Happy Sunday MTG peeps,
Wizards of the Coast held the much anticipated War of the Spark Panel at PAX East today and delivered a set trailer as well as a number of previews. Panelists included creative lead Doug Beyer, set design lead Dave Humpherys, and art director Taylor Ingvarsson, Magic: the Gathering Professional Player Brad Nelson. The Panel was hosted by Jimmy Wong of Game Knights and the Command Zone.
War of the Spark Mechanics
War of the Spark releases on May 3, 2019. The main theme of the set is planeswalkers and cards that interact with them. The set features 36 planeswalkers and ach booster pack contains a planeswalker card. All planeswalkers are new cards never printed before cards.
Proliferate, originally from the Scars of Mirrodin block returns to Standard format. When a player proliferates, he or she chooses any number of players and / or permanents with a counter on them, then puts another of those counters on these players or permanents. However, it now has now been modified from choosing a type of counter already present and adding one counter of that type, to adding one counter of each type already present.
Affinity, last seen in the Mirrodin block, appears only on Tezzeret, Master of the Bridge. It reduces the mana cost of a spell by the number of permanents of a certain type that player controls (typically artifacts).
New mechanic - Amass. "Amass N" means put N +1/+1 counters on an Army creature you control. If you don't control one, create a 0/0 black Zombie Army creature token first. Army becomes a new addition to creature types.
PREVIEWS
Ajani, the Greathearted
Ajani's Pridemate
Augur of Bolas
Basic Land - Forest
Basic Land - Island
Basic Land - Mountain
Basic Land - Plains
Basic Land - Swamp
Bolas's Citadel
Dreadhorde Invasion
Emergence Zone
Flux Channeler
Herald of the Dreadhorde
Ignite the Beacon
Interplanar Beacon
Invade the City
Liliana, Dreadhorde General
No Escape
Ob Nixilis, the Hate-Twisted
Ob Nixilis's Cruelty
Ravnica at War
Relentless Advance
Tezzeret, Master of the Bridge
Tibalt, Rakish instigator
Tibalt's Rager
Time Wipe
Vraska, Swarm's Eminence
Vraska's Finisher
Widespread Brutality