the Fervent)Ī creature making use of cycling (and by extension, discarding), in a similar fashion to Flame speaker Adept, which took advantage of Theros’s featured scry mechanic god of zeal) in addition to the epithets in their card names (e.g. Either this will kill the warrior, or the near-death experience will trigger a planeswalker spark if they have one… Just a theoryĪlso, the attribution to Hazoret, god of zeal, reinforces that the gods are gods of specific things (e.g. The flavour text of this card makes reference to a point (haha) shown on the Game Day playmat and in the trailer, whereby Hazoret is shown jabbing a man, presumably one who has passed the trials, with a two-pronged spear. This card provides confirmation of the Aftermath mechanic Perhaps they refer to different aspects of the warriors’ training? Again, there may be an etymology here that I’m unaware of (speaking of language issues, one very pedantic point – why is Ahn-Crop hyphenated but Tah crop not?) As I will mention later, four of the gods’ names have been revealed already, so these are unlikely to be the names of gods. In addition, this card refers to Ahn-Crop, whereas the flavour text of Cursed Minotaur refers to Tah crop. Unless there’s a meaning of the word with which I’m unfamiliar, perhaps this refers to the warriors cultivating their bodies and minds in preparation for the trials, as a farmer tends their crop? This is another card which mentions the term crop, however. The flavour text of this creature with Exert mentions Anep, vizier of Hazoret whether this turns out to be a Legendary Creature or just a character to flesh out the world has yet to be seen The first god card from the new set, in both standard and Invocation flavoursĪ creature displaying the new Embalm mechanic, complete with its Embalmed token To reflect this, Cartouche will be a new Enchantment – Aura subtypeĪnd now the part you’ve all been waiting for – the actual cards revealed today: For completing each trial, participants will earn a cartouche.There are no +1/+1 counters in the set, with -1/-1 counters reinforcing the death theme of the set.The city on this plane is called Naktamun.A video was also released on Magic’s YouTube channel for each of these mechanics:Ī few more tidbits of information were also revealed in this article: The second article, Amonkhet Mechanics, goes over – you guessed it – the new and returning mechanics of the set, including confirmation of the leaked Aftermath mechanic. Therefore, the undead within the city will be White, whereas those outside the city will be Black, more traditional zombies On the other hand, White represents ritual and order, which is perfect for the servile mummies. In terms of colour, Blue zombies were deemed too science-oriented (like the Frankenstein’s Monster-esque Blue zombies of Innistrad), and neither Green nor Red had a very zombie feel to them. Despite Mummy being an old subtype, it was decided that the race would remain retyped as Zombie, in order to facilitate tribal interactions (especially seeing as how Amonkhet will be in Standard with Shadows Over Innistrad).They have a condition they need to meet to be able to attack and block and then they have an activated ability that helps them reach that condition.” The gods will each also have an Amonkhet Invocation printing They each have two keyword abilities, one of which is indestructible. On the god cards, MaRo gives the following information (emphasis mine): “Amonkhet has a cycle of five monocolor Gods.While brainstorming, two things that Magic R&D decided had to be included in an Egyptian-themed set were gods and mummies.Amonkhet is a top-down Egyptian set with some top-down Bolas content, whereas the next set in the block, Hour of Devastation, will be top-down Bolas with some top-down Egyptian content.An Egyptian-themed set was considered for release back in 2004, but in the end Japanese culture won out, resulting in the release of the much-maligned Kamigawa block.In the first article, Amonkhet Down To Business, Part 1, Mark Rosewater goes over some of the design process for Amonkhet: Next, two articles were released on the MtG homepage, alongside the card image gallery. No indication thus far as to who either of these characters are. In addition to the beautiful visuals, and hints of future card artwork, we hear a repeated chant, first as if from a crowd, then from a smaller group of people, and finally from an individual:Īt the end of the trailer, we see Gideon blocking an attack from the jackal-headed god, while someone else tackles a woman out of the way of the god’s incoming attack.
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