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Aetherdrift Previews are Coming in Hot!

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It's been a little bit since we've had a good old fashioned preview season! As is tradition, Innistrad Remastered came and went in a flash, and before that it's been several months since we were shown cards from Foundations. Now comes Aetherdrift, the death race set spanning multiple planes with racers from even more planes. This week saw an absurd amount of cards previewed, so let's jump right in and get to talking about them!

The Cards People Are Talking About

Ketramose, the New Dawn
Sab-Sunen, Luxa Embodied

It's always cool when we see new gods in Magic, and these ones are no slouches. Ketramose, the New Dawn caught many players' attention in particular thanks to just how easy it is to trigger a draw. Not only does it care about cards you exile, but your opponents as well, making it great alongside cards like Rest in Peace and Ghost Vacuum. Sab-Sunen, Luxa Embodied provides a nonstop value engine that has players everywhere salivating over the possibilities of what you can get up to with it.

The Aetherspark

We knew this was coming, but I don't think anyone could've expected just how cool The Aetherspark would truly be. The biggest point that people talked about and noted was the fact that it got more loyalty not by dealing combat damage to a player, but rather any damage period much like Umezawa's Jitte. This made many players excited to see what could be done, with cards like Stoneforge Mystic and Karn, the Great Creator frequently being mentioned as options to get it onto the battlefield with ease.

Full Throttle

Extra combat phase cards are a dime a dozen. Combining two Relentless Assaults into one card, though? That's exciting! It's even better when it untaps all creatures at the beginning of each combat going forward, allowing you to get up to real shenanigans in older formats with cards like Combat Celebrant. Combine this with some truly spectacular art and you've got a real winner of a card.

What's New and Pricey?

Loot, the Pathfinder

Is this finally a very playable Loot card? The stats alone on this card are tremendous, effectively coming down as a five mana 4/4 with vigilance and haste. More importantly, though, are the abilities which each represent the likes of cards such as Dark Ritual (for a Green mana), Ancestral Recall, and Lightning Bolt. The real excitement comes when paired with something like Agatha's Soul Cauldron, allowing you to utilize these powerful effects repeatedly over the course of a game.

Hazoret, Godseeker

Is Hazoret once again going to become one of the most dominant cards in the format? I personally think this one isn't going to be quite to the scale of power as her first incarnation, but a two mana indestructible 5/3 is always exciting. The real trick is getting up to max speed, which takes time most aggro decks can't afford. Still, in long games, this card is a huge deal, and even if it's not attacking, it making creatures unblockable can be an equally huge deal, particularly when combined with prowess creatures.

The Last Ride

When players saw a one-mana 13/13 vehicle with crew 2 in Mark Rosewater's Aetherdrift teaser, the expectation was something along the lines of Phyrexian Dreadnought. In truth, the actual card turned out to be much more akin to the old classic Death's Shadow. This still has many players excited, with several hoping to try making a Death's Shadow-style deck work in formats like Standard and Pioneer.

Cool New Reprints

Bloodghast

Over the past year or so, we've been getting some shockingly good reprints coming into Standard. Bloodghast continues this trend, bringing a powerful classic back into Standard as well as entering Pioneer for the first time. This makes accessibility to the card easier than ever and allows many more players to get up to all kinds of sacrificial nonsense.

Special Guests are also back at it once again with some real stunning inclusions this time around. Both the likes of Lord of the Undead and Chandra's Ignition are no slouches and feature excellent art. The real prize, though, is Chrome Mox, which is highly in demand for multiple Eternal formats and commands quite a high price as is.

Blinged Out Treatments

Aetherdrift brings with it an awesome set of new special treatment foils. These mostly-golden cards are referred to as "First-Place Foils," each of which can come as box toppers or in the upcoming Finish Line Bundle. Reception to these thus far has been mixed, however they provide yet another cool option for collectors everywhere.

Additionally, the set sees the continued return of the Japan Showcase treatments. These include art by anime and manga artists in both a cool borderless frame as well as the wild looking fracture foil style. As with Duskmourn: House of Horror and Foundations, these can only be found in collector boosters, so good luck getting your hands on the copies you want!

Additional Resources

If you'd like more information on this set, check out the following links to various official resources from Wizards of the Coast:

This wraps things up for the first week of Aetherdrift previews! So much was shown off this week that I simply couldn't cover it all, with close to 300 unique printings being shown off in the first three days alone. By the time this article goes up, both Commander decks will likely have been revealed, but I'll be coming back to those next week so as to give more room for the materials covered today instead. Make sure you head to the Aetherdrift store page right here on CoolStuffInc.com to get your cards and ensure you get a leg up on the competition!

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