Before previews for Unfinity officially begin, I thought it would be fun to do another of my Duelist-style teasers where I give tiny hints of things to come. Note that I’m only giving you partial information. Because Unfinity is filled with more strangeness than the average set, I’m doing a mega-teaser where I tease even more than normal.
First up, here are some things you can expect:
• a card that can become over five hundred different cards for the turn
• a card that enchants your graveyard
• a card which requires you to use pantomime
• an enchantment subtype appears on an artifact for the first time
• a new subgame card in a color that’s never had one
• a card that can make one of five different artifact tokens that each don’t do anything
• an outside assistance card where the person assisting doesn’t even know
• a common command
• over ten new named abilities including best in show, gear up, and parade!
• a card that can make multiple Storm Crow tokens
• a cycle of “fill in the blank” cards
• multiple cards that let you win a prize
• a creature ability gets converted to a land ability
• a planeswalker that doesn’t do what you say
• a card that makes flying Cat tokens
• a cycle of cards that care about certain objects you can see from your seat
• another spell that lets you open a booster pack
• a card that gives you a resource to pay costs that no card has ever granted before
• a card that asks an outside person to rate something on a scale from 1 to 5
• between cards and stickers, over twenty-five nonevergreen/nondeciduous mechanics are returning
Next, here are some rules text that will be showing up on cards:
• “An opponent tells you a statement about themselves and secretly notes whether it’s true or false.”
• “Each player in an Un-game who can hear you may bid life.”
• “where X is the greatest number of stored results on it of the same value.”
• “except by creatures with flavor text”
• “for each item in its art that’s not touching CARDNAME, another item, or the card frame.”
• “As long as CARDNAME remains tapped, that effect doesn’t end.”
• “As CARDNAME enters the battlefield, choose a word with five or more letters.”
• “target non-Brushwagg creature”
• “Ask a person outside the game to choose which of them is most like a rock band.”
• “using the first letters of the names of permanents you control,”
• “As long as three or more hands are touching CARDNAME,”
• “first strike and a sword, vigilance and a shield, menace and mean eyes”
• “with the same artist and different names”
• “with #GuessThatMagicCard and no other text.”
• “any number of printed Clown Robot tokens that aren’t touching each other, that you hid on the battlefield”
• “choose A through M or N through Z.”
• “If the cracks in CARDNAME’s art are completely covered,”
• “An opponent chooses ‘the fastest’, ‘the scariest’ or ‘the weakest.’”
• “As CARDNAME enters the battlefield, choose a named Magic character.”
• “When you draw yourself, you win the game.”
Here is some reminder text that appears in the set:
• “Anything with two or more capitalized words in its name that begin with the same letter is alliterative.”
• “A top is an outerwear garment worn on the upper body.”
• “the card, not your head”
• “They can’t be blocked except by creatures with horsemanship.”
• “Align the tops of both cards to check.”
• “Don’t explain anything else. You choose targets.”
• “This creature has first strike as long as it’s blocking or being blocked by a creature that comes after it alphabetically.”
• “The vowels are A, E, I, O, U, and Y.”
• “This spell costs 1 less to cast for each Clown you control.”
• “It has their total power, total toughness, combined mana costs, all text boxes, names, art, and so on.”
• “Something is hot if it has hot things in its art, like fire or explosions.”
• “CARDNAME divides the battlefield into alpha, beta, and gamma sectors.”
• “Each time you gobble, take a bit of food or sacrifice a Food token.”
• “You can have two commanders if both have partner.”
• “It becomes 2/2, then 1/1, ½ / ½ , and so on.”
• “about 0.3 meters”
• “Creatures in a log together can’t be blocked unless they’re all blocked.”
• “Don’t touch other people’s phones without permission and be careful if you do.”
• “Places everyone! The first creature in line gets +0/+0.”
• “They continue to exist after they leave the battlefield.”
Finally, here are some creature type lines in the set:
• Creature - Rat Rogue
• Creature - Alien Insect
• Artifact Creature - Clown Robot Mime
• Creature - Dog Employee
• Creature – Beeble
• Creature - Frog Guest
• Creature - Human Hatificer Assassin
• Creature - Alien Squirrel
• Creature - Minotaur Child Guest
• Creature - Porcupine Performer
• Creature - Dinosaur Employee
• Creature - Zombie Coward Guest
• Artifact Creature - Plant Mutant Food
• Legendary Creature - Devil Performer
• Legendary Creature - Human Gamer
• Legendary Creature - Alien Ooze
• Legendary Creature - Human Pilot Employee
• Legendary Creature - Elephant Mouse Performer
• Legendary Creature - Human Clown Artificer
• Legendary Artifact Creature – Robot
Tune in tomorrow (Tuesday, September 20) on the official Magic YouTube channel or twitch.tv/Magic at 9AM to watch WeeklyMTG where we’ll kickoff the week-long Unfinity preview. Blake Rasmussen and I will talk through the set including showing off Attractions and a number of exciting preview cards. Hope you can join us!
While it's a pretty safe prediction. I predict that the human gamer in the set is Vorthos. Between Mel and Vorthos, one of those names sounds far more congruent with an outer space amusement park/circus/carnival.
Nice, so a new Human Gamer means either the R Vorthos, Flavor Gamer or W Mel, Mechanics Gamer is in. Probably Vorthos since if we're dealing with flavor the idea of "attaching" stuff to a card name or art via stickers would synergize the most.
Also I assume the clue "first strike and a sword, vigilance and a shield, menace and mean eyes" probably relates to something like "if a creature card portrays a creature with wings, that creature has flying. The same is true for [HINTED TEXT] and trample if it's larger than an adult person"... Or something like that. Either way, sounds fun.
i was super hyped for dominaria, but then that got trampled by 40k spoilers - which despite playing both for decades deflated the dominaria excitement so hard for me that i have absolutely zero interest in the 40k precons - and before those have even shipped out now we have unfinity teasers basically trampling on any hype 40k has...
so as a result i don't care any more. i just don't care. i should love this product too. i loved the other unsets, but this one is just not doing anything for me now.
whatever we'll get brothers war teasers before the unfinity spoilers are even done.
i was super hyped for dominaria, but then that got trampled by 40k spoilers - which despite playing both for decades deflated the dominaria excitement so hard for me that i have absolutely zero interest in the 40k precons - and before those have even shipped out now we have unfinity teasers basically trampling on any hype 40k has...
so as a result i don't care any more. i just don't care. i should love this product too. i loved the other unsets, but this one is just not doing anything for me now.
whatever we'll get brothers war teasers before the unfinity spoilers are even done.
so far “crow storm” and the “cat tokens” could be black bordered
That’s a “Brain blast” moment for me
i think I now what the typing is
Remmeber this
https://markrosewater.tumblr.com/post/691356624486596608/hey-mark-i-just-listened-to-your-podcast-about
There’s saga maro is really proud of
I think this is it. It’s a “Arifact — saga”
Also I assume the clue "first strike and a sword, vigilance and a shield, menace and mean eyes" probably relates to something like "if a creature card portrays a creature with wings, that creature has flying. The same is true for [HINTED TEXT] and trample if it's larger than an adult person"... Or something like that. Either way, sounds fun.
that’s a log ride is the joke
with the word “they” it just hit me on this one its probably a carousel ride since 95% of the time on those is horses on those
i was super hyped for dominaria, but then that got trampled by 40k spoilers - which despite playing both for decades deflated the dominaria excitement so hard for me that i have absolutely zero interest in the 40k precons - and before those have even shipped out now we have unfinity teasers basically trampling on any hype 40k has...
so as a result i don't care any more. i just don't care. i should love this product too. i loved the other unsets, but this one is just not doing anything for me now.
whatever we'll get brothers war teasers before the unfinity spoilers are even done.
and by the way I might have a idea for this one
that Number could be rounded up or down and what the card can turn into……
Reserve list cards (another trick to loophole it)
in Fact there’s 232 creatures on the reserve list only 18 short for this
Dude, go buy a plant.
Interesting possibility. There are also 490 permanents on the reserved list, which could explain the error.
I gather starting letter is the more common version of "I spy," but it can also be played with colors, which makes sense on a cycle.
Also, agree with people above - Vorthos is the most likely Human Gamer. They've done them in order of appearance so far and Vorthos preceded Mel.
with space Jace perhaps? (Previewed just a moment ago)