Magic: The Gathering Murders at Karlov Manor preview: Etrata, Izoni, Kaya, Krenko, and more

Recently, we took part in a preview of Magic: The Gathering Murders at Karlov Manor. Quite a few cards have been revealed, and frankly, there’s much to be excited about. Instead of a world-shattering, dimension-hopping affair, this is something a bit more grounded in reality - as much as something in MTG can be considered “grounded in reality”, that is. Here we have a murder mystery setting known as a “whodunnit”. If you like the popular board game Clue, you’ll enjoy this setting.

Quite a few familiar faces from the Ravnica plane are back as well. In particular, some of my favorite cards have returned with shiny new forms. As a part of this Magic: The Gathering Murders at Karlov Manor preview, I’ll highlight my favorites from among the many cards I saw.

This Magic: The Gathering Murders at Karlov preview will highlight some really interesting cards. Why not start with one of the most important? The planeswalker we got a sneak preview of is Kaya, Spirits’ Justice. Although she’s no Ashiok, Wicked Manipulator, I’m a huge fan of her just in general.

She’s big on temporarily enhancing the power of your tokens, which I find interesting. Whenever one or more creatures you control and/or creature cards from your graveyard go to exile, you can choose a creature from among them to transform a token into until the end of the turn. However, it also gains flying. She also has the following Planeswalker abilities:

All Kaya needs is a way to steal control of creatures to really make this a fun experience. On the topic of “really fun” in this Magic: The Gathering Murders at Karlov Manor preview, I’m so glad Krenko, Baron of Tin Street is in this set. Krenko, Mob Boss is one of my favorite goblins, and I love this version for “Red Deck