Hindsight

Hindsight is a custom magic set focusing on the events of the Weatherlight Saga and the Phyrexian Invasion.

Storyline

Dominaria's mana is nearly depleted. In a last ditch effort to save their plane from itself, the former planeswalker Teferi, his associate Jhoira, and the mage Arcanis use their combined magic to send Teferi and Jhoira back in time to prevent - or at least change - the events that lead to Dominaria's destruction - the Rathi overlay.

Upon arriving in the past, Teferi is able to draw upon the pre-mending mana to reignite his own spark, but finds it impossible to interfere with the events. He and Jhoira do not wish to sit idly by and watch their friends fail again to save their home, they journey to the library of Commodore Guff. Guff was an extremely powerful Planeswalker with reality warping powers, only limited by his own inability to focus. They hoped to be able to make contact with him or at use the magical knowledge stored within to make a difference in some way.

Themes

This set is an homage to Invasion and the Weatherlight Saga. This set enjoys numerous references to cards from the Weatherlight saga which, while depicting iconic characters, are not good enough to be considered by modern standards. Due to the fact that Planeswalker cards didn't exist at the time, sadly many of the most important characters of Magic's first real storyline are not depicted on their own cards.

This set is also an homage to the Time block. At least in some of its mechanics, such as Suspend, Scrying, and Madness. Instead of Cycling we see a return of the Channel mechanic.

Keywords and Mechanics

Bestow makes its return, primary to GW colors, though it does show up one one blue and one black card.

Suspend returns in all colors but is primarilly used by blue and black mechanic, as well as the "Strobe" mechanic (which showed up on the Reality Strobe cycle in Future Sight).

Madness returns as the BR mechanic, as well as cards that care about discarding.

Channel returns in all colors but is used sparingly.

Spellshapers do not make a return as a creature type, however the new ability word Spellshape has been added to indicate when an ability follows the format of "COST, , Discard a card: EFFECT." While this ability does show up in all colors, it is seen most in blue and red to support Madness.

New Spikes While lacking in an ability word, there are several creatures which enter the battlefield with +1/+1 counters and have abilities that include "Remove a +1/+1 counter from a creature you control" in the cost. While +1/+1 counters matter are primary to Green and Red, these "New Spikes" show up in all colors.

Cycles and Sequences

Reprints and Colorshifts

Downloads

Since we have rolled back to design, cockatrice set is not currently avaliable.

Drop the images in the CUSTOM folder and import the xml file or just change the number and drop it in the customsets folder and you should be good to go!

Design Document

Set Skeleton on Google Docs