At this event, a foil Воин Лакватуса (Laquatus's Champion printed in Cyrillic text) was handed out.
The Torment prerelease was held on January 25–25, 2002. The cards were sold in 15-card boosters which featured the new artwork from Sengir Vampire, in four preconstructed theme decks and a fat pack. The original basic land artists of Odyssey were commissioned to do darker versions of their original basic lands. Torment was noted for featuring a four-card cycle of tainted lands, which could add black mana or mana of another color if their controllers controlled a Swamp and were the only lands in the expansion. In addition to a higher-than-usual number of black cards, there are numerous cards in other colors that specifically refer to black or Swamps (e.g., Major Teroh, Stern Judge, Cephalid Snitch, Barbarian Outcast, Enslaved Dwarf, Krosan Constrictor, Nantuko Blightcutter, Cabal Coffers), are thematically related to black (e.g., Possessed Nomad, Possessed Aven, Possessed Barbarian, Possessed Centaur), or use black mana (e.g., Balshan Collaborator, Pardic Collaborator). In addition to there being more black cards, the general level of power of black cards was comparably more powerful than those of other-colored cards. The following expansion, Judgment, would later correct the inequality of black, green, and white cards. To account for the over-representation of black, the total number of green and white cards was accordingly reduced there are 40 black cards, 28 blue and red, 21 green and white, and there are 5 nonbasic lands. Consequently, from the set's development on, it was referred to as the "black set". Torment was notable for its shift from the conventional distribution, and equal focus, on all the five colors of Magic to a particular thematic and mechanical emphasis on black. Its expansion symbol represents a nightmare, to evoke the set's dark themes and 'dementia summoning'. Torment featured 143 black- bordered cards (55 commons, 44 uncommons and 44 rares). 2 Critical reception and tournament impact.
0 kommentar(er)
