MTG Salvation

In March 2024, Universes Beyond added the iconic video game franchise, Fallout, to its growing compendium of worlds with four pre-con Commander decks.  A month later, Amazon released a television adaptation of the popular IP that was met with generally positive reviews.  Currently, season 2 of Fallout is airing weekly on Prime Video with the last episode set to air on February 4th. This makes it the perfect time for Universes Beyond to revisit Fallout. As reported by Jason Fanelli at GameSpot, Wizards is doing just this with the Rad Superdrop.

Shock lands are a popular and versatile dual land option in Magic: The Gathering. Starting with Edge of Eternities, shock lands are making their way back into standard. With Edge of Eternities, we saw 5 of the 10 shock lands come back into play.  The last time we saw all 10 shock lands in standard was when they were released in the Ravnica sets from 2018 and 2019.  With Lorwyn Eclipsed, we’ll see the other 5 shock lands not in Edge of Eternities come back into Standard. 

The first Magic set of 2026 is just over a week away and the contents have been revealed.  According to the debut video posted on Wizards’ YouTube channel last week, the art in Lorwyn Eclipsed is supposed to have a hand-drawn feel to it.  I wanted to take a few minutes to look at some of the amazing artists that have brought Lorwyn-Shadowmoor to life and their incredible art.

With every set, a document is created during the design process called the “Vision Design Handoff Document.” Mark Rosewater, the lead designer for Magic: The Gathering along with the set’s Vision Design Lead will release that document as the release date draws near.  Yesterday, Rosewater and Mark Gottlieb, the Vision Design Lead for Lorwyn Eclipsed released part 1 of the Vision Design Handoff Document.  That document is available at Daily MTG.  

As reported by Nick Miller at Star City Games, this past weekend, at SCG CON Atlanta, the Magic Spotlight event saw many Izzet Lessons decks and the breakout archetype, Simic Ouroboroid decks in play.  Ultimately, it would be Kyle Nelson piloting a Bant Airbending deck that took home the win.