I lastly acquired round to taking part in throwback sidescroller Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge and, yeah, everybody was proper about how good it’s. The place can I am going for extra TMNT goodness? Oh proper, they’re the following Magic: The Gathering crossover set.
We’re returning to everybody’s favourite airplane within the multiverse, New York Metropolis. Not like the final Universes Past growth, Avatar: The Final Airbender, the Ninja Turtles are getting a pre-constructed Commander deck—a five-color deck impressed by TMNT videogames with playing cards like Recreation Over, Degree Up, Excessive Rating, and Arcade Cupboard. A few of the playing cards have pixel artwork by Kirokaze, to boost your arcade nostalgia.
Picture credit score: Wizards of the Coast
Picture credit score: Wizards of the Coast
The set can even embody a Turtle Crew-Up field designed for co-op play. As much as 4 gamers select a deck themed round a person Turtle and work collectively to take down bosses, which looks as if an excellent approach to train Magic to new gamers. It even has problem ranges you possibly can work your approach by means of to construct as much as the complete guidelines.
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New mechanics on this set embody Sneak, a key phrase for playing cards that may be performed when your opponent is choosing blockers, letting you substitute the brand new card for an attacker you bounce again into your hand. It is just like the Ninjutsu mechanic from Kamigawa, solely it covers instants and sorcery playing cards in addition to creatures.
There’s additionally Disappear, the “ninja vanish” complement to Sneak’s “ninja immediately seem out of nowhere”. Playing cards with Disappear have results that set off on the finish of your flip if one among your playing cards left the battlefield earlier—even when they vanished earlier than you performed the cardboard with Disappear on it. And yeah, playing cards you bounce with Sneak rely can set off Disappear results. For instance, Krang & Shredder pressure your opponent to exile playing cards, and for those who Disappear one thing, allow you to play a kind of exiled playing cards your self.
The TMNT set additionally sees the return of the Alliance mechanic from Avatar: The Final Airbender, which lets playing cards that share the Alliance key phrase set off their results each time a brand new card with Alliance is performed. It is simply as becoming right here, provided that complete Saturday morning cartoon emphasis on teamwork.
Picture credit score: Wizards of the Coast
Picture credit score: Wizards of the Coast
If you happen to simply gritted your tooth and muttered one thing about how the Ninja Turtles had been a comic book earlier than they had been a cartoon, you will be mollified by the playing cards with new paintings by TMNT co-creator Kevin Eastman in his conventional fashion. The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Magic set will probably be accessible in Enviornment on March 3 and in paper kind on March 6, with prerelease occasions starting on February 27.
