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Small hints were placed through this set and the next towards the clans having a primary color and that the enemy color was least relevant and due to be removed. By shifting the mana costs such that the enemy pairs were sitting next to each other in mana costs, it became a little easier to recognize that each wedge was made up of two enemy-color combinations. It was said that everything worked so naturally, that they felt it was best to leave it be and not force it another way. When the design team built the clans to match the flavor of the dragon attributes and the creative take on the clans, they found that they centered not on the enemy color but one of the ally colors.
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Notice that while the shards of Alara were centered around the color that had both allies, the wedges of Tarkir are not built around the color that has the two enemies. The clans are represented through enemy wedge colors and aspects as follows: Name The clans each worship one aspect of the extinct dragons. The plane was previously inhabited by dragons, all of whom were killed long before Sarkhan's time. Tarkir is also the home plane of Sarkhan Vol. Tarkir is an embattled world of ambitious warlords and powerful clans that wage eternal war for supremacy over their plane in a conflict that spans a thousand years. The expansion symbol depicts crossed swords on a shield, similar to the symbol of Legions.īecause of post-release changes in the block structure in 2015, Khans of Tarkir was only played in Standard for 18 months. It is also the first set since Dragon's Maze to not have any Dragon creature cards. Khans of Tarkir contains 269 cards (20 basic lands, 101 commons, 80 uncommons, 53 rares, 15 mythic rares), and includes randomly inserted premium versions of all cards. The draft structure is the first thing from which Khans of Tarkir set was built. Khans of Tarkir is part of the Khans of Tarkir block, which is Large-Small-Large with a unique draft structure (the small set is drafted with both large sets, but the large sets are never drafted together) and a time traveling element. 1.3.3 Tokens, emblems and overlay cards.