Release Notes 7.1.0

Magic:PQ Support Team · 18 February 2025, 13:38

New Mechanics

Speed & Boost

Speed is an Emblem that indicates how fast players are and Boost is an Evergreen that checks on that Speed to trigger abilities.

Boost In-game Hint: “When you cast cards with Boost, your Planeswalker gains the Speed Emblem if you don’t have it. When your creatures deal combat damage to the opposing planeswalker, your Speed value will increase. Cards with Boost have effects that only activate if your Speed value is equal or higher than the card’s Boost value.”

Boost Evergreen Icon

Speed Hint: “When a creature you control causes combat damage to your opponent’s Planeswalker, increase your Speed value by 1. The maximum Speed value is 7.”

Speed Emblem Icon

Exhaust & Exhausted

Exhaust is an Evergreen that allows for effects to be used only once. After those effects happen, the card will gain the Exhausted Emblem.

Hint: “You may exile a card from your hand. If you do, all your other cards on the battlefield with Exhaust without the Exhausted emblem will perform their Exhaust effect. After an Exhaust effect is performed, those cards will gain the Exhausted Emblem.”

Exhausted Emblem Icon

New Planeswalkers

Chandra, Spark Hunter

Chandra is a veteran planeswalker, fighting for the multiverse in many battles. Now, she is ready to get first place in the Ghirapur Grand Prix and win the prize for Nissa: the Aetherspark.

Chandra, Spark Hunter, is a Red Planeswalker available for purchase and selection in Aetherdrift. Her abilities offer you:

Boost and match red gems to gain mana or buff your creatures.
Destroy artifacts to draw cards.
Create a unique vehicle token and reinforce it.
Deal massive damage according to your vehicles on board.

Colors: Red

Mana Bonuses: White (0) Blue (0) Black (0) Red (+9) Green (0)

Passive Ability - Make it Happen: Boost 2. When you make a Red match by swap: Gain X mana.Otherwise:The first creature you control gain +X/+0 until the end of turn.X is equal your speed value.

Ability 1 - Looking for Adventure (Cost 08): You may destroy an Artifact card you control at random: If you do: Draw a card. It gains 11 mana.
Otherwise: Discard a card, then draw 3 cards.

Ability 2 - Get Your Motor Running (Cost 10): Create an Aetherbike token. Then: Reinforce it 3 times.

Ability 3 - Fire All Your Guns at Once (Cost 15): Deal X damage to each opposing creature and to your opponent's Planeswalker X is equal to 5 times the total shield of Vehicle supports you control.
Then: Destroy all Supports. This effect can affect Vanguard supports.

The Aetherspark

This artifact is the main goal for those competing in the Grand Prix. with a mysterious origin and creation, this artifact has its own planeswalker spark. Not much is known about the creation of the Aetherspark, but anyone can deduce it carries a great power. Actually, the great prize of the Grand Prix are the spark remains of the legendary planeswalker Azor, extracted from the Immortal Sun.

The Aetherspark is a Colorless planeswalker available for purchase and selection in Aetherdrift. His abilities offer you the opportunity to:

Your Loyalty abilities are locked if you don’t control a creature with the “Holding the Aetherspark” emblem.
Buff your first creature like an equipment and gain Loyalty.
Draw cards and destroy opposing vanguards.
Use powerful effects according to your Loyalty.

Colors: Colorless

Mana Bonuses: White (+2) Blue (+2) Black (+2) Red (+2) Green (+2) Loyalty (-9)

Passive Ability - Clean Slate: The Aetherspark can't gain Loyalty by Gem Match.
At the end of your opponent’s turn: If you don’t control a creature with Holding the Aetherspark Emblem – Your first creature gains the Holding the Aetherspark Emblem.
At the beginning of your turn: If you don’t control a creature with Holding the Aetherspark Emblem – You can’t activate Loyalty abilities this turn.

Ability 1 - Hands of Uncertainty (Cost ZERO): Your first creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn. When your first creature causes combat damage this turn: Gain X Loyalty. X is the damage dealt that way, up to 10.

Ability 2 - Today This Ends (Cost ZERO): Draw a card. Destroy an opposing Vanguard support.
If you do: Gain X Loyalty and lose X life. X is half that card’s mana value, rounded up.

Ability 3 - Start Again (Cost ZERO): Spend all your Loyalty, then apply effects based on the amount spent:
(10 or more) – Destroy the first opposing creature.
(15 or more) – Destroy an opposing support at random.
(20 or more) – Gain 20 mana.
(30 or more) – Deal 30 damage to your opponent.

New Event

The Ghirapur Grand Prix

Event Type: Coalition PvP

No entry fee

Deck Restrictions: Standard

Number of nodes: 2

Planeswalkers Allowed: Each node allows a specific variety of Planeswalker colors, being for Cloudspire Racing Team White and Red, while The Speed Demons allows Blue and Black PWs.

Duration: 46h

Charges (per node): 6

Total Charges: 12

Progression + Ranking + Coalition Ranking rewards

Their race ended much the same way it began, walking through a sandstorm on a world that ended long ago.

Dear viewers! Welcome to the Ghirapur Grand Prix, the roar of engines is filling the air as drivers take to their positions on the starting grid. Each machine, a beast tamed by steady hands and focused eyes. The heat of the tracks ripples across the horizon, and the momentary silence is broken only by the low sound of exhausts. It's the moment of maximum tension: everyone waits for the lights to go out. When the signal is given, it will be an explosion of speed, skill and pure adrenaline. Who will cross the finish line as the ultimate champion?

Special Rules

Players will face each other on 2 nodes. Each of the nodes will represent a racing team in Aetherdrift. The player will always face the opposite node.
Each node features a different event support that will affect the player, while the other will affect their opponents.

The supports are:

Changes

Dihada, Binder of Wills Vanguard (WOE)

Color Change:
Domain (WUBRG) ➝ Mardu (White - Red - Black)

There is no change in the actual effect of the card. The text was corrected to reflect what the card does today.

Old Text:
3rd ability (-9): Gain control of up to the first 2 opposing creatures until end of turn. At the beginning of the combat on your turn: Those creatures gain Double Strike until end of turn. If you control a Legendary card — Creatures you control gain Trample end of turn.

New Text:
3rd ability (-9): Gain control of up to the first 2 opposing creatures until end of turn. Those creatures gain Double Strike and Haste until end of turn. If you control a Legendary card — Your creatures gain Trample until end of turn.

Coalition invite code

The invite code generated by the coalitions now lasts for 72 hours instead of the previous 24.
We received some feedback from players and this will help to recruit players for the Coalition Events.

Fixes

Cards and Planeswalkers

Fixed: Azure Beastbinder destroys a random opponent's creature if the opponent has no support in play.
Fixed: Azure Beastbinder Creates a Bat Token only when a Creature or Support is destroyed by its previous effect.
Fixed: Azure Beastbinder If you can't ability triggers even if there is only the indestructible event support in the opponent's board.
Fixed: Goldvein Hydra provides a different buff every time its ETB is triggered.
Fixed: Voldaren Thrillseeker provides a different buff every time its ETB is triggered.
Fixed: Desertion works correctly with Creatures that have ETB.
Fixed: When the player casts Prime Speaker Zegana a second time, their ETB performs.
Fixed: Strix Serenade moves to the Graveyard from the Library.
Fixed: Formless Gargantua Creature Token resolves its effect when cast a second time.
Fixed: The second trigger from the card Leafkin Avenger triggers once the gem conversion is finished.
Fixed: Nowhere to Run trigger happens only when it enters the battlefield.
Fixed: Requisition Raid can be cast if there is a Creature and/or a Support card in play.
Fixed: Necrodominance triggers its Mana Field effect when making a gem Match near it.
Fixed: Parting Gust can be cast even if the player rejects the "gift" prompt.
Fixed: Urgent Necropsy triggers its first effect if the player denies collecting evidence.
Fixed: Koma, World-Eater does not provide mana to the cards in their controller's hand.
Fixed: Loot, the Key to Everything increases its own Shield Counter when cast.
Fixed: Fuss gives one +2/+2 buff to the player's token creature for each token reinforcement.
Fixed: Target Creature affected by Deal Gone Bad keeps its debuff until end of turn.
Fixed: The prowess mechanic from Otter tokens triggers when the player casts a noncreature card.
Fixed: Glyph Elemental triggers its landfall effect every time the player makes a white match.
Fixed: The Wilt-Leaf Liege reinforces its tokens when it leaves the battlefield more than once.
Fixed: Gray Merchant of Asphodel deals up to 8 life loss to the enemy.
Fixed: Orbs of Warding reduces 2 damage taken on its trigger.
Fixed: Valkyrie´s call triggers when nonTokens and nonAngels are destroyed.
Fixed: The stun counters from the Rimefur Reindeer trigger accumulate if the player casts multiple on the same creature.
Fixed: When Su-Chi Cave Guard loses a reinforcement it gives mana to the player.
Fixed: Season of the Bold’s Spree 2 damages the enemy creature.
Fixed: Slime Against Humanity counts all Human cards in all graveyards.
Fixed: Insidious Roots creates a 1/1 Plant token.
Fixed: The end of your turn trigger for Alquist Proft, Master Sleuth works like its description.
Fixed: The mana cost of the card The Wandering Rescuer is reduced by its convoke mechanic.
Fixed: Greg holds Luminous Rebuke until the opponent has a creature in play.
Fixed: Greg holds Horrid Vigor until they have creatures on their own board.
Fixed: Greg only casts Violent Urge if they have creatures to target on their own board.
Fixed: Greg only casts Twinblade Blessing if they have creatures to target on their own board.
Fixed: Greg uses Fae Flight on their own creatures.
Fixed: Greg uses Unnerving Grasp to destroy the opponent’s creatures.
Fixed: Greg uses Come Back Wrong to destroy the opponent’s creatures.
Fixed: Greg uses Pile On to destroy the opponent’s creatures.
Fixed: Greg always targets the opponent or the opponent’s creature with Burst Lightning.
Fixed: Greg targets the opponent’s creatures with Stall Out.
Fixed: Greg targets the opponent’s creatures with Hold for Ransom.
Fixed: Greg targets the opponent’s creatures with Disturbing Conversion.
Fixed: When a card with cycling is exiled, a card is draw and mana is drained.
Fixed: Jace, the Living Guildpact Vanguard Ability (-8) makes the player draw 6 cards.
Fixed: Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker’s 2nd ability (Bow Before Me!) can be used only when there’s available opposing creature(s) to target.
Fixed: Dakkon, Shadow Slayer Planeswalker’s 3rd ability (Forged by Greed) token Forging the Blackblade always triggers its debuff when available.
Fixed: Kasmina, Enigma Sage Planeswalker’s 3rd ability (Knowledge Addition) buffs creatures every time it is used.

Events

Fixed: Mightstone objective from the Revolving Planeswalk (BRO) event counts only for creature casts.
Fixed: Foundry objective from the Revolving Planeswalk (BRO) event counts only when the player casts an artifact support
Fixed: Jumpstart event using the all charges upfront system.

Others

Fixed: Mythic Card Arguel's Blood Fast was removed from the Legacy Rare Pack 6.8.0 (non-dupe).
Fixed: The hint for event support and the description screen background have a differentiation so that the text is more easily readable.
Fixed: Hints are not shown outside of the game screen.
Fixed: During play, the enchanted hint does not display keys in its description.
Fixed: The hint hitbox does not cover the whole card in some instances.
Fixed: Saga cards don’t have keys in their description for their first chapter.
Fixed: Typos and formatting in the text for the events Duets of Mana, Silver Duel, Mana Burn, and Quick Battle.
Fixed: Daily Reward notification not showing after you have already claimed all 21 Daily rewards for the month.