Serendib Efreet

Card Confusion

A bit of a weird question for you: Did the revised printing of Serendib Efreet cause much confusion among players? I know it's before your time at WotC, and I'm not asking for anecdotal "data" as I was playing at the time. Maybe this before WotC started gathering data of this type?

Yes, it caused a lot of confusion.

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Serendib Efreet Mix-up

This one is a huge throwback. Do you have any idea why the reprint of Serendib Efreet in Revised Edition got botched so thoroughly? Was Ifh-Biff Efreet intended to be the reprint, but things got switched around at the last moment? I'm asking because a Revised Serendib was in my very first Starter Deck, and it confused me no end :)

It was supposed to be Serendib Efreet. It was just early days where there were less systems to catch mistakes.

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Showcase Frames and Misprints

Hi Mark. Regarding the existence of showcase frames prior to Planar Chaos/Future Sight, I remember the Revised version of Serendib Efreet had a pretty cool color-shift frame ;)

: )For those that don’t know their misprint history. Serendib Efreet was a blue card that accidentally got printed with a green frame and art from a green card.

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Serendib Efreet's Nature

Serendib Efreet is a break, right? That card is mechanically black.

That is a break, yes.

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Misprint Nostalgia Rejection

I'm a little disappointed that Serendib Efreet's card frame is blue. Obviously it should have been green.

Misprint nostalgia wasn’t what we were going for. : )

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Misprinted Card Color

If I have R&D's Secret Lair in play, is a misprinted Serendib Efreet green?

No. A card’s color is dictated by its mana cost not its frame color.

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Old-Timer Creature Joke

What did you think of the card Serendib Efreet? Too strong for standard? Not blue enough?

Too green. : ) WARNING: Old-timer joke.

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Serendib Efreet Designer

Who designed Serendib Efreet?

As Richard Garfield single-handedly designed Arabian Nights, I would have to say Richard.

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