,747 | 2,138 |
Artifacts[3] | 2,061 | 35 | 42 | 19 | 11 | 8 | 1,891 | 55 |
Creatures[4] | 10,604 | 1,769 | 1,551 | 1,738 | 1,714 | 1,861 | 682 | 1,289 |
Enchantments[5] | 2,421 | 542 | 488 | 416 | 369 | 404 | 15 | 187 |
Instants[6] | 2,469 | 477 | 594 | 322 | 434 | 357 | 21 | 264 |
Sorceries[7] | 2,235 | 247 | 341 | 550 | 480 | 371 | 15 | 246 |
Most
- Cards in a set: 5th Edition (429)
- Card types used on a single card: 3
- Dark Ritual had three card types: Interrupt, Mana Source and Instant.
- Used keyword: Flying (856)[13] (includes Vintage-legal sets, excludes revisions)
- Used subtype: Human (2188) [14]
- Expensive card: Black Lotus (~$1,500-$3,000)[15][16][17][18] (general standard, differentiates with quality and editions)
Fewest
- Cards in a set: Arabian Nights (78)
- Used keyword: Absorb, Frenzy, Gravestorm, & Transfigure (1) each
- Each of these cards are "Futureshifted" and will possibly make appearences in later sets.
- Used subtype (on the type line): Brushwagg (Brushwagg), Dreadnought (Phyrexian Dreadnought), Ferret (Joven's Ferrets), Lamia (Thoughtrender Lamia), Mole (Graf Mole), Oyster (Giant Oyster), Wombat (Rabid Wombat), Sable (Bronze Sable) (1) each
Rarest
- Shichifukujin Dragon and 1996 World Champion, only one copy of each in existence.[19][20]
Highest
- Converted mana cost: Draco (16)
- Non-creature artifact: The Cauldron of Eternity (12)
- Equipment: Elbrus, The Binding Blade (7)
- Enchantment: Omniscience (10)
- Aura: Eldrazi Conscription and Yavimaya's Embrace (8)
- Instant: Blinkmoth Infusion (14)
- Sorcery: Enter the Infinite {(12)
- Non-creature artifact: The Cauldron of Eternity (12)
- Activation cost: Spawnsire of Ulamog (20)
- Power: BFM (99)[21]
- Non-sliver bordered: Impervious Greatwurm (16)
- Token: Marit Lage (20)
- Toughness: BFM(99)
- Non-sliver bordered: Impervious Greatwurm (16)
- Token: Marit Lage (20)
- Power to toughness ratio: Force of Savagery (8/0)
- Toughness to power ratio: Tree of Redemption and Tree of Perdition (0/13)
- Base life gain: Heroes Remembered (20)
- Base damage to target creature: Shivan Meteor and Into The Maw Of Hell (13)
- Blasphemous Act is capable of dealing 13 damage to each creature.
- Base damage to target player: Hidetsugu's Second Rite (10)
- Sorin's Vengeance also deals 10 damage and you gain 10 life.
- Base damage to any target: Searing Wind (10)
Lowest
- Converted mana cost: There are various cards with or no mana cost (e.g. Crimson Kobolds, Evermind) making the lowest cost 0.
- Noticeably no enchantment has a lower converted mana cost then 1.
- Power: Char-Rumbler & Spinal Parasite (-1) (A creature with 0 or less power deals no damage).
- Toughness: Spinal Parasite (-1)
Sets named after cards
The following sets share their name with cards:
Set | Card (First Release) | Notes |
---|---|---|
Apocalypse | Apocalypse (Tempest) | |
Coldsnap | Cold Snap (Ice Age) | |
Conflux | Conflux (Conflux) | Card in set of the same name |
Conspiracy | Conspiracy (Mercadian Masques) | |
Future Sight | Future Sight (Onslaught) | |
Hour of Devastation | Hour of Devastation (Hour of Devastation) | Card in set of the same name |
Mirrodin Besieged | Mirrodin Besieged (Modern Horizons) | Card released after the set |
Morningtide | Morningtide (Torment) | |
Onslaught | Onslaught (Exodus) | |
Planar Chaos | Planar Chaos (Judgment) | |
Prophecy | Prophecy (Homelands) | |
Time Spiral | Time Spiral (Urza's Saga) | |
Visions | Visions (Legends) | |
Torment | Torment (Stronghold) | |
Weatherlight | Weatherlight (Dominaria) | Card released after the set |
References
- ↑ {M} = Total - {W} - {U} - {B} - {R} - {G} - {C}
- ↑ All cards (WUBRGC). Retrieved from Scryfall on 2019-11-09.
- ↑ All artifacts (WUBRGC). Retrieved from Scryfall on 2019-11-08.
- ↑ All creatures (WUBRGC). Retrieved from Scryfall on 2019-11-08.
- ↑ All enchantments (WUBRGC). Retrieved from Scryfall on 2019-11-08.
- ↑ All instants (WUBRGC). Retrieved from Scryfall on 2019-11-08.
- ↑ All sorceries (WUBRGC). Retrieved from Scryfall on 2019-11-08.
- ↑ All lands. Retrieved from Scryfall on 2019-11-08.
- ↑ All basic lands. Retrieved from Scryfall on 2019-11-08.
- ↑ All snow lands. Retrieved from Scryfall on 2019-11-08.
- ↑ All tribal cards. Retrieved from Scryfall on 2019-11-08.
- ↑ All planeswalkers. Retrieved from Scryfall on 2019-11-08.
- ↑ MagicCards.Info: Results. Retrieved: 15-02-2007[dead link]
- ↑ All Human cards. Retrieved from Scryfall on 2018-11-05.
- ↑ Various. Magic: The Gathering#Second market, Wikipedia.org (last modified 21:03, 14 April 2007)
- ↑ Seth Quillen (January 19, 2005). "Magic: the Gathering is growing around the world", Utah State University - Hard News Cafe: "...its most expensive card, the coveted Beta Black Lotus card is worth $22,000 alone."
- ↑ According to various sources: Yahoo! Answers StarCityGames.com Forum
- ↑ StarCityGames.com - Black Lotus information and rulings.
- ↑ Monty Ashley (September 14, 2011). "World Records". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ Diego Fumagalli (June 13, 2017). "(Nearly) 25 Years of Magic in Graphics". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ Blake Rasmussen (September 8, 2015). "Size Matters". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.