Bolas is apart from the five gods. He's revered as a "god-pharaoh" on the plane, but he's not an actual god, we've seen that. The gods are the ones that answer to him, and he will remain true to his character and his Grixis colors as he has since he was first printed in Legends. He would never allow the gods of his plane to even be perceived as being be equal to him, he has to dominate everything and set himself on top for all to see. That's how Nicol Bolas has always been. His present character is far too special to be a part of a cycle.
There was not even the barest hint that they'd be anything more than mono-colored. This isn't news.
So you are suggesting it's just a default assumption we can say they are monocolour?
I don't think this is surprising, everything seemed to point to it, and monocolour is the simplest color selection, but it was never confirmed.
Now it either seems like Bolas is mono color or is not one of the five gods.
Uhmm... was this ever in question?
We had the images of all five gods for a while now and none of them seems to be an ancient planeswalking dragon behind that mask.
Also since the setting was revealed, it was clear that Bolas is the uncontested ruler and highest authority of the plane - why in the world should he disguise himself as lesser being? That doesn't make a ton of sense in general and, as skorchdnite already mentioned, would be pretty out of character too.
For gods being monocolored: sure, this is a final confirmation, but shoud come to the suprise of no one. If you're disappointed now, you set up yourself for this by baseless wishful thinking imho.
I never concluded you in particular were disappointed, it was aimed at the statement in the opening post.
Didn't want to double post, so I put it after my respone to your Bolas/Gods comment, might have made a clearer distinction here though.
Knowing Maro and his love for true but misleading information, the gods could still be multicolored. Ala the "white" god could be Bant, as white is the focus of that combination.
I was going to suggest sarcastically that next week it will be revealed that "Yeah, so the God cards were monocolored creatures durign design playtesting but during development they turned into four-colored enchantment planeswalkers" but why feed those in denial bad ideas?
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There was not even the barest hint that they'd be anything more than mono-colored. This isn't news.
So you are suggesting it's just a default assumption we can say they are monocolour?
I don't think this is surprising, everything seemed to point to it, and monocolour is the simplest color selection, but it was never confirmed.
There was a small hint with the Masterpieces. With Maelstrom Pulse and Vindicate two gods show up on each and the same one shows up on each with black in it.
As much as I would have liked them being more than one color there was the slightest of hints.
There was not even the barest hint that they'd be anything more than mono-colored. This isn't news.
So you are suggesting it's just a default assumption we can say they are monocolour?
I don't think this is surprising, everything seemed to point to it, and monocolour is the simplest color selection, but it was never confirmed.
There was a small hint with the Masterpieces. With Maelstrom Pulse and Vindicate two gods show up on each and the same one shows up on each with black in it.
As much as I would have liked them being more than one color there was the slightest of hints.
"I don't think this is surprising, everything seemed to point to it"
I love how you guys get trapped in MaRo's wording traps over and over again.
Their playtest names does not mean their actual color.
He could also mean that the gods value 1 of the color most but could still have multiple other values and colorings, if you catch my drift.
It's possible, but MaRo is rarely all that misleading, and we already had plenty of info that pointed to it, so I will be quite surprised if they aren't monocolor.
MaRo also wasn't asked, 'Are the Amonkhet Gods monocolor?' He was asked, 'What were the Playtest names?'
Whether or not the AKH Gods are monocolor or not, MaRo isn't twisting the answer. (He may be in the meta sense given that he chooses what questions to respond to, but not explicitly so.)
I hope people aren't really in denial about this. The number crunch from the Masterpieces shows us that there are 5 missing cards that fit in each color.
Anyway, I was hoping for 2 or 3 colored gods for the sake of EDH, but Theros had great mono colored gods that worked well in EDH so I am optimistic.
Didn't Theros block release the mono-colored primary gods first, and the guild gods in the second and third sets? If so, it's not totally implausible that set two of Amonkhet introduces five shard gods. I don't think guild gods are likely, because it'd require ten in one set, but five and five seems par for the course.
I love how you guys get trapped in MaRo's wording traps over and over again.
Their playtest names does not mean their actual color.
He could also mean that the gods value 1 of the color most but could still have multiple other values and colorings, if you catch my drift.
I think, and I don't think I stand alone on this, that it seems very silly and nonsensical to playtest name any cards as "white X, blue X, etc." if they aren't actually mono-color. I'm pretty sure WOTC uses the terms bant, orzhov, gruul,etc and if these were multicolored in any form I don't see why they would be called mono-color playtest names rather than multi-colored ones that actually fit their colors.
The only way I could see these gods being playtested with mono-color labels while actually being "multi-colored" is if they had hybrid activated abilities like the FRF Khans but I find that unlikely.
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Flash
When~ enters battlefield, counter target spell.
UU:counter target spell.
T:counter target spell.
Discard a blue card: counter target spell.
Exile ~ from your graveyard: counter target spell.
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MaRo also wasn't asked, 'Are the Amonkhet Gods monocolor?' He was asked, 'What were the Playtest names?'
Whether or not the AKH Gods are monocolor or not, MaRo isn't twisting the answer. (He may be in the meta sense given that he chooses what questions to respond to, but not explicitly so.)
It would be pretty misleading for him to answer talking about the gods playtest cards if it didn't reflect their final incarnation. I find it believable they could be multicolour but focused in one colour (i.e. three colour, pretty much), but even that I think is quite unlikely, especially all the other indications, which put it at pretty much settled.
I guess the bird God should be like this:
Hilarious bird god
1UU
LEGENDARY creature~ bird god
Flash
When~ enters battlefield, counter target spell.
UU:counter target spell.
T:counter target spell.
Discard a blue card: counter target spell.
Exile ~ from your graveyard: counter target spell.
3/3
I guess the bird God should be like this:
Hilarious bird god
1UU
LEGENDARY creature~ bird god
Flash
When~ enters battlefield, counter target Green spell.
UU:counter target white spell.
T:counter target blue spell.
Discard a blue card: counter target red spell.
Exile ~ from your graveyard: counter target black spell.
3/3
Made that a tiny bit less broken for you. But not by much.
A little disappointing. I was kind of wishing for tri-colors. Still, this is basically confirmation.
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So you are suggesting it's just a default assumption we can say they are monocolour?
I don't think this is surprising, everything seemed to point to it, and monocolour is the simplest color selection, but it was never confirmed.
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Uhmm... was this ever in question?
We had the images of all five gods for a while now and none of them seems to be an ancient planeswalking dragon behind that mask.
Also since the setting was revealed, it was clear that Bolas is the uncontested ruler and highest authority of the plane - why in the world should he disguise himself as lesser being? That doesn't make a ton of sense in general and, as skorchdnite already mentioned, would be pretty out of character too.
For gods being monocolored: sure, this is a final confirmation, but shoud come to the suprise of no one. If you're disappointed now, you set up yourself for this by baseless wishful thinking imho.
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Didn't want to double post, so I put it after my respone to your Bolas/Gods comment, might have made a clearer distinction here though.
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RGW Marath - Ever shifting Wilds RGW || (U/R)C(W/B) Breya - Artificial Dominion (U/R)C(W/B)
UBR Becket Brass - take what you can, give nothing back UBR
Before the glory of Yawgmoth, yes, even this makes sense.
I was going to suggest sarcastically that next week it will be revealed that "Yeah, so the God cards were monocolored creatures durign design playtesting but during development they turned into four-colored enchantment planeswalkers" but why feed those in denial bad ideas?
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There was a small hint with the Masterpieces. With Maelstrom Pulse and Vindicate two gods show up on each and the same one shows up on each with black in it.
As much as I would have liked them being more than one color there was the slightest of hints.
"I don't think this is surprising, everything seemed to point to it"
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It's possible, but MaRo is rarely all that misleading, and we already had plenty of info that pointed to it, so I will be quite surprised if they aren't monocolor.
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Whether or not the AKH Gods are monocolor or not, MaRo isn't twisting the answer. (He may be in the meta sense given that he chooses what questions to respond to, but not explicitly so.)
A cycle of super good mono-color lands sure would be nice. (Have we had any since Lorwyn's Hideaway cycle?)
Anyway, I was hoping for 2 or 3 colored gods for the sake of EDH, but Theros had great mono colored gods that worked well in EDH so I am optimistic.
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The only way I could see these gods being playtested with mono-color labels while actually being "multi-colored" is if they had hybrid activated abilities like the FRF Khans but I find that unlikely.
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1UU
LEGENDARY creature~ bird god
Flash
When~ enters battlefield, counter target spell.
UU:counter target spell.
T:counter target spell.
Discard a blue card: counter target spell.
Exile ~ from your graveyard: counter target spell.
3/3
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It would be pretty misleading for him to answer talking about the gods playtest cards if it didn't reflect their final incarnation. I find it believable they could be multicolour but focused in one colour (i.e. three colour, pretty much), but even that I think is quite unlikely, especially all the other indications, which put it at pretty much settled.
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No he would only have one ability like kozilek, the great distortion
That would make him a $200 card they would not make him that broken
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