If Planar Chaos and Future Sight’s timeshifted cards aren’t repeats, what are they?
A very good question. Not one I’m going to answer now, but a very good question nonetheless. Why 121 timeshifted cards? It was a good number for technical reasons. Why such a high number? Because we thought that having a high variance was important to creating the feeling we wanted of the past invading the set. Plus, we already had the cards, so making them wasn’t horribly cost prohibitive. Is this where the 301/422 issue came from? Yes. For those unaware (and I’ll get to the full story in next week’s column), at different times Wizards of the Coast reported Time Spiral as having both 301 and 422 cards. Having the two subsets of cards is what caused this confusion. Officially, Time Spiral is considered to be a 301-card set with an added 121-bonus subset. You said that there is one purple card per pack. What rarity does it replace? The timeshifted cards in Time Spiral replace a common card. Normally, a Magic booster has 1 rare, 3 uncommons and 11 commons. Time Spiral boosters instead ha
