Release Notes 6.9.1

Magic:PQ Support Team

New Planeswalkers

Angrath, Minotaur Pirate

Angrath was trapped on Ixalan due to Nicol Bolas’ use of the Immortal Sun. The minotaur also fought in the War of the Spark, when he was last seen, imprisoned once more by Bolas. Little is known of his whereabouts after Nicol Bolas’ defeat.

His abilities allow you to:

• Create tokens that give the Pirate subtype when you draw a Creature Card. The first Pirate card in your hand gains X mana where X is the Support’s shield.
• Deal damage equal to the greatest power among your pirates to the first opposing creature, then opposing Supports lose Shield.
• Destroy all creatures, then deal damage to your opponent equal to the number of creatures in all graveyards. After that, return a buffed creature from your graveyard.

Colors: Red and Black

Mana Bonuses at Level 60: White () Blue () Black (+5) Red (+5) Green ()

Total Leveling Cost: 160720 Mana Runes

Deck Limits at Level 60: 08 Creatures, 06 Spells, 05 Supports

• Ability 1 - Gathering the Crew (Cost 10)
  Create 3 Angrath Vessel Tokens. Discard 2 cards. Then: Draw 2 cards.
  

• Ability 2 - Pirate Smash (Cost 13)
  Deal X damage to the first opposing creature. Up to 3 random opposing Supports lose X shield. This effect can affect Vanguard Supports. X is the greatest power among Pirate creatures you control.

• Ability 3 - Rage of the Minotaur (Cost 20)
  Destroy all creatures. Deal X damage to your opponent's Planeswalker. X is the number of Creature cards in all graveyards. Then: Return the first creature from your graveyard to the battlefield. That creature gets +Y/+Y. Y is 2 times the damage dealt to your opponent.

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

Balancing Changes - Planeswalkers

Kaito, Bane of Nightmares

The loyalty abilities from planeswalker Kaito, Bane of Nightmares have been reworked.

• Ability 1 - Ninja Technique: Fallen Leaves

  • Before: Cost 09 Loyalty
  • Now: Cost 08 Loyalty

• Ability 2 - Ninja Technique: Winds of Change

  • Before: Cost 15 Loyalty
  • Now: Cost 08 Loyalty

• Ability 3 - Ninja Technique: Puppy Steps

  • Before: Cost 21 Loyalty
  • Now: Cost 08 Loyalty

We understand that these changes might respark the interest in acquiring this planeswalker, so for that, Kaito, Bane of Nightmares will Ninjutsu its way into the store for an extended period.

New Events

Trick or Treat 2024

Our Halloween special Event has been updated!

• Planeswalkers will not be locked to the nodes anymore, so feel free to try new tricks!
• *Rewards have been changed. Check the *complete event notes, check our Event Details forum.

New Vanguards

This release features seven new Vanguards:

They can be obtained through the DSK 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.

Quality of Life Improvements

With this release, we are pleased to announce some changes to make your game experience better.

A first improvement is that now it will be possible to buy packs that you own when they become available. This way, if you’d like to acquire some new packs you don’t have to open the older ones first.

The daily free event will also have its name changed to Quick Battle. This new incarnation of the Training Grounds will have different times, making each of them available for almost the whole day and one of them will always be available to be played.

Finally, we understand there are some coalition families and many players move between them. With that in mind, we updated the coalition system so that now, when a player goes back to a Coalition they have previously been part of, their points will be checked retroactively. This way, their history and contributions to that Coalition will not be forgotten as they move, with their score being displayed in the Coalition's internal ranking.

Fixes

Cards

• Fixed: Harbinger of the Seas ability not performing its gem conversion correctly.

• Fixed: Self-Reflection will now only target non-token creatures.

• Fixed: Hazezon, Shaper of Sand will now correctly trigger when casting **some older Desert cards.

• Fixed: Multiple copies of Assimilation Aegis will now no longer cause creatures other than the first one to be disabled.

• Fixed: Uchbenbak, the Great Mistake Descend will now trigger its ability as intended.

• Fixed: Pest Control will no longer be cast into board states where it** cannot execute any of its effects**.

• Fixed: Nicol Bolas, God Pharaoh **ability will **now give mana when exiling disabled creatures.

• Fixed: Creatures affected by Hixus, Prison Warden will no longer remain disabled after the support leaves play. (From Glissa, with love )

• Fixed: White Orchid Phantom will now destroy supports when being reinforced by its second ability.

• Fixed: Case of the Gorgon's Kiss will now generate its token at the intended time.

• Fixed: Wheel of Potential now gives mana only to the correct cards.

• Fixed: Rith, the Awakener will now trigger correctly if two or more colors are tied **for greatest number of cards in play.

• Fixed: Izzet Otter ability will now correctly count Otter Supports in the battlefield.

• Fixed: Saddle ability will now see the correct power of formerly disguised creatures.

• Fixed: **Some **creatures having duplicated triggers when a second copy entered play. The list of fixed creatures is:

  • Primo, the Indivisible
  • Fortune, Loyal Steed
  • Thundertrap Trainer
  • Bristly Bill, Spine Sower
  • Urabrask, the Hidden

• Fixed: Molten Collapse will now correctly interact with the Destroyer event objective.

• Fixed: Shield Counters generated by Mileva, the Stalwarts’ ability will no longer be removed at the beginning of the turn.

• Fixed: Creatures with Young Hero Role buffing all creatures with this role, instead of only itself.

• Fixed: Imodane, the Pyrohammer not triggering if the damage comes from the Imodane’s controller.

• Fixed: Warped Space and Charred Foyer causing issues to Supports coming into play.

• Fixed: Zimone, All-Questioning’s Primo, The Indivisible Token triggering only once per turn.

• Fixed: Thunder Lasso triggering at the end of turn even if the opponent has not lost a Crime emblem.

• Fixed: Into the Night discarding **the player’s whole hand instead of just 2 cards**.

• Fixed: Live or Die showing its choice prompt even if the opponent controls no creatures.

• Fixed: Perch Protection not performing its Gift effect even if a Gift was promised.

• Fixed: Fortune, Loyal Steed applying its bonuses to itself.

• Fixed: Come Back Wrong not allowing the player to select target graveyard.

• Fixed: Picnic Ruiner triggering on attack instead of when it enters.

• Fixed: Picnic Ruiner giving Double Strike to other creatures instead of to itself.

• Fixed: An interaction between Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd and Gumdrop Poisoner causing the game to freeze.

• Fixed: Creatures buffed by Gold Rush not losing its buff at the end of the opponent’s turn.

• Fixed: Virtue of Knowledge creating copies with the wrong toughness.

• Fixed: Portent of Calamity giving full mana to the spell card that it fetches.

• Fixed: Ygra, Eater of All missing the Ward evergreen ability.

• Fixed: The Belligerent missing its art.

• Fixed: Some BLB Cards missing the Exclusive Ribbon. The affected cards are:

  • Hearthborn Battler
  • Stormsplitter

• Fixed: Fortune, Loyal Steed creating a reinforcement at the end of the opponent’s turn.

• Fixed: Manifold Mouse Full Art version displaying the incorrect art.

• Fixed: Creatures from DSK **will now interact correctly with effects that look for Outlaws.**

• Fixed: Plant Boar token created by Hedge Whisperer will now display the correct art.

• Fixed: Pillage the Bog adding an incorrect amount of mana.

• Fixed: Saheeli, Filigree Master’s Creative Surge not granting Haste to the thopters it creates.

• Fixed: Ral, Crackling Wit’s art being misaligned in event nodes’ PW selection.

Packs & Bundles

• Fixed: VIP Standard Packs Bundle, VIP Standard Deck Starter, VIP Supreme Pack Bundle and VIP Rare Currency Bundle not including DSK.
• Fixed: BLB Booster Packs’ Mana Crystal cost not being adjusted after the release of the following set.
• Fixed: Nissa Beginner Deck Booster not translated into German.

Events

• Fixed: At Night of the Hunt, destroying a Changeling making so that the next Human cast doesn't count for the Mankind objective.

• Fixed: DMU not being available on Revolving Planeswalk - Nursery of the Consonant [G].

• Fixed: Colors of Magic’s Supports The Five Colors of Magic and Mana Wheel triggering when a player makes a match in their opponent’s turn (for example, with Improved Gems created by Healer of the Pride).