You can respond to the meld activation as you would most other abilities, like by destroying one of the permanents attempting to meld. This means they have an ability that turns the cards over, a bit like transform, but they come together to make one double-sized card. Meld cards are a special type of card which have a counterpart that they can “meld” with. We know we’re getting meld on six new cards, doubling the number of meld pairs available. It’s coming back in the upcoming The Brothers’ War. Meld hasn’t been seen much in any Constructed formats (yet) and it was generally pretty difficult to pull off in Draft, with only one pair existing outside of rare occurrences.Įldritch Moon was until recently, the only set with it. It was pretty popular but only shows up on two commons, three rares, and a mythic, so there wasn’t enough of it to really make an impact. Meld had a bit of a mixed response when it first came out. The lore behind meld is that the corrupting influence of Emrakul on the plane merged creatures together into twisted abominations under her control. We first saw meld in 2016’s Eldritch Moon as part of the Shadows over Innistrad block, where there were three meld pairs (six cards total). This could be an activated or a triggered ability. One of the cards in the meld pair has an ability that specifies what you need to do to trigger the meld. ![]() Meld is a little like transform, but instead of flipping a single card to its reverse side you turn two separate cards over that join together into a single, bigger card. Chittering Host | Illustration by Jason Felix
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