Early Lorwyn Eclipsed Leaks Showcase Massive Upgrades for Typal Decks

Last updated on January 5, 2026

Ashling, Rekindled | Illustration by Ilse Gort

Well folks, we almost made it to official Lorwyn Eclipsed spoiler season without any huge leaks (minus those precon commanders that showed up before Christmas). But here we are, mere hours from the official debut, and a huge chunk of the set has shown up online, thanks to someone getting their hands on an early Collector box.

And as usual, since they’re now out in the aether and available for anyone to see, we’ll cover some of the standouts here. So be warned that these are leaks (and low-res ones at that), though by the time you’re reading this many of them might’ve already been officially previewed. And if you’re a fan of typal strategies in Commander, you’ve got a lot to look forward to.

“Choose a Creature Type”

We already knew Lorwyn Eclipsed was going to be a heavy typal set. The original block focused on eight main creature types, and also showcased the defunct tribal mechanic, now known as kindred. We’ve got a bunch of nods to the original here, with new support for merfolk, elves, kithkin, etc. But also a bunch of generic typal tools for lovers of decks focused on a single creature type. Let’s explore some of the universal cards that showed up in this leak.

Abundant Countryside

Abundant Countryside comes from the Dance of the Elements Commander precon, and gives us another way to spit out shapeshifter tokens, a la Maskwood Nexus or Birthing Boughs. It’s highly inefficient, but also serves as untapped 5-color fixing for creatures.

Chronicle of Victory

Chronicle of Victory is a super-charged Vanquisher's Banner. It has double the anthem effect and also gives first strike and trample to your chosen creature type. It also has a broader cast trigger that draws off any spell of the chosen type, not just creatures. That said, it is a whole mana more expensive, which matters quite a bit.

Bloodline Binding

Bloodline Binding costs but has convoke to bring that cost down. It seems to be part of a cycle of rares that each have convoke and reward sticking to one creature type. It’s a mass reanimation effect for a specific creature type, similar to Haunting Voyage from Kaldheim, but with the potential to cost little-to-no mana depending on what kind of board state you already have.

Rimefire Torque

This one’s a little difficult to read from the image, but Rimefire Torque is for an artifact that lets you choose a creature type as it enters, then gets a charge counter when a permanent of the chosen type enters. You can tap it and remove three charge counters to copy your next instant or sorcery spell that turn. So every three permanents (not just creatures) of the chosen type converts into a copy of an instant/sorcery. Not great for every typal deck, but perhaps useful for spellslinger-oriented ones like wizards or faeries.

Collective Inferno

A damage doubler with convoke is dangerous in the right deck, and Collective Inferno shaves a full 3 mana off the cost of City on Fire, though with only two-thirds of the damage amplification. Note that this, again, counts damage from noncreature sources, so cards like Boggart Shenanigans will deal double damage as well if you name goblin.

Oko, Lorwyn Liege / Oko, Shadowmoor Scion

Oko’s back, and just as elky as ever… at least on the back side.

Oko, Lorwyn Liege can permanently add all creature types to any creature, and the back half has an emblem that gives creatures of a chosen type +3/+3, vigilance, and hexproof. This is more in line with decks that want Arcane Adaptation and Leyline of Transformation than something you toss in your UG merfolk or elemental deck.

Selfless Safewright

Safewright repair, Safewright replace. This is a nifty elf warrior that’s templated to work with any creature type, serving as a sort of “gotcha” Asceticism you can flash out in response to removal.

Winnowing

Winnowing is a Cataclysm-style board wipe that [hopefully] keeps your board fully intact while whittling down opponents’ boards. Everyone gets left with at least one creature, but hopefully you’ll be left with a full board while opponents are staring at a single remaining creature. And again, convoke helps power this out, making it a potentially cheap board wipe to boot.

And that’s it for now. Most of the generic typal cards seem to be reserved for rares, as few, if any of the commons and uncommons that were leaked have typal benefits you’d put in any deck. There are tons of payoffs for individual creature types, as well as a bunch of changelings across all rarities, but the universal typal cards all seem to be rares or mythics.

Official spoiler season starts today, so we’ll definitely see some higher-res versions of these cards throughout the week, and it looks like there will be plenty of goodies for fans of typal decks in this set.