My guess is that Sorin did more than we know on Zendikar, causing the appearence of vampires
It certainly could be she ends up getting upset when she finds (found) Sorin and discovered his responsibility for vampires being on Zendikar, but at this moment we do not know that. Heck, Vampires might be on Zendikar because while Nahiri slept, he fell in love with a Kor and to preserve the love relationship with his Kor girlfriend/bride converted her into a vampire.
Just to interject: Sorin *didn't* create vampires on Zendikar. According to the Zendikar art book (p.67) "Vampires were created many centuries ago by a magical infection that originated from the Eldrazi and enslaved them to Ulamog's will. Their unique diet was a means for the Eldrazi to drain the life and magical essence from the other sentient races, concentrating that energy in the vampires' blood for Ulamog to harvest at a later time. After the Eldrazi were sealed back into their prison, the vampires slowly built a dark civilization centered on the continent of Gull Draz. The memory of their ancient masters faded into fragmentary legend and became a distant notion that they are survivors of oppression and slavery. [...] The bloodchiefs are the central figures of vampire society. The Eldrazi directly infected them, and they in turn created the masses of other vampires."
It's this distant memory of originating as servants to the Eldrazi that Drana recalls and rebels against in her UR story Memories of Blood.
The flavor text on Structural Distortion is quite troubling. We're at a point where we need as many allies as we can get, and Nahiri defecting in order to exact revenge upon Sorin does not bode well.
Now, with that said, THIS IS SUCH A COOL TURN OF EVENTS.
I hope we can get a close-up scan of that checklist card. Eeeee, this is like Christmas all over again~!
Just to interject: Sorin *didn't* create vampires on Zendikar. According to the Zendikar art book (p.67) "Vampires were created many centuries ago by a magical infection that originated from the Eldrazi and enslaved them to Ulamog's will. Their unique diet was a means for the Eldrazi to drain the life and magical essence from the other sentient races, concentrating that energy in the vampires' blood for Ulamog to harvest at a later time. After the Eldrazi were sealed back into their prison, the vampires slowly built a dark civilization centered on the continent of Gull Draz. The memory of their ancient masters faded into fragmentary legend and became a distant notion that they are survivors of oppression and slavery. [...] The bloodchiefs are the central figures of vampire society. The Eldrazi directly infected them, and they in turn created the masses of other vampires."
It's this distant memory of originating as servants to the Eldrazi that Drana recalls and rebels against in her UR story Memories of Blood.
The fact that the Vampires effectively come from Ulamog also explains why their Null zombies have blank, nondescript faces; they're based on the blank faceplates of Ulamog and his brood.
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Every time I read a comment about "Well if this card had card draw/trample/haste/indestructible/hexproof/life gain...", I think "You're missing the point." They're armchair developer comments that fail to take into account the card's role in the greater Limited and Standard environment. No, it may not be as good as whatever card you're comparing it to. There's a reason for that. Not every burn spell is Lightning Bolt, nor does it need to be or should be.
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I must say I am quite pleased to see Wizards start to take a slightly different direction in the art on these cards. They are finally allowing a little bit of stylistic liberty with cards like Tooth Collector and Topplegeist. The art has really gotten uniform lately, and it saddens me. It's not that the art is bad, just that style is played down for consistency. They'll probably never go back to the style of the golden old days at the height of Magic art (ArabianNightsthroughTempestblock,) but it's a start.
Nahiri is so mad at Sorin that she has forgotten her plane's name ("Zenikar"?)
The original scan has the name correctly. The image in the spoiler is somebody's commendable attempt at "correcting" the flash, but he or she REALLY should have paid attention to the spelling.
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The way that counter spell is worded and how strong and complex it is for uncommon has me calling fake.
That wording is a pretty substantial departure from the usual, and it doesn't improve clarity. I hope this is fake.
I could list all the weird word choices they made, but "amongst" when every other card--including Topplegeist--says "among" is enough.
Edit 2 seconds later: OK, these are not purported to be scans? Fine, then I guess they're both real and fake.
The picture in the OP is real, it's pretty easy to see that the pictures in the spoiler just have mocked up text. Clearly whoever is in charge of the spoiler messed up the wording. If you look at the original picture, "amongst" doesn't fit in the glare.
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WUHanna, Pillowfort's NavigatorUW WBRAleshacratsBRW UBRGrixis Pew PewRBU URGYasova the ThreateningGRU BGGlissa the ArticiferGB WUSygg MerfolkUW RSquee, Value NabobR
Yes. On the original scan it was spelt correctly but there's a bright reflection obscuring the wording. Someone has updated the image with a mock up of what is believed to be the correct wording, but in doing so they misspelt Zendikar.
Nahiri is so mad at Sorin that she has forgotten her plane's name ("Zenikar"?)
The original scan has the name correctly. The image in the spoiler is somebody's commendable attempt at "correcting" the flash, but he or she REALLY should have paid attention to the spelling.
The templating of the checklist card is really weird. Why is the card name on the second line? They've wasted a lot of space... they wouldn't need two columns if they did a normal text wrap around the cmc, or used scrunched text for the few cards that need it.
All I can think of is that with a second checklist card, some of the mana costs are long enough that text+cost wouldn't fit on the same line.
The templating of the checklist card is really weird. Why is the card name on the second line? They've wasted a lot of space... they wouldn't need two columns if they did a normal text wrap around the cmc, or used scrunched text for the few cards that need it.
This is definitely for the purposes of translation, so that card names in all languages could fit those boxes, and the checklist card itself still looked the same overall.
Just to interject: Sorin *didn't* create vampires on Zendikar. According to the Zendikar art book (p.67) "Vampires were created many centuries ago by a magical infection that originated from the Eldrazi and enslaved them to Ulamog's will. Their unique diet was a means for the Eldrazi to drain the life and magical essence from the other sentient races, concentrating that energy in the vampires' blood for Ulamog to harvest at a later time. After the Eldrazi were sealed back into their prison, the vampires slowly built a dark civilization centered on the continent of Gull Draz. The memory of their ancient masters faded into fragmentary legend and became a distant notion that they are survivors of oppression and slavery. [...] The bloodchiefs are the central figures of vampire society. The Eldrazi directly infected them, and they in turn created the masses of other vampires."
It's this distant memory of originating as servants to the Eldrazi that Drana recalls and rebels against in her UR story Memories of Blood.
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The fact that the Vampires effectively come from Ulamog also explains why their Null zombies have blank, nondescript faces; they're based on the blank faceplates of Ulamog and his brood.
Every time I read a comment about "Well if this card had card draw/trample/haste/indestructible/hexproof/life gain...", I think "You're missing the point." They're armchair developer comments that fail to take into account the card's role in the greater Limited and Standard environment. No, it may not be as good as whatever card you're comparing it to. There's a reason for that. Not every burn spell is Lightning Bolt, nor does it need to be or should be.
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The original scan has the name correctly. The image in the spoiler is somebody's commendable attempt at "correcting" the flash, but he or she REALLY should have paid attention to the spelling.
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That wording is a pretty substantial departure from the usual, and it doesn't improve clarity. I hope this is fake.
I could list all the weird word choices they made, but "amongst" when every other card--including Topplegeist--says "among" is enough.
Edit 2 seconds later: OK, these are not purported to be scans? Fine, then I guess they're both real and fake.
The picture in the OP is real, it's pretty easy to see that the pictures in the spoiler just have mocked up text. Clearly whoever is in charge of the spoiler messed up the wording. If you look at the original picture, "amongst" doesn't fit in the glare.
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GAzusa, Lost but RampingG
WBRAleshacratsBRW
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It was, like, six posts up, dude:
All I can think of is that with a second checklist card, some of the mana costs are long enough that text+cost wouldn't fit on the same line.
Also, translation expansion.
Still looks weird.
This is definitely for the purposes of translation, so that card names in all languages could fit those boxes, and the checklist card itself still looked the same overall.
Nothing but dat burn/aggro
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I am hoping for a decent BR planeswalker too. However, I am not hoping for Tibalt, since "decent Tibalt" sounds a lot like an oxymoron
BUG The Baron (it doesn't work, but I try anyway)
modern:
RGShaman Aggro
legacy:
UHigh Tide
German highlander:
BUG aggro control
EDH:
a positively unhealthy amount of decks