D&D Magic: The Gathering crossover exclusive card reveal: Mordenkainen

Mordenkainen, the arch wizard of the Dungeons & Dragons multiverse, is coming to Magic: The Gathering. Polygon is ready to completely reveal his new card for the Adventures within the Forgotten Realms set, which is able to flip D&D co-creator Gary Gygax’s personal participant character right into a planeswalker.

Mordenkainen was created for the unique Greyhawk marketing campaign manner again within the early Seventies. Initially, he was a manner for Gygax to get out from behind the Dungeon Grasp’s display and really play the sport. Since then, he’s grow to be one of many longest-running characters within the D&D multiverse. He’s a little bit of a traveler, making the rounds of the Forgotten Realms (D&D’s present essential setting) in addition to Strahd von Zarovich’s Barovia, and Krynn, the setting for the Dragonlance novels.

It ought to come as no shock, then, that Mordenkainen is rendered right here as a planeswalker. Highly effective wizards from throughout an enormous and byzantine multiverse, planeswalkers could be performed alongside different Magic playing cards to grant highly effective, ongoing skills to gamers. They may give decks a thematic taste, or grow to be the centerpiece to a robust mechanical technique.

As soon as he comes into play, gamers can use him to attract extra playing cards. After some time they’ll solid the Devoted Hound (one in every of his signature spells), which sports activities an influence and toughness equal to the variety of playing cards within the participant’s hand. Lastly, gamers can use this card to trade their hand for what stays of their library — basically all the opposite playing cards they introduced into the sport.

Mordenkainen remains to be alive and properly within the bigger D&D multiverse. Along with his cameo in Curse of Strahd, he’s additionally authored his personal e-book for fifth version. Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes was revealed in 2018. Magic: The Gathering Adventures within the Forgotten Realms arrives for Magic: The Gathering Area on July 8. Bodily playing cards arrive on July 23.