Sets released: Morningtide, Shadowmoor, Eventide, Shards of Alara

Major stuff:

  - Shards of Alara made a move to a smaller set size and introduced
    mythic rare cards, approximately twice as rare as rare cards.

Minor stuff:

  - The abilities prowl, reinforce and kinship appeared in Morningtide;
    conspire, wither and persist in Shadowmoor and retrace in Eventide.
    Shards of Alara brought exalted, unearth and devour.

  - Shadowmoor introduced the untap symbol {Q}.

  - Shadowmoor introduced costs that are paid with a number of
    mana of any color or just one mana of a particular color, e.g.
    {2/B} can be paid as {2} or {B}.

  - Shadowmoor gave the game another multicolored artifact, the Reaper
    King.

  - Shards of Alara continued the colored artifact theme in earnest.


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