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<blockquote data-quote="Bacon Bits" data-source="post: 8039471" data-attributes="member: 6777737"><p>Don't get me wrong, the card's art is awful and was never considered acceptable. Everybody knew it as the KKK card. And the artist, Harold McNeill, is absolutely a white nationalist. WotC never should have used this art. But you're really, really stretching credibility to argue that the multiverse ID was <em>intentional</em>.</p><p></p><p>Look, early Magic sets were assigned a multiverse ID in the order the set was released, and each unique card image was assigned a multiverse ID in order.</p><p></p><table style='width: 100%'><tr><th>Set </th><th>Release Date </th><th>Set Size </th><th>Multiverse IDs</th></tr><tr><td>Alpha </td><td>August 5, 1993 </td><td>295 cards </td><td>1-295 </td></tr><tr><td>Beta </td><td>October 1993 </td><td>302 cards </td><td>296-597 </td></tr><tr><td>Unlimited </td><td>December 1, 1993</td><td>302 cards </td><td>598-899 </td></tr><tr><td>Arabian Nights</td><td>December 17, 1993</td><td>92 cards (78 unique + 14 variant)</td><td>900-991 </td></tr><tr><td>Antiquities </td><td>March 4, 1994 </td><td>100 cards (85 unique + 15 variant)</td><td>992-1091</td></tr><tr><td>Revised </td><td>April 1994 </td><td>306 cards </td><td>1092-1397</td></tr><tr><td>Legends </td><td>June 10, 1994 </td><td>310 cards </td><td>1398-1707</td></tr></table><p></p><p>So, the next set to be printed, Legends, began at 1398. Every set (with the exception of Antiquities which is straight alphabetical because there are so few colored cards) are grouped like this: Artifacts, Black, Blue, Green, Red, White, Land. Legends, which introduces Multicolored cards, goes Artifacts, Black, Blue, Green, Red, White, Multicolored, Land. Each group is sorted alphabetically. If you place Legends in this order, then the 91st card in Legends is Invoke Prejudice. 1397 + 91 = 1488.</p><p></p><p>Invoke Prejudice is literally the one thousand, four hundred and eighty-eighth card printed. You'll also note that if you're looking at the dates above, that all seven of those sets were printed and sold in under a year. Essentially all of them sold out immediately with the exception of Revised. They couldn't print the cards fast enough. Arabian Nights was supposed to be 300 cards, but they had to ship what they could because nothing was on the shelves. It would take a staggering amount of foresight and planning to know that between the accidentally missed cards in Alpha, the "variants" which were in Arabian Nights which weren't supposed to be variants, and then to know that ten years later in 2004 when the Gatherer site which introduced the multiverse ID was released that the IDs would be assigned in that particular order. And to do all that while WotC was pumping out cards <em>literally</em> faster than they could design them?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bacon Bits, post: 8039471, member: 6777737"] Don't get me wrong, the card's art is awful and was never considered acceptable. Everybody knew it as the KKK card. And the artist, Harold McNeill, is absolutely a white nationalist. WotC never should have used this art. But you're really, really stretching credibility to argue that the multiverse ID was [I]intentional[/I]. Look, early Magic sets were assigned a multiverse ID in the order the set was released, and each unique card image was assigned a multiverse ID in order. [TABLE] [TR] [TH]Set [/TH] [TH]Release Date [/TH] [TH]Set Size [/TH] [TH]Multiverse IDs[/TH] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Alpha [/TD] [TD]August 5, 1993 [/TD] [TD]295 cards [/TD] [TD]1-295 [/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Beta [/TD] [TD]October 1993 [/TD] [TD]302 cards [/TD] [TD]296-597 [/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Unlimited [/TD] [TD]December 1, 1993[/TD] [TD]302 cards [/TD] [TD]598-899 [/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Arabian Nights[/TD] [TD]December 17, 1993[/TD] [TD]92 cards (78 unique + 14 variant)[/TD] [TD]900-991 [/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Antiquities [/TD] [TD]March 4, 1994 [/TD] [TD]100 cards (85 unique + 15 variant)[/TD] [TD]992-1091[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Revised [/TD] [TD]April 1994 [/TD] [TD]306 cards [/TD] [TD]1092-1397[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Legends [/TD] [TD]June 10, 1994 [/TD] [TD]310 cards [/TD] [TD]1398-1707[/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] So, the next set to be printed, Legends, began at 1398. Every set (with the exception of Antiquities which is straight alphabetical because there are so few colored cards) are grouped like this: Artifacts, Black, Blue, Green, Red, White, Land. Legends, which introduces Multicolored cards, goes Artifacts, Black, Blue, Green, Red, White, Multicolored, Land. Each group is sorted alphabetically. If you place Legends in this order, then the 91st card in Legends is Invoke Prejudice. 1397 + 91 = 1488. Invoke Prejudice is literally the one thousand, four hundred and eighty-eighth card printed. You'll also note that if you're looking at the dates above, that all seven of those sets were printed and sold in under a year. Essentially all of them sold out immediately with the exception of Revised. They couldn't print the cards fast enough. Arabian Nights was supposed to be 300 cards, but they had to ship what they could because nothing was on the shelves. It would take a staggering amount of foresight and planning to know that between the accidentally missed cards in Alpha, the "variants" which were in Arabian Nights which weren't supposed to be variants, and then to know that ten years later in 2004 when the Gatherer site which introduced the multiverse ID was released that the IDs would be assigned in that particular order. And to do all that while WotC was pumping out cards [I]literally[/I] faster than they could design them? [/QUOTE]
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