Japanese New Phyrexia Spoilers

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Happy Monday MTG peeps,

Huge news today. Forum member Magnus Magicus from the Netherlands came across 21 scanned cards from the upcoming New Phyrexia set, almost all of them rare or mythic rare.

Of great interest in this batch of scanned cards are the Planeswalker Karn, Urabrask the Hidden, Puresteel Paladin, Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite, Chancellor of the Dross, and Caged Sun among others. Also of note is the alternate casting cost on some of the Phyrexian cards. From an initial assessment one would be able to pay "Φ" the required coloured mana or pay (two) life.

The only hitch in this series of New Phyrexia spoilers is that they are all in Japanese. Magic the Gathering fans everywhere are now working diligently to translate but we know from past spoilers that there often are details lost in translation. We must of course w

Let's have a peak at how the game is promising to shape up . . .

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Karn the Released (?), 7
Planeswalker - Karn

+4 : Target player exiles a card from his or her hand.
-3 : Exile target permanent.
-14 : Set aside all non-aura permanents exiled by Karn, then restart the game. After that, put into the battlefield under your control all cards set aside this way.
(loyalty) 6
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Puresteel Paladin, WW
Creature - Human Knight
Whenever an Equipment enters the battlefield under your control, you may draw a card.
Metalcraft - As long as you control 3 or more artifacts, equip costs of equipment you control is 0.
2/2

?, 2W
Enchantment
You do not lose the game for having 0 or less life.
While you are at 0 or less life, all sources of damage to you gains Infect.

Psychological Surgery (?), 1U
Enchantment
Whenever an opponent shuffles his library, you may look at the top 2 cards of your library. You may exile one of them, then put them back on top of your library in any order.

?, 4U
Enchantment
When ? enters the battlefield, choose a creature type.
Creatures you control are the chosen type in addition to their other creature types.

Phyrexian Canceller, BBBB
Creature - Horror
Trample
Whenever a source deals damage to Phyrexian Canceller, that source's controller sacrifices that many permanents.
5/5


Chancellor of the Dross
4BBB
6/6
Creature - (Vampire)
Flying, Lifelink
At the beginning of the game, if ~ is in your hand, you may reveal it. If you do, at the beginning of your first upkeep, you may have each opponent lose 3 life. Gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Praetor's Grip
1BB
Sorcery
Search your opponent's deck for a card and exile it facedown. While it's exiled this way, you may look at it and play it as though it were in your hand.

?, BB
Enchantment - Aura
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has Infect.
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a -1/-1 counter on enchanted creature.
When enchanted creature goes to the graveyard from the battlefield, return ? to its owner's hand.

Invasion Parasite (?), 3RR
Creature - Insect
Imprint - When Invasion Parasite enters the battlefield, exile target a land.
Whenever an opponent plays a land with the same name as the exiled card, ~ deals 2 damage to him or her.
3/2

Scrapmetal Fiend (?), R
Creature - Construct
Scrapmetal Fiend's power and toughness are each equal to the number of artifact cards in all graveyards.
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Chancellor of the Furnace
4RRR
5/5
Creature - (Giant)
At the beginning of the game, if ~ is in your hand, you may reveal it and put a 1/1 red goblin creature with Haste on the battlefield.
When this enters the battlefield, put X 1/1 red goblin creatures with Haste onto the battlefield, where X is the number of creatures you control.


Urabrask, the Hidden, 3RR
Legendary Creature - Praetor
4/4
Creatures you control have Haste.
Creatures your opponents control enter the battlefield tapped.

Norn's Annex, 3ΦΦ
Artifact
(Φ may be paid for with either W or 2 life.)
Creatures can't attack you or Planeswalkers you control unless their controller pays P for each attacking creature.

Spawning Shell (?), 3Φ
Artifact
(Φ may be paid for with either G or 2 life.)
1Φ, T, sacrifice a creature: Search your library for a creature with CMC equal to or less than the sacrificed creature's. Put that creature into play, then shuffle your library. Play this ability only when you can play a Sorcery.


Caged Sun, 6
When Caged Sun enters the battlefield, choose a color.
Creatures you control of the chosen color have +1/+1.
Whenever you tap a land for mana, add one mana of the chosen color to your mana pool.

Spellsplitter (?), 2
Artifact Creature
Φ : Target spell that targets a single creature targets ~ instead.
(Φ may be paid for with either U or 2 life.)
0/4

Screamwhip (?), 4
Artifact - Equipment
Living Weapon
Equip ΦΦ (Φ may be paid for with either B or 2 life.)
Equipped creature has +1/+1 for each Swamp you control.













Hex Parasite, 1
Artifact Creature - Insect(?)
1/1
XΦ: Target a permanent. Remove up to X counters from that permanent. Hex Parasite gains +1/+0 until end of turn for each counter removed this way.

3G
Instant
Put a 3/3 green Beast creature token onto the battlefield for each creature that went to your graveyard from the battlefield this turn.

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We will provide updates / corrections to the above list as we get them so stay tuned.

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