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MaRo's Edge of Eternities Teaser

Mark Rosewater gave his traditional teaser for Edge of Eternities with the following hints to the contents of the main set.

First up, here are some things you can expect:

• Repeatable activated ability that lets you draw 2 cards and create a 2/2 creature token — Biomechan Engineer
• White card that can return noncreature, nonland cards from the graveyard to the battlefield — Astelli Reclaimer
• Another "Arch" charm — Archenemy's Charm
• Card that makes you choose odd or even — Mutinous Massacre
• New artifact token called Munitions — created by Weapons Manufacturing
• Variant on devour — Devour land on Famished Worldsire
• Card that lets you take control of an opponent — The Dominion Bracelet
• Legendary five-color artifact — Infinite Guideline Station
• Poison card — Virulent Silencer
• Card that grants an ability to Slivers — Thrumming Hivepool

Here are snippets of rules text you’ll see:

• "Whenever you play a land or cast a spell, draw a card." — The Endstone
• "If it's not a creature, it becomes a 0/0 Robot artifact creature." — Tezzeret, Cruel Captain
• "You may play lands from your graveyard." — Icetill Explorer
• "You may instead create that many copies of enchanted permanent." — Moonlit Meditation
• "Artifact cards and red cards in your hand have" — Tannuk, Steadfast Second (They have warp .)
• "Put target creature from defending player's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control tapped and attacking." — Chorale of the Void
• "The first spell each player casts during each of their turns may be cast without paying its mana cost." — Weftwalking
• "X is the number of differently named lands you control." — All-Fates Scroll, Fungal Colossus, Survey Mechan
• "Artifacts you control are Foods in addition to their other types." — Ragost, Deft Gastronaut
• "Spells you cast have affinity for artifacts." — Sami, Wildcat Captain

Here are some creature type lines from the set:

• Creature - Jellyfish Scientist — Uthros Psionicist
• Creature - Insect Artificer — Biomechan Engineer
• Creature - Plant Scorpion — Blooming Stinger
• Creature - Drix Assassin — All-Fates Stalker
• Creature - Elemental Lhurgoyf — Cosmogoyf
• Creature - Mite — Hemosymbic Mite
• Artifact Creature - Robot Pangolin — Oreplate Pangolin
• Legendary Creature - Kavu Scout — Terrapact Intimidator
• Legendary Creature - Lobster Citizen — Ragost, Deft Gastronaut
• Creature - Eldrazi — Anticausal Vestige

Finally, here are some names in the set:

• Close Encounter — Instant
• Command Bridge — Land
• Decode Transmissions — Sorcery
• Emergency Eject — Instant
• Invasive Maneuvers — Instant
• Lost in Space — Instant
• Nebula Dragon — Creature - Dragon
• Systems Override — Sorcery
• Tractor Beam — Enchantment - Aura

Magic Story

• Sekhar is a reference to the Chandrasekhar, the maximum mass of a stable white dwarf star.
• In Episode 4, the story provides an in-universe explanation for the name of Hawking radiation. Since Hawking radiation is produced by paired photons, it is named after squadron hawks, which likewise always stick together.
• The name of the Eulalia system in Compact Me to Zero is a reference to "Eulalia" ("Victory"), the war cry used by the fighting hares and badgers in the Redwall series.
• The Guns of Kavaron, mentioned in Episode 5, are a play on The Guns of Navarone.
• The Kav "jemadar" rank (Episode 5), harks back to Star Trek's Jem'Hadar, which have similar visuals to the Kav.
• The naming of the Weft is a play on warp. In weaving, warp and weft are the two basic thread directions that form a fabric. The warp threads run lengthwise (vertically) and are held taut on the loom, while the weft threads run crosswise (horizontally) and are interlaced through the warp.

Cultural references

For Edge of Eternities, R&D intentionally scaled back the amount of allusions to specific works within the science fiction genre and instead focused on broader space opera tropes, as with the increase in Universes Beyond sets adapting non-Magic works, direct allusions to them in Magic-universe sets felt redundant. This was a departure from previous sets such as Outlaws of Thunder Junction and Duskmourn: House of Horror, which some fans had criticized for their large numbers of direct references to works in their respective genres.

Card(s)	Reference	Notes
Close Encounter	Close Encounters of the Third Kind
The Dominion Bracelet	The Lensman series by American author E. E. "Doc" Smith.	The Lens in the series is a psionic amplifier and a badge of honor.
Lost in Space	Lost in Space
Tractor Beam	First coined as such in Spacehounds of IPC (1931) by E. E. "Doc" Smith.	A device that can attract one object to another from a distance, popularized by Star Trek.
Vote Out	Among Us	The depiction resembles the armless cartoon astronauts of the game and it alludes to the game's main mechanic of voting out suspected imposters.

Cards

• Cosmogoyf's flavor text alludes to Lhurgoyf's original flavor text (“Ach! Hans, run! It’s the Lhurgoyf!” —Saffi Eriksdotter, last words)
• Scouring Swarm is a callback to Scute Swarm.
• Codecracker Hound shows a dog dismantling an identical robot to Guidelight Synergist. This suggests that the previously unrevealed home of the Guidelight Voyagers is actually the Edge.
• The flavor text of Sol Ring (Edge of Eternities Commander) quotes a "Sunstar loop-mantra", that is a Monoist mantra in the storyline.
• The five shock lands in the set are the same as the five in Gatecrash instead of a ally/enemy distribution.