That art people call Gisela does not look like her at all. She doesn't even have her iconic two swords (which Sigarda mentions Gisela having in the story). The armor also doesn't look anything like what Gisela used to wear.
With the focus more on the sword than the actual angel, I expect it to be for some Act of Treason card.
I am the only one who thinks angels should be good?... In the last Innistrad they where the light of hope. This kept the balance in the plane. Now we have evil zombies, vampires, werewolfs, humans, angels, demons and devils. A good Jace... Yeah sure...
Someone or something (likely Nahiri) is causing the angels to turn on the humans. That much is apparent.
That art people call Gisela does not look like her at all. She doesn't even have her iconic two swords (which Sigarda mentions Gisela having in the story). The armor also doesn't look anything like what Gisela used to wear.
With the focus more on the sword than the actual angel, I expect it to be for some Act of Treason card.
I agree with this. Even the "Evil Bruna" pic doesn't all that much like Bruna to me. Sigarda doesn't look evil in her pic, either. I think that the picture that is assumed to be Gisela could be the fallen sister Sigarda mentions having returned from the dead (necromancy is kinda a thing on Innistrad, so it could happen)
EDIT: rereading the part with the four angels it clearly seems that, barring something yet untold, Sigarda is on her own and has not been corrupted yet. It reads like she intends to fight Avacyn, knowing that she can't win.
That art people call Gisela does not look like her at all. She doesn't even have her iconic two swords (which Sigarda mentions Gisela having in the story). The armor also doesn't look anything like what Gisela used to wear.
With the focus more on the sword than the actual angel, I expect it to be for some Act of Treason card.
I agree that it doesn't look like old Gisela, but I believe the reasoning is threefold:
Sigarda got what is undeniably new art.
During the werewolf segment of the story, they used a picture of an angel dressed in blue and likely of Flight Alabaster to represent the act of an angel destroying the werewolf, and in the next segment Bruna shows up with her weapon alight, as though ready for battle, or just coming from it. Heavy implications here that the new art is Bruna.
And the art that doesn't quite look like Gisela was utilized towards the end of the angel segment, specifically to denote Bruna and Gisela leaving. The implication being that the art is depicting Gisela. Likely not her card proper, but most likely still her.
That said, since they used the same artist for both the new Sigarda art as the old, it's absolutely possible that the implied Bruna art is for another angel of Flight Alabaster, since it doesn't match the original artist.
The hints of this fourth, almost certainly WB Angel Sister are intriguing.
Seems likely we'll be seeing her this block... she may even be a factor in Avacyn's betrayal.
And it seems *highly* likely she may have something to do with Flight Moonsilver.
Momir Vig, Simic Visionary
Melek, Izzet Paragon
Oona, Queen of the Fae
Bruna, Light of Alabaster
Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
Rhys the Redeemed
Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
Sen Triplets
The Mimeoplasm WUBRGSliver OverlordGRBUW WUBRGSliver Hivelord(Superfriends)GRBUW
The hints of this fourth, almost certainly WB Angel Sister are intriguing.
Seems likely we'll be seeing her this block... she may even be a factor in Avacyn's betrayal.
And it seems *highly* likely she may have something to do with Flight Moonsilver.
Vampire Angel?
I kid, though it would be an interesting concept
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I don't enough info to add them to the crunch just because they are on the art doesn't mean the card art is for a card named after them specifically. Also we've seen Wizards use new art that wasn't in the set before. Raven Man anyone?
The hints of this fourth, almost certainly WB Angel Sister are intriguing.
Seems likely we'll be seeing her this block... she may even be a factor in Avacyn's betrayal.
And it seems *highly* likely she may have something to do with Flight Moonsilver.
Vampire Angel?
I kid, though it would be an interesting concept
They should keep the angels pure. They could make as many demons they want to fight them. Do not mess with people heads. This is very personal for me. Angels should be good because they are angels.
You do realise that angels have been antagonists in Magic since the early days, right?
The hints of this fourth, almost certainly WB Angel Sister are intriguing.
Seems likely we'll be seeing her this block... she may even be a factor in Avacyn's betrayal.
And it seems *highly* likely she may have something to do with Flight Moonsilver.
Vampire Angel?
I kid, though it would be an interesting concept
They should keep the angels pure. They could make as many demons they want to fight them. Do not mess with people heads. This is very personal for me. Angels should be good because they are angels.
You do realise that angels have been antagonists in Magic since the early days, right?
The original story of Innistrad was good. I see no reason in doing all of this. And again, if everybody is twisted, how would Jace survive???...
I am a white player and I enjoy playing with boros or gideon tokens and nice angels. They did manage to make everybody evil or 90% of this set so I will not have any cards to play with like they did with zendikar where ally where so bad compared to eldrazi.
Common saying: You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become a villain
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The hints of this fourth, almost certainly WB Angel Sister are intriguing.
Seems likely we'll be seeing her this block... she may even be a factor in Avacyn's betrayal.
And it seems *highly* likely she may have something to do with Flight Moonsilver.
Vampire Angel?
I kid, though it would be an interesting concept
They should keep the angels pure. They could make as many demons they want to fight them. Do not mess with people heads. This is very personal for me. Angels should be good because they are angels.
You do realise that angels have been antagonists in Magic since the early days, right?
The original story of Innistrad was good. I see no reason in doing all of this. And again, if everybody is twisted, how would Jace survive???...
I am a white player and I enjoy playing with boros or gideon tokens and nice angels. They did manage to make everybody evil or 90% of this set so I will not have any cards to play with like they did with zendikar where ally where so bad compared to eldrazi.
So basically this boils to petty personal choices.
And no, not everyone is evil. Innistrad's human population didn't cease to exist, nor did possibly other possibly benevolent factions like the werewolves under Arlinn.
The hints of this fourth, almost certainly WB Angel Sister are intriguing.
Seems likely we'll be seeing her this block... she may even be a factor in Avacyn's betrayal.
And it seems *highly* likely she may have something to do with Flight Moonsilver.
Vampire Angel?
I kid, though it would be an interesting concept
They should keep the angels pure. They could make as many demons they want to fight them. Do not mess with people heads. This is very personal for me. Angels should be good because they are angels.
You do realise that angels have been antagonists in Magic since the early days, right?
I welcome the return of white villains (of course, they're probably just going to color shift all of them so white isn't villainous).
sorry if off topic.
any chance for Circular Logic to be reprinted?
it fits in the list, but not sure if it would be considered "too powerful" for standard/modern?
sorry if off topic.
any chance for Circular Logic to be reprinted?
it fits in the list, but not sure if it would be considered "too powerful" for standard/modern?
It really depends on the enablers.
IMO, it would be fine with what we've seen so far,
but I really doubt we'll see it if they give us anything like Wild Mongrel.
Momir Vig, Simic Visionary
Melek, Izzet Paragon
Oona, Queen of the Fae
Bruna, Light of Alabaster
Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
Rhys the Redeemed
Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
Sen Triplets
The Mimeoplasm WUBRGSliver OverlordGRBUW WUBRGSliver Hivelord(Superfriends)GRBUW
The hints of this fourth, almost certainly WB Angel Sister are intriguing.
Seems likely we'll be seeing her this block... she may even be a factor in Avacyn's betrayal.
And it seems *highly* likely she may have something to do with Flight Moonsilver.
Vampire Angel?
I kid, though it would be an interesting concept
They should keep the angels pure. They could make as many demons they want to fight them. Do not mess with people heads. This is very personal for me. Angels should be good because they are angels.
You do realise that angels have been antagonists in Magic since the early days, right?
I welcome the return of white villains (of course, they're probably just going to color shift all of them so white isn't villainous).
Something something colorpie, something something red is the new black(the bad side of Avacyn is red in the card, I would still be having uncontrollable 5yo moments of extasis if the bad side had been black)
Was beaten to the punch on the names/numbers for the lands (here's the source), but also the Nerdist's spoiler confirms Pious Evangel // Wayward Disciple at 034
ETA: though those numbers for the lands have a typo, Forsaken Sanctuary is 273
The very tight spaces leads me to think that my allocation is mostly correct. I moved one over so that we'd have 6 lands remaining 5 potential rare duals and another utility land
I think this also all but confirms we won't be seeing the Enemy Tango lands in SOI as well i can't see them doing two cycles of the same color pairs at different rarities.
I also assume that there aren't any pre-existing allied land cycles that fit this crunch either?
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Bruna is... not that great, and stands out more with so much excellent art.
Gisela, though... OMG.... So need a foil of that.
If they're all still gold, new checklist card says no. There's only one gold DFC.
With the focus more on the sword than the actual angel, I expect it to be for some Act of Treason card.
Someone or something (likely Nahiri) is causing the angels to turn on the humans. That much is apparent.
I agree with this. Even the "Evil Bruna" pic doesn't all that much like Bruna to me. Sigarda doesn't look evil in her pic, either. I think that the picture that is assumed to be Gisela could be the fallen sister Sigarda mentions having returned from the dead (necromancy is kinda a thing on Innistrad, so it could happen)
EDIT: rereading the part with the four angels it clearly seems that, barring something yet untold, Sigarda is on her own and has not been corrupted yet. It reads like she intends to fight Avacyn, knowing that she can't win.
Standard - Some kind of control
Modern - UB Mill (casual)
EDH - Meren's Grave Shenanigans
I agree that it doesn't look like old Gisela, but I believe the reasoning is threefold:
Sigarda got what is undeniably new art.
During the werewolf segment of the story, they used a picture of an angel dressed in blue and likely of Flight Alabaster to represent the act of an angel destroying the werewolf, and in the next segment Bruna shows up with her weapon alight, as though ready for battle, or just coming from it. Heavy implications here that the new art is Bruna.
And the art that doesn't quite look like Gisela was utilized towards the end of the angel segment, specifically to denote Bruna and Gisela leaving. The implication being that the art is depicting Gisela. Likely not her card proper, but most likely still her.
That said, since they used the same artist for both the new Sigarda art as the old, it's absolutely possible that the implied Bruna art is for another angel of Flight Alabaster, since it doesn't match the original artist.
Seems likely we'll be seeing her this block... she may even be a factor in Avacyn's betrayal.
And it seems *highly* likely she may have something to do with Flight Moonsilver.
Reprint Stasis!
Control needs more love.
EDH:
Momir Vig, Simic Visionary
Melek, Izzet Paragon
Oona, Queen of the Fae
Bruna, Light of Alabaster
Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
Rhys the Redeemed
Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
Sen Triplets
The Mimeoplasm
WUBRGSliver OverlordGRBUW
WUBRGSliver Hivelord(Superfriends)GRBUW
Vampire Angel?
I kid, though it would be an interesting concept
Standard - Some kind of control
Modern - UB Mill (casual)
EDH - Meren's Grave Shenanigans
You do realise that angels have been antagonists in Magic since the early days, right?
Common saying: You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become a villain
Standard - Some kind of control
Modern - UB Mill (casual)
EDH - Meren's Grave Shenanigans
So basically this boils to petty personal choices.
And no, not everyone is evil. Innistrad's human population didn't cease to exist, nor did possibly other possibly benevolent factions like the werewolves under Arlinn.
I welcome the return of white villains (of course, they're probably just going to color shift all of them so white isn't villainous).
UR Blue-Red Control
Modern:
UBR Grixis Control
UWR Jeskai Control
any chance for Circular Logic to be reprinted?
it fits in the list, but not sure if it would be considered "too powerful" for standard/modern?
It really depends on the enablers.
IMO, it would be fine with what we've seen so far,
but I really doubt we'll see it if they give us anything like Wild Mongrel.
Reprint Stasis!
Control needs more love.
EDH:
Momir Vig, Simic Visionary
Melek, Izzet Paragon
Oona, Queen of the Fae
Bruna, Light of Alabaster
Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
Rhys the Redeemed
Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
Sen Triplets
The Mimeoplasm
WUBRGSliver OverlordGRBUW
WUBRGSliver Hivelord(Superfriends)GRBUW
Something something colorpie, something something red is the new black(the bad side of Avacyn is red in the card, I would still be having uncontrollable 5yo moments of extasis if the bad side had been black)
#275 Foul Orchard
#277 Highland Lake
#279 Stone Quarry
#282 Woodland Stream
ETA: though those numbers for the lands have a typo, Forsaken Sanctuary is 273
The very tight spaces leads me to think that my allocation is mostly correct. I moved one over so that we'd have 6 lands remaining 5 potential rare duals and another utility land
I also assume that there aren't any pre-existing allied land cycles that fit this crunch either?