Homelands explored popular characters including Sengir and Serra and had a strong flavor, meaning that the cards were designed to fill specific roles. It had a number of themes, including a large number of real-world creature types, clockwork artifact creatures, Legendary creatures, and a number of ' tribal' effects that enhanced only one creature type. In her absence the isolated civilizations of the plane fight amongst each other while the vampire Baron Sengir plots to take control of the plane under the fading Ban of Feroz.Īs mentioned, Homelands introduced no new mechanics.

Later, Feroz died during a lab accident, and the grief-stricken Serra abandoned the plane. Together they worked to restore the plane, and to protect it, Feroz's Ban was created. At the last unspoilt oasis on this plane he met fellow planeswalker Serra, whom he married. The planeswalker Feroz came across Ulgrotha, the once-beautiful plane now destroyed by the Wizards' Wars. German, Spanish, French, Portuguese and Italian versions were being launched around the same time as the English version, and there were release events, called Magic: The Gathering I in New York City, at the Internationale Spieltage SPIEL in Essen, Germany, the Lucca Comics convention in Lucca, Italy, and other locations. Homelands was the first simultaneous international release. Each booster bears the same green background image. Homelands is the last expansion to be printed on only two sheets and sold in eight-card booster packs (two cards from the uncommon sheet and six cards from the common sheet). If the art variants are treated as distinct, there are 71 commons Homelands lands have a unique teal colored text box. Most collectors consider these variants to be distinct cards, and therefore a full set to be 140 cards. Each of the C4 commons has 2 versions of art by the same artist. Because of the relative number of uncommons to commons in a pack, C1 and U3 cards are of equal rarity despite being printed on different sheets, and are considered the uncommons of the set. The set's rarity breakdown is 46 commons and 69 uncommons The U1 are considered the 'rares' of the set. Homelands was printed on 121 card sheets. The expansion symbol of the set is a simplified globe of Ulgrotha, the plane where Homelands was set. The absence of mechanics found throughout the Ice Age block, such as Snow lands and cumulative upkeep, and the fact that it didn't follow the Ice Age block storyline, made it a poor fit in its former block. Each color had at least one legend, with some colors having as many as five. The set introduced no new mechanics or keywords, but used some of the mechanics of Ice Age, most notably the cantrip ability and single-color legendary creatures.

Homelands was developed as a separate expansion from the current Ice Age block at the time.

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