The Nemesis
expansion set for
Magic: The Gathering was released on
February 14, 2000. It was a smaller expansion set, with a total of 143 cards, and was considered part of the
Mercadian Masques block. There were four
preconstructed decks available for this set, and they combined cards from both Nemesis and Mercadian Masques.
Nemesis introduced a new rule into the game - Fading. Cards fading also have a number after their ability, which would read like "Fading 5". When played, a number of counters equal to the fading number is placed on the card. During a player's upkeep, every card with fading will have one of the counters removed. If there are no counters left, the card is sacrificed. Some of the cards with fading have activation costs that use the counters, shortening the lifetime of the card for using it's ability.
All of the new abilities introduced in Mercadian Masques are also continued in this set.
Artifacts
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Land