World-Bottling Kit

World-Bottling Kit Interpretation

New 01 Feb 2022 Asked by thesea251-blog 19 Comments

how are set symbol watermarks treated for the purposes of World-Bottling Kit?


That just looks at expansion symbols and not watermarks.

Expansion Symbols Trivia

New 20 Oct 2021 Asked by veenilla 46 Comments

My birthday was last week. Can I ask for trivia about expansion symbols?


Expansion symbols are can’t be referenced in black border Magic, as all cards with the same name have to be mechanically identical and we reprint cards. The Un-sets took advantage of this to make cards like Status Symbol and World-Bottling Kit.

Border Changes for Effects

New 08 Jul 2021 Asked by tybonel13 33 Comments

Hey Mark! Are City in a Bottle/Golgothian Sylex/Apocalypse Chime effects still black border, or have they moved to silver border like World-Bottling Kit? If they are black border will we ever see this effect again?


Black border can no longer mechanically reference expansion symbols.

City in a Bottle Query

New 06 Nov 2013 Asked by hargismb 7 Comments

Question for the Un-Rules Manager: as of M14, the old card City in a Bottle received functional errata so that it hits every card originally printed in Arabian Nights regardless of the printing of the card in front of you (so City will still answer a ninth edition Kird Ape). Does World-Bottling Kit work the same way?


Nope. World Bottling Kit looks for the expansion symbol. The change in the black bordered rules is because cards can no longer functionally care about expansion symbol. That’s not a problem in silver-bordered land.

Set-Specific Hoses

New 16 Nov 2012 Asked by vickysaurus 5 Comments

Has a card that hoses a particular set, like Apocalypse Chime or City in a Bottle, ever been considered by R&D since Homelands? (Other than City-Bottling Kit)


Yes, for Un-sets. (Unhinged had World-Bottling Kit.) No for black-bordered sets. Expansion symbols are no longer something cards can track.

Token Expansion Symbols

New 02 Mar 2012 Asked by jokey665 0 Comments

Do tokens have expansion symbols with regards to cards like World-Bottling Kit or Symbol Status? I'd assume they either have the symbol of the token card you're using or of the card that created them if you aren't using a token card, but I have no real way to back that up.


I’ll back it up. For silver bordered purposes (as Silver-Bordered Rules Manager that’s all the power I have), tokens have the expansion symbol of the card that produced them.


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