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Older Magic Trivia Quiz

Another 'old school magic' quiz. Hopefully most people will find it easier than the last one.

A multiple-choice quiz by palidine. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
palidine

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
65,222

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Tough

Avg Score
6 / 10

Plays
533

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Question 1 of 10

1. What card is known as the Bone Crank? Hint

Icy Manipulator

Millstone

Fellwar Stone

Zuran Orb

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Question 2 of 10

2. What is the correct casting cost of a Juzam Djinn? Hint

2 blue and 3 generic mana

2 black and 2 generic mana

3 black and 3 generic mana

1 black and 4 generic mana

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Question 3 of 10

3. How many cards does Ancestral Recall allow you to draw? Hint

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Question 4 of 10

4. How many cards must you be holding to use Library of Alexandria's special ability? Hint

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Question 5 of 10

5. How many cards does a Millstone make you place in the graveyard? Hint

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Question 6 of 10

6. Okay this is a tough one. What card, out of "The Dark", destroys all goblins in play? (Hint: It is white) Hint

Mishra's Crusade

Mon's Crusade

Tivadar's Crusade

Zuron's Crusade

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Question 7 of 10

7. Which of the following cards, as originally printed, would render Necropotence useless and practically automatically defeat a deck based on it? Hint

Anvil of Bogardan

Bad Moon

Howling Mine

Zuron Orb

8. How much damage does a Phantom Monster do in combat if it is unblocked, has an Unstable Mutation (with 2 -1/-1 counters), a Holy Strength, a Gaseous Form on it, and there is a Sunken City in play? Hint

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Question 9 of 10

9. What color is a Vesuvan Doppelganger that has copied a Serra Angel? Hint

Blue

White

Both white and blue

Whichever the player declares

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Question 10 of 10

10. Prophecy is a white sorcery from the much-maligned Homelands expansion. In the artwork, the pupil of the eye shows a glimpse of one of the Homelands legendary creatures, but of which one? Hint

Autumn Willow

Ihsan's Shade

Chandler

Baron Sengir

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. What card is known as the Bone Crank?

Answer: Icy Manipulator

This moniker stems from the Ice Age version of the card that depicted a strange machine made of bones. The original Alpha and later Mirrodin and 10th edition versions of the card depict various orb-like artifacts.

2. What is the correct casting cost of a Juzam Djinn?

Answer: 2 black and 2 generic mana

Long considered the best aggressive creature in Magic and commanding prices well over 200 dollars, this Arabian Nights card is a 5/5 that does 1 damage to its controller every turn. Today, there are multiple creatures with better stats.

3. How many cards does Ancestral Recall allow you to draw?

Answer: 3

For just one blue mana, you get 3 new cards. Next to the Black Lotus, this is probably the second most powerful card ever printed. It was originally designed to complete the cycle of Healing Salve, Dark Ritual, Lightning Bolt and Giant Growth, but deemed too powerful for a common card and thus moved to rare.

4. How many cards must you be holding to use Library of Alexandria's special ability?

Answer: 7

Library of Alexandria permits you to either tap it for one colorless mana or, if you hold exactly seven cards, to draw an extra card. Since you can use this before or after other card draws and plays, it is usually possible to use the drawing ability every turn in a control deck.

5. How many cards does a Millstone make you place in the graveyard?

Answer: 2

Originally released in Antiquities, this card became the namesake of all cards and strategies that try to win by exhausting the opponent's deck. These strategies were powerful in early Magic, today, they are less so.

6. Okay this is a tough one. What card, out of "The Dark", destroys all goblins in play? (Hint: It is white)

Answer: Tivadar's Crusade

The card is a rather simple sorcery that just destroys all Goblins for two white and one generic mana. It never saw much play but would today probably be an interesting choice against tribal decks when used with one of the cards that let you replace one creature type with another.

7. Which of the following cards, as originally printed, would render Necropotence useless and practically automatically defeat a deck based on it?

Answer: Anvil of Bogardan

As printed, Anvil of Bogardan made players skip their discard phase and thus the Necropotence player would never get to put the cards set aside into his hand. Today, there is no more such thing as a discard phase and Necropotence simply acts at end of turn, so the Anvil would no longer shut it down.

Answer: 0

Gaseous Form prevents the creature from dealing or receiving combat damage. This overrides any other modifiers.

9. What color is a Vesuvan Doppelganger that has copied a Serra Angel?

Answer: Blue

Vesuvan Doppelganger copies all characteristics of the targeted creature except color. It thus retains its original blue color unless it is otherwise affected by a color-changing card such as one of the laces.

10. Prophecy is a white sorcery from the much-maligned Homelands expansion. In the artwork, the pupil of the eye shows a glimpse of one of the Homelands legendary creatures, but of which one?

Answer: Ihsan's Shade

With both cards illustrated by Christopher Rush, the artist had the option of "stealing" from himself and using an excerpt from his own image of the black 5/5 Shade Knight as the prophesied future in the eye.

Source: Author palidine

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