Jace looks like he’s halfway shirtless and dressed as a pirate on a boat. Makes sense. Mana cost is either 1UU or 2UU (no way it’s more than that, given that he starts with only 3 loyalty). As others have said, the type line probably says “Legendary Planeswalker – Jace” and the ultimate says “create two tokens that are copies of Jace, except they’re not legendary”, meaning that the planeswalker uniqueness rule would be gone and every planeswalker would get errata to make them legendary, so that the legend rule applies to them instead. That actually makes a lot sense. It’s much simpler to explain if both creatures and planeswalkers have the same uniqueness rule, and it’s certainly the most elegant way to make the “Illusionist Jace” planeswalker that is long overdue. I’m sure there’s other design space it opens up, too.
i don't think jace is legendary, the text just doesn't look right.
Well, there's definitely three words on the type line, so there's something more than just "Planeswalker - Jace". And you can see in the image that the last word in the text of the ultimate ability ends with "-ry." It seems pretty likely that the extra word in the type line is legendary.
To the right of Jace there’s a nonlegendary red creature with one big block of text (and then some flavor text). The type line makes it look like it’s a pirate, but not a human. The first subtype is too long. It definitely isn’t an orc, either.
my guess would be vampire something.
That's definitely possible, but that would require vampires in red, white, and black. They usually keep races like that to two colors max, although there have been exceptions (zombies in Hour of Devastation, for example). Red vampires were kind of an Innistrad-exclusive thing, but I suppose that could change. There's definitely another red-aligned race on Ixalan besides humans and orcs, and it could be vampires.
People are definitely going to want a Mardu vampire Commander once Ixalan comes out, just like they want an Esper zombie one. That's what happens when they keep expanding tribes into more colors. Hopefully they will meet the players' demands on this. They totally should have predicted what people would want.
Below that is a green one-drop that mostly cut off. To the right of the green one-drop is a 1/1 black one-drop creature. The name looks like “Deadeye Docker”, but the art shows a humanoid figure in the jungle, which wouldn’t really match the name.
maybe deadeye tracker?
Yep, that's probably it. That would make much more sense.
Above that is Emperor’s Vanguard, a 4/3 creature costing a green mana and some amount of generic mana. It says “Whenever Emperor’s Vanguard deals combat damage to a player, [unreadable new keyword action].” The reminder text says something like “Reveal the top card of your library. Put that card into your hand if [something I can’t read]. Otherwise, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature then put the revealed card back on top or into your graveyard.”
pretty sure it says "if that card is a land"
That's what people have been saying, but personally I couldn't read that part of the card. It would make a lot of sense though. That means that you're going to have about 60-70% chance of getting the +1/+1 counter (depending on how many lands are in your deck, which is cool; I enjoy mechanics like delirium that make you think extra about deck building). I bet that all the common creatures with the ability will probably do it when they enter the battlefield, while the rare ones (like Emperor's Vanguard and probably Deadeye Tracker) can do it repeatedly based on some trigger. Combat damage to a player, casting a certain type of spell, creatures dying, landfall (without the keyword), etc. In fact, we could even see a creature with "Tough - Whenever this creature is dealt damage, [whatever this mechanic is called]. (Reveal the top card of your library. Put that card into your hand if that card is a land. Otherwise, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature then put the revealed card back on top or into your graveyard.)" It's always cool when they combine two mechanics on one card, and they've actually more often than usual lately. Aether Revolt had a vehicle that used energy, and Amonkhet had that aven with cycling and embalm.
Pretty sure it just proves the opposite, that the leak was unwanted. Jace's defeat is the first official spoiler for Hour. It was clearly chosen to get people talking whats going to happen to jace? What's going to happen to the others? If they really felt people would say 'if jace is dead I'm not buying cards anymore', then why preview the card at all. Leave it in the Friday full set release.
I can come up with a dozen reasons why this leak is from outside wizards, this is one of them
Thank you for talking sense. Its absurd to think Wizards/Hasbro would leak this intentionally. It is an overzealous fan taking a quick shot at 15 minutes of fame at best and corporate sabotage at the worst. As in most things it probably falls somewhere between the two. No company in its right mind is going to spoil future future product before a rollout of upcoming future product, PERIOD.
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Tough is an interesting mechanic. It looks like Samut, the tested may be a plant for the RG Dinosaur deck with the tough mechanic. Ping two creatures with forked bolt and draw two cards or give a big fat dinosaur double strike. Maybe she will be decent in standard after all.
Nice catch! That's actually a really cool synergy, and kind of explains why Samut's card is the way it is. I'm still pretty unhappy with her card overall, but at least it has a redeeming quality. Especially since I'm guessing that tough will be a primarily RG mechanic.
The funny thing is, the only reason that people might find Samut remotely acceptable/useful/powerful is because of this leak. WotC is probably (understandably) quite pissed about these leaks, but without them Samut would look like complete trash. Now that we know that she's more of a plant for the next block, her presence in the set is tolerable. But if we didn't know that this mechanic was coming, we would have had every right to pissed at WotC for printing such a (seemingly) useless, underpowered, and unsynergistic planeswalker. Now we actually understand their reasoning, but only because we've seen something they really didn't want us to see yet.
Seriously? Every standard set is allied lands with the exception of the fast lands and man lands cycles being complete..wizards are shown they will not print a full ten card land cycle in a block and they choose allied lands that have been printed to hell and back over the enemy that need a reprinting. Especially since ixalan feels like an enemy color set based on vraska being gb. I think this is an incorrect decision on their part for both standard and the community as a whole.
Alright, first, just because I like a cycle of lands being back doesn't mean anything more than that, it has nothing to do with Wizards.
Second, because Vraska being G/B doesn't mean they there has to be the enemy cycle of checklands, nor is it a mistake not to have them in that set.
Tough is an interesting mechanic. It looks like Samut, the tested may be a plant for the RG Dinosaur deck with the tough mechanic. Ping two creatures with forked bolt and draw two cards or give a big fat dinosaur double strike. Maybe she will be decent in standard after all.
Nice catch! That's actually a really cool synergy, and kind of explains why Samut's card is the way it is. I'm still pretty unhappy with her card overall, but at least it has a redeeming quality. Especially since I'm guessing that tough will be a primarily RG mechanic.
The funny thing is, the only reason that people might find Samut remotely acceptable/useful/powerful is because of this leak. WotC is probably (understandably) quite pissed about these leaks, but without them Samut would look like complete trash. Now that we know that she's more of a plant for the next block, her presence in the set is tolerable. But if we didn't know that this mechanic was coming, we would have had every right to pissed at WotC for printing such a (seemingly) useless, underpowered, and unsynergistic planeswalker. Now we actually understand their reasoning, but only because we've seen something they really didn't want us to see yet.
Samut is just bad. I hope that RW walker is great and plays well with any of the Ajanis for the legit Naya beats.
3/3 Torpor Orb for 1W
Enchantment with "Whenever a creature you control becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls draw a card" for G
Instant Exile target creature or planeswalker, you gain 2 life for 2BB
2/2 Legendary Merfolk with "Spells and abilities your opponents control that target a Merfolk you control cost 1 more to cast/activate" for 1UU
Seriously? Every standard set is allied lands with the exception of the fast lands and man lands cycles being complete..wizards are shown they will not print a full ten card land cycle in a block and they choose allied lands that have been printed to hell and back over the enemy that need a reprinting. Especially since ixalan feels like an enemy color set based on vraska being gb. I think this is an incorrect decision on their part for both standard and the community as a whole.
Alright, first, just because I like a cycle of lands being back doesn't mean anything more than that, it has nothing to do with Wizards.
Second, because Vraska being G/B doesn't mean they there has to be the enemy cycle of checklands, nor is it a mistake not to have them in that set.
Reminder that the Zendikar lands weren't supposed to be in standard right now. So there would be 2 sets of allied lands and 1 set of enemy lands. When Ixalan comes in the SOI lands rotate out and who knows we may get the other cycle lands in HOU
TCGplayer Mana Echoes just spiked from 11.5 to 25.5 time to cash in those old tribal cards if you're not going to be using them.
RGDinos and UG Merfolk sound great can't wait to see more.
This smells like a buyout, especially since there's no specific reason for it to go up and we've had tribal sets before without Mana Echoes' price moving at all. Some jackass speculator is probably trying to cash in on hype over a tribal set. Don't get sucked in.
Planeswalkers are too blurry to read, but I can tell that Vraska has a plus ability and two minus abilities. The RW walker has a plus, a zero, and a minus.
There's also a mono-white vampire legend and a mono-blue merfolk legend.
Edit: Vraska and new walker also have the legendary supertype; it's not just a Jace thing.
Well, there's definitely three words on the type line, so there's something more than just "Planeswalker - Jace". And you can see in the image that the last word in the text of the ultimate ability ends with "-ry." It seems pretty likely that the extra word in the type line is legendary.
That's definitely possible, but that would require vampires in red, white, and black. They usually keep races like that to two colors max, although there have been exceptions (zombies in Hour of Devastation, for example). Red vampires were kind of an Innistrad-exclusive thing, but I suppose that could change. There's definitely another red-aligned race on Ixalan besides humans and orcs, and it could be vampires.
People are definitely going to want a Mardu vampire Commander once Ixalan comes out, just like they want an Esper zombie one. That's what happens when they keep expanding tribes into more colors. Hopefully they will meet the players' demands on this. They totally should have predicted what people would want.
Yep, that's probably it. That would make much more sense.
That's what people have been saying, but personally I couldn't read that part of the card. It would make a lot of sense though. That means that you're going to have about 60-70% chance of getting the +1/+1 counter (depending on how many lands are in your deck, which is cool; I enjoy mechanics like delirium that make you think extra about deck building). I bet that all the common creatures with the ability will probably do it when they enter the battlefield, while the rare ones (like Emperor's Vanguard and probably Deadeye Tracker) can do it repeatedly based on some trigger. Combat damage to a player, casting a certain type of spell, creatures dying, landfall (without the keyword), etc. In fact, we could even see a creature with "Tough - Whenever this creature is dealt damage, [whatever this mechanic is called]. (Reveal the top card of your library. Put that card into your hand if that card is a land. Otherwise, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature then put the revealed card back on top or into your graveyard.)" It's always cool when they combine two mechanics on one card, and they've actually more often than usual lately. Aether Revolt had a vehicle that used energy, and Amonkhet had that aven with cycling and embalm.
Thank you.
Haven't seen this here yet.
Thank you for talking sense. Its absurd to think Wizards/Hasbro would leak this intentionally. It is an overzealous fan taking a quick shot at 15 minutes of fame at best and corporate sabotage at the worst. As in most things it probably falls somewhere between the two. No company in its right mind is going to spoil future future product before a rollout of upcoming future product, PERIOD.
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Nice catch! That's actually a really cool synergy, and kind of explains why Samut's card is the way it is. I'm still pretty unhappy with her card overall, but at least it has a redeeming quality. Especially since I'm guessing that tough will be a primarily RG mechanic.
The funny thing is, the only reason that people might find Samut remotely acceptable/useful/powerful is because of this leak. WotC is probably (understandably) quite pissed about these leaks, but without them Samut would look like complete trash. Now that we know that she's more of a plant for the next block, her presence in the set is tolerable. But if we didn't know that this mechanic was coming, we would have had every right to pissed at WotC for printing such a (seemingly) useless, underpowered, and unsynergistic planeswalker. Now we actually understand their reasoning, but only because we've seen something they really didn't want us to see yet.
Alright, first, just because I like a cycle of lands being back doesn't mean anything more than that, it has nothing to do with Wizards.
Second, because Vraska being G/B doesn't mean they there has to be the enemy cycle of checklands, nor is it a mistake not to have them in that set.
Enchantment with "Whenever a creature you control becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls draw a card" for G
Instant Exile target creature or planeswalker, you gain 2 life for 2BB
2/2 Legendary Merfolk with "Spells and abilities your opponents control that target a Merfolk you control cost 1 more to cast/activate" for 1UU
I'm liking this set.
Close up!
Dino lego in Naya and Pirate lego in Grixis.
image is broke. pls attachty
It's a pirate's life for him after Bolas presumably wrecks his mind.
Jace Sparrow?
Reminder that the Zendikar lands weren't supposed to be in standard right now. So there would be 2 sets of allied lands and 1 set of enemy lands. When Ixalan comes in the SOI lands rotate out and who knows we may get the other cycle lands in HOU
Both legendary merfolk i need.
This smells like a buyout, especially since there's no specific reason for it to go up and we've had tribal sets before without Mana Echoes' price moving at all. Some jackass speculator is probably trying to cash in on hype over a tribal set. Don't get sucked in.
It makes you wonder if there's a Europe equivalent on Ixalan.
GU legend costs 5GU
But is rare, not mythic
There's a legendary WB vampire, legendary UBR pirate lord, legendary RGW dinosaur (shard legend cycle?), BG Vraska (of course), and RW native walker.
There's a rare cycle of "[something] Sun Avatar" dinosaur avatae creatures.
Still trying to squint and read the rest.
Instant(?)
Gain control of target creature with converted mana cost X.
There's also a mono-white vampire legend and a mono-blue merfolk legend.
Edit: Vraska and new walker also have the legendary supertype; it's not just a Jace thing.