Interesting...too bad they printed Cancel in Zendikar, as that means it won't rotate out as Mana Leak comes in. Cancel is about to get really, really damn good with backup from Mana Leak. That's the thing about counters, alone they aren't amazing, but when you have a plethora of them...they become exponentially better.
Hmmm...turn one Hatchling, turn two Leak, turn three Cancel, turn four Jace, good game, ready for next?
mana leak was needed in a bloodbraid elf environment, so it'll control jund a little more till BBE rotates in Oct.? after that looks like U/W will be the new Jund of the format.
At least theres no good flash Creatures at that point.
Personally, I think a healthy format deserves some powerful commons. With Bolt, Leak, a Duress variant (and a good one at that!), cheap, efficient dudes in any color that deserves them, a proper Wrath, some nonbasic hate, 1-mana white removal, and uncounterable green dudes, we're going to have a fun summer during the overlap of M10 and M11. Hopefully they reprint Condemn or something, though.
Also, could this be the return of Tempo as a deck in standard? And will it be true tempo or some jerk version with Mindsculptor and Gideon?
lol its so funny that all the control players are rejoicing. im willing to bet that GGs is going to get reprinted. id laugh if quagnoth got reprinted too.
The good thing is that we'll have a counter that doesn't get either one or the other in terms of creature or noncreature. That makes me glad.
The bad news is that this means blue is making it's comeback after a long time of being just pretty good. In terms of whether or not this will completely bring Jund to a halt, I don't think that's the case. The rotation of Alara will, but not one more good counter.
The real question in my mind is...will they finally give it a new art? I'd love something other than the boring one they've used for years.
I can't believe you guys are really complaining about this.
Lists with Mana Leak + Deprive are going to be sick. Jund will rotate out, and Blue will Have Mana Leak, Deprive, and Flash Freeze. We will never get Counterspell back, and this is a great addition to lists.
Mana Leak is a nice card to see come back, but it won't be as influential as it's been in the past, because cards like Path, Bolt, Duress are in print. Leaking those spells just isn't that advantageous. Having access to Leak would obviously help, but, it wouldn't be as powerful as in previous years.
l'll give this a bit longer to see if anyone pops up with a different source before I lock it (it's not completely inconceivable that this is a real card reveal from a misidentified source) but I've changed the title to hopefully save others from getting their hopes up.
Oh hey, Mana Leak. Now I can finally replace the white-bordered 9th Edition ones I have and compare with the Stronghold ones.
But really, Mana Leak is pretty cool. If anything though, I bet there would be a catch: Make it a functional reprint that costs UU... but that would give out a lot of Mana Leak abilities to put in a deck so who knows.
Well OP seems to be false now, but I think we could have guessed that anyway. M11 deserves the same counters as M10, they are pretty much the only counters I would expect to see in a core set. I could see mana leak returning in Scars, but even then I doubt it. More likely to reprint a variant of it that fits the flavor of the block.
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Hmmm...turn one Hatchling, turn two Leak, turn three Cancel, turn four Jace, good game, ready for next?
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At least theres no good flash Creatures at that point.
Also, could this be the return of Tempo as a deck in standard? And will it be true tempo or some jerk version with Mindsculptor and Gideon?
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Glad to see this come back. Its good for when we need it, but is still not back breaking. Overall, I am happy.
Maybe some love for my personal favorites, control magic and evacuation?
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The good thing is that we'll have a counter that doesn't get either one or the other in terms of creature or noncreature. That makes me glad.
The bad news is that this means blue is making it's comeback after a long time of being just pretty good. In terms of whether or not this will completely bring Jund to a halt, I don't think that's the case. The rotation of Alara will, but not one more good counter.
The real question in my mind is...will they finally give it a new art? I'd love something other than the boring one they've used for years.
EDIT: So, yeah...might be false...whatever.
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Lists with Mana Leak + Deprive are going to be sick. Jund will rotate out, and Blue will Have Mana Leak, Deprive, and Flash Freeze. We will never get Counterspell back, and this is a great addition to lists.
Plus, this might all be fake anyway.
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But really, Mana Leak is pretty cool. If anything though, I bet there would be a catch: Make it a functional reprint that costs UU... but that would give out a lot of Mana Leak abilities to put in a deck so who knows.
Seriously though I did brick in my pants until like the third page of the thread. You never know, it COULD still get printed...
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I mean obv leak would be great, gotcha!!!
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