Many of the ideas used for legendary creatures came from the Dungeons & Dragons campaigns enjoyed by those involved. This led to the creation of legendary creatures, as well as other mythical-sounding creatures, such as Hell's Caretaker and Evil Eye of Orms-By-Gore. One of those ideas was to create a more unique, heroic kind of creature that would have a sense of depth and strength. Many of the ideas for Legends came from notes taken by Conard on Wizards' Christmas recreational outing to Mt. They quickly became addicted and started making their own cards for fun on their own time, based on the epic fantasy that both of them enjoyed. Legends was designed by Steve Conard and Robin Herbert in Vancouver, after they were introduced to an early version of Magic by Richard Garfield at the University of Pennsylvania. Design and Development Įarly advertisement in Duelist #1, hinting at a card called Defy Death After Legends was released, it went on to win the GAMA Award for best game accessory of the year, in 1994. Legends is the oldest Magic expansion that was released in the Italian language (though the Italian The Dark was released earlier). Hence, there were no Legends starter decks. Even though it was a 310-card set, Legends did not contain basic land and was not considered a " stand-alone" expansion. Each booster pack had the same simple Magic design on it each pack included a rules card, which explained all the abilities and card types introduced in the set, and also included a few rule clarifications. The print run was announced by Wizards of the Coast at 35 million cards. Cards were available from mid June 1994 through late June 1994. Legends was the first expansion set to be sold in booster packs of 15 cards (previous expansions had been sold in packs of 8). The Legends lands have a unique golden colored text box. These "A" and "B" boxes elicited widespread complaints from frustrated players and collectors Wizards of the Coast responded with the Legends Exchange Program, allowing consumers to trade in up to 100 cards from one group of uncommon cards for an equal number of cards from the other group, Some Legends booster boxes contained only one portion of the possible uncommon cards, while others contained a different portion. The expansion symbol for Legends is the capital of a column, meant to evoke a time of legends. The set's rarity breakdown is: 75 commons 114 Uncommons 121 Rares. 5.2 Lower branches of family trees (two-color).
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