The most recent Magic: The Gathering trailer is a puppet musical fever dream by The Jim Henson Firm
Lorwyn Eclipsed is an upcoming Magic: The Gathering growth that returns to the twin planes of Lorwyn and Shadowmoor—a pair of fairylands that used to modify pre-eminence in a 300-year cycle, by which the whimsical eternal-daylight realm of Lorwyn would commerce locations with the darkish and spooky Shadowmoor. Now the 2 lands exist facet by facet, however anybody who crosses from one to the opposite is reworked, not fairly the identical individual (or elf or boggart) they had been on the opposite facet.
It is pleasant is what it’s. And whereas it is also an ideal alternative for the Enjoyable Police to say how this proves Magic is best when it concentrates on its authentic setting slightly than crossovers, I feel I would be much more stoked if this was a Muppets/Labyrinth/Darkish Crystal set. Perhaps we’ll get a Secret Lair Drop with David Bowie because the Goblin King, that’d be neat.
Mechanically, Lorwyn Eclipsed is including a key phrase known as Vivid that varies results based mostly on what number of totally different colours you are taking part in (to emphasise the brilliant rainbow sunshine-funtimes of Lorwyn), whereas Blight helps you to plague your opponent with -1/-1 counters (to signify Shadowmoor’s nastiness). There’s additionally a returning idea from the unique Lorwyn set, with the Changeling attribute letting a shapeshifter benefit from the results of any bonuses that will usually solely apply to a selected creature.
Lorwyn Eclipsed shall be out digitally in Enviornment on January 20, and bodily on January 23 with the standard array of themed Commander decks and booster packs.