When will we find out more about the upcoming Theros novel and hope to begin seeing official spoilers? I hope we don’t have to wait until around or after Christmas... if it releases January 17 for prerelease id expect the second week of December?
I'm becoming increasingly worried that there will be no story. Forsaken was announced a full month before it was released and The Wildered Quest was announced 2 months before it was released. With no announcement yet and barely more than a month before release and the Christmas break looming the odds are not looking good. Hopefully, I'm just paranoid and we'll hear something this or next week. After that I assume there is either nothing or it's going to be extremely small and well after the set releases.
Is it just me or is Escape oddly similar to Delve and Dredge—two mechanics that didn’t really work out in the past for WotC. What makes escape a better idea?
No, it has almost no similarities with either of those abilities. It is very much like flashback or unearth except its permanent. I can understand why you see a similarity where none exists and that is because the escape card we see has a cost that resembles delve. However, the ability escape has no relationship. Look at the actual ability Escape-{cost}(You may cast this from your graveyard for its escape cost). It reads almost exactly like flashback, Flashback-{Cost}(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.) While Delve is a cost reduction mechanic that eats your graveyard like Elspeth's escape cost but there is no intrinsic link between escape and exiling cards from your graveyard. As for Dredge, there is the small similarity of both being methods of getting the card out of the graveyard, however, their execution is radically different. Dredge returns the card to hand both making you have to spend further resources to cast it again and giving you additional options by it being in your hand.
this is just a minor complaint... i wish the escape cards had something like the flashback symbol so i could find them easier.
The original intent was to put that gravestone on all cards that had an effect while in the graveyard but when the card frame changed they didn't think through where to put it and when they brought back flashback they hadn't found a clean solution. They have since decided that graveyard effects don't happen often enough to force players to learn a new symbol.
I personally think this is a mistake as it would make all future graveyard card easier to understand.
So, that Elspeth being 255 isn't part of the set. So she is the much weaker planeswalker deck version? It seems rather pushed for a weaker version. Or is the first extra number the Buy a Box promo?
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I personally think this is a mistake as it would make all future graveyard card easier to understand.