Betrayers of Kamigawa

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Betrayers of Kamigawa
shuriken
Released	February 4, 2005
Size	165 (55 rares, 55 uncommons, 55 commons)
Keywords	Ninjutsu, Offerings
Mechanics	Ninja, Ki counters
Designers	Mike Elliott (lead) and Randy Buehler Jr.
Developers	Henry Stern (lead), Randy Buehler Jr., Devin Low, Matt Place, and Paul Sottosanti
Dev. code	Wind
Exp. code	BOK
Second set in the Kamigawa block
Champions of Kamigawa Betrayers of Kamigawa Saviors of Kamigawa

Betrayers of Kamigawa (Betrayers or BoK) is the name of the Magic: The Gathering expansion set which came out in February of 2005, and is the second set in the Kamigawa block. It contains 165 cards. The set's story is inspired by Japanese medieval myths and revolves around the battle between spirits (kami) and living beings. The set's expansion symbol is a shuriken, or ninja throwing star.

Mechanics

Betrayers of Kamigawa introduces two new mechanics to the game.

• Ninjutsu allows a player to put a Ninja creature card from his or her hand into play tapped and attacking by paying a cost and returning an attacking, unblocked creature he or she controls to its owner's hand.
• Offering allows the player to partially pay for a spell by sacrificing a creature of a certain creature type, and lets the spell be played as an instant. This ability is used on five Spirit creatures, the patron spirits of five non-human species in Kamigawa.

Betrayers also features the first non-Wall creatures with defender.

External links

• Wizards' Official page for Betrayers of Kamigawa
• Visual card list at gatherer.wizards.com