Game Update Highlights

• Pre-orders for Phyrexia: All Will Be One have arrived! There are now 3 pre-orders to choose from themed around Jace, Koth, and Elesh Norn
• See our recent Weekly Announcement for more information on these pre-orders

Collected Bug Fixes

• Fixed a collation bug that could result in players getting only one card from Brothers' War in their Golden Packs

Alchemy and Historic

Rebalances

Goblin Trapfinder

"This spell costs 2 less to cast" -> "This spell costs 1 less to cast"

Like Grinning Ignus and Racketeer Boss, Goblin Trapfinder was enabling combo decks using Ominious Traveler in Alchemy and Historic. Since perpetual mana cost reduction is more likely to enable problematic combos in the future, we are making the combo harder to assemble by rebalancing Goblin Trapfinder.

 

Buffs

Spirits

Decks built around Brine Comber, Shipwreck Sifters, Patrician Geist, and other Midnight Hunt and Crimson Vow Spirit cards often don’t have enough mana to support casting cards for their disturb costs. These changes aim to reduce the diminishing returns of playing multiple Disturb cards and make decks built around cards like Brine Comber more competitive.

 

Binding Geist // Spectral Binding

2U -> 1U; 3/1 -> 2/1; Disturb 1U -> U; -2/-0 until end of turn -> -2/-0 until your next turn

 

Brine Comber // Brinebound Gift

1/1 -> 2/2

 

Devoted Grafkeeper // Departed Soulkeeper

2/1 -> 2/2; ETB mill 2 -> ETB mill 4; remove “Departed Soulkeeper can block only creatures with flying.” from back

 

Dorothea, Vengeful Victim // Dorothea’s Retribution

Disturb 1WU -> WU

 

Dreamshackle Geist

3/1 -> 3/2

 

Obsessive Collector

4/3 -> 4/4

 

Gutter Skulker // Gutter Shortcut

3U -> 2U; Disturb 3U -> 2U; back now grants +3/+0

 

Lantern Bearer // Lanterns’ Lift

Disturb 2U -> 1U

 

Mischievous Catgeist // Catlike Curiosity

Disturb 2U -> 1U; Catlike Curiosity now grants +1/+1

 

Patrician Geist

Spells you cast from your graveyard cost 1 less to cast -> cost U less to cast

Phantom Carriage

4UU -> 2UU

 

Shipwreck Sifters

“Whenever you discard a Spirit card or card with disturb...” -> “Whenever a Spirit or card with disturb is put into your graveyard from anywhere..."

 

Samurai

Decks built around Neon Dynasty’s Samurai cards have a hard time being keeping pace with other aggressive decks in the format since the Samurai themselves have higher mana values. We are lowering the mana values of Samurai creature spells across the board make Samurai-themed decks more competitive against other aggressive decks in Alchemy

 

Asari Captain

3RW -> 1RW; 4/3 -> 2/1; gains Trample

 

Ancestral Katana

Now grants First Strike while attacking; +2/+1 -> +2/+2; Equip 3 -> Equip 2

 

Akki Ronin

1R -> R; 1/3 -> 1/2; change from discarding to putting a card on the bottom of library

 

Eiganjo Exemplar

1W -> W; 2/1 -> 1/1

 

Imperial Blademaster

2/2 -> 2/3

 

Imperial Subduer

2W -> 1W; 3/2 -> 3/1

 

Peerless Samurai

2R -> 1R; 2/3 -> 2/1

 

Raiyuu, Storm’s Edge

3/3 -> 4/4