MTG: Unfinity Spoilers Abound
Magic: the Gathering’s newest set, Unfinity, unleashes the unlimited power of stickers. Unfinity spoilers showcase bold new sticker-based strategies.
The future of Magic the Gathering is here. And it’s stickers. Sure, it’s just the future for like, one set. Not even an “official” set, it’s one of the UN-sets. Unfinity joins Unglued, Unhinged, and Unstable in the ranks of silver-bordered sets. These are the same sets that gave rise to rulings like “taking off your pants is faster than a mana source.”
And in the Unfinity spoilers we got this weekend, even more silliness looms large.
MTG: Unfinity Spoilers
During this weekend’s SDCC, Mark Rosewater unveiled Unfinity the newest Magic: the Gathering set. This is a “novelty” set, meaning you can look forward to having fun with it. It’s definitely not intended or balanced for competitive play. Which means there’s a ton of fun stuff out there right now.
The biggest one, right now, is stickers. In Unfinity, cards will grant you tickets, which you can then spend on stickers. Stickers can add keywords, card names, even whole blocks of rules text.
Animate object, up there, lets you put an inanimate object you own into play on the board.
Urza’s Dark Cannonball, on the other hand, has name, keyword, and rules text stickers. The whole thing is created on the fly. Which means there’s all sorts of fun interaction between good friends (who are cards).
Note the acorn symbol at the bottom of Angelic Harold here. That means the card is part of the Unfinity set and won’t be legal in many formats.
However, some cards will be legal in other formats. They’ll lack the acorn symbol, thusly:
Magar of the Magic Strings will be able to be used in other formats. As will Wicker Picker:
Which seems also to imply that sticker, as a mechanic, might not just be in Unfinity in the near future.
Unfinity releases October 7th
