Double Masters 2022 preview season is in full swing, and boy what a set it is. It’s chalked full of highly sought after reprints for a bunch of formats, especially Commander. There’s some high quality cards here, but that’s not the best thing about this set.
Top Tier Reprints
The reprints are pretty top notch. Most eternal formats get some great reprints. For Modern, we’re getting
Aether Vial
Aether Vial
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a charge counter on this artifact.
{T}: You may put a creature card with mana value equal to the number of charge counters on this artifact from your hand onto the battlefield.
,
Force of Negation
Force of Negation
If it's not your turn, you may exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Counter target noncreature spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.
, and
Wrenn and Six
Wrenn and Six
+1: Return up to one target land card from your graveyard to your hand.
−1: Wrenn and Six deals 1 damage to any target.
−7: You get an emblem with "Instant and sorcery cards in your graveyard have retrace." (You may cast instant and sorcery cards from your graveyard by discarding a land card in addition to paying their other costs.)
to name a few.
For Legacy, Allosaurus Shephard and
Green Sun’s Zenith
Green Sun’s Zenith
Search your library for a green creature card with mana value X or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. Shuffle Green Sun's Zenith into its owner's library.
among other cards are showing up.
Commander seems to get the most love, with most of the preconstructed commanders getting reprints, as well as a bunch of iconic and expensive staples.
But while these cards are all fine and good, it’s not the best part of this set by far.
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The Artist
The Best part about Double Masters 2022 is the art, but specifically the borderless art.
Wizards brought in some insanely talented artists to bring these iconic cards to life in a new way! For example, Richard Kane Fergusson’s version of
Dragonlord Dromoka
Dragonlord Dromoka
This spell can't be countered.
Flying, lifelink
Your opponents can't cast spells during your turn.
may just be one of my favorite pieces in all of Magic.
The unfortunate thing about this set though is that there is only 1 way to get these beautiful art pieces, and that’s through Collector Boosters. Collector Boosters normally come with 12 or so packs in them, but this time around, there’s only 4 in the box. And what’s worse is that there’s a normal amount of cards in each pack, 15 in total. While you do get 6 borderless cards per pack, with half being foil in some way, it stinks that there’s very limited access to some of these cards.
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What’s your favorite borderless art from the set so far? Let us know!