Eternal Masters

Eternal Masters
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Set Information
Set symbol
Symbol description	An hourglass made of a shape also used in the expansion symbols of Modern Masters and Modern Masters 2015
Design	Tom LaPille (lead) Ethan Fleischer Aaron Forsythe Bryan Hawley
Development	Adam Prosak (lead) Sam Stoddard Bryan Hawley
Art direction	Jeremy Jarvis
Release date	June 10, 2016
Plane	Multiversal
Set size	249 cards (101 commons, 80 uncommons, 53 rares, 15 mythic rares)
Expansion code	EMA
Development codename	Jitterbug
Physical Masters series
Modern Masters 2015 Eternal Masters Modern Masters 2017
Magic: The Gathering Chronology
Shadows over Innistrad Eternal Masters Eldritch Moon

Eternal Masters is a booster-based compilation set containing cards legal in, and intended for, the Legacy, Commander, and Vintage formats. It was released on June 10, 2016.

Set details

Eternal Masters booster

“

Draft Through Eternity

”

Eternal Masters is a 249 reprint set containing some of the most sought-after cards from throughout the history of Magic — some with new artwork. Eternal Masters is designed to be a unique and enjoyable Draft experience, much like Modern Masters. It does not contain cards from the Reserved List, but it features many Eternal staples. It is aimed at a more advanced player. Eternal Masters was inspired by the Magic Online-only set Vintage Masters, but adds some Modern-legal cards to make the archetypes work.

Eternal Masters is exclusively booster-based, thus no satellite products such as Preconstructed decks are branded with the set. Each booster contains 15 playable cards: 10 commons, 3 uncommons and one rare or mythic rare, and one foil card of any rarity replacing the basic land which would normally be found in a booster as Eternal Masters does not contain a run of basic lands. The 16-card boosters (the sixteenth card is a marketing card) feature artwork from Deathrite Shaman, Bloodbraid Elf and Goblin Charbelcher. Due to the higher expected average value of the cards contained in a booster and the lower print run, the MSRP of one booster of Eternal Masters was set to $9.99 (with the MSRP of a booster of the current draft set being $3.49). Due to the higher MSRP booster displays only contain 24 packs, which is also the number required for a regular draft (three boosters for each of eight players), as the set was designed specifically for draft. A number of cards also change rarity to create a better drafting environment.

The set is printed in English, Japanese and Chinese Simplified. Because of the popularity and the limited print run, the distribution is WPN exclusive and partially allocation based.

Magic Story

Title	Author	Release Date	Setting (plane)	Featuring
The Prodigal Sorcerers	Mark Price	2016-05-25	Dominaria	Kellan Boldt, Enthril, Ghavos
All That Came Before	Leah Potyondy	2016-06-01	Mercadia	Cho-Akhan, Cho-Fihad, Cho-Shadi, Cho-Hanni, Cho-Ran, Cho-Annu, Cho-Biaal, Cho-Tunni, Sia-am-Erh

Controversy

On February 16, 2016, the Twitter account MTGDeepthroat@Vendorleak accused 2-3 unnamed vendors of possession of the card list for Eternal Masters and insider trading. WotC started an investigation, stating that they didn't provide preferential treatment to any card vendor, distributor, or retailer; nor disclosed detailed card set information prior to preview season. The account @Vendorleak later apologised and said they had been mislead and the evidence they had was fabricated. Their Twitter account is currently suspended.

Magic Online

Eternal Masters was released on Magic Online on June 17 and was available until July 6. The digital MSRP was $6.99. It was not available for redemption.

Themes and mechanics

Eternal Masters features the following limited archetypes:

• : Skies (Thunderclap Wyvern)
• : Reanimator (Extract from Darkness)
• : Sacrifice/Morbid (Torrent of Souls)
• : Fast Aggro (Bloodbraid Elf)
• : Enchantments (Armadillo Cloak)
• : Recursion with ETB effects (Gravedigger)
• : Spells from the graveyard/Flashback/Retrace) (Wee Dragonauts)
• : Elves (Shaman of the Pack)
• : Tokens/Go wide (Flame-Kin Zealot)
• : Threshold (Werebear)

Changes in rarity

Common to Uncommon

• Ancestral Mask
• Armadillo Cloak
• Brainstorm
• Chain Lightning
• Daze
• Faith's Fetters
• Flame Jab
• Ghitu Slinger
• Hymn To Tourach
• Invigorate
• Merfolk Looter
• Prismatic Lens
• Prodigal Sorcerer
• Timberwatch Elf
• Wee Dragonauts

Common to Rare

• Sinkhole

Uncommon to Common

• Avarax
• Carbonize
• Cephalid Sage
• Desperate Ravings
• Dragon Egg
• Elephant Guide
• Elite Vanguard
• Glacial Wall
• Humble
• Kird Ape (reverted)
• Mistral Charger
• Monk Idealist
• Night's Whisper
• Nimble Mongoose
• Orcish Oriflamme
• Peregrine Drake
• Phantom Monster
• Prowling Pangolin
• Rally the Peasants
• Roots
• Stupefying Touch
• Sylvan Might
• Tidal Wave
• Undying Rage
• Warden of Evos Isle
• Wildfire Emissary
• Yavimaya Enchantress

Uncommon to Rare

• Baleful Strix
• Control Magic
• Enlightened Tutor
• Heritage Druid
• Imperious Perfect
• Isochron Scepter
• Mother of Runes
• Pyrokinesis
• Sensei's Divining Top
• Shardless Agent
• Wasteland

Uncommon to Mythic

• Force of Will
• Karakas

Rare to Common

• Elvish Vanguard
• Emperor Crocodile

Rare to Uncommon

• Battle Squadron
• Emmessi Tome
• Field of Souls
• Havoc Demon
• Mesa Enchantress
• Mindless Automaton
• Phyrexian Ingester
• Sengir Autocrat
• Sprite Noble
• Tooth and Claw

Rare to Mythic

• Argothian Enchantress
• Chrome Mox
• Natural Order
• Necropotence
• Sneak Attack
• Vampiric Tutor
• Worldgorger Dragon

Cycles

There are four cycles in Eternal Masters, one of which is a double cycle.

Cycle name
Legendary pit-fighter champions	Jareth, Leonine Titan	Arcanis the Omnipotent	Visara the Dreadful	Rorix Bladewing	Silvos, Rogue Elemental
	Each of these powerful rare legendary creature cards costs MMM. Reprinted from Onslaught
Honden	Honden of Cleansing Fire	Honden of Seeing Winds	Honden of Night's Reach	Honden of Infinite Rage	Honden of Life's Web
	Each of these uncommon legendary Shrine Enchantments grants their owner something depending on the number of shrines they control. Reprinted from Champions of Kamigawa
Tutors	Enlightened Tutor	Mystical Tutor	Vampiric Tutor	Gamble	Green Sun's Zenith
	Each of these (mythic) rares allows its controller to search their library for a card, albeit with certain conditions. Four of them were part of a mega cycle printed in Mirage, Visions and Urza's Saga. The Worldly Tutor is replaced by Green Sun's Zenith from Mirrodin Besieged.

Cycle name
Life-gain Taplands	Tranquil Cove	Dismal Backwater	Bloodfell Caves	Rugged Highlands	Blossoming Sands	Scoured Barrens	Swiftwater Cliffs	Jungle Hollow	Wind-Scarred Crag	Thornwood Falls
	Ten multi color common lands that enter the battlefield tapped, gain the controller one life and can tap for 2 different colors of mana. Reprinted from Khans of Tarkir and Fate Reforged

Pairs

There is one mirrored pair in Eternal Masters.

Mirrored Pairs		Description
Hydroblast ()	Pyroblast ()	These uncommon modal instants, one blue and one red, both have a casting cost of M and can be cast to either counter a spell of the other's color or to destroy a permanent of the other's color

Token cards

The set comes with 15 tokens and one emblem, some of which are printed for the first time.

1. 1/1 Spirit for Honden of Life's Web, printed for the first time.
2. 1/1 Soldier for Raise the Alarm
3. 1/1 Spirit with Flying for Field of Souls
4. 5/5 Wall with Defender for Tidal Wave, printed for the first time.
5. 0/1 Serf for Sengir Autocrat, printed for the first time.
6. 2/2 Zombie for Wakedancer
7. 3/1 Beast named Carnivore for Tooth and Claw, printed for the first time.
8. 2/2 Dragon with Flying and ": This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn" for Dragon Egg
9. 1/1 Elemental for Young Pyromancer
10. 1/1 Goblin for Beetleback Chief, Mogg War Marshal and Siege-Gang Commander
11. 3/3 Elephant for Elephant Guide
12. 1/1 Elf Warrior for Imperious Perfect and Lys Alana Huntmaster
13. 6/6 Wurm for Roar of the Wurm
14. 5/5 Elemental with Flying for Call the Skybreaker
15. 1/1 Goblin Soldier for Goblin Trenches
16. Emblem for Dack Fayden

On the back of these tokens appear segments of text hinting to Conspiracy: Take the Crown.

Notable cards

• Force of Will
• Jace, the Mind Sculptor, considered to be the best planeswalker ever printed.
• Mana Crypt, which was previously one of only four Vintage-legal cards that had only been printed as promos and not in a Magic set, the others being Sewers of Estark, Windseeker Centaur, and Nalathni Dragon.
• Necropotence, the dominating card in the Black Summer of 1996 (FTV art).

Cards with new art

• Ancestral Mask
• Animate Dead
• Ashnod's Altar
• Bloodbraid Elf
• Carbonize
• Chrome Mox, the last mox outside of un-sets to receive new art by Volkan Baga.
• Control Magic
• Counterspell
• Daze
• Diminishing Returns
• Elvish Vanguard
• Emmessi Tome
• Enlightened Tutor, with a reference to Idyllic Tutor
• Entomb
• Firebolt
• Force of Will
• Gamble
• Ghitu Slinger
• Giant Solifuge
• Giant Tortoise
• Glacial Wall
• Goblin Charbelcher, with references to Black Lotus, Ratchet Bomb, and Storm Crow
• Goblin Trenches
• Havoc Demon
• Humble
• Hydroblast
• Invigorate
• Maelstrom Wanderer
• Memory Lapse
• Mogg War Marshal
• Mystical Tutor
• Nausea
• Nimble Mongoose
• Peregrine Drake
• Phantom Monster
• Price of Progress
• Prodigal Sorcerer
• Prowling Pangolin
• Pyroblast
• Roots
• Rorix Bladewing
• Seal of Cleansing
• Seal of Strength
• Sengir Autocrat
• Sensei's Divining Top
• Sinkhole
• Stupefying Touch
• Ticking Gnomes
• Timberwatch Elf
• Tooth and Claw
• Vampiric Tutor
• Void
• Wasteland, with a reference to City of Brass
• Werebear
• Winter Orb
• Wirewood Symbiote