must Star The franchise may have boldly declared the space as the final border, but Magic: Partythis is just the beginning. After its huge risk (final success) Final Fantasy Last month’s setting, this old card game is growing more and more risky, although this time there is no glitz-free crossover: its next set, The edge of eternity, Will mark magicFor the first time, it is appropriately involved in a comprehensive science fiction novel.
Over the years, the series flirted with sci-fi concepts in its fantastic environments, including factions such as the biomechanical phyrexians or the Eldrazi’s multi-universe Eldritch horror faction, and even more specifically dipped its toes into the genre Warhammer 40,000 and Doctor Who Cross-border, but The Edge of Eternitywill be released next month, will see magic Embrace the stars in a way that has never been seen before. But, even if done boldly, the set can do it thoroughly magic twist.
The Edge of Eternity Represent one of them magicThe biggest chance to tell a primitive storytelling in recent memory. Rather than using new aircraft in the multiverse, edge Crossing the plane concept, which has defined several generations magic Knowledge. Naturally, this requires a lot of setup magic A community beyond cards and flavored text: The Edge of Eternity“The accompanying novel will be released in 11 storylines and there are five next to it to introduce the new world, characters, planets and tone magic In progress while exploring the stars.
but edge It’s brand new, it’s still rooted in familiar magic Deadly. The scene takes place in the nominal realm: the blind eternal far end, the gap between aircraft in the multiverse has been suggested for years magicstorytelling. “The metaphor we use internally is that the multiverse is orange and that the plane we know is seeds and the edges are peels.” magic Roy Graham recently explained the news in a news briefing. Because the edge itself is such a vast and unfamiliar branch magicThe world architecture, The Edge of Eternity By focusing on the region’s singular system, Sothera, will serve as a formal introduction to the field.
First make fun of it during the period edgeThe Sothera System was recently unveiled at MagicCon Las Vegas, a solar system whose central star has been worshipped by the single-person black hole worshippers collapsed into a massive super contact lens. Although the system was shocked by Sothera’s transformation, the system consists of five major planets, each in line with one of them. magicmana prototype. Kavaron stands for the Red Mana Normal, Evendo Green, Adagia White, Uthros Blue and Susur Secundi, the closest to Sotherad’s world and the mono activity center in the system, and naturally stands for the black. Every planet will have a representative edgecard set, play some new mechanisms being introduced.
In these five worlds, multiple new factions will be introduced, from insect-like terrainers to ancient precursor competitions, and even hint at familiar ones magic Factions like Eldrazi have long been known for their blind eternal hail. But the main conflicts in this scenario will be distributed in three main groups: Peak, essentially magicsubstitute Star TrekThe Federation and Starfleet are a pan-grown government and exploration body that recently incorporated the Sothera system into its territory; the Sannus seeking to complete the transformation of Sothera into a complete superanimal; their ancient enemies are in the celestial palatinate, a sacred empire built around mathematical equations that have locked in the war with the mono locked eons, which has sent the Sunstar Free Company’s solar knight to Sothera in an attempt to reverse the damage of its dying star.
But again, not all edge Brand new to familiar magic Audience. For all new factions, at least one pilot gets a huge reward in the scene: Tezzeret, returning after the Phyrexian invasion of Multiverse to take his next move. “[Tezzeret] Graham teases him, using his black steel body to the edge to travel through the blind eternity, all the way to the edge.
Of course, this sounds like a big step towards the tone and field magic I used to only really dipped my toes in. But for the team behind it The Edge of Eternitytheir methods are still a lot of magic Usually doing this in the fantasy realm – they quickly explain their visions with a twist of science.
“We really want to raise our sci-fi idea,” explained executive producer Mike Turian. “Whenever we go to a new plane, a new place, a new world, we always want to say, ‘Hey, how do we connect things that resonate with it,’ Magic: Party? ‘. so The Edge of Eternitywe want to see what it means to take magic Going to outer space, but, for example, we have Sothera, which is a magic Black hole. The term “magic” does indeed take great importance in this concept of science fiction. On the edge, magic is not physics. We have whales in outer space – scientists cannot verify the possibility of this actual existence! However, this does capture this essence, and we believe, the potential for combination magic and outer space. ”
“[Edge being too far a leap for Magic] Not so good,” Graham added. It was an exciting new direction for us. It was a territory we never managed to introduce magic. But everything reflects and redefines and reflects subtle storytelling, profound fantasy world building and resonance themes magic Players will love forever. It is told in this new medium that this art is being interpreted in this out-of-world ways, and that we are doing something in mechanical design and storytelling and narrative that only really makes sense in the context of space fantasy adventures. ”
Graham The Edge of EternityMechanical method magic. A return mechanic for the standard player is the return of the legal impact land – the type of land that enters the game and can be removed from the lifetime cost. But even edgeNew mechanics are all familiar with design ideas as much as they have added.
A new mechanic who relies on iterative ideas is the station. Almost similar to a mechanic in EetherdriftCards with stations can gain new capabilities, and once a certain number of charging counters are placed on them, the type can be converted by tapping on other biocards, thereby obtaining a charging token, which can totally utilize the bio’s power level. exist edgethe station will be related to two new clamp types: the planet itself has no unique rules, but both have stations, and a new theme vehicle type spacecraft. exist edge It will also mark the first time any vehicle type, including spacecraft, can be used as a player commander in the commander format, opening up a wide variety of deck building opportunities.
Another is warp, designed to represent the idea of traveling faster than lights on the edge. Cards with warp threads can pay for alternative, cheap mana costs at the expense of the next step of exile. Warp cards can be played through exile, interacting with many other standards magic Mechanic, but it can only twist once – In communication, you gain powerful benefits for a short time on the battlefield.
Interaction with warping is invalid and represents space without space. If a curve is twisted, or a non-terrestrial permanent exit from the battlefield, Void can trigger, providing alternative effects to spells and witchcraft, or other effects outside its rule effects. The final new mechanic laughed at the press, and was the Lander token, representing Pinnacle’s planetary exploration mission. Similar to food or treasure tokens, landers can be sacrificed to counselors (or search your deck) for basic land.
The wizard’s plan clearly The Edge of Eternity Similar to what it works on Final Fantasy put. If external property is integrated into magic Respect and caution to represent the best state of the game’s concept of “beyond the universe” of the game, edge Take a similar approach to incorporate new types into magicoriginal storytelling method. New World Architecture is full of potential for further exploration edgeattracting a lot of similarities between new materials and what magic Already played in similar spaces. Mechanically, this set of scenes is shaping to capture the core principles of science fiction and science fiction that are celebrated by the genre.
But especially in Final Fantasy and the most successful position as the most financially successful magic Once upon a time, it was hard not to see anything edge In doing – With the huge universe among the huge universes outside the release, Spider-Man Released in September – even in magicMy storytelling is for magicThe next big crossover.
“One of the great things that work on these suits is that we are inspired by the expectations of the players,” Tuan noted. edge Doing it. “[We’re] Understanding how people view outer space and what it means to them, we found a great way to incorporate it into our distribution. ”
Time will tell if the edge has a chance to explore further, or if something goes beyond the universe. magic: Party – Eternal Edge It will be available on August 1st.
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