{"id":813965,"date":"2025-12-07T18:36:40","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T18:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/H4qQXnfsEjqKp57ZcRX6yD"},"modified":"2025-12-07T18:36:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T18:36:41","slug":"magic-the-gatherings-latest-set-gives-you-a-good-excuse-to-dig-out-those-old-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/magic-the-gatherings-latest-set-gives-you-a-good-excuse-to-dig-out-those-old-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"Magic: The Gathering&#8217;s latest set gives you a good excuse to dig out those old cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>You&apos;d think a card game with as many expansions as Magic: The Gathering would have done something as poker-adjacent as a Western set before now, but it&apos;s taken until its 100th expansion for Magic to cowboy up. <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/magic.wizards.com\/en\/products\/outlaws-of-thunder-junction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Outlaws of Thunder Junction<\/a> explores a new plane full of arcane trains to rob and cactus-spider monsters to shoot\u2014called cactarantulas, naturally\u2014but it&apos;s interesting how much this brand new set&apos;s mechanics have made me want to go trawling through older cards.<\/p>\n<p>For starters, there&apos;s Crime now. Several cards improve or trigger abilities if you committed a Crime that turn, where Crime is defined as &#8220;Targeting an opponent, anything that opponent controls, and\/or any cards in an opponent\u2019s graveyard&#8221;. That covers quite a lot of ways you can mess with other players, but doesn&apos;t include basic attacking. When you take a swing at an opponent in the combat phase, you&apos;re not targeting anything specific, which I like to imagine as all your creatures marching forward windmilling their arms like Bart Simpson. Nothing criminal about that.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"inlinegallery inline-layout\">\n<div class=\"inlinegallery-wrap\" style=\"display:flex; flex-flow:row nowrap;\">\n<div class=\"inlinegallery-item\" style=\"flex: 0 0 auto;\"><span class=\"slidecount\">Image 1 of 11<\/span><\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure \" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:744px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:139.65%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"mMhZuhiyEsp5ABXBian7fS\" name=\"HolyCow.jpg\" alt=\"Outlaws of Thunder Junction card\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/magic-the-gatherings-latest-set-gives-you-a-good-excuse-to-dig-out-those-old-cards.jpg\" mos=\"\" link=\"\" align=\"\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"744\" height=\"1039\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\"\"><span 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Coast)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"inlinegallery-item\" style=\"flex: 0 0 auto;\"><span class=\"slidecount\">Image 8 of 11<\/span><\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure \" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:744px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:139.65%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"HPu2xDgNFBqao7VUBJsvLU\" name=\"PricklyPair.jpg\" alt=\"Outlaws of Thunder Junction card\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/magic-the-gatherings-latest-set-gives-you-a-good-excuse-to-dig-out-those-old-cards-7.jpg\" mos=\"\" link=\"\" align=\"\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"744\" height=\"1039\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\"\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Wizards of the Coast)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"inlinegallery-item\" style=\"flex: 0 0 auto;\"><span class=\"slidecount\">Image 9 of 11<\/span><\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure \" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:744px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:139.65%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"5p7fLUgptpfWs5YzrHuCZU\" name=\"TakeTheFall.jpg\" alt=\"Outlaws of Thunder Junction card\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/magic-the-gatherings-latest-set-gives-you-a-good-excuse-to-dig-out-those-old-cards-8.jpg\" mos=\"\" link=\"\" align=\"\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"744\" height=\"1039\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\"\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Wizards of the Coast)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"inlinegallery-item\" style=\"flex: 0 0 auto;\"><span class=\"slidecount\">Image 10 of 11<\/span><\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure \" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:744px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:139.65%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"WCUruDpm4cGsTJbKLcaArS\" name=\"Desert.jpg\" alt=\"Outlaws of Thunder Junction card\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/magic-the-gatherings-latest-set-gives-you-a-good-excuse-to-dig-out-those-old-cards-9.jpg\" mos=\"\" link=\"\" align=\"\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"744\" height=\"1039\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\"\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Wizards of the Coast)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"inlinegallery-item\" style=\"flex: 0 0 auto;\"><span class=\"slidecount\">Image 11 of 11<\/span><\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure \" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:744px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:139.65%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"jJ7jyPXbBEmokmg53XZoUT\" name=\"MirrorEntity.jpg\" alt=\"Outlaws of Thunder Junction card\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/magic-the-gatherings-latest-set-gives-you-a-good-excuse-to-dig-out-those-old-cards-10.jpg\" mos=\"\" link=\"\" align=\"\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"744\" height=\"1039\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\"\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Wizards of the Coast)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>To actually count as committing a Crime, you have to play something that deliberately targets a specific card or opponent. When you do, you&apos;re rewarded by cards like At Knifepoint, which gives you a free Mercenary; Rattleback Apothecary, which gives another creature Menace or Lifelink for the turn; and Marauding Sphinx, which lets you Surveil 2. If you&apos;ve got multiple Crime-triggered cards in play, committing one Crime sets them all off. It&apos;s a new mechanic that builds on abilities cards already have.<\/p>\n<p>The other backwards-looking mechanic in Outlaws of Thunder Junction is, well, outlaws. Rather than introducing a new type for this set like &#8220;faerie&#8221; or &#8220;ninja&#8221;, it&apos;s a new batch that bundles existing types together: assassins, mercenaries, rogues, pirates, and warlocks all count as outlaws now. Having some of these scoundrels in play sets off interactions with new cards, just like committing a Crime. The Take the Fall card normally gives a creature -1\/0, but that becomes -4\/0 if you control even one outlaw. The vampiric Olivia, Opulent Outlaw gives you a free treasure whenever an outlaw causes damage. And the aforementioned At Knifepoint, which hands out free mercenaries when you do Crimes, also gives all your outlaws First Strike.<\/p>\n<p>Outlaws of Thunder Junction looks back in a historical way too, as it sees the return of Desert lands. Dating back to the very first Magic expansion, 1993&apos;s Arabian Nights, the basic Desert card gave you the option of tapping it for a point of colorless mana, or to cause a point of damage to an attacking creature. Though the subtype returned and was expanded in sets like the Egyptian-themed Amonkhet in 2017, now there&apos;s a bunch of them that can be tapped for colored mana in a choice of two types, and they have evocative names like Soured Springs (for blue or black) and Festering Gulch (for green or black). They can still be tapped to do a point of damage as well, though it&apos;s now specifically to a &#8220;target opponent&#8221;. Yes, that means deserts are capable of committing Crimes.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:1920px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"Dob9Ufvsnb26q2ddMQ7mFJ\" name=\"Vraska.jpg\" alt=\"A medusa turns a saloon full of people to stone\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/magic-the-gatherings-latest-set-gives-you-a-good-excuse-to-dig-out-those-old-cards-11.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"1\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"expandable\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Wizards of the Coast)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Don&apos;t ask me how that would work. I just love the idea of someone getting sunburnt and declaring this against the law, which then somehow causes a Mercenary to emerge, who then gets Menace. It&apos;s exactly the kind of thing the Twitter account that draws <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/flavorjudgedraw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">comics imagining weird Magic card interactions<\/a> would have a field day with, and I see they&apos;ve already been inspired by the way a specific older card\u2014in this case the helpful Pheldagriff\u2014can now be used to <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/flavorjudgedraw\/status\/1765043460497695189\/photo\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">commit Crimes and profit<\/a>. It&apos;s funny to imagine the card that hands your opponent a free hippo is suddenly some kind of mastermind kingpin, but it&apos;s just another example of how this set makes you look back at old cards and find new context to use them in, which makes it a success in my book.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/card-games\/magic-the-gatherings-latest-gives-you-a-good-excuse-to-dig-out-those-old-cards\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&apos;d think a card game with as many expansions as Magic: The Gathering would have done something as poker-adjacent as a Western set before now, but it&apos;s taken until its 100th expansion for Magic to cowboy up. Outlaws of Thunder Junction explores a new plane full of arcane trains to rob and cactus-spider monsters to shoot\u2014called cactarantulas, naturally\u2014but it&apos;s interesting how much this brand new set&apos;s mechanics have made me want to go trawling through older cards. For starters, there&apos;s Crime now. Several cards improve or trigger abilities if you committed a Crime that turn, where Crime is defined as &#8220;Targeting an opponent, anything that opponent controls, and\/or any cards in an opponent\u2019s graveyard&#8221;. That covers quite a lot of ways you can mess with&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/magic-the-gatherings-latest-set-gives-you-a-good-excuse-to-dig-out-those-old-cards\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":813966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[336],"tags":[3083,748],"class_list":["post-813965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc-gamer","tag-card-game","tag-games"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Magic: The Gathering&#039;s latest set gives you a good excuse to dig out those old cards | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"You&amp;apos;d think a card game with as many expansions as 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