Key Takeaways
- Foundations set for Magic: The Gathering is the first to stay in Standard for at least 5 years.
- The Hare Apparent card can create new combos in various formats like Standard, Commander, and Modern.
- Using multiple copies of Hare Apparent can lead to powerful token creation, making for unique gameplay loops with cards like Panharmonicon, Zinnia, and Elesh Norn.
Magic: The Gathering‘s final set of the year is almost here, though pre-release events have already hit the stores and some players have gotten their hands on the new and reprinted cards available in Foundations. Foundations is going to be one of the biggest sets for Magic: The Gathering not only for its sheer size, but also because it is the first-ever set meant to stay in Standard for at least five years, though WotC wouldn’t mind if it stayed in semi-perpetuity for longer than that. Foundations will most likely determine a lot of Standard’s meta over the years, though one of its new cards could break MTG in multiple ways across different formats.
MTG cards from the main Foundations set are legal in Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Commander.
Various cards could prove to be incredibly strong in Foundations from the new picks, and some reprints are sure to leave their mark in some way, such as Doubling Season now interacting with Magic: The Gathering‘s Planeswalkers for the next five years. Likewise, the new version of Niv Mizzet can go infinite with itself, or rather a previous iteration of the character, making for a fun combo that is also lore-accurate considering the ego of the legendary dragon. Still, there is a new common card called Hare Apparent that could very much end up creating the most broken and unique gameplay loops in a while.
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Magic: The Gathering’s Hare Apparent Explained
Hare Apparent is not only a great name for a Rabbit Noble creature, but it can prove to be an exceptional card across the board regardless of the format it’s used in. It’s a 2 CMC creature card, one colorless and 1 White, with power and toughness 2 that creates a 1/1 Rabbit token when it enters the battlefield for each other creature with Hare Apparent in the name. On top of that, players can use any number of copies of Hare Apparent in their Magic: The Gathering decks.
How Foundations’ Hare Apparent Could Create New Combos in MTG
This means that be it in Standard, Commander, Modern, or any other formats, Hare Apparent can start snowballing pretty hard depending on how players decide to build their decks. For example, since Baylen, The Haymaker from Magic: The Gathering‘s Bloomburrow set is legal in Standard, one could build a tribal Rabbit deck with ETB effects and plenty of Hare Apparent copies to make as many tokens as possible. The same can be achieved in Commander, for example, where players can easily combo Hare Apparent with cards like Elesh Norn, Mother of the Machines, Mondrak, Glory Dominus, and Panharmonicon to double down on token creation or ETB effects.
Furthermore, the ETB nature of Hare Apparent’s effect means that players can use all sorts of blink effects to create an army of tokens in no time. For example, cards like Ghostly Flicker, Displacer Kitten, Acrobatic Maneuver, Felidar Guardian, or more importantly, Eerie Interlude will all give players a chance to exile Hare Apparent and then return it to the battlefield, creating even more tokens. Even the aforementioned Doubling Season would work in this case, making each Hare Apparent create double the number of tokens it normally would. Going infinite in Magic: The Gathering is often one of the most rewarding experiences for players, and Hare Apparent opens up a lot of possibilities for this.
With Hare Apparent being a common card, it may shock fans that sites like TCGPlayer have it available for around $6. However, the set has yet to fully come out and it will be available in Standard for at least five years, meaning that making decks that use even a lot of copies of this card shouldn’t be prohibitively expensive. This can easily be used to improve existing precon Commander decks in Magic: The Gathering, like the Zinnia, Valley’s Voice Bloomburrow precon in order to give every copy of Hare Apparent Offspring in order to make two of them enter the battlefield at the same time. There are many other ways to use Hare Apparent, and given that MTG is all about being creative with combos, it’s just a matter of time before this rabbit breaks the game.
Magic The Gathering
Magic the Gathering is a tabletop and digital collectable card game created by Richard Garfield and released in 1993 by Wizards of the Coast. Players take on the role of a Planeswalker and use various cards to battle other players by casting spells, summoning creatures, or utilizing artifacts. It features two main rule categories, constructed or limited, and can be played by two or more players at a time.
- Franchise
- Magic: The Gathering
- Original Release Date
- 1993-00-00
- Age Recommendation
- 13+