Lorwyn Eclipsed Spoilers and Set Information

Last updated on February 2, 2026

Dawnhand Eulogist | Illustration by Evyn Fong

With the dawn of January 2026, we got the hotly anticipated return to Lorwyn set in the form of Lorwyn Eclipsed. Eighteen years, people.

This is a Standard set with many new exciting cards for Standard, Pioneer, and Commander (including the tied-in Commander precons). Return sets like this give WotC a golden chance to revisit the previous sets, explore the best aspects and fix their previous mistakes. You will learn about this set, and the duality shared among all its cards. Let's go. 

Lorwyn Eclipsed Basic Information

Ashling's Command | Illustration by Iris Compiet

Set Details

Set Symbol
Set Code	ECL, ECC
Hashtag	#MTGLorwyn
Number of Cards	274
Rarities	(81 Commons, 100 Uncommons, 65 Rares, 28 Mythic Rares)
Mechanics	Blight, Vivid, Affinity, Basic Landcycling, Behold, Changeling, Conspire, Convoke, Evoke, Flashback, Persist, Proliferate, Transform, Wither

Important Dates

About the Set: The Story

Rhys, the Evermore | Illustration by Kai Carpenter

Lorwyn and Shadowmoor are two faces of the same plane, or mirrored versions if you will, and they change/flip every 300 years, in the event known as The Great Aurora. According to WotC, “Lorwyn is an idyllic world where races of fable thrive in perpetual midsummer. Its dark reflection, Shadowmoor, exists in perpetual gloom, its citizens bitterly transformed and locked in a desperate battle for survival.”

Oona, Queen of the Fae is responsible for the aurora taking that much time to happen, and the fae are the only creature type that don’t change radically under her influence. After the story events, Oona is defeated, and the plane is back to flipping between light and dark as you’d expect of a regular day and night cycle.

Invasion of Lorwyn shows that the Phyrexian Invasion took place there, and they defended themselves with the power of lands. With Lorwyn Eclipsed, however, we look at these two different worlds in shock with one another, with quicker cycles of day and night, and permanent conflict between people from both worlds. Day and night elves deal differently with one another, so can the plane on which first released planeswalkers strike a balance?

Set Mechanics

Bristlebane Outrider | Illustration by Ryan Pancoast

As a return to Lorwyn block (Lorwyn, Morningtide, Shadowmoor, Eventide), we get some old mechanics, welcome returners and a couple of new ones:

Blight

Blight is an interesting return of -1/-1 counters with plenty of flexibility. This allows for lots of effects to add the negative counters. An important distinction here is that the player chooses which of their creatures gets the -1/-1 counter. That lack of targeting gets around hexproof, ward, and shroud, but means a pesky 1/1 with a static ability is harder to pick off with blight.

Vivid

Vivid is an ability word given to rules text we've seen before. Popular cards that already care about the number of colors among your permanents are Moonveil Regent and Chromatic Orrery.

Behold

Less than a year after the release of Tarkir: Dragonstom, we get the behold mechanic again. It stands a much better chance of affecting things in this set because of the typal themes. Behold cares about you controlling or having a certain creature subtype. Beast Whisperer is already a great fit with elf commanders, Champions of the Perfect runs right along side it and turns the behold ability into exile tech as a modified champion ability that last appeared in Morningtide.

Changeling

The creature types are relevant in some way in every set, but the original Lorwyn block really divided decks up into their kindred. The existence of changelings in this set serves several different sub types. These flexible cards are generally very useful.

Convoke

Convoke is a consistent mechanic with about 10 new designs on separate sets in less than three years between March of the Machine and Lorwyn Eclipsed, and that's not including the waterbending sibling in Avatar: The Last Airbender. It's a great mechanic that makes it easier to pay for your spells and is a sensible way to use your blockers to help you cast Unexpected Assistance on your opponent's end step.

Evoke

Evoke cards are infamously powerful from Modern Horizons 2, but these are significantly different with an ETB effect that is cost specific and do not have a mana-less mode. There is an opening to play these sub-optimally as expensive vanilla creatures if you're stuck with one of each colored mana, so watch out for that.

Hybrid Mana

Head designer Mark Rosewater thinks of hybrid mana as an incredibly useful tool, and when it comes to flexibility in deck building it absolutely is. The multiple pips on Figure of Fable are easy to handle if you're part green or white, but in this set it pulls double duty in showing how characters have two sides to them.

Transform

WotC loves their double-faced cards and the dark/light theme is a perfect fit for transforming cards. Sygg, Wanderwine Wisdom and Sygg, Wanderbrine Shield have abilities that trigger when you transform it. Inner sleeves can make the physical flipping from one side to the other much more manageable, and Lorwyn Eclipsed has pretty light costs when it comes to transform.

Cameo Mechanics

Persist is a powerful creature recursion mechanic that brings a creature back from death with the small cost of a -1/-1 counter. The backside of Eirdu, Carrier of Dawn is Isilu, Carrier of Twilight which grants your nontoken creatures persist.

You may recognize proliferate from Commander precons or recent Standard rotations because the time proliferate showed up in Standard before High Perfect Morcant was with Phyrexia: All Will Be One. It's a popular and strong mechanic because it lets you increase any counters across your and your opponent's board by one.

Kulrath Zealot and Stratosoarer are the only ECL cards with basic landcycling and in colors that are thirsty for mana fixing. Raiding Schemes gives lots of spells conspire, or an alternate way to copy it. Kindle the Inner Flame is a creature-creating sorcery with less mana cost to cast it from the graveyard with flashback. Barbed Bloodletter and Spinerock Tyrant return the power of -1/-1 counter combat damage with wither (or infect without the poison).

Set Card Types

Flock Impostor | Illustration by Ilse Gort

The subtypes tie in with the mechanics heavily in this set. These are the notable types to learn about in Lorwyn Eclipsed.

Elemental

Flamebraider is an example of an elemental that helps you play other elementals and a neat way to fix your mana.

Elf

The elves of Lorwyn Eclipsed are very much black and green and care about your graveyard. Creakwood Safewright gets very strong as you nibble away at its -1/-1 counters.

Faerie

Illusion Spinners is a faerie that uses trickery from many angles, and in many situations will have flash, flying, and hexproof.

Giant

Giants like Pummeler for Hire reward you for getting to high power cards and greater mana costs.

Goblin

Red and goblins, self destructive power, these are the marks of Magic's goblins. Sourbread Auntie does a lot if you can make use of the -1/-1 counters.

Kithkin

Thoughtweft Imbuer shows how you want an expansive army of kithkin even if you only attack with one of them.

Merfolk

Silvergill Mentor strengthens the position of merfolk and dips into color matters cards as it provides a white and blue token that is perfect to help you convoke.

Sorcerer

Flaring Cinder is among the first sorcerers to have the subtype printed. However the subtype is added to cards as old as Prodigal Sorcerer.

Treefolk

Look for stats on treefolk and Reaping Willow gives you a little reanimation engine with -1/-1 counters that can revert into a large lifelink creature.

Full Card Gallery

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Multicolored

Colorless

Lands

New to Magic Lorwyn Eclipsed Commander Cards

• Ashling, the Limitless
• Auntie Ool, Cursewretch
• Mass of Mysteries
• The Reaper, King No More
• Aberrant Return
• Abundant Countryside
• Belonging
• Dread Tiller
• Elemental Spectacle
• Eventide's Shadow
• Ferrafor, Young Yew
• Grave Venerations
• Impulsivity
• Jubilation
• Lamentation
• Oft-Nabbed Goat
• Puca's Covenant
• Rain-Slicked Copse
• Sinister Gnarlbark
• Sodden Verdure
• Springleaf Parade
• Subterfuge
• Village Pillagers
• Wickersmith's Tools

Alchemy: Lorwyn

Alchemy: Lorwyn is available on Arena for these formats:

• Alchemy
• Historic
• Brawl
• Timeless

• Adaptive Armorer
• Adherent's Heirloom
• Aquatic Subtlety
• Blighted Nightmare
• Circadian Struggle
• Craterous Stomp
• Current Curriculum
• Echoing Cavern
• Elvish Elegy
• Gilt-Leaf Alchemist
• Infestation
• Kithkin Brinefarer
• Limitless Rekindling
• Opulent Clomper
• Oura, the Imitator
• Pep, Raucous Raider
• Perennial Gravewarden
• Preponderant Pearl
• Providence of Night
• Putrid Hexhag
• Reflective Rimekin
• Salacinder and Soot, Rascals
• Tend to the Kiln
• The Grand Goatnapper
• Thorna and Twigtooth
• Thoughtsteal Sprites
• Thoughtweft's Call
• Topsoil Turner
• Volatile Rift
• Wildgrove Summoner

Notable Cards

Bitterbloom Bearer is a serialized card and a solid permanent that adds flash to the classic black enchantment Bitterblossom. It's a popular token generator that pumps out faeries on your upkeep.

The five of shock lands that Edge of Eternities did not print are here to join Standard again. Blood Crypt, Hallowed Fountain, Overgrown Tomb, Steam Vents, and Temple Garden bring the number of such lands in Standard to 10 if you don't count Multiversal Passage. The versatile lands are great to use day and night, take a close look at the art because you might recognize it across the battlefield since these are playable in several decks in several formats.

Oko, Lorwyn Liege and Oko, Shadowmoor Scion make up a planeswalker with 5 loyalty abilities. They are mostly tame, but still powerful if left untouched.

Glen Elendra's Answer is the ultimate response in a counter war and can also counter abilities. The payoff of getting faeries for each item on the stack it countered is great and makes this an expensive and highly valuable counterspell.

Bust out your dictionary because these are some advanced nouns in the cycle of elemental incarnations. Catharsis, Deceit, and Vibrance are a few of the powerful cards for which you want to pay mana and earn both ETB effects.

Special Guests

The Special Guests are exceptional reprints that lots of players want and are often solid and high value cards.

Available Products

As a full-fledged Standard set, you find Play boosters made for Limited play and card collecting, the more expensive, premium Collector boosters, two Commander precon decks and a brand new type of box.

Draft Night

The Lorwyn Eclipsed - Draft Night product is a single-purchase way to host a Pick Two Draft for four players. How you divvy up the one Collector Booster is the question, and don't get too upset with Draft Night if you have to filter in a few more basic lands in case two players go heavy in one color.

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Magic: the Gathering Lorwyn Eclipsed - Draft Night

• RETURN TO THE LAND OF LIGHT AND SHADOW—Lorwyn returns, not as it once was, but a world split in two. Explore this dual-aspect plane filled with enchanting creatures and embrace the powers of order and chaos.
• INTRODUCING DRAFT NIGHT—It's a draft party in a box! Draft Night has everything you need to host a Pick-Two Draft with just four players! Bring Lorwyn Eclipsed to the table for an unforgettable game night.
• DRAFT—Start with three packs. Open the first pack, pick two cards, and pass. Repeat with remaining cards and packs.
• BUILD—Construct a 40-card deck with your draft selections, adding any number of basic lands (we recommend 17!)
• PLAY—Pair off and play. Winners face off for fun and the included Collector Booster!

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Play Boosters

To play, a box of Lorwyn Eclipsed play boosters is the way to go. Organize a draft for up to 10 total players, play Sealed, or crack them open to see how many double, triple or quadruple rare packs you can open. With transforming cards peppered throughout the set you're sure to find interesting elves, goblins, and merfolk.

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Magic: the Gathering Lorwyn Eclipsed - Play Booster Box | 30 Packs

• RETURN TO THE LAND OF LIGHT AND SHADOW—Lorwyn returns, not as it once was, but a world split in two. Explore this dual-aspect plane filled with enchanting creatures and embrace the powers of order and chaos.
• PLAY BOOSTERS—The best way to open and explore Lorwyn Eclipsed. Balanced for Limited play, filled with creature synergies, and a guaranteed foil in every pack for your collection.
• FIND HARMONY IN LORWYN—Cross the boundry into the eternal day of Lorwyn, where the many creatures live in order and harmony under the watchful eye of their sun god Eirdu—while the twilight god Isilu resides across the border where day becomes night.
• EMBRACE CHAOS IN SHADOWMOOR—Brave the twisted landscape and wild Magic of Shadowmoor, a world cast in forever night and filled with creatures of a more chaotic ilk. Discover your true self under the perpetual moonlight of this dual-aspect plane.
• CONTENTS—30 Play Boosters

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Collector Boosters

The lovely Lorwyn Eclipsed collector booster boxes bring the first opportunity for a serialized card since Final Fantasy. Of course, the special shock lands and coolest showcase treatments including foil Special Guests are only found in these collector boosters, so if you love this up-to-date take on the classy Lorwyn set, this box is for you.

Magic: the Gathering Lorwyn Eclipsed - Collector Booster Box | 12 Packs

• RETURN TO THE LAND OF LIGHT AND SHADOW—Lorwyn returns, not as it once was, but a world split in two. Explore this dual-aspect plane filled with enchanting creatures and embrace the powers of order and chaos.
• COLLECTOR BOOSTERS—Get the best of both worlds with Rares, Mythics, foils, and Full-Art lands. The only way to open reversible shock lands, special showcase treatments, or even a serialized Bitterbloom Bearer.
• FIND HARMONY IN LORWYN—Cross the boundry into the eternal day of Lorwyn, where the many creatures live in order and harmony under the watchful eye of their sun god Eirdu—while the twilight god Isilu resides across the border where day becomes night.
• EMBRACE CHAOS IN SHADOWMOOR—Brave the twisted landscape and wild Magic of Shadowmoor, a world cast in forever night and filled with creatures of a more chaotic ilk. Discover your true self under the perpetual moonlight of this dual-aspect plane.
• CONTENTS—12 Collector Boosters

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Commander Decks

The two pairs of Blight Curse and Dance of the Elements decks for four total decks are just right for some collectors and players. The two individual decks are really intriguing, especially with the slight reduction in Commander precons in the sets before this.

• Dance of The Elements is one of the very infrequent 5-color precon decks that opens up a ton of options with a versatile creature type in elementals. Sacrifice and duplication are two effects that have a wide range of support throughout Magic, so be prepared to step onto the floor with this mixer and Ashling, the Limitless.
• Blight Curse is far more than just Jund cards plus -1/-1 counters. I'm a fan because these colors have some of the most resilient and resourceful cards in Magic, so do not underestimate it or commander, Auntie Ool, Cursewretch.

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Magic: the Gathering Lorwyn Eclipsed - Commander Deck Bundle | 2 of Each Deck

• RETURN TO THE LAND OF LIGHT AND SHADOW—Lorwyn returns, not as it once was, but a world split in two. Explore this dual-aspect plane filled with enchanting creatures and embrace the powers of order and chaos.
• COMMANDER DECKS—Pick up and play Magic’s most popular multiplayer format; get preconstructed decks that embody the duality of light and shadow with legendary commanders tied to Lorwyn or Shadowmoor.
• CONTENTS—4 Lorwyn Eclipsed Commander Decks (2 Dance of the Elements + 2 Blight Curse)

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Bundle

Nothing wrong with basic Magic in-universe cards. The Lorwyn Eclipsed bundle gets you a box that encapsulates a little bit everything from the return to Lorwyn. Enjoy the nine play boosters, 15 foil lands and 15 basic lands, plus that foil promo card and colorful storage box.

Magic: the Gathering Lorwyn Eclipsed - Bundle

• RETURN TO THE LAND OF LIGHT AND SHADOW—Lorwyn returns, not as it once was, but a world split in two. Explore this dual-aspect plane filled with enchanting creatures and embrace the powers of order and chaos.
• BUNDLE—Includes 9 Play Boosters, foils, a promo card, and a themed spindown die. Everything you need to play and display the world of Lorwyn Eclipsed.
• FIND HARMONY IN LORWYN—Cross the boundry into the eternal day of Lorwyn, where the many creatures live in order and harmony under the watchful eye of their sun god Eirdu—while the twilight god Isilu resides across the border where day becomes night.
• EMBRACE CHAOS IN SHADOWMOOR—Brave the twisted landscape and wild Magic of Shadowmoor, a world cast in forever night and filled with creatures of a more chaotic ilk. Discover your true self under the perpetual moonlight of this dual-aspect plane.
• CONTENTS—9 Play Boosters, 1 Traditional Foil alt-art card, 30 Land cards (15 foil, 15 nonfoil), 1 Spindown life counter, 1 card storage box, and 2 reference cards

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Standard Theme Decks

Two Standard precon decks that cover two cool creature types ship at the same time as Lorwyn Eclipsed.

Take up the Angels Theme Deck if you like and big white fliers that support go-wide token strategies and lifegain. Or buckle up your swashes, queue up Hans Zimmer, and snatch the Pirates Theme Deck to put a fresh face on in Standard. Of course anyone that wants some balanced 1v1 Magic will order both.

Magic: the Gathering 60-Card Theme Deck - Angels

Magic: the Gathering 60-Card Theme Deck - Pirates

Magic: The Gathering 60-Card Theme Deck - Eerie (1 Ready-to-Play Deck, 1 Deck Box, 5 Tokens)

Magic: The Gathering 60-Card Theme Deck - Lifegain (1 Ready-to-Play Deck, 1 Deck Box, 5 Tokens)

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Magic: the Gathering 60-Card Theme Deck - Angels

$22.77

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Magic: the Gathering 60-Card Theme Deck - Pirates

$19.99

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Magic: The Gathering 60-Card Theme Deck - Eerie (1 Ready-to-Play Deck, 1 Deck Box, 5 Tokens)

$23.45

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Magic: The Gathering 60-Card Theme Deck - Lifegain (1 Ready-to-Play Deck, 1 Deck Box, 5 Tokens)

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Wrap Up

Glen Elendra's Answer | Illustration by Sam Guay

Returns to nostalgic old sets like this always get me excited. Give me more Glen Elendra and more Gilt-Leaf, and I’ll be fine. Also, while Bloomburrow did something interesting in the creature type camp, I love what WotC did in a modern day MTG set with the historically supported creature types like elves, kithkin, goblins, and merfolk.

What do you love from Lorwyn? Which planeswalker deserves to show up next? Please leave us a comment, or take it to the Draftsim Discord. Get good sleep tonight and see you in the morning's articles.

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