Magic: the Gathering |OT| War of the Spark - Enter the Bo-Las (36 Planeswalkers)

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M-Files: War of the Spark – Multicolor by Dan Musser
* They really thought there would be a ton of people upset about Niv-Mizzet's death... which they forgot to tell people about.
* Bolas originally had "can't be countered" and hexproof. Well, it generally went through a lot of different variations.

 

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Magic Story - War of the Spark: Ravnica – The Path to Opulent by Greg Weisman
* Part 2
* This continues to mostly be sequences from the book, but with some added commentary from Rat and the stuff she couldn't have seen removed.

 

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What they should have done years ago
Modern Horizons previews have a page showing when and where each preview will show up

 

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First Look: War of the Spark Future Future League by Andrew Brown

If you want to test out something besides shoving new cards into existing decks, check out the decks Wizards tested internally.

 

[Bigkrev]

Flusterstorm isn't a surprise

 

[Arkanim94]

were we supposed to get some modern horizons spoilers today?

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They already spoiled a bunch of commons:

Spoiler

 

[SigmasonicX]

Goblin Matron is a pretty big get. And full-art Snow-Covered lands!

 

[SigmasonicX]

Squirrels! And getting around the reserved list.

Well, here it is! Sort of.
Can't protect your own combo, but can stop a turn 1 Aether Vial or Faithless Looting. In some cases, it might even be better than Force of Will due to the exile.

 

[Bigkrev]

Not sure what deck this fits into, but this is clearly insane

 

[SigmasonicX]

I wonder what this means for Baleful Strix

 

[Arkanim94]

https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/may-20-2019-banned-and-restricted-announcement

gitaxian probe, gush and daze banned in pauper.

 

[SigmasonicX]

MaRo's preview article goes over how this set was started and has some interesting stories.

This was created to be a Commander for all tribes that fall through the cracks.

Green part of the Force cycle

Might be needed for Karn + Lattice now, haha. EDIT: Wait, no, cards in hand are colorless.

Revealed by LSV

Young Pyromancer got buff. Seems decent, but this set suffers from disappointing red mythic syndrome too.

 

[SigmasonicX]

Note that Seasoned Pyromancer is straight up draw two when hellbent.

 

[SigmasonicX]

Seems pretty good. Also, flying sharks with spears attached.

 

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Pretty good too.

 

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Individual images in a bit

EDIT:

Fists of Flame is a neat design.

 

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From the Twitch Magic stream

Less impressive when WAR has a strictly better version.

 

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Also from the Magic stream.

 

[Bigkrev]

Ball Blightning- Ball Lightning that makes them discard 2 if it hits them

hey, lapsed magic player here. i'm pretty sure i know the answer to this (expecting that answer to be that i'm shit outta luck), but I'd love to play with some old school magic cards, like olllld school. Did they ever do any reprints of old decks or anything that you can pick up for a reasonable price to just have fun with?

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The longer answer to your question is that if you are talking mid 90s old stuff here, you should probably install Shandalar, which was the old MTG game from the 90s. You can go on Youtube and see the work people have done to make it run on modern PCs

 

[Carthago Delenda Est]

Black Force card from Reddit:

Force of Despair

If it's not your turn, you may exile a black card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Destroy all creatures, that entered the battlefield this turn.

 

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Black Force card from Reddit:

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Collected Company is often on your end step, so ironically this will often be used to take out a single hexproof creature and such.

Normal art:

Reprints

 

[Deleted member 2809]

Blightning ball
They made a horizon canopy cycle for enemy only. Pretty dumb but oh well.

 

[SigmasonicX]

Enemy lands here because the ally lands will be in M20 👀👀👀👀👀👀👀

Seems good for Pauper cubes.

 

[SigmasonicX]

Neat combination of mechanics.

 

[SigmasonicX]

Weird, I thought this set wasn't going to be inspired by Planar Chaos. Why's Urza blue instead of green?!

Anyway, seems good.

 

[Cade]

Very fun. Izzet jank is my favorite.

 

[SigmasonicX]

Spore Frog is a reprint. Scour is Preordain at 2 mana with flashback.

 

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Mother of Runes that can't protect herself but can protect from colorless.

Kotaku source

 

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2R
Enchantment
When it enters the battlefield, each opponent gains 10 life.
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, put a verse counter on it, then it deals damage equal to the number of verse counters on it to target player or planeswalker.

I like opponent life gaining as a downside in red.
You cast 6 instant and sorcery spells after this for 21 damage total. 8 for 36.

 

[Carthago Delenda Est]

Here's a new one:

It's a worse version of Goblin Welder:

Spoiler: Not Modern Horizons

Then there's Regrowth:

Regrowth
Sorcery
Return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

And this classic:

And finally, the White Force card:

Force of Virtue?
Enchantment
if not your turn, exile white card instead of paying its cmc.
flash
creatures you control get +1+1.


Pretty bad.

 

[divisionbyzorro]

Overflow (?) G
Sorcery - Uncommon
Until end of turn, target creature you control becomes a Wurm with base power and toughness 6/4.
Overload 4GG

Strictly better Might of Old Krosa? This is +5/+3 to an infect creature for G which is bonkers.

 

[SigmasonicX]

We got slivers

 

[SigmasonicX]

This is a tough one to crack, since you only have one turn to use it.

Reprint

Someone got a promotion.

 

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Kind of weird to see this color restricted like this.

 

[SigmasonicX]

Good with persist, and in Limited.



They've been sitting on the art for Nuturing Peatland for eight years! From the thread, it was originally a basic Swamp for a core set.

 

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Whoops, forgot to post this

Cute flavor text.

 

[Blooddimond]

New Sisay!

Reprint for the Squirrel v Sliver showdown of the century

 

[SigmasonicX]

Green Seismic Assault
Ayula is probably a legendary bear.

 

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Zhalfirin Decoy
Creature - Human Soldier
T: Tap target creature. Activate this ability only if a creature entered the battlefield under your control this turn.

Interesting design, though Limited only. Also, zebra unicorn.

EDIT: Reference to this card

 

[Carthago Delenda Est]

Glacial Revelation

2G

Sorcery

Reveal the top six cards of your library. You may put any number of snow permanent cards from among them into your hand. Put the rest into your graveyard.



More limited fodder.

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Altar of Dementia (reprint)

 

[Carthago Delenda Est]

Hope you all have been enjoying the spoilers for EDH Horizons. Now we're getting to the good stuff:

Splice into instant or sorcery. No arcane required. Awesome.

Bear legend.

White elephant gift. Flavor fail that it makes a green token though. Also amazing EDH card.

Jitte without a stick.

Limited card.

Edit: Missed this bag of garbage.

 

[SigmasonicX]

Callback to Bear Cub.

Besides the Juzam Djinn callback, there are a ton of other explanations for cards listed in this article, along with stories of the set's creation.
* Umezawa's Charm = one activation of Umezawa's Jitte, of course
* Splicer's Skill is the Splicer cards from New Phyrexia combined with the splice mechanic.
* Generous Gift is a color shifted Beast Within.
* Changeling Outcast is Tormented Soul.

The article also specifically says they're avoiding design space that upcoming Standard sets would use, so we shouldn't expect snow anytime soon.

Also, they gave Ravenous Giant to Martin Juza.


Oh, one more came in

Callback to Boldwyr Intimidator and anti-changeling card. Plus maybe we'll get a new Norin the Wary with the Coward type.

 

[SigmasonicX]

3/4 flying for 3, with card filtering, but also card disadvantage. Interesting design, and I like the flavor text.

with the downside replaced with

 

[SigmasonicX]

lol at the card's flavor



Giving the preview to a Hearthstoner who doesn't know these mechanics

 

[SigmasonicX]

Modern Horizons packs come with cards that just have the art, called the Art Series. There are 54 of these.
There are also double sided tokens.

 

[SigmasonicX]

Genesis reprint; I imagine we'll get the other incarnations. EDIT: Sounds like this is the only one.

Also, you can use Goblin Engineer to cheat out Mox Tantalite.

 

[SigmasonicX]

Red force is for... blocking? I guess for when you seem to leave your defenses down with a full attack.

Callback to Goatnapper and Skyknight Legionnaire

 

[Carthago Delenda Est]

I thought about going to a pre-release but ultimately decided against it. I did UMA and got burned badly. This is cheaper at $30, but only really breaks even if I win the whole thing. Just doesn't seem worth it.

Back to the good stuff...level up is back!

Hexdrinker
Level Up 1
LVL3-7 Protection from instants
LVL8+ Protection from everything

Not a bad card.

A lion lord!

Mean tribal hate. This goes into all of your casual black decks for when your friends play elves or goblins.

Cyclonic Rift had a baby with Path to Exile. Kinda risky, honestly. Not sure I'd want to run this.

 

[divisionbyzorro]

A 2CC walker that doesn't suck. Nifty!