Sursum Deorsum

Sursum Deorsum is a Renaissance-themed Magic The Gathering card set with 306 original cards. Sursum Deorsom is Latin for "Topsy-Turvy", which is an appropriate description for the many colossal, world-altering scientific, religious, and cultural changes that took place in western Europe during the period of the Renaissance.

The Renaissance is a period from the 14th to the 17th century, considered the bridge between the Middle Ages and Modern history. It started as a cultural movement in Italy in the Late Medieval period and later spread to the rest of Europe. Although the invention of metal movable type sped the dissemination of ideas from the later 15th century, the changes of the Renaissance were not uniformly experienced across Europe.

As a cultural movement, it encompassed innovative flowering of Latin and vernacular literatures, beginning with the 14th-century resurgence of learning based on classical sources, which contemporaries credited to Petrarch; the development of linear perspective and other techniques of rendering a more natural reality in painting; and, gradual but widespread educational reform.

In politics, the Renaissance contributed the development of the conventions of diplomacy, and in science an increased reliance on observation. Although the Renaissance saw revolutions in many intellectual pursuits, as well as social and political upheaval, it is perhaps best known for its artistic developments and the contributions of such polymaths as Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, who inspired the term "Renaissance man".

There is a consensus that the Renaissance began in Florence, Italy, in the 14th century. Various theories have been proposed to account for its origins and characteristics, focusing on a variety of factors including the social and civic peculiarities of Florence at the time; its political structure; the patronage of its dominant family, the Medici and the migration of Greek scholars and texts to Italy following the Fall of Constantinople at the hands of the Ottoman Turks. Other major centres were northern Italian city-states such as Venice, Genoa, Bologna, Milan and finally Rome during the Renaissance Papacy.

Sursum Deorsum is an attempt to personify many of the ideas and personalities from this dynamic period and incorporate them into a MTG set.

Multiple new mechanics are introduced:

Inquisition: When a creature with Inquisition deals combat damage to a player, that player puts cards at random from their hand on the bottom of their library in any order.
This mechanic is mostly black.

Bedlam: If a spell or ability with a single target would target a permanent or player with Bedlam, that spell or ability’s controller reselects its target at random. If that permanent or player would be reselected, that permanent or player no longer has Bedlam.
This mechanic is mostly red.

Intransigence: Whenever a creature with Intransigence blocks, put 1/1 tokens of the same color and type into play blocking that creature. They are exiled at end of turn.

Truculence: Whenever a creature with Truculence attacks, put 1/1 tokens of the same color and type into play and attacking. They are exiled at end of turn.

Annunciate: Name an opponent. That opponent must attack target player this turn, if able, with all creatures he or she controls.

Stratus: Creatures with stratus can only be blocked by creatures with stratus, and can only block creatures with flying.

Garrison: Attach target creature you control to this wall. Creatures attached to this wall gain defender, and cannot be dealt combat damage as long as they are garrisoned. Garrison only as a sorcery.

Postulate: To postulate , look at bottom cards of your library. You may put one on the top of your library, and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Bounce:Return target permanent to its owners hands.

Insouciance: Remove counters from target permanent.