A card based on a silver-bordered white card
A token-making sorcery which makes more creature tokens than any previous token-making spell (not counting X spells or spells that make a variable number)
An enchantment that could let you play all your creatures for free
A spell that can deal 13 damage to multiple creatures for one mana (and yes, I mean 13 damage multiple times)
Many—and I'm talking more than a few—cards inspired by famous horror stories
A card that turns a loss into a win
A two-mana creature that lets you make a 2/2 creature each turn for two mana
A card that lets you exchange your life total with something you've never been able to exchange it with before
and...
A planeswalker with five loyalty abilities
Obviously the most interesting here is the last, a planeswalker with FIVE abilities.
We saw JTMS with 4 abilities, and that turned out broken, I assume these abilities are going to have to suck.
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I can feel fear mixing in with my anxiousness to see Innistrad now. 5 abilities is just too good in my opinion, even more so if one provides card advantage. Unless it's harder to cast then Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker's great-great-great planeswalking grandmother.
All of these cards sound awesome, but I'm trying to hold back my excitement. I remember when Maro dropped these hints about Zendikar cards and they turned out to be less-than impressive (A 13/13 for one mana! Wow! )
I bet that you can't just use 5 abilities at any time. There's got to be a catch. There's got to be some mechanic involved like "if you used this ability during your first main phase, do X. Otherwise, do X." They just can't give Lily five abilities... they just can't. Maybe it's Lily with threshold.
Five loyalty abilities?? Hm... I wonder if they're all the "standard" loyalty abilites, that we've seen in PW's so far, or if they're gonna do something different, a way to have a PW modify his/her loyalty in a different way.
If it's the former, I hope it'll be Liliana of the Veil. Lili *really* needs a boost.
People shouldn't read to much into these hints. Maro has proven to be none to truthful with these hints.
Well, he has, but they're usually overplayed and have some odd condition. (See: Shared Discovery).
Quick view of Gatherer for the white silver-bordered card. Get a Life abides with his life exchange theme, although unlikely, but I'm willing to bet it'll be related to Staying Power, but not to that power level obviously. Kind of like a weird, one-time Upwelling type of effect.
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but I'm willing to bet it'll be related to Staying Power, but not to that power level obviously. Kind of like a weird, one-time Upwelling type of effect.
This seems very likely to me. This is a really cool effect that could actually be printed in a normal expansion and would definitely make for a fun card.
We might be over looking the obvious, but it would be the first 5 color walker, with each ability strongly related to a color.
Not claiming it would be balanced or anything, but you would either have them all be color staples (shock and giant growth type) and all be pluses, or you could make them normal planeswalker style and just choose one color to be an ultimate.
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A card based on a silver-bordered white card
A token-making sorcery which makes more creature tokens than any previous token-making spell (not counting X spells or spells that make a variable number)
An enchantment that could let you play all your creatures for free
A spell that can deal 13 damage to multiple creatures for one mana (and yes, I mean 13 damage multiple times)
Many—and I'm talking more than a few—cards inspired by famous horror stories
A card that turns a loss into a win
A two-mana creature that lets you make a 2/2 creature each turn for two mana
A card that lets you exchange your life total with something you've never been able to exchange it with before
and...
A planeswalker with five loyalty abilities
Obviously the most interesting here is the last, a planeswalker with FIVE abilities.
We saw JTMS with 4 abilities, and that turned out broken, I assume these abilities are going to have to suck.
If any of these are a easy source of card advantage, then ban incoming.
..and I'm interested to see how much art is actually shown on the card, what with making room for 5 abilities.
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All of these cards sound awesome, but I'm trying to hold back my excitement. I remember when Maro dropped these hints about Zendikar cards and they turned out to be less-than impressive (A 13/13 for one mana! Wow! )
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If it's the former, I hope it'll be Liliana of the Veil. Lili *really* needs a boost.
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Mechanic X made into state of design, its got to be broken in half.
As for the planeswalker, I thought development said that four abilities was a mistake.
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Well, he has, but they're usually overplayed and have some odd condition. (See: Shared Discovery).
Quick view of Gatherer for the white silver-bordered card. Get a Life abides with his life exchange theme, although unlikely, but I'm willing to bet it'll be related to Staying Power, but not to that power level obviously. Kind of like a weird, one-time Upwelling type of effect.
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This seems very likely to me. This is a really cool effect that could actually be printed in a normal expansion and would definitely make for a fun card.
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obv gonna be a 1 mana instant "The next time you would lose the game, win the game instead."
5 abilities. All 5 subtract loyalty.
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Not claiming it would be balanced or anything, but you would either have them all be color staples (shock and giant growth type) and all be pluses, or you could make them normal planeswalker style and just choose one color to be an ultimate.
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