Edge of Eternities Is Available to Trade

Radiant Summit | Art by Marco Gorlei

Friendly greetings and welcome! The Cardsphere team is pleased to announce Edge of Eternities (EOE) and Edge of Eternities Commander (EOC) products are available to trade. My name is John Sherwood, and I'm the red shirt on this away mission through Magic's first interstellar Standard set.

I must emphasize Standard set as the key qualifier on EOE's superlative first space set status, because Magic: The Gathering already went to space in Unfinity (UNF). Ironically, Unfinity had a lot in common with early real-life space programs. Some designs failed to launch, a few self-destructed (RIP _____ Goblin), and notable innovations (read: Saw in Half) became household names.

Regardless of which set came first, Edge of Eternities is now leading Magic's space race.

You Can't Take the Sky From Me

The web fiction for Edge of Eternities described a Wurm Wall that forms a physical boundary around this region of the multiverse. The Edge might have a border, but many of the cards in the set do not. Edge of Eternities features multiple styles of borderless cards. Additionally, EOE booster fun includes extended art, showcases, a bonus sheet, and Special Guests (SPG).

Triumphant

Tezzeret, Cruel Captain and over a dozen creatures get glorious depictions on the Triumphant borderless treatment. The common thread from collector number 287 through 302 is the victorious pose in front of an extraterrestrial backlight.

Surreal

Fourteen Surreal borderless cards go beyond the regions of conventional Magic illustration into the strange and psychedelic. I'm really looking forward to seeing these prints in person for a hand-held brain bender.

Viewport Lands

Aetherdrift (DFT) explored the artistic design space of lands with point-of-view images. Edge of Eternities does it again with Viewport lands. Five are new lands with the Planet subtype, and five are reprinted shock lands from the perspective of a spaceship window.

Celestial Basic Lands

The spread of full-art basics for this set explores five color-alligned locations of the Sothera System. The art on these basic lands beautifully complement the Viewport lands.

Japan Showcase

Anime-style illustrations are back again, as are the flashy Fracture foils. These cards are always a hit on the secondary market.

Extended-Art Cards

Among my favorite Magic visual experiences is comparing extended art to regular printings. Some extended arts provide extra context or a broader perspective. The default card frame on Singularity Rupture covers up one of the humanoid figures in the foreground, whereas the extended art reveals two characters desperately clutching each other before their tragic end.

Stellar Sights

The Stellar Sights (EOS) bonus sheet reprints 45 iconic nonbasic lands in two distinct styles. The more common version of Stellar Sights is distributed through both Play Boosters and Collector Boosters, with other-worldly art and a unique text box.

The more exclusive Poster Stellar Sights are distributed only through Collector Boosters. The poster versions feature elegant text boxes over stylized images of spacecraft traversing exotic interstellar locations.

Science-Fantasy Special Guests

As usual, the Special Guests (SPG) cards for EOE boosters include some knock-out reprints. The artisitic theme for these ten new special guests is a fitting homage to science fiction pop culture, with images like old paperbacks, comics, or movie posters. I know I'm not the only person excited to see a new Robe of Stars hit the secondary market, and the new illustration is spectacular.

May the Force Be With You

The commander format surrounds us, penetrates us, and binds the galaxy together. Edge of Eternities Commander (EOC) consists of two preconstructed decks. The World Shaper and Counter Intelligence precons include a combined 24 new cards, 18 reprints with new art and 129 other reprints.

Maybe you're in the market to put some new tech in your old Lord Windgrace deck? You don't have to play commander to benefit from an influx of value reprints like Phyrexian Metamorph or Oracle of Mul Daya.

The Final Frontier

Magic players everywhere are about to make first contact with new cards from Edge of Eternities. Cardsphere's prime directive is to give you the best trading community to buy and sell those cards. You can give us feedback, share your new deck brews, and find trading partners on the Cardsphere Discord. Until next time: live long, prosper and happy trading!