The Legendary Artifacts draw upon the franchise's origins by providing cards for The Earth Crystal , The Fire Crystal , The Water Crystal , and The Wind Crystal with both standard and full art versions
It's also a stone-cold blank in any 1v1 match, and the effect's not even that impressive when it does happen
Cards like Mox Amber , Inspiring Sanctuary , and Caged Sun all offer ways to generate additional mana - while Helm of the Host sets you up for some cool combos through the art of copying
We could probably have found room for Gwen Stacy and Miles Morales in a non-Spider-Man specific set, but there wouldnt have been room for Aunt May. McCall says that designing for a Universes Beyond set flips the worldbuilding on its head, in that a typical Magic set needs its cards to lay the groundwork of its location and setting while also being fun to play with in order to get players on board, whereas most people already have some familiarity with a character like Spider-Man
Tezzeret is arguably the most powerful for how much it gives to an artifact-focused blue deck
You can watch me put the many massive monsters of Ikoria through their paces in the MTGA set preview event this week, where Ill be pulling my usual non-stop brewing marathon on a WotC-sponsored VIP account
