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Seventh Edition
Set Information
Set symbol
Set size 350 (110 Common 110 Uncommon 110 Rare 20 Land)
Expansion code 7ED[2]

Seventh Edition (7th Edition) is a Magic Core Set that was released in April 2001.

Set details

“  7 IS Your Lucky Number  ”

Seventh Edition contains 350 white-bordered cards (110 rare, 110 uncommon, 110 common, and 20 basic lands). It was the first Core Set to include foil cards, which were printed with black borders. Each card in 7th Edition featured new artwork. Old favorites like Serra Angel [3], Shivan Dragon and Mahamoti Djinn returned in the set. The expansion symbol was a stylized 7. Seventh Edition was the last base set printed in the 'old' card frame and to be released prior to the final expansion of the then-current block.

Marketing

Seventh Edition was sold in 15-card-booster packs, 5 different Theme decks and a 2-Player Starter Set, but not in tournament packs. The 2-player set was aimed to be an introductory item to playing Magic and hence is similar to Starter 2000. It was also the last Starter-level product released. Seventh Edition was the first Core Set to replace 1 common in booster packs with a basic land card.

In order to comply to strict regulations by the local government, which does not permit illustrations of human skeletons, some cards like Charcoal Diamond received altered art for its Chinese version. [4]

Storyline

Within its art and flavor text, the set narrates events of a war between two bands led by the Northern Paladin and Southern Paladin versus the Eastern Paladin and the Western Paladin.

Cycles

7th Edition has 4 cycles and a vertical cycle.

  • Painlands: Each of these rare dual lands has "{T}: add {C} to your mana pool. {T}: Add M or N to your mana pool. [This] deals 1 damage to you." M and N are allied colors of mana. These lands are called painlands because their use for colored mana is "painful," referring to the damage they do to you. — Adarkar Wastes, Brushland, Underground River, Sulfurous Springs, and Karplusan Forest.

Vertical Cycle

  • Super tramplers: A vertical cycle of creatures that could do their combat damage to the defending player as though they weren't blocked — Lone Wolf, Pride of Lions, Thorn Elemental. It is said that this ability was created because Wizards thought trample was too confusing, yet this new ability wasn't taken too well in its place.

Mirrored pairs

7th Edition has 5 mirrored pairs.

  • Earthquake (red) and Hurricane (green) are both rare sorceries that have a mana cost of {X}M and deal X damage to all non-flying or flying creatures and each player.
  • Holy Strength (white) and Unholy Strength (black) are both common Auras for M with enchant creature that give a mirrored bonus to the enchanted creature's power/toughness.

Theme decks

7th Edition was the first core set to have theme decks:[5]

Theme
deck name
Colors Included
{W} {U} {B} {R} {G}
Armada W
Bomber U
Decay B
Infestation R
Way Wild G

Cards added to 7th Edition

Main article: 7th Edition/Changes

Changes in rarity

Main article: 7th Edition/Changes

Cards removed from 6th Edition

Main article: 7th Edition/Changes
  • Crusade was removed in favor of adding Glorious Anthem which for {1} gives +1/+1 to all of your creatures, not just all white ones (including opponents'). Glorious Anthem remained in core sets through 10th Edition.

References

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  5. Seventh Edition Theme Decks

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