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Dragons, Planeswalkers and a Praetor – Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty Spoilers – Day One Roundup

The wait is finally over: spoilers for Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty have begun, and it’s time for us to dive in. Wizards of the Coast kicked off the preview season with a stream that debuted Thursday morning on both Twitch and YouTube. We covered all of the information from the stream separately; you can find that here:

The first day of spoilers has now come to an end, and we’ve seen some pretty sweet cardboard so far. There’s a new version of The Wanderer, who turns out to be none other than the Emperor of Kamigawa – although as it turns out, she doesn’t have control over her planewalking abilities. Similar to the mysterious appearance of the Phyrexian Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider in Kaldheim, we now have its fellow Praetor Jin-Gitaxias appearing on Kamigawa.

The planeswalkers Tamiyo and the villainous Tezzeret each get a new card as well, but unfortunately, it seems the former has been corrupted by the Phyrexians. Two legendary lands that appear to be a part of a five-color cycle have been revealed, along with the first of a new cycle of Shrines – but this time, there’s a twist on the typeline.

Between the launch stream and other scheduled previews, over 40 cards were revealed today. We’ve compiled all of them into a list that’s sorted alphabetically by rarity. You can use the following links to navigate around the page quickly:

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Mythic

Ao, the Dawn Sky

  • Card Name: Ao, the Dawn Sky
  • Mana Cost: {3}{W}{W}
  • Card Type: Legendary Creature – Dragon Spirit
  • Rarity: Mythic
  • Card Text:
    Flying, vigilance
    When Ao, the Dawn Sky dies, choose one –
    • Look at the top seven cards of your library. Put any number of nonland permanent cards with total mana value 4 or less from among them onto the battlefield. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
    • Put two +1/+1 counters on each permanent you control that’s a creature or Vehicle.
  • Power/Toughness: 5/4

Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant

  • Card Name: Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant
  • Mana Cost: {5}{U}{U}
  • Card Type: Legendary Creature – Phyrexian Praetor
  • Rarity: Mythic
  • Card Text:
    Whenever you cast an artifact, instant, or sorcery spell, copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy. This ability triggers only once each turn. (A copy of a permanent spell becomes a token.)
    Whenever an opponent casts an artifact, instant, or sorcery spell, counter that spell. This ability triggers only once each turn.
  • Power/Toughness: 5/5

Kairi, the Swirling Sky

  • Card Name: Kairi, the Swirling Sky
  • Mana Cost: {4}{U}{U}
  • Card Type: Legendary Creature – Dragon Spirit
  • Rarity: Mythic
  • Card Text:
    Flying, ward {3}
    When Kairi, the Swirling Sky dies, choose one –
    • Return any number of target nonland permanents with total mana value 6 or less to their owner’s hands.
    • Mill six cards, then return up to two instant and/or sorcery cards from your graveyard to your hand.
  • Power/Toughness: 6/6

The Kami War // O-Kagachi Made Manifest

  • Card Name: The Kami War
  • Mana Cost: {1}{W}{U}{B}{R}{G}
  • Card Type: Enchantment – Saga
  • Rarity: Mythic
  • Card Text:
    {I}: Exile target nonland permanent an opponent controls.
    {II}: Return up to one other target nonland permanent to its owner’s hand. Then each opponent discards a card.
    {III}: Exile this Saga, then return it to the battlefield transformed under your control.
  • Card Name: O-Kagachi Made Manifest
  • Card Type: Enchantment Creature – Dragon Spirit
  • Card Text:
    O-Kagachi Made Manifest is all colors.
    Flying, trample
    Whenever O-Kagachi Made Manifest attacks, defending player chooses a nonland card in your graveyard. Return that card to your hand. O-Kagachi Made Manifest gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is the mana value of that card.
  • Power/Toughness: 6/6

Kodama of the West Tree

  • Card Name: Kodama of the West Tree
  • Mana Cost: {2}{G}
  • Card Type: Legendary Creature – Spirit
  • Rarity: Mythic
  • Card Text:
    Reach
    Modified creatures you control have trample.
    Whenever a modified creature you control deals combat damage to an opponent, search your library for a basic land card and put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
  • Power/Toughness: 3/3

Tamiyo, Compleated Sage

  • Card Name: Tamiyo, Compleated Sage
  • Mana Cost: {2}{G}{G/U/P}{U}
  • Card Type: Legendary Planeswalker – Tamiyo
  • Rarity: Mythic
  • Card Text:
    Compleated ({G/U/P} can be paid with {G}, {U}, or 2 life. If life was paid, this planeswalker enters with two fewer loyalty counters.)
    {+1}: Tap up to one target artifact or creature. It doesn’t untap during its controller’s next untap step.
    {-X}: Exile target nonland permanent card with mana value X from your graveyard. Create a token that’s a copy of that card.
    {-7}: Create Tamiyo’s Notebook, a legendary colorless artifact token with “Spells you cast cost {2} less to cast” and “{T}: Draw a card.”
  • Starting Loyalty: 5

Tezzeret, Betrayer of Flesh

  • Card Name: Tezzeret, Betrayer of Flesh
  • Mana Cost: {2}{U}{U}
  • Card Type: Legendary Planeswalker – Tezzeret
  • Rarity: Mythic
  • Card Text:
    The first activated ability of an artifact you activate each turn costs {2} less to activate.
    {+1}: Draw two cards. Then discard two cards unless you discard an artifact card.
    {-2}: Target artifact becomes an artifact creature. If it isn’t a Vehicle, it has base power and toughness 4/4.
    {-6}: You get an emblem with “Whenever an artifact you control becomes tapped, draw a card.”
  • Starting Loyalty: 4

The Wandering Emperor

  • Card Name: The Wandering Emperor
  • Mana Cost: {2}{W}{W}
  • Card Type: Legendary Planeswalker
  • Rarity: Mythic
  • Card Text:
    Flash
    As long as The Wandering Emperor entered the battlefield this turn, you may activate her loyalty abilities any time you could cast an instant.
    {+1}: Put a +1/+1 counter on up to one target creature. It gains first strike until end of turn.
    {-1}: Create a 2/2 white Samurai creature token with vigilance.
    {-2}: Exile target tapped creature. You gain 2 life.
  • Starting Loyalty: 3

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Rare

Boseiju, Who Endures

  • Card Name: Boseiju, Who Endures
  • Card Type: Legendary Land
  • Rarity: Rare
  • Card Text:
    {T}: Add {G}.
    Channel – {1}{G}, Discard Boseiju, Who Endures: Destroy target artifact, enchantment, or nonbasic land an opponent controls. That player may search their library for a land card with a basic land type, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Biting-Palm Ninja

  • Card Name: Biting-Palm Ninja
  • Mana Cost: {2}{B}
  • Card Type: Creature – Human Ninja
  • Rarity: Rare
  • Card Text:
    Ninjutsu {2}{B}
    Biting-Palm Ninja enters the battlefield with a menace counter on it.
    Whenever Biting-Palm Ninja deals combat damage to a player, you may remove a menace counter from it. When you do, that player reveals their hand and you choose a nonland card from it. Exile that card.
  • Power/Toughness: 3/3

Goro-Goro, Disciple of Ryusei

  • Card Name: Goro-Goro, Disciple of Ryusei
  • Mana Cost: {1}{R}
  • Card Type: Legendary Creature – Goblin Samurai
  • Rarity: Rare
  • Card Text:
    {R}: Creatures you control gain haste until end of turn.
    {3}{R}{R}: Create a 5/5 red Dragon Spirit creature token with flying. Activate only if you control an attacking modified creature. (Equipment, Auras you control, and counters are modifications.)
  • Power/Toughness: 2/2

Invoke Despair

  • Card Name: Invoke Despair
  • Mana Cost: {1}{B}{B}{B}{B}
  • Card Type: Sorcery
  • Rarity: Rare
  • Card Text:
    Target opponent sacrifices a creature. If they can’t, they lose 2 life and you draw a card. Then repeat this process for an enchantment and a planeswalker.

Kyodai, Soul of Kamigawa

  • Card Name: Kyodai, Soul of Kamigawa
  • Mana Cost: {3}{W}
  • Card Type: Legendary Creature – Dragon Spirit
  • Rarity: Mythic
  • Card Text:
    Flash
    Flying
    When Kyodai, Soul of Kamigawa enters the battleefield, another target permanent gains indestructible for as long as you control Kyodai.
    {W}{U}{B}{R}{G}: Kyodai gets +5/+5 until end of turn.
  • Power/Toughness: 3/3

Mirror Box

  • Card Name: Mirror Box
  • Mana Cost: {3}
  • Card Type: Artifact
  • Rarity: Rare
  • Card Text:
    The “legend rule” doesn’t apply to permanents you control.
    Each legendary creature you control gets +1/+1.
    Each nontoken creature you control gets +1/+1 for each other creature you control with the same name as that creature.

The Reality Chip

  • Card Name: The Reality Chip
  • Mana Cost: {1}{U}
  • Card Type: Legendary Artifact Creature – Equipment Jellyfish
  • Rarity: Rare
  • Card Text:
    You may look at the top card of your library any time.
    As long as The Reality Chip is attached to a creature, you may play lands and cast spells from the top of your library.
    Reconfigure {2}{U} ({2}{U}: Attach to target creature you control; or unattach from a creature. Reconfigure only as a sorcery. While attached, this isn’t a creature.)
  • Power/Toughness: 0/4

“Scrap Welder”

  • Card Name: “Scrap Welder”
  • Mana Cost: {2}{R}
  • Card Type: Creature – Goblin Artificer
  • Rarity: Rare
  • Card Text:
    {T}, Sacrifice an artifact with mana value X: Return target artifact card with mana value less than X from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste until end of turn.
  • Power/Toughness: 3/3

“Sokenzan, Origin of the Resistance”

  • Card Name: “Sokenzan, Origin of the Resistance”
  • Card Type: Legendary Land
  • Rarity: Rare
  • Card Text:
    {T}: Add {R}.
    Channel – {3}{R}, Discard “Sokenzan, Origin of the Resistance”: Create two colorless 1/1 Spirit creature tokens. They gain haste until end of turn. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Surgehacker Mech

  • Card Name: Surgehacker Mech
  • Mana Cost: {4}
  • Card Type: Artifact – Vehicle
  • Rarity: Rare
  • Card Text:
    Menace
    When Surgehacker Mech enters the battlefield, it deals damage equal to twice the number of Vehicles you control to target creature or planeswalker an opponent controls.
    Crew 4
  • Power/Toughness: 5/5

Tameshi, Reality Architect

  • Card Name: Tameshi, Reality Architect
  • Mana Cost: {2}{U}
  • Card Type: Legendary Creature – Moonfolk Wizard
  • Rarity: Rare
  • Card Text:
    Whenever one or more noncreature permanents are returned to hand, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.
    {X}{W}, Return a land you control to its owner’s hand: Return target artifact or enchantment card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.
  • Power/Toughness: 2/3

Teachings of the Kirin // Kirin-Touched Orochi

  • Card Name: Teachings of the Kirin
  • Mana Cost: {1}{G}
  • Card Type: Enchantment – Saga
  • Rarity: Rare
  • Card Text:
    {I}: Mill three cards. Create a 1/1 colorless Spirit creature token.
    {II}: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.
    {III}: Exile this Saga, then return it to the battlefield transformed under your control.
  • Card Name: Kirin-Touched Orochi
  • Card Type: Enchantment Creature -Snake Monk
  • Card Text:
    Whenever Kirin-Touched Orochi attacks, choose one –
    Exile target creature card from a graveyard. When you do, create a 1/1 colorless Spirit creature token.
    Exile target noncreature card from a graveyard. When you do, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.
  • Power/Toughness: 1/1

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Common/Uncommon

Akki Ember-Keeper
Akki War Paint
Ancestral Katana
Azusa's Many Journeys // Likeness of the Seeker
Befriending the Moths // Imperial Moth
Behold the Unspeakable // Vision of the Unspeakable
Boseiju Reaches Skyward // Branch of Boseiju
Covert Technician
Dokuchi Shadow-Walker
Enthusiastic Mechanaut
Era of Enlightenment // Hand of Enlightenment
Go-Shintai of Shared Purpose
Greater Tanuki
Imperial Subduer
Jukai Naturalist
Lethal Exploit
Life of Toshiro Umezawa // Memory of Toshiro
Michiko's Reign of Truth // Portrait of Michiko
Secluded Courtyard
Silver-Fur Master
Simian Sling
Spirited Companion
Tamiyo's Compleation
The Modern Age // Vector Glider
The Shattered States Era // Nameless Conqueror
Unstoppable Ogre

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We’ll be back tomorrow with more previews, so stay tuned and stay up-to-date with our full spoilers page in the meantime.

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