MTG Salvation

Official Dark Ascension Previews begin next week. For those who can't wait, here's a preview of the Monday previews.

The feature article will explain the mechanics of the set and will spoil this card:



The Arcana will spoil the promo cards, including this one:



This is surely Ravenous Demon.

No word yet on Maro's preview.
EDIT: Here's a preview of Maro's preview!

Maro's preview is Jar of Eyeballs. He said so himself.
http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=382451

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Maro's preview is Jar of Eyeballs. He said so himself.
http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=382451

He says "I’ll show to you all here on tumblr on Monday." so it might not be his dailymtg column preview.

I would assume the promo cards will be the Arcana leaving Maro's article and this one shown here with the ghoul looking thing for the two articles. Does anyone know if there will be a mini site for DKA? The usually go up the Wednesday before spoilers begin but as far as I know, we don't have one yet.

So Gravecrawler looks nothing like I imagined... it's like something from The RING.... The demon looks kinda spooky I guess.

Jar of Eyeballs will be an additional preview card shown on his Twitter and Tumblr, he has a preview card in his Monday article as well.

I'm really loving that art for that Geist :3.

Also, this Demon looks interesting - not quite as physically bulky as most of Magic's Demons.

Hmm, I wonder if Maro will also start previewing cards in Tales from the Pit? He can hide something strategic like text box behind a speech bubble

Well he is really digging Tumblr lately... might be the new way they are pushing things, through social networking... in order to give the thirst masses more than one or two cards a day.

Preview cards on Twitter are nothing new at all. Those have been given out since at least Scars of Mirrodin, I can't remember if they'd also been done prior to that. Not just Mark, but Aaron Forsythe, Ken Nagle, and other members of R&D have tweeted preview cards, plus ones posted from the main DailyMTG account. The Jar was first mentioned as a Twitter preview, it'll just be cross-posted to Tumblr after that, just like Mark's other Twitter previews since he started his Tumblr.

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Ravenous Demon is the most calm, collected and, well, most unravenous-looking demon ever.

Until we zoom out and see piles of dead bodies.

Okay, gross.

Isn't that geist the art on one of the event decks?

For those who can't wait, here's a preview of the Monday previews.

Yo dawg! We heard you like previews, so we put a preview in your preview so you can watch a preview while waiting to watch a preview.

That first art is oh so disturbing... wow.

from Maro on twitter:

Mark Rosewater @maro254 4m My preview card for Monday is a double-faced card. One of the sides is not a creature (or planeswalker).

he also confirmed jar of eyeballs is his tumblr/twitter preview. So two from him.

I assume his DFC will be something akin to erayo; starts as a creature and turns into an enchanment. or vice-versa. 'dude becomes curse' is an option, as is 'artifact possessed by ghost becomes ghost'

Update: We now have a small pic of both sides of Maro's preview!

Previews for a preview... that's cool... color me unimpressed by wotcs pr campaigns yet again

That art looks kinda like 'kill spell/your head as part of my weird experiment'

So maybe side A could be 'give target creature -2/-2 until end of turn. If it dies this turn, put ~this~ into play flipped'//zombie

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Previews for a preview... that's cool... color me unimpressed by wotcs pr campaigns yet again

This has nothing to do with WotC...you can usually pull out the images for the daily articles on mtg.com a few days in advance.

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Update: We now have a small pic of both sides of Maro's preview!

which 2 pictures go together?

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That art looks kinda like 'kill spell/your head as part of my weird experiment'

So maybe side A could be 'give target creature -2/-2 until end of turn. If it dies this turn, put ~this~ into play flipped'//zombie

I'd be very disappointed if Maro's week 1 preview was basically Skeletonize.

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which 2 pictures go together?

The last pic (the small one) looks like two different arts. Maybe I'm looking at it wrong though.

No, I think you're right, there's only half of the skull image on the right that blends into the other image on the left half.

Art and themewise, Jar of Eyeballs sounds an awful lot like Lantern of Insight; its an artifact at least. I wonder if it could be inspired by it and not just coincidental; it would be easy to work something like Lantern into a mill-based theme, which wizards have really been pushing through an artifact theme anyway

It's safe to assume that whatever it does involves looking at hidden information of some sort, whether it's someone's hand, top card of a library, etc.