Streets of New Capenna: A Mechanical Overview

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When Streets of New Capenna comes out for Magic: The Gathering at the end of the month, it will bring with it four new mechanics as well as one old one.

When Streets of New Capenna comes out for Magic: The Gathering at the end of the month, it will bring with it four new mechanics as well as one old one.

Those five new ones are:

  • Shield Counters, specific to the GWU "Brokers" family;
  • Connive, specific to the WUB "Obscura" family;
  • Casualty, specific to the UBR "Maestros" family;
  • Blitz, specific to the BRG "Riveteers" family, and;
  • Alliance, specific to the RGW "Cabaretti" family.

The retuning mechanic is Hideaway, which originally debuted in Lowryn a number of years back.

Watch the video to learn more about the mechanics of Streets of New Capenna.

 

Barry White

Barry White is a longtime Magic: The Gathering player, having started in 1994 shortly before the release of 'Fallen Empires.' After graduating from the University of Nevada, Reno, he went on to a 15-year journalism career as a writer, reporter, and videographer for three different ABC affiliate newsrooms.