Preview | Magic The Gathering: Adventures in the Forgotten Realms (and New Cards Reveal)

The other day, we had the wonderful opportunity to participate in the Press Event for the newest Magic The Gathering set: Dungeons & Dragons: Adventures in the Forgotten Realms! We embarked on an interactive mini-RPG adventure full of secrets, cards, magic, and dangerous monsters that killed our writer multiple times!...

*metal gear solid ‘!’ sound effect*
“What was that noise?!”

...multiple times. However, regardless of Santi’s inability to explore dungeons, our endeavours demonstrated to be fruitful since we managed to uncover the reveal of 10 new cards of the future set!

Please cast a big blue magic shaft of light in the sky! Everyone loves a big blue magic shaft of light in the sky!

Aberrant Mind Sorcerer

Creature - Human-elf Shaman - 3/4
Mana Cost: 4 Lands - 1 Island
Psionic Spells - When Aberrant Mind Sorcerer enters the battlefield, choose target instant or sorcery card in your graveyard, then roll a D20.
1-9: You may put that card on top of your Library.
10-20: Return that card to your hand.

It a good thing this guy was named Asmodeus at birth. Gregg the Archfiend would carry a bit less weight.

Asmodeus the Archfiend

Legendary Creature - Devil God - 6/6
Mana Cost: 4 Lands - 2 Swamps
Binding Contract - If you would draw a card, exile the top card of your library face down instead.
3 Swamps: Draw seven cards.
1 Swamp: Return all cards exiled with Asmodeus the Archfiend to their owner’s hand and you lose that much life.

Blink Dog!
Blink Dog, Blink Dog, Blink Dog, Blink Dog, Blink Dog….BlinkDogBlinkDogBlink DogBlinkDogBlinkDogBlinkDog!
BLINK DOG!

Blink Dog

Creature - Dog - 1/1
Mana Cost: 2 Lands - 1 Plains
Double Strike.
Teleport - 3 Lands, 1 Plain: Blink Dog phases out. (Treat it and anything attached to it as though they don’t exist until your next turn.)

Me [Santi] when I try to pet Mandarina [my cat] and he is totally not feeling it.

Dragon’s Fire

Instant
Mana Cost: 1 Land - 1 Mountain
As an additional mana cost to cast this spell, you may reveal a Dragon card from your hand or choose a Dragon you control.
Dragon’s Fire deals 3 damage to the target creature or planeswalker. If you revealed a Dragon card or chose a Dragon as you cast this spell, Dragon’s Fire deals damage equal to the power of that card or creature instead.

“WhAt MaKeS yOuR aXe So GrEaT?”
”I slay a dragon with it.”
”oh”

Greataxe

Artifact - Equipment
Mana Cost: 1 Land
Equipped creature gets +4/+0
Equip 5 (Pay 5 Lands: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

A “Grim Bounties” are not be be confused with the very similar “Hopeful Bounties!”

Grim Bounty

Sorcery
Mana Cost: 2 Lands - 2 Swamps
Destroy target creature or planeswalker.
Create a Treasure token. (It’s an Artifact with “Tap, sacrifice this Artifact: Add one mana of any color.”)

Sexy.

Leather Armor

Artifact - Equipment
Mana Cost: 1 Land
Equipped creature gets +0/+1 and has ward 1 (Whenever equipped creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays 1 Land.)
Equip 0: Activate only once each turn.

Sorry Wizards of The Coast, Wargroove beat you to this character by two years.

Loyal Warhound

Creature - Dog - 3/1
Mana Cost: 1 Land - 1 Plains
Vigilance.
When Loyal Warhound enters the battlefield, if an opponent controls more lands than you, search your library for a basic Plains card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Editor’s note: I can confirm this is basically what all of rural Ireland looks like.

Neverwinter Dryad

Creature - Dryad - 1/1
Mana Cost: 1 Forest
2 Lands, sacrifice Neverwinter Dryad: Search your library for a basic Forest card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

You really want to pick this fight?

Temple of the Dragon Queen

Land
As Temple of the Dragon Queen enters the battlefield, you may reveal a Dragon card from your hand. Temple of the Dragon Queen enters the battlefield tapped unless you revealed a Dragon card this way or you control a Dragon.
As temple Temple of the Dragon Queen enters the battlefield, choose a color.
Tap: Add one mana of the chosen color.

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I got nothing.
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I couldn’t give this a better caption for this than the caption it has given itself…

After a wonderful evening exploring the multiple paths in our adventure across the Forgotten Realms, one thing we are sure about it’s that we’re excited about this upcoming set, and you should be too if you love either MtG or D&D!