Release Notes 6.8.0 (UPDATED Aug-13-2024)

Magic:PQ Support Team

Standard Rotation

With the release of Bloomburrow (BLB) in 6.8.0, comes a Standard Rotation.

• The following sets will not be in Standard anymore:

  Innistrad: Midnight Hunt (MID)

  Innistrad: Crimson Vow (VOW)

  Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty (NEO)

  Streets of New Capenna (SNC)

  Please notice their respective regular products (Booster Packs, Elite Packs, Vanguard Packs etc.) will now be available in a lower frequency, following the Legacy rotations for their category.

• The following events are now Legacy:

  Matrimonium

  The Harvesttide

  The Kamigawa Run

  Family Business

New Mechanics

Expend

Expend is a numbered evergreen ability that triggers the first time you cast a card with a cost equal to or higher than the expend number.

Below is the description of the hint that players will see on the card and the evergreen icon:

Hint:

“When you cast a card with Mana value equal to or higher than this card’s Expend value for the first time during your turn, perform this card's associated Expend effect.”

Gift

Gift is an evergreen ability. When a player casts a card with Gift, a pop-up prompts them to decide whether to give a gift to their opponent's Planeswalker. If the player chooses to give the gift, the associated effect occurs, and the player receives an additional, stronger benefit. Below are the hints the player will see in the card and the icon of the Gift evergreen and the Gift effect:

Hint:

When this card is cast, you may give a Gift to your opponent’s Planeswalker. If you do, perform this card’s associated Gift effect.

Give a Gift Hint:

“If you give a gift to your opponent’s Planeswalker.”

Offspring

Offspring is an evergreen ability that, when the creature enters the battlefield, activates 1 gem. When those gems are matched, it reinforces that creature. Below are the hints the player will see in the card and the icon of the Offspring evergreen and the Offspring effect:

Hint:

“A creature with Offspring has “Activate 1: Reinforce this creature”.”

New Planeswalkers

Archangel Elspeth

Archangel Elspeth is an Angel and former Human planeswalker native to New Capenna. In her Childhood she suffered by the hands of the Phyrexian, and these struggles would ignite her Spark. After coming back from death on Theros and during the New Phyrexia invasion. Elspeth, who was lost in the Blind Eternities, caught a glimpse of Serra’s consciousness, which ascended her into an Angel to fight the invasion.

Colors: White

Mana Bonuses: White (+5) Blue (+2) Black () Red () Green (+2)

Deck Limits at Level 60: 07 Creatures, 07 Spells, 05 Supports

• Passive Ability - Archangel’s Touch
  When a creature leaves your graveyard to your hand or battlefield: That creature gains the Angel subtype. Then: That creature gains Flying and Vigilance

• Ability 1 - Sacred Search (Cost 06)
  Destroy the top 4 cards of your library. Then:
  Return the first Creature card from your graveyard to your hand. That card gains 15 mana.

• Ability 2 - Holy Call (Cost 10)

Target creature you control gets +X/+X and gains Lifelink. Then: Reinforce that creature X times. X is the number of Angel creatures you control, including their reinforcements.

• Ability 3 - Heaven Army (Cost 12)
  Destroy all creatures. Then: Return the creature with the greatest mana cost from your graveyard to the battlefield with its reinforcements. That creature gains Shield Counter 3.

Check all of Archangel Elspeth's abilities here.

Ral, Crackling Wit

Ral, the Crackling Wit, is a Human Planeswalker turned into an Otter. After the events that followed the murders of Zegana and Teysa, Ral was contacted by Niv-Mizzet to assist in his Onmenpath Project. The search led him to Bloomburrow, where he helps fight the Calamity Beasts.

Colors: Blue, Red

Mana Bonuses: White () Blue (+4) Black () Red (+4) Green ()

Deck Limits at Level 60: 06 Creatures, 07 Spells, 06 Supports

• Ability 1 - Prestidigitation Paws (Cost 07)
  Destroy a block of 3x3 gems. Pick 2 of the first 4 Spell cards from your library. Create a copy of those cards in your hand.

• Ability 2 - Order of the Otters (Cost 08)
  Create 7 Izzet Otter Tokens. Then: The first Spell card in your hand gains 6 mana.

• Ability 3 - Unleash the Storm (Cost 14)

Create 4 Storm Otter Tokens.

Check all of Ral, Crackling Wit's abilities here.

New Event

Commoner Cup

Event Type: PvP

Event Format: Standard

No entry fee

Deck Restrictions: Only Common cards allowed

No Planeswalker restrictions

Number of nodes: 1

Duration: 46h

Charges (per node): Unlimited

Progression rewards

“Step 1: Find your cousin. Step 2: Get your cousin in the cannon. Step 3: Find another cousin.!”

Build your deck using only common cards and challenge your opponents in a hands-off battle.

No additional Supports, no Mythical creatures. Just you and your opponent, teeth and claw and instinct.
Check all of this event's details here.

Legacy Booster Crafting

Back in March we’ve confirmed this long-awaited Quality of Life improvement would be coming to the game. It took many hours of development and we are grateful for your patience. Here it is!

But what does Legacy Booster Crafting mean?

Starting from release 6.8.0, Legacy sets will be available to be chosen in the Crafting menu individually, just as Standard sets were before. This way it’ll be much easier to use your Mana Orbs to chase that one Mythic card you missed some years ago or to build a deck centered around a mechanic from some specific older set.

Legacy sets appear in blue in the set list and cost 80% of the Standard cards in the same rarity. For more information about Crafting, check our FAQ.

Changes and Fixes

Cards and Planeswalkers

• Fixed: Greg being able to play the Spell side of Adventure cards repeatedly.
• Fixed: Some Prevent Damage effects, such as Flare of Fortitude, stopping Life Loss effects.
• Fixed: Angel of the Ruins’s Cycling ability not working properly.

• Fixed: Some cards’ Explores ability not triggering other card’s triggered abilities (such as Merfolk’s Cave-Diver’s ‘When a creature you control explores-’ ability).

  • Affected cards: Amalia Benavides Aguirre, Cartographer's Companion, River Herald Guide, Seeker of Sunlight.

• Fixed: Torpor Orb allowing Token Creatures to perform their ‘enter the battefield’ triggered abilities.

• Fixed: Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd casting Spell cards while it’s end of turn ability should not interact with Spell cards.
• Fixed: Ojer Pakpatiq, Deepest Epoch’s Transform ability not triggering when it is destroyed by Sorin, Ravenous Neonate’s Mysterious Invitation.
• Fixed: Tune the Narrative not being available to cast if the player has 6 cards in hand.
• Fixed: Gideon of the Trials’s Last Trial Token triggering more than once per turn.
• Fixed: Winter Moon’s Ingest ability increasing its controller’s mana bonuses by one instead of decreasing the opponents’ bonus by one.
• Fixed: Cards released after OTJ with Outlaw Subtypes not behaving as Outlaws.
• Fixed: Loot, the Key to Everything missing the Legendary Evergreen.
• Fixed: “Masterpiece" text in Masterpiece cards not being translated in Japanese.

Events

• Fixed: Implicit Maze showing the wrong allowed sets at its rules screen if the player accesses a Standard event after entering Implicit Maze. (Visual only)
• Fixed: PM2 not being available at Revolving Planeswalk - Nursery of the Consonant (BRO).

• Changed Race to Orazca:

  • It has been changed from Legacy to Standard.
  • It now offers 3 charges per node, totalling 15 charges.
  • Ribbons per Objective and Rewards have been updated. Check the event’s page for full details.

• Changed Terrors in the Shadows:

  • It has been changed from Legacy to Standard.
  • It now offers 4 charges per node, totalling 12 charges.
  • Third node’s Objective Summon was replaced with Commander.
  • Ribbons per Objective and Rewards have been updated. Check the event’s page for full details.

Others

• Added: A ‘Session Expired’ message and login popup to iOS so its users don’t have to reinstall the game when their login expires.
• Fixed: Some visual effects issues when a player wins the game without dealing damage to its opponent’s Planeswalker.
• Fixed: The visual effects of some Improved and Snow Gems breaking after the board is shuffled.
• Fixed: VIP Subscription Booster 6.6.0 containing MKM cards instead of containing OTJ cards only.