The interesting tidbit to me is that both sets have 20 additional cards filling the basic land position. What are these cards that made the basic lands "extra"?
I'm confused. Why does "there will be five of each basic land" warrant speculation? Doesn't it just mean that they're going to have 5 different pieces of art for each land instead of 4?
I'm confused. Why does "there will be five of each basic land" warrant speculation? Doesn't it just mean that they're going to have 5 different pieces of art for each land instead of 4?
Because, like Mirrodin -> New Phyrexia's basic land scheme, folks are interested in what that might mean for the plane. It might signal that something wonderful or horrible happens during sinker that fundamentally changes the plane, so that new lands need to be printed to depict the altered topography.
I'm confused. Why does "there will be five of each basic land" warrant speculation? Doesn't it just mean that they're going to have 5 different pieces of art for each land instead of 4?
Because this fuels the speculation even further. It also raises questions on why the holiday box only has 20 land compared to 25, thus leaving out an art. There must be some reason for this which we'll likely hear about later. This also explains the extra cards RTR had, previously five slots were unaccounted for.
I'm confused. Why does "there will be five of each basic land" warrant speculation? Doesn't it just mean that they're going to have 5 different pieces of art for each land instead of 4?
Good speculation. Maybe your are right. Then again, maybe not.
It's probably just to help show that this Ravnica is different. There are now places that the guilds don't touch. So one pure land of each, and then the guild influenced lands as previously speculated makes the most sense. The guild-influenced ones may have panorama arts ala Lorwyn lands.
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5 arts per basic lands would be weird. Maybe we are getting a new type of basic land, but even with a new one, it only gives you 4 arts as well meaning 24 slots instead of 25 missing...
While not likely to be materially impactful it is interesting to note that Gatecrash redemptions won't contain basic land then.
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This is a big stretch, but that's what speculation is for
So we there have been a lot of clues pointing to basic land types on dual lands this upcoming block (Farseek, new Lili, etc.). What if each basic land has only 3 different arts, for a total of 15. That leaves 10 uncounted for, so what if each guild gets it's own two colored basic land, of sorts? Maybe they're making a move or something, I don't know, just an idea.
EDIT: Well, actually Farseek is more of a clue that they won't be basic But, nonetheless, baseless speculation!
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It would be cool if they were panoramic, with the art sideways (so when they are tapped the art is oriented correctly). Something that hasn't been done before.
GTC doesn't have basic lands, so these basic lands will be for RTR and GTC, and maybe also Sinker. I'm guessing that it's one "pure" art, as someone suggested (maybe the ones whose art they previewed at SDCC), and the others might be guild-themed. But then, why wouldn't they have split them between RTR and GTC (e.g., Plains in RTR would be regular/Azorius/Selesnya, and regular/Boros/Orzhov in GTC)?
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r4i6 asked: How come RtR has 274 cards and GTC has 249? Will the first 5 guilds get more cards?
The difference is because Gatecrash is using the same basic land as Return to Ravnica. There are the same number of non-basic land cards.
So, there will be five of each basic land, compared to the normal four.
Let the speculation begin.
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Also, each guild in Gatecrash wouldn't have them so it wouldn't be fair.
Each color has four guilds with it in it. So it's possible the Gatecrash guilds have lands in RTR. Or full-art lands.
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Not dual lands, just "influenced" to stand ready to be put into guild decks. Not a scientific survey, just a hunch.
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Because, like Mirrodin -> New Phyrexia's basic land scheme, folks are interested in what that might mean for the plane. It might signal that something wonderful or horrible happens during sinker that fundamentally changes the plane, so that new lands need to be printed to depict the altered topography.
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Because this fuels the speculation even further. It also raises questions on why the holiday box only has 20 land compared to 25, thus leaving out an art. There must be some reason for this which we'll likely hear about later. This also explains the extra cards RTR had, previously five slots were unaccounted for.
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Good speculation. Maybe your are right. Then again, maybe not.
I call it first: New Basic land! CITY!or probably just 4 standard land cards and 1 'Extra'. Full Art maybe.
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So we there have been a lot of clues pointing to basic land types on dual lands this upcoming block (Farseek, new Lili, etc.). What if each basic land has only 3 different arts, for a total of 15. That leaves 10 uncounted for, so what if each guild gets it's own two colored basic land, of sorts? Maybe they're making a move or something, I don't know, just an idea.
EDIT: Well, actually Farseek is more of a clue that they won't be basic But, nonetheless, baseless speculation!
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It would be cool if they were panoramic, with the art sideways (so when they are tapped the art is oriented correctly). Something that hasn't been done before.
EDIT: Too late.
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Its a cycle of 5 basic dual lands...duh.
But that wouldn't be a basic.
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So Basic Enchantment Lands, it is!
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