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Magic: The Gathering Arena adds loads of cards with Core Set 2021 todayIt’s raining cats and dogs
It’s raining cats and dogs
A new wodge of 274 cards hitsMagic: The Gathering Arenatoday with the launch of Core Set 2021. As ever, the annual Core set brings a mix of new and reprinted cards to build a base for the year’s expansions - and this year it brings an awful lot of cats and dogs. One card even has a cat and a dog who are best friends. Core Set 2021 doesn’t officially launch in cardboard form until July 3rd, so it’s a bit of a sneaky peeky for the digital version.
Core Set 2021 will officially hit tables on July 3rd, though folks can hold a bit in advance through prerelease events that will start tomorrow and run until launch. See theCore 2021 card listfor everything, including the impressive number of new Cat and Dog-type cards. Also, Phasing is back on two cards?Haven’t heard that word in a while.
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Magic: The Gathering Arenais available free-to-play (monetised the obvious way) fromthe Epic Games Storeor through a standalone installeron its site. Epic is the only place to get the new MacOS edition, released today.
The Magiclords at Wizards Of The Coast say that “was the fastest way we could get a native, full-featured macOS client to our players.” Mysterious. Theyexplain, “We have an existing partnership with the Epic Games Store and are working with them to support our macOS release to ensure that players will have the same experience on macOS as they do on Windows sooner rather than later.” They don’t plan to release a standalone Mac version either. Accounts and multiplayer work cross-OS, obvs.
Next month, MTG Arena will launch a new way to play withJumpstart, a mode which gives you two 20-card half-decks to smash together into one. With 46 themed Jumpstart packs in total, it’ll be able to spit out a good number of random decks that ssshould be playable.
