MTG PLANAR CHAOS REGULAR MOL FACTORY SET

Planar Chaos contains 165 all new black-bordered cards (fifty (50) rares, fifty-five (55) uncommons, and sixty (60) commons), including a forty-five (45)-card "timeshifted" subset (ten (10) rares, fifteen (15) uncommons, and twenty (20) commons). The theme of this expansion is "the (alternate) present"; to fit the theme of the block ("time"). Its expansion symbol is a depiction of two overlapping planes. There are no artifacts in Planar Chaos.

Timeshifted

The forty-five (45) timeshifted cards in Planar Chaos (also known as colorshifted, planeshifted and chaos shifted) represent cards being reprinted from an alternate reality. They are each functionally identical to an old card, with the crucial exception of their color (and possibly with a different creature type, or referencing a different color or land type in its abilities). Cards that were timeshifted in Planar Chaos had a slightly different border, and their title and types were written in white instead of black. In contrast to Time Spiral, they had regular colored expansion symbols.

Mechanics

Flash, split second and suspend were introduced in Time Spiral. Echo, flanking, kicker, madness morph are all keywords used in previous sets. Planar Chaos marked the first appearance of spells with echo costs that did not match their casting costs, as well as the first appearance of single color split cards.

Vanishing is introduced in this expansion, which works similarly to fading from Nemesis. Vanishing uses time counters to interact with suspend cards and induces sacrifice at the removal of the final counter to make the mechanic more intuitive than its predecessor.

In keeping with the theme of alternate realities converging, Planar Chaos features numerous cards with abilities "usually" assigned to another color:

• White received shroud (then "This creature can't be the target of spells and abilities."), regeneration, countering and returning creatures to your hand.
• Blue received vigilance, discard, giving creatures +X/-X or -X/+X and the ability to destroy creatures.
• Black received first strike, lifelink-like effects, control effects, tapping creatures, and spell/damage redirection.
• Red received reach, trample, fear-like effects, "pump" effects, returning opponent's permanents and spells that target flying creatures.
• Green received flying, haste, life gain/damage prevention, card-drawing effects and returning creatures from the graveyard.

Notable cards

• Aeon Chronicler saw widespread play as an uncounterable card advantage machine and possible finisher in blue control decks.
• Damnation, a colorshifted Wrath of God with similar artwork giving black control decks a strong board sweeper.
• Detritivore, a red card that continually would destroy non-basic lands in a Standard format filled with them. It was also used in combination with Wildfire from 9th Edition in land destruction decks, providing an able finisher.
• Extirpate, a strong card punishing Combo decks.
• Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth, a land that turns other lands into Swamps and which saw widespread tournament play, e.g. in Extended Hexmage Depths deck.