It's tribal, I forgot to correct the translation.
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Actually, current thinking is that "battle" is a real type, just not one we've seen yet, something similar to dungeons/venture. Hopefully this is the "big change" magic will be seeing and not something worse.
3 mana mill 15….lol
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3 mana mill 9, or 4 mana mill 15. Compleated removes 2 loyalty if life was paid.
But either way this will be a beating in Limited!
ahhh woops. Thanks for clarifying
It seems to be the case, actually.
Looking it up on scryfall, Tarfire is a "Instantáneo tribal" in spanish. So there is a very real chance, that "battle" is a new spell type.
But how could it possibly work?
This press release as copied by MTG Arena Zone says that magic will "change forever" with March of the Machine, and the devs have been hinting a lot (allegedly; I can't quite find where) that this change won't just be to the lore but also to the mechanics of the game. Note that I can't take credit for this theory, but there's a mechanic called Skirmish mentioned in MaRo's article on WAR that sounds like it could have easily been repurposed to be an all-new card type. It worked as follows in playtest:
Battles could be the finished version of Skirmish, in that they're an all-new card type that importantly exists on the battlefield (get it?) and can address a lot of the issues with Venture (non-interactivity, parasitism, etc) while still providing a new dimension to contest. Assuming this is true, I'm excited to see what comes out of the mechanic. Our last new card type in Sagas (I'm not counting MDFCs, much though I love them) was a resounding success, and I'm confident that play design can come up with something just as interesting.
Absolutely! I agree that it's not coming in ONE and is much more likely a throw-forward to MOM (and a way of selling the community on this change by revealing it on a(n) (in)famous character's card).
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Yeah, the card type "Tribal" is written as that both in English and Spanish. The "batalla" appearing on the Spanish version of the new Atraxa just means "battle", it can't mean anything else. So either it is a new card type and they stopped putting tribal in the reminder text for all card types, or it is a weird translation mistake for text that already existed and was previously translated correctly.
Weird translation mistakes are uncommon but not unheard of in the Spanish version of cards. The Spanish Ruric Tar, the Unbowed affects opponents instead of players and so it destroyed me on that prerelease. Of course, only the English rules text is official, but no one knew the original text of this ogre that early.
EDIT: I was writing before reading Zoss's post...
...and would like to note that they already did this for Tribal with the original printing of Tarmogoyf. It made a lot of sense there since foreshadowing was kind of the point of the Time Spiral set, but this also makes sense as just a throwback to that.
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Yeah, potentially. But you also mentioned Saga's, which aren't a new card type, but an enchantment subtype. So ... why isn't 'Battle' an enchantment too? The reason for it would at least not seem obvious to me. New card types carry a lot of problematic stuff with them. Like, what colors can interact with them? Positively and negatively.
It'll balance the color pie!! /s /nots
Oh dear! It looks like the person on Mythicspoiler who said it is a mistranslation was wrong! I will update it again.
I was going to comment this as well! It sounds like they had done a lot of work on Skirmish but only abandoned it when they realized that the "Planeswalker War set" had too much emphasis on the "war" and not enough emphasis on the "Planeswalkers." Since March of the Machine is a literal war for the multiverse, with armies of every plane meeting the Phyrexians on the field of battle, it makes sense that WOTC would lean heavily into the war angle for this set.
I'm just curious as to whether or not Battles will be something we see in every set (like Planeswalkers), or if they will be something for only rare occasions (like Dungeons and Conspiracies).
Ohhhh this is cool.
It is. But like most of what we've seen so far, it seems tricky to utilize for cube. Which cube deck on which power level wants to, for example, spend three mana and 10 lifepoints for a treasure and a Divination?
I really want to see more "For Mirrdoin!" cards. Seems like a better version of living weapon, and as soon as they drop some cards with it, that actually synergize with other themes from my cube than just artifacts, I'll be tempted.
I really want to see more "For Mirrdoin!" cards. Seems like a better version of living weapon, and as soon as they drop some cards with it, that actually synergize with other themes from my cube than just artifacts, I'll be tempted.
Simply moving 2 power from the equipment to the token, compared to Living Weapon, makes a huge difference. The initial body is much more impressive without having to set the Equip cost sky high. Really clean and effective change. Between For Mirrodin! and Reconfigure, equips have gotten a lot better recently.
Good removal at two! Very happy with both of these, they hit a good balance of what I'm looking for in my removal suite. With the
3/2 that sacrifices for to disenchant, there's a great "cycle" of uncommon 2 MV pushed removal cards going, can't wait to see Red's 
I currently run Jinnie Fay, Jetmir's Second and Chatterfang, Squirrel General, and will absolutely be trying Mondrak out. In addition to having absolutely incredible artwork, Jinnie Fay and Chatterfang have shown me that even a relatively high-powered cube environment (for 720 cards, at least) there is absolutely room for sillier engine cards like this. Can't wait to follow up Mondrak with a Deranged Hermit or Old One Eye (and maybe I can finally justify a Academy Manufactor package if I don't mind introducing more unnecessary complexity....)
I love that in Magic, this and "woman staring out of a window" can both be a 4/4.
The "woman staring out the window" thing is a Teysa reference, yeah? At least there's lore reasons why she'd have 4 power, unlike:
two aged tinkerers
Onderzeeboot
Ecstatic Orb
At least she's an avatar! (And a comparatively weak one, though her daughter's ironically the weakest avatar.)
Good news, we got (some of?) the RW Commander deck cards from some random YouTuber today:
Glimmer Lens is priced to move as "literally just a bear", so I'm a fan of it because I love grizzly bears.