Before set releases, Magic: The Gathering's head designer Mark Rosewater, MaRo, shares some fun information about the upcoming set in his Blogatog where he also answers questions from players and more.
One for Tarkir: Dragonstorm has dropped, which has its preview season start on March 18, 2025 with several new cards spoiled already! Check out MaRo's Teaser below, and cards revealed so far in our card list:
MaRo's Tarkir: Dragonstorm Teaser
Before previews for Tarkir: Dragonstorm officially begin, I thought it would be fun to do another of my Duelist-style teasers where I give tiny hints of things to come. Note that I’m only giving you partial information.
First up, here are some things you can expect:
- A cycle of Dragonstorm enchantments
- Two planeswalkers
- Some counters in the set: decayed, lifelink, and time
- A card that can tutor for one of two other cards
- A legendary enchantment
- A Hydra that uses a clan keyword
- A common archetype theme gets an ability word
- An instant the generates five effects
- Dragons get a new typal enchantment based on a popular Zombie one
- A new instant and sorcery subtype
Next, here are some rules text that will be showing up on cards:
- “Whenever you cast a Turtle spell, untap this creature.”
- “As long as there are three or more different kinds of counters among creatures you control,”
- “You may cast it without paying its mana cost if that spell’s mana value is 8 or less.”
- “If you put +1/+1 counters on five Dragons this way, you win the game.”
- “Whenever a creature you control enters, if you cast it, destroy that creature”
- “At the beginning of combat on your turn, if you’ve case both a creature spell and a noncreature spell this turn,”
- “Then if creatures you control have total toughness 20 or greater,”
- “During your end step, Warrior tokens you control have ‘This token can’t be sacrificed.’”
- “Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may search your library for a card named <CARDNAME>, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.”
- “Spells you cast have delve.”
Here are some creature type lines from the set:
- Creature – Dog Monk
- Creature – Elephant Druid
- Creature – Yeti
- Creature – Djinn Cleric
- Creature – Zombie Advisor
- Creature – Kirin
- Creature – Snake Shapeshifter
- Artifact Creature – Chimera
- Artifact Creature – Ape Snake
- Legendary Creature – Zombie Snake Warlock
Finally, here are some names in the set:
- All-Out Assault
- Cruel Truths
- Desperate Measures
- Dragonologist
- Hundred-Battle Veteran
- Lightfoot Technique
- Rescue Leopard
- Seize Opportunity
- Stillness in Motion
- War Effort
Tune into the Tarkir: Dragonstorm Debut stream on March 18th! Watch it on twitch.tv/magic at 10am PDT (Don’t forget, this weekend is Daylight saving time! So the US will shift their clocks forward 1 hour and the start time may be different than you expect as a result.)
