Innistrad: Midnight Hunt is the newest set for Wizards of the Coast's trading card game, Magic: The Gathering (MTG). The new set will introduce powerful new Werewolves! Midnight Hunt releases on tabletop on September 24, 2021.
Return to the world of Innistrad, MTG’s fan-favorite Gothic horror setting, which debuted in 2011. I never got into MTG even though I've always wanted to - no one wanted to teach me. But the one thing I enjoyed about the game is the amazing artwork on the cards. And Midnight Hunt is no exception. The set features illustrations that depict the conflict between humans and supernatural threats such as werewolves, zombies, vampires, ghosts, and zombies.
Midnight Hunt draws players back into a storyline that is familiar yet fraught with a newfound sense of peril. For the nights are growing longer and a terrible peril lurks in the shadows on the eve of the Harvesttide Festival. Hoping to ward off the coming dark, werewolf Planeswalker Arlinn Kord searches for the elusive Moonsilver Key to restore balance to the plane and protect the human habitants of Innistrad.
I'm just going to quote the press release directly because I have no idea what I'd be talking about if I talk about mechanics in this game that I've always wanted to play but never really learned.
Midnight Hunt introduces frightful new card mechanics to combat the evil roaming beyond the village walls. With 19 new werewolf double-faced cards (DFC), creatures will heed the call of the full moon to transform into their alternate monstrous forms. Nightbound and Daybound cards allow players to access two sets of abilities on each DFC, playing to the strengths of their creatures and Planeswalkers brought out by day and night. Players can also call on the power of the dead with the return of Flashback. The fan favourite graveyard mechanic returns from MTG’s original Innistrad set, allowing players to cast spells directly from their graveyard.
In theme with the beauty of ornate horror, Midnight Hunt features brand new card variants including classically spooky black and white Eternal Night Legends and Land cards as well as Halloween, folk horror inspired Equinox cards. With dramatic contrasts reminiscent of classic gothic aesthetics, the macabre card designs will be revered by any die-hard fan of horror. The Midnight Hunt set will be available in Draft Boosters, Set Boosters and Collector Boosters, including the Midnight Hunt Bundle and two Commander decks.
Art by Anna Steinbauer
Art by Eric Deschamps
Art by Anna Steinbauer
Art by Eric Deschamps
And some of the cards:
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