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:
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.
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.
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.
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.)
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.
