Innistrad: Midnight Hunt

Innistrad: Midnight Hunt

 

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Innistrad: Midnight Hunt
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Set Information
Set symbol
Symbol description	Wolf head in front of the full Innistrad moon
Design	Mark Rosewater
Release date	September 24, 2021
Themes and mechanics	Werewolves, TDFCs, Graveyard matters
Keywords/​ability words	Flashback
Set size	277 + 114
Expansion code	MID
Development codename	Golf
"Ice Skating" Standard
Midnight Hunt Crimson Vow "Hockey"
Magic: The Gathering Chronology
Jumpstart: Historic Horizons Innistrad: Midnight Hunt Innistrad: Midnight Hunt Commander Decks

Innistrad: Midnight Hunt is the 89th Magic expansion. It will be released on September 24, 2021, and is paired up with Innistrad: Crimson Vow which releases two months later.

Set details

Provisional logo

The set was originally announced with the provisional name Innistrad: Werewolves. Based on the registration of public domains on September 18, 2020, the final name was speculated to be Innistrad: Midnight Hunt, which was confirmed on March 18, 2021. Both Innistrad sets are full size sets and they both are Standard-legal. Although they come out only two months apart, R&D is not changing how many sets are being added to Standard during the rotation window, but are just moving around when they come out. The sets are designed to draft by themselves, but they also will draft well together. The two sets are synergistic and overlap in spots.

The Midnight Hunt Bundle

Innistrad: Midnight Hunt contains 277 regular cards (10 basic lands) and includes randomly inserted premium versions of all cards. The regular cards "Eternal Night" basic lands. Each type has two different pieces of black-and-white art with colored accents. Alternate card frames have another card number than the original version. Borderless planeswalkers are numbered #278-TBA, other borderless cards are #TBA-TBA, showcase cards are numbered #TBA-TBA, and extended artwork cards are numbered #TBA-TBA. The regular basic land cards from the Bundle are numbered #380-384. The Buy-a-Box card is #385 and the Bundle promo is #386. The FNM-treatment cards from the Universal promo pack are numbered #387-391.

The Showcase cards are all TBA.

Storyline

For the Midnight Hunt storyline R&D wanted to reset Innistrad to the "2011 version where horror monsters from classic horror films are menacing humanity and who is going to protect them? because Avacyn is dead now" and without Avacyn's protection the humans have to "turn to older, and perhaps darker forms of magic to stave off the onslaught of the different monsters, most particularly the werewolves" who have gone "plumb loony." Midnight Hunt begins the new story ripped right from the worries of Innistrad's populace: a night that may never end. With the sun rising later and setting sooner each day, they turn to the hope of the Harvesttide festival and a ritual with warlocks to maintain the balance. Despite plenty of werewolves and other denizens of the night, there's strength and hope for the humans gathered deep in the woods of the Kessig countryside.

The storyline begun in Midnight Hunt will be continued with Innistrad: Crimson Vow and both stories "revisit what we learned first about Innistrad, showing us again why the wisest humans there never stop fearing nightfall."

Marketing

Midnight Hunt is sold in regular 16-card Draft Boosters (one card being a marketing card), Theme Boosters, Collector Boosters, Set Boosters, the Midnight Hunt Bundle, and two Commander decks. The Bundle comes with 8 Set Boosters instead of 10 Draft Boosters. The set also features a Welcome Boosters. The Draft Boosters feature artwork depicting Wrenn. The Set Boosters feature art TBA, and the Collector Boosters a brightly colored version of the art of TBA. The Theme Boosters feature art from TBA.

Events

• Magic Online and MTG Arena release: September 16th, 2021
• Tabletop Prerelease: September 17, 2021
• Launch party: September 24–26
• Friday Night Magic: September 24–November 5
• Commander Nights: September 27–November 11
• Commander Party Events: October 30–31
  • Commander Parties are a brand-new way to experience Magic — a one-day event where players are immersed in a story affected by their in-game choices. These events are a great opportunity for newer players to participate in a casual in-store event and get absorbed in the world of Magic.

Promotional cards

• Prerelease: a stamped card that can be any rare or mythic rare of Midnight Hunt.
• Other events: cards from the Midnight Hunt universal promo pack.
  • The seasonal dark-frame promos are: TBA, Consider, Infernal Grasp, Play with Fire, and Join the Dance
• Buy-a-Box: foil alternate art Champion of the Perished
• Bundle promo: foil alternate art Triskaidekaphile
• Bring-a-Friend: Mind Stone

Tokens/emblems/markers

The sixteenth card in the boosters is a token creature card, an emblem or a marker, with advertisements on the back side. It can also be a helper card with a standard card back. There are at least a total of 3 tokens and emblems:

1. 1/1 Human creature, for Join the Dance,
2. */* Treefolk creature with reach and "This creature's power and toughness are each equal to the number of lands you control." for Wrenn and Seven.
3. Emblem for Wrenn and Seven.

Themes and mechanics

Innistrad: Midnight Hunt sees the return of transforming double-faced cards.

Flashback also returns, as it did in the first Innistrad set before, but now for the first time on multicolored cards.

Cycles

TBA

Reprinted cards

TBA

Preconstructed decks

Innistrad: Midnight Hunt features two Commander decks that are released as a regular part of a set's product line.

Theme deck name	Color Identity					Commander
Coven Counters	W				G	Leinore, Autumn Sovereign
Undead Unleashed						TBA

Notable cards

• Champion of the Perished is a colorshifted, undead, version of Champion of the Parish
• Triskaidekaphile is an alternate-win card.