October 12, 2007 - 301 Cards

Lorwyn is set in a more traditional fantasy world, inspired by Welsh folklore.The landscape is a pastoral world inhabited by several major races: boggarts (goblins), faeries, elves, giants, treefolk, merfolk, elementals (including the flamekin) and kithkin (First appearing as Amrou Kithkin).

Lorwyn saw the release of an entirely new card type, the Planeswalker. The set has a tribal theme, focusing heavily on creature subtypes, revolving around eight primary creature types. Each of these appear in two or more colors, with one as the primary color.

Another significant creature type is the shapeshifter type, all of which have the ability "changeling." Creatures with changeling have all creature types. This plays into the tribal mechanics which grant bonuses to creatures of certain types. Though these changelings counts as humans for the purposes of the rules, no humans are found in the world of Lorwyn, or are printed on any of the cards.

This marks yet another fundamental change of the game, as this will be the first set to have no humans since their introduction as a creature subtype (in Mirrodin). (Although humans had been in all sets since the beginning of the game, they did not have their own subtype until Mirrodin, instead only having subtypes based on their classes.) However, several of the planeswalkers, although they have no creature type, are physically humans.

The Lorwyn block features a new mechanic known as clash. Clash involves two players revealing the top cards of the libraries. The person who reveals the card with the highest mana cost, wins the clash, and gets a bonus played.