Magic: Party – Eternal Edge Preview
Blog Andrew Joseph 09 Jul , 2025 0
It's been a month since the Magician was able to sneak into the realm of Final Fantasy and its memorable characters, but now it's time to see the stars and get ready to explode in the next “Edge of Evernity” in the trading card game. IGN has recently had the opportunity to check out some new cards and will break down new mechanic players on the scene when they launch on August 1 (Booking is now available).
Eternal Edge Important Date:
- July 18: Full card image library
- July 25-31: Eternal Edge Pre-issue Event
- July 29: MTG Arena Release Date
- August 1: Global desktop release
From spaceships to alien races, this new version is far from the aesthetic of the more advanced fantasy that Magic is famous for, but essentially it is still a magic: a party scene. One thing the team wants to show is that the edge of eternity is science fiction, not science fiction, which means you can expect to see flying space whales and spacecraft.
As it is still early in the spoiler cycle, the Wizard is still retaining the vast majority of the scene, but we do confirm that the Magician’s most terrifying creature will appear in the blind eternity. Eternal resident of the blind, Eldrazi, will once again cause damage to the players revealed by the “Anticausal Vestige”. For six mana points, it says: “When this card leaves the battlefield and draws a card, you can make its mana points less than or equal to the amount of land you control from your hands or a permanent card equal to Warp 4 (Warp for the time being). However, it's even more exciting (I admit my next bias is because I love them and have their deck), and it looks like Slivers are returning! We have to see a new alternative display cabinet art version of Sliver Overlord and The narrative that the wizard has been releasing Because the set also means the return of these angry creatures, I can't wait. After all, being a small animal, what can only do with a single piece of debris?
The eternal edge also sees a reprint of highly demanding and popular impact lands – a special two-color land. These lands will allow you to leverage one of the two colors of mana, and although it will usually strike similar cards, the shocking land will be undeveloped, meaning you can use them right away!
Compared to some recent collections, Eternal Edges is easy to use only four new mechanisms – Ineffective, warping, station, and Rand Token. The station is first at MagicCon Vegas And similar to crew vehicles, thus digging out creatures is beneficial. However, there are some important differences at the station. First, hitting the creature to the station can only operate in your turn at the speed of witchcraft, doing so will counter the card based on the total power of the creature you dig, and once the threshold is reached, the card will gain new abilities. Although we have seen examples of starships including station mechanics, the wizards now reveal a new type of land, the planets, which will also benefit from that mechanic. Each of these five main colors will feature their own professional planet, and when stationed there will be some pretty powerful effects, such as the blue “Uthro, the godcore of Titanic”, which will click on a blue blue by default, but when the 12+ needs of blue are met, the blue and click on UTHROS will add a blue mana to each artifact you control.
Next comes Warp, which is an alternative casting option for cards. By casting a card whose warp yarn cost (it looks better than normal casting costs), it will enter the battlefield and then exil in the next end step. The twist of these cards is that they can be cast in a later time to allow them to obtain normal costs from exile. From the appearance, many of the cards with warp threads have a “on-entry” trigger effect, allowing you to take advantage of the effects twice. However, these cards can be played from the exile only when they are sent to exile due to the payment of the warp effect, so if another card exiles them, they will disappear forever and cannot be played.
Void pairs with Warp, giving players new options to enhance the card effects they appear. The effect of the void card can be enhanced by playing cards with blank cards after they leave the battlefield permanently, or by playing a card due to the cost of its warp yarn (called spell warp). I'm interested in the possible synergistic opportunities between various twisted cards and invalid cards.
Finally, the lander token is introduced in this latest suit. By paying for two chromatic mana and sacrificing tokens, you can search the basic land in the library and make it work. Just right at the bat's right now, I can already see how the cards that produce these lander tokens prove to be a powerful addition to any landing deck and get out of Final Fantasy, cards like “tifa lockhart” that can easily leverage your other utilities whenever the land plays out. Come out, undeveloped instead of a tap, letting you use them right away! Talk about mana ramps!
Beyond the twists outside of the mechanics, there are like the newly revealed Cosmogoyf (“the power of this creature is equal to the number of cards you have in exile, and its toughness equals that number plus 1”) and Sothera, superveoid (“Whenever the creature you control can control the creature you control, each opponent sacrifices his own creativity rather than creating his own creator. Exile to the battlefield on the battlefield you control, with two +1/+1 counters on it. If this ends up being the case, a card with flashback or Agatha’s soul cauldron, which allows you to exile cards from the cemetery to easily make cards like Cosmogoyf super horror. We will have to see how much they tend to exile (hopefully there aren’t too many “exiled in this way” cards, so you have to keep track of which cards are banished to what).
The Edge of Eternity continues to push the Magic: Entering a new dimension through this space fantasy adventure. Who knows what other mysteries are waiting for near Blind Eternity and what horrors are waiting for the player? This peak of the scene has us tasted the idea of starting to construct a new deck, which will be revealed more and more next month. Also, be sure to enjoy the amazing cards from recent Final Fantasy, including wide-eyed versus cards Everyone seems to want it yes chase. For a full look at the rest of the Magic year, check out our full release schedule, along with fans of Secret Lair, including the upcoming Sonic The Hedgehog Dropcheck out our Every drop collapses So far this year.
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