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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Code
Slot
Notes
(CW01)
creature
small
(CW02)
creature
small
(CW03)
creature
small, unity
(CW04)
creature
small, first strike
(CW05)
creature
small, vigilance, color condition
(CW06)
creature
small, lifelink, dies gain life
(CW07)
creature
small, flying
(CW08)
creature
medium
(CW09)
creature
medium, flying, unity
(CW10)
creature
medium, tap, untap
(CW11)
creature
medium, lifegain
(CW12)
instant
damage prevention
(CW13)
instant
team pump, conspire
(CW14)
instant
enchantment removal
(CW15)
instant
bottom of library
(CW16)
sorcery
token-making, flying
(CW17)
sorcery
life gain
(CW18)
enchantment
aura, creature removal
(CW19)
enchantment
aura, first strike, color condition
(UW01)
(UW02)
(UW03)
(UW04)
(UW05)
(UW06)
(UW07)
(UW08)
(UW09)
(UW10)
(UW11)
(RW01)
(RW02)
(RW03)
(RW04)
(RW05)
(RW06)
(RW07)
(RW08)
(RW09)
(MW01)
(MW02)
(CU01)
creature
small
(CU02)
creature
small, flying
(CU03)
creature
small, unity
(CU04)
creature
small, flying, flash
(CU05)
creature
small, hexproof
(CU06)
creature
small, mill, untap
(CU07)
creature
medium, unity
(CU08)
creature
medium
(CU09)
creature
large, islandwalk
(CU10)
instant
counterspell, hard
(CU11)
instant
card draw
(CU12)
instant
tap/untap
(CU13)
instant
mill, conspire
(CU14)
instant
creature shrink
(CU15)
instant
counterspell, soft
(CU16)
sorcery
card draw
(CU17)
sorcery
card sift
(CU18)
sorcery
creature bounce
(CU19)
enchantment
aura, flying
(UU01)
(UU02)
(UU03)
(UU04)
(UU05)
(UU06)
(UU07)
(UU08)
(UU09)
(UU10)
(UU11)
(RU01)
(RU02)
(RU03)
(RU04)
(RU05)
(RU06)
(RU07)
(RU08)
(RU09)
(MU01)
(MU02)
(CB01)
creature
small
(CB02)
creature
small, flying
(CB03)
creature
small, unity
(CB04)
creature
small, deathtouch
(CB05)
creature
small, exile graveyard, untap
(CB06)
creature
medium
(CB07)
creature
medium, intimidate
(CB08)
creature
medium, sac -1/-1
(CB09)
creature
medium, discard effect
(CB10)
creature
medium, ETB raise dead
(CB11)
instant
creature destruction
(CB12)
instant
life drain
(CB13)
instant
gain intimidate, invoke
(CB14)
sorcery
discard
(CB15)
sorcery
graveyard retrieval, conspire
(CB16)
sorcery
draw for life
(CB17)
sorcery
life loss
(CB18)
enchantment
aura, -X/-X
(CB19)
enchantment
aura, intimidate
(UB01)
(UB02)
(UB03)
(UB04)
(UB05)
(UB06)
(UB07)
(UB08)
(UB09)
(UB10)
(UB11)
(RB01)
(RB02)
(RB03)
(RB04)
(RB05)
(RB06)
(RB07)
(RB08)
(RB09)
(MB01)
(MB02)
(CR01)
creature
small
(CR02)
creature
small, haste
(CR03)
creature
small, unity
(CR04)
creature
small, +1/+0, untap
(CR05)
creature
medium
(CR06)
creature
medium, first strike
(CR07)
creature
medium, trample
(CR08)
creature
medium, intimidate
(CR09)
creature
large, destroy artifact
(CR10)
instant
direct damage, conspire
(CR11)
instant
power boost, first strike
(CR12)
instant
artifact removal
(CR13)
instant
panic
(CR14)
instant
power boost
(CR15)
sorcery
mult. creature damage
(CR16)
sorcery
mana fix
(CR17)
sorcery
land destruction, invoke
(CR18)
sorcery
card gamble
(CR19)
enchantment
aura, haste
(UR01)
(UR02)
(UR03)
(UR04)
(UR05)
(UR06)
(UR07)
(UR08)
(UR09)
(UR10)
(UR11)
(RR01)
(RR02)
(RR03)
(RR04)
(RR05)
(RR06)
(RR07)
(RR08)
(RR09)
(MR01)
(MR02)
(CG01)
creature
small
(CG02)
creature
small, unity
(CG03)
creature
small, deathtouch
(CG04)
creature
small, rootwalla
(CG05)
creature
medium
(CG06)
creature
medium, regenerate
(CG07)
creature
medium, flying damage, untap
(CG08)
creature
large, unity
(CG09)
creature
large, trample
(CG10)
instant
boost, reach, conspire
(CG11)
instant
prevent combat
(CG12)
instant
artifact removal
(CG13)
instant
forest boost
(CG14)
sorcery
flying destruction
(CG15)
sorcery
life gain
(CG16)
sorcery
land search, invoke
(CG17)
sorcery
creature fight
(CG18)
enchantment
aura, mana boost
(CG19)
enchantment
aura, trample
(UG01)
(UG02)
(UG03)
(UG04)
(UG05)
(UG06)
(UG07)
(UG08)
(UG09)
(UG10)
(UG11)
(RG01)
(RG02)
(RG03)
(RG04)
(RG05)
(RG06)
(RG07)
(RG08)
(RG09)
(MG01)
(MG02)
(CA01)
produces W
(CA02)
produces U
(CA03)
produces B
(CA04)
produces R
(CA05)
produces G
(CA06)
creature
(UA01)
W effect
(UA02)
U effect
(UA03)
B effect
(UA04)
R effect
(UA05)
G effect
(RA01)
large equip
(RA02)
mill
(RA03)
champion
(CL01)
terra-expanse
(UL01)
W tap effect
(UL02)
U tap effect
(UL03)
B tap effect
(UL04)
R tap effect
(UL05)
G tap effect
(ML01)
legendary
very flavorful