Mirage and Visions each had a common monocolor cycle. Having the flexibility to choose between three of these effects made it valuable enough to be worth a card. (The other two sets were Ice Age which became, of course, Ice Age and Spectral Chaos, elements of which got rolled into Invasion, with the domain mechanic being the most famous thing from it.)Ĭharms first came about because the team realized that there were interesting effects that were too small to be worth one mana. You see, no one had any idea if Magic was going to succeed, but everyone was optimistic, so Richard asked various playtest team to design sets. They were first created before Magic was even published as part of a set codenamed "Menagerie" (what would later be printed as Mirage and Visions) designed by a team of original playtesters (Bill Rose, Joel Mick, Charlie Catino, Don Felice, Howard Kahlenberg, and Elliot Siegel) in case Magic one day needed some expansions. The Charms are an uncommon cycle of three-color modal cards that each give you the choice of one of three effects.
In fact, in this column, I'm going to tell just one large story about five cards, the Charms, but I will tell more stories in the coming weeks. The last two weeks, I told the story of Streets of New Capenna's design ( Part 1 and Part 2), so today, I'm going to start telling some card-by-card design stories.
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