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Magic Head Designer Mark Rosewater is no stranger to public relations. He's teased multiple sets for players ahead of the debut of their preview seasons in years past. This is normally done through his Tumblr account, known as "Blogatog". On this social media account, Rosewater often answers important Magic design questions from curious players. On Tuesday, July 1st, Rosewater gave players a teaser for what to expect in the next Magic set, Edge of Eternities.

Mark Rosewater’s Edge of Eternities Teaser

To directly quote Rosewater's post, here are a few notable abilities you can expect from the new set:

• repeatable activated ability that lets you draw two cards and create a 2/2 creature token

• white card that can return noncreature, nonland cards from the graveyard to the battlefield

• another “Arch” charm

• card that makes you choose odd or even

• new artifact token called Munitions

• variant on devour

• card that lets you take control of an opponent

• legendary five-color artifact

• poison card

• card that grants an ability to Slivers

After these, Rosewater showcased some rules text, albeit many likely only in part:

• “Whenever you play a land or cast a spell, draw a card.”

• “If it’s not a creature, it becomes a 0/0 Robot artifact creature.”

• “You may play lands from your graveyard.”

• “you may instead create that many tokens that are copies of enchanted permanent.”

• “Artifact cards and red cards in your hand have”

• “put target creature from defending player’s graveyard onto the battlefield under your control tapped and attacking.”

• “The first spell each player casts during each of their turns may be cast without paying its mana cost.”

• “X is the number of differently named lands you control.”

• “Artifacts you control are Foods in addition to their other types”

• “Spells you cast have affinity for artifacts.”

After that, Mark gave us a few creature typelines for Edge of Eternities:

• Creature – Jellyfish Scientist

• Creature – Insect Artificer

• Creature – Plant Scorpion

• Creature – Drix Assassin

• Creature – Elemental Lhurgoyf

• Creature – Mite

• Artifact Creature – Robot Pangolin

• Legendary Creature – Kavu Scout

• Legendary Creature – Lobster Citizen

• Creature – Eldrazi

Finally, Mark provided some names in the set:

• Close Encounter

• Command Bridge

• Decode Transmissions

• Emergency Eject

• Invasive Maneuvers

• Lost in Space

• Nebula Dragon

• Space-Time Anomaly

• Systems Override

• Tractor Beam

Thoughts on the Teaser

Overall, we're excited to see all the new cards! Players seem especially interested in what a Munitions token will do.

We are also quite intrigued about the (probably) attack trigger that puts a creature from the defending player's graveyard onto the battlefield tapped and attacking. Are there strings attached to that trigger?

Furthermore, it is very cool that we will be seeing a return of the Eldrazi in the set. However, we are fairly aware of the number crunch for colors in the set. Because colorless nonartifact cards come first in the set number order, we can anticipate only one Eldrazi, if not a very small handful more.

In addition, we also seriously cannot wait to see the Lobster Citizen legendary creature, and what it is capable of. Is it just a "silly little guy"? Could it be a menace in Constructed? We'll just have to wait and find out!

Finally, what in the world(s) could Nebula Dragon do? That name is amazing!

Conclusion

We're super excited for Edge of Eternities here at EDHREC. Are you? Let us know in the comments what teasers you're most hyped for!