Edge of Eternities Spoiler season is officially underway! Thanks to a surprising number of leaks over the past few days, a lot of the new cards revealed today were ones we’ve seen before. That said, there are a few new gems that even the leaks couldn’t spoil.
All of these cards offer incredible payoffs if players can find the right shell to play them in. Whether you’re trying to amass a board of damaging artifacts, or mill your opponent out with a board wipe, Edge of Eternities does it all.
Singularity Rupture
Edge of Eternities’ Box Topper Singularity Rupture creates a nasty win condition, allowing Dimir Control decks to potentially thrive in Standard. As a board wipe, Rupture is definitely overpriced, but combine it with Riverchurn Monument, and this becomes a two-card combo that wins the game.
Resolve a Singularity Rupture, wiping the board and milling half of your opponent’s library. Then, use Riverchrun Monument’s Exhaust ability to mill the other half. Your opponent will draw from an empty deck, losing the game.
This win condition costs 12 mana to pull off overall, but can be reduced by committing pieces on different turns. A combo similar to this currently exists as a niche deck in the Standard format, using Jace, the Perfected Mind and Doomsday Excrutiator as the win condition. For what it’s worth, this still works with Riverchurn Monument post-rotation, but having a board wipe be a part of the win condition might make this more effective.
Either way, Singularity Rupture isn’t just a silly card for Commander self-mill decks. It could help propel a new Standard archetype to relevance.
Genemorph Imago
Landfall is a big theme in Edge of Eternities, and Genemorph Imago encourages a combination of ramp and pressure. Since Imago can target itself, this card essentially functions as a 3/3 flier for two as long as you make your land drops. Get to six lands, and you can scale a creature into a 6/6. This could create a rather interesting landfall tempo deck alongside cards like Sazh’s Chocobo and friends, or could simply be a smaller piece in a go-big ramp deck.
It’s easy to forget, but Tatyova, Benthic Druid is Standard legal. Reprinted in MTG Foundations, Tatyova could be a massive draw engine that helps create a landfall tempo-esque deck. This sort of theme encourages going big, as well, and Ureni, the Song Unending could be a great curve-topper once Atraxa, Grand Unifier rotates out of the format.
Genemorph Imago seems like a fascinating, cheaper creature in a larger overall landfall deck.
Weapons Manufacturing
Weapons Manufacturing is the type of card that asks to be broken. This will either be a problem or useless, and there probably isn’t anything in between.
Weapons Manufacturing certainly has a potential home. 8-Mox decks in Modern could employ the card as a potential win condition. Play this alongside a bunch of zero-mana artifacts, and you’ll be making a ton of Munitions tokens instantly. This would also increase Affinity counts substantially, potentially supporting a red-based archetype of that.
Whether this card works or not will ultimately depend on how easy it is to use the Munitions tokens that Weapons Manufacturing creates. They can’t get themselves off the board, so you’ll need to find another way to do it. Whether you decide to use a sacrificial outlet, like Grinding Station, or some sort of mass bounce effect, if there’s an effective way to use the Munitions tokens, this card will be great.
Notably, the Edge of Eternities Lobster Citizen Ragost, Deft Gastronaut does give you a way to get these off the board. Combine that with Biotech Specialist, and you could have a deck on your hands.
Sami, Wildcat Captain
This card is certainly for the Commander players, but Sami, Wildcat Captain can create some explosive plays in the right circumstances. Granting all of your spells Affinity for artifacts encourages a combination of mana rocks in the early game with massive, colorless payoffs later on. This could be an interesting ‘Eldrazi in disguise’ Commander.
As long as you combine mana rocks with cards that make a lot of artifacts and massive payoffs, Sami looks like a fun Commander. In this lens, cards like Myr Battlesphere may make for the perfect payoffs for this deck. The card is both a decent board presence and can make even more expensive spells a lot cheaper.
Because Sami, Wildcat Captain doubles as an impressive threat, this could be a bizarre card to try in equipment Commander decks. As long as you have a ton of equipment in play, any follow-up spells will be quite cheap to cast. Equip them all to Sami, and you can go a Voltron route with this Commander.
While Sami, Wildcat Captain does seem interesting for Commander, it looks far too expensive to see play anywhere else. The payoff simply isn’t worthwhile unless you’re somehow using it to pull off a combo win.
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