We ignoring the giant Icthyosaurus-faced giant. Creature type lizard giant
Looks more like a crocodile to me. Also we weren't ignoring that. (Though I must admit at first I thought it was a statue. It wasn't until people pointed it out that I saw it was walking down the stairs.)
However, what we were ignoring is something much more amazing:
We ignoring the giant Icthyosaurus-faced giant. Creature type lizard giant
Looks more like a crocodile to me. Also we weren't ignoring that. (Though I must admit at first I thought it was a statue. It wasn't until people pointed it out that I saw it was walking down the stairs.)
However, what we were ignoring is something much more amazing:
Amonkhet has flamingoes!
Hmm I dunnooooo! Lol, but yeah they'll probably settle on some kinda croc.
As for those flamingos.... they form half the silhouette of Emrakul... Eldrazi confirmed (so glad we're over that theory choice)
This plane looks more beautiful than Kaladesh. It looks like the people really like to dress up as animals there, unless those are djinn. I didn't buy the Innistrad or Kaladesh art books but I want to buy this one.
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The art of Amonkhet is stunning but I could be biased. Though Kaladesh is pretty it's not a place I'd feel at ease in. Looking forward to Amonkhet and all it's terrible beauty and beautiful terrors. A slave world of Bolas would be opulent.
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I would love if Bolas was benevolent towards the people on this plane, even if it was just because he found a way to replicate the power of the theros gods so he is nice to them for his own power, it would be great for the gatewatch to be so confused.
I've updated the OP with the information from the Viz Media announcement now, too. I'm uploaded some images as well that I'll put in spoilers on the OP for references.
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We ignoring the giant Icthyosaurus-faced giant. Creature type lizard giant
Looks more like a crocodile to me. Also we weren't ignoring that. (Though I must admit at first I thought it was a statue. It wasn't until people pointed it out that I saw it was walking down the stairs.)
However, what we were ignoring is something much more amazing:
Amonkhet has flamingoes!
Hmm I dunnooooo! Lol, but yeah they'll probably settle on some kinda croc.
As for those flamingos.... they form half the silhouette of Emrakul... Eldrazi confirmed (so glad we're over that theory choice)
Creative admited it can't think outside of the box, for the sake of expectations.
I wonder if that's the Amonkhet Sebek? Or a statue of him?
Why so overcast, though? Not that Egypt doesn't have overcast days, but I expected more of a sunny desert oasis look. The overcast scheme is better suited for Innistrad. I was annoyed when Shipbreaker Kraken's art was changed from a very Greek-feeling battle in the straits art to an annoying overcast murky art instead, for example. Greece and Egypt Worlds are definitely the place to break out the contrast and vibrance. While this is often the case, the cover of this book could have benefitted more from showcasing how lively the world is. It's a beautiful piece but I'm expecting some bright yellows and oranges in Amonkhet's color palate come next year.
I wonder if that's the Amonkhet Sebek? Or a statue of him?
Why so overcast, though? Not that Egypt doesn't have overcast days, but I expected more of a sunny desert oasis look. The overcast scheme is better suited for Innistrad. I was annoyed when Shipbreaker Kraken's art was changed from a very Greek-feeling battle in the straits art to an annoying overcast murky art instead, for example. Greece and Egypt Worlds are definitely the place to break out the contrast and vibrance. While this is often the case, the cover of this book could have benefitted more from showcasing how lively the world is. It's a beautiful piece but I'm expecting some bright yellows and oranges in Amonkhet's color palate come next year.
I don't think that's intended to be the Sebek equivalent. It does appear to be alive rather than a statue ccnsidering the fact that it's in the middle of the s stairs and appears to be walking down them. Also I don't think they'd drop one of the gods on us this early.
As for the color; one image does not a plane make. There will be plenty of room for bright, sunny and vibrant on the cards.
I wonder if that's the Amonkhet Sebek? Or a statue of him?
Why so overcast, though? Not that Egypt doesn't have overcast days, but I expected more of a sunny desert oasis look. The overcast scheme is better suited for Innistrad. I was annoyed when Shipbreaker Kraken's art was changed from a very Greek-feeling battle in the straits art to an annoying overcast murky art instead, for example. Greece and Egypt Worlds are definitely the place to break out the contrast and vibrance. While this is often the case, the cover of this book could have benefitted more from showcasing how lively the world is. It's a beautiful piece but I'm expecting some bright yellows and oranges in Amonkhet's color palate come next year.
I don't think that's intended to be the Sebek equivalent. It does appear to be alive rather than a statue ccnsidering the fact that it's in the middle of the s stairs and appears to be walking down them. Also I don't think they'd drop one of the gods on us this early.
As for the color; one image does not a plane make. There will be plenty of room for bright, sunny and vibrant on the cards.
Given it's the cover for the artbook, it definitely sets the default style for the plane though. They didn't choose a "one of those rainy days" cover for the Kaladesh artbook for a reason. While there might be cards that will not look as overcast, they will most likely be the minority, if not mere one-offs.
Also, let's not forget that the plane is ruled by Bolas (who is evil) apparently people fight to get a place in afterlife (which has a somewhat sinister tone to it) and the story is set right before the hour of devastation. I would say that the overcast scenery actually serves a symbolic purpose.
Also also, it doesn't strike me as actually overcast. Looks more like the plane is caught in a (mild) sandstorm.
Given Vengeful Pharaoh, they've been planning a Bolas Egypt plane for a long time.
I think it was just a happy coincidence. I recall Maro mentioned it in an article about their practice (at the time) of printing new cards in Core Sets. He used Vengeful Pharoah as an example of a card that they had designed but couldn't print in an expansion. It, and cards like it, didn't fit the flavour of anything that had been printed, so they took the freedom presented in Core Sets to print cards with flavour that didn't fit the aesthetic of any specific plane.
Does anybody else think the crocodile head looks like a mask? It looks kind of smooth, shaped, and metallic to actually be something's head. Mind you I'm totally cool with crocodile giants but I'm wondering if it's just a regular giant wearing a crocodile mask.
Also, note the scaleless pink-toned arms and legs, at odds with the green and gold of the head
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Does anybody else think the crocodile head looks like a mask? It looks kind of smooth, shaped, and metallic to actually be something's head. Mind you I'm totally cool with crocodile giants but I'm wondering if it's just a regular giant wearing a crocodile mask.
Also, note the scaleless pink-toned arms and legs, at odds with the green and gold of the head
Egyptian gods were depicted as entirely human other than their animal heads so the lack of scales or anything like that in the arms isn't so odd.
Hello.this is the first time i post on the forum.i have been reading articles for a while but just now decided to create an account.On the subject,in egyptian mythology,the gods had 2 forms.some times they were depicted as animals and other times as humanoids with a head of said animal.i expect that a similar mechanic to transform is gonna be introduced in the set exclusive only for the 5 gods.Also i don't think it's a coinsidence that the current commander product is focused on 4 color legends.If you analyse who and what we expect to be gods from mythology,the crocodile god from description lacks the red color, anubis lacks white ,the aven god lacks black and so on.the ram/sheep god lacks blue and the cat/cheatah god lacks green.Also given what we know thus far i suspect that a twist is coming and bolas is only imposing the pharaoh god with the real one being revealed in hour of devastation as a 5-color god.In terms of colors,I don't think the gods are gonna be dual,wedges or shards
Oh wow, I hadn't even thought of that possibility! I'm a little skeptical of the return of DFCs so soon to implement this, (though the gap between Origins and SOI wasn't too great either) but I'd be totally on board if they did that!
Hello.this is the first time i post on the forum.i have been reading articles for a while but just now decided to create an account.On the subject,in egyptian mythology,the gods had 2 forms.some times they were depicted as animals and other times as humanoids with a head of said animal.i expect that a similar mechanic to transform is gonna be introduced in the set exclusive only for the 5 gods.Also i don't think it's a coinsidence that the current commander product is focused on 4 color legends.If you analyse who and what we expect to be gods from mythology,the crocodile god from description lacks the red color, anubis lacks white ,the aven god lacks black and so on.the ram/sheep god lacks blue and the cat/cheatah god lacks green.Also given what we know thus far i suspect that a twist is coming and bolas is only imposing the pharaoh god with the real one being revealed in hour of devastation as a 5-color god.In terms of colors,I don't think the gods are gonna be dual,wedges or shards
Oh wow, I hadn't even thought of that possibility! I'm a little skeptical of the return of DFCs so soon to implement this, (though the gap between Origins and SOI wasn't too great either) but I'd be totally on board if they did that!
Yeah maybe it's too early but if they want to be on flavor mode as much as they were in theros that is the way to do it!a correction to my earlier post since i searched on wikipedia sakhmet the cat/lion/cheatah goddess seems to be lacking blue and the ram god khmun i think is the name seems to be lacking green but wizards can twist it in any way that they find appropriate.
Well I wouldn't expect them to do a 1 to 1 interpretation of each corresponding god, and even so, there is currently no evidence of any cats (god or otherwise) on Amonkhet. Still, I like the possibility of wizards using DFCs to convey the flavor of the gods.
Hello.this is the first time i post on the forum.i have been reading articles for a while but just now decided to create an account.On the subject,in egyptian mythology,the gods had 2 forms.some times they were depicted as animals and other times as humanoids with a head of said animal.i expect that a similar mechanic to transform is gonna be introduced in the set exclusive only for the 5 gods.Also i don't think it's a coinsidence that the current commander product is focused on 4 color legends.If you analyse who and what we expect to be gods from mythology,the crocodile god from description lacks the red color, anubis lacks white ,the aven god lacks black and so on.the ram/sheep god lacks blue and the cat/cheatah god lacks green.Also given what we know thus far i suspect that a twist is coming and bolas is only imposing the pharaoh god with the real one being revealed in hour of devastation as a 5-color god.In terms of colors,I don't think the gods are gonna be dual,wedges or shards
Oh wow, I hadn't even thought of that possibility! I'm a little skeptical of the return of DFCs so soon to implement this, (though the gap between Origins and SOI wasn't too great either) but I'd be totally on board if they did that!
Yeah maybe it's too early but if they want to be on flavor mode as much as they were in theros that is the way to do it!a correction to my earlier post since i searched on wikipedia sakhmet the cat/lion/cheatah goddess seems to be lacking blue and the ram god khmun i think is the name seems to be lacking green but wizards can twist it in any way that they find appropriate.
Well I wouldn't expect them to do a 1 to 1 interpretation of each corresponding god, and even so, there is currently no evidence of any cats (god or otherwise) on Amonkhet. Still, I like the possibility of wizards using DFCs to convey the flavor of the gods.
Note that four-color cards are very difficult to do in general, so much so that Commander 2016 gave up making more than one set of new ones and went with Partners. That said, the idea of DFCs would be amazing for gods (if done right cough Ulrich cough) and we now have precedent of a cycle of mythic DFCs in an otherwise normal set -- Origins, with the DFC planeswalkers.
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Hello.this is the first time i post on the forum.i have been reading articles for a while but just now decided to create an account.On the subject,in egyptian mythology,the gods had 2 forms.some times they were depicted as animals and other times as humanoids with a head of said animal.i expect that a similar mechanic to transform is gonna be introduced in the set exclusive only for the 5 gods.Also i don't think it's a coinsidence that the current commander product is focused on 4 color legends.If you analyse who and what we expect to be gods from mythology,the crocodile god from description lacks the red color, anubis lacks white ,the aven god lacks black and so on.the ram/sheep god lacks blue and the cat/cheatah god lacks green.Also given what we know thus far i suspect that a twist is coming and bolas is only imposing the pharaoh god with the real one being revealed in hour of devastation as a 5-color god.In terms of colors,I don't think the gods are gonna be dual,wedges or shards
Oh wow, I hadn't even thought of that possibility! I'm a little skeptical of the return of DFCs so soon to implement this, (though the gap between Origins and SOI wasn't too great either) but I'd be totally on board if they did that!
Yeah maybe it's too early but if they want to be on flavor mode as much as they were in theros that is the way to do it!a correction to my earlier post since i searched on wikipedia sakhmet the cat/lion/cheatah goddess seems to be lacking blue and the ram god khmun i think is the name seems to be lacking green but wizards can twist it in any way that they find appropriate.
Well I wouldn't expect them to do a 1 to 1 interpretation of each corresponding god, and even so, there is currently no evidence of any cats (god or otherwise) on Amonkhet. Still, I like the possibility of wizards using DFCs to convey the flavor of the gods.
There will be cats on Amonkhet 100% guaranteed. They are, next to animal-headed gods, the most well-known part of ancient egyptian mythology.
Oh wow, I hadn't even thought of that possibility! I'm a little skeptical of the return of DFCs so soon to implement this, (though the gap between Origins and SOI wasn't too great either) but I'd be totally on board if they did that!
Yeah maybe it's too early but if they want to be on flavor mode as much as they were in theros that is the way to do it!a correction to my earlier post since i searched on wikipedia sakhmet the cat/lion/cheatah goddess seems to be lacking blue and the ram god khmun i think is the name seems to be lacking green but wizards can twist it in any way that they find appropriate.
Well I wouldn't expect them to do a 1 to 1 interpretation of each corresponding god, and even so, there is currently no evidence of any cats (god or otherwise) on Amonkhet. Still, I like the possibility of wizards using DFCs to convey the flavor of the gods.
Note that four-color cards are very difficult to do in general, so much so that Commander 2016 gave up making more than one set of new ones and went with Partners. That said, the idea of DFCs would be amazing for gods (if done right cough Ulrich cough) and we now have precedent of a cycle of mythic DFCs in an otherwise normal set -- Origins, with the DFC planeswalkers.
I agree that 4 color cards are difficult to do but the same goes for 5 color cards and we already have plenty of those(unless you mean abilities that said 4 colors have a common specialty on).In addition the gods may be 4 colors and with a sacrifice mechanic which fits the mythology you can avoid to pay certain colors in the mana cost.
Eh not really, we have had 20 WUBRG colored cards, with 6 of them coming from Alara and seven of them are meant for 5 color tribal decks.
Wizard can also pull off doing a 5 color card once or twice a year but with 4 colors everyone would want a cycle of them.
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There will be cats on Amonkhet 100% guaranteed. They are, next to animal-headed gods, the most well-known part of ancient egyptian mythology.
That's certainly the expectation, but from the images we have we can't say for sure. Not everything is a direct translation, and Theros had some glaring gaps and shifts as far as Greek mythology goes. So while the odds are slim, given the races and creatures we've already seen, I think the omission of cats is a possibility.
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Looks more like a crocodile to me. Also we weren't ignoring that. (Though I must admit at first I thought it was a statue. It wasn't until people pointed it out that I saw it was walking down the stairs.)
However, what we were ignoring is something much more amazing:
Amonkhet has flamingoes!
Hmm I dunnooooo! Lol, but yeah they'll probably settle on some kinda croc.
As for those flamingos.... they form half the silhouette of Emrakul... Eldrazi confirmed (so glad we're over that theory choice)
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It's either a crocodile or a Viashino.
Why so overcast, though? Not that Egypt doesn't have overcast days, but I expected more of a sunny desert oasis look. The overcast scheme is better suited for Innistrad. I was annoyed when Shipbreaker Kraken's art was changed from a very Greek-feeling battle in the straits art to an annoying overcast murky art instead, for example. Greece and Egypt Worlds are definitely the place to break out the contrast and vibrance. While this is often the case, the cover of this book could have benefitted more from showcasing how lively the world is. It's a beautiful piece but I'm expecting some bright yellows and oranges in Amonkhet's color palate come next year.
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I don't think that's intended to be the Sebek equivalent. It does appear to be alive rather than a statue ccnsidering the fact that it's in the middle of the s stairs and appears to be walking down them. Also I don't think they'd drop one of the gods on us this early.
As for the color; one image does not a plane make. There will be plenty of room for bright, sunny and vibrant on the cards.
Given it's the cover for the artbook, it definitely sets the default style for the plane though. They didn't choose a "one of those rainy days" cover for the Kaladesh artbook for a reason. While there might be cards that will not look as overcast, they will most likely be the minority, if not mere one-offs.
Also, let's not forget that the plane is ruled by Bolas (who is evil) apparently people fight to get a place in afterlife (which has a somewhat sinister tone to it) and the story is set right before the hour of devastation. I would say that the overcast scenery actually serves a symbolic purpose.
Also also, it doesn't strike me as actually overcast. Looks more like the plane is caught in a (mild) sandstorm.
I think it was just a happy coincidence. I recall Maro mentioned it in an article about their practice (at the time) of printing new cards in Core Sets. He used Vengeful Pharoah as an example of a card that they had designed but couldn't print in an expansion. It, and cards like it, didn't fit the flavour of anything that had been printed, so they took the freedom presented in Core Sets to print cards with flavour that didn't fit the aesthetic of any specific plane.
Also, note the scaleless pink-toned arms and legs, at odds with the green and gold of the head
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Egyptian gods were depicted as entirely human other than their animal heads so the lack of scales or anything like that in the arms isn't so odd.
Oh wow, I hadn't even thought of that possibility! I'm a little skeptical of the return of DFCs so soon to implement this, (though the gap between Origins and SOI wasn't too great either) but I'd be totally on board if they did that!
Well I wouldn't expect them to do a 1 to 1 interpretation of each corresponding god, and even so, there is currently no evidence of any cats (god or otherwise) on Amonkhet. Still, I like the possibility of wizards using DFCs to convey the flavor of the gods.
Note that four-color cards are very difficult to do in general, so much so that Commander 2016 gave up making more than one set of new ones and went with Partners. That said, the idea of DFCs would be amazing for gods (if done right cough Ulrich cough) and we now have precedent of a cycle of mythic DFCs in an otherwise normal set -- Origins, with the DFC planeswalkers.
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There will be cats on Amonkhet 100% guaranteed. They are, next to animal-headed gods, the most well-known part of ancient egyptian mythology.
Eh not really, we have had 20 WUBRG colored cards, with 6 of them coming from Alara and seven of them are meant for 5 color tribal decks.
Wizard can also pull off doing a 5 color card once or twice a year but with 4 colors everyone would want a cycle of them.
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That's certainly the expectation, but from the images we have we can't say for sure. Not everything is a direct translation, and Theros had some glaring gaps and shifts as far as Greek mythology goes. So while the odds are slim, given the races and creatures we've already seen, I think the omission of cats is a possibility.