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Sometimes a card type just doesn't work in Magic: The Gathering.  The game's cycle of lace cards were among of them.

Magic: The Gathering almost had a mechanic where you were allowed to bring in very old cards to play in newer matches. And everything was nearly broken.

Time Spiral had an odd new mechanic that almost made it past playtesting.

Magic Untapped takes a look back at Time Spiral, a set that's focused largely on celebrating Magic: The Gathering's past.

In the early days of Magic: The Gathering, there was a curious running gag that kept popping in each year before finally becoming a reality years later.

One mechanic in Magic history was so broken that Wizards of the Coast named an entire scale of game mechanics after it.