New favorite plains art. I'm going to have to get as many of these as humanly possible and replace all the plains in all my other decks with them. I hope there is a land or each color that astounds me as much as this does...
I don't think there will be any future Un-sets because they were created only because they were one edition short per two years and now it has changed.
Anyway cool art.
MaRo said recently - on his Twitter, IIRC - that he's trying to get out an Un-set. Kinda makes sense that it wouldn't need to fit in the normal release schedule with all these other special releases coming out these days. Really, the more I think about it, the more I think I'd feel kinda irked if an actual set was bumped to make room in the release schedule for a set of joke cards. Kinda like how I'd feel irked if they pulled the whole Steamflogger Boss joke again.
Why are people (or at least 1-2 people) acting like these won't be available in foil? Did I miss something?
They're probably trying to drive down demand while they get their first couple dozen of 'em.
"Foil full-frame Island! Hell yeah!"
"Awww sorry Bob. That's a counterfeit pack... WotC isn't making foil basic lands in Zendikar. I'll be glad to take it off your hands, though... you know me and my fondness of oddities, and I'd hate to see ya take an invalid deck to FNM..."
I don't see Un sets as likely because they just don't make as much $$$ as normal sets
This to me looks like the death blow for future Un sets - that was their one draw card. They would have to replace it if they were to be able to sell packs of Un to players who wouldn't use them beyond one release event.
Stuff like from the vaults and all these special products and Vs decks are probably better business than a parody set.
I've been waiting for this for such a long time. I love full art land
I have a dangerous compulsion to collect and horde nice looking basic lands, so I have a bad feeling that this is about to get rather expensive for me..
Take your monoblack deck, then set aside 14 swamps. Add 4 Creeping Tar Pits, 4 Darkslick Shores, 4 Drowned Catacombs, and 2 Jwar isle Refuge and add 4 Jace, the Mindsculptors. Your monoblack deck is instantly better. Better yet, drop those refuges, throw in some islands and some mana leaks, and lo and behold, you're now playing a real deck. Congratulations. Welcome to the world of competitive M:TG.
I'm still seeing Obelisks taking off into the sky, but the alternative that they're falling also works. It's cool to convince yourself of ether one and just stare. Perhaps tomorrow's Islands will reveal more. Anyway, the art direction reminds of romantic paintings a kinda Victorian feel to the English country side the obelisks are taking off from. For some reason I'm reminded of lovecraft?
Also, the big up close pics show little cities carved into the ruins and suggests a drained plain, perhaps mana is stranger than we think in Zendikar?
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didn't they do this already in the Un-Set's, I don't know why everyone is getting so excited about this.
Because Un-lands can go for about $3 each. Foil Unhinged lands go for almost $10. These will be full-frame lands that will be readily accessible in large numbers thanks to fat packs and boosters.
Ah finally, they realized players like Full art cards, especially lands.
Perhaps we will see a trend towards more full/extended art cards in the base sets, or another 'foil' variant for packs, like Textless/Low text vanilla/small text creatures. (Mmm Textless giant spiders)
I must say: simply an awesome idea.
My only fear is that unhinged lands may lower in value...
Awesome. I've collected dozens of Unglued and Unhinged lands (my cuse provides these as the basic lands!) but this seems to be the mortar that is sealing any third Un-set. Why would you take the most attractive point for non-casual players from the Un-sets and make it standard for the boosters? Because it's profiable to put it into a product they are already more likely to buy.
Unglued/Unhinged lands shouldn't drop much, per se: these are pretty unique in terms of look (UNH lands are even more full art than these new full art lands) and will be harder to find (i.e. still true pimp). The new lands will be worth less as more of the ZEN block is released: availability will drive down price for any demand these lands will have.
Yes. A thousand times yes. They lured me in with Ivory Tower and Zuran Orb, and I kept telling myself "I can quit whenever I want...just look at that untapped disk". That was ten years ago man.....
I AM SO EXCITED! I LOVE ZENDIKAR ALREADY! (the prerelease is like a week after my birthday, too. I get Planechase the week before and Zendikar the week after!) I can't wait to see the Swamps. These lands will replace all of my basics! I didn't get a chance at Unhinged lands and I wasn't prepared to spend $70 on basic lands for my deck, so I didn't buy them. But I REALLY want these! They're mine! All of them!
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Cards with the post 8th Edition, color shifted and future shifted templates as well as the timeshifted and Coldsnap reprint ones tastes a little sweeter. Any gold cards with the old faces are a little saltier. European foreign (except Russian) cards with the mentioned templates above are not as sweet as their English counterparts and has a wierd after taste. All taste tests were done from fresh packs and all cards tasted are not foil cards. I have yet to taste Asian and Russian cards.
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They should have done this way before. I love the new design.
New favorite plains art. I'm going to have to get as many of these as humanly possible and replace all the plains in all my other decks with them. I hope there is a land or each color that astounds me as much as this does...
I guess this will make any new UN-sets completely useless. :/
MaRo said recently - on his Twitter, IIRC - that he's trying to get out an Un-set. Kinda makes sense that it wouldn't need to fit in the normal release schedule with all these other special releases coming out these days. Really, the more I think about it, the more I think I'd feel kinda irked if an actual set was bumped to make room in the release schedule for a set of joke cards. Kinda like how I'd feel irked if they pulled the whole Steamflogger Boss joke again.
They're probably trying to drive down demand while they get their first couple dozen of 'em.
"Foil full-frame Island! Hell yeah!"
"Awww sorry Bob. That's a counterfeit pack... WotC isn't making foil basic lands in Zendikar. I'll be glad to take it off your hands, though... you know me and my fondness of oddities, and I'd hate to see ya take an invalid deck to FNM..."
This to me looks like the death blow for future Un sets - that was their one draw card. They would have to replace it if they were to be able to sell packs of Un to players who wouldn't use them beyond one release event.
Stuff like from the vaults and all these special products and Vs decks are probably better business than a parody set.
I've been waiting for this for such a long time. I love full art land
And it would have been more special if the Full Art land was an Uncommon Basic Land ... so it's not in every booster but more rare ...
but anyways ... I don't know, if it's the art, the full art thing or only in boosters thing - I'm soooooooooo HYPED about this!
Brilliant idea, Wizards!
Somehow or other, I must amass enough full frame islands for all my decks...
On posting Garruk of the Wild
Also, the big up close pics show little cities carved into the ruins and suggests a drained plain, perhaps mana is stranger than we think in Zendikar?
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"I feel like I haven't done my job unless somebody says, 'How the hell is that supposed to work?'" - Mark Rosewater
Collecting Islands need:
Unhinged & Unglued
Arena: Donato Giancola, Tony Szczudlo, Anson Maddocks, John Avon (ravnica)
European Land Program: Ben Thompsom, Eric Peterson, Ben Thompson
Fifth Edition J. W. Frost Islands foil
Location: Bangkok
Because Un-lands can go for about $3 each. Foil Unhinged lands go for almost $10. These will be full-frame lands that will be readily accessible in large numbers thanks to fat packs and boosters.
Perhaps we will see a trend towards more full/extended art cards in the base sets, or another 'foil' variant for packs, like Textless/Low text vanilla/small text creatures. (Mmm Textless giant spiders)
This is one of Wizards' best ideas this year. Approved so hard I can crush rocks.
Awesome. I've collected dozens of Unglued and Unhinged lands (my cuse provides these as the basic lands!) but this seems to be the mortar that is sealing any third Un-set. Why would you take the most attractive point for non-casual players from the Un-sets and make it standard for the boosters? Because it's profiable to put it into a product they are already more likely to buy.
Unglued/Unhinged lands shouldn't drop much, per se: these are pretty unique in terms of look (UNH lands are even more full art than these new full art lands) and will be harder to find (i.e. still true pimp). The new lands will be worth less as more of the ZEN block is released: availability will drive down price for any demand these lands will have.
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ZEN lands haz it.
Also, one of the lands has those "obelisks" on it. Hmm...