The Brothers' War/Trivia
Mark Rosewater gave his traditional teaser with the following hints.[1]
First up, here are some things you can expect:
- over ten legendary Human Artificers — Ashnod, Flesh Mechanist, Drafna, Founder of Lat-Nam, Feldon, Ronom Excavator, Loran of the Third Path, Mishra, Excavation Prodigy, Mishra, Tamer of Mak Fawa, Mishra, Claimed by Gix, Tawnos, the Toymaker, Tocasia, Dig Site Mentor, Urza, Powerstone Prodigy, Urza, Prince of Kroog and Urza, Lord Protector
- another card with “end the turn” — Hurkyl's Final Meditation
- a command with X in its mana cost — Mishra’s Command
- a spell that mimics the effect of a creature that was originally printed with the picture of a World Champion on it — Soul Partition (mimics Elite Spellbinder, Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa's player spotlight card)
- a Teferi with a new way to gain loyalty counters — Teferi, Temporal Pilgrim (when you draw a card)
- equipment with “Equip Soldier” —
- a new Onulet — Tocasia's Onulet
- protection from everything returns — The Stasis Coffin
- a white creature that taps to let you and an opponent draw a card — Loran of the Third Path
- one colored artifact — The Temporal Anchor (other artifacts have Prototype)
Here are snippets of rules text, you’ll see:
- “create a tapped Powerstone token for each other creature you control.” —
- “Put a +1/+1 counter on target Assembly-Worker you control.” —
- “Whenever one or more creatures with mana value 3 or less enter the battlefield under your control,” — Tocasia’s Welcome
- “Permanents you control have ‘Ward – Sacrifice a permanent.’” — Mishra, Tamer of Mak Fawa
- “Whenever you cast an artifact spell with mana value 6 or greater,” —
- “For each card type among noncreature spells you’ve cast this turn,” — Hurkyl, Master Wizard
- “Create a tapped 3/3 colorless Zombie artifact creature token.” — Ashnod, Flesh Mechanist
- “Look at the cards in each pile, then turn a pile of your choice face up.” —
- “gains your choice of flying, vigilance, deathtouch, or haste.” —
- “Whenever you cast a Beast or Bird creature spell,” — Tawnos, the Toymaker
And finally, here are some creature type lines you’ll see:
- Artifact Creature – Ape —
- Creature – Mole Horror —
- Artifact Creature – Phyrexian Wurm — Phyrexian Fleshgorger
- Creature – Phyrexian Human Assassin —
- Creature – Minotaur Barbarian —
- Creature – Elf Druid Soldier —
- Creature – Human Artificer Scout —
- Legendary Creature – Human Wizard Advisor — Hurkyl, Master Wizard
- Legendary Creature – Elf Druid Scout —
- Legendary Creature – Human Artificer Advisor — Drafna, Founder of Lat-Nam
Callbacks
Card | Referenced cards | Referenced storyline | Wiki page | Notes |
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Other
- Feldon, Ronom Excavator is holding Feldon's Cane.
- This is the first set where Legendary characters (Urza and Mishra, to be specific) have had multiple incarnations in the same set. While Legendary characters often get new iterations in second or third sets in a block, this is unusual as mechanically, cards of the same character but not the same name have no relation to each other. This was previously done with Planeswalkers using Chandra in Core Set 2020, though having a planeswalker typeline makes them more connected.
References
- ↑ Mark Rosewater (October 24, 2022). "Maro’s The Brothers’ War Teaser". Blogatog. Tumblr.