Innistrad: Midnight Hunt
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| 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 | ||||
| Expansion code | MID | ||||
| Development codename | Golf | ||||
| "Ice Skating" Standard | |||||
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Innistrad: Midnight Hunt is the 89th Magic expansion.[1] It will be released on September 24, 2021, and is paired up with Innistrad: Crimson Vow which releases two months later.[2][3]
Set details
The set was originally announced with the provisional name Innistrad: Werewolves.[2] 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. [4][5] 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.[6] The sets are designed to draft by themselves, but they also will draft well together. The two sets are synergistic and overlap in spots.[7][8]
Storyline
For the Midnight Hunt storyline they 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."[9] 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.[10]
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."[10]
Marketing
Midnight 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.
Events
- Magic Online and MTG Arena release: September 16th, 2021[10]
- Tabletop Prerelease: September 17, 2021[11]
- Launch party:
- Friday Night Magic:
- Commander Nights:
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: 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
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 Human creature, for Join the Dance,
*/* 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.- Emblem for Wrenn and Seven.
Themes and mechanics
At least one of the Innistrad sets features transforming double-faced cards.[12] The transform mechanic is tied to the Werewolf creature type.
Flashback returns, as in the first Innistrad set, but now in multicolored.
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.[13]
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| Coven Counters | W | G | Leinore, Autumn Sovereign | |||
| Undead Unleashed | TBA | |||||
Notable cards
- Champion of the Perished is an undead Champion of the Parish
- Triskaidekaphile is an alternate-win card.
References
- ↑ The Zendikar Adventuring Party (Video). Magic: The Gathering. YouTube (September 1, 2020).
- ↑ a b Blake Rasmussen (September 1, 2020). "Zendikar Debut and Announcement Day Recap". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ Wizards of the Coast (March 18, 2021). "Strixhaven News + More". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ Payneswalker (October 3, 2020). "Innistrad Set Names?". Reddit.
- ↑ Wizards of the Coast (March 18, 2021). "Strixhaven News + More". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ Mark Rosewater (March 19, 2021). "I am curious about some of the finer release details with the 2 Innistrad sets.". Blogatog. Tumblr.
- ↑ Mark Rosewater (March 19, 2021). "Will the Innistrad sets draft well together?". Blogatog. Tumblr.
- ↑ Mark Rosewater (May 13, 2021). "Would it be possible to have 2 standalone...". Blogatog. Tumblr.
- ↑ Weekly MTG (August 5th, 2021). "Weekly MTG - Innistrad Sneak Peak"
- ↑ a b c Wizards of the Coast (August 5th, 2021). "A First Look at Innistrad: Midnight Hunt and Innistrad: Crimson Vow"
- ↑ WPN (April 28, 2021). "Deadlines to Earn the Most Requested WPN Premium Benefits". Wizards Play Network.
- ↑ Mark Rosewater (March 29, 2021). "In the Strixhaven, Part 1". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ The Future of Commander Preconstructed Decks! (Video). Good Morning Magic. YouTube (May 14, 2021).