The Preview Panel talks of the next three releases: Wilds of Eldraine, Universes Beyond: Doctor Who, and Lost Caverns of Ixalan. We're going in release order, unlike in the panel.
First off, the next set. Eldraine in recovering from the Phyrexian invasion, but the Wicked Slumber meant to protect them has turned inward and is lasting far longer than necessary. Also here is the start of a rare creature land cycle, awaking while the rest of the world sleeps.
And look who's here to revel in it. Ashiok is meant to demonstrate the system moving forward: one planeswalker per set.
This visit to Eldraine is focused more on the wilds, down to where draft archetypes are based on classic fairytales: WU Snow Queen, BG Hansel and Gretel, WB Snow White, GU Jack and the Beanstalk, [mana]RG[mana] Red Riding Hood and more.
It could also be seen in the Booster Fun versions of cards.
That's not to say some classic Eldraine elements are still around. There will be Arthurian legend references, this reprint, and this returning mechanic.
Now one big change that people might like is the greater focus on enchantments in this Eldraine set. Aside from a greater number of enchantments that would make Theros proiud, there's also the all-enchantment Enchanting Tales bonus sheet. See some cards you might like?
Like the Strixhaven Mystical Archive, the Japanese versions of these cards have new art too.
Finally, here's the set's attempt at a white Craterhoof again.
Sleight of Hand, nice.
Ashiok, like mono Black needed more power, well here you go.
Somnophage, should have been GB not UB with a mulch affect and different name.
Moonshaker Cavalry, would they stop designing Commander cards for Standard sets, jeesh WotC who is ever going to play this in Standard at 8 mana. Stop it!
Restless Fortress: Huzzah!!! Man lands and this one is good.
General Observations:
Can't say I like the art on the full art lands.
Tough Cookie: Un sets called they want their artwork back.
Enchanting Tales: Some nice choices there just wish there weren't basically all mythic for the good ones.
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The first deck is Blast from the Past, a GWU Historic deck led by the Fourth Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith. It features the first eight Doctors.
The second deck is Timey-Wimey, a URW time counter matters deck led by the Tenth Doctor and Rose Tyler. It features the ninth to eleventh Doctors.
The third deck is Paradox Power, a GUR deck led by the Thirteenth Doctor and Yasmin Khan. It involves the new paradox mechanic, which cares about cards cast from exile. It also features the Twelfth Doctor.
The last deck is Masters of Evil, a UBR deck lead by Davros. It focuses on the villainous choice mechanic, a mechanic where your opponent tries to discern the lesser of two evils It contains other classic villains from the franchise, such as the Master and the Valeyard.
This set has Collector Boosters, to show off the Tardis frame variants of many of these beloved characters.
Oh yeah, and those Doctors come in serialized versions, numbering in the 500 + whatever their number is.
And that's it for spoilers, actually. Can't tell any more.
Fine, fine, Lost Caverns of Ixalan. No new cards here, just a rough taste of the story. Turns out Ixalan is a hollow world, with a completely differently world underground and its own sun. Angels live there to guard the Core, the underworld's sun. Gods live here, as well as the progenitors of the Sun Empire. Huatli (desparked?) joins the fight to vie for a new material called cosmium.
Figured Adventures would come back, but love the multi-colour aspect of them. Cruel Somnophage is the lesson they learned after the Merfolk Secretkeeper debacle XD.
And that artwork for the Dr. Who cards...As we say here in Southern Ontario:
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Moonshaker Cavalry, would they stop designing Commander cards for Standard sets, jeesh WotC who is ever going to play this in Standard at 8 mana. Stop it!
To be fair, Craterhoof saw some amount of Standard play. This one looks more like something that got thrown to mythic for Limited reasons (maybe like Craterhoof?) then got juiced for Commander to minimize the mythic-for-Limited complaints.
So it's not "Lost Caverns of Ixalan", it's "Lost Cavern of Ixalan", got it.
Not sure why they decide to expand on the world this way instead of, like, visiting the other continent(s) we've been teased about, but I don't understand most creative decisions from WotC anymore.
Also, did I see that right? "Lord" has been reinstated as a creature type? Does that mean old lords that were errata'd to not be lords are lords again?
And Time is now a creature type for reasons. Cool. I guess Time Elemental is now a proper Time Elemental, eh?
Pretty happy with the fairytale focus (down to the set symbol) for Eldraine. I collected a bunch of fairy tale related draft chaff last time around for novelty sake and the thought that this set may offer the core for a Jack and the Beamstalk deck or Snow White deck is a bit more aligned with what I’d want from a fairy tale set.
Having an Enchantment Bonus sheet is also pretty nice. Now that we have enchantments, artifacts, spells, and (legendary) creatures as bonus sheets, I’m not too sure what else we would get (other than lands in our next Zendikar outing, perhaps).
The Dr. Who cards also seem fairly solid so far. Nothing broken (though that token copying saga looks nuts in Volo) but the cards are at least interesting.
Looking forward to a new cycle of gods in Ixalan, as well.
So it's not "Lost Caverns of Ixalan", it's "Lost Cavern of Ixalan", got it.
Not sure why they decide to expand on the world this way instead of, like, visiting the other continent(s) we've been teased about, but I don't understand most creative decisions from WotC anymore.
Also, did I see that right? "Lord" has been reinstated as a creature type? Does that mean old lords that were errata'd to not be lords are lords again?
And Time is now a creature type for reasons. Cool. I guess Time Elemental is now a proper Time Elemental, eh?
I'm pretty sure that "time lord" has been confirmed as one cohesive creature type, so its "time lord" + "doctor", not "time" + "lord" + "doctor".
So it's not "Lost Caverns of Ixalan", it's "Lost Cavern of Ixalan", got it.
Not sure why they decide to expand on the world this way instead of, like, visiting the other continent(s) we've been teased about, but I don't understand most creative decisions from WotC anymore.
Ixalan is a Mesoamerican flavored plane, you'd lose some of that if you go to the other continent(s) and this also gives the plane a soft reboot with the elements (like the gods and angels) without retcons.
Also, did I see that right? "Lord" has been reinstated as a creature type? Does that mean old lords that were errata'd to not be lords are lords again?
And Time is now a creature type for reasons. Cool. I guess Time Elemental is now a proper Time Elemental, eh?
Time Lord is one creature type with two words, this isn't a thing they want to do going forward just the best way to express it for this set.
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talion: I can't tell if this is good or not because it’s hard to tell what the correct number is call it’s easy to trigger because of that P/T part but still tough call for the correct number
Land: interesting take on manland cycle
Ashiok: oh great if the mono black standard deck wasn't busted enough.
nightmare: Nice they toe dipping into muticolor adventures just like they did with flashback in midnight hunt. Interesting they persudo reprinted Mortivore with the adventure potentially loading it up (without regeneration)
Sleight of hand: that card hasn't been standard legal since 9th edition. Did it make an impact?
Alright! Another mystical archive sheet! This time it’s enchantments and the are quite spicey especially since we have the first ever offical reprint of Greater Auram. And it’s gonna be back breaking for players if they have to face a player who pulled necropotence or rhystic study. (Bonus: the doubling season art has the hydra goose from those 8 picture teaser so “wilds of eldraine” is the first one.)
Tough cookie attacks for 6 on turn 3 and can gain 6 life late game. That's without other food synergies. High tier draft pick for sure. Maybe this is where the good food stuff they left out of LTR went.
Ok we got bant historic matters so Samwise Gamgee is a auto include for a upgrade
The fourth doctor is future sight for historic spells and the companion gives you clue tokens
saga: another 6 chapter saga awesome this one makes token copy’s of stuff it’s a tough call if this is saga tribal worthy or not since it can't copy sagas. (Purpose is so it can't copy itself)
Instant: so time lord tribal will be a thing.
URW
so we got suspend matters this time so this deck is gonna be Christmas for Jhoira of the Ghitu
dr: I will say this for opponents… don't under any circumstances let a training grounds effects stay in play
companion: wow this is gonna be enormous in suspend decks
face of boe: jeez you can cheat suspend cards with this especially those No cmc suspend cards
Four knocks: … Atraxa, Praetors' Voice staple number 1 million! (Exaggerating) in serious ness proliferate decks will have a hay day with this
GUR
Dr + companion: oh wow Temur compulsive draw/cast from exile matters. Wow my Faldorn, Dread Wolf Herald might be in trouble and might lose the commander position and becomes the 99 but (but really the golden ticket commander needs to be glint-eye (UBRG) because of Prosper, Tome-Bound and the black cast from exile cards.)
Alien soldier: this thing is gonna be a pain in the butt for opponents since it’s doing a deed of removing their blockers plus you can keep casting from exile
Saga: that’s a lot of impulse draw! Plus chapters one and six are decent
UBR basically a pick your poison type of mechanic tribal.
dravos: so this is life drain matters legend so those life drain cards will be amazing in this
missy: I already have a hot take for this one they put the magic words on her. “Creature dies, return it to the battlefield face down” so we got a grixis Kadena, Slinking Sorcerer (there’s only two morph cards in existence that are artifacts and they stink) (Ps I’m still waiting for a commander playable ugin that will do morph tribal in potentially 5-color)
Valeyard: pretty much a grixis version of Tivit, Seller of Secrets or the simic lord of the rings elf deck if your route is voting matters
River song: the search/scry/surveil hate is very interesting but the way more interesting part is we now have a izzet version of Grenzo, Dungeon Warden
One more thing to note: Ashiok is the only planeswalker card in WOE and going forth sets will have only one planeswalker card each.
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Figured Adventures would come back, but love the multi-colour aspect of them. Cruel Somnophage is the lesson they learned after the Merfolk Secretkeeper debacle XD.
And that artwork for the Dr. Who cards...As we say here in Southern Ontario:
"WOWZA!"
Merfolk Secretkeeper? I remember playing a lot of standard then and seeing some mill decks, and rogues decks but I don't remember anything noteworthy about Secretkeeper.
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Spoiler EditorFirst off, the next set. Eldraine in recovering from the Phyrexian invasion, but the Wicked Slumber meant to protect them has turned inward and is lasting far longer than necessary. Also here is the start of a rare creature land cycle, awaking while the rest of the world sleeps.
And look who's here to revel in it. Ashiok is meant to demonstrate the system moving forward: one planeswalker per set.
This visit to Eldraine is focused more on the wilds, down to where draft archetypes are based on classic fairytales: WU Snow Queen, BG Hansel and Gretel, WB Snow White, GU Jack and the Beanstalk, [mana]RG[mana] Red Riding Hood and more.
It could also be seen in the Booster Fun versions of cards.
That's not to say some classic Eldraine elements are still around. There will be Arthurian legend references, this reprint, and this returning mechanic.
Now one big change that people might like is the greater focus on enchantments in this Eldraine set. Aside from a greater number of enchantments that would make Theros proiud, there's also the all-enchantment Enchanting Tales bonus sheet. See some cards you might like?
Like the Strixhaven Mystical Archive, the Japanese versions of these cards have new art too.
Finally, here's the set's attempt at a white Craterhoof again.
Sleight of Hand, nice.
Ashiok, like mono Black needed more power, well here you go.
Somnophage, should have been GB not UB with a mulch affect and different name.
Moonshaker Cavalry, would they stop designing Commander cards for Standard sets, jeesh WotC who is ever going to play this in Standard at 8 mana. Stop it!
Restless Fortress: Huzzah!!! Man lands and this one is good.
General Observations:
Can't say I like the art on the full art lands.
Tough Cookie: Un sets called they want their artwork back.
Enchanting Tales: Some nice choices there just wish there weren't basically all mythic for the good ones.
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Spoiler EditorThe first deck is Blast from the Past, a GWU Historic deck led by the Fourth Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith. It features the first eight Doctors.
The second deck is Timey-Wimey, a URW time counter matters deck led by the Tenth Doctor and Rose Tyler. It features the ninth to eleventh Doctors.
The third deck is Paradox Power, a GUR deck led by the Thirteenth Doctor and Yasmin Khan. It involves the new paradox mechanic, which cares about cards cast from exile. It also features the Twelfth Doctor.
The last deck is Masters of Evil, a UBR deck lead by Davros. It focuses on the villainous choice mechanic, a mechanic where your opponent tries to discern the lesser of two evils It contains other classic villains from the franchise, such as the Master and the Valeyard.
This set has Collector Boosters, to show off the Tardis frame variants of many of these beloved characters.
Oh yeah, and those Doctors come in serialized versions, numbering in the 500 + whatever their number is.
And that's it for spoilers, actually. Can't tell any more.
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Spoiler EditorNot sure why they decide to expand on the world this way instead of, like, visiting the other continent(s) we've been teased about, but I don't understand most creative decisions from WotC anymore.
Also, did I see that right? "Lord" has been reinstated as a creature type? Does that mean old lords that were errata'd to not be lords are lords again?
And Time is now a creature type for reasons. Cool. I guess Time Elemental is now a proper Time Elemental, eh?
Pretty happy with the fairytale focus (down to the set symbol) for Eldraine. I collected a bunch of fairy tale related draft chaff last time around for novelty sake and the thought that this set may offer the core for a Jack and the Beamstalk deck or Snow White deck is a bit more aligned with what I’d want from a fairy tale set.
Having an Enchantment Bonus sheet is also pretty nice. Now that we have enchantments, artifacts, spells, and (legendary) creatures as bonus sheets, I’m not too sure what else we would get (other than lands in our next Zendikar outing, perhaps).
The Dr. Who cards also seem fairly solid so far. Nothing broken (though that token copying saga looks nuts in Volo) but the cards are at least interesting.
Looking forward to a new cycle of gods in Ixalan, as well.
I'm pretty sure that "time lord" has been confirmed as one cohesive creature type, so its "time lord" + "doctor", not "time" + "lord" + "doctor".
Ixalan is a Mesoamerican flavored plane, you'd lose some of that if you go to the other continent(s) and this also gives the plane a soft reboot with the elements (like the gods and angels) without retcons.
Time Lord is one creature type with two words, this isn't a thing they want to do going forward just the best way to express it for this set.
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Did somebody at WotC find a copy of the D&D Hollow World boxed set?
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talion: I can't tell if this is good or not because it’s hard to tell what the correct number is call it’s easy to trigger because of that P/T part but still tough call for the correct number
Land: interesting take on manland cycle
Ashiok:
Cookie: for 1 more it’s a gingerbrute version of Alloy Animist
nightmare: Nice they toe dipping into muticolor adventures just like they did with flashback in midnight hunt. Interesting they persudo reprinted Mortivore with the adventure potentially loading it up (without regeneration)
Sleight of hand: that card hasn't been standard legal since 9th edition. Did it make an impact?
Alright! Another mystical archive sheet! This time it’s enchantments and the are quite spicey especially since we have the first ever offical reprint of Greater Auram. And it’s gonna be back breaking for players if they have to face a player who pulled necropotence or rhystic study. (Bonus: the doubling season art has the hydra goose from those 8 picture teaser so “wilds of eldraine” is the first one.)
Calvary:
next up… dr who
Can someone show me how I see this news myself if I wanted to go to the original 'source' ?
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Spoiler EditorIf you also wanted to just read the details, there's this for Wilds of Eldraine, some more details on those Japanese cards, and this for Doctor Who.
Wow, love the art on that Rhystic Study. Great colours. It looks like shimmering bokeh all over the art. Looks sick.
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Ok we got bant historic matters so Samwise Gamgee is a auto include for a upgrade
The fourth doctor is future sight for historic spells and the companion gives you clue tokens
saga: another 6 chapter saga awesome this one makes token copy’s of stuff it’s a tough call if this is saga tribal worthy or not since it can't copy sagas. (Purpose is so it can't copy itself)
Instant: so time lord tribal will be a thing.
URW
so we got suspend matters this time so this deck is gonna be Christmas for Jhoira of the Ghitu
dr: I will say this for opponents… don't under any circumstances let a training grounds effects stay in play
companion: wow this is gonna be enormous in suspend decks
face of boe: jeez you can cheat suspend cards with this especially those No cmc suspend cards
Four knocks: … Atraxa, Praetors' Voice staple number 1 million! (Exaggerating) in serious ness proliferate decks will have a hay day with this
GUR
Dr + companion: oh wow Temur compulsive draw/cast from exile matters. Wow my Faldorn, Dread Wolf Herald might be in trouble and might lose the commander position and becomes the 99 but (but really the golden ticket commander needs to be glint-eye (UBRG) because of Prosper, Tome-Bound and the black cast from exile cards.)
Alien soldier: this thing is gonna be a pain in the butt for opponents since it’s doing a deed of removing their blockers plus you can keep casting from exile
Saga: that’s a lot of impulse draw! Plus chapters one and six are decent
UBR basically a pick your poison type of mechanic tribal.
dravos: so this is life drain matters legend so those life drain cards will be amazing in this
missy: I already have a hot take for this one they put the magic words on her. “Creature dies, return it to the battlefield face down” so we got a grixis Kadena, Slinking Sorcerer (there’s only two morph cards in existence that are artifacts and they stink) (Ps I’m still waiting for a commander playable ugin that will do morph tribal in potentially 5-color)
Valeyard: pretty much a grixis version of Tivit, Seller of Secrets or the simic lord of the rings elf deck if your route is voting matters
Saga: in MOM we got sheoldred and now this saga for a different version of rise of the darkrealms
River song: the search/scry/surveil hate is very interesting but the way more interesting part is we now have a izzet version of Grenzo, Dungeon Warden
Next of ixalan 2 pictures
Thou shalt not frame images with the modern card face
Thou shalt not change rules in vain
Remember the Reserved List to keep it holy
Honor thy Slivers and the symmetry of their abilities
Thou shalt not kill mana burn
Thou shalt not sacrifice depth for accessibility
Thou shalt not steal combat damage from the stack
Thou shalt tell a story through thy cards
All must be one
Merfolk Secretkeeper? I remember playing a lot of standard then and seeing some mill decks, and rogues decks but I don't remember anything noteworthy about Secretkeeper.
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