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Magic: The Gathering's Jumpstart Preview Round-Up: June 19th

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Hello, players, fans, and collectors of Wizards of the Coast's famous trading card game Magic: The Gathering! While the July release, the Limited-style expansion known as Jumpstart, will have a bunch of reprinted cards in it, quite a few of the 20-card packs will feature cards that are completely new to the game. Let's look at some of these!

The artwork for Towering Titan, a new card from Jumpstart, an upcoming Limited-style expansion set for Magic: The Gathering. Illustrated by Victor Adame Minguez.
The artwork for Towering Titan, a new card from Jumpstart, an upcoming Limited-style expansion set for Magic: The Gathering. Illustrated by Victor Adame Minguez.

To kick things off, let's look at the card whose art we have featured above. This card is meant to be released in a Wall-centric theme pack for Jumpstart and as such, you can expect it to work very well with creatures that have Defender. It's Towering Titan!

Towering Titan, a new card from Jumpstart, an upcoming Limited-style expansion set for Magic: The Gathering.
Towering Titan, a new card from Jumpstart, an upcoming Limited-style expansion set for Magic: The Gathering.

Much like the Sir Mix-A-Lot song, Towering Titan "likes big butts", and we cannot lie – this card is a beast. In a deck with creatures that have high toughness, this card could get gigantic quickly, especially since creatures with Defender have low costs and high toughness. The set up is fast and the payoff is great, much like this card. Moving on!

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Ormos, Archive Keeper, a new card from Jumpstart, an upcoming expansion set for Magic: The Gathering.

Speaking of creatures that could become large quickly, Ormos, Archive Keeper is… likely not one of them. However, if you want to build a deck that focuses on milling yourself to the critical point of having zero cards in your library, Ormos can be humungous in no time.

Blessed Sanctuary, a new card from Jumpstart, an upcoming expansion set for Magic: The Gathering.
Blessed Sanctuary, a new card from Jumpstart, an upcoming expansion set for Magic: The Gathering.

Finally, in the Unicorn-themed pack (and yes, there's a Unicorn-themed pack!), we have Blessed Sanctuary. This card is like a one-sided, extra-strong Genesis Chamber mixed with a Mark of Asylum, and we are here for it! Hopefully the other Unicorn cards in that pack will synergize well with Blessed Sanctuary for the sake of stampeding over the opposition.

Do you like how Jumpstart is shaping up? Is it even more powerful than Core 2021? Let us know what you think in the comments below!

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Joshua NelsonAbout Joshua Nelson

Josh Nelson is a Magic: The Gathering deckbuilding savant, a self-proclaimed scholar of all things Sweeney Todd, and, of course, a writer for Bleeding Cool. In their downtime, Josh can be found painting models, playing Magic, or possibly preaching about the horrors and merits of anthropophagy. You can find them on Twitter at @Burning_Inquiry for all your burning inquiries.
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