August 1 is going to be a big day forMagic: The Gatheringfans, thanks to the release of the new Edge of Eternities set and its accompanying products, spanning from the usual Play Boosters and Collector Boosters to two new Commander decks.Magic: The Gathering’s Commander formatremains extremely successful, and it keeps on growing thanks to constant releases of new themed decks as well as all the cards from each expansion, which are also playable in Commander decks. Edge of Eternities adds a Jund deck (Black, Red, and Green) and a Jeskai deck (Blue, Red, and White), with the former revolving around sacrificing permanents and the latter around counters.
More specifically, the first deck is called World Shaper, and it has many cards dedicated to gaining benefits from sacrificing lands and playing multiple land cards per turn. On the other hand, the Jeskai deck is called Counter Intelligence, and it features multiple cards with extra effects and abilities gained with charge counters, as well as several creatures that benefit from +1/+1 counters. Game Rant has the privilege of revealing two newMTGcards from Edge of Eternities, and they are perfect fits for the upcoming Commander decks. These cards are:
Edge of Eternities - Luxknight Breacher
Luxknight Breacher is a 4 CMC creature card (3 mana of any color, 1 White) with power and toughness equal to 2. Its additional effect is that it enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it for each other creature and/or artifact controlled by the player. Considering how the card list forMagic: The Gathering’s Counter Intelligence Commander deckrevolves around artifacts, cards with proliferate, and cards with ways to gain or add +1/+1 counters, Luxknight Breacher fits right in as a potential upgrade.
Proliferate allows players to choose any number of permanents and/or players with counters on them and add another counter of each type those permanents or players have on them.
Luxknight Breacher may not be amazing early in a game, but once players start stacking creatures and artifacts on their board, it can become an absolute menace. The Counter Intelligence deck comes with an alternate commander in the form of Kilo, Apogee Mind, which costs 1 Blue, 1 Red, and 1 White for a 3/3 creature with haste and proliferate, meaning it can immediately put another +1/+1 counter on Luxknight Breacher when played if it attacks that turn. Another great upgrade for the deck would beMagic: The Gathering’s Power Conduit, which could work perfectly with Luxknight Breacher.
Edge of Eternities - Petrified Field
Petrified Field is a new land coming with Edge of Eternities, and it adds 1 colorless mana when tapped. Alternatively, though, it can be tapped and then sacrificed to return a land card from the graveyard to the player’s hand. This goes hand in hand with the World Shaper deck, starting right away with the face commander - Hearthhull, the Worldseed. Hearthhull is a spacecraft commander, anew rule added withMTG’s Edge of Eternities, and it allows players to tap it, pay one mana, and sacrifice a land to draw two cards and play an additional land that turn.
This can only be activated if Hearthhull’s threshold for the newEdge of Eternities Station mechanicis hit, first with two or more charge counters and then with 8 or more for the second part of the card.
This means that players can activate Hearthhull’s ability to sacrifice any land, which also procs its second ability, making each opponent lose 2 life when a land is sacrificed, and then activate Petrified Field to retrieve the sacrificed land from the graveyard and play it again, immediately. Sacrificing Petrified Field this way also procs Hearthhull’s second ability again, making all opponents lose 2 more life. This is a simple two-card combo, but it can be taken to the next level with some of the other cards in the deck.Magic: The Gathering’s Edge of Eternities setis shaping up to be a big one, both thematically and in terms of gameplay, and these two new cards feel right at home in the Sothera system.
