For more veteran players, or for players who are hosting a night of Magic games, the booster boxes offer a chance to pick up packs of sets that you can open en masse to increase your odds of getting some of the rarer sets or just throw your own booster draft tournaments
Magic: The Gathering's most recent set, Innistrad: Crimson Vow, returns to the iconic plane of gothic horror and shines the spotlight on a wedding between the vampires Olivia Voldaren and Edgar Markov
Desecration Demon and Shakedown Heavy are other examples
This co-op box-set game mode is popular with fans as a fun way of using your own cards with friends instead of against them
While colloquially, Alt/Alternate Art is widely understood as a descript for these types of cards, it can be confused by the official use of Alternate Art which is used for a card that has been reprinted with different art, often used as a Promo (Previously given the symbol as a distinction) Alakazam ex | Alakazam ex Alternate Art Promo alt art858599 91.7 KB Because there was no official rarity yet, the AA or SA would be added as a suffix at the end of the existing rarity when describing a card if applicable