MTG: Midnight Hunt Teasers (About 4 Hours Early)
Get ready for a look into the gloomy, mist-riddled world of Werewolves and Vampires that is Innistrad with some teasers for Midnight Hunt.
Mark Rosewater has another of his famous “reveal rules text without revealing the card attached” previews in store, this time for MTG’s Midnight Hunt. These are vague hints, teasers, really of things to come. But what from what we’re seeing, Midnight Hunt has got fangs! Let’s take a look.
Alright first things first, here’s a look at some vague overall truths about the set:
three popular mechanics previously seen on Innistrad return
• a new drawback for creature tokens that lets us create them cheaper
• a white card that could potentially draw you a card each turn
• a popular Innistrad card gets reprinted
• a curse that transforms into a creature
• two permanents that can double something every turn
• a mythic cycle with “you may pay [COST] any number of times”
• a four mana blue aura with “You control enchanted creature.”
• A popular tournament card in multiple formats gets reprinted with its fifth piece of art.
• a character from Innistrad once mentioned in a short story finally gets a card in an Innistrad set
Curses, popular reprints, and a new drawback for tokens–that’ll be exciting. And also exciting to see an Innistrad short story character get a chance to have a card of their own.
But here’s a batch of specific rules texts, though completely devoid of context:
• “If your life total would be reduced to 0 or less,”
• “This spell costs 1 less to cast for each creature you attacked with this turn.”
• “As [CARDNAME] enters the battlefield, note your life total.”
• “put a slime counter on up to one other target creature.”
• “Creature tokens you control lose all abilities and have base power and toughness 3/3.”
• “Each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard has”
• “Instants and sorcery spells you cast cost X less to cast, where X is [CARDNAME]’s power.”
• “put that many +1/+1 counters on [CARDNAME], then create twice that many 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens”
• “At the beginning of your end step, if you have exactly 13 life,”
• “You may cast any number of the copies without paying their mana costs.”
That’s going to be a whole lot of zombies. And slime counters. Let’s take a look at some of the creature type lines from the set:
• Creature – Hippogriff Spirit
• Creature – Human Soldier Werewolf
• Creature – Dragon Egg
• Creature – Leech Horror
• Creature – Fungus Horror
• Creature – Plant Horror
• Creature – Drake Horror
• Creature – Demon Dog
• Legendary Creature – Ooze
• Legendary Creature – Vampire Noble
All this, coming in Midnight Hunt
