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==Design== The original mox (and {{card|Black Lotus||LEA}}) allowed players to quickly break the parity of the early game by generating more mana that the one-land-per-turn limit would normally allow. This caused significant balance issues as players with multiple mox in their opening hand were at an advantage over players with fewer or none. These issues ultimately caused the mox to be restricted in the first restricted list released by the [[DCI]] in [[1994]].<ref>{{WebRef|url=https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/leader-banned-2003-02-17|title=The Leader of the Banned|author=[[Michael G. Ryan]]|publisher=[[magicthegathering.com]]|date=February 17, 2003|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20220123040725/https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/leader-banned-2003-02-17|archivedate=December 5, 2022}}</ref> [[R&D]] has identified the core components of a mox design as:<ref name="DOM Stories 3"/> *It must be an artifact; *It must produce a colored mana; and *It must cost {{0}}. These elements alone inevitably end up causing new card designs to be too powerful for a format, so some sort of drawback is required to balance them out.<ref name="GVMox"/> The requirements only allow for a small window of design space to make cards that are acceptable to players before the drawback renders the card unplayable in most situations. Because of this, new mox designs are rare.
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