The Murders at Karlov Manor debut video and the following Weekly MTG stream unveiled the conclusion to the story, previewed cards, revealed the mechanics from the set, and much more.
Dive into the new cards, booster fun treatments, mechanics, Special Guests, Commander face cards, and promo cards from Murders at Karlov Manor.
Surveil Dual Lands
While Murders at Karlov Manor isn’t technically a guild-themed set, there will be 10 new rare dual lands. These duals boast both land types, so they are fetchable, and surveil when they enter the battlefield. They also come in borderless, alternate art variants.
Case Cards
Case cards show off a new mechanic. Case is a new type of enchantment that looks like sagas and class cards, but function in their own way. The top section of case cards is always active, but the middle section features a requirement needed to solve the case. If you can solve the case, the middle section won’t trigger again, and the last ability becomes active. If that ability is an activated ability, it can now be activated. If it’s a triggered ability, it can now trigger. If it’s a static ability, that ability now functions. Once a case is solved it stays solved until it leaves the battlefield.
Collect Evidence
Collect evidence is a new cost that functions as a keyword action. It always appears with a number, noting the mana value of combined cards required to be exiled from the graveyard in order to pay it. Players can go over the number if needed, but can also exile only one card if they happen to have a single card with the needed mana value.
Disguise And Cloak
Disguise functions exactly like morph with the exception that the facedown 2/2 colorless creature also has ward 2. Cloak is a twist on the manifest mechanic, but the card can be cloaked from different areas other than just the top of your library like manifest. The cloaked card will also have ward 2 and be a 2/2 colorless creature and can be flipped up only if it is a creature card by paying its mana cost.
Suspect
Suspect is another new mechanic that designates creatures as suspects. Once a creature is a suspect it has menace and can no longer block. Some cards can remove the suspect designator, returning the creature to its normal form that no longer has menace and can block.
Investigate
Investigate returns and many cards have extra ways to take advantage of having Clue tokens on the battlefield.
Booster Fun Treatments
There are many different Booster Fun treatments in Murders at Karlov Manor.
Showcase: Magnified Cards
Magnified Cards showcase notable moments from the story.
Showcase Dossier
The dossier treatment gives another look at key players in the story, often with new flavor text.
Ravnica City
The Ravnica City treatment uses a a new border style and a double rainbow foil serialized version can be found in Collector Boosters.
Extended Art
As always, a handful of cards receive the extended-art treatment, like the reprinted Assassin’s Trophy.
Impossible Lands
These full-art lands can be found in Collector Boosters and Play Boosters.
Special Guests
Take a look at the 10 borderless cards included as Special Guests for the set. These cards will be legal in Limited play, but are only legal in constructed formats that they already exist in.
Promo Pack Cards
The five uncommon cards that can be foil or non-foil in promo packs can be seen below. These packs are given out as prizes as local game stores.
Prerelease Pack Promos
These traditional foil mythic rares are exclusive to Murders at Karlov Manor prerelease packs and are legal for Standard play.
More Previews
Commander Face Cards
Check out the face cards for the four Commander Decks coming with Murders at Karlov Manor.
Murders at Karlov Manor is set for release on February 9. View our official preview gallery here. Learn more about the different booster fun treatments and where to find versions of cards in the official Collecting article from WotC. Additional information on the mechanics in the set can be found in the official Mechanics article from WotC.