If they are collor-allied, I think they might be: Abandon: BR, Deceit: UB, Mystery: UW, Silence: GW e Triumph: GR.
Beat me to it, though I highly doubt that they will release the allied and enemy color sets together, as Sam Stoddard stated that they are getting away from it.
Beat me to it, though I highly doubt that they will release the allied and enemy color sets together, as Sam Stoddard stated that they are getting away from it.
Can you explain this statement to me?
Are you saying that they aren't printing allied duals and enemy duals in the same set? Or are they not printing them in the same block? Or are they not mixing and matching enemy and allied duals like they did with Ravnica?
Are you saying that they aren't printing allied duals and enemy duals in the same set? Or are they not printing them in the same block? Or are they not mixing and matching enemy and allied duals like they did with Ravnica?
We are more likely to see allied and enemy mix and match rather than the allied and enemy duals being released together. So the 5 duals for the Theros set will likely be a mix and match.
While it made thematic sense to separate enemy and allied color fixing in the past, we have come around to the definite conclusion that it is just plain incorrect from a game-play perspective. This is one of these situations where game play should just trump flavor
Maybe but right now 3 of the 5 officially spoiled mythics are allied with a 4th unofficially spoiled is also allied. A 4-1 split would seem less likely then doing 5-5 and if you're going to do allied mythics why would you not do allied lands?
One thing I wanted to say is the Oracle's tease, combined with Name and Number crunching definitely hints at the lands being named Temple of... this really hurts Vileo's claims that he saw the dual lands because he couldn't remember the names, and if they are all named temple of there's no way you forget that detail.
I don't think you realize how good Pain lands with scry 1 would be
I've played with a lot of pain lands... remember when they were the only duals in Type 2, actually. They are good, but not amazing. Adding scry 1 makes them better, but they'd still be worse than M13 checklands in a lot of decks.
They would be very good in 2-color decks, and those decks would only occasionally have to use their colored mana. A 3-color deck would be a different story entirely. You definitely could NOT auto-include 4x of each like the current shock/check situation... you'd get crushed by aggro. This is especially true if there's no reprint of farseek/rampant growth coming. 3 colors would be possible, but it'd have to be more like 2 with a splash to avoid killing yourself.
Honestly, I don't think scry pain lands is a reasonable guess with shocks in the format, but it's an interesting thought for the future.
I wouldn't really mind those dual-coloured New Benalia (if they're uncommon,) but those are far from exciting. I can't imagine Sam Stoddard being "very excited about them" or that he thinks those lands are "wonderful" as he said in his article...
Oh an Nimbus Maze is out. Witches' Eyes is #222, and Nykthos is #223. Yes, it is odd the the first of the 7 nonbasic lands has a name that starts with 'Ny', but that's how it is.
Anybody who thinks the common removal in Theros is even a little like the common removal situation in AVR needs to go to magiccards.info or gatherer and pull up a list of the AVR commons. Take a couple minutes and scroll through it looking for removal. It makes Theros' common removal suite look like a lush and bountiful paradise where the trees are heavy with black kill spells and we can frolic all day chucking Searing Spears at each other.
You don't call "dying to removal" if the removal is more expensive in resources than the creature. If you have to spend BG (Abrupt Decay), or W + basic land (PtE) to remove a 1G, that is not "dying to removal". Strictly speaking Goyf dies to removal, but actually your removal is dying to Goyf.
I don't think you realize how good Pain lands with scry 1 would be
If they are collor-allied, I think they might be: Abandon: BR, Deceit: UB, Mystery: UW, Silence: GW e Triumph: GR.
Beat me to it, though I highly doubt that they will release the allied and enemy color sets together, as Sam Stoddard stated that they are getting away from it.
Can you explain this statement to me?
Are you saying that they aren't printing allied duals and enemy duals in the same set? Or are they not printing them in the same block? Or are they not mixing and matching enemy and allied duals like they did with Ravnica?
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We are more likely to see allied and enemy mix and match rather than the allied and enemy duals being released together. So the 5 duals for the Theros set will likely be a mix and match.
One thing I wanted to say is the Oracle's tease, combined with Name and Number crunching definitely hints at the lands being named Temple of... this really hurts Vileo's claims that he saw the dual lands because he couldn't remember the names, and if they are all named temple of there's no way you forget that detail.
I've played with a lot of pain lands... remember when they were the only duals in Type 2, actually. They are good, but not amazing. Adding scry 1 makes them better, but they'd still be worse than M13 checklands in a lot of decks.
They would be very good in 2-color decks, and those decks would only occasionally have to use their colored mana. A 3-color deck would be a different story entirely. You definitely could NOT auto-include 4x of each like the current shock/check situation... you'd get crushed by aggro. This is especially true if there's no reprint of farseek/rampant growth coming. 3 colors would be possible, but it'd have to be more like 2 with a splash to avoid killing yourself.
Honestly, I don't think scry pain lands is a reasonable guess with shocks in the format, but it's an interesting thought for the future.
Is it though? Temple of...
Land
When this land enters the battlefield scry 1.
If you control a green permanent this taps for G
If you control a red permanent this taps for R
Fitting the devotion style of the set.
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10/10, I tapped.