Planechase Unknown/2024 list of event cards
Description
The event cards are specially printed planar cards. The front face is a plain white card with the plane's name, type, subtype, and rules text. It is surrounded by a black and gold border. The back face is black with the MagicCon logo and a gold border. Being playtest cards, there is no art, artist credits, or collector number.[1]
Chicago 2024 cards
A total of 10 new cards were designed for this event. For this first event, the cards look closer to the design of test cards used in the Unknown Event and are marked with internal card codes.
| Location | Plane | Plane text | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Artist Alley | Convention Hall | Whenever you planeswalk here and at the beginning of your upkeep, exile the top card of your library. You may play that card this turn. Whenever chaos ensues, exile the top six cards of your library. An opponent chooses a nonland card with their favorite art. Then you may cast that spell without paying its mana cost. |
When reprinted for the 2024 Amsterdam event, the Convention Hall plane type was errata'd to MagicCon.[1] |
| The Bean | Earth | Whenever you planeswalk here, each player chooses a creature they control and creates a token copy of it. It’s a reflection in addition to its other types, and its power and toughness are inverted. Whenever chaos ensues, create a token that’s a copy of a creature you control. It’s a Reflection in addition to its other types, and its power and toughness are inverted. |
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| Black Lotus Lounge | Convention Hall | When you planeswalk here and at the beginning of your upkeep, create a Black Lotus artifact token. Whenever chaos ensues, each player draws a card for each artifact token they control. |
References the location of the event. When reprinted for the 2024 Amsterdam event, the Convention Hall plane type was errata'd to MagicCon.[1] |
| City Hall | Earth | When you planeswalk here, you become the Monarch. Whenever Chaos ensues, each player may create two tapped treasure tokens. Each player who does can’t attack you on their next turn. |
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| Pin Collector's Booth | Convention Hall | Whenever you attack, create a Pin token attached to target attacking creature you control. It’s an Enchantment Pin Aura with “Enchanted creature gets +1/+1.” Whenever chaos ensues, each opponent loses X life, where X is the total number of pins attached to you and creatures you control. (This includes pins on your backpack.) |
When reprinted for the 2024 Amsterdam event, the Convention Hall plane type was errata'd to MagicCon.[1] |
| Pin Trading | Phenomenon | When you encounter this, draw a card for each pin you are wearing and each Pin token attached to creatures you control. (This includes pins on your backpack.) (Then planeswalk away from this phenomenon.) | |
| Shy town | Earth | Whenever you planeswalk here and whenever chaos ensues, for each opponent, put a shy counter on up to one target creature they control. That creature becomes a Coward in addition to its other types. At the beginning of your upkeep, create a 2/2 red Warrior creature token with haste and “Cowards can’t block Warriors.” |
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| Sky deck | Earth | Whenever you planeswalk here, at the beginning of your upkeep, or whenever chaos ensues, put a glass counter on up to one target nonland permanent. When you planeswalk away from here, destroy all permanents with glass counters on them. |
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| The Windy City | Earth | When you planeswalk here, at the beginning of your upkeep, or whenever chaos ensues, put a flying counter on target creature you control without flying. When you planeswalk away, exile all creatures with flying until the beginning of the next end step. |
References Chicago's nickname. |
| Unknown Event | Phenomenon | When you encounter this, each player opens a Magic the Gathering booster pack. They may select up to two cards from that pack and exile them face down. For the rest of the game, players may look at and play cards exiled this way without paying their mana costs. (Then Planeswalk away from this phenomenon.) |
Amsterdam 2024 cards
A total of 14 new cards were designed for this event. Three cards representing locations within the MagicCon were reprinted, each of which received errata to update their planar type.
| Location | Plane | Plane text | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Artist Alley | MagicCon | Whenever you planeswalk here and at the beginning of your upkeep, exile the top card of your library. You may play that card this turn. Whenever chaos ensues, exile the top six cards of your library. An opponent chooses a nonland card with their favorite art. Then you may cast that spell without paying its mana cost. |
Reprint from the 2024 Chicago event with the plane type errata'd to MagicCon. |
| Bicycle Rack | Amsterdam | Cards in each player's hand have cycling  .Chaos: Until end of turn, creatures you control have "This creature gets +1/+1 for each card you've discarded this turn." |
Cycling is the second-most common mode of transport in the Netherlands, making bicycle racks a regular feature of Amsterdam.[1] |
| Black Lotus Lounge | MagicCon | When you planeswalk here and at the beginning of your upkeep, create a Black Lotus artifact token. Whenever chaos ensues, each player draws a card for each artifact token they control. |
Reprint from the 2024 Chicago event with the plane type errata'd to MagicCon.[1] |
| Clamilton Estate | Clamhattan | If an ability of a wordy permanent or plane you control would trigger, that ability triggers an additional time. (A spell or ability is wordy if it has four or more lines of rules text.) Whenever chaos ensues, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a wordy nonland card. You may cast that spell without paying its mana cost. Put each card not cast this way on the bottom of your library in a random order. |
References Alexander Clamilton (Unsanctioned).[2] |
| Event Horizon | Blind Eternities | Nonbasic lands are Wastes. Whenever you tap a permanent for  , add an additional .Whenever chaos ensues, choose one —
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References TBA.[1] |
| The Food Court | Eldraine | Artifacts are Foods in addition to their other types (They have ",  , Sacrifice this artifact: You gain 3 life.")Sacrifice three Foods: Add |
References TBA.[2] |
| High Noon At Thunder Junction | Thunder Junction | Whenever a player draws their second card each turn, any of their opponents may say "DRAW!" The first opponent to do so clashes with that player. The player that wins creates two 1/1 black Assassin creature tokens. (Each clashing player reveals the top card of their library, then puts that card on the top or bottom. A player wins if their card had a higher mana value.) Whenever Chaos ensues, draw a card. |
References the showdown at high noon trope common in Westerns by setting up a quick draw minigame.[2] |
| Mad Labs | Phenomenon | When you encounter this phenomenon, starting with the next player in turn order, that player chooses a permanent type. The next player chooses a number between 1 and 10. The next player chooses a keyword counter. Then reveal and resolve the following ability with those words. (don't reveal the second ability before the words have been chosen!) Each player creates a token that's a copy of a [permanent] and puts [number] +1/+1 counters on it. If it's not a creature, it becomes a 0/0 creature in addition to its other types. It enters with [keyword] counter. |
Allows players to build their own creature.[2] |
| Multiversal High Council | Universia Beyondia | Universes Beyond spells you cast cost  less to cast.Creatures you control get +1/+1 for each different Universe among permanents you control. (Magic: The Gathering counts as a universe.) |
Rewards players for having multiple different Universes Beyond cards within their deck.[2] |
| Oteclán | Ixalan | When you planeswalk to ~ and at the beginning of your upkeep, chaos ensues. Whenever chaos ensues, discover 3. (Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card with that mana value or less. Cast it without paying its mana cost or put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom in a random order.) |
References TBA.[2] |
| Pin Collector's Booth | MagicCon | Whenever you attack, create a Pin token attached to target attacking creature you control. It’s an Enchantment Pin Aura with “Enchanted creature gets +1/+1.” Whenever chaos ensues, each opponent loses X life, where X is the total number of pins attached to you and creatures you control. (This includes pins on your backpack.) |
Reprint from the 2024 Chicago event with the plane type errata'd to MagicCon. |
| Probability Flux | Phenomenon | Until your next turn, if a player would roll one or more dice, instead they roll that many dice plus one and ignore one. | References TBA.[3][2] |
| Royal Booster | Phenomenon | When you encounter this phenomenon, open a Magic: The Gathering booster pack and shuffle it without looking at its contents. Those cards become the booster deck. You become the monarch. For the rest of the game, at the beginning of the monarch’s end step, that player draws a card from the booster deck. They may spend mana of any type to cast those cards. | The card drawn from the booster deck is in addition to the draw granted by the monarch.[1] |
| Shrinking Plane | Foldaria | When you planeswalk here and at the beginning of your upkeep, fold this plane in half. Draw cards equal to the number of times it’s been folded. If you can’t fold it, planeswalk. Chaos: Completely unfold this plane. Each opponent discards two cards. |
References the dexterity card mechanic of folding and by extension Octo Opus (Unfinity).[1] |
| Stroopwafel Cafe | Amsterdam | Players may look at the top card of their library at any time and may play cards from the top of their library. The top card of each player’s library is a Food artifact. (It’s an artifact with “ |
References the popular Dutch treat of Stroopwafels.[1] |
| Tarnation | Thunder Junction | Whenever a player commits a crime, they may draw a card. (Targeting opponents, anything they control, and/or cards in their graveyards is a crime.) Whenever chaos ensues, ~ deals 1 damage to any target. |
References the town built around Maag Taranau by Akul.[2] |
| Windmill Farm | Amsterdam | When you planeswalk here and at the beginning of your upkeep, create a Tulip Petal artifact token that has “, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.” Chaos: Spin this plane until the arrow lands on a permanent. If the plane rotated at least 360 degrees during the spin, create a token that’s a copy of that permanent. |
The plane card has an arrow (↑) printed near the top border on the right-hand side of the card to facilitate the spinning.[1] The Tulip Petal token is a reference to Lotus Petal and the playtest card Black Tulip designed for the Unknown Event. |
Las Vegas 2024 cards
A total of 14 new cards were designed for this event. A further seven cards were reprinted from previous events with errata that updated their text.
| Location | Plane | Plane text | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Artist Alley | MagicCon | Whenever you planeswalk here and at the beginning of your upkeep, exile the top card of your library. You may play that card this turn. Whenever Chaos ensues, exile the top six cards of your library. An opponent or player outside the game chooses a nonland card with their favorite art. Then you may cast that spell without paying its mana cost. |
Reprint.[4] |
| Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar's Kitchen | Hell | Whenever you planeswalk here and whenever a creature enters under your control, create a Food token. Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life. |
Represents Vincent's confinement of Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar in Hell while she cooked for the Lord of the Pit over seven years and seven days.[5][4] |
| Black Lotus Lounge | MagicCon | When you planeswalk here and at the beginning of your upkeep, create a Black Lotus artifact token. Whenever Chaos ensues, each player draws a card for each artifact token they control. |
Reprint.[4] |
| Circus of the Sun | Las Vegas | Whenever you planeswalk here or at the beginning of your upkeep, create two 1/1 red performer creature tokens with flying and haste. Whenever one or more creatures you control with flying deal combat damage to a player, you may return it to your hand. If you do, draw cards equal to its power. |
References Cirque du Soleil, the contemporary circus known for its many Las Vegas-based resident shows.[4] By extension, it indirectly references the 1959 poem of the same name by Robert Lax. |
| Clamilton Estate | Clamhattan | If a wordy permanent entering the battlefield would cause an ability of that permanent or another wordy permanent to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time. (A permanent is wordy if it has four or more lines of rules text.) Whenever Chaos ensues, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a wordy nonland card, Put that card into your hand. Put each card not cast this way on the bottom of your library in a random order. |
Reprint.[4] |
| Elvish Impersonation Contest | Las Vegas | Whenever you planeswalk here and at the beginning of your upkeep, create an Elvish Impersonators token. (It's a   Elf creature with "As this creature enters, roll a six-sided die twice. Its base power becomes the first result and its base toughness becomes the second result.")Thank you very much—Whenever Chaos ensues, target Elvish Impersonators becomes a 6/6. Its controller creates a Treasure token. |
References the association between Elvis Presley impersonators and the city of Las Vegas.[4] By extension, it also references the Cosplay Contest held at each MagicCon. As a silver-bordered card, Elvish Impersonators has the creature type "Elves", not "Elf" as the reminder text implies. |
| High and Dry Black Market | Phenomenon | Whenever you planeswalk here, starting with you, each player chooses up to 5 ♦ worth of modes and may choose the same mode more than once. (Then Planeswalk away from this phenomenon.) ♦ — Create a Treasure Token. |
References the floating city of High and Dry, the base of the Brazen Coalition pirates on Ixalan.[4] The Phenomenon utilizes the pawprint modal mechanic introduced in Bloomburrow. The three options are the same as Black Market Connections without the downside. As printed, the Shapeshifter token does not have a defined color, making it colorless. |
| High Noon at Thunder Junction | Thunder Junction | Whenever a player draws their second card each turn, any of their opponents may say "DRAW!". The first opponent to do so clashes with that player. The player that wins the clash creates two 1/1 black Assassin creature tokens. (Each clashing player reveals the top card of their library, then puts that card on the top or bottom. A player wins if their card had a higher mana value.) Whenever Chaos ensues, draw a card. |
Reprint.[4] |
| Jalira's Show | Las Vegas | Whenever you attack, create a 1/1 red Performer creature token with flying. Whenever you planeswalk here or chaos ensues, destroy up to one target creature. When you do, its controller reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal a creature card. The player puts that card onto the battlefield, then puts the rest on the bottom of their library in a random order. |
References TBA.[4] |
| Mojave Desert | Las Vegas | Whenever you planeswalk here, each player searches their library for up to two basic land or Desert cards and puts them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffles their library. If a Desert entered the battlefield under a player's control this way, they create a 1/1 black Snake creature token with deathtouch. Whenever Chaos ensues, create X 1/1 black Snake creature token with deathtouch, where X is 1 plus the number of nonbasic land types among lands that player controls. |
Represents the Mojave Desert, home of the venomous Mohave Rattlesnake.[4] |
| Multiversal High Council | Universia Beyondia | Universes Beyond spells you cast cost less to cast. Each creature gets +1/+1 for each different Universe among permanents its controller controls. (Magic: The Gathering and D&D each count as a universe.) |
Reprint.[4] |
| No Way Out | Duskmourn | CARDNAME enters with three dread counters. You can never leave — If a player would planeswalk while this plane has dread counters, chaos ensues instead. |
Reflects Valgavoth's complete control over the plane of Duskmourn.[6] The chaos ability misspells "chaos ensues" as "Chaos ensures". |
| Omenpath Instability | Phenomenon | When you encounter this phenomenon, each player creates an Entropy enchantment token with "Sacrifice this enchantment: Chaos ensues. Activate only as a sorcery" and an Omenpath enchantment token with "Sacrifice this enchantment: Planeswalk. Activate only as a sorcery." (Then Planeswalk away from this phenomenon.) | References the unstable Omenpaths that have opened in the wake of the New Phyrexian Invasion.[4] |
| Pin Collector's Booth | MagicCon | Whenever you attack, create a Pin token attached to target attacking creature you control. It’s an Pin Aura enchantment with enchant creature and "Enchanted creature gets +1/+1." Whenever Chaos ensues, each opponent loses X life, where X is the total number of pins attached to you and creatures you control. (This includes pins on your backpack.) |
Reprint.[4] |
| Preston's Stage | Las Vegas | Whenever a player performs a magic trick, they create a Hat token. (You perform a magic trick when you cast an instant or spell with flash, or turn a face-down creature face-up. Hat tokens are artifact tokens with ", , Sacrifice this artifact: Create a 1/1 white Rabbit creature token.") Whenever Chaos ensues, until your next turn, creature cards in your hand have flash. |
References TBA.[4] Indirectly references the Rabbit-folk magician Preston. |
| Pursued by Something | Duskmourn | At the beginning of your second main phase, if you control a tapped creature, manifest dread. (Look at the top two cards of your library. Put one onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature and the other into your graveyard. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it’s a creature card.) Whenever Chaos ensues, exile target creature. If it's an instant or sorcery, cast it without paying its mana cost. |
The first ability combines two of the new keywords in Duskmourn: House of Horror — survival and manifest dread.[4] The plane takes advantage of the Implacable Man trope in horror fiction. |
| Raiders' Allegiance | Ixalan | Raid — At the beginning of your second main phase, for each player dealt combat damage this turn, you get a point counter and create a 2/2 black Pirate creature token with menace. Whenever you planeswalk away from here, each player with the most point counters or tied for the most point counters creates three Treasure tokens and draws three cards. Then remove all point counters from each player. |
References both the Raid ability word used in Ixalan block, where it is the signature mechanic for the pirates of the Brazen Coalition, and the Las Vegas Raiders football team.[7][8][4] |
| Royal Booster | Phenomenon | When you encounter this phenomenon, open a Magic: The Gathering booster pack and shuffle it without looking at its contents. Those cards become the booster deck. You become the monarch. For the rest of the game, at the beginning of the monarch’s end step, that player draws a card from the booster deck. They may spend mana of any type to cast those cards. (Then Planeswalk away from this phenomenon.) | Reprint.[4] |
| The Sphere | Las Vegas | Whenever a creature you control becomes blocked, round both its power and toughness up to the nearest 5. (A creature with 5 power would round up to 5.) Whenever Chaos ensues, Amass Fans 5. (Put five +1/+1 counters on an Army you control. It’s also a Fan. If you don’t control an army, create a 0/0 red Fan Army creature token first.) |
References the Sphere.[4] The card creates an Army of Fans but unlike regular Amass, the creature tokens are red not black. |
| Team-Up! | Phenomenon | Whenever you encounter this Phenomenon, for the rest of the game, each player wins the game if the players to their left and right are eliminated. (Multiple players can win the game this way.) | References TBA.[4] |
| Welcome to Valley | Bloomburrow | Whenever you cast an animal spell, draw a card. (Animals are any non-human creature types that are animals in real life.) Whenever Chaos ensues, create a token that's a copy of target creature you control, except it's a 1/1. |
Gives players an advantage for using the animals of Bloomburrow and allows players to create an Offspring of any creature they control when chaos ensues.[4] |
References
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Megan Smith (June 30, 2024). "It occurred to me that many people may not have seen the Unknown Planechase event held in the Black Lotus Lounge!". Twitter.
- ↑ a b c d e f g h Jordan Ayache-Léger (July 15, 2024). "My friends and I got a few untouched sets of Planechases (+ dices) from Amsterdam...". Facebook.
- ↑ Facebook Sale (July 10, 2024). "Plane Names & Types". Facebook.
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t Jeff Cammack (October 31, 2024). "At MagicCon Las Vegas, the Black Lotus VIP experience included an exclusive Planechase set for attendees ...". TikTok.
- ↑ Chef's Surprise by Sonia Orin Lyris from the Distant Planes Anthology
- ↑ Reversal Wizrd (October 30, 2024). "Shoutout to the Black Lotus Lounge for all the crazy experiences!!". Twitter.
- ↑ Matt Tabak (August 28, 2017). "Ixalan Mechanics". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ Matt Tabak (January 1, 2018). "Rivals of Ixalan Mechanics". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.