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Time Spiral

Time Spiral is a Magic: The Gathering expert-level block consisting of the expansion sets Time Spiral (October 6, 2006), Planar Chaos (February 2, 2007), and Future Sight (May 4, 2007). It is set on the plane of Dominaria, the first time that that plane had been visited since 8th Edition.

Conception and design, Time Spiral & Planar Chaos

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Conception and design

Mark RosewaterPlanar ChaosFuture SightNostalgiaTimeshifted cards
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Time Spiral

UlgrothaJudgement
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Planar Chaos

Parallel universes
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Future Sight

8th Edition
1 related topics

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Designers
Brian Tinsman (lead), Aaron Forsythe, Devin Low, Mark Rosewater
Developers
Brian Schneider (lead), Michael Donais, Aaron Forsythe, Devin Low, Matt Place
Development code
Snap
Expansion code
TSP
Keywords
Buyback, Echo, Flanking, Flash, Flashback, Kicker, Madness, Morph, Shadow, Split Second, Storm, Suspend, Threshold
Mechanics
Timeshifted cards, Slivers, Thallids, Kavu, Nightmares, Spellshapers, Rebels

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Time Spiral

Planar Chaos

Future Sight

Mechanics

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Time Spiral

Nodes28
Edges27
Triples166
Avg. degree1.93
Density0.071429
Components1

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Time Spiral

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related to Planar Chaos · 36
Time Spiral → As, Bill Rose, Brian Schneider, Color-shifted, Curiosity, Damnation, Designed, Devin Low, Eventually, Fog, Foil, God, Hedge Troll, Henry Stern, Holy Day, However, In, Keen Sense, Legends, Mark Rosewater
related to Time Spiral · 33
Time Spiral → After, As, Brothers' War, Coast, Dominaria, Dominaria's, Dominarian, During, Future Sight, Gathering, However, In, Judgement, Karona, Karona's War, Life, Magic, Mark Rosewater, Phyrexian, Planar Chaos
related to Future Sight · 27
Time Spiral → Bloodthirst, Convoke, Cycling, Dredge, Echo, Edition, Flanking, Flash, Furthermore, Future Sight, Graft, Hellbent, However, In, Kicker, Madness, Magic, Many, Morph, Most
related to Mechanics · 26
Time Spiral → Cost, Creatures, Each, Echo, Edition, Ertai's Meddling, Every, Fading, Flanking, Flash, Haste, Kicker, Madness, Morph, Older, Planar Chaos, Planar Chaos-specific, Shadow, Spells, Split Second
related to Notable cards · 10
Time Spiral → Damnation, Dominaria, Gemstone Caverns, God, Momentary Blink, Notable, Planar Chaos, Serra Avenger, Sudden Shock, Wrath
related to External links · 9
Time Spiral → Card, Information PageOfficial Future Sight, Internet Speculative Fiction DatabaseOfficial, Planar Chaos MinisiteOfficial Future, Planar Chaos Product InformationOfficial, Planar Chaos Spoiler ListOfficial, Sight MinisiteFuture Sight Product, Spiral Card List'Timeshifted' CardsOfficial, Theme DecksFuture Sight Cardlist
related to Timeshifted cards · 9
Time Spiral → According, DCI-distributed, Dominaria, Edition, Mirrodin, Planar Chaos, The, Timeshifted, To
related to Stub Section about Time Spiral Remastered · 7
Time Spiral → According, Gatherer, Lock-gray-alt-2, Lock-green, Lock-red-alt-2, Time Spiral Remastered, Wikisource-logo
Designers · 1
Time Spiral → Brian Tinsman (lead), Aaron Forsythe, Devin Low, Mark Rosewater
Developers · 1
Time Spiral → Brian Schneider (lead), Michael Donais, Aaron Forsythe, Devin Low, Matt Place

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cards time future spiral card sight set timeshifted planar sets mechanics chaos also dominaria creature block previous magic color gathering

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Time SpiralDesignersBrian Tinsman (lead), Aaron Forsythe, Devin Low, Mark Rosewater1.00infobox
Time SpiralDevelopersBrian Schneider (lead), Michael Donais, Aaron Forsythe, Devin Low, Matt Place1.00infobox
Time SpiralDevelopment codeSnap1.00infobox
Time SpiralExpansion codeTSP1.00infobox
Time SpiralKeywordsBuyback, Echo, Flanking, Flash, Flashback, Kicker, Madness, Morph, Shadow, Split Second, Storm, Suspend, Threshold1.00infobox
Time SpiralMechanicsTimeshifted cards, Slivers, Thallids, Kavu, Nightmares, Spellshapers, Rebels1.00infobox
Time SpiralReleasedOctober 6, 20061.00infobox
Time SpiralSize301 cards (121 commons, 80 uncommons, 80 rares, 20 basic lands)+ 121 timeshifted1.00infobox
Time Spiralis aMagic0.90text
Time Spiralrelated to External linksInternet Speculative Fiction DatabaseOfficial0.60section
Time Spiralrelated to External linksCard0.60section
Time Spiralrelated to External linksSpiral Card List'Timeshifted' CardsOfficial0.60section

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