Magic: The Gathering's Double Masters 2022 Previews – Day One Highlights
It’s day one of Magic: The Gathering’s latest preview season, and Double Masters 2022 has already brought us splashier cards than we saw in the whole of Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur’s Gate. This stellar day one confirmed the inclusion of many staples, including Mulldrifter, Teferi’s Protection, Balustrade Spy, and Allosaurus Shepherd.
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The fact that they didn’t even make the cut for today’s highlights proves just how exciting this set is shaping up to be with a whole week left of cards to go. Here are the best cards previewed on day one of Double Masters 2022’s spoiler season.
One black sorcery:
Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. You lose two life.
One of the most interesting bits of news to come out of day one of previews was that the set will include multiple first-time reprints from the 1999 start-focused set Portal: Three Kingdoms. Despite being made for beginners, this set is full of powerhouses, including Imperial Seal.
We’ve had lots of tutors since Imperial Seal, which may make some players question what the point of it is. After all, it’s a Vampiric Tutor, but objectively worse at sorcery speed. However, in singleton formats like Commander, being able to have a Vampiric Tutor and an Imperial Seal in the same deck is a huge advantage, and in that context it being a sorcery doesn’t make it too much worse.
Banned in Legacy and restricted in Vintage, this is the first time Commander players will have the chance to get their hands on this card that normally costs upwards of $1,700.
One generic, one red creature – Goblin Pirate – 1/2:
When Dockside Extortionist enters the battlefield,
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