Magic: The Gathering's Double Masters 2022 Previews – Day Eight Highlights
It’s the final day of Magic: The Gathering’s Double Masters 2022 preview season. We’ve now seen all the expensive, fancy things this premium set has to offer, and it’s looking like one of the most exciting sets we’ll see this year.
It combines power with hidden treasures that have been begging for reprints for decades, alongside great new alternate art and a three-colour draft format that looks fun and robust. People weren’t expecting much from Double Masters 2022 when it was revealed, but Wizards has definitely proven us wrong.
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On day eight of spoilers, we’ve had the white enchantment everyone was hoping for, the first reprint of a card released 23 years ago, and a huge shakeup to the Pauper metagame. Here is everything revealed on the final day of Double Masters 2022’s preview season.
Three generic, one white enchantment:
Whenever an opponent draws a card, that play may pay two generic. If the player doesn’t, you create a Treasure token.
Smothering Tithe gets its first-ever booster reprint, following its debut in Ravnica Allegiance in 2019. Although this isn’t the longest-anticipated reprint of the set by a long margin, it is one that the game has desperately needed for the longest time.
If you weren’t lucky enough to pull a Smothering Tithe in a Ravnica Allegiance pack, your only other hope was tracking down the Faerie Schemes Brawl deck from Throne of Eldraine. Other than the fact you’re having to buy a Brawl deck – a format nobody plays outside of MTG Arena – the cost has inflated to almost three times the original asking price.
Smothering Tithe is one of white’s most powerful ramping tools. Even in a post-Archaeomancer’s Map world
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