Nemesis was the final booster set to feature premium foil cards with the original, larger version of the foil shooting star, with a new smaller design debuting on several promos including Starter 2000's Rhox, and in boosters with the release of Prophecy four months later. The set featured Rootwater Thief, Mike Long's invitational card. This policy was later dropped with the printing of Ertai, the Corrupted in Planeshift. The card was not named 'Crovax, Ascendant Evincar', in order to avoid confusion over whether the ' legend rule' came into effect when the Evincar and Crovax The Cursed were both in play.

It was the first card to represent the same legendary permanent as a previous card following a major change in the character's storyline. Nemesis is generally considered to be the most powerful set of the Masques block.

The set continued Mercadian Masques's themes of spellshapers, rebels and mercenaries, and cards with alternative casting costs. Nemesis's expansion symbol is the axe of Crovax, the main antagonist of the story’s Rath component. Nemesis featured 143 cards (55 commons, 44 uncommons and 44 rares).

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