The first wave of the upcoming big set Throne of Eldraine is finally here as the previews started last night in a stream and along the social media platform Twitter and Facebook.

As the initial description of the set’s lore, it is inspired by the romantic Arthurian legend of Camelot on one hand and Grimms’ Fairy Tales on the other, and also covers European fairy tales. I can somewhat compare its lore to that of Lorwyn but we would expect something new from the Wizard’s R&D team.

The first card revealed from the set is the newest planeswalker in Magic, Oka with the Simic colors.

Looking at three-casting cost planeswalkers is already an expectation to be powerful especially with a high starting loyalty counters. At first I was curious on what Food tokens do, but later on it was explained to be similar to that of the Treasure tokens in Ixalan. The life gain bonus though will be relevant to sustain your late game life total. Also turning them into 3/3s protects Oko and is also an early threat on your board.

Next up is Witching Well, which I mispronounced as Wishing Well.

It is not a cantrip as it just let you Scry for two but later on provides you two cards for gas. It can also be an option for abilities like that of Oko. I could include two to three copies of this in a Blue-based control or midrange deck.

Next is Lovestruck Beast which is a card version of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast based on accuracy.

You are needed to cast the adventure Heart’s Desire first before casting this creature. Nothing much except for a 5/5 conditional attacker once the 1/1 is dealt with.

Next is Gilded Goose which is sort of a card version of Granny Goose, laying her eggs via a Food token representation.

It can be for mana fixing in the late game or just simply boost your life total. I was hoping it would be for the Red matchup but the two toughness is just too vulnerable.

Here are the rest of the set of batch one of the Throne of Eldraine card previews.

We would expect more lores represented in cards and maybe most of Disney’s princesses will also be featured. Lol. Anyways, I love how the current card previews are being introduced and I think I would expect more of what the set can provide for Standard gameplay once the full card spoiler is released.

That is a wrap for now. Until the next blog post.