Release Notes 7.5.0

Magic:PQ Support Team

New Mechanics

Evoke

Evoke is an evergreen that works when the respective creature card is exiled from the hand with full mana. When using the Evoke evergreen, all of the card’s “When this creature enters the battlefield” and “When this creature leaves the battlefield” abilities trigger. After all effects are resolved, the card is put in the graveyard instead of the exile.

Note that this effect doesn’t make the creature actually enter the battlefield. On one hand, only that card’s effects will trigger; that is, other creatures on the battlefield will not acknowledge this friend entering. On the other hand, you can use Evoke without having to replace a creature if you already have a full battlefield.

Kindred

When the player casts a card with the Kindred mechanic, all creatures that share a creature subtype with the Kindred card get +1/+1, and each card in hand with the same creature subtype will gain 3 mana.

Clash

Clash is a Keyword that can be applied to any type of card. Clash will have a requisite to trigger, and when it triggers, it reveals the top card of the deck of both players. If the card revealed by the controller of the Clash effect has a higher mana cost, it’s considered that they win the clash, and the effect linked to that Clash trigger resolves.

New Story Mode

This edition brings a full rework of the Story Mode. Each week, you’ll face a new sequence of battles — culminating in mini-boss and boss encounters — tied to stories inspired by Magic’s rich universe.

A more in-depth discussion about it and a preview of the new Story Mode screens can be found on our latest Mana Echoes post.

New Quests

7.5.0 brings new challenges to the list of Quests. Expect to see Story Mode being mentioned, integrating it with the daily flow of the game.

New Planeswalkers and a Rework

Historically, the first Planeswalkers were introduced to the Magic world in Lorwyn. As this plane is brought to Magic: Puzzle Quest for the first time, we’ll also have the special release of these Planeswalkers! Ajani Goldmane, Jace Beleren, Liliana Vess and Chandra Nalaar will be offered at the store with the release of 7.5.0.

Now, Garruk Wildspeaker will receive a rework to make him better aligned with his Lorwyn colleagues. Here is what you should expect:

• This change is retroactive, meaning all existing Garruk Wildspeaker will have the new abilities and stats.
• Garruk has also received an updated custom deck. Players who already have this Planeswalker will receive his new deck via inbox in a few days.
• For those who don’t own Garruk yet, he’ll be available as a Weekly Reward for a limited time!

Ajani Goldmane

Ajani was born an albino leonin to a pride where that is seen as a stigma, to be “White as Death”. Jazal was his brother, his most trusted friend, biggest defender, and served as the leader of their pride. But even with his brother by his side, Ajani was still seen as a blight. It all came to a boil during the Festival of Marisi, a commemoration of revolution. After the pride went to sleep a dark ritual was prepared, and shadows poured out attacking their home, during the conflict Jazal was killed, and with his brother’s body in his hands, Ajani’s spark ignited, planeswalking the leonin for the first time.

Ajani’s abilities revolve around:

• Progressive life gain based on your creatures.
• Increase your team efficiency and even more in Cat typal decks.
• Bring a representative of Ajani’s power into the battlefield.

Colors: White

Total Leveling Cost: 79920

At Level 60 -

HP: 125

Mana Bonuses: White (+6) Blue (0) Black (-3) Red (+3) Green (+3)

Deck Limits: 09 Creatures, 05 Spells, 05 Supports

Passive ability - Fury is Power: At the beginning of your turn: If you activated all Loyalty abilities at least once this game — Your creatures get Lifelink and First Strike.

Ability 1 - Healer of the Soul (Cost 06) - You gain 5 life for each Creature you control. Activate this only if you control a creature.

Ability 2 - Pariah of the Tribe (Cost 07) - Your creatures get +2/+2. If you control a Cat Creature — Your first creature gains Vigilance.

Ability 3 - Roar of the Spark (Cost 14) - Create an Ajani's Pridemate Token. It gets +X/+X. X is equal to your current life total, divided by 5, rounded down.

Jace Beleren

Jace was born in Vryn, with the very rare gift of telepathy. His magic manifested at a very young age, so it was very difficult to control. At the age of thirteen Jace’s father sought a local wizard, Alhammarret, to help with the young wizard’s magic. Alhammarret used Jace’s telepathy to feed both sides of a waging war in Vryn, repeatedly erasing the boy’s memory between each incursion. The abuse on Jace’s mind reached a turning point and Jace was finally able to see his master for who he really was, a greedy Sphinx. The duel between the two telepaths destroyed Alhammarret’s mind completely, and caused much damage to Jace’s own, his spark ignited and he planeswalked away fully for the first time, to Ravnica.

Jace’s abilities allow you to:

• Do symmetric draws to acquire advantages in the game.
• Draw cards and gain mana the more cards your opponent has.
• Destroy cards from the opponent's library and deal scaling damage referring to cards your opponent has in his graveyard.

Colors: Blue

Total Leveling Cost: 79920

At Level 60 -

HP: 108

Mana Bonuses: White (+2) Blue (+5) Black (0) Red (0) Green (+2)

Deck Limits: 05 Creatures, 09 Spells, 05 Supports

Passive ability - Deeper Intrusion: At the beginning of your turn: If you activated all Loyalty abilities at least once this game — Each player draws a card.

Ability 1 - Just Checking (Cost 04) - Draw a card. You may activate a Loyalty ability again this turn.

Ability 2 - Reading the Place (Cost 07) - Each player draws up to 2 cards. Then: Cards you've drawn this way gain X mana. X is the number of cards in your opponent's hand.

Ability 3 - Maelstrom of Memories (Cost 15) - Destroy the top 10 cards of your opponent's library. Then: Deal 5 damage to your opponent's Planeswalker for each different card in their graveyard.

Liliana Vess

Liliana was born to the nobility of Benalia, in the plane of Dominaria. Daughter of a powerful general, and student of the healing arts. Secretly the young wizard studied the forbidden magic of necromancy, thinking it would enhance her abilities as a healer. Her abilities were put to test when her brother, Josu, was cursed in battle defending their father’s lands. Though the potion Liliana concocted ended up curing her brother’s curse, it also drove him insane, cornered Liliana reanimated the bodies of Josu’s victims to stop him. The ordeal ignited Liliana’s spark, and she planeswalked for the first time, to the plane of Innistrad.

Liliana’s powers let you:

• Cause your opponent to discard and still benefit from what is left in his hand.
• Fetch cards to the top of your library.
• Revive your best creature and bring with it your undead army.

Colors: Black

Total Leveling Cost: 79920

At Level 60 -

HP: 112

Mana Bonuses: White (-2) Blue (+1) Black (+8) Red (-1) Green (+1)

Deck Limits: 07 Creatures, 06 Spells, 06 Supports

Passive ability - Demonic Vow: When a nontoken creature dies for the first time in your turn: If you used all Loyalty abilities at least once this game — Reinforce a random creature you control.

Ability 1 - Knowledge of Souls (Cost 07) - Pick one of the first 2 different cards from your library. Move that card to the top of your library.

Ability 2 - Deathguise (Cost 08) - Your opponent discards the first card with mana from their hand. Gain mana equal to the number of cards in your opponent's hand.

Ability 3 - Rise from the Grave (Cost 14) - Return the first creature with the greatest mana value, up to 20, from your graveyard to the battlefield under your control. Then: Return all creatures with the same name of creatures you control from your graveyard to the battlefield under your control.

Chandra Nalaar

Chandra hails from Ghirapur, in the plane of Kaladesh. Her parents, Pia and Kiran, were inventors and traffickers of aether. From her early years Chandra showed an unrivaled mastery of pyromancy, being it a forbidden art in Kaladesh the family had to relocate from Ghirapur to escape the Consulate. Baral, a captain of the Consulate forces, found and burned down the small village where the family was living, killing Kiran, arresting Pia, and set Chandra to be executed in Ghirapur. The shock of her incoming death ignited her spark as she planeswalked to Regatha.

Chandra’s flames fuel:

• Deal damage and collect resources for every enemy burnt this turn.
• Pressure the gem board with chaos.
• Unleash a fiery inferno that burns everything in his way and beyond.

Colors: Red

Total Leveling Cost: 79920

At Level 60 -

HP: 112

Mana Bonuses: White (0) Blue (-3) Black (+3) Red (+6) Green (+3)

Deck Limits: 06 Creatures, 07 Spells, 06 Supports

Passive ability - Fires of Revolt: At the beginning of your turn: If you activated all Loyalty abilities at least once this game — This turn, if you deal damage with a Loyalty ability, deal that damage plus 5 instead.

Ability 1 - Fiery Answer (Cost 05) - Deal 4 damage to any target. Then: Gain 3 mana for each creature that died this turn.

Ability 2 - Flames of Change (Cost 07) - Destroy 10 gems of your opponent's Planeswalker colors.

Ability 3 - Cleansing Inferno (Cost 16) - Deal 10 damage to all creatures. Deal damage equal to the excess damage to your opponent's Planeswalker.

Garruk Wildspeaker (2025)

Garruk tended to a farm with his father, Raklan, from a young age. On his tenth birthday a sheriff came to conscript the child for war. Raklan held off the military man long enough for his son to flee to the forest nearby. Garruk knew the fate of his father as soon as he heard Raklan’s voice coming from an old artifact his father had given him. For seven years Garruk bonded with beasts and prepared for his attack. He then rampaged with his beasts through the sheriff's town, allowing himself to be incarcerated in the same prison where his father died, just to break out of it, killing the murderer sheriff in the process. The experience was enough for Garruk to ignite his spark, and use it to planeswalk away to Shandalar.

Garruk’s roar provokes:

• Convert green mana and gain life from green gems.
• Call beast companions to fight for you.
• Hunts opposing creatures and power up if there are no creatures anymore.

Colors: Green

Total Leveling Cost: 79920

At Level 60 -

HP: 130

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

Deck Limits: 09 Creatures, 06 Spells, 04 Supports

Passive ability - Savage Link: At the beginning of your turn: If you used all Loyalty abilities at least once this game — Your Green mana bonus is increased by 3 until the end of your next turn.

Ability 1 - Monstrous Mass (Cost 08) - Convert 2 gems to Green. Then: Gain life equal to the number of Green gems on the board.

Ability 2 - Jungle Law (Cost 12) - Create a Beast token. Then: Reinforce it 3 times.

Ability 3 - Hunt and Destroy (Cost 17) - Your first creature Fights the first opposing creature. Then: If your opponent doesn't control a Creature card — Your creatures get +10/+10 and gain Trample.

New Events

Lorwyn 5

Event Type: PvE

No entry fee

Deck Restrictions: Preconstructed

Number of nodes: 5

Planeswalkers Allowed: Ajani Goldmane, Jace Beleren, Liliana Vess, Chandra Nalaar, Garruk Wildspeaker

Charges (per node): Unlimited

Total Charges: Unlimited

Progression Rewards

Lorwyn is the first set where players were officially introduced to what became a main stay, and the closest we would ever come to the main characters of Magic’s history, the planeswalkers. Meet what players called the Lorwyn 5, the first five planeswalkers cards introduced to the game.

This is a special event to celebrate the release of the Lorwyn Planeswalkers and allow you to experiment tham. It will NOT be added to the normal events rotation.

Special Rules

Players will face the enemy colored Planeswalker with a set planeswalker, and a deck based on the custom decks for each of the Lorwyn 5 Planeswalkers. These Planeswalkers will have around 50 life and will be level 16 so they have all 3 Loyalty abilities unlocked and on level 1.

Terrasymbiosis

Event Type: PvE

No entry fee

Deck Restrictions: Standard

Number of nodes: 10

Planeswalkers Allowed: No Restrictions

Duration: 46h

Charges (per node): Unlimited

Total Charges: Unlimited

Progression Rewards

”Not all species on Evendo welcomed the thawing of the ice.”

Evendo was a frozen wasteland when the Eumidians woke up. The flaming bits of Kfaron thawed the first thin layer of ice on the surface and started a process that the Eumidian vanguard finished. A new atmosphere, new life, but with each layer of ice that melted, ancient behemoths awoke, and their reign will not be as easily toppled as a sheet of ice.

Changes and Fixes

Daily Rewards

The Daily Rewards will be once again adjusted. Starting with the release of the game version 7.5.0, players can collect 30 daily rewards throughout the month. When they claim their 21st item from the Daily Rewards Calendar, they will also be given a special bonus reward for that month: a Super Pack from the newest set.

Cards and Planeswalkers

• Fixed: Peer into the Abyss not working when its controller also controls VG Dack Fayden.
• Fixed: The Omenkeel failing to fetch a Land even when the conditions are met.
• Fixed: Dissipate draining mana only from the first card in the opponent's hand instead of from however many cards may be necessary to achieve 12 mana drained.
• Changed: Cards that generate Eldrazi Scions had their texts standardized to “Create X Eldrazi Scion Token(s)”. They now also feature a clickable hint for these tokens. No Functional changes were made to these cards.
• Changed: Angrath, the Flame-Chained’s third ability Fiery Demise had its text standardized to “Create a [Minor Fiery Demise/Fiery Demise/Major Fiery Demise/Improved Major Fiery Demise] Token”, according to its level. It now also features a clickable hint for these tokens. No Functional changes were made to this ability.
• Fixed: Touch the Spirit Realm’s Channel effect disabling cards controlled by its controller instead of cards controlled by the opponent’s.
• Fixed: Tandem Takedown’s “Deal X damage to target creature” effect targeting only opposing Creatures instead of allowing the player to choose any Creature.
• Fixed: Azorius Guildmage missing its subtypes.
• Fixed: Argentum Armor applying its “While on the board” effect even when disabled.

• Fixed: Greg choosing itself or its cards for detrimental effects. Cards affected:

  • Focus Fire
  • Dubious Delicacy

• Fixed: The Dinosaur Egg Token not creating a DInosaur when it’s destroyed during the opponent’s turn.

• Fixed: “When this card is destroyed or exiled” triggering when cards are moved from anywhere instead of only when it is moved from the battlefield. Affected cards:

  • Eyes Everywhere
  • Undergrowth Leopard
  • Seam Rip

• Fixed: An additional visual effect being shown after Extinguisher Battleship destroying a Creature.

• Fixed: Heartflame Duelist displaying its Exclusive tag on the “Heartflame Slash” side of the card instead of on the front side.
• Fixed: Tolsimir Wolfblood’s Voja Token displaying internal text in Portuguese.
• Fixed: Shatterskull Recruit redundantly including "menace" in its description.
• Fixed: Zariel, Archduke of Avernus displaying internal text in her purchase popup.

Events

• Fixed: Fate of the Supervoid’s Phase 3 becoming unavailable to join.
• Fixed: Fate of the Supervoid’s Phase 3 missing a display for the number of charges left.

Others

• Fixed: Peer into the Abyss not working when its controller also controls VG Dack Fayden.
• Fixed: EOE Super and Premium Packs incorrectly calculating VIP discounts.
• Fixed: Razorverge Thicket causing the Cards tab to freeze.