About Set Skeletons
A set skeleton is a tool to help you when structuring your set. It helps you keep the number of different types of card balanced across colours and balanced in line with the colour pie. It's particularly useful in early design when you're wanting to make sure you have the right amounts of creatures and other card types in the different colours.
To read more about skeletons, read Mark Rosewater's article "Design Skeletons" .
About Set Skeletons In Multiverse
In Multiverse, set skeletons are a particular type of details page, using tables written in the Markdown Extra table syntax . Multiverse will generate the rows of the table for you. If you let Multiverse generate the whole skeleton, it will give you columns for Code, Slot and Card name. If you add extra columns by editing the title rows, then the Generate tab will create the right number of columns for each new row it generates.
Once you've generated your skeleton, each row will start with a link like "(CW01)". At first, these links will be in parentheses, to indicate that no card yet exists with that code. You can click on links like these to create a card with that code. Once those cards exist, the links will no longer be in parentheses. You can thus easily tell which slots in your skeleton have no card at all corresponding to them, and which have at least some information on a card (even if that card is not ready or not even complete).
Show examples:
Zendikar
Worldwake
Shards of Alara
Scars of Mirrodin
Maro Sample Set
Zendikar
commons
uncommons
rares
mythics
total
White, blue, black, red and green
18
10
7-9
2-3
38-39
Artifacts
6
5
2
2
15
Lands
5
5
10
0
20
Total:
101
60
53
15
229
Worldwake
commons
uncommons
rares
mythics
total
White, blue, black, red and green
10
7
5-6
1-2
23-24
Multicolour
0
0
0
2
2
Artifacts
4
3
4
0
11
Lands
6
2
5
1
14
Total:
60
40
35
10
145
Shards of Alara
commons
uncommons
rares
mythics
total
White, blue, black, red and green
15
7
8
0-1
30-31
Multicolour
15
20
10
12
57
Artifacts
6
0
3
1
10
Lands
5
5
0
0
10
Total:
111
60
52
13
229
Scars of Mirrodin
commons
uncommons
rares
mythics
total
White, blue, black, red and green
13
7
5-6
1-2
26-27
Multicolour
0
0
0
1
1
Artifacts
35
25
21
7
88
Lands
1
0
5
0
6
Total:
101
60
53
15
229
Mark Rosewater Sample Set
commons
uncommons
rares
mythics
total
White, blue, black, red and green
19
13
7-9
0-1
39
Multicolour
0
10
10
5
25
Artifacts
6
5
2
2
15
Lands
5
0
5
0
10
Total:
101
80
53
15
279
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Show rarities:
C
U
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Code
Slot
Notes
: ≈40% (4) Creatures
CC01 Grayfolk Elder
Creature
UC01 Searching Sprite
Creature
UC02 Encroaching Sands
UC03 Twist of Fate
RC01 Master of the Broken Maze
Creature
RC02 Sandwave Serpent
Creature
RC03 Banish the Ephemeral
RC04 Unending Erosion
MC01 Urau, the Drainèd Heart
: ≈60% Creatures; 5 cards/theme, 3 leftover
CW01 Dehydrated Wanderer
Creature, archetype
CW02 Sunwall Priest
Creature, archetype
CW03 Undying Loyalist
Creature, archetype
CW04 Austere Meditant
Creature, archetype
CW05 Basking Gatefrill
Creature, archetype
CW06 Tanaran Sky Herald
Creature, archetype
CW07 Steel Abbey Guard
Creature, archetype
CW08 Caravan Survivalist
Creature, archetype
CW09 Expert Packer
Creature, archetype
CW10 Degradation Elemental
Creature, archetype
CW11 Lumbering Warden
Creature, archetype
CW12 Cactid Adjutant
Creature
CW13 Warden of the Eastern Verge
Creature
CW14 Graceful Reprieve*
Noncreature, archetype
CW15 Kiran Elsecalling
Noncreature, archetype
CW16 Moment of Actualization
Noncreature, archetype
CW17 Adjutant's Guidance
Noncreature, archetype
CW18 Warrant
Noncreature, archetype
CW19 Practiced Blow
Noncreature, archetype
CW20 Apprentice Graviturge
Creature, Flying, " " theme
"Blue feel"
CW21 Wending Winds
Noncreature, " " archetype
"Blue feel"
CW22 Hypervigilance
Noncreature, " " archetype
"Blue feel"
CW23 Veto
Noncreature
"Blue feel"
UW01 Kiran Savior
Creature, archetype
UW02 Withered One
Creature, archetype
UW03 Watchful Topiary
Creature, archetype
UW04 Honored Visitor
Creature, archetype
UW05 Skillful Instructor
Creature, archetype
UW06 Mistwalker Meditant
Creature, archetype
UW07 Caravan Wisewoman
Creature, archetype
UW08 Mirage Weaver
Creature, archetype
UW09 Sunwall Invigorator
Creature, archetype
UW10 Time of Sands
Noncreature, archetype
UW11 Inner Peace
Noncreature, archetype
UW12 Sojourn Unto Dust
Noncreature, archetype
UW13 Injunction
Noncreature, archetype
UW14 Practiced Graviturge
Creature, archetype
"Blue feel"
UW15 Ashanaël's Decree
Noncreature, archetype
"Blue feel"
UW16 Polycular Bonds
Noncreature, archetype
"Blue feel"
RW01 Sentinel of Ayuros
Creature
RW02 Aspiring Squire
Creature
(RW03)
Creature
(RW04)
Creature
(RW05)
Creature
RW06 Celestial Imbalance
RW07 Lay Waste
RW08 Ydrian Realm-Cutter
Creature
"Blue feel"
(RW09)
"Blue feel"
MW01 Ashanaël, the Grandmaster
(MW02)
(MW03)
MU01 Tamiyo the Interloper
Planeswalker
Tamiyo
: ≈50% Creatures
CB01 Desperate Remembrancer
Creature, archetype
CB02 Binder of the Dead
Creature, archetype
CB03 Malnourished Stray
Creature, archetype
CB04 Greyfolk Consul
Creature, archetype
CB05 Dæmonic Figment
Creature, archetype
CB06 Plague Artisan
Creature, archetype
CB07 Plague Walker
Creature, archetype
CB08 Faceless Warden
Creature, archetype
CB09 Displaced Tikoloshe
Creature
CB10 Nomad's Hardships
Noncreature, archetype
CB11 Necropolitics
Noncreature, archetype
CB12 Mind Lash
Noncreature, archetype
CB13 Fracturing Resolve
Noncreature, archetype
CB14 Unsettled Dreams
Noncreature, archetype
CB15 The Thirst
Noncreature, archetype
CB16 The Reeks
Noncreature, archetype
CB17 The Queries
Noncreature, archetype
CB18 Social Pressure
Noncreature, archetype
CB19 Archon's Sickle
Noncreature
CB20 Faceless Attendant
Creature, archetype
"Blue feel"
CB21 Faceless Company
Creature, archetype
"Blue feel"
CB22 Triumph of the Faultless
Noncreature, archetype
"Blue feel"
CB23 Withering Bane
Noncreature
"Blue feel"
UB01 Kiran Enforcer
Creature, archetype
UB02 Permeable Partition
Creature, archetype
UB03 Knight of the New Moon
Creature, archetype
UB04 Palefire Champion
Creature, archetype
UB05 Infected Researcher
Creature, archetype
UB06 Plague Witch
Creature, archetype
UB07 Driver of the Faceless
Creature, archetype
UB08 Kiran Education
Noncreature, archetype
UB09 Usurp
Noncreature, archetype
UB10 Threat of Violence
Noncreature, archetype
UB11 Sorcerous Pestilence
Noncreature, archetype
UB12 The Turns
Noncreature, archetype
UB13 Acrimony
Noncreature, archetype
UB14 Noble Retinue
Creature
"Blue feel"
UB15 Norezon's Decree
"Blue feel"
UB16 Knowledge of the Deep
"Blue feel"
RB01 Torus & Ion, Despairing Monarchs
Creature
RB02 Sire of the Fold
Creature
(RB03)
Creature
(RB04)
Creature
(RB05)
Creature
RB06 Exonerate
(RB07)
(RB08)
"Blue feel"
(RB09)
"Blue feel"
(MB01)
(MB02)
(MB03)
: ≈50% Creatures
CR01 Vhathi Whittler
Creature, archetype
CR02 Rattling Viashino
Creature, archetype
CR03 Vhathi War-Pair
Creature, archetype
CR04 Raid
Creature, archetype
CR05 Screeching Recruiter
Creature, archetype
CR06 Panicked Gnarlid
Creature, archetype
CR07 Sand Beetle
Creature, archetype
CR08 Scorchwood Anchor
Creature, archetype
CR09 Vicious Dunescythe
Creature, archetype
CR10 Shrouded Interloper
Creature, archetype
CR11 Granular Consciousness
Creature, archetype
CR12 Volley
Noncreature, archetype
CR13 Furor
Noncreature, archetype
CR14 One with the Storm
Noncreature, archetype
CR15 Blasting Sands
Noncreature, archetype
CR16 Deluge of Sand
Noncreature, archetype
CR17 Desert's Claim
Noncreature, archetype
CR18 Fleeting Choice
Noncreature
CR19 Sandstorm
Noncreature
CR20 Rift Drake
Creature, archetype
"Blue feel"
CR21 Cooking the Books
Noncreature, archetype
"Blue feel"
CR22 Resonant Skeins
Noncreature, archetype
"Blue feel"
CR23 Twisted Mirage
Noncreature
"Blue feel"
UR01 Scrounging Moloch
Creature
archetype
UR02 Rabid Fox
Creature
archetype
UR03 Vhathi Hunt-Leader
Creature
archetype
UR04 Effulgent Master
Creature
archetype
UR05 Burrowing Sand Shark
Creature
archetype
UR06 Animated Dune
Creature
archetype
UR07 Rebellious Cactid
Creature
archetype
UR08 Triangle Strategy
UR09 Plagiarize
UR10 Firebird Storm
UR11 Bonefire
UR12 Eternity Canvas
UR13 Yvressa's Wheel
UR14 Psilomancer
Creature
"Blue feel"
UR15 Spice of Life
"Blue feel"
UR16 Ta Hšûn's Decree
"Blue feel"
RR01 Adamant, the Diamond Light
Creature
RR02 Thousand-Hand Asura
Creature
(RR03)
Creature
(RR04)
Creature
RR05 Pyretic Imbalance
(RR06)
(RR07)
RR08 Fleeting Mirage
Creature
"Blue feel"
RR09 Dissolving Eremad
"Blue feel"
MR01 Ta Hšûn, Mind Ablaze
(MR02)
(MR03)
: ≈60% Creatures
CG01 Sage of the Forgotten
Creature, archetype
CG02 Barchan Herder
Creature, archetype
CG03 Roaming Haboob
Creature, archetype
CG04 Epidemiologist
Creature, archetype
CG05 Scorchwood Bramble
Creature, archetype
CG06 Burgeoning Gnarlid
Creature, archetype
CG07 Gloriated Cactid
Creature, archetype
CG08 Centaur Arcbow
Creature, archetype
CG09 Foliated Meditant
Creature, archetype
CG10 Stirring Inciter
Creature
CG11 Scorchwood Adjutant
Creature
CG12 Pursuit
Noncreature, archetype
CG13 Desert's Favor
Noncreature, archetype
CG14 The Border Shifts
Noncreature, archetype
CG15 The Cranks
Noncreature, archetype
CG16 The Withers
Noncreature, archetype
CG17 Orendic Coronet
Noncreature, archetype
CG18 Suncrest's Sanctuary
Noncreature, archetype
CG19 Archon's Arrow
Noncreature
CG20 Elvish Storykeeper
Creature, Archetype
"Blue feel"
CG21 Border Warden
Creature, archetype
"Blue feel"
CG22 Sowing of Memories
Noncreature, archetype
"Blue feel"
CG23 Archivist's Longing
Noncreature, archetype
"Blue feel"
UG01 Energetic Sapling
Creature, archetype
UG02 Patient Shepherd
Creature, archetype
UG03 Sandwalker
Creature, archetype
UG04 Forgiving Savior
Creature, archetype
UG05 Waning Archon
Creature, archetype
UG06 Imperious Claimant
Creature, archetype
UG07 Watchful Nymph
Creature, archetype
UG08 Awakening Gasp
Noncreature, archetype
UG09 Roiling Rotgut
Noncreature, archetype
UG10 Enervon's Syndrome
Noncreature, archetype
UG11 To Our Relief
Noncreature, archetype
UG12 Unrelenting Gale
Noncreature, archetype
UG13 Time of Tilling
UG14 Walker of the Circle
Creature
"Blue feel"
UG15 Dreaming Silicant
Creature
"Blue feel"
UG16 Teneph's Decree
"Blue feel"
RG01 Esherai, Whose Roots Run Deep
Creature
(RG02)
Creature
(RG03)
Creature
(RG04)
Creature
(RG05)
Creature
(RG06)
(RG07)
RG08 Watcher on the Boughs
Creature
"Blue feel"
(RG09)
"Blue feel"
MG01 Amanäa, Fungal Priestess
(MG02)
(MG03)
Hybrid
UZ01 Kiran Matron
Creature
UZ02 Blood on the Sands
Noncreature
UZ03 Blossoming Cactid
Creature
UZ04 Suncrest Tranquility
Noncreature
UZ05 Sandset Wanderer
Creature
UZ06 Haruspicy
Noncreature
RZ01 Norezon, Master of Body
Legend
RZ02 Hasihi, Sickle-Seer
Legend
RZ03 Akyreondesh Effulgent
Legend
RZ04 Teneph, Master of Soul
Legend
RZ05 Yvressa, Vhathi Expatriot
Legend
RZ06 Nana Bibi, Mother of Plagues
Legend
: ≈40% Creatures
CA01 Childhood Toy
Creature
CA02 Calcified Caracara
Creature
CA03 Meditant's Bells
Manalith variant
CA04 Fabricator's Lance
Equipment
UA01 Ancient Monowheel
Creature
UA02 Artificial Contagion
Creature
UA03 Sandstorm Shroud
RA01 Archival Librarian
Creature
RA02 Archlight Stone
MA01 Particulate Font
CL01 Empty Oasis
CL02 Golden Sands
CL03 Siltriddled Marsh
CL04 Windcarved Butte
CL05 Tumbleweed Garden
UL01 Darksand Expanse
Dual
UL02 Crimson Loess
Dual
UL03 Scorchwood Rise
Dual
UL04 Cactus Grove
Dual
UL05 Nomad's Path
RL01 Crystalline Field
Dual OR anyland
RL02 Crystalline Moor
Dual OR anyland
RL03 Crystalline Crag
Dual OR anyland
RL04 Crystalline Grove
Dual OR anyland
RL05 Seed of Encroachment
Animating Desert