Magic has come a long way.

When I first started playing Magic: The Gathering, a collectible card game, I was in 8th grade. Not to date myself here, but the game came out in 1993. I started playing about a year after it was released. I played for maybe a few years before shelving my collection. During the time that I played, the design of the cards changed very little. For example, when I began, they looked like this:

Many sets later, they looked like this:

The art got a little better, but the design format remained largely the same. It has been only recently that I picked the game back up again, leaving an 8 year gap unexplored. So how much has changed? Not a lot. The game still plays the same. The words are largely still in the same spot, but the cards have changed a little... oh, and the art has gotten a lot better: