Magic: The Gathering (Unreleased Sets)

You can always combo him with a partner that benefits from repeated deaths. do we have any of those?

Today's Mothership previews:

Commander Legends Card Image Gallery

Breeches, Brazen Plunderer

Oh, nobody mentioned the new mechanic. That's a fun one.

Encore? Oh, it's certainly an interesting one!

Well, this◊ is absolutely batshit.

Helps about as much as a Lotus Petal when casting Atraxa, Animar, or anything with a number of pips in the mana cost. It does help out Maelstrom Wanderer, and other high CMC commanders, and high cost, mono or dual color commanders.

Plus it's chipping away at the Reserved List, which must be destroyed.

The Legendary Characters of Commander Legends, Part 1

And one more legend was introduced today, Archelos, Lagoon Mystic

The full Commander Legends Card Image Gallery is up!

Boy this is hitting me in the nostalgia feels. Seeing updated versions of older cards always does that.

Especially since I'm old enough to still remember when Magic first came out.

Edited by M84 on Nov 6th 2020 at 5:16:47 PM

Jared Carthalion is looking like he's played by Henry Cavill.

Here's some more lore.

The Legendary Characters of Commander Legends, Part 2

The Mothership is beginning to post Kaldheim teasers.

Welcome to the Face-Melting World of Kaldheim

Kaya and Tibalt will be in the set, as will two new planeswalkers;

• Tyvar Kell, an elf native to Kaldheim. "Tyvar is King Harald's younger brother, and he's lived most of his life in his brother's shadow. However, while a famous brother might inspire jealousy or resentment in some, Harald's example inspires Tyvar to seek glory and fuels an irrational confidence that he can accomplish almost anything he puts his mind to." He has the power to "transmute his own body and the environment around him. He can change natural substances (including himself) into other natural materials, provided that those materials are close by."
• Niko Aris, from Theros. Destined to be a great athlete, they instead wish to become a true hero. They can "conjure shards of mirrorlike magical energy, which they can shape into throwable weapons of various sizes. These can, of course, serve as simple piercing spears or daggers, but they also have another exciting property. Each shard can be imbued with the power to absorb the first living being it touches (other than Niko), containing them in an extradimensional space for a limited time."

Preview season proper will start January 7th.

Edited by Lightblade on Dec 14th 2020 at 6:40:32 AM

Maro has posted his Kaldheim teasers to his Tumblr page.

Also, here's the Kaldheim trailer.

We now have a spoiler for the foretell mechanic, incidentally: you can exile a card with foretell face down from your hand for {2}, then cast it for its foretell cost on a later turn.

It clearly owes a lot to suspend, but with fewer tracking and memory issues.

Well, depending on the quality of Azorius Foretell cards, this makes the Azorius Kaldheim Commander deck incredibly powerful due to how impactful cheating on mana costs is.

Kaldheim previews have started. Here's some links from the Mothership.

• Kaldheim Card Image Gallery
• Kaldheim Mechanics
  • New Mechanics:
    • Foretell: As foretold .
    • Boast: Activated abilities on creatures that can be activated once per turn if the creature with it attacked that turn.
  • Returning Mechanics:
    • Modal Double-Faced Cards: In addition to completing the dual land cycle fromZendikar Rising most other MDFC's will be a God on the front face and an Equipment on the back face.
    • The Snow supertype returns, along with snow-covered basic lands.
    • Sagas are also returning.
    • Changeling is back, too. Creatures with Changeling have all creature types.
  • Kaldheim Product Overview, which also has some preview cards.
  • Collecting Kaldheim: This article was posted earlier, but updated today with new information, including a card of Vorinclex written in Phyrexian script

And finally, the first episode of the Kaldheim story:

Episode 1: Travelers, by Roy Graham, with contributions from Jenna Helland

I did not recognize the monster Kaya and the Omenseekers fought until I read the update to the Collecting Kaldheim article, but once I saw the card spoilered out above, my first thought was "Oooohhh, crap!"

Edited by Lightblade on Jan 7th 2021 at 7:41:51 AM

I saw what you did there, writer.

This is pretty much the worst case scenario. The Phyrexians have figured out how to travel to other planes.

Edited by M84 on Jan 9th 2021 at 4:29:58 AM

Ew, GU legendary serpent. Gimme a neat GU legendary changeling!

Indeed. I don't know if they figured it out themselves or if someone or something else somehow brought Vorinclex to Kaldheim, but whatever the case, it does not bode well for the multiverse.

We also have two new lore articles from the Mothership today.

First, Planeswalker's Guide to Kaldheim, Part 1

And second, a side story;

Know Which Way the Wind is Blowing, by Setsu Uzume. Note: this is part 1 of a two part story to be continued...

Edited by Lightblade on Jan 8th 2021 at 8:32:39 AM

So this set might be powering up my Kenrith Pod edh deck to new heights I never thought possible.

I mean, with the right board I could potentially empty everyone else's hand on turn 2.

Ooh, that's interesting.

I also like the bit where Kaldheimers react to hearing about other planes by conceptualizing them as realms "snapped off" from the World Tree.

It's interesting. The gods of Kaldheim are basically like mini-planeswalkers. It's a multiverse within a multiverse!

Also, the bit about there being more to the plane than we see in the set was a feature that I wish more planes explicitly had. I'd enjoy if we knew for a fact that Theros had other countries that look into the sky and see different gods, or Innistrad had a land of ooky-spooky youkai on the other side of Nephalia's ocean.

Or Kaladesh had anything beyond the one city and its immediate environs, for that matter.

I also appreciate it when planes are at least hinted to contain more than the specific focus area du jour. Ixalan's an excellent example — the pseudo-Mesoamerican landmass is obviously the focus of the plane, but you also get mentions of Torrezon across the seas (and of specific areas within it), of the intervening oceans and of a polar area north of everything, giving a pretty good sense of a wider world even without the cards and the bulk of the story ever leaving Ixalan-the-continent. Ixalan to me is a perfect example of showing a plane as an actual, extensive world without sacrificing narrative and thematic focus.

That being said, I also think that having youkai-themed horror somewhere else in Innistrad might risk stepping on Yamigawa's thematic toes more than a little.

Possibly, but it's highly unlikely that we'll ever have a set go back to Kamigawa, and it has its particular take on animism as its focus. I think that if we have six planes with knights, goblins, trolls, and ogres, we can have at least two with samurai, monks, kitsune, and tengu.

Besides, can you imagine how spooky Innistradi moonfolk would be, if any exist? Especially now'mrakul.

Ixilan is a fantastic example of what I'm thinking of, though, you're right! More of that. I'd also be interested in seeing a what a planeswalker from Torrezon would think of Fiora.

We may not be going back to Kamigawa, but there's a non-zero chance of another Japan-themed block sometime.