Remember that old 2000s RPG Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura that featured fantasy mobster enemies and some art deco influences? The next Magic: The Gathering card game expansion may be drawing inspiration from that and other similar titles.

Wizards of the Coast has announced the new Magic: The Gathering set called Streets of New Capenna, and it’s drawing from tales of gangster, noir, and 40s crime novels and serials. But with magic and demons. The set features five demon crime families fighting over control of a resource called Halo.  They come with their respective assigned mana colours:

• Brokers (green, white, blue): demonic lawyers who specialize in erasing memories.
• Obscura (black, white, blue): blackmailers, deceivers, and masters of illusions.
• Maestros (blue, black, red): old-money gangsters made up of mostly vampires.
• Riveteers (black, red, green): made up of construction workers who are tough and gruff; relies on brute force and intimidation.
• Cabaretti (red, green, white): cultist druid partiers, high-class center of attention in the city.

New mechanics in the set include:

• Casualty, which gives spells and optional additional cost of sacrificing creatures with appropriate power,
• Alliance, where players are rewarded with buffs and bonuses for filling up their side of the board with creatures.
• Shield counters. If a creature with shield counters take damage or is about to be destroyed, you can instead negate the damage/destroy effect by removing a shield counter. Removal cards like Swords to Ploughshare can bypass Shield Counters though.
• Blitz, which  allows players to cast creatures for an alternate cost and give it haste, but they die at the end of that turn.
• Connive, which allows players to draw and then discard cards; the nonland cards you discard can power up your creatures with +1/+1 counters.

The set will be spoiled card by card from now until its release on 29th April. The set will be out on MTG Arena on 28 April, with prerelease events happening on 22 April. In the meantime, do check out the cards below.