Released in April 2023, March of the Machine (MOM) continues the story arc begun in Dominaria United. After the Brothers' War, the Phyrexians come and shake things up with their machine; the multiverse opposes them as everyone bands together.
This set features a new card type: battle. A battle is kind of like an enchantment that is played on your opponent's side of the table. It has an initial value, and when you attack, you can choose to attack it rather than the other player (or a planeswalker they control). If your attack succeeds, you remove that much damage from the battle, and when it hits zero, it transforms and comes over to your side. See below example.
The mechanics in this set included:
- Incubate, which allows you to place and grow tokens on the battlefield
- Convoke, where you can tap creatures to help pay for spells
- Backup, which adds +1/+1 tokens to another creature when a creature with backup enters
The main themes in this set are Phyrexians (61 cards) and "team up" legends, featuring two classic legendary creatures on one card (18 cards). This set also featured a supplemental collection called "Multiverse Legends," which had 65 variant-frame creature cards from Magic's history. (And, as before, there were also different frames for these, making for 261 cards total. Sheesh.)
Favorites
As with last time, this set didn't do much for me. Faerie Mastermind was nice; Etali was popular. Four green cards (two of which were battles) were intriguing. I did like the two hero cards; two examples below.
Good Riddance
Only one card jumps out: Sunfall. Exile all creatures and then incubate X, potentially granting you a big creature, was very annoying.
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