Our first real look at the last pure MTG set of the year is finally here. It’s bizarre to think that, after this, the rest of 2025 will be Universes Beyond sets. Still, at least we get to kick the rest of the year off with the purest MTG set we could possibly ask for.
Almost completely detached from the main story, Edge of Eternities offers an unrestricted dose of science fiction through the lens of Magic: The Gathering. A completely new cast outlines an entirely new Magic universe with revelations that will shake the multiverse to its core.
We’ve known for a long time that Tezzeret would be in this set, and he got spoiled a little early. Now, a series of new cards have been revealed as part of the MagicCon: Las Vegas preview panel.
Mutavault
There’s been some evidence that MTG Edge of Eternities has had a Bonus Sheet associated with it, and it has finally been officially revealed. This Bonus Sheet is focused on giving various lands from across Magic’s history the space treatment. Mutavault is the first card revealed to represent this.
It appears that these Bonus Sheet cards will have multiple treatments. The Stellar Sights cards appear to have both borderless and Galaxy Foil, a foil treatment from Unfinity, which each have different artworks.
As far as a reprint goes, Mutavault is decent. The card may only be worth about $3.50, but it does see a healthy amount of Pioneer and Commander play, meaning that there is some demand for it. Mutavault is one of the most efficient manlands MTG has ever seen, but the omni-typal aspect of it has become more and more relevant over time. This creates some fantastic synergies with Unholy Annex and Valley Floodcaller as a result.
Five Shock Lands???
It’s official! Five Shock Lands are returning to Standard upon the release of Edge of Eternities! Considering rotation is right around the corner, this is a much-needed addition to keep mana efficient.
Thanks to having both basic land types, Shock Lands are incredibly popular in Commander and Modern. This allows Fetch Lands to find them, creating incredibly flexible mana. Because of this, we would highly recommend grabbing a playset of each of these while they’re cheap. Shock Lands will always see high amounts of play in multiple MTG formats. These are absolutely fantastic reprints.
Spaceships are Now Magic Cards
It wouldn’t be a whole new world without some new MTG card types. The Seriema doesn’t turn into a creature until you manage to Station 7 power worth of creatures into it. Think of Station as something really similar to Crew. Instead of temporarily turning the Spacecraft into a creature for a cost, however, you need to stockpile power in the form of counters. Once you hit the goal, your Spacecraft permanently becomes an artifact creature.
This is a really difficult card to assess. The Seriema immediately replaces itself by searching for another Legendary creature, but you need so many resources to turn this card on. Personally, I think this is too expensive to see competitive play outside of potential combo decks that need redundancy, but it seems like a fun Commander card in decks that care about legendary creatures. Maybe this will be what Firion Storm needs to work?
Sothera, the Supervoid
Sothera, the Supervoid, however, seems very powerful. This has Dictate of Erebos vibes, forcing your opponents to exile a creature whenever one of yours dies. This card will immediately see play in any aristocrat Commander decks. The exile clause on your opponent’s creatures is a significant upside as well.
To make things better, once a player controls no creatures, Sothera, the Supervoid will bring back something it exiled with two +1/+1 counters on it. This is an interesting ability, but frankly, the card would have probably been better without it. This means that, unless you kill off a ton of creatures on the turn you resolve this card, you cannot play it. It will just die on the end step.
We’ll have to see how Standard evolves. If it’s very creature-heavy, this could be a great card. If not, it will likely just see Commander play, but it could be rather popular there.
The First Character
Sami, Ship’s Engineer represents one of the main characters in the Edge of Eternities story, but is otherwise a signpost uncommon for the Boros draft archetype in the set. This archetype appears to care about tapped creatures specifically, rewarding you with an extra Robot each turn if you can fulfill the requirement.
Sami, Ship’s Engineer is unlikely to see play past Draft, but there could be a rarer iteration of this character in the set that we haven’t seen yet.
The Second Character
Tannuk, Memorial Ensign is the second main character that we meet at the start of the Edge of Eternities story. He also reveals the Gruul Draft theme for the set: Landfall.
Unlike Sami, Tannuk actually has some potential. The damage effect isn’t too powerful, but sought after in Commander landfall decks. The second resolution effect makes Tannuk the most attractive version of this effect that we’ve seen yet. It is very easy to turn Tannuk into card advantage in a focused Commander strategy. This is a fantastic uncommon.
Lands Matter
If it hasn’t been made apparent by the land-focused Edge of Eternities Bonus Sheet and the return of Shock Lands, lands really matter in Edge of Eternities. This will be reflected in many of the set’s cards, like Harmonius Gravestrider. This seems like a decent Limited beatstick, especially in ramp decks.
Now that we’ve finally seen some cards for Edge of Eternities, the set appears to be off to a great start! Interestingly, the Mythic land cycle didn’t appear here, so there’s still some excitement to see in the coming days.
That’s far from all the news from MagicCon: Las Vegas, however. An Avatar: Last Airbender spoiler, a gigantic Commander rules change, two new MTG sets, and a new Draft format were all revealed as well. Interested? Just stay tuned to this space.
