MTG Salvation

ARRRRARRRR1....So I was hanging out with some friends the other day and suddenly I saw a dragon swoop down and punch the guy across from me 4 times. Then he flew into ground. I thought it was awesome, so I paid the dragon 5 bucks to do it again, although it wanted at least one of them to be a ruble. So he smacked that guy again and left for good.

Little Birdy, VP of Zesty Dragon Airlines
"Zesty Dragon, it's the only way to fry"

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ARRRRARRRR1....So I was hanging out with some friends the other day and suddenly I saw a dragon swoop down and punch the guy across from me 4 times. Then he flew into ground. I thought it was awesome, so I paid the dragon 5 bucks to do it again, although it wanted at least one of them to be a ruble. So he smacked that guy again and left for good.

Little Birdy, VP of Zesty Dragon Airlines
"Zesty Dragon, it's the only way to fry"

Dragon Swooper ??
Haste, flying, sacrifice this at end of turn
Unearth 4R
4/4

Hmmm...

1RR
Dragon
Flying, Haste
Sacrifice this creature at end of turn
4R: Unearth
4/4

EDIT: Agreeing with Ako80, makes sense.

Ya know, now that I look at it, I think you're right, I was counting the r's, but it is likely "A red, A red, 1"

Must amend that, it also increases the awesome factor.

Quote from Cingeto

I would say it is a little bit strange that a dragon, which as far as I know only exists on Jund, has unearth (a grixis mechanic).

Wizards just had a post about the little synergies between the shards, hinting at their former history as a single plane. One of those hints was having Grixis play host to undead versions of creatures from other shards.

Quote from Ako80

Hmm, I'm not so sure anymore because he used 4 R's twice. But Ball Lightning and the green Ball Lightning both cost 3 and have more power and trample as well so it would suck if it costed RRRR1

That's why I think I will stick with that, because compared to Ball Lightning and Groundbreaker, it still wouldn't be outlandish. That's my bet, and I'll stick to it, because anymore mana cost would make it kinda blech.

Quote from Jerry Only

I think it´s:

Dragonball 1RR
Creature - Dragon (UC)
Flying
Unearth 4B
4/4

would be quiet fair, compared to giant´s bait at common

Are you kidding me? Look, I know Alara's power creeping the hell out of older sets, but you must have made a mistype here. 4/4 flying for red has to cost at LEAST 5, and you have it costed at 3. And Giantbaiting is a common because the tokens go away at EOT.

I'm also with whoever said this Jund creature shouldn't dip into a Grixis mechanic, so something's wrong here. Either the dragon has to cost red AND blue, with a black unearth ability, or it has to cost red, blue and black, like the Spectre we saw earlier. Either way, this thing is mono red and doesn't have Unearth, or is multicolor, and does.

Oh, and thanks to whoever deleted my post because I didn't want to play a stupid guessing game.

Seriously guys... beggars can't be choosers. I have a feeling the only reason we're getting flooded now is that the ebay auctions will arrive at the buyer's houses tomorrow and we'll get like 100+ cards leaked with scans all at once. ENJOY while you can. People are taking this WAY too seriously.

I thought the style guide or something pointed out that the shards are connected i.e. white and blue can share mechanics from bant and esper and grixis and jund can share mechanics etc. A grixis ability on a dragon seems in line with the current mechanics and story line. Each shard is 3 colors after all, not 1. sounds cool, like a ball lightning with flying.

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I thought the style guide or something pointed out that the shards are connected i.e. white and blue can share mechanics from bant and esper and grixis and jund can share mechanics etc. A grixis ability on a dragon seems in line with the current mechanics and story line. Each shard is 3 colors after all, not 1. sounds cool, like a ball lightning with flying.

Well I think possibly only mono-colored cards may have these abilities, so therefore you can technically play the card in either shard it shares colors with in these schmancy Shard tournaments.

Quote from Seingalt

NICE !
That would then be :

Dragonball :1mana::symr::symr:
Creature - Zombie Dragon
Flying, haste, sacrifice ~ at end of turn.
Unearth :2mana::symr::symu::symb:
4/?

I think we have a winner here. Make that toughness 4, there's no reason for a dragon to have less t than p.

If we can trust the posters (like zesty, it seems), then it's OK, and quite fun (I love me a riddle). It's just this method of spoiling cards seems way too abusable.

Li'l birdie is endorsed by zesty.

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My only problem with this is that anyone can now sign up a new account and post some arbitrary 'fake' riddles, and we wouldn't be able to tell the difference. I'm not even sure there's any way of checking if these riddles are 'true', as we interpret the card.

If we can trust the posters (like zesty, it seems), then it's OK, and quite fun (I love me a riddle). It's just this method of spoiling cards seems way too abusable.

You know, fakers usually aren't so clever. I certainly didn't believe Zest at first either because... I mean come-on, O-RING?!?!? Sounds like someone was plugging any old word into the Orb and running with it.

But as long as they give us snippets here and there to clue us in, we're good. That and the Mods are usually in on the joke, and would close the threads pretty darn quickly.

Quote from Maokun

I think we have a winner here. Make that toughness 4, there's no reason for a dragon to have less t than p.

Unless its a skeletal dragon or a zombie dragon...

And Groundbreaker and Ball Lightning (etc.) usually have one toughness.

ARRRRARRRR1

i think its 1rrrr

like arrrrarrrr but only once.

EDIT: so arrrr stands for one red?
i see.
i think it suits the card if the unearth cost has a black in it.
ruble

This is FAR more entertaining than just coming and saying "alright, guys, this is the card, enjoy". I would be betting on 4B on the Unearth cost btw. Oh and 4/4 flier for 3 in red seems a bit much. 4/2 or 4/3 would be more likely (if orb supports).

Quote from the_fish

OK, I know I defended St@rWizard in that other thread about the stories, but this is really going too far. They're not spoilers or even rumours if we can't decipher them accurately. In addition, we can't orb/common-sense check them for validity.

In light of this, and the Unearth/Jund problem, I'm pretty sceptical, though I have no idea what I'm sceptical about. :s

I totally agree, with this overly vague cryptic speak we can't even check the orb to see if the card checks out. However I do appreciate any information over none. Anyway the card seems okay. I'm thinking it looks like this

RRRR
Creature - Dragon
Flying, haste
Sacrifice ~this~ at end of turn.
Unearth 1RRRR
4/4

just because of the arr! stuff in the beginning but maybe I'm rading to much into it

Quote from menma

Do you think it could be a Zombie Dragon?

That would sync up nice with Grixis, right? Zombie or spirit or [insert Grixis related type] makes a lot of sense to me.

I think it would be an elemental as well, b/c it fits with the ball lightning reduxes and that fits in with grixis too. and the art just posted.

Sorry, orb sez vanishing - 0. No vanishing for you.

1RR
Zombie Dragon
2/2
Haste? Flying Double Strike
Sacrifice ~this~ at the end of your turn.
Unearth 4B

This is my guess at this riddle. Also my first post. Hello all.

Thunder Dragon 1RR
Creature - Elemental
Flying, Haste
Sacrifice Thunder Dragon at end of turn.
Unearth 4R
4/1

@tigrezno: Sorry, no clockwork, either.

that picture probably isnt the dragon. That picture is of the "sundering" which broke the shards apart i believe

Also if there is a picture of a dragon skeleton, its probably Creature-Skeleton Dragon

Of course then we should be able to regenerate it so maybe its a zombie. but just my 2 cents

Orb:
4/1:1
4/2:2
4/3:1
4/4:12

My answer to the riddle:

ARRRRARRRR1

"Arrrr" = R
1=1
CC: 1RR

....So I was hanging out with some friends the other day and suddenly I saw a dragon swoop down and punch the guy across from me 4 times.

Power = 4. I don't think this is any strange ability. "Suddenly" makes it sound as though it has haste. "Swoop" and being a dragon means it should have flying.

Then he flew into ground.

I assume this means "sac at eot," because if the dragon flew into the ground, he probably killed himself. Could it also mean that it isn't a permanent flier?

I thought it was awesome, so I paid the dragon 5 bucks to do it again, although it wanted at least one of them to be a ruble.

This seems easily to be unearth for 5 total mana, but as has been suggested, ruble = RUBlE. So 2RUB

So he smacked that guy again and left for good.

Again a reference to unearth. Left for good = removed from the game.

I guess the toughness is 1, as most cards that sac at eot have 1 toughness.

Plus, if it has some relation to lightning, that would also weaken its toughness (but adds haste and more power).

Thunder Dragon... or maybe Lightning Dragon 1RR
Flying, Haste
At end of turn, sacrifice Thunder Dragon.
Unearth 2RUB
4/1