This article documents an upcoming release. |
Jumpstart: Historic Horizons | |||||
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Set Information | |||||
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Symbol description | Two half decks in an ellipse | ||||
Release date | August 12, 2021 | ||||
Set size | 782 | ||||
Expansion code | J21[1] | ||||
MTG Arena series | |||||
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Jumpstart: Historic Horizons is a MTG Arena exclusive card set, to be released on August 12, 2021. Similar to the original 2020 Jumpstart release, it melds an easy way of deckbuilding with the speed of constructed.
Description
Jumpstart: Historic Horizons contains 782 cards (383 commons, 286 uncommons, 85 rares, 13 mythic rares, 15 basic lands) from Modern Horizons, Modern Horizons 2, and more — including 31 new-to-Magic cards you'll only find in this digital release.[2][3]
Like with the original Jumpstart release on MTG Arena, you select from themed packets to build a deck for play. There are 46 different half decks. Jumpstart: Historic Horizons introduces a new dynamic to packet picking and deckbuilding: select card slots in each packet have a chance to be filled with alternate cards that fit the packet theme. This means more card possibilities in each pack, and more variety for your decks every time you play.
Basic lands aren't included in the packet lists. When you play in Jumpstart: Historic Horizon events, you'll automatically receive a mix of basic lands based on the packets you choose, balanced for the costs and activated abilities on the spells in your packets. You'll also receive nonbasic lands for play. Packets you choose will add cycling lands from Historic Anthology 2 or multicolor life-gain taplands from Core Set 2020 of the appropriate colors to your deck — cycling lands for packets with one color and dual lands for packets with multiple colors.
Themes
There are 46 themes that range from the familiar to the curious.
Mechanics
The exclusive cards include three new mechanics with “digital-only” designs that cannot be replicated in paper Magic.[4]
- Seek is a digital twist on a tutor effect. Certain cards will allow you to seek a card with specific criteria, randomly pulling one from your library that meets that criteria without shuffling afterward – something that couldn’t happen at the tabletop without a player manually looking through their deck.
- Perpetually modifies a specific card permanently, even as it enters other zones of play. For example, Davriel’s Withering perpetually gives a creature -1/-2 – if that card reduces a creature to 0 toughness or less and sends it to the graveyard, for example, the debuff will remain in effect even if a player is able to bring it back to battlefield (causing it to immediately die again). Alternatively, Lumbering Lightshield can perpetually increase the casting cost of a card in your opponent’s hand by one colorless mana – the affected card then maintains that increase whether it’s cast from hand or somewhere else, like from the graveyard with Flashback or from exile with Foretell. While this is an effect that can more reasonably be tracked with paper cards, it becomes substantially simpler in a digital space.
- Conjure creates a card for you to use out of nowhere – not a token or a copy, but an actual card that can sit in your hand until you are ready to use it. This can include cards that aren’t otherwise in a set or format, like Ponder, Stormfront Pegasus, or the original dual lands (none of which are collectible in Historic Horizons on their own).
Historic Horizons utilizes its digital-only nature beyond these three recurring mechanics as well, making it possible to print cards with rules that wouldn’t fit in a paper frame. That includes the planeswalker Davriel, Soul Broker, who has an otherwise cryptic -2 ability: “Accept one of Davriel’s offers, then accept one of Davriel’s conditions.” In practice, this has you pick one of three randomly selected positive effects from a possible list of eight before doing the same for a negative effect.
List of exclusive digital only cards
- Colorless
- White
- Baffling Defenses
- Benalish Partisan
- Leonin Sanctifier
- Lumbering Lightshield
- Teyo, Aegis Adept
- Wingsteed Trainer
- Blue
- Bounty of the Deep
- Ethereal Grasp
- Kiora, the Tide's Fury
- Mentor of Evos Isle
- Shoreline Scout
- Tome of the Infinite
- Black
- Boneyard Aberration
- Davriel, Soul Broker
- Davriel's Withering
- Manor Guardian
- Plaguecrafter's Familiar
- Subversive Acolyte
- Red
- Managorger Phoenix
- Reckless Ringleader
- Sarkhan, Wanderer to Shiv
- Sarkhan's Scorn
- Scion of Shiv
- Static Discharge
- Green
Cycles
Jumpstart contains two cycles of new cards.
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Conjuring Planeswalkers | Teyo, Aegis Expert (Lumbering Lightshield) | Kiora, Tide's Fury (Kraken Hatchling) | Davriel, Soul Broker (Manor Guardian) | Sarkhan, Wanderer to Shiv (Shivan Dragon) | Freyalise, Skyshroud Partisan (Regal Force) |
Five mythic rare 4-loyalty Planeswalkers, each of which, among other digital-only effects, conjure a creature. | |||||
Perpetual creatures | Leonin Sanctifier | Mentor of Evos Isle | Plaguecrafter's Familiar | Reckless Ringleader | Veteran Charger |
Five common creatures that perpetually adds something to a creature in your hand when it enters the battlefield. Four of them add keywords, while one adds stats. |
List of revealed new-to-Arena reprints
- Colorless
- Altar of the Goyf
- Amorphous Axe
- Batterbone
- Birthing Boughs
- Bonded Construct
- Implement of Combustion
- Monoskelion
- Myr Scrapling
- Nettlecyst
- Ornithopter of Paradise
- Sanctuary Raptor
- Treasure Keeper
- Universal Automaton
- Zabaz, the Glimmerwasp
- White
- Abiding Grace
- Angelic Purge
- Angel of the God-Pharaoh
- Abzan Battle Priest
- Abzan Falconer
- Ainok Bond-Kin
- Arcbound Mouser
- Arcbound Prototype
- Barbed Spike
- Battle Screech
- Blade Splicer
- Bonds of Faith
- Bonescythe Sliver
- Boros Elite
- Devouring Light
- Disciple of the Sun
- Doomed Traveler
- Enduring Sliver
- Esper Sentinel
- Fairgrounds Patrol
- First Sliver's Chosen
- Hanweir Militia Captain
- Healer's Flock
- Hive Stirrings
- Impostor of the Sixth Pride
- Irregular Cohort
- King of the Pride
- Kor Skyfisher
- Lancer Sliver
- Late to Dinner
- Ranger-Captain of Eos
- Reprobation
- Restoration Angel
- Return to the Ranks
- Roc Egg
- Sandsteppe Outcast
- Scour the Desert
- Segovian Angel
- Seraph of Dawn
- Serra the Benevolent
- Serra's Emissary
- Selfless Cathar
- Sentinel Sliver
- Shelter
- Soul of Migration
- Steelform Sliver
- Sustainer of the Realm
- Skyblade's Boon
- Steelform Sliver
- Stirring Address
- Thalia's Lieutenant
- Thraben Standard Bearer
- Thraben Watcher
- Vesperlark
- Wall of One Thousand Cuts
- Winged Shepherd
- Yoked Plowbeast
- Zhalfirin Decoy
- Blue
- Aeromoeba
- Archmage's Charm
- Bazaar Trademage
- Breaching Hippocamp
- Burdened Aerialist
- Choking Tethers
- Coralhelm Guide
- Diffusion Sliver
- Dismiss
- Etherium Spinner
- Eyekite
- Faerie Seer
- Filigree Attendant
- Floodhound
- Foul Watcher
- Ghost-Lit Drifter
- Hard Evidence
- Junk Winder
- Just the Wind
- Manic Scribe
- Man-o'-War
- Master of the Pearl Trident
- Mist-Syndicate Naga
- Moonblade Shinobi
- Mulldrifter
- Ninja of the Deep Hours
- Ojutai's Summons
- Oneirophage
- Parcel Myr
- Phantasmal Form
- Phantom Ninja
- Pondering Mage
- Raving Visionary
- Recalibrate
- Rise and Shine
- Scour All Possibilities
- Scour the Laboratory
- Scuttletide
- Scuttling Sliver
- Specimen Collector
- So Shiny
- Steelfin Whale
- Stitchwing Skaab
- Svyelun of Sea and Sky
- Thought Monitor
- Tightening Coils
- Windcaller Aven
- Wonder
- Black
- Archfiend of Sorrows
- Asylum Visitor
- Azra Smokeshaper
- Bone Shards
- Cabal Initiate
- Carrier Thrall
- Changeling Outcast
- Cordial Vampire
- Dark Salvation
- Death Wind
- Diregraf Colossus
- Discerning Taste
- Dregscape Silver
- Endling
- Eyeblight Assassin
- First-Sphere Gargantua
- Fleshbag Marauder
- Gilt-Blade Prowler
- Graveshifter
- Haunted Dead
- Heir of Falkenrath
- Hell Mongrel
- Indulgent Aristocrat
- Kitchen Imp
- Legion Vanguard
- Leeching Sliver
- Markov Crusader
- Mind Rake
- Mob
- Necrogoyf
- Necromancer's Familiar
- Nested Shambler
- Nether Spirit
- Putrid Goblin
- Ransack the Lab
- Sinister Starfish
- Sling-Gang Lieutenant
- Sudden Edict
- Throatseeker
- Tourach's Canticle
- Undead Augur
- Venomous Changeling
- Vermin Gorger
- Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
- Young Necromancer
- Red
- Alchemist's Greeting
- Arcbound Slasher
- Arcbound Tracker
- Arcbound Whelp
- Battle Squadron
- Belligerent Sliver
- Bladeback Sliver
- Blazing Rootwalla
- Bloodbraid Marauder
- Blur Sliver
- Bogardan Dragonheart
- Bogardan Hellkite
- Breya's Apprentice
- Captain Ripley Vance
- Cleaving Sliver
- Dragon Mantle
- Dragon's Rage Channeler
- Faithless Salvaging
- Fast // Furious
- Fiery Temper
- Fists of Flame
- Foundry Street Denizen
- Furyblade Vampire
- Galvanic Relay
- Geomancer's Gambit
- Goblin Dark Dwellers
- Goblin Engineer
- Goblin Oriflamme
- Gouged Zealot
- Harmonic Prodigy
- Hollowhead Sliver
- Hordeling Outburst
- Igneous Elemental
- Incorrigible Youths
- Insatiable Gorgers
- Insolent Neonate
- Krenko's Command
- Lightning Spear
- Mad Prophet
- Ore-Scale Guardian
- Pashalik Mons
- Rage Forger
- Reckless Charge
- Reckless Racer
- Reckless Wurm
- Revolutionist
- Seasoned Pyromancer
- Shiv's Embrace
- Skophos Reaver
- Spreading Insurrection
- Spinehorn Minotaur
- Spiteful Sliver
- Strike It Rich
- Striking Sliver
- Throes of Chaos
- Thunderbreak Regent
- Unholy Heat
- Viashino Lashclaw
- Green
- Adaptive Snapjaw
- Aetherstream Leopard
- Aeve, Progenitor Ooze
- Awaken the Bear
- Ayula, Queen Among Bears
- Bannerhide Krushok
- Battering Krasis
- Bestial Menace
- Bear Cub
- Chatterfang, Squirrel General
- Chatter of the Squirrel
- Chatterstorm
- Chitterspitter
- Crocanura
- Deepwood Denizen
- Duskshell Crawler
- Excavating Anurid
- Funnel-Web Recluse
- Glimmer Bairn
- Grizzly Bears
- Hardened Scales
- Harrow
- Herd Baloth
- Hunting Pack
- Incremental Growth
- Jewel-Eyed Cobra
- Llanowar Tribe
- Manaweft Sliver
- Mother Bear
- Murasa Behemoth
- Nantuko Cultivator
- Parallel Lives
- Predatory Sliver
- Prey's Vengeance
- Runeclaw Bear
- Sanctum Weaver
- Savage Swipe
- Scale Up
- Scurry Oak
- Servant of the Scale
- Smell Fear
- Springbloom Druid
- Squirrel Mob
- Squirrel Sanctuary
- Squirrel Sovereign
- Squirrel Wrangler
- Striped Bears
- Sylvan Anthem
- Tempered Sliver
- Timeless Witness
- Tireless Provisioner
- Trumpeting Herd
- Twin-Silk Spider
- Ulvenwald Mysteries
- Urban Daggertooth
- Verdant Command
- Webweaver Changeling
- Winding Way
- Wren's Run Hydra
- Multicolored
- Arcbound Shikari
- Arcys Acolyte
- Breathless Knight
- Bred for the Hunt
- Captured by Lagacs
- Chainer, Nightmare Adept
- Chrome Courier
- Cloudshredder Sliver
- Combine Chrysalis
- Drey Keeper
- Elusive Krasis
- Etchings of the Chosen
- The First Sliver
- Goblin Anarchomancer
- Good-Fortune Unicorn
- Graceful Restoration
- Ingenious Infiltrator
- Lavabelly Sliver
- Lazotep Chancellor
- Lonis, Cryptozoologist
- Munitions Expert
- Nimbus Swimmer
- Priest of Fell Rites
- Prophetic Titan
- Rakdos Headliner
- Ravenous Squirrel
- Reap the Past
- Rotwidow Pack
- Ruination Rioter
- Shambleshark
- Soulherder
- Sterling Grove
- Storm God's Oracle
- Sythis, Harvest's Hand
- Territorial Kavu
- Terminal Agony
- Thundering Djinn
- Wavesifter
- Lands
References
- ↑ Gaby Spartz (July 26, 2021). "I've got some Jumpstart: Historic Horizons previews to kick your week off!". Twitter.
- ↑ Wizards of the Coast (July 26, 2021). "What Is MTG Arena's Jumpstart: Historic Horizons?". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ Wizards of the Coast (July 26, 2021). "Jumpstart: Historic Horizons Packet Lists". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ Tom Marks (July 26, 2021). "Exclusive: MTG Arena’s Jumpstart: Historic Horizons Set Will Add Digital-Only Cards, Full Details Revealed". IGN.com.