Mark Rosewater's Teasers for Tarkir: Dragonstorm

Magic: The Gathering head designer Mark Rosewater has shared the first previews of the card game's upcoming expansion, Tarkir: Dragonstorm, on his personal blog. In the post, Mark revealed some of the abilities, card text, creature types, and names that players will encounter in the set, which is scheduled to release on April 11.

Cycles and Card Abilities in Tarkir: Dragonstorm

• A cycle of Dragonstorm enchantments

• Two planeswalkers

• Some counters in the set: decayed, lifelink, and time

• A card that can tutor for one of two other cards

• A legendary enchantment

• A Hydra that uses a clan keyword

• A common archetype theme gets an ability word

• An instant the generates five effects

• Dragons get a new typal enchantment based on a popular Zombie one

• A new instant and sorcery subtype

Rules Texts of Tarkir: Dragonstorm

• “Whenever you cast a Turtle spell, untap this creature.”

• “As long as there are three or more different kinds of counters among creatures you control,”

• “You may cast it without paying its mana cost if that spell’s mana value is 8 or less.”

• “If you put +1/+1 counters on five Dragons this way, you win the game.”

• “Whenever a creature you control enters, if you cast it, destroy that creature”

• “At the beginning of combat on your turn, if you’ve case both a creature spell and a noncreature spell this turn,”

• “Then if creatures you control have total toughness 20 or greater,”

• “During your end step, Warrior tokens you control have ‘This token can’t be sacrificed.’”

• “Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may search your library for a card named , reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.”

• “Spells you cast have delve.”

Creature Types in Tarkir: Dragonstorm

• Creature – Dog Monk

• Creature – Elephant Druid

• Creature – Yeti

• Creature – Djinn Cleric

• Creature – Zombie Advisor

• Creature – Kirin

• Creature – Snake Shapeshifter

• Artifact Creature – Chimera

• Artifact Creature – Ape Snake

• Legendary Creature – Zombie Snake Warlock

Card Names in Tarkir: Dragonstorm

• All-Out Assault

• Cruel Truths

• Desperate Measures

• Dragonologist

• Hundred-Battle Veteran

• Lightfoot Technique

• Rescue Leopard

• Seize Opportunity

• Stillness in Motion

• War Effort

Official Tarkir: Dragonstorm previews begin March 18 on the official Magic: The Gathering channel.

Source: Blogatog