Eternal Masters is a booster-based compilation set containing cards legal in, and intended for, the Legacy, Commander, and Vintage formats. It was released on June 10, 2016.
Themes and mechanics
Eternal Masters features the following limited archetypes.
Skies (Thunderclap Wyvern)
Reanimator (Extract from Darkness)
Sacrifice/Morbid (Torrent of Souls)
Fast Aggro (Bloodbraid Elf)
Enchantments (Armadillo Cloak)
Recursion with ETB effects[7] (Gravedigger)
Spells from the graveyard/Flashback/Retrace) (Wee Dragonauts)
Elves (Shaman of the Pack)
Tokens/Go wide (Flame-Kin Zealot)
Threshold (Werebear)
Cycles
There are four cycles in Eternal Masters, one of which is a double cycle.
Legendary pit-fighter champions Each of these powerful rare legendary creature cards costs {3}MMM. Reprinted from Onslaught. Jareth, Leonine Titan Arcanis the Omnipotent Visara the Dreadful Rorix Bladewing Silvos, Rogue Elemental
Honden Each of these uncommon legendary Shrine Enchantments grants their owner something depending on the number of shrines they control. Reprinted from Champions of Kamigawa. Honden of Cleansing Fire Honden of Seeing Winds Honden of Night's Reach Honden of Infinite Rage Honden of Life's Web
Tutors Each of these (mythic) rares allows its controller to search their library for a card, albeit with certain conditions. Four of them were part of a mega cycle printed in Mirage, Visions and Urza's Saga. The Worldly Tutor is replaced by Green Sun's Zenith from Mirrodin Besieged. Enlightened Tutor Mystical Tutor Vampiric Tutor Gamble Green Sun's Zenith
Life-gain Taplands Ten multi color common lands that enter the battlefield tapped, gain the controller one life and can tap for 2 different colors of mana. Reprinted from Khans of Tarkir and Fate Reforged. Tranquil Cove Dismal Backwater Bloodfell Caves Rugged Highlands Blossoming Sands Scoured Barrens Swiftwater Cliffs Jungle Hollow Wind-Scarred Crag Thornwood Falls
Pairs
There is one mirrored pair in Eternal Masters.
Hydroblast Pyroblast These uncommon modal instants, one blue and one red, both have a casting cost of M and can be cast to either counter a spell of the other's color or to destroy a permanent of the other's color
Token cards
The set comes with 15 tokens and one emblem, some of which are printed for the first time.
{C} 1/1 Spirit for Honden of Life's Web, printed for the first time.
{W} 1/1 Soldier for Raise the Alarm
{W} 1/1 Spirit with Flying for Field of Souls
{U} 5/5 Wall with Defender for Tidal Wave, printed for the first time.
{B} 0/1 Serf for Sengir Autocrat, printed for the first time.
{B} 2/2 Zombie for Wakedancer
{R} 3/1 Beast named Carnivore for Tooth and Claw, printed for the first time.
{R} 2/2 Dragon with Flying and "{R}: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn" for Dragon Egg
{R} 1/1 Elemental for Young Pyromancer
{R} 1/1 Goblin for Beetleback Chief, Mogg War Marshal and Siege-Gang Commander
{G} 3/3 Elephant for Elephant Guide
{G} 1/1 Elf Warrior for Imperious Perfect and Lys Alana Huntmaster
{G} 6/6 Wurm for Roar of the Wurm
{U/R} 5/5 Elemental with Flying for Call the Skybreaker
{R/W} 1/1 Goblin Soldier for Goblin Trenches
Emblem for Dack Fayden
On the back of these tokens appear segments of text hinting to Conspiracy: Take the Crown.
Notable cards
Force of Will
Jace, the Mind Sculptor, considered to be the best planeswalker ever printed.
Mana Crypt, which was previously one of only four Vintage-legal cards that had only been printed as promos and not in a Magic set, the others being Sewers of Estark, Windseeker Centaur, and Nalathni Dragon.
Necropotence, the dominating card in the Black Summer of 1996 (FTV art).[14]
Cards with new art
Animate Dead
Ashnod's Altar
Bloodbraid Elf
Carbonize
Chrome Mox, the last mox outside of un-sets to receive new art by Volkan Baga.
Control Magic
Counterspell
Daze
Diminishing Returns
Elvish Vanguard
Emmessi Tome
Enlightened Tutor, with a reference to Idyllic Tutor
Entomb
Firebolt
Force of Will
Gamble
Ghitu Slinger
Giant Solifuge
Giant Tortoise
Glacial Wall
Goblin Charbelcher, with references to Black Lotus, Ratchet Bomb, and Storm Crow
Goblin Trenches
Havoc Demon
Humble
Hydroblast
Invigorate
Maelstrom Wanderer
Memory Lapse
Mogg War Marshal
Mystical Tutor
Nausea
Nimble Mongoose
Peregrine Drake
Phantom Monster
Price of Progress
Prodigal Sorcerer
Prowling Pangolin
Pyroblast
Roots
Rorix Bladewing
Seal of Cleansing
Seal of Strength
Sengir Autocrat
Sensei's Divining Top[15]
Sinkhole
Stupefying Touch
Ticking Gnomes
Timberwatch Elf
Tooth and Claw
Vampiric Tutor
Void
Wasteland, with a reference to City of Brass
Werebear
Winter Orb
Wirewood Symbiote
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