


I never did open that Hand of Justice, but at least I knew what my Magic: the Gathering cards would look like!” In an old person’s voice: “When I was your age, we walked to our local hobby shops, uphill in the snow, and were thrilled to have enough change to purchase a cheap pack of Fallen Empires or Homelands. While little is still known about these releases, I’m going to speculate a bit this week and explore possible MTG finance implications of such sets. Now, about 20 years after these Middle Earth cards were published, Wizards of the Coast president Chris Cocks announced a series of cards that will feature crossovers with two franchises: Warhammer 40,000 and Lord of the Rings. Back in Issue #69, the magazine published “what if” Magic cards themed around Middle Earth. I suspect we haven’t seen the last of those lands and the colorless mana mechanic, either, as Wizards seems to like returning to a world with Eldrazi in them.īut in the meantime, it looks like Magic will be traveling to a different world-one which was also predicted by InQuest Magazine. It didn’t exactly come to fruition in this way, but Wizards did create a sixth basic land type: Wastes. Technically, InQuest writers predicted the color would be purple, and the lands that created purple mana would be called portals. It started with the creation of a “sixth color”. The monthly magazine, which was published from 1995 to 2007, has now predicted at least a couple of major trends in Magic. It’s amazing how ahead of its time InQuest Magazine truly was.
