Global Series: Jiang Yanggu & Mu Yanling
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Adam Prosak with contributions by: Huang YaQi Mel Li Michael Yichao | ||||
| Development | Adam Prosak | ||||
| Art direction | Dawn Murin | ||||
| Release date | June 22, 2018 | ||||
| Set size | 60 | ||||
| Expansion code | GS1[2] | ||||
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Global Series: Jiang Yanggu and Mu Yanling is a pair of Chinese-market-specific Planeswalker Decks featuring two new Planeswalkers, and new cards themed around their story.[3][4] It wil be released on June 22, 2018.[5]
Description
These two 60-card decks were originally designed by a team of Chinese artists, writers, and folklorists to explore a new branch of Magic lore rooted in Chinese aesthetics and mythology. A similar English version of the same product was created for international audiences. The decks are only released in the Chinese Simplified and English languages.
The set only features four types of basic lands, which are based on locations, stories, and/or traditional Chinese representations of these land types. The Swamp is missing, beacuse none of the decks features black spells.
Flavor
The story takes place on an unnamed plane, inspired by the Chinese Classic of Mountains and Seas, a compilation of mythic geography and myth.[6] Wile Jiang Yanggu searches for his identity, Mu Yanling is digging for arcane secrets that might right the wrongs of her past.
Marketing
Jiang Yanggu and Mu Yanling was created in a collaboration between the Chinese office of Wizards of the Coast and regular US R&D.[6] Unlike the previous foray in the Chinese market, Portal Three Kingdoms (1999), this set is part of Magic canon, is directly compatable with other current sets. While the cards in it are not designed for serious tournament play, Wizards of the Coast wanted to make sure the fans it was created for — new, Chinese-speaking fans — could still play with the cards at an Friday Night Magic when they were starting out. The set therefore becomes Standard legal in (mainland) China.[4] It will not be Standard legal anywhere else (which is kind of odd for a "Global" series), but the cards will be legal for Legacy and Vintage use. They will not be legal in Modern. In order not to fracture the international competitive scene, Play Design made sure that the cards were balanced so that none of them were cards interesting for Constructed.[6]
Unlike other planeswalker decks, and more akin to Duel Decks, both decks are sold in one package.
Token
The set features one double-faced token:
3/3 Legendary Hound named Mowu, for Jiang Yanggu
Themes and mechanics
TBA
Card types
This set introduces the Pangolin creature type, and the Yanggu and Yanling planeswalker types.
Reprints
- Giant Spider, first printed in Alpha, last seen in Amonkhet.
- Welkin Tern, first printed in Zendikar, last seen in Magic 2015.
- Two allied colored dual taplands, first printed in Oath of the Gatewatch, last seen in Dominaria.
- Meandering River (
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- Meandering River (
Decks
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| Yanggu | R | G | Jiang Yanggu | |||
| Yanling | W | U | Mu Yanling | |||