MAGIC: THE GATHERING® SAVIORS OF KAMIGAWA™ TRADING CARD GAME SET ARRIVES IN STORES JUNE 3, UNLEASHING THE MOST POWERFUL MAGIC® CARDS YET!

MAY 31, 2005 (Renton, Wash.) – The long, dark war is coming to a close and players must vie to be on the winning side in the new MAGIC: The Gathering® SAVIORS OF KAMIGAWA™ trading card game set, releasing this week.  The new set returns players one last time to the exciting, spirit-filled, Japanese inspired world of KAMIGAWA.  Now, players must enlist the aid of the greatest legends of Kamigawa to join the ranks of the war’s victors. To bolster players’ decks, MAGIC: THE GATHERING SAVIORS OF KAMIGAWA brings with it the most powerful MAGIC® cards ever - "Epic" cards. Epic cards are so powerful that once you put them into play their effect continues every turn after you play them.

MAGIC: THE GATHERING SAVIORS OF KAMIGAWA features 165 black-bordered cards in both standard and premium versions.  The set will first be available Friday, June 3, with worldwide tournaments for players on Friday, Saturday and/or Sunday.

In addition to the powerful Epic cards, SAVIORS OF KAMIGAWA offers players many other cool cards and features to expand their existing MAGIC decks or build all-new ones, including:

• Wisdom Cards – The more cards you have in your hand, the stronger Wisdom cards become in game play. There are more than 20 wisdom cards in the SAVIORS OF KAMIGAWA set to play with and collect.

• Kirin Cards – The Kirin’s are a rare cycle of creatures with special powers that activate when you play a spirit or arcane card.

• Ascendants – Ascendants are monks that become legendary enchantments. They are SAVIORS’ cycle of “flip” cards.

• Spirit Decks – SAVIORS OF KAMIGAWA also enables players to do more with Spirit decks including the new ability "Channel", which interacts with "spirit craft" and soul shift.

SAVIORS OF KAMIGAWA brings an exciting close to the KAMIGAWA block.  For hundreds of years on KAMIGAWA, the material world peacefully worshiped the kami (spirits), but something went terribly wrong and the spirits began attacking.  Now the destiny of Kamigawa is in the hands of players!

The MAGIC: THE GATHERING SAVIORS OF KAMIGAWA expansion will be offered in 15-card booster packs (MSRP: $3.69 each), four different, 61-card theme decks (MSRP: $9.99 each), a Fat Pack (MSRP: $24.99) containing six booster packs, the SAVIORS OF KAMIGAWA novel, lifecounter, player’s guide, a random premium card and premium land card, and Deck Box (MSRP $9.99) with 80 tournament-legal, black, textured selves.

SAVIORS OF KAMIGAWA will be available for MAGIC: THE GATHERING ONLINE™ beginning June 27, 2005.

For more information, visit www.magicthegathering.com.

Wizards of the Coast, Inc., a subsidiary of Hasbro, Inc. (NYSE:HAS), is a worldwide leader in the trading card game and tabletop roleplaying game categories, and a leading developer and publisher of game-based entertainment products. The company holds an exclusive patent on trading card games (TCGs) and their method of play and produces the premier trading card game, Magic: The Gathering®, among many other trading card games and family card and board games.  Wizards is also a leading publisher of roleplaying games, such as Dungeons & Dragons®, and publisher of fantasy series fiction with numerous New York Times best-sellers.  For more information, visit the Wizards of the Coast website at wizards.com.       

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