It’s nice to see a set that feels fun and powerful, but also one that doesn’t feel egregious or pushed.
Perhaps the most impressive thing is that there’s hardly anything in the set that looks like it’s going to need a banning. Adventures in the Forgotten Realms' land cards feature flavour text for the first time, allowing them to be used as adventure hooks in the RPG. There are even special enchantments called classes, which you can invest mana in to level them up and gain even better effects. There are cards with names like You’re Ambushed on the Road, which give you two different effects based on your decision. The basic land cards all have flavour text on them to make you feel like you’re on an adventure. It means you’ve got spells such as Tasha’s Hideous Laughter making their way into MTG as a mill card, or famous D&D heroes making an appearance in ways that fit both their existing mythos in the tabletop RPG and their cameo in the card game. The set is filled with clever designs that bring over well-known D&D components.Īlong with enough flavour to keep you satiated for years, the set is filled with clever designs that bring over well-known D&D components and turn them into skills or powerful and interesting cards, along with a whole host of new characters to meet for long-time Magic players. The way that dungeons, dragons, skills and the general flavour of D&D have been incorporated in cardboard form is probably the best thing about the whole set. Adventures in the Forgotten Realms is an absolute triumph when it comes to mashing up the worlds of Magic: The Gathering and Dungeons & Dragons. The Walking Dead stumbled (hur hur) where D&D gets to fly, because this is how you do it. That drop was widely - and rightly - criticised for locking new cards behind a limited, and rather expensive, run of cards. I say full, because the first actual crossover was the rather cataclysmically bad The Walking Dead Secret Lair.
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Because of that, it means the set is replete with more mechanics than I’m willing to count, in much the same way a normal Core Set does, although a lot of those are flavour more than anything else, simply adding D&D skill names before specific card effects.Īdventures in the Forgotten Realms is MTG’s first full foray into a different IP, serving as a crossover with Dungeons & Dragons. The set takes the place of this year’s Core Set, which is always a mish-mash of different mechanics and cards designed to flesh out Standard in a way that allows MTG’s designers to step away from the game’s ongoing story and instead try to print answers to problematic cards from previous sets. It’s a brave new direction for Magic: The Gathering, and one that’s filled with potential. Adventures in the Forgotten Realms feels like the first time Samwise Gamgee takes his first step out of the Shire.
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