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PostPosted: Fri Aug 28, 2020 3:59 pm 
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https://markrosewater.tumblr.com/post/6 ... ing-teaser

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Before previews for Zendikar Rising officially begin, I thought it would be fun to do another of my Duelist-style teasers where I give tiny hints of things to come. Note that I’m only giving you partial information.

First up, here are some things you can expect:

• A white creature that can make an opponent lose the game simply by attacking them no matter how much life they have
Angel of Destiny

• A multicolor creature that lets you repeatedly reanimate permanents out of your opponent’s graveyard for no mana
Zareth San, the Trickster

• Three creatures with five creature types
Tajuru Paragon, Veteran Adventurer, Stonework Packbeast

• An artifact granting +2/+2 to a subset of creatures that first appeared in Alpha
Forsaken Monument

• X being used for a variable it’s never been used for before
all the party cards that use X?

• a 6/6 artifact creature that costs 3 and a 7/5 artifact creature that can cost 3
Relic Golem and Sea Gate Colossus

• The return of four mana symbols that have each only ever been used on two cards before
Tazri, Beacon of Unity with

• Lands that come with a choice you’ve never had before
all the modal DFC lands

• Targeted enchantment removal in black
Feed the Swarm

• A red/white creature with a line of rules text that starts with “Whenever” and ends with “draw a card”
Akiri, Fearless Voyager

• A card with three different activated abilities that all copy something
Lithoform Engine

Here are snippets of rules text, you’ll see:

• “three plus”
"Skyclave Loot"

• “different converted mana cost X or less”
Agadeem's Awakening

• “equal to 20 minus”
Scourge of the Skyclaves

• “Cowards can’t block Warriors”
Kargan Intimidator

• “don’t lose unspent red mana”
Leyline Tyrant

• “twice the number of equipment”
Nahiri, Heir of the Ancients

• “If it’s the third time”
Omnath, Locus of Creation

And finally, here are some creature type lines you’ll see:

• Mouse
Canyon Jerboa

• Leviathan Crab
Charix, the Raging Isle

• Shapeshifter Rogue
Glasspool Mimic

• Demon Cleric
Taborax, Hope's Demise

• Wurm Horror
Dreadwurm

• Hydra Horror
Grakmaw, Skyclave Ravager

• Cat Horror
Skyclave Shadowcat

• Angel Wizard
Linvala, Shield of Sea Gate

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PostPosted: Fri Aug 28, 2020 7:49 pm 
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Unless it's a cheap Changeling tease, five creature types seems overkill. I suspect it represents, in part, a return of Ally, though.


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PostPosted: Fri Aug 28, 2020 11:53 pm 
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Mana symbols makes me think a return of colorless hybrid.

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Here are my thoughts after reading some speculation and having some discussion.

Given that Nahiri hints at class tribal, I'm wondering if there will be a new batching for five class types. And then somehow that could get used to give a creature five creature types. However, there was also a leak of DFC lands, so they could just have five creature types across two sides. That would be a disappointing way to fulfill the clue, though.

There's a great theory that the four mana symbols will be and that they'll appear on a new 4-color Omnath (which we've seen art of). This seems likely to me.

"Lands that come with a choice you've never had before" seems to confirm the leak of a DFC dual land where each side taps for one color and you pick a side as it enters. (Also it enters untapped.)

The horrors are likely results of Eldrazi corruption, like Yarok, the Desecrated.

Shapeshifter Rogue, Demon Cleric, and Angel Wizard all support the class tribal theory.

And finally, I'm just personally excited to see what the Leviathan Crab is!

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I really like mown's guess that 3 creatures with 5 types is actually just one card that makes 3 creatures that have a total of 5 types among them. Remember maro is tricky

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I really like mown's guess that 3 creatures with 5 types is actually just one card that makes 3 creatures that have a total of 5 types among them. Remember maro is tricky

That would at least be more satisfying than the DFC theory.

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It could even be a reference to that old card that made a 1/1 2/2 and 3/3 if different types

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LilyStorm wrote:
I really like mown's guess that 3 creatures with 5 types is actually just one card that makes 3 creatures that have a total of 5 types among them. Remember maro is tricky

I do actually think the clue is three different creatures that each have 5 creature types, I just hated the idea of it so I intentionally misinterpret it.
"Lands that come with a choice you've never had before" seems to confirm the leak of a DFC dual land where each side taps for one color and you pick a side as it enters. (Also it enters untapped.)

I agree with that assessment, the only reason I'm still in denial is because I think everything about that alleged spoiler involves some very questionable design decision, not that I give current wotc a lot of credit. The DFC lands are not only strictly better basics as worded, they're also just incredibly annoying to play with. And all the cards that supposedly can be played as basic lands on the backside would just work a lot better making land tokens instead of having a bunch of card you have to unsleeve and flip and they all turn into the same 5 different variations, without talking about the supposed blue instant speed nature's lore with a force spike stapled on top of it.

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So we got a few of these already from today's previews.

• A multicolor creature that lets you repeatedly reanimate permanents out of your opponent’s graveyard for no mana
Zareth San, the Trickster

• Three creatures with five creature types
Tajuru Paragon is the first one

• The return of four mana symbols that have each only ever been used on two cards before
Tazri, Beacon of Unity with

• Lands that come with a choice you’ve never had before
all the modal DFC lands

• “twice the number of equipment”
not new info, but this is Nahiri, Heir of the Ancients

• “If it’s the third time”
Omnath, Locus of Creation

• Angel Wizard
Linvala, Shield of Sea Gate

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a 7/5 artifact creature that can cost 3
This is probably vanilla, 7 mana and costs :1: less for each creature in your party


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White instant kill creature
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And here’s the black enchantment removal
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Alright Aggro-ish (she negates your damage but still wants you to be laying it and isn’t redundant with lifelink so yeah) Felidar Sovereign-esque creature. Honestly probably hard to figure out the details for but easy to guess the general idea. I kind wish she replaced damage so she’d be a bit easier to use as a political tool in commander like “Hey I see you low in health. Help me out and I’ll swing my beater at you so you gain health”

Feed the Swarm seems good, but Sorcery is usually pretty ehhhh


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Added the cards Flopfoot mentioned, as well as...

• X being used for a variable it’s never been used for before
Cascade Seer? (not sure if that's what MaRo was going for)

• “Cowards can’t block Warriors”
Kargan Intimidator

• Demon Cleric
Taborax, Hope's Demise

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PostPosted: Fri Sep 04, 2020 1:34 pm 
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We've had scry X though

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Oh I was thinking it was Thieving Skydiver, but turns out three previous cards use Kicker X


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We've had scry X though

Oh I guess I interpreted it as caring about what determined the value of X, but it could be about the effect. This feels like one where we won't even know for sure what he means until we see it.

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Well he worded it as X being USED for something it has never been used before. So in this case it's being USED for scry.

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Hyping it up for just a new condition on a scry would also be lame as all get out.


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Hyping it up for just a new condition on a scry would also be lame as all get out.

I could imagine it just being a clue about the party mechanic in general, but yeah hopefully it's pointed at something more interesting.

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