MTG’s Breaking News cards are a series of reprints found in Outlaws of Thunder Junction. Unlike some of the reprints in this expansion, the cards on this list are not Standard Legal. 65 spells from across Magic: The Gathering’s rich history have been reprinted, and are only tournament-legal for formats they are already allowed in — and in Limited formats. Lore-wise, they represent crimes committed across the plane and feature fantastic newspaper designs.
This might be the hardest list I’ve ever done for Magic: The Gathering. It changed many times before it went live. There are so many amazing Breaking News cards in MTG’s Outlaws of Thunder Junction, that it was impossible to include them all. Here is a sampling of the best cards you could find in this set.
Naturally, Mana Drain had to be one of the best Breaking News cards in MTG Outlaws of Thunder Junction. A 2-blue counter, it also grants you colorless mana equal to the spell’s mana value you countered. Depending on how big of a card you foil, you could do some truly destructive things with that spare mana. It’s especially great in a colorless/artifact deck.
Perhaps you want to play the powerful new Luxurious Locomotive vehicle early, but don’t have the mana. You will almost certainly be able to afford it on the next turn. It’s easily one of the best counterspells in the game.
Reanimate is one of my favorite cards in Magic: The Gathering, period. I’ve been using it for a very long time. It’s one of the best reanimation cards, even at the secondary cost it triggers. So what makes this one of the best Breaking News cards in MTG’s Outlaws of Thunder Junction?
Not only does the card let you put a creature from the graveyard into play, it can be from any player’s graveyard. You
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