Maro’s The Hobbit Teaser
Before previews for The Hobbit officially begin, I thought it would be fun to do another of my Duelist-style teasers where I give tiny hints of things to come. Note that I’m only giving you partial information.
First up, here are some things you can expect:
• a bunch of Dwarf typal cards
• a mechanic from The Lord of the Rings returns with one small change
• some of the creature tokens: 1/1 Human Soldier, 4/4 white Bird Soldier, 6/6 red Dragon, 2/2 green Wolf, and 3/1 colorless Wall
• a card with affinity for Elves
• the biggest Bear we’ve ever printed
• a mechanic that’s a tweak of a faction mechanic that has been brought back in another premier set
• more Sagas that are songs
• a new type of counter created by a hackathon group looking to expand red’s slice of the color pie
• some cards will be able to have “an enduring story”
• a mechanic that’s the cross of two different mechanics that both premiered in a return set
Next, here are some rules text that will be showing up on cards:
• “{T}: Add {C} for each Halfling you control.”
• “you may pay {0} rather than pay the equip cost of the first equip ability you activate each turn.”
• “Whenever another legendary Elf you control enters,”
• “That player may search their library for that many basic land cards,”
• “reveal the top thirteen cards of your library.”
• “Whenever you sacrifice a token, target opponent loses 1 life.”
• “Other Bears you control get +2/+2.”
• “[CARDNAME] has all activated abilities of all [CARDNAME’S CREATURE TYPE] cards in your graveyard.”
• “Whenever a player loses life, that player mills that many cards,”
• “Whenever you attack with creatures with total power 12 or greater”
Here are some creature type lines from the set:
• Creature – Dog
• Creature – Rabbit
• Creature – Goblin Ranger
• Creature – Dragon Wurm
• Creature – Elf Bard
• Creature – Goblin Bard
• Legendary Creature – Dwarf Bard
• Legendary Creature – Elf Advisor
• Legendary Creature – Human Noble Archer
• Legendary Creature – Bear Shapeshifter Warrior
Finally, here are some names in the set:
• Confusticate and Bebother
• Dancing from Dark to Dawn
• Down, Down to Goblin-town
• Getaway Barrel
• Great Ugly-Looking Goblin
• Hobbit Hole
• Old Fat Spider
• Stone by Sunlight
• Troop of Ponies
• Well-Worn Spatula
Tune in to The Hobbit's Debut stream on Twitch (https://www.youtube.com/@mtg)and YouTube ( https://www.twitch.tv/magic) July 18th from MagicCon Amsterdam at 8:30am PT!
