Giddy up, pardner, because 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Magic: The Gathering is headed out to the Wild West for its second Standard set of 2024 in its first-ever cowboy and Western-themed set, Outlaws Of Thunder Jওunction.
Described as an “action-packed, frontier fantasy”, Outlaws of Thunder Junction is scheduled to launch in Q2 2024, and should provide a radically new world for Magic, alongside potꦿentially some big story development.
We&rsquไo;ve had an inkling Magic was getting a Western set for a while now, after possible artist proof-of-concepts leaked in early 2022. Now that it’s been officially revealed at Magic’s 30th anni🅷versary Gen Con panel, though, we can start to imagine with a rootin-tootin-spell-shootin world might look like.
Outlaws Of Thunder Junction also has a particularly interesting story hook, with it focusing on the ongoing villains of the Magic multiverse. In the key art, a number of returning characters were confirmed, such as Vraska – who was missing following the March of the Machine; Oko, last seen in Throne of Eldraine, and even Tinybones, making his f𒊎irst reappearance since the original Jumpstart.
We can also expect there to be a lot of more Weird West-y elements, as supe🥂rnatural ongoings out on the plains would be a perfect fit for Magic.
Mechanically, Outlaws of Thunder Junction could be absolutely anybody’s guess, as we’re entering unchartered territory for the theme. There has been a renewed interest in horsemanship 🅷over the last year or so that could be a good fit, or maybe we’ll see some first strike-matters cards to fit 💛the theme of the lone gunslinger being the fastest finger in the West?
Only a few years ago, a Western set would have felt very out there for Magicℱ and its more traditional fantasy. But just last year we had Streets Of New Capenna, an art deco Mafia-themed set that was unlike anything we’d eve🧜r seen before. It solved the ongoing issue of how to fit guns into Magic, so perhaps we’ll be seeing something similar in Outlaws of Thunder Junction.
Outlaws of Thunder Junction is the second Standard set of the year, following a few months after 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Murders at Karlov Manor, which is also tossing Magic conventions out the window by reframing Ravnica is a wh♔odunit set full of detectives, murders, and mysteries to solve.
Going off of the usual preview calendar, we can expect to see 🅰some more cowpokes, a🌳rt treatments, and product shots in the first few months of 2024 in a for-retailers preview event, sometime before the launch of Murders at Karlov Manor. We’ll have to wait a little while before we can actually play Outlaws of Thunder Junction, as it launches in Q2 2024 for both tabletop and digital.