Hybrid Mana (Ravnica: City of Guilds October 2005) Ravnica: City of Guilds needed to be about two-color cards, so I did what I always do when exploring mechanical space: I dug in and researched what we'd done so far
And if that is confusing, the special judge's gift version of Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite went even further, using only Phyrexian script (something Wizards has returned to in Phyrexia: All Will Be One and March of the Machine ): Beyond that, prerelease cards have occasionally been in more classical languages throughout the years, although all of these are just the closest translation equivalents of the English original
Another factor playing into our selection was making sure that there was diversity, even with just four Scene Boxes to highlight characters, we wanted to make sure that all of our fans felt included as much as possible. In addition to the four scene boxes, Wizards of the Coast will also be rolling out new Special Edition Collector Boosters for Tales of Middle-Earth around the same time, which will potentially include any of twenty cards from the original set in a brand new 60s rock poster art style - as well as rare serialized versions of these cards numbered up through 100
Thankfully, its been handled well, and results in a set thats refreshingly different
