Wizards of the Coast today launched Prerelease events for Lorwyn Eclipsed, the latest set for the world-renowned trading card game, Magic: The Gathering (MTG). Cross the boundary into the eternal day of Lorwyn and brave the twisted landscape and wild Magic of Shadowmoor. Discover your true self under the perpetual moonlight of this dual-aspect plane. Lorwyn Eclipsed will be released for MTG Arena on January 20 and available everywhere for tabletop on January 23.
Every light casts a shadow…
Welcome back to Lorwyn-Shadowmoor, the plane of light and shadow. Lorwyn-Shadowmoor was once a plane that would shift between its two aspects: Lorwyn, where the sun never fully sets, and Shadowmoor, where the moon cycles endlessly through a cool night. But much has changed in the years since our last visit. The two aspects of the plane began to bleed into one another, day into night and night into day.
Now, the first four-year Strixhaven students, Abigale, Kirol, Tam, and Sanar, have stumbled through an Omenpath and found themselves in this strange new world. Ajani and Liliana are hot on their heels, investigating their disappearance, as the conflict between Lorwyn and Shadowmoor escalates. Elemental forces clash, familiar faces emerge, and the fate of the plane hangs in the balance.
New and Returning Mechanics
A return to Lorwyn-Shadowmoor for Magic: The Gathering brings new and old mechanics to the landscape, capturing the essence of the duality between both aspects of the plane.
These mechanics include:
- Vivid, an ability word that highlights abilities that care about the number of colours among permanents you control. Each vivid ability uses this number in a different way.
- Blight, a new keyword action utilising Lorwyn Eclipsed’s prominent feature of -1/-1 counters. One obvious use for them is to make opposing creatures weaker. One less-obvious use for them is to make your own creatures weaker. But why? One reason is blight, a new keyword action. There are many reasons to blight. It’s often a cost you pay, such as to activate an ability or as an additional cost to cast a spell. While -1/-1 counters aren’t great for your creatures, there are several ways in this set to remove them. These effects not only relieve the counters’ power and toughness penalties, but the effects often have additional benefits as well.
- Changeling, a returning keyword that allows the card that has it to be every creature type. Creatures with changeling could be anyone or anything. It’s a Human. It’s a Goat. It’s a Surrakar.
- Kindred, a returning card type that’s added to non-creature cards to allow them to have creature types. For example, being a kindred allows Boggart Mischief to also be a Goblin. This means it’s a Goblin card in your library, graveyard, and so on. So, if you search your library for a Goblin card, you can find Boggart Mischief.
- Double-faced cards, encapsulating the transformative nature of Lorwyn and Shadowmoor by revealing a different aspect of these characters on each face as they walk through the different aspects of the plane. All of the double-faced cards in this set are nonmodal double-faced cards, previously known as transforming double-faced cards. This means that, unlike some double-faced cards, they have no mana costs on their back faces, and when you cast them, you can cast only their front faces.
Choose Between Light and Shadow
Each of Lorwyn Eclipsed’s two commander decks features a legendary commander tied to Lorwyn or Shadowmoor, giving you a new way to play Magic: The Gathering’s most popular format. Lead your forces with Ashling’s Dance of the Elements or Auntie Ool’s Blight Curse. Two legendary Commanders, two sides of Lorwyn’s duality. Embrace the power of harmony or harness the potential of blight at your next Commander night.
Collecting Lorwyn Eclipsed
Rebecca Guay’s artwork helped players fall in love with the plane of Lorwyn-Shadowmoor, and she’s lending her talents to Lorwyn Eclipsed on this serialised version of Bitterbloom Bearer. Individually numbered and packed with faerie flavour, this card is fit for the high fae.
This version of Bitterbloom Bearer appears only in Lorwyn Eclipsed Collector Boosters. Serialised versions of Bitterbloom Bearer can appear in Collector Boosters of any language, but the card will always be in English. Serialised cards are mechanically identical to their non-serialised counterparts.
Get cozy with a cup of boggart-brewed tea and settle in for a story with these fable frame cards. This treatment features a new card frame that harkens back to classic storybooks, complete with artwork to match. Fable frame cards can be found in both non-foil and traditional foil in Play Boosters and Collector Boosters.
The Japanese Booster Fun team has taken 10 cards from Lorwyn Eclipsed and reimagined them in the style of Japanese hobby shops, complete with a special frame that makes the mana symbols and artwork truly pop. For collectible curators who are looking for the shiniest cards, fracture foil Japan Showcase cards add an additional level of shimmering beauty. Japan Showcase cards appear only in Collector Boosters.
Special Guests cards take a collection of fan favourite cards from Magic history and reimagine them under the sun and moon of Lorwyn-Shadowmoor. Here, you’ll find classic cards recreated with woodcut-style artwork, as if the inhabitants of the plane crafted these cards themselves. You can find these cards in non-foil in Play Boosters and traditional foil in Collector Boosters.
Beloved Magic: The Gathering artists from the Lorwyn and Shadowmoor blocks are making their return on select borderless cards from this set. Each card brings an artist who worked on our first visits to the plane into our latest expression of Lorwyn-Shadowmoor. These cards are available in both non-foil and traditional foil in Play Boosters and Collector Boosters.
One side is Lorwyn, one side is Shadowmoor, and together they form a stunning cycle of borderless shock lands. These reversible cards show off both aspects of the plane on a single card. These cards are mechanically identical to their counterparts in the default Magic: The Gathering frame and appear in both non-foil and traditional foil in Play Boosters and Collector Boosters.
Embrace the night and day with these full-art basic lands. Lorwyn and Shadowmoor each have their own cycle of full-art basic lands, letting you theme your decks to the aspect of your choice. Or you can mix and match them for the ultimate eclipsed-realm deck.
Magic: The Gathering Lorwyn Eclipsed includes Play Boosters, Collector Boosters, Commander Decks, Draft Night, Bundles, 60-Card Theme Decks, and Prerelease Packs.
For more information on Lorwyn Eclipsed, visit: https://magic.wizards.com/en/products/lorwyn-eclipsed
