new Arena promo lands discovered?

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new Arena promo lands discovered?

Post by Ralph Herold » Tue Apr 18, 2006 10:44 pm

I was presented with the following information per email:

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I'd like to point out that in year 2000, Arena League did have
promotional basic lands. These were handed over upon hitting the
15-point mark, and are almost exact replicas of Mercadian Masques basic
lands, except for the shooting star at the bottom being smaller (As you
know, premium cards from sets Urza's Legacy, Urza's Destiny and
Mercadian Masques featured a large shooting star. Beginning with
Nemesis, the size of the star was decreased - this one was used on the
Arena League basic lands as well)

These cards were:
Forest #349 (illus. by Rob Alexander) for the "Uktabi Orangutan" season
Island #338 (illus. by Tony Szczudlo) for the "Chill" season
Plains #334 (illus. by Edward P. Beard,Jr.) for the "Enlightened Tutor"
season
Swamp #340 (illus. by Rob Alexander) for the "Stupor" season

Unfortunately, I don't know the card of the "Pillage" season, only that
it was a Mountain.
...

The owner of these cards said they were given out in Hungary. He was kind enough to send me scans:

- promo Plains: http://www.magiclibrary.net/temp/arena-plains.jpg
- promo Island: http://www.magiclibrary.net/temp/arena-island.jpg
- promo Swamp: http://www.magiclibrary.net/temp/arena-swamp.jpg
- promo Forest: http://www.magiclibrary.net/temp/arena-forest.jpg
- regular Plains (for comparison): http://www.magiclibrary.net/temp/regular-plains.jpg

I was very surprised to learn about this, especially because to my knowledge, during this time, the Urza's Saga promo lands were reissued. Any further information to shed some light onto this mystery is appreciated.

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Post by squt » Tue Apr 18, 2006 11:17 pm

I have heard of these before - no specifics, just that there were some promo lands for MM where the star was smaller than regular foil lands. I didn't know where they came from, and don't think I have any.

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Post by l0qii » Tue Apr 18, 2006 11:27 pm

These were also released in the US through Arena. I was only ever able to get Plains and Mountains. Unfortunately I only have a sealed pack of 10 Mountains so my scan can't be used for the site.

http://www.apathyhouse.com/random/mountains.jpg

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Arena Promo Lands Mercadian Masques

Post by equi-nox76 » Fri Jan 26, 2007 2:15 pm

Hi Ralph,

is the owner willing to sell them? ;-D

THX
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Post by agzz » Fri Jan 26, 2007 4:57 pm

Chris, I have sealed packs of all but forest. the packs have note been handeld with care so the plastic is rather worn.

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Post by yvel » Sat Jan 27, 2007 11:43 am

In fact the promo Arena Masque of M. foil land are design with smaller foil star than the regular one ?

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Post by Ralph Herold » Sat Jan 27, 2007 1:32 pm

equi-nox76: No, he is not, sorry.

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Post by flametongue » Sat Feb 10, 2007 4:46 pm

I have numorous spare foil arena plains and would be willing to trade them for the Island/swamp/mountain arena lands or potential other things if people are interested?

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