Magic: The Gathering’s Next Set Is a Death Race, Here Are 2 New Cards

Magic: The Gathering’s next set is right around the bend – Aetherdrift is all about a multiplanar death race taking place across the multiverse, and we’ve got an exclusive first look at two new cards that will be in it: Cloudspire Coordinator and Count on Luck.

Flip through the gallery below to see both cards, as well as a few alternate art treatments.

First up, we have Cloudspire Coordinator: this creature is an uncommon meant to give you a sense of what the set’s red-white color pairing is all about. In this case, it represents the racing team that embodies those colors, which is the Cloudspire Racing Team from the plane of Kylem (first introduced in Magic’s 2v2-focused set from 2018, Battlebond), as well as a mechanical focus on using and piloting vehicles. Its 3 power helps it crew vehicles itself, while its activated ability will instead create Pilot token creatures to crew them for you.

While that could end up being a solid choice if you find yourself playing a red-white deck during an Aetherdrift draft, the splashier card we get to reveal is the rare, Count on Luck. This 3-mana enchantment is as straightforward as its all-red-pip casting cost: at the start of each of your turns, you exile the top card of your library and can play it during that turn. This is what is generally referred to as “impulse draw,” consistently giving you extra cards to use in a mono-red deck as long as you can play them right away. Use it or lose it.

The last bit we have to share is a look at Count on Luck in its extended-art and First-Place Foil versions. While the former isn’t anything we haven’t seen before, simply removing Magic’s card frame on the sides of the art box to allow for a wider look, the First-Place Foils are something totally new to Aetherdrift. These shiny golden cards are only available as part of a randomized buy-a-box promo pack that comes with every box of Aetherdrift, and all the rares in the set (as well as 10 full-art lands) are getting the treatment.

Aetherdrift hits the streets (both in paper and online) on February 14, with prereleases kicking off on February 7. You can learn more about the mechanics of the set here.

Tom Marks is IGN’s Executive Reviews Editor for games. He loves card games, puzzles, platformers, puzzle-platformers, and lots more.