Les cinq cartes Apothecary Initiate, Drowner Initiate, Smolder Initiate, Intimidator Initiate et Nurturer Initiate, de l'édition Shadowmoor, forment un cycle appelé "Initiate".

Source ("During the design of Shadowmoor, I had established it was going to be a "colors matter" set [...] We ended up making two common cycles of creatures. [...] The second was the Initiate cycle.")