"The world . . . is . . . hollow." This is the secret that Chunth, the Tel-Jilad troll elder, entrusts to Glissa Sunseeker before his death at the hands of a traitor. Armed with that knowledge, Glissa fights her way through the great vedalken capital of Lumengrid, down into the Pool of Knowledge. The Synod's sacred chamber contains a lacuna--a tunnel, saturated with blue mana--that leads to Mirrodin's secret interior. There, huge, bizarre towers of funguslike metal called mycosynth reach up toward an immense inner sun of pure mana. As Glissa flees from her vedalken pursuers, she discovers another secret inside this plane. Memnarch is real, and he patiently waits for the elvish champion to find him. In the meantime, he has begun to build a monument to his greatness as an artificer: the Darksteel Eye, a device that will make his omniscience over Mirrodin complete. Product Line: Magic: The Gathering® Release Date: 06 February 2004, Friday Product Type: Trading card game expansion containing 165 black bordered cards Packaging: 15-card booster packs; booster pack displays, each containing 36 booster packs; Solid. See how the power of new Magic: The Gathering® Darksteel™ cards bolster your bottom line. And have your customers coming back for reinforcements. Target Audience Advanced and expert-level Magic players (males, age 12-24) Key Selling Points Darksteel follows the large-set Mirrodin expansion that introduced the “metal world” setting Darksteel introduces formidable new mechanics that will have players believing they’re indestructible Darksteel includes exciting new themes — pulses and echoing Marketing Support Advertising in popular trade and consumer-industry publications and banner ads on various websites Expanded advertising campaign in national Console and PC gaming magazines Prerelease tournaments worldwide In-store merchandising program and preview cards Promotions and support (including product previews) on MagicTheGathering.com