These two decks have been played on Game Knights Live, and now we have the full lists and cards for those of us at home. Urza's Iron Alliance is a WUB artifact deck focused on flooding the board with artifact tokens, with a major clone subtheme. Misha's Burnished Banner is a UBR artifact deck focused on making one monstrous artifact at a time, with a major sacrifice subtheme. Joining Urza, Chief Artificer and Mishra, Eminent One are their formerly-leaked apprentices.
There's also one extra legend per deck, a monocolor legend from the stories based on the color unique to the precon. Urza's deck has the new pilot of Sword One, while Mishra's deck has a spearman from the Fallaji trenches.
The new cards of Urza's deck support the go-wide theme.
To keep track of that ever-growing army of metal, here are the tokens of the precon. Note that each row of tokens presented here moving forward represents 1 double-faced token.
The new cards of Mishra's deck, on the other hand, do not build armies, but one, single, colossal artifact, then making sure it stays up.
While this precon does have its fair share of small token, they're mostly sacrifice fodder for the larger artifacts. Note that each row of tokens presented here moving forward represents 1 double-faced token.
Halcyon was built on top of a valvcanic plateau. It was not a floating city. It was mistakenly portrayed as such on the cover of the Thran novel, but nowhere else. That same cover portrayed Glacian as a young man and Yawgmoth as an old, wizened doctor. The artist had clearly not read the actual book.
Still, these references to Halcyon, Orleason, Phoenon, and all these locations mentioned so far only in the Thran novel... they warm my heart.
Overall, I really like how this set, and these decks, and this entire product is shaping up.
If there isn't an old bordered Tree of Tales in the set boosters, we riot.
Yeah, and the decks run half the cycle of Zendikar duals, as well as half the cycle of Ravnica bounce lands. I really hope we don't have to wait too long to get the rest of the cycles in retro frames...
Wow, good stuff. Machine God's Effigy has major combo potential (infinite with Devoted Druid, etc) and Wondrous Crucible is going to do some zany things, although mana cost 7 is a bit to get there.
Where do you find the old-border versions of the artifact lands and other reprints? Didn't see them on the Wizards page.
Halcyon was built on top of a valvcanic plateau. It was not a floating city. It was mistakenly portrayed as such on the cover of the Thran novel, but nowhere else. That same cover portrayed Glacian as a young man and Yawgmoth as an old, wizened doctor. The artist had clearly not read the actual book.
Still, these references to Halcyon, Orleason, Phoenon, and all these locations mentioned so far only in the Thran novel... they warm my heart.
Overall, I really like how this set, and these decks, and this entire product is shaping up.
In fairness, I think that Halcyon being built up high in the sky like that could reasonably give it the impression of floating and warrant it being called a floating city or being "in the clouds" colloquially. (Also, didn't Powerstones at some point actually lift part of it into the sky in the novel? Or am I forgetting that?)
Looking at the back cover of the novel again... I always interpreted the young man doing a weird ritual to be Yawgmoth, and the suspicious old dude to be Glacian. (Image I found online here- https://www.ebay.com/itm/304594776575) Either way, it was a great book and it is cool to see it referenced here!
Do these decks exclusively come in the old border? Or can we purchase modern border versions?
Retro only.
That's highly unfortunate. Hopefully they will reprint this art in the future with the modern frame.
I'm pretty sure the borderless versions in collector boosters are in the modern border. I'll be picking those up, as I can't stand the old border, but I'm happy the Old Fogeys are having their fun.
Please, mill me. Mill my important cards. Mill my lands. Mill it all. Because I will still deal 20 damage before you can mill 45 cards most every time.
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Spoiler EditorThere's also one extra legend per deck, a monocolor legend from the stories based on the color unique to the precon. Urza's deck has the new pilot of Sword One, while Mishra's deck has a spearman from the Fallaji trenches.
Decklists are here.
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Spoiler EditorTo keep track of that ever-growing army of metal, here are the tokens of the precon. Note that each row of tokens presented here moving forward represents 1 double-faced token.
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Spoiler EditorWhile this precon does have its fair share of small token, they're mostly sacrifice fodder for the larger artifacts. Note that each row of tokens presented here moving forward represents 1 double-faced token.
And I’m in awe of so many cards in old border
biggest highlight of reprints with new art bare none is the artifact lands
Halcyon was built on top of a valvcanic plateau. It was not a floating city. It was mistakenly portrayed as such on the cover of the Thran novel, but nowhere else. That same cover portrayed Glacian as a young man and Yawgmoth as an old, wizened doctor. The artist had clearly not read the actual book.
Still, these references to Halcyon, Orleason, Phoenon, and all these locations mentioned so far only in the Thran novel... they warm my heart.
Overall, I really like how this set, and these decks, and this entire product is shaping up.
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Where do you find the old-border versions of the artifact lands and other reprints? Didn't see them on the Wizards page.
In fairness, I think that Halcyon being built up high in the sky like that could reasonably give it the impression of floating and warrant it being called a floating city or being "in the clouds" colloquially. (Also, didn't Powerstones at some point actually lift part of it into the sky in the novel? Or am I forgetting that?)
Looking at the back cover of the novel again... I always interpreted the young man doing a weird ritual to be Yawgmoth, and the suspicious old dude to be Glacian. (Image I found online here- https://www.ebay.com/itm/304594776575) Either way, it was a great book and it is cool to see it referenced here!
So thats good, some powerful stuff.
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|| UW Jace, Vyn's Prodigy UW || UG Kenessos, Priest of Thassa (feat. Arixmethes) UG ||
Cards I still want to see created:
|| Olantin, Lost City || Pavios and Thanasis || Choryu ||
Retro only.
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|| UW Jace, Vyn's Prodigy UW || UG Kenessos, Priest of Thassa (feat. Arixmethes) UG ||
Cards I still want to see created:
|| Olantin, Lost City || Pavios and Thanasis || Choryu ||