Les cinq cartes Scars of the Veteran, Force of Will, Contagion, Pyrokinesis et Bounty of the Hunt, de l'édition Alliances, forment un cycle.
Ce sont les premières "pitch cards" de Magic.

Source (#7: Pitch Cards - "[...] Chris noticed that in my puzzles, I most often tapped out the opponent to keep him/her from messing with you during the puzzle. This gave Chris an idea to make a spell that could be cast even when a player was tapped out. These cards would go on to be called the "pitch cards" and showed up in Alliances. The most famous of these cards was Force of Will . [...]")