- Disambiguation: This page is about the card set "Hour of Devastation". If you're looking for the card with the same name, please go here.
Hour of Devastation is the fourth set in Magic: The Gathering Arena and the second set in the Amonkhet block.
During an preceding Developer Livestreams Hour of Devastation was confirmed to be playable during the closed beta.
Chronological Discrepancy[]
While in paper Magic Hour of Devastation was released on July 14, 2017, in Arena it was implemented in-game after the Ixalan block which was released in September 29, 2017 in paper Magic/since the alpha phase in Arena.
Cards[]
A list of cards from this set can be found here, a card gallery here.
Themes & Mechanics[]
With Hour of Devastation these mechanics were introduced to Arena:[1]
- Afflict: A keyword ability that makes the defending player lose life for blocking.
- Main article: Afflict
- Deserts: A returning non-basic land type from Amonkhet.
- Eternalize: A keyword ability that lets a player exile a creature card from their graveyard to create an eternalized token version of that card.
- Main article: Eternalize
- Exert: A returning keyword action from Amonkhet.
- Main article: Exert
Storyline[]
Unleash your Endgame!
Welcome to the desert oasis of Hour of Devastation, where the return of the God-Pharaoh is upon us! Four hours of observation shall take place hailing his return, followed by a fifth and very final hour.[2]
References[]
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