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Magic: The Gathering |OT| Throne of Eldraine - Will and Rowan's Excellent Adventure
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Rowan and Will officially spoilered (there was a leak last week):
The Royal Scions 1UR
Legendary Planeswalker - Will Rowan
[+1]: Draw a card, then discard a card.
[+1]: Target creature gets +2/+0 and gains first strike and trample until end of turn.
[-8]: Draw four cards. When you do, The Royal Scions deals damage to any target equal to the number of cards in your hand.
Starting loyalty - 5
The Royal Scions 1UR
Legendary Planeswalker - Will Rowan
[+1]: Draw a card, then discard a card.
[+1]: Target creature gets +2/+0 and gains first strike and trample until end of turn.
[-8]: Draw four cards. When you do, The Royal Scions deals damage to any target equal to the number of cards in your hand.
Starting loyalty - 5
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Questing Beast out to get Teferi, Nissa, and Tamiyo.
Can also block Gideon and remove loyalty counters (Gideon is still a planeswalker as a creature and thus normally damage would remove loyalty counters, which is why Gideon prevents damage).
The land is ruined until a hero rises up. Neat flavor.
Great flavor
"Oakland Raider"
Sorcery - Adventure
Create two 1/1 human tokens
Tap: Creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn.
Can also block Gideon and remove loyalty counters (Gideon is still a planeswalker as a creature and thus normally damage would remove loyalty counters, which is why Gideon prevents damage).
The land is ruined until a hero rises up. Neat flavor.
Great flavor
"Oakland Raider"
Sorcery - Adventure
Create two 1/1 human tokens
Tap: Creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn.
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Last for today (before Europe's tomorrow)
Seems pretty good, both as a tapper and in Instant -> Creature form.
Peasant is a new creature type.
Seems pretty good, both as a tapper and in Instant -> Creature form.
Peasant is a new creature type.
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"Holy Knight" - 4G
Creature - Giant Knight
Adamant - If you paid at least GGG to cast this spell, ~ enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter.
~ cannot be blocked by creatures with power less than or equal to 2.
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"Bear Suplex" - 3G
Sorcery
Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control, then it fights target creature you don't control.
Adamant - If you paid at least GGG to cast this spell, creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn.
"That Cloud Looks Like a Knight" - 3G
Instant
Return target card in your graveyard to your hand, then put another target card from your graveyard on top of your library. Exile ~
Adamant - If you paid at least GGG to cast this spell, instead return both cards to your hand and exile ~.
Pretty good Limited cards
(copied from reddit)
Emry, Lurker of the Loch {2}{U}
Legendary Creature — Merfolk Wizard
This spell costs {1} less to cast for each artifact you control.
When Emry, Lurker of the Loch enters the battlefield, put the top four cards of your library into your graveyard.
{T}: choose target artifact card in your graveyard. You may cast that card this turn.
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Umm, excuse me? Why yes I was looking for something to put into my reanimator deck. I'm not too familiar with non-Standard formats, but this seems like it could be broken outside of Standard.
Feels a tad tuned, still decent
Greedy Impulse {U/B}{U/B}{U/B}{U/B}
Sorcery (Uncommon)
Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card in that player's hand or graveyard, and exile it. For as long as that card remains exiled, you may cast it, and you may spend mana as though it were any type to cast it.
Fun card but hybrid everywhere is boring
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Red has had 2/2s for RR for a while before Eldritch Moon. That set was the first time at all that red got a 2/2 for 1R with no downside, regardless of rarity.
Clackbridge Troll reminds me a lot of Desecration Demon back in Return to Ravnica standard. It was way stronger than people first thought.
Trail of Crumbs
Enchantment
When Trail of Crumbs enters the battlefield, create a Food token.
Whenever you sacrifice a food, you may pay (1). If you do, look at the top two cards of your library. You may reveal a permanent card from among them and put it in your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
"Curious Pair"
Commissary Treats {G}
Sorcery - Adventure
Create a Food token
(Vanilla creature)
Now you too can lure kids to their death!
Clackbridge Troll reminds me a lot of Desecration Demon back in Return to Ravnica standard. It was way stronger than people first thought.
Trail of Crumbs
Enchantment
When Trail of Crumbs enters the battlefield, create a Food token.
Whenever you sacrifice a food, you may pay (1). If you do, look at the top two cards of your library. You may reveal a permanent card from among them and put it in your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
"Curious Pair"
Commissary Treats {G}
Sorcery - Adventure
Create a Food token
(Vanilla creature)
Now you too can lure kids to their death!
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"Weasel-Riding Knight"
Creature - Goblin Knight
1R: CARDNAME gets +2/+0 until end of turn.
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Cute weasel, and first goblin of the set I think.
Cutie gobo, shame it's riding a nasty weasel.
In other news:
Possibly another tool for Simic flash? Dump all your excess mana into this on your opponent's endstep if you play a cheap flash creature.
In other news:
Possibly another tool for Simic flash? Dump all your excess mana into this on your opponent's endstep if you play a cheap flash creature.
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Counter + creature, seems good.
Pretty crazy common. If Food wasn't proof enough, this will be a slower format.
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Big get for Knight decks
Go, baby, and fight for me!
I do love me some pingers
Pretty standard red common removal for Limited.
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He saves your creatures from negative auras and stealing.
And he's a literal charm
(choose one of three effects)
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Looks like we're full on getting Robin Hood tropes here too. This seems pretty fun, and interesting new text format.
EDIT: Tokens. The rogue has a pretty significant misprint.
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Fairly standard 2 mana red removal. Besides Arclight Phoenix, is there anything somewhat troublesome that could benefit from instant speed exile?
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Syr Elenora the Discerning; Stolen by the Fae; Ayara, First of Locthwain; The Royal Scions variant art
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Syr Elenora the Discerning - 3UU
Legendary Creature - Human Knight
~ power is equal to the number of cards in your hand.
When ~ enters the battlefield, draw a card.
Spells your opponents cast that target ~ cost 2 more to cast.
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Stolen by the Fae - XUU
Sorcery
Return target creature with converted mana cost X to its owners hand. Create X 1/1 blue Faerie creature tokens with flying.
Yes, the official preview cut off the power and toughness. Apparently it's a 2/3.
And the alternate art for The Royal Scions
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Yeah sure, just turn the whole board into 3/3s.
First person to get all 7 Seven Dwarves to work in standard gets a poison apple.
First person to get all 7 Seven Dwarves to work in standard gets a poison apple.
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The article mentions they gave the artists more freedom to draw what they wanted, but I feel like this had a negative side effect. I remember an interview with the Mirage era art director, and she mentioned that artists tend to draw white people unless instructed otherwise, and I think we're seeing a lot of that here. So many of the non-legendary humans are white, much more so than past sets, it seems.
On that note, three cards depicting white princesses.
Trapped in the Tower is neat. Note Faerie Guidemother can save creatures from the tower. Beloved Princess has tons of dangers lurking in the art.
And a white puppet
Great design here too.
People are bringing up the lack of twists with the fairy tale tropes, and I think making them, well, not white would have helped a lot.
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Ah, that's what you meant earlier.
I would like to know what, say, Rowan thinks of all these fairy tale events.
The gods are pretty popular.
Neat design, and a cool way for red to get white "exile until CARDNAME leaves the battlefield" effects.
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From Merchant on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAx83hiIc3I (solid channel btw)
Bog Naughty seems like a limited maybe card. Rider has a weird fight mechanic that could end up being good.
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I saw the 5UU instant and started having Nexus flashbacks. Actually really good for any sort of mill deck and probably any control deck by late game. Or maybe any deck, 7 cards in the yard is not a lot.
And here's the "that doesn't look like a Cast Down reprint" black removal card.
And here's the "that doesn't look like a Cast Down reprint" black removal card.
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Obvious devotion plant aside, all the cards in this hybrid cycle seem to be costed like they were meant to be (3) and one hybrid mana, not all hybrid.
Bunch of spoilers just released. Here are the Japanese ones from Shouta Yasooka:
Oakhame Adversary(?)
Creature - Elf Warrior
3G
This spell costs 2 less to cast if an opponent controls a green permanent.
Deathtouch
Whenever ~ deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.
2/3
Red Cap Brawl
Instant
R
Red Cap Brawl deals 4 damage to target creature or planeswalker. If it deals damage to a non-red permanent, you sacrifice a land.
Sorcery
B
Target opponent reveals his or her hand. You may choose a non-land card from the opponent's hand. If you do, opponent exiles that card. If a non-black card was exiled in this way, exile a card from your hand.
Oakhame Adversary(?)
Creature - Elf Warrior
3G
This spell costs 2 less to cast if an opponent controls a green permanent.
Deathtouch
Whenever ~ deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.
2/3
Red Cap Brawl
Instant
R
Red Cap Brawl deals 4 damage to target creature or planeswalker. If it deals damage to a non-red permanent, you sacrifice a land.
Sorcery
B
Target opponent reveals his or her hand. You may choose a non-land card from the opponent's hand. If you do, opponent exiles that card. If a non-black card was exiled in this way, exile a card from your hand.
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Article explaining how adventures came to be.
* First came the roar mechanic in Ixalan, which acted like adventures do now more or less, but only went on expensive dinosaurs. You'd hear the dinosaur roaring in the distance, which would do something, and you could cast it later from exile.
* Later, they put channel from Kamigawa block into the set, but that didn't add enough decision points, so they added the ability to cast it after you channel it. Then they wanted it to be counterable.
* There were both adventures, and a splashier mechanic calls quests, which was a discarded Zendikar mechanic. People confused the names of the two a lot internally, especially once they tried switching them around.
* As part of Project Booster Fun, they wanted a mechanic that could get a fancy frame treatment. This led to adventures getting the "creature with a spell" aspect, which also addressed them wanting adventures to be counterable. This also led to quest's removal, as it didn't need to be the splashy mechanic anymore.
Merchant of the Vale looks like it could be good in nonrotating formats. In Limited, it not having to tap for its ability should be big.
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The fact that red can destroy this is pretty significant.
And for the record, it appears to be a fox in the case.
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Phantom ability returns
Stream confirmed this is at least partially a reference to the Black Knight from Monty Python
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