Seventh Edition

Seventh Edition

 

Changes

 

2-Player Starter Set

 

Theme decks

 

Seventh Edition
Set Information
Set symbol
Symbol description	stylized 7
Design	Randy Buehler Charlie Catouto Michael Donais Mike Elliott Robert Gutschera William Jockusch Mark Rosewater Henry Stern Teeuwynn Woodruff
Development	Same as design
Art direction	Ron Spears & Dana Knutson
Release date	April 11, 2001
Plane	Multiversal
Set size	350 cards (110 commons, 110 uncommons, 110 rares, 20 basic lands)
Expansion code	7ED
Core sets
Sixth Edition Seventh Edition Eighth Edition
Magic: The Gathering Chronology
Planeshift Seventh Edition Apocalypse

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. As a special feature, each card in Seventh Edition featured new artwork. Old favorites like Serra Angel, 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 boosters feature artwork from: Northern Paladin, Lord of Atlantis, Western Paladin, Goblin King and Elvish Champion. 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.

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 (respectively) the Eastern Paladin and the Western Paladin. All four of the paladins have a missing eye. When someone is 'confirmed' as a paladin he trades one of his eyes for a magical gemstone which increases his spell casting ability (see Infernal Contract, Grapeshot Catapult, and Oppression for examples of the replaced eye).

Cycles

Seventh Edition has 4 horizontal cycles, vertical cycle and a four-card cycle as well as 4 mirrored pairs.

Cycle name
Circles of Protection	Circle of Protection: White	Circle of Protection: Blue	Circle of Protection: Black	Circle of Protection: Red	Circle of Protection: Green
	Each of these common white enchantments has a mana cost of and the ability to prevent the all damage from a source of a given color for .
Diamonds	Marble Diamond	Sky Diamond	Charcoal Diamond	Fire Diamond	Moss Diamond
	Each diamond artifact costs to play; comes into play tapped; and produces one mana of the appropriate color when tapped. They were originally printed in Mirage.
Lucky charms	Ivory Cup	Crystal Rod	Throne of Bone	Iron Star	Wooden Sphere
	Each of these uncommon artifacts has a triggered ability that allows the controller pay to gain 1 life when a spell of a given color resolves.
Cycle name
Pain lands	Adarkar Wastes	Underground River	Sulfurous Springs	Karplusan Forest	Brushland
	Rare dual lands with ": Add . : Add M or N. [This] deals 1 damage to you." M and N are allied colors of mana. These lands are called pain lands because their use for colored mana is "painful," referring to the damage they do to you.

Vertical Cycle

Cycle name
Super tramplers	Lone Wolf	Pride of Lions	Thorn Elemental
	A vertical cycle of creatures that could do their combat damage to the defending player as though they weren't blocked. 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.

Four-card cycles

Cycle name
Paladins	Northern Paladin	Southern Paladin	Eastern Paladin	Western Paladin
	Rare 3/3 Knight creatures for MM with the ability to destroy a permanent of the enemy color for MM, .

Pairs

Mirrored Pairs		Description
Castle ()	Orcish Oriflamme ()	Uncommon enchantments for M that conditionally affect a creature's power or toughness.
Earthquake ()	Hurricane ()	Rare sorceries that have a mana cost of M and deal X damage to all non-flying or flying creatures and each player.
Elvish Champion ()	Goblin King ()	Rare Lords for MM that give +1/+1 and landwalk of its color to creatures of their type.
Holy Strength ()	Unholy Strength ()	Common Auras for M with enchant creature that give a mirrored bonus to the enchanted creature's power/toughness.

Theme decks

Seventh Edition was the first core set to have theme decks:

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

Core set changes

Notable changes

• Crusade was removed in favor of adding Glorious Anthem which for gives +1/+1 to all of your creatures, not just all white ones (including opponents'). Glorious Anthem remained in core sets through Tenth Edition.

External links

• Seventh Edition Product Page
• Seventh Edition Card Catalog