As with Ayli, it's incredibly rare to see faked cards in foil, especially with a pre-release stamp and new art, so my gut says this is likely real.
Anyone know Russian?
Edit: According to reddit user Braddish, it is:
Legendary Creature - Elf Ally
You may play an additional land during each of your turns.
RG, Return a land you control to its owner's hand; Target creature gains trample until end of turn.
4/4
My best translation for the name is Mina and Denn, Wildborn.
"Mina of the 'Green Spiral' and her twin brother Denn lead the last tribe of Mul Daya into their uncertain future."
Edit: It looks like the other place they use the phrase "Green Spiral" is on Greenweaver Druid. I don't know the lore enough to know whether "Greenweaver" is a place or a title, so it's either Mina of Greenweaver or Mina the Greenweaver.
Not sure how great this is going to be at ramping without the whole "play with the top card of your library revealed" and "you may play a land from the top of your library" bits. Mostly good at getting your big fatties through with trample without missing a beat on land drops.
Legendary Creature - Elf Ally
You may play an additional land during each of your turns. RG, Return a land you control to its owner's hand; Target creature gains trample until end of turn.
4/4
This isn't a bad card. And I like how it works with Landfall. Play your land, trigger landfall, activate the ability to give the landfall guy trample, replay that land and trigger landfall again! Imagine facing this and Valakut Predator (Or any big landfall creature) in sealed or draft. "I'll just attack you with my 6/6 predator. And it has trample."
Another 2-color legendary creature that works quite nicely with its BFZ draft archetype. The fact that their ability is reusable means you can bounce two lands (or one land twice) in the same turn to guarantee double landfall triggers if you have nothing else to use your mana on - turns Akoum Hellkite into a veritable machine gun in the lategame. Even better if you bounce, say, a Looming Spires or the like. Can also work as a lifegain engine with Jaddi Offshoot and/or gainlands. Plays excellently with Retreat to Valakut (land-bounce gives a creature trample and provides a land to power its pump mode with, or just ensures land-drops to keep pushing blockers out of the way) or Retreat to Emeria if you're in Naya colors (especially since both the legendary and RtE's tokens provide Rally triggers). Some fun stuff to do here, if nothing that screams "constructed powerhouse." I'd enjoy building around it, though.
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I've added this to the spoiler with the Google-Translate-based name "Mina and Denn, Wildborn". If anyone has a better translation for the name (or flavor text) it'd be good to know!
Seems like a nice card to pick up in draft, but it feels uncommon. Paying lots of resources to give creatures trample one at a time seems pretty low-impact for a rare, even if it does enable landfall. This isn't close to good enough for any constructed environment. Looks like BFZ will not be raising the power level of the block. (Not that I'm sad about that. This card looks great for draft and that's honestly all I care about.)
This card is nuts. I can see it played in Standard and make landfall decks good. Modern I'm not too sure about. Legacy maybe. EDH, it's already crazy. It gives Omnath more fuel by essentially giving it up to 5 Landfall triggers with just fetches, maybe more through other means (not that Oracle of Mul Daya already does this). Not to mention that it breaks Gaea's Cradle or any card that generates boat loads of mana that doesn't tap as soon as it enters the battlefield. It also can save your lands from land destruction. The body is decent and it's casting cost is bad either for what it can do.
Animar will love also love this and I can see Jund decks loving it too, even Naya. This card alone is giving me some hype for Oath. The only really downside is it's pretty narrow on abuse-able stuff for it's colors, but I think it's hardly a major downside.
You could effectively tap Cradle, bounce it, tap it again, bounce it, tap it a third time, and for fun, use Minamo, School at Water's Edge to tap it a forth time.
Maybe I'm just over hyping myself. Makes me want to actually make a Standard Landfall deck now.
One cute thing about these guys is that you can rescue valuable lands in response to their destruction. Makes stuff Maze of Ith or Gaea's Cradle even better.
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You don't call "dying to removal" if the removal is more expensive in resources than the creature. If you have to spend BG (Abrupt Decay), or W + basic land (PtE) to remove a 1G, that is not "dying to removal". Strictly speaking Goyf dies to removal, but actually your removal is dying to Goyf.
It does have a lot of upside and I think it'll be killer in limited, but it may just not be strong enough in this standard. 4/4 for 4 that can grant itself trample looks good, but it doesn't attack through Siege Rhino. It's letting you play an additional land so it can use it's own ability twice a turn even with just 4 lands, but only if you can untap with it. It can have slight impact the turn it comes down if you have an extra land so that can be nice. Who knows? I really like it and I'll be sure to grab a few for EDH.
Nice throwback to Greenweaver DruidThe other tribes call them fanatics, but none deny that the Mul Daya elves have an iron-strong bond to some force greater than themselves.
From the wiki:
Mul Daya is a secretive nation located in the Guum Wilds of Bala Ged. They can be easily recognized by their face-painting and tattooing. While their living leader is Hazzan, he himself follows the edicts of a centuries old elvish spirit named Obuun. Through their leadership, the Mul Dayans have become adept spies and assassins with the elite calling themselves "vine ghosts." Mul Dayan Soulspeakers openly practice a blend of mysticism and necromancy to better commune with their ancestors.
As for the person who said it didn't seem "very rare".
I hear that. I think mostly it's rare because there is
a fairly strong pressure to put legendary creatures at
Rare or Mythic.
Seems like a "just fine" card. Not really my style of
play or color choices. Consequently, I'm probably not
the best judge of it's "fitness".
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As with Ayli, it's incredibly rare to see faked cards in foil, especially with a pre-release stamp and new art, so my gut says this is likely real.
Anyone know Russian?
Edit: According to reddit user Braddish, it is:
Legendary Creature - Elf Ally
You may play an additional land during each of your turns.
RG, Return a land you control to its owner's hand; Target creature gains trample until end of turn.
4/4
Currently Playing:
Legacy: Something U/W Controlish
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I don't think Scapeshift wants this more than Oracle of Mul Daya, which already doesn't see much play.
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"Mina of the 'Green Spiral' and her twin brother Denn lead the last tribe of Mul Daya into their uncertain future."
Edit: It looks like the other place they use the phrase "Green Spiral" is on Greenweaver Druid. I don't know the lore enough to know whether "Greenweaver" is a place or a title, so it's either Mina of Greenweaver or Mina the Greenweaver.
Seems like good synergy with Gaea's cradle.
Dragon's Maze was such a hit, how could they possibly go wrong?
This is very, very good in EDH. Not broken, but a lot of utility and highly synergistic with those colors.
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Animar will love also love this and I can see Jund decks loving it too, even Naya. This card alone is giving me some hype for Oath. The only really downside is it's pretty narrow on abuse-able stuff for it's colors, but I think it's hardly a major downside.
You could effectively tap Cradle, bounce it, tap it again, bounce it, tap it a third time, and for fun, use Minamo, School at Water's Edge to tap it a forth time.
Maybe I'm just over hyping myself. Makes me want to actually make a Standard Landfall deck now.
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From the wiki:
Mul Daya is a secretive nation located in the Guum Wilds of Bala Ged. They can be easily recognized by their face-painting and tattooing. While their living leader is Hazzan, he himself follows the edicts of a centuries old elvish spirit named Obuun. Through their leadership, the Mul Dayans have become adept spies and assassins with the elite calling themselves "vine ghosts." Mul Dayan Soulspeakers openly practice a blend of mysticism and necromancy to better commune with their ancestors.
Looks like we might be seeing a cycle of these guild legends. So far, it's promising.
Are these spoilers (along with Kozi and Wastes <> shenanigans) more interesting than BFZ??? You bet.
UR Melek, Izzet ParagonUR, B Shirei, Shizo's CaretakerB, R Jaya Ballard, Task MageR,RW Tajic, Blade of the LegionRW, UB Lazav, Dimir MastermindUB, UB Circu, Dimir LobotomistUB, RWU Zedruu the GreatheartedRWU, GUBThe MimeoplasmGUB, UGExperiment Kraj UG, WDarien, King of KjeldorW, BMarrow-GnawerB, WBGKarador, Ghost ChieftainWBG, UTeferi, Temporal ArchmageU, GWUDerevi, Empyrial TacticianGWU, RDaretti, Scrap SavantR, UTalrand, Sky SummonerU, GEzuri, Renegade LeaderG, WUBRGReaper KingWUBRG, RGXenagos, God of RevelsRG, CKozilek, Butcher of TruthC, WUBRGGeneral TazriWUBRG, GTitania, Protector of ArgothG
I hear that. I think mostly it's rare because there is
a fairly strong pressure to put legendary creatures at
Rare or Mythic.
Seems like a "just fine" card. Not really my style of
play or color choices. Consequently, I'm probably not
the best judge of it's "fitness".