MTG Salvation

This is all I have for now. More info soon.



EDIT: and here is the more info, as promised:


Also: looks like from now on there will no longer be separate prerelease and release promos.

Planeswalker?

Looks like Ajani Goldmane to me! That's very cool!

Does the fact that the art only seems to be in non-planeswalker form mean it can't be a planeswalker? I think it would be awesome of they gave out a special foil planeswalker, or at lest a mythic rare.

So the prerelease card is Ajani... Nice to know. However, imho, the art certainly looks like it fits a regular creature frame.

I don't know... the pre-release card for Lorwyn wasn't a walker, was it? Smells more like a Legendary Creature to me. And geez, how many arts for Ajanni / Ajanni's brother / Ajanni-people are we going to get?

*Note - sarcasm above - I believe all of the arts we have gotten are for Ajanni, and Ajanni only.

Could be that Ajani Vengeant card that we've been seeing/hearing about... maybe that means it's Legendary and not a Planeswalker?

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Could be that Ajani Vengeant card that we've been seeing/hearing about... maybe that means it's Legendary and not a Planeswalker?

I really don't want to get any more ''planeswalkers before/after they were 'walkers.'' I never liked the flavor of Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir.

Remember they said the pre-re card would be Mythic...

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I really don't want to get any more ''planeswalkers before/after they were 'walkers.'' I never liked the flavor of Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir.

And I'm tired of hearing people saying the opposite. Personally I could care less at this point whether its a walker or a legend, what matters is if the cards will be playable or not.

The art for this iteration of Ajani Vengeant and the previously seen one are clearly not tailored for a Planeswalker frame. This is pretty obviously a Legendary creature.

did everyone forget that there's a whole race of cat people in naya? not every single catperson is ajani. that said, since it's alternate art, it could very well be ajani vengeant, and would certainly imply GW Gold from the art.

edit: after seeing the card, I fail. hard.

Very interesting...definitely isn't a planeswalker. Not sure if that's Ajani. I'd bet it isn't based on the Ultrapro product pics we got a while back.

EDIT: Oh, uh, wow. "Oh, you're WRONG, Agent Mulder [Machine Messiah]. I can't tell you how wrong you are. How wrong you've always BEEN." -- Cigarette Smoking Man, The X-Files

Pre Release + Cat card = awesome pre release.

Prerelease card = alternate art.
Prerelease card = mythic rare.

Ajani.

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Prerelease card = alternate art.
Prerelease card = mythic rare.

Ajani Vengant

Fixed.

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And I'm tired of hearing people saying the opposite. Personally I could care less at this point whether its a walker or a legend, what matters is if the cards will be playable or not.

Almost all cards they print at this point are 'playable.'

What you mean is you hope someone will make a popular deck with it in it so you can copy it.
And so it will be worth $$$

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Prerelease card = alternate art.
Prerelease card = mythic rare.

Ajani.

Is this a confirmation, sir?

"We want the flavor of mythic rare to be something that feels very special and unique. Generally speaking we expect that to mean cards like Planeswalkers, most legends, and epic-feeling creatures and spells. They will not just be a list of each set's most powerful tournament-level cards."
-Mark Rosewater

Link to article

My guess is its probably a legendary creature and not a walker.

This alternate art certainly restrengthens my initial belief that Ajani is going to be a Legendary Creature. I'm excited either way that he'll be such a strongly pushed card for this set, and look forward to seeing exactly what he does.

My thoughts on this are that Ajani is NOT a planeswalker as he was in Lorwyn. IMO he looks to... feral to have that "spark" yet and a legendary ajani would be cool. And it would add yet another layer of redundancy to the legend rule forcing noobs to ask what would happen with goldmane and vengeant in play at the same time... sigh

Whoa! Today's Arcana just confirmed that he is a Planeswalker after all!

Oh look, a planeswalker.

They just chopped off everything below the card type border.

Between this and Oona I think speculating PW sizes based on art previews proves useless.

I don't know if it was noted before, but the Prerelease and Launch Party card are now the same.

On PW design: he's Naya's allied colors (enemies of each other).. throws a wrench in the notion of him being in a "cycle" with Vol.

Planeswalker it is:

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My thoughts on this are that Ajani is NOT a planeswalker as he was in Lorwyn. IMO he looks to... feral to have that "spark" yet and a legendary ajani would be cool. And it would add yet another layer of redundancy to the legend rule forcing noobs to ask what would happen with goldmane and vengeant in play at the same time... sigh

Cause walkers aren't feral.......................Garruk Wildspeaker


EDIT: Im' confused by date...........

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This alternate art certainly restrengthens my initial belief that Ajani is going to be a Legendary Creature. I'm excited either way that he'll be such a strongly pushed card for this set, and look forward to seeing exactly what he does.

Stubborn to the very end.

That looks hot, and debunks the thought of there being a cycle of allied planeswalkers. Now that I think of it I don't know why we thought that. Maybe cuase of Sarkan Vol.

Maybe we'll see one of each pair? Or maybe just a few?

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Cause walkers aren't feral.......................Garruk Wildspeaker


EDIT: Im' confused by date...........

This is the release card too. Releases will now use the same promo as prereleases.