MTG: Mark Rosewater Teases Wilds Of Eldraine Mechanics
With Wilds of Eldraine just around the corner, Mark Rosewater is back with another tease of new mechanics, text only.
Wilds of Eldraine is almost here, with fairy-tale fun and all sorts of Adventures awaiting. But there’s quite a bit more than a return to an old favorite plane in store for the upcoming set. Mark Rosewater posted a collection of Duelist style spoilers, previewing some Wilds of Eldraine mechanics, text only, sans context.
So here’s a look at some general rules and effects that might be happening. As well as some rules text that will be showing up on the cards themselves. Eldraine looks like it’ll be a great time. From looking at the top twenty cards of your library, to creature types and abilities from Alpha getting some time in the spotlight, here’s what we know.
Wilds of Eldraine Mechanics – New Tokens, Land Creatures, And More
First up, Rosewater posted what sorts of general rules and effects we might expect in the new set. Feast your eyes and get ready to unleash the wild speculation.
- a new type of token (at least done as a cohesive theme)
- a card that can activate to copy enchantments
- Adventures on a new permanent type
- an artifact that has two different artifact subtypes normally associated with artifact tokens
- a creature type from Alpha gets a draft archetype
- fairy tale Sagas
- multiple legendary Foods
- a new card with a lobotomy effect
- a creature with two triggers, one for artifacts entering the battlefield and one for enchantments
- a new mechanic that batches together three items that have been in the game since Alpha but never batched before
Two artifact subtypes normally associated with tokens? Blood food? Food clue? Treasure blood? The possibilities are staggering.
But let’s not forget the contextless rules text:
- “If a permanent entering the battlefield causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.”
- “Look at the top twenty cards of your library.”
- “it produces three times as much of that mana instead.”
- “Sacrifice all Reflections you control.”
- “Creatures you control with +1/+1 counters on them have all activated abilities of all creature cards exiled with CARDNAME.”
- “have base power and toughness 4/4 and flying.”
- “exile up to one other non-Fox creature”
- “Land creatures you control”
- “Whenever you tap an untapped creature an opponent controls,”
- “X is 2 plus the number of cards in your graveyard that are instant cards, sorcery cards, and/or have an Adventure.”
Other previews include new card names, like Scream Puff, Three Bowls of Porridge, and Protective Parents.
Let the wild speculation begin!
