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Welcome and thanks for checking out my fan expansion, Fires of Heaven. This 315 card Expert expansion to Magic fits perfectly within today's environment, and can easily adapt to the changing landscape of such a CCG with a high but balanced power level.

UPDATED: The Cards page now features designer notes and designer picks for each and every section. This includes the "View All Cards" as well as the "Green Cards" link, etc.

Feel free to look around, read the story woven in these new cards, and hopefully you'll get as much enjoyment in playing with it as I did in the months it took to design it.

What's Changed in Version 1.5

In a nutshell: A huge amount of cards. For those wanting more, here are the official Release Notes for Fires of Heaven 1.5:

==FIRES OF HEAVEN 1.5 RELEASE NOTES 8-11-05==

Training has been reworded. Official Rules Text is now "All combat damage dealt to this creature from each source is reduced by 1."

White and Blue have been beefed up significantly. They featured almost nothing but small creatures in previous releases.

Brosan - Mountains trigger haste, not Swamps

Divine Protection - Now 3W

Gen'dai Conquerer - Now Training 1, Vigilance themed, renamed Dulan

Gen'dai Djinn - Doesn't come into play tapped

Haunting Echo - Now "Haunting Visage", Also 2W

Hayzan - Changed for Vigilance theme.

Marzan Council - Fixed wording

Misstep - Exclusion

Blind Sight - Now just U

Cognitive Intuition - Now 3U

Joondai Dragon - Now 3/3

Tressan Mindmeld - Renamed Brightmind, now 1U (I -know- its Brainstorm, thanks)

Dire Decisions - Fixed flavor. Wording should be fine (but if it isn't let's hear it!)

Durak's Order- Now just B. Could be too strong.

False Move - Fixed wording.

Unmarked Grave - Redesigned, much stronger! A creature-based persecute.

Dragon's Flame - Recosted, improved.

Dwarven Zealot - Now 2R

Nagrock Beserker - Loses 'Sac at end of turn' -- Possibly too strong.

Nagrock Dragon - Removed useless "once per turn" wording

Scorn of Dragon's Eye - Now 3R.

Tortured Existence - Just 2RR and doesn't deal damage to you.

Battle Grounds - Now gives +1/+0 as well.

Blessed Destruction - Now just RW

Kerra - Legendary

Fa'an, Joondai Council - Legendary (as he always supposed to have been)

Forbidden Shrine - Fixed wording (to mesh with Meddling Mage)

Gen'dai Armory - Fixed wording (to account for counters)

Shifting Sea - Removed unneeded drawback

Helm of Resistance - Now Rare, Fixed wording

Thoughtstone - Moved to Uncommon

Marzan Herald - Now 3W, changed to 1/4 for beefiness reasons

Sapphire Knight should -not- be common. Now uncommon.

Martyr's Anger and Forgiveness now linked (both now Blink too)

Secret Pulse is all new.

Overwhelming Darkness fills the black common slot creature destruction.

A ton of wording fixes and more!

Special Thanks to all of the players, forum readers and replies, and emails that I've received. It's been a blast producing this set.

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Also, every card is now 9th Edition Rules Compliant! That means that Aura's are in there and "can block as flying" is now the standard nomenclature for the "spider-like" creatures in this set.

Lastly, I want your feedback! The Magic community is never one to stay quiet, and I don't expect it to regarding this set. Got an awesome deck, got a design question, got an opinion regarding power level or a certain card (ie, this card is broken!)? Let me know about it!

Thanks,

- Evan Erwin
evan@misterorange.com

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