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Fifth Dawn

Unhinged

Champions of Kamigawa

torii gate

Released

October 1, 2004

Size

306 (88 rares, 88 uncommons, 110 commons, 20 lands)

Keywords

Bushido, Soulshift, Splice

Mechanics

Spiritcraft, Flip cards,

Legendary cards, Arcane

Designers

Brian Tinsman (lead), Bill Rose, Mike Elliott, Brady Dommermuth

Dev. code

Earth

Exp. code

CHK

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First set in the Kamigawa block

Champions of Kamigawa

Betrayers of Kamigawa

Saviors of Kamigawa

Champions of Kamigawa (Champions or CoK) is the name of the Magic: The Gathering expansion set released October 1, 2004. The first set of the Kamigawa block, it set the stage for the block's story, which was inspired by Japanese myths and revolves around the battle between spirits (kami) and living beings.

The set's expansion symbol is a torii, the entrance to the Shinto temple. This is especially important, as Kamigawa's original idea was summed up as "Shinto gone horribly wrong": Kami warring against their human worshippers.

Mechanics

Champions of Kamigawa introduced several new mechanics to the game:

Arcane spells - some instant or sorcery spells have the Arcane subtype, which represent spells or abilities used by the kami. It does nothing by itself, but other cards may interact with it (see below).

Splice onto Arcane - spells having this keyword can be "attached" to another Arcane spell for additional mana investment. The "spliced" spell remains in the player's hand able to be reused another time.

Spirits - Due to the nature of Kamigawa, this block contains a large proportion of creatures with the subtype Spirit. These spirits represent the kami themselves, and numerous cards in the block interact with them in special ways to provide synergy.

Soulshift - a keyword that appears on Spirit creatures and allows them to return another Spirit creature from the graveyard to its owner's hand when they perish.

"Spiritcraft" - Many Spirits have abilities which trigger when another Spirit or an Arcane spell is played.

Bushido, or "way of the warrior", increases a creature's power and toughness by the Bushido number when it combats another creature. (This is usually compared to flanking, which weakens (-1/-1) the blockers of the creature.)

Legendary - While not a mechanic in itself, the Kamigawa block contains a disproportionately high number of Legendary cards, Champions alone boasting over 80 Legendary cards.

Flip cards - Certain creatures, nicknamed "heroes", are "flipped" (the card is turned 180 degrees) when particular conditions are met, becoming an entirely different, more powerful, and Legendary creature.

Champions of Kamigawa introduced changes to two common creature types. The Legend creature type was replaced with the Legendary supertype. The Wall creature type was freed from the associated rules that prevented Walls from attacking; Each Wall creature was changed to have the new Defender keyword which prevents them from attacking, allowing for a simpler use of the "wall" type creature across different creature types. For example, this allowed for the Lorwyn changelings, which have all creature types. Under the old rules, changelings would not be able to attack, through sheer result of being walls. Legend and Wall were the last creature types in Magic to have inherent rules associated with them.

External links

Wizards' Official page for Champions of Kamigawa

Visual card list at gatherer.wizards.com

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Gameplay and history

Gameplay

Rules (Keywords)  Tempo  Card advantage  Formats  Deck types  Power Nine

Magic staff

Randy Buehler  Mike Flores  Richard Garfield  Mark Rosewater

Related companies, products, and services

Wizards of the Coast  Magicthegathering.com  Magic Online  Video games  The Sideboard  The Duelist  Scrye

 

Sets

Core editions

Alpha  Beta  Unlimited  Revised  Fourth  Fifth  Sixth  Seventh  Eighth  Ninth  Tenth  2010  2011  2012

Block expansions

Ice Age

Ice Age  Alliances  Coldsnap

Mirage

Mirage  Visions  Weatherlight

Tempest

Tempest  Stronghold  Exodus

Urza

Urza's Saga  Urza's Legacy  Urza's Destiny

Masques

Mercadian Masques  Nemesis  Prophecy

Invasion

Invasion  Planeshift  Apocalypse

Odyssey

Odyssey  Torment  Judgment

Onslaught

Onslaught  Legions  Scourge

Mirrodin

Mirrodin  Darksteel  Fifth Dawn

Kamigawa

Champions of Kamigawa  Betrayers of Kamigawa  Saviors of Kamigawa

Ravnica

Ravnica: City of Guilds  Guildpact  Dissension

Time Spiral

Time Spiral  Planar Chaos  Future Sight

Lorwyn

Shadowmoor

Lorwyn  Morningtide

Shadowmoor  Eventide

Shards of Alara

Shards of Alara  Conflux  Alara Reborn

Zendikar

Zendikar  Worldwake  Rise of the Eldrazi

Lights

Lights  Camera  Action

Shake

Shake  Rattle  Roll

Miscellaneous

Early expansions

Arabian Nights  Antiquities  Legends  The Dark  Fallen Empires  Homelands

Un-

Unglued  Unhinged

Entry level

Portal  Portal Second Age  Portal Three Kingdoms  Starter  Starter 2000

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From the Vault

Dragons  Exiled  Relics

Premium Deck Series

Slivers

Online-Only

Masters Edition  Masters Edition II  Masters Edition III

Other

Preconstructed decks  Chronicles  Renaissance  Anthologies  Battle Royale  Beatdown  Deckmasters  Planechase  Archenemy

 

Art and storyline

Storyline

General plot information  Planeswalker  The Brothers' War  Planeswalker (novel)

Characters, species and planes

Gerrard Capashen  Jodah  Volrath  Yawgmoth  Dominaria  Kamigawa  Mercadia  Phyrexia  Rabiah the Infinite  Rath  Ravnica  Shandalar  Thran

Artists

John Avon  Brom  John Coulthart  Tony DiTerlizzi  Mike Dringenberg  Kaja Foglio  Phil Foglio  Donato Giancola  Rebecca Guay  John Howe  Todd Lockwood  Lubov  Keith Parkinson  Mark Poole  Quinton Hoover  Ron Spencer  Bryan Talbot  Matt Cavotta  Gary Ruddell  Nick Percival  Kev Walker

 

Tournaments and players

Organization

The DCI  Friday Night Magic  Grand Prix  Pro Tour  World Championship  Nationals  Masters  Grand Prix events  Pro Tour events  Hall of Fame

Asian pro players

Osamu Fujita  Tsuyoshi Fujita  Tsuyoshi Ikeda  Itaru Ishida  Katsuhiro Mori  Masahiko Morita  Shuhei Nakamura  Masashi Oiso  Tomoharu Saitou  Kenji Tsumura  Yuuya Watanabe  Shouta Yasooka

European pro players

Dirk Baberowski  Marco Blume  Noah Boeken  Kai Budde  Kamiel Cornelissen  Nicolai Herzog  Tommi Hovi  Anton Jonsson  Frank Karsten  Raphal Lvy  Antti Malin  Gabriel Nassif  Olle Rde  Antoine Ruel  Olivier Ruel  Bram Snepvangers  Jens Thorn  Jelger Wiegersma

North American pro players

Randy Buehler  Alan Comer  Rob Dougherty  Gerard Fabiano  Jon Finkel  Justin Gary  Eugene Harvey  Dave Humpherys  Scott Johns  Mark Justice  Darwin Kastle  Brian Kibler  Osyp Lebedowicz  Mike Long  Bob Maher  Paul McCabe  Zvi Mowshowitz  Steven O'Mahoney-Schwartz  Chris Pikula  Michael Pustilnik  Antonino De Rosa  Ben Rubin  Luis Scott-Vargas   Brian Selden  Alex Shvartsman  Jonathan Sonne  Mike Turian  David Williams  Gary Wise

South American pro players

Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa  Carlos Romo

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