Magic: The Gathering/Statistics and trivia

See also: Category: Trivia.

This article is a list of information relating to the Magic: The Gathering series.

Totals

(Vintage-legal cards, excludes revisions and alternate editions and banned cards)

• Total cards: 9261
• White cards: 1486
• Blue cards: 1485
• Black cards: 1497
• Red cards: 1476
• Green cards: 1477
• Artifact cards: 953

Total creatures

• Total creatures: 4724
• Artifact creatures: 253
• Black creatures: 830
• Blue creatures: 746
• Green creatures: 906
• Red creatures: 830
• White creatures: 825
• Multicolored: 335

Total enchantments

• Total enchantments: 1339
• White enchantments: 305
• Blue enchantments: 275
• Black enchantments: 238
• Red enchantments: 206
• Green enchantments: 234
• Multicolored enchantments: 81

Total instants

• Total instants: 1164
• White instants: 252
• Blue instants: 304
• Black instants: 157
• Red instants: 217
• Green instants: 159
• Multicolored instants: 60

Total sorceries

• Total sorceries: 986
• White sorceries: 104
• Blue sorceries: 159
• Black sorceries: 271
• Red sorceries: 222
• Green sorceries: 177
• Multicolored sorceries: 44

Total lands

• Total lands: 351
• Basic lands: 10
  • Supertype snow:5
• Non-Basic lands: 341
  • Artifact lands: 6
  • Legendary lands: 35
    • Supertype snow: 1 Dark Depths
  • Supertype snow: 8

Total artifacts

• Total artifacts: 953
  • Artifact creatures: 253
    • Legendary: 3
  • Artifact equipment: 72
    • Legendary: 8
  • Artifact fortification: 1
  • Total legendary: 22

Total tribal

• Total tribal: 50
• Tribal insants: 19
• Tribal sorceries: 14
• Tribal enchantments: 12
• Tribal artifact: 5

Most

• Cards in a set: 5th Edition (429)
• Used keyword: Flying (856) (includes Vintage-legal sets, excludes revisions)
• Used subtype: Goblin (198)
• Expensive card: Black Lotus ($600-$3000) (general standard, differentiates with quality and editions)

Least

• Cards in a set: Arabian Nights (78)
• Used keyword: Absorb, Frenzy, Gravestorm, & Transfigure (1) each
• Used subtype (on the type line): Anteater (Prowling Pangolin), Archon (Blazing Archon), Assembly-Worker (Assembly-Worker), Brushwagg (Brushwagg), Camel (Camel), Cockatrice (Cockatrice), Dreadnought (Phyrexian Dreadnought), Ferret (Joven's Ferret), Hyena (Gibbering Hyenas), Lammasu (Hunted Lammasu), Nautilus (Chambered Nautilus), Octopus (Giant Octopus), Oyster (Giant Oyster), Sheep (Rustspore Ram), Sponge (Walking Sponge), Starfish (Spiny Starfish), Wombat (Rabid Wombat) (1) each

By card types

Overall

Highest

• Converted mana cost: Draco
• Activation cost: Stalking Stones
• Amount of damage prevented by tapping (not X): Master Healer (4)

Lowest

• Converted mana cost: There are 31 cards with 0 casting cost (e.g. Crimson Kobolds)

Evermind has no casting cost (and can only be played by splicing it onto another card). During the Time Spiral (block) more cards were printed with no casting cost, but had a suspend cost.

Artifacts

Highest

• Converted mana cost (non creature): Aladdin's Lamp
• Converted mana cost (creature): Draco
• Converted mana cost (equipment): Tatsumasa, the Dragon's Fang

Lowest

• Converted mana cost (non creature): There are 24 non creature non equipment cards with 0 casting cost
• Converted mana cost (creature): Ornithropter & Phyrexian Walker & Shield Sphere (0)
• Converted mana cost (equipment): Paradise Mantle (0)

Enchantments

Highest

• Converted mana cost (aura): Yavimaya's Embrace (8)
• Converted mana cost (non aura): Decree of Silence and Divine Intervention (8)
• Converted mana cost (non aura w/ hybrid): Debtor's Knell (7)

Lowest

• Converted mana cost (non aura): There are 61 enchantments that require 1 mana. (1)
• Converted mana cost (non aura w/ hybrid): Privileged Position (5)
• Converted mana cost (aura): There are 131 enchantments-aura that require 1 mana. (1)
• Converted mana cost (aura w/ hybrid): Riot Spikes (1)

Instants and sorceries

Highest

• Converted mana cost (instant): Blinkmoth Infusion (14)
• Converted mana cost (sorcery): There are 7 sorceries which cost (10)
• Base life gain: Heroes Remembered (20)
• Base damage to a single target creature: Shivan Meteor (13)
• Base damage to a single target creature or player: Searing Wind (10)

Lowest

• Converted mana cost (instant): There are 5 instants which cost — The pact cycle from Future Sight Intervention Pact, Pact of Negation, Pact of the Titan, Slaughter Pact and Summoner's Pact.
• Converted mana cost (sorcery): There are 5 sorceries which no casting cost but have a suspend cost, they are a cycle from Future Sight Ancestral Vision, Hypergenesis, Living End, Restore Balance and Wheel of Fate.

Creatures

Highest

• Converted mana cost: Draco
• Power: Krosan Cloudscraper (13) — (Marit Lage Token from Dark Depths (20))
• Toughness: Autochthon Wurm (14) — (Marit Lage Token from Dark Depths (20))
• Power to toughness ratio: Savage Force (8:0)
• Toughness to power ratio: Wall of Stone (0:8)
• Colorless activation cost: Giant Slug (5)

Lowest

• Converted mana cost: Dryad Arbor technically has no mana cost (less then 0) as it is a land and thus played as a land, there are 6 creatures with mana cost: Crimson Kobolds, Crookshank Kobolds, Kobolds of Kher Keep, Ornithropter, Phyrexian Walker, and Shield Sphere. Of these, Ornithropter has been printed the most times appearing in 8 core sets and 2 expansion sets.
• Power: Char Rumbler & Spinal Parasite (-1) (A creature with 0 or -1 power deals no damage).
• Toughness: Spinal Parasite (-1)

Weight

Single card weighs 0.064 ounces.