MTG Salvation

This seems good so far. depends what eternalize is.

OMG JUST TELL US WHAT IT MEANS

One, the card was full art, and in english: http://mythicspoiler.com/hou/cards/adornedpouncer.html

Two, we know its unofficial, the capslocked rant was meant to be humorous in the "the suspense is killing me" vein.

One, obviously the card as originally linked in another language, that text box is hideous.

Two, obviously this is an unofficial leak and not an official spoiler, those don't start until June 16th, so complaining about the order is ridiculous.

Agreed
I wish the FIRST card spoiled with this ability would tell us what it means.

my bet: give the creature indestructible (and maybe a +1/+1 counter)

I bet it's embalm with a bonus.

It's highly unlikely there will be +1/+1 counters in a block with -1/-1 counters. There are no +1/+1 counters in the main AKH set and no +1/+1 counters in Shadowmoor block, for example. Likewise, Scars of Mirrodin. Time Spiral did have both, but that was right when they revamped the rules on it, so it's a bit special in this regard (they had pretty much discontinued -1/-1 counters before this and Time Spiral brought them back)

So bets are on keyword Fleecemaning it?

It's rare to see a keyword without reminder text. That usually only happens when the keyword is blatantly obvious (or there isn't enough room - which isn't the case here.) Even evergreen keywords have reminders.

The only keyword I can think of that doesn't use reminder text is transform - because double-faced cards are obvious what they need to do.

For something to be 'eternal' it can't be removed in any way. Something eternal to me winds up being a concept or an idea rather than a physical thing you can interact with.

I feel like these come together to mean that Eternalize cards are double-faced cards with an emblem on the back side of them. They get moved to the command zone and have an eternal effect on the game after they have been eternalized. (Hopefully we'll have a way of dealing with Emblems too - something I've been wanting for awhile)

It occurs to me that if it were a double-faced card, whoever it was that leaked these promos would have taken a picture of the other side as well, so my hypothesis is wrong.

Sometimes I wonder if people even bother to read what I write - because I've covered nearly every point you've brought up.
http://magiccards.info/query?q=o:Transform&v=card&s=cname

How many reminder texts do you see for Transform? None. It's pretty obvious what it does solely based on the fact its a double-sided card. This is why I feel that this might also be a double-sided card. (Being an Emblem that needs to change zones would make it different enough from other transform cards to need it's own keyword)

The card is fully revealed. This isn't a case where WotC has put half the card on their site and hid half of it (as they have done with some cards). We have a photo of the actual cards. It's technically a leak, not a WotC reveal. There is no reminder text on this card (There might be a reminder text in the in-set non promo card, though.)

I am unable to find a case of any promo cards (full art or otherwise) that didn't have reminder text on the keyword except for evergreen keywords or cards that had a lot of other text which didn't leave room for a reminder - neither of which is the case here.

I encourage you to google image search Full Art Promo Cards MTG - you'll see that these do typically waste a lot of space when a reminder text is not necessary. They never have flavour text.

If you look at the card, there is no flavor text or any other writing on the card other than Double Strike & Externalize. Newer cards typically don't waste a lot of space in the text box. Considering that there would be a lot of wasted space on the normal card, my guess is that the card is not fully revealed & will most likely have reminder text explaining what the keyword does. (The promo card is probably going to stay that way, but the actual card itself will probably be different).

It would seem kinda stupid on WotC's part to introduce a new keyword & NOT have the reminder text on the card explaining the new mechanic to players.

I did a quick search to confirm - there are very few keywords in full art cards at all - and outside of evergreens you seem to be incorrect here;

Staggershock has reminder text for Rebound.
Strangleroot Geist has reminder text for Batallion.
Incorrigible Youths has reminder text for Madness.

The only keywords on full art cards that don't have reminder text that I see are evergreen or they fall into the 'too much text' rule where they always drop reminder text (Nighthowler).

Thus, I think my hypothesis stands - it has to be something blatantly obvious along the lines of transform.

This came from a leaked full-art promo card. WotC doesn't put reminder texts on full-art promo cards.

My guess is Eternalize is a stronger version of Embalm. Kinda like how Megamorph was a stronger version of Morph.
Perhaps it does the same thing as Embalm except it includes getting something like Indestructible when it comes back.

LOLZ. everyone was wrong in their predictions.

Actually, there was a thread in the forums where someone speculated it would be "Embalm, but black" - so someone actually guessed right.

I didn't think that would be what it was, though. Seems silly to make a new keyword in the same block to do the exact same thing but make the token black.

Yes. you were. also nobody thought it would make the thing black.

I was probably the closest to getting it right. I said it would have been a stronger version of Embalm, but with indestructible. Remove the indestructible part & I would've been on the money.