This would be rectified in Portal Second Age. As it turned out, most people learning Portal were taught by experienced Magic players, and when those players used standard rules and terms rather than the Portal ones, the differences caused confusion. They expected some players to stick with Portal but most to learn with it and the move on to standard Magic.
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WotC launched a major advertising campaign, including commercials on MTV and popular TV shows, to introduce Magic to a major audience. The Official Guide to Portal explained the rules, featured an overview of the set with reproductions of all the cards, and hints on successful strategies for play and deck construction.Ĭardboard folding binoculars given out during Portal promotions. Portal Demogame boosters were also offered in the Guru program. Out of the 24 Portal cards they contain, 6 cards feature additional rules text and are therefore slightly different from their counterparts found in booster packs.
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Portal Demogame boosters were given away as a free product to advertise Magic. There are 5 strategies described in all, one for each of the five friendly color pairs, with two different versions each: Portal boosters feature artwork from Archangel, Merfolk of the Pearl Trident, Elvish Ranger and Spined Wurm.Įach Portal booster included one of ten different strategy cards with deck-building tips. 7 of the Portal cards included in the Starter Set feature additional rules text and are therefore different from their booster pack counterparts. Portal was sold in boosters (1 rare, 3 uncommon, 2 basic lands, and 9 common cards), as well as the Portal 2 Player Starter Set. Portal was advertised as a beginners version of the game. Portal was not a legal set for official tournament play in any organized format until October 20, 2005, when it and other starter-level sets were made sanctioned for Legacy and Vintage formats.
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As a joke, they named it "Harvey", after the invisible rabbit in the famous play and movie at the time, just like the fictional Harvey, Portal was big, invisible, and no one knew what it was. In the beginning, many on the design team were confused about the expectations behind the Portal concept. Furthermore, rules text was in bold type to distinguish it from flavor text, and a thick line was drawn between rules text and flavor text to reinforce the distinction. To facilitate interpreting cards, the established layout was changed such that the power/toughness parameters printed on creature cards were accompanied by sword and shield symbols to more readily clarify the meaning of these numbers. Cards featuring these terms also received errata but are otherwise functionally the same.
Although these new terms were intended to simplify learning Magic, particularly as a stepping stone for more complex sets, they were a source of distress for players when they moved up to using advanced-level and/or expert-level cards, which did not use this simpler terminology.
These terms included "intercepting" for blocking, "deck" for library, "discard pile" for graveyard, "offense" for power, and "defense" for toughness. Portal also featured different terminology from that established in previous sets. Creature cards printed in Portal featured no creature types, and their type line read "Summon Creature". Some sorceries could be played outside the normal timing rules for sorceries, and these cards received errata as appropriate. To simplify game play, Portal featured no instants, enchantments, or artifacts and, subsequently, had a simpler set of rules. In an effort to facilitate learning Magic, Portal was markedly aesthetically and mechanically different from previous non-starter-level sets. Portal contains 215 black-bordered cards (55 rare, 55 uncommon, 85 common, and 20 lands).
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