It’s spoiler time once again! On Tuesday, January 16th, 2024 at 9:00 am PT, the official previews for Murders at Karlov Manor will begin, due for release to MTG Arena on February 6th, 2024!
This is the 11th expansion to be introduced to Standard since the change to its rotation cycle. With some cards already revealed on its first look preview, you can also check out some of the cards below in our article below if you cannot wait!
As is the ritual before the beginning of the preview season for each set, MTG’s head designer Mark Rosewater (often shortened to MaRo) gives us a bit of a teaser about what we can expect from the set over on his Tumblr, Blogatog. It usually includes abilities, creature types, and other unusual or noteworthy text that will appear on cards from the set, along with some clues about returning characters and more.
This morning, MaRo published the teaser for The Lost Caverns of Ixalan if you are still following along:
Maro’s Teaser for Murders at Karlov Manor
Before previews for Murders at Karlov Manor officially begin, I thought it would be fun to do another of my Duelist-style teasers where I give tiny hints of things to come. Note that I’m only giving you partial information.
First up, here are some things you can expect:
white gets a card that lets you play a subset off the top of the deck
a new enchantment subtype Case
a card with four different hybrid symbols in its mana cost
a popular mechanic returns tweaked with a new name
a green sorcery that you can have any number of in your deck
a keyword mechanic not printed in a premier set since 2008 returns on a single card
a creature that allows you an alternate nonmana cost for all your spells
some creature tokens in the set: (note that some have abilities) 0/0 green Ooze, 0/0 colorless Thopter (also artifact), 0/1 green Plant, 1/1 black Bat, 1/1 white Dog, 1/1 red Goblin, 1/1 white Human, 1/1 blue Merfolk, 1/1 white and black Spirit, 1/1 colorless Thopter (also artifact), 2/1 black Skeleton, 2/1 black and green Spider, 2/2 white and blue Detective, 2/2 red Imp, and 5/5 green and white Wolf
And yes, Murder is in the set
Next, here are some rules text that will be showing up on cards:
“Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, if its toughness was less than 1, draw a card.”
“Choose any number of target players.”
“Creature cards in your graveyard gain ‘You may cast this card from your graveyard’ until end of turn.”
“Then sacrifice it if it has five or more bloodstain counters on it.”
“you may search your graveyard, hand, and/or library for a card named Magnifying Glass and/or a card named Thinking Cap and put them onto the battlefield.”
“target opponent gains control of any number of target permanents you control.”
“If an ability of a creature you control with power 2 or less triggers, that ability triggers an additional time.”
“As long as there are no cards in your library,”
“If one or more tokens would be created under your control, those tokens plus a Clue token are created instead.”
“Whenever you sacrifice a Clue, target opponent gets two poison counters.”
Follow the story each day this week and tune into the debut at 9:00 am PT on Jan 16 on twitch.tv/magic or youtube.com/@mtg to learn whodunit! Can you solve the mystery before detective extraordinaire Alquist Proft?
Wrap Up
MaRo’s teasers are always chock full of information and insight into the set, and it’s definitely worth giving the full list a read.
That’s all we have for you concerning Murders at Karlov Manor for now. What are some of the tidbits from Mark Rosewater’s teaser that have you the most excited for Murders at Karlov Manor? Got any predictions? Let us know in the comments, and we’ll keep you up-to-date with the latest news and spoilers. We’ll see you next week on its debut stream!
