Everything You Need to Know About MTG Edge of Eternities Set List

MTG Edge of Eternities represents a bold new frontier for Magic: The Gathering – we’re going into outer space! While Magic has touched on an intergalactic setting in ‘Unfinity’, this is the first time in a Standard-legal, canon-lore set.

The Edge, specifically, is outside of the Magic multiverse, next to the Blind Eternities. Think of the setting like ‘science fantasy’ along the lines of Star Wars or Dune. The story focuses on the most sci-fi of Planeswalkers – Tezzert – after the events of Phyrexia: All Will Be One and features the likes of aliens, a skywhale and, of course, spacecraft!

Let’s set our phasers to stun and see what The Edge has in store for us.

What Cards are Revealed So Far?

We’re now lightyears ahead in terms of what we’ve seen so far – the full set list is now live! Before going over the cards, let’s take a look at the mechanics…

• Station and Spacecraft – These two go hand in hand, with the ‘station’ ability appearing on spacecraft in the set. Think of it like ‘crew’, where you have to tap creatures to add counters to the spacecraft according to their power, which, when a certain number is reached, unlocks an ability and turns the spacecraft into an artifact creature
  
  
• Lander – Lander tokens are the latest ‘clue’ or ‘blood’ variant, this time creating an artifact token with: [two mana, tap and sacrifice] to search for a basic land and put into play. A powerful ability that’s got fun, intergalactic flavour of exploring new worlds
  
  
• Void – Void is a simple one – it unlocks additional effects if a nonland permanent left the battlefield this turn, or if a card was ‘warped’ this turn… speaking of which…
  
  
• Warp – Warp is like a combination of evoke and adventure, where you can play a card early, typically for an ETB effect (or haste on a creature), which then gets exiled at end of turn, but you’re able still cast it later.
  
  
• Landfall – a true classic keyword, Landfall returns, granting you effects for playing lands. This is great, because it makes even those late-game land draws powerful. It works perfectly with Lander tokens.

As well as these, a few mechanics return on single cards. These are: Kicker on Consult the Star Charts, Devour land (instead of creatures) on Famished Worldsire, Affinity for artifacts on Sami, Wildcat Captain and affinity for slivers on Thrumming Hivepool, Poison counters on Virulent Silencer and Convoke on Vote Out.

Notable cards

There’s plenty to get excited about in MTG Edge of Eternities, let’s take a look at some of the highlights

Sothera, the Supervoid

The latest Grave Pact variant, Sothera, the Supervoid actually exiles your opponent’s creatures rather than making them sacrifice them, making it also strong against sacrifice/graveyard decks too. It also lets you bring the strongest creature back once all have gone, adding a nice little bonus. Not bad at all for four mana. This will find lots of homes in Commander

Anticasual Vestiage

Not only is this a cool card because it’s an Eldrazi – perhaps hinting at their origins at The Edge – but Anticausal Vestiage is a really interesting example of a Warp card, enabling you to ‘cheat’ permanents into play according to your land count. Landfall and ramp Commander decks could love this guy

Tezzeret, Cruel Captain

Everyone’s favourite artifact loving bad-guy Planewalker, Tezzeret makes a return as Tezzeret, Cruel Captain, and is fully colourless this time around. This guy does a lot for just three mana, but clearly needs to be in an artifact heavy shell. Being so cost effective and with an inbuilt tutor (search) mechanic, I can see him having an impact all the way back to Vintage at some point

The Shock Lands

Five of the 10 shock lands are reprinted here – Breeding Pool, Watery Grave, Godless Shrine, Sacred Foundry and Stomping Ground – and are no doubt some of the best lands in the game, behind, arguably, only the original duals and fetchlands. These are amazing across almost all formats, and it’s a great time to stock up on a playset (or two!). These are Standard and Modern staples, and are essential for strong Commander manabases too. In current Standard, Dimir Midrange is the most popular deck that can currently make use of them – but who knows what might happen post-ban announcement in November. I’m sure the remaining five will be reprinted in a future set soon.

How Edge of Eternities Changes the Meta

At the time of writing, Standard is in a strange place, with one deck – Izzet Cauldron – dominating the meta, meaning there’s currently little room in a well-tuned list. This means the release of MTG Edge of Eternites is really about improving what exists with the odd addition here and there. For example, Qauntum Riddler is now making the list, enabling lots of extra card draw when it’s warped in, and providing a huge flying threat later.

Behind Izzet Caludron decks are the omnipresent, in recent times at least, Dimir Midrange and Mono Red Angro. Dimir has taken advantage of removal in Tragic Trajectory and Archenemy’s Charm, as well as Watery Grave of course, plus Annul for those pesky Cauldrons in the sideboard. Mono Red has embraced Nova Hellkite, because sometimes you just need a big hasty dragon you can warp in on turn three!

With the next Standard ban announcement due for the end of November, we’re likely to see a big shake up soon which will allow more MTG Edge of Eternities cards time to shine. When that happens, I expect decks that can take advantage of the five shock land colour pairs will especially shine, with Dimir the first in line.

In terms of the other formats, including Modern and Legacy, Edge of Eternities is going to have a limited impact, as is the case with most Standard-legal releases, however the reprinting of the shock lands at least makes assembling mana bases easier. As for Pioneer, Archenemy’s Charm is making an appearance in Mono Black lists.

Compete Decks – How to Incorporate Edge of Eternities into Your Deck

As we’ve discussed, the current impact of Edge of Eternities is more about deck evolution than revolution (that is, at least until the next ban announcement).

We have a combo deck – if we categorise it as such – in Izzet Cauldron, plus midrange and aggro covered with Dimir Midrange and Mono Red aggro. Completing the macro archetypes is Blue/White control, which is running Consult the Star Charts as its cheap draw spell, and Seam Rip as a cost-effective removal option, along with Annul in the sideboard.

And while it’s not as powerful as it once was, Esper Self-Bounce is still in the meta game, with some nice additions. Cosmogrand Zenith rewards you for replaying your spells, and Cryogen Relic is a powerful draw engine, as well as a soft removal option when you need it.

Where to Buy MTG Edge of Eternities Cards

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