Any prowess creature could take great advantage of this card, and in a pinch, you can use your hand to trade one for one with everything. If this is your followup to Guttersnipe, you’ll be able to deal 14 damage in one turn. But given the right archetype, this is something that could shine or even excel. On it’s own, this card is not going to make it in cube. Until end of turn, cards you own that aren’t on the battlefield lose all card types, costs, names, and abilities and become red sorceries named Missle that cost R with “Missile deals 2 damage to any target.” This mechanic may end up being more parasitic than I would like and may not make the cut anymore. This makes the card significantly less powerful but is still interesting nonetheless. Instead, you start at a spark count of 0 and can go up from there. BĮdit: I have been corrected and told that this card does not use your life total for its abilities. Very sweet card and I’d love to see Spark return as a mechanic provided it is balanced well. Putting this on a 3/2 body makes it more fragile, but I’d rather it be like this as it is a lot easier to interact with a creature than other permanents. Against aggro, this is still a decent card because it’s absolute floor is still going to gain you one life per turn. This card seems like it will do best when played against a control deck, as you can just go to town with the -3 and often come out ahead on the exchange in life if they have to discard their big spells like Teferi, Hero of Dominaria.
This brings the phrase “life is a resource” to life, and provides a lot of power. There might be another card in the set that literally transforms you into a Planeswalker, but personally, I’m much more interested in Spark. You gain life equal to its converted mana cost. +1: CARDNAME gains lifelink until end of turn.
Activate only one Spark ability per turn, and only as a sorcery.) Spark (Activate spark abilities by spending or giving yourself spark counters. Still an interesting design space, and I hope that they continue to push into this. With only 4 cards that can enable him quickly enough to matter, he’s just going to be a grizzly bear for most games. As cool as this guy is, he seems much more suitable for a constructed environment than in cube. Gideon of the Trials, Gideon, Ally of Zendikar, Sorin, Lord of Innistrad, and Serra the Benevolent can ultimate immediately or very quickly. I love that they made this card white as that is where we can get most of our emblems for very cheap. To start us off we get a very interesting card exploring brand new design space. Baneslayer AspirantĬARDNAME gets +3/+3 and has flying, first strike, and lifelink as long as you have one or more emblems. If you’d like to see all the playtest cards you can follow this link to take a look.
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If you feel I overlooked a card that you feel is worth discussing (and I’ve already passed alphabetically) feel free to discuss it in the comments below. I’ll be going in alphabetical order, and will cover more cards in later articles. I won’t be going through all 121 cards and will only be talking about the cards that are most interesting in cube. If they ever upload higher quality images of the actual playtest cards, I’d print those off instead, but when all we have is crappy phone pictures or $30+ cards on eBay that aren’t even real cards, this is the best I can do. If I end up adding any of these cards to my cube, I will just redesign them using a website like and print them off and slide them in a sleeve. Because Wizards of the Coast is going to make these difficult to obtain, and considering that these are playtest cards, I believe that the correct way to approach these cards is to proxy them. This limited supply for such unique items has already driven up the prices by exorbitant amounts which keep these out of the hands of the average player who just wants to enjoy these cards. Unfortunately, these cards are limited to convention boosters only, and will not appear in the retail boosters which will be coming in March 2020. A lot of these cards look like they were designed specifically for cube, which is what I will be covering in today’s article and future ones, as I feel that these cards could add a lot to the cube experience.
Inside each of these convention boosters were specialty “playtest” cards which felt like brand new Un cards being printed out of nowhere.
The packs were first opened this weekend, and the cards inside were nothing like what we expected. This past weekend, Magic announced that there would be a new product available titled Mystery Boosters, which would be doing something Magic has never seen before.