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Sting, Bilbo's Sword {2} Legendary Artifact — Equipment Flash When Sting enters, put a hone counter on Sting for each creature target opponent controls. Attach Sting to up to one target creature you control. (Each hone counter on an Equipment grants +1/+0 to equipped creature.) Equip {3} Illustrated by Tomas Duchek See play: Time will tell This one is a wait and see for me tbh. The card can give a big stat buff, don’t get me wrong. However, only buffing attack and not getting any other keywords hurts the card a teeny bit. The most interesting thing with the card is to see if hone counters are used on any other cards for the set. With that note…this is really only a great card if you are kind of behind…which….is kind of awkward for a equipment.
My Precious {3} Legendary Artifact — Equipment Equipped creature has hexproof and can’t be blocked. Equip—{2}, Pay 2 life. “It won’t see us, will it, my precious?” Allure of Power {1}{B} Instant — Adventure As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Draw two cards. See play: Multiple formats Just to be blunt…the equipment portion of this is very powerful. Making any creature have those abilities can win ya games. Imagine putting this on a Fynn, the Fangbearer for example. The adventure portion is just upside. Keep an eye on this.
The Arkenstone {5} Legendary Artifact Creatures you control get +1/+1. At the beginning of your end step, draw a card. Seek the Heart {2}{W} Sorcery — Adventure Search your library for a legendary creature card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. (Then exile this card. You may cast the artifact later from exile.) Illustrated by Gaboleps See play:Limited, Singleton, Other formats??? You are getting a good amount of value out of this card. The tutor is nice, the anthem is nice, and the additional card draw will add up. Really, you only want to play this in decks with legendary creatures…but…in commander, that won’t be much a sweat. Honestly, probably not much a sweat in standard as well with the amount of legendary creatures we getting in general…..maybe?
Wood Elves {2}{G} Creature — Elf Scout When this creature enters, search your library for a Forest card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle. After the coming of Humans, the Wood-Elves took ever more and more to the gloaming and the dusk. Still Elves they were and remained—that is, Good People. 1/1 Illustrated by Andreia Ugrai See play: Limited, Singleton, Standard, Alchemy Ah…a classic! While the card doesn’t look like a lot for 3 mana…the fact it can get any forest UNTAPPED is pretty good. It going to compete with some of the ramp in current standard (point to badgermole), but, I think this will see some play.
Burn, Burn, Tree and Fern {3}{R} Enchantment — Saga (As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after IV.) I — This Saga deals 6 damage to target creature an opponent controls. II — Destroy target artifact an opponent controls. III, IV — Add {R}. Illustrated by Rovina Cai See play: Limited, Singleton, Other formats??? To be fair…you are getting A LOT out of this saga in general. Having creature and artifact removal is nice (especially potentially in a tablet meta…) and the extra mana is a bonus. Keeping my eye on this.
Desolation of Smaug {2}{R}{R} Sorcery Desolation of Smaug deals 3 damage to each non-Dragon creature. Add four mana in any combination of colors. Spend this mana only to cast Dragon spells. At the twanging of the bows and the shrilling of the trumpets, the Dragon’s wrath blazed to its height, till he was blind and mad with it. Illustrated by Irvin Rodriguez See play: Multiple formats While paying 4 mana for a board wipe of this nature is on par of what we expect….getting the ritual on top of it to use for dragon spells of any color combo is absolute bananas. With the amount of powerful 4 cost dragons…don’t sleep on this. Also, will be pretty silly in standard with Tablet of Discovery along with all the dragons we have thanks to Dragonstorm and Foundations and more.
Gandalf, Goblins' Bane {2}{R} Legendary Creature — Avatar Wizard Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, Gandalf gets +1/+1 until end of turn and deals 1 damage to each opponent. 2/3 Flameshape {1}{R} Sorcery — Adventure Look at the top two cards of your library and exile them face down. For as long as they remain exiled, you may play them if you control a Wizard. Illustrated by Francisco Miyara See play: Multiple formats While the creature portion of this looks…ok, and the adventure mode looks…pretty good…the fact that you getting both on one creature is what will make this card very good honestly. Be prepared to see this card quite a bit in some deck designs in multiple formats.
Thorin, Mountain-king {3}{R} Legendary Creature — Dwarf Noble Trample When Thorin enters, attach any number of target Equipment you control to target creature you control. When one or more Equipment become attached to that creature this way, that creature deals damage equal to its power to up to one target creature. “To me! O my kinsfolk!” 3/4 Illustrated by Javier Charro See play: Singleton, Limited (depend on the amount of equipment), Standard, Alchemy I mean…if there a card that screams…”Throw me in boros/jeskai equipment!”, this card is that. The creature burn/free equip on a creature is nice…and the fact that the jeskai variants of equipment decks are playing Jane Foster/ have other ways to flicker creatures…keep an eye on Thorin.
Smaug the Magnificent {2}{R}{R} Legendary Creature — Dragon Flying, haste Whenever Smaug attacks, he deals damage equal to the number of Treasures you control to any target. At the beginning of your upkeep, create a Treasure token. “You think you will get a fair share? If you get off alive, you will be lucky.” 4/3 Illustrated by Francisco Miyara See play: Multiple formats I mean…they have this as the headliner for a good reason. Card going to do some work. Nice aggressive threat in general, but, with the bonus of the treasure burn/generation. A lot of treasure matter deck designs are going to play this card. A lot of dragon matter deck designs are going to play/humor this card. Plus, there a lot of treasure generators in standard that I can see this in a deck or two.
Gollum, Riddle Master {1}{B} Legendary Creature — Halfling Horror As Gollum enters, choose odd or even. (Zero is even.) Whenever an opponent casts a spell with mana value of the chosen quality, choose one that hasn’t been chosen — • Put a +1/+1 counter on Gollum. • Each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life. • Draw a card. 3/1 Illustrated by Irvin Rodriguez See play: Limited, Singleton, Other formats??? I might get a little flak for this…but…I don’t think this card is that great. Don’t get me wrong, I can see the potential value you can get from such a cheap creature….but…it is very dependent on some matchups. Still, for it being so cheap, I keep my eye on it…but, I think it’s not going to be as silly as people are predicting. (while flavorful, the fact you restricted to modes that have not been chosen hurts the card quite a bit)
Supper for Spiders {1}{B} Instant Put onto the battlefield under your control all creature cards in your opponents’ graveyards that were put there from the battlefield this turn. They are Food artifacts with “{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: You gain 3 life.” (They lose all other types and subtypes.) The spiders laughed. “You were quite right,” they said, “the meat’s alive and kicking!” Illustrated by Michele Giorgi See play: Limited, Singleton, Other formats??? These type of cards can be pretty strong, especially with the current value of etb/static ability creatures that we have in Magic. However…this does require a teeny setup and is a bit match dependent. Still, there will at the very least be some commander decks that will like this card quite a bit. Ygra, ext.
Elrond, Moon-Reader {2}{U} Legendary Creature — Elf Noble Whenever you activate an ability of a creature, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn. {5}{U}{U}: Exile up to two other target nonland permanents you control. Return those cards to the battlefield under their owner’s control at the beginning of the next end step. 3/3 Illustrated by Christina Kraus See play: Multiple formats While the flicker mode is pretty expensive, it’s nice to have in a pinch. Primarily though, the strength of this card is with the potential card draw trigger. While restricted to once each turn….it’s not hard to take full advantage of that…especially in multiplayer based formats. Card going to do some work.
Bilbo, Thief in the Night {1}{U} Legendary Creature — Halfling Rogue Spells you cast from anywhere other than your hand cost {1} less to cast. Whenever Bilbo attacks, you may cast an artifact, instant, or sorcery spell from your graveyard. If an instant or sorcery spell cast this way would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead. “I am an honest burglar, more or less.” 2/2 Illustrated by Nia Kovalevski See play: Limited, Singleton, Standard, Alchemy While this is not going to replace Doc Aurok in the discount department, still nice to have a post rotation option in discounting cards in this manner. Still, the primary reason you be playing this card is the second mode which is pretty powerful. I can see this being humored for some deck designs.
The Theorist, Jace Beleren {2}{U}{U} Legendary Planeswalker — Jace At the beginning of each opponent’s draw step, you draw a card. +1: Create a 1/1 blue Illusion creature token. −2: For each opponent, return up to one target artifact or creature that player controls to its owner’s hand. −6: Draw three cards. Then put X +1/+1 counters on each creature you control, where X is the number of cards in your hand. Loyalty: 3 Illustrated by Miles Johnston
Riddles in the Dark {2}{U} Instant Look at the top four cards of your library and separate them into a face-down pile and a face-up pile. An opponent chooses one of the piles. Put that pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard. “What have I got in my pocket?” —Bilbo Illustrated by Lorenzo Mastroianni See play: Multiple formats (Especially standard) While this will compete with cards like stock up…I think it will just replace that card in deck designs that manipulate with there graveyard (lessons, reanimator, ext). You can make the piles where it would just benefit ya a majority of the time no matter what ya opponent chooses. Great card.
Bilbo, Luckwearer {1}{U} Legendary Creature — Halfling Rogue Bilbo can’t be blocked. Whenever Bilbo deals combat damage to a player, draw a card, then discard a card. 1/1 Burglar's Plot {4}{U} Sorcery — Adventure Exchange control of two target nonland permanents that share a card type. (Then exile this card. You may cast the creature later from exile.) Illustrated by Anna Steinbauer See play: Limited, Singleton, Standard? Alchemy? Mostly just a solid early game looter for limited. The adventure side along with it makes it tempting to try in some yoink based/combo deck designs but will see if it sticks.