Release Notes 6.8.1

Magic:PQ Support Team

New Planeswalkers

Garruk, Apex Predator

While Garruk still hunted Liliana, he now viewed all Planeswalkers as the ultimate prey, losing the difference between being a hunter and a murderer. He had embraced the darkness, each kill causing him to throw more of his humanity away and become a greater monster of a man.

• Fetches creatures in his library, giving them the ability to reproduce.
• Reinforces all his creatures and buff them with evergreen abilities
• Destroy opposing cards getting benefits when a vanguard is destroyed or a planeswalker is dealt damage.

Colors: Black, Green

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

• Ability 1 - Wild Call (Cost 10): Fetch the first 2 Subtypes Creature cards from your library. Those cards gain 8 mana.

• Ability 2 - Bestial Ambush (Cost 17): Reinforce each creature you control 2 times. Then: Your creatures gain Trample, Berserker and Prevent Damage until end of turn.

• Ability 3 - Ultimate Trail (Cost 19): Create 2 Hunt Essence Tokens. Then: Destroy 3 random opposing cards. This effect can affect Vanguards.

(For the complete notes, check our Planeswalker Details forum.)

Chandra, Hope’s Beacon

Chandra is a Human Planeswalker born in Kaladesh. Chandra is a Human Planeswalker born in Kaladesh. She is a talented pyromancer and a member of the Gatewatch. During the Phyrexian Invasion of the Multiverse, Chandra was leading the second attack on New Phyrexia with Wrenn, Elspeth, and Koth. She retained her spark in the aftermath of the invasion.

• Has an Expend Passive that Destroys gems on the board.
• Creates a support that gives her mana every time she uses an Expend ability on her cards
• Deal damage to creatures according to the spells on her grave.
• Creates a support with expend that deals damage to opponent equal to the cost of that card.

Colors: Red

Mana Bonuses: White (-2) Blue (-1) Black (+3) Red (+5) Green (+4)

• Passive Ability - Controlled Destruction
  Expend 9: Destroy a block of 3x3 gems.

• Ability 1 - Flame Reaction (Cost 07): Create 4 Combustion Flame Tokens.

• Ability 2 - Intensive Heat (Cost 09): Deal X damage to the first opposing creature. X is the greatest mana cost among Spell cards in your graveyard.

• Ability 3 - Skyfire (Cost 18): Create 4 Fiery Reclamation Tokens.

(For the complete notes, check our Planeswalker Details forum.)

New Events

Seasons of Bloomburrow

“On your paws! I’ve been fighting in these fields for more seasons than you’ve had hot dinners!”

In Bloomburrow, seasons shape the lives of animals in diverse and profound ways, influencing their behavior, physiology, and interactions with the environment and each other. These adaptations are crucial for survival and reproductive success in this plane.

The node features two similar supports, one under each player’s control. These supports represent each Season of Bloomburrow and players must adapt to their effects in order to gain advantage.

The supports are:

(For the complete event notes, check our Event Details forum.)

New Vanguards

This release features seven new Vanguards:

They can be obtained through the BLB Vanguard packs, which will be available in the Vault for the first time just after the release. After this, they’ll be added to the Standard Vanguard rotation.

Fixes

Cards and Packs

• Fixed: Nicol Bolas, the Ravager’s Rend the Feeble not triggering Torch the Witness when dealing damage to the opponent's Planeswalker.

• Fixed: Clement, the Worrywort not triggering if its controller has no creature cards in hand.

• Fixed: Abstruse Appropriation affecting cards in the opponent’s hand instead of only affecting cards on the battlefield.

• Fixed: Wrath of the Skies not destroying creatures if the opponent doesn’t control a Support.

• Fixed: Fecund Greenshell not performing its triggered ability as it enters.

• Fixed: Sword of the Squeak considering total toughness instead of base toughness to assess its effect.

• Fixed: Tempt with Bunnies incorrectly providing loyalty to the opponent.

• Fixed: Authority of the Consuls only disabling cards cast from the opponent’s hand, while it’s supposed to disable cards entering from anywhere.

• Fixed: Steer Clear not being available to cast if the opponent has a creature on the battlefield.

• Fixed: Zilortha, Strength Incarnate not being available to craft.

• Fixed: Ozolith, the Shattered Spire not being available to craft.

• Fixed: Hint for Escalate showing the wrong text in German.

Events

• Fixed: Atraxa, Grand Unifier’s fetched creature sometimes counting as a destroyed creature for event objectives.

• Fixed: Fblthp’s Esika’s Chariot Bundle showing internal text.

• Changed Terrors in the Shadows:

  • Green node’s Objective Summon was replaced with Commander.

For this Release, we also worked on various stability issues (hi, Seed gems!), in order to improve the general experience with the game. Hope you enjoy it!