Its prerelease weekend for Throne of Eldraine, and the set has just gone live on MTG Arena.
So, lets celebrate by speculating wildly on how a set with tribal equipments, Quest-like artifacts, creatures that are also spells, and a food sub-theme will look in MTGPQ!!
Food will be pretty straight forward. I think adventure cards could be similar to the aftermath cards combined with split cards.
ex. You flip the adventure card in hand, cast the adventure. Then the player will have to match one or two activated gems X number of times or turn-timed to cast the creature.
Food will be like Treasures, except with life instead of mana.
I agree with KingGrace about Adventure cards: I think they’ll be something like our current dual-sided cards with Aftermath.
The mythic artifacts won’t need much adapting: White will be cheaper for each Knight and reinforcement you control, blue will be cheaper for each spell in the graveyard, black will be discounted exactly like it’s paper version, red is the only one I’m not sure about, and green will work something like Ghalta.
My hope is that we get a Rise of The Pharaoh God style event with a gingerbread man as the final boss. All it does is generate food tokens and have clever ways of breaking them so it gains absurd amounts of health each turn.
Unfortunately the Eldraine walkers are already a thing, they are:
Garruk, no longer cursed (but still BG and really op)
The Siblings Kenreth (UR shenanigans)
Oko the Trickster/Shapeshifter Fae (UG and obsessed with Food and transmogrification)
If Oktagon were to go off on their own like they did for Fblthp, though, I would definitely pay for Pretty Princess Ajani and the Seven Homunculi
Oktagon won’t scale the life gain from food so that is has any effect on gameplay for PWs above level ~5 or so… and will also probably not consider the possibility of deliberately printing cards which trigger from life gain.
I disagree, look at the M20 PWs, they all had damage or life gain adjustments over paper that are plenty reasonable, if not 100% proportional. Will the food tokens give the same proportion of life gain as paper (3 vs the base total of 20)? Probably not, but to say they won’t balance at all probably isn’t true either.