pokemon cards sword shield In Pokémon TCG: & - Fusion Strike teamwork makes the dream work Colorless Artist The Secret Rare Gold Cards

While at MagicCon Vegas in late September this year, I spoke with Mike Turian, product architect for Magic (though his role while M21 was in design was principal product designer, according to his LinkedIn), and he confirmed that for M21 the design for showcase cards was intended to keep the text boxes clean and uncluttered, kind of like you would see in simple but powerful spells with only a few words on them, like Wrath of God or Counterspell

Trainer cards perform a variety of abilities, from drawing extra cards to healing your Pokmon or increasing their attack power

It's centered around a town "where metro meets fantasy", and the box art includes Cinderella and Goofy, so expect them to pop up

But now it has a chance of showing up in Draft and Sealed matches, which means someone is going to come up against this thing in pre-release