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If you want to cast a lot of creatures with Haste and deal damage directly to your opponent, which color should you play?
A) RED
B) BLACK
C) GREEN
Haste and direct damage are characteristics of red, a color associated with fire and recklessness.
Magic was first released in what year?
A) 1993
B) 2002
C) 1996
Both the Alpha and Beta printings were released in 1993.
The original Magic rules required players to take what unusual step before beginning the game?
A) draw a card at random that your opponent would then take and keep if he or she won the game
B) place two basic lands on top of each deck to make sure both players had enough land to play with
C) initial your opponent's cards to maintain a documented win-loss record for all players
Some cards even interacted with the "ante" rule that forced players to put a random card on the line for every match they played.
Magic's gothic horror themed plane is called…
A) Mirrodin
B) Innistrad
C) Zendikar
Innistrad is full of vampires, werewolves and zombies.
What is the maximum number of a single card, other than basic lands, that can be included in a tournament legal Magic deck?
A) 3
B) 5
C) 4
Magic deck construction rules limit you to four of a given card in the deck.
Who is the creator of Magic: the Gathering?
A) Reiner Knizia
B) Gary Gygax
C) Richard Garfield
Richard Garfield designed Magic while he was a grad student at the University of Pennsylvania.
Currently, artifact cards have a gray background. What color did artifacts used to be?
A) Brown
B) Yellow
C) Teal
Artifacts were brown until Magic cards received an updated graphic design for the card face in 2003.
The "Lorwyn" set was the first time an entirely new type of card was added to Magic. What was it?
A) Planeswalkers
B) Eldrazi
C) Legendary Lands
Planeswalkers, representing characters who can travel between planes just like the players do, have become some of the most powerful cards in Magic.
When a spell or effect is played, it goes on the [blank], where it waits to resolve until all players have a chance to add other spells or effects.
A) library
B) zone
C) stack
Effects on the stack resolve in the opposite order that they were played; last in, first out.
What color are lands?
A) Colorless
B) White
C) Black
Lands have no color unless some other effect in the game causes them to gain a color.
How can you tell the difference between the original "Alpha" printing of Magic's first set and the "Beta" reprint of that set?
A) Beta cards were reprinted with white borders instead of black borders.
B) Beta cards have a copyright date on the bottom of the card, which Alpha cards lack.
C) Alpha cards have slightly more rounded corners than Beta cards.
Alpha cards have slightly more rounded corners than Beta cards.
The highest level of Magic: the Gathering competition is the
A) International Challenge League
B) Pro Tour
C) House Cup
Top Magic players compete on the Pro Tour for tens of thousands of dollars in prizes.
The keyword Hexproof replaced an older keyword that restricted targeting. What was it?
A) Shroud
B) Banding
C) Circle of Protection
Creatures with Shroud couldn’t be targeted by anything, but it was replaced by Hexproof, which only prevents targeting by your opponents.
Which Magic set was the first to include cards with multiple colors in their casting costs?
A) "Legends"
B) "Mirage"
C) "Champions of Kamigawa"
"Legends" was Magic's third expansion set. It introduced multi-colored cards and legendary creatures.
The first Magic set included a cycle of cards that let players gain three of something for one mana. One of these cards was vastly more powerful than the others, allowing the player to draw three cards. What is the name of that card?
A) Dark Ritual
B) Ancestral Recall
C) Wheel of Fortune
Ancestral Recall's "draw 3 cards" ability gives players a huge advantage.
The keyword that causes a creature to kill any other creature it damages, no matter the amount of damage, is called…
A) plaguetouch
B) deathtouch
C) first strike
deathtouch
Which tournament legal Magic card has the highest combined casting cost?
A) Authochthon Wurm
B) Emrakul, the Aeons Torn
C) Draco
Draco costs 16 mana, more than any other Magic card (we're not counting Gleemax even though it costs 1,000,000 mana since it was never tournament legal).
If you're playing an elf deck, what color are you most likely to be playing?
A) Black
B) Green
C) White
While there are some black elves, the overwhelming majority of elf cards in Magic are green.
How do creatures with Doublestrike deal their damage?
A) They are treated as if they are two separate creatures dealing damage equal to their power during the damage step.
B) They deal damage equal to their power during the first strike damage step and again during the regular damage step.
C) They deal twice their power in damage during the damage step.
Doublestrike creatures deal damage during the first strike and regular damage steps.
The "Ravnica" expansion established that Magic's two-colored pairings were called guilds. What is the name of the blue/black guild?
A) Zemoya
B) Zemoya
C) Dimir
The Dimir guild is focused on stealth and espionage.
A creature with protection from white can be killed by a white card that says, "Destroy all creatures."
TRUE OR FALSE
TRUE
Protection from a color prevents damage from sources of that color and prevents the creature from being targeted by sources of that color. The white "destroy all creatures" card neither targets nor deals damage, so it would kill the protected creature.
What set of five artifacts that cost zero mana to play are among the most valuable cards ever printed?
A) the Lotus cycle
B) the Elder Dragons
C) the Moxes
The Moxes, artifacts that produce mana and cost nothing to play, can be worth thousands of dollars in good condition.
An epic four-year storyline told through several Magic expansions involved a plane-hopping airship called…
A) the Weatherlight
B) Ugin's Victory
C) the Thran Dynamo
The Skyship Weatherlight was used to defend Dominaria from the Phyrexians.
What Magic card is commonly known as "Tim," after a wizard from the movie "Monty Python and the Holy Grail?"
A) Bogardan Phoenix
B) Autumn Willow
C) Prodigal Sorcerer
Prodigal Sorcerer's ability to deal one point of damage to anything is reminiscent of the explosive Monty Python wizard. "There are some who call me…Tim."
Wizards of the Coast maintains a list of cards they will never reprint. What is the list called?
A) the chronicle
B) the reserved list
C) the legacy list
The reserved list was created in 1996 to assure collectors some of their cards would never drop in value due to reprinting.