After a weekend full of Mystery Booster 2 previews flooded social media from Magic: The Gathering players at Gen Con, today’s Weekly MTG stream showed off more cards and gave specifics on the many card treatments in the set.
Check out the previews below.
Ancestor Dragon, from Global Series: Jiang Yanggu & Mu Yanling, returns for the first time and is draftable.
Cataclysm, featuring art from its reprinting in From The Vault: Annihilation, but this time in non-foil.
Cogwork Librarian, is one of about a half dozen of the cards from Conspiracy to be reprinted.
Cryptic Command is back and falls in the memories camp of either memory or surprising card — two of the main baskets cards were selected from to be included in Mystery Booster 2.
Elmar, Ulvenwald Informant is the in-universe version of the Stranger Things card Max, the Daredevil.
Forked Lightning comes to paper from the Magic Online Masters Edition.
Grist, the Hunger Tide is a popular card that could use the reprint.
Horned Turtle appears as a region exclusive reprint. The set has about a dozen of these vanilla creatures appearing in non-English versions.
Swans of Bryn Argoll is a wacky card that leads to fun times.
Nexus of Fate gets a reprint with its original art but in a non-foil version.
Tasha’s Hideous Laughter can get reprinted in Mystery Booster 2 because the set doesn’t worry about where the characters are from.
Foil is only printed in foil in the Future Sight frame, because… why not?
Comet, Stellar Pup is back in white border!
Seedtime is another white border reprint. There is one white border card per pack.
Daze was one of the first cards tried out in white border for the set.
Wasteland is another Legacy staple to come back in white border. The card’s original rarity is represented on the set symbol for Mystery Booster 2.
Whiteout, with its whited out “illustration”, was reprinted due to some play in Pauper.
Future Sight was the card that kicked off the Future Sight frame reprints.
Contagion also comes in a Future Sight frame featuring art from a Magic Online only set.
Thassa’s Oracle certainly feels like it came from the future.
Swords to Plowshares tends to get every treatment imaginable, so here is the Future Sight frame.
Brainstorm.. Future Sight frame. Enough said.
Nalathni Dragon and Arena are promos from conventions and books from long ago, now in Future Sight form.
Sol Ring, the Commander staple, gets another variant.
Urza, Lord High Artificer returns with Vanguard art and the Future Sight frame.
Oracle of the Alpha, a popular MTG Arena card, is the first of many digital cards coming to paper. Wizards of the Coast (WotC) added the acorn stamp to keep it from being eternal legal.
Sanguine Brushstroke is another MTG Arena fan favorite making its way to paper.
Toralf’s Disciple joins the list of MTG Arena-only cards making their way to tabletop play.
Mox Poison features with Dan Frasier art. The playtest cards in Mystery Booster 2 didn’t use WotC staff to illustrate the playtest cards this time around.
Kozilek Compleated shows what happens when an Eldrazi becomes a Phyrexian.
Avacyn’s Collar is a shoutout to the often-memed flavor text of Ancient Grudge.
TL;DR is a removal spell that deals with wordy creatures.
Glimpse, the Unthinkable is what happens when an iconic spell becomes a legendary creature.
When it doubt, Jund’ Em Out.
You Compleat Me was a Form of the Dragon-inspired enchantment that became a sorcery.
Mystery Booster 2 will be part of the convention experience so it will be available at conventions from MagicCon: Las Vegas going forward, as well as part of the Festival in a Box.
