Changes to the Set

March 4th, 1997

• Changed card texts to match 5th Edition text templates.
• Accursed Crypt (originally Forbidden Crypt) was renamed because a card with the old name appeared in Mirage™.
• Falling Rocks (originally Rockslide) was renamed because a card with the old name appeared in Mirage™.
• Preying Mantis (originally Giant Mantis) was renamed because a card with the old name appeared in Mirage™.

June 13th, 1996

• Magewar site modernized for MS Internet Explorer 3.0 features.

February 6th, 1996

• Replaced the original mana and tap symbols copyrighted by Wizards of the Coast® with self-designed ones.

November 24th, 1995

• Added a short text explaining the story of Magewar.

November 16th, 1995

• The set should now be finished.
• Book of the Dead was changed so that creatures animated by the book are now removed from the game after they leave play.
• Machine of Destruction: casting cost reduced
• Air Wyrd, Earth Wyrd, Fire Wyrd and Water Wyrd: casting cost raised.
• Guardian of the Forests, Guardian of the Islands, Guardian of the Mountains, Guardian of the Plains and Guardian of the Swamps: changed to cantrip enchantments.
• Hex: casting cost raised and changed to cantrip
• Blades of Fire: casting cost reduced, can now be pumped with up to 3 red mana.
• Rage: casting cost raised and changed to cantrip
• Kargalyish Hero: casting cost raised
• Blessed Protection: activation cost changed to colorless mana

November 14th, 1995

• The set finally has a name and a background story, thanks to Alex Marzec.
• Added lots of flavor texts by Alex Marzec.
• Past Visions was changed again to take the bottom card from the graveyard . Taking a card at random from the graveyard was prone to mess up the order of cards in the graveyard, which is important for cards like Nether Shadow.

October 31st, 1995

• Atoll, Death Marsh, Steppe, Tropical Jungle and Volcano Range no longer enter play tapped, but now deal damage even when tapped for only one mana.
• Mishra's Iron Golem: casting cost raised.
• Wheel of Colors: activation cost reworded.
• Demonic Gift added as replacement for the far too powerful Lifeleech.
• Maggot Man: casting cost raised.
• Tarantula no longer gives creatures poison counters but -0/-1 counters.
• Mana Drought reworded.
• Invisible Spirit: power and toughness reduced.
• Petrify is now a sorcery instead of an enchantment.
• Kargalyish Behemoth: power reduced; untap cost raised.
• Kargalyish Khan: casting cost raised.

October 30th, 1995

• Vocano Range corrected. The text incorrectly said that Coral Reef dealed 1 damage.
• Memory Wrack reworded to prevent rules conflict with "drawing".

October 25th, 1995

• Past Visions was changed because the old version made it too easy to get infinite turns in combination with Time Walk.
• Canodin's Mask added as replacement for Canodin's Tarnkappe, because the tarnkappe's effect was duplicated as Joven's Tools in Homelands™.

October 24th, 1995

• Atoll (originally Coral Reef) was renamed because a card with the old name appeared in Homelands™.
• Deathtrap (originally Ambush) was renamed because a card with the old name appeared in Homelands™.

September 27th, 1995

• Urza's Transformer was changed so that the generated mana could not be used to pay its own activation cost or that of another Urza's Transformer, thus preventing the generation of infinite mana for artifact activation.

September 14th, 1995

• I have finalized the WWW format and posted all pages to the Web.