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PostPosted: Thu Sep 03, 2015 8:10 am 
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Just a heads up for people: There are no white Eldrazi.

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Hey Mark, can devoid be the new Blue/Black evergreen keyword? I see it's only on blue/black cards so far.

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It’s actually in every color but White.

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PostPosted: Thu Sep 03, 2015 9:50 am 
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can devoid be the new Blue/Black evergreen keyword?

Why would anyone even think that? It does basically nothing.

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PostPosted: Thu Sep 03, 2015 9:58 am 
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I think it was just them reaching. MaRo has talked a lot about that color combination needing an overlap now that they basically have the Blue/Red overlap solved with Prowess. I'm willing to bet he'll get that question for just about any mechanic that appears in both blue and black from here on out no matter how dumb the suggestion would be.

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PostPosted: Thu Sep 03, 2015 10:07 am 
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For what it's worth, the asker meant ingest rather than devoid.

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PostPosted: Thu Sep 03, 2015 10:25 am 
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Ingest makes more sense in the context of the question, but strikes me as a poor choice for an evergreen mechanic.

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PostPosted: Thu Sep 03, 2015 1:47 pm 
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Well, Ingest doesn't do anything either :v

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Eh, it's sort of like a mil mechanic that is definitely something a Blue/black overlap mechanic should do. Being more combat oriented however, and being an exile mechanic instead of a true mil mechanic, it's just not a good fit for evergreen in those colors.

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PostPosted: Thu Sep 03, 2015 2:20 pm 
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it's also not a good fit for evergreen in general

it's also not a good fit for being keyworded

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PostPosted: Thu Sep 03, 2015 6:01 pm 
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Just a heads up for people: There are no white Eldrazi.


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Drana pretty much confirmed to appear in BFZ.
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 08, 2015 10:27 am 
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I think full art lands' return would've been better received from a set somewhere other than Zendikar. I'm glad we've got them, but I'm irked that it took 6 years and it's more hedrons. Please have the next time you do this be on a world that looks different - Ravnica, Vryn, Tarkir and Kaladesh would all be really welcome. :)

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Interestingly, I got a lot of mail of players who expected full art on our return to Zendikar and expressed how happy they were they we met their expectations.

Fear not. All future full art lands will not be set on Zendikar.

Chances of Zendikar surviving this Eldrazi fight have decreased.

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PostPosted: Tue Sep 08, 2015 10:36 am 
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He later admitted that what he really meant was "not all full art lands will be set on zendikar"


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PostPosted: Wed Sep 09, 2015 11:34 am 
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Possibly sub themes are by shard?
Allies = Naya
Awaken = Esper
?? = Jund
?? = Bant
?? = Grixis

Landfall and Converge seem to be Temur so I expect them to be 5 color.

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PostPosted: Wed Sep 09, 2015 11:46 am 
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I suspect awaken will be in all five colours, and sadin said that allies will be in all five colours. Meanwhile colorless-matters / devoid is in every colour except white, and landfall will probably be in every color.

They may be more centred in some colours than others, but I think most mechanics will be centred in a pair of colours rather than a shard.
Gw - allies
Wu - awaken
Ub - ingest / processors
Br - colorless-matters / devoid
Rg - landfall

Ramp and scions-matter seem to be a colorless thing and converge is of course a five color thing.


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PostPosted: Thu Sep 10, 2015 8:26 am 
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Looks like I was wrong about there not being enemy color strategies. Looks like it'll be something like

WB - lifedrain
UR - eldrazi ramp
BG - sacrifice
RW - big allies (GW is go wide allies)
GU - converge


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PostPosted: Thu Sep 10, 2015 10:17 am 
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WB could also be vampires.

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They probably won't, but it'd be cool if they printed a land this set that had a bunch of creature keywords but wasn't a creature, just as a neat Johnny thing with awaken.

Call it Ashaya Dormant or something.

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The mythic color balance is a bit weird. There are four mythics that are at least part green. Perhaps the multicoloured mythics count as colorless for purposes of color balance. Then we'd have our five colorless (kiora, omnath, ulamog, oblivion sower, void Winnower) the two green ones and ob Nixilis and Gideon. So we could expect two more blue, two more red, one more each of white and black?

Or could they be counting kiora as just blue and omnath as just red? Then we'd expect one more of each color except green, and two more colorless.


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The mythic color balance is a bit weird. There are four mythics that are at least part green. Perhaps the multicoloured mythics count as colorless for purposes of color balance. Then we'd have our five colorless (kiora, omnath, ulamog, oblivion sower, void Winnower) the two green ones and ob Nixilis and Gideon. So we could expect two more blue, two more red, one more each of white and black?

Or could they be counting kiora as just blue and omnath as just red? Then we'd expect one more of each color except green, and two more colorless.

my recollection from when I was looking at these for Ossia is that they don't bother with color balance at mythic. like they'll try and have one of each at least, but beyond that it's a free-for-all, they come up so infrequently that color imbalances don't really affect the as-fan.

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Someone on tumblr pointed out an interesting relationship with the design of Oath of the Gatewatch's Set symbol and Kozilek's brood...

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