Magic: The Gathering's upcoming Dominaria United set will redesign classic Legendary cards into new, viable iterations

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Wizards of the Coast announced a new Magic: The Gathering set, known as Dominaria United — created in a similar vein to the previous Dominaria set from 2018, which had a heavy focus on Legendary cards.

The set, slated to be released on September 9, 2022, will belong to the card game’s home realm, Dominaria, and will bring back many names from the past.

For the upcoming set’s box toppers, there will be several cards from the Magic: The Gathering expansion “Legends,” known as Legends Retold cards.

Dominaria United comes after Double Masters and will feature several cards from the classic Legends set, which was an older Magic: The Gathering set focused on, as its name implies, legendary creatures. Many of them were incredibly lackluster and seldom saw play, but that could change in the future.

This upcoming set includes 20 cards that make up the Legends Retold collection and will be the box toppers for booster boxes. 19 of these are creatures, and one is a planeswalker. What makes them so interesting, is that they are remakes of classic creatures from the Legends set.

Three ‌have been confirmed, and the others will likely be revealed via spoilers as the weeks go on.

Each of these have new abilities and powers that make them potentially more viable than their previous editions.

The original Ramirez DePietro was just a 4/3 First Strike for six mana, which is a terrible card. The new version costs four mana instead and creates two treasure tokens upon summoning him and dealing two damage to you.

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