As promised last week, Magic: The Gathering head designer Mark Rosewater has teased some card details for Modern Horizons 2 today to get fans hyped for the second straight-to-Modern set. These Duelist-style teasers hint at what the brand new cards will do, and includes a list of snippets that contain partial information, creature types, and mechanics.
Over on his Blogatog, he shared the following the Modern Horizons 2 teasers ahead of the beginning of the preview season for the set, on May 20.
Mark Rosewater’s Modern Horizons 2 teasers
First up, here are some things you can expect:
• a legendary character best known for having his name on a powerful card (that’s been banned) finally gets a legendary creature
• a theme on only a handful of cards in Modern Horizons gets a larger presence
• a Frog twenty-six years in the making
• new split cards
• a Future Sight mechanic reused for first time
• a character that first appeared in a Magic novel finally becomes a legendary creature
• A card with the number words “four” and “fourteen”.
• a fan favorite animal character finally becomes a legendary creature
• a white enchantment with a trigger that investigates
• a planeswalker from the past that has previously only had a legendary creature card
Here are some snippets from rules text that appear in the set:
• “Whenever you cast your third spell each turn,”
• “for each other Ooze you control.”
• “If an ability of a <CENSORED> or another <CENSORED> you control triggers, that ability triggers an additional time.”
• “This ability costs 1 less to activate for each +1/+1 counter on creatures you control.”
• “you may sacrifice a Mountain rather than pay this spell’s mana cost.”
• “Trample over planeswalkers”
• “If an Insect card was milled this way,”
• “Protection from permanents with corruption counters on them”
• “choose a number between 1 and 5. Flip that many coins.”
• “instead create one of each.”
Here are some type lines from the set:
• Artifact Creature – Assembly-Worker
• Creature – Dinosaur Illusion
• Creature – Dauthi Rogue
• Creature – Skeleton Shaman
• Creature – Elemental Incarnation
• Artifact Creature – Clue Myr
• Tribal Artifact – Lhurgoyf
• Legendary Creature – Merfolk God
• Legendary Creature – Snake Elf Scout
• Legendary Creature – Squirrel Warrior
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A couple of weeks ago, Wizards of the Coast already gave us our first look at the five Fetchlands with special old school frames and some new cards from Modern Horizons 2, including one of the weirdest cards ever printed yet, but it looks like fans are already excited to find out about the other cards featured in the highly-anticipated set. For now, we can speculate we can speculate the cards partially teased by Rosewater, or these rumored leaks from Redditor Mmmtk4:
- Dakkon is a planeswalker and will have old border treatment
- Black skeleton that makes copies of creatures that regenerate or something like that
- Legendary Naya dinosaur that tutors for another dinosaur
- Legendary zombie named Korlash
- Ashnod Card dimir sacrifice earns mill matters
- Legendary wall and juggernaut that goads walls attack as though…
- Fateful hour white draw spell that fills your hand
- Money card similar to chains of Mephistopheles
- Trilobite demon
- White card that you can have any amount of
- Azorious sliver that functions without its tribe
If you’re excited for Modern Horizons 2, you can now preorder Draft Boosters, Collector Boosters, Set Boosters, and Bundles online .
Modern Horizons 2 is scheduled to release on June 18, 2021. You can check out spoiler section here.
