Kaldheim Set Mechanics
Kaldheim brings 2 new mechanics, as well as featuring 4 returning mechanics.
Foretell
For 2 generic mana, you can exile a card with foretell, allowing you to cast it for an alternate cost on a later turn.
Boast
After a creature with boast has declared attackers, you can pay its boast cost to activate an ability, but only once per turn.
Modal Double-Faced Cards
Returning from Zendikar Rising are the Modal Double-Faced Cards, MDFCs. Not only do we have the 4 remaining MDFC lands, but we also have a cycle of gods with nonland permanents on the other side.
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Snow
Returning to standard from Coldsnap, we have snow mana. Certain cards require snow mana, which can be any mana generated from a snow permanent, which will mainly be snow-covered lands.
Sagas
Returning from Theros: Beyond Death are Sagas. When a saga enters the battlefield, you put a counter on it and activate the first ability on the card. During your next draw step, you put a counter on it and trigger the ability with the number of counters on the saga. After the third ability, you sacrifice the enchantment.
Changeling
Returning to standard from Lorwyn is Changeling. Creatures with changeling have every creature type, resulting in being very easy to fit into tribal decks.
Kaldheim Mastery Pass
- All players can unlock 33 Kaldheim booster packs for playing for free.
- Playing for free can also unlock 5 mastery orbs.
- For Paid players, there are an additional 20 packs from standard legal sets.
- There are also 3 bear pets that can level up throughout the pass.
- The paid pass also includes different card styles, 20 mastery orbs, gold, and gems.
Comments
How are snow-covered lands used in Draft? You have to specifically draft for them, or you just put at the end only snow-covered lands in the deck?
You have to specifically draft them in order to put them in your deck. Prioritizing lands is pretty important whenever drafting a snow deck to make sure you can actually benefit from your snow nonland cards.
Fun day today! Made an elf/poison deck, cleric deck, and tweaked my mono-black control. Disrupting a lot of old meta strats. Did really well but I think that's partly because the new cards caught people off guard. Think the Foretell will be easy enough for people to predict as the meta settles and the obvious winners stick out. I think mono-white control may be really good.
I only started dabbling with MTG: Arena last month and I don't really know how the set rotations work yet. Is anything dropping out of standard with the release of this set? Thanks.
No, rotations come in september.