Mark Rosewater's Teasers for Edge of Eternities

Magic: The Gathering's headdesigner Mark Rosewater has shared some previews of the mechanics, abilities, creature types, and names players will encounter in the card game's upcoming expansion, Edge of Eternities, set to release on August 1.

Effects and Abilities

• repeatable activated ability that lets you draw two cards and create a 2/2 creature token

• white card that can return noncreature, nonland cards from the graveyard to the battlefield

• another “Arch” charm

• card that makes you choose odd or even

• new artifact token called Munitions

• variant on devour

• card that lets you take control of an opponent

• legendary five-color artifact

• poison card

• card that grants an ability to Slivers

Rules Text

• “Whenever you play a land or cast a spell, draw a card.”

• “If it’s not a creature, it becomes a 0/0 Robot artifact creature.”

• “You may play lands from your graveyard.”

• “you may instead create that many tokens that are copies of enchanted permanent.”

• “Artifact cards and red cards in your hand have”

• “put target creature from defending player’s graveyard onto the battlefield under your control tapped and attacking.”

• “The first spell each player casts during each of their turns may be cast without paying its mana cost.”

• “X is the number of differently named lands you control.”

• “Artifacts you control are Foods in addition to their other types”

• “Spells you cast have affinity for artifacts.”

Creature Types

• Creature – Jellyfish Scientist

• Creature – Insect Artificer

• Creature – Plant Scorpion

• Creature – Drix Assassin

• Creature – Elemental Lhurgoyf

• Creature – Mite

• Artifact Creature – Robot Pangolin

• Legendary Creature – Kavu Scout

• Legendary Creature – Lobster Citizen

• Creature – Eldrazi

Card Names

• Close Encounter

• Command Bridge

• Decode Transmissions

• Emergency Eject

• Invasive Maneuvers

• Lost in Space

• Nebula Dragon

• Space-Time Anomaly

• Systems Override

• Tractor Beam

Edge of Eternities is the fourth mainline set of the year for Magic: The Gathering and the last set in 2025 themed within the card game's own universe. Official previews begin on July 8, with the Prerelease taking place between July 25 and 30 and the official launch on August 1.

Source: Blogatog