Research // Development
Dissension 155 • rare
- Set
- Dissension
- Collector number
- 155
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana cost
- green mana blue mana // 3 generic mana blue mana red mana
- Type
- Instant
- Colors
- Green · Red · Blue
- Artist
- Greg Staples
- Market price
- $0.42
What it does
Shuffle up to four cards you own from outside the game into your library.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Research // Development was released in May 2006 as part of the Dissension set, the final expansion in the Ravnica block for Magic: The Gathering. This set concluded the narrative arc centered on the ten guilds of the plane of Ravnica, with this card representing the Izzet League, a guild defined by its chaotic pursuit of intellectual advancement and destructive scientific experimentation.
The card features artwork by Greg Staples, who utilized a distinctively painterly and atmospheric style to capture the Izzet ethos of volatile creativity. By employing a split-card design—a mechanic allowing players to choose between two disparate effects on a single card—the design team aimed to mechanically mirror the dual nature of the guild's methodology, where scholarly research eventually gives way to explosive, large-scale development.
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