Ixalan Spoilers; WOTC Approved

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Posted on Aug. 28, 2017, 12:44 p.m. by MindAblaze

Good Morning Everyone,

Wizards has spoiled the new Mechanics and a couple new cards;

Raid is making a return!

Vehicles are back!

Enrage is a new triggered ability that goes off when the creature with Enrage is dealt damage.

Mechanics Spoiler

RedmundR2 says... #2

Either the link is broken or their website is down from so much traffic lol

August 28, 2017 12:48 p.m.

clayperce says... #3

Please join the conversation over on the Ixalan Spoilers thread, which has been active since 16 Jun. Thanks!

August 28, 2017 12:53 p.m.

clayperce says... #4

MindAblaze,
Btw, they also officially spoiled all the previously leaked cards, at the bottom of this article.

August 28, 2017 12:55 p.m.

Dabean27 says... #5

So I found my naya commander

August 28, 2017 12:56 p.m.

OneItsStarted says... #6

So Ixalan is going to be the best of everything huh? Double-faced cards, Vehicles, Tribal, cool new tribes, new spins on old tribes, Mirror Gallery spikes.

August 28, 2017 1:09 p.m.

AMJacker says... #7

Enrage is a Hearthstone thing though right?

August 28, 2017 1:47 p.m.

OneItsStarted says... #8

AMJacker, yes Enrage is a Hearthstone mechanic of similar ability. The diference is that damage is permanent in Hearthstone and the Enrage ability there is a one time effect: a 1/3 thata says "Enrage: +2 Attack" would become a 3/2 if dealt 1 damage or a 3/1 if dealt 2.

August 28, 2017 1:57 p.m.

MindAblaze says... #9

solarPULSAR I fixed my link. clayperce's link sends me to space too.

August 28, 2017 5:35 p.m.

Epochalyptik says... #10

Join the fun over here!

August 28, 2017 6:06 p.m.

sylvannos says... #11

So probably the most important change in this set:

Jace, Cunning Castaway

Planeswalkers are now legendary permanents, meaning they're subject to all the same rules as other legendary permanents. From WotC Mothership:

Starting with this set, all planeswalkers past, present, and future will have the supertype legendary. They will also be subject to the "legend rule." The "planeswalker uniqueness rule" is going away. What does this mean? In short, everything that's true about legendary permanents will now be true about legendary planeswalkers. Also note that this does not mean legendary planeswalkers can be your Commander unless an ability says so.

Under the new rules, if a player controls more than one legendary planeswalker with the same name, that player chooses one and puts the other into their owner's graveyard. This means that if you control Jace, Unraveler of Secrets and cast Jace, Cunning Castaway, both Jaces can exist under your control.

Personally, I'm not really a fan. The main impact will be in Standard. WotC was smart enough to wait for all the Gideons to be cycled out, which is good.

I liked the limitation before where you had to consider which version of planeswalkers you wanted during deck construction. With this change, you can now jam multiple of the same planeswalker type with zero repercussions. I'm not exactly excited to sit across the table from Liliana of the Veil, Liliana, the Last Hope, and Liliana, Defiant Necromancer  Flip just to get shit on even more.

Or worse, Nissas ramping into more Nissas.

Yeah, I'm not really all that excited.

The following are also impacted by this change:

I doubt you'll be able to speculate on any of them now that the change is official, but pick them up for cheap if you can.

August 28, 2017 6:13 p.m.

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