Faster to post text than get pic, here is four cards shown on the promo standee received from Wizards today in store:
Burning Earth - 3R
Rare
Enchantment
Whenever a player taps a nonbasic land for mana, Burning Earth deals 1 damage to that player.
Undead Minotaur - 2B
Common
Creature - Zombie Minotaur
2/3
Elvish Mystic - G
Common
Creature - Elf Druid
Tap: Add G to your mana pool.
1/1
Lay of the Land - G
Common
Sorcery
Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it in your hand, then shuffle your library.
Other cards shown on standee:
New - Celestial Flare - WW (no other info)
Giant Growth
Divination
Doom Blade
Flames of the Firebrand
Shock
Griffin Sentinel
Coral Merfolk
Quag Sickness
Elixir of Immortality
Accorder's Shield
Serra Angel
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Wow... what a sick Manabarbs variant in Burning Earth. I wonder what other incentives mono red will get since most "mono red" decks I see today are gruul or rakdos...
Sad to see Llanowar Elves get the boot, but maybe we'll go back to dominaria some day.
Good to see the return of @doombladeguy in m14, and the simultaneous return of shock is fantastic. We're a long way out from a complete m14 spoiler, and we already have enough information to earn a nod of approval *bravo*.
Flames of the Firebrand also has kind of second guessing this. Why would Chandra, who is set to get a new version, get a card that references an older incarnation of herself?
Flames of the Firebrand also has kind of second guessing this. Why would Chandra, who is set to get a new version, get a card that references an older incarnation of herself?
Cool, [flavor-]fixed Llanowar Elves. It always kinda bothered me that the card name has more than one elf, but the art always shows one elf, and that the art always showed a warrior .... that's a 1/1 with no combat abilities.
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Burning Earth Is actually really good... Could become an important tool for mono-red EDH, and in a world with 10 shocklands it could destroy 4-5 colour strategies.
Lay of the Land is cool. They clearly won't be reprinting Farseek(card was really degenerate in the last year of Standard), and it will be interesting to see whether or not people are willing to run less shock lands/more basics for powerful mana acceleration. T1 acceleration that doesn't involve a frail 1/1 is fantastic.
I don't think Lay of the Land works like you think it does. It doesn't accelerate. It just puts it into your hand.
While I am not against another 1 mana elf that makes mana, why not reprint fyndhorn elves? Is it because those are location specific? Or they want mana producing elves to have a more mystic sounding name?
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While I am not against another 1 mana elf that makes mana, why not reprint fyndhorn elves? Is it because those are location specific? Or they want mana producing elves to have a more mystic sounding name?
Because we obviously need 4 more mana elves in our EDH decks, duh.
I'm glad we finally can stop having "Llanowar Elves" as a single 1/1 creature. Of course, providing another functional copy of that card has implications wherever Elf tribal and/or combo decks are found.
More Zombie Minotaurs? Yeah, I'm pretty sure this will be relevant in Theros.
I'm very excited about Burning Earth. Everyone in my meta seems to be running decks that have almost no basic lands to speak of. It will be hilarious to see someone tap out for Sphinx's Revelation with all shocklands/checklands and see the life gain get erased by this card.
Llanowar Elves is getting changed because of two reasons:
1) The card depicts a single elf instead of multiple, which makes its name silly.
2) For such a basic card it has a very specific location name, for the sake of future reprints in possibly expert expansions as well as core sets, they probably wanted to simplify the name.
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Wow... what a sick Manabarbs variant in Burning Earth. I wonder what other incentives mono red will get since most "mono red" decks I see today are gruul or rakdos...
Sad to see Llanowar Elves get the boot, but maybe we'll go back to dominaria some day.
Good to see the return of @doombladeguy in m14, and the simultaneous return of shock is fantastic. We're a long way out from a complete m14 spoiler, and we already have enough information to earn a nod of approval *bravo*.
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Well, she IS a firebrand, right?
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I don't think Lay of the Land works like you think it does. It doesn't accelerate. It just puts it into your hand.
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Because we obviously need 4 more mana elves in our EDH decks, duh.
More Zombie Minotaurs? Yeah, I'm pretty sure this will be relevant in Theros.
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And how are you putting FOUR more mana elves in your EDH deck? I am not familiar with those rules.
if by "toned down" you mean "potentially 1-sided" than yes, I suppose it can be a "toned down" manabarbs
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glad to see doom blade, shock and flames of the firebrand back.
Interesting to see whether or not the nonbasic manabarbs will actually make an impact or not.
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1) The card depicts a single elf instead of multiple, which makes its name silly.
2) For such a basic card it has a very specific location name, for the sake of future reprints in possibly expert expansions as well as core sets, they probably wanted to simplify the name.
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