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What do people mean when they say Sigarda looks haggard? She looks exactly the same, just with her hair down.

Compare the two arts. In the AVR art, she looks stern, but fair. She's resolute and knows what she's doing, ready to fight to protect her host and her charges. In the SoI art, her hair is down and unkempt. She has a look of exhaustion and almost defeat on her face. Her scythe is not in an attack pose, more of a "stay back or I'll have to hurt you" position. The overcast sky and the glow from her eyes make it almost look like she is crying because she doesn't know what to do anymore. Her beloved sisters have gone crazy, her god, for lack of a better term, is now attacking those she swore to protect, likely her own flight have turned on her. Now, the humans she protected for so many long centuries are fighting her sisters, and she doesn't know when they'll turn on her, if they haven't already. Until we're told otherwise, Sigarda is the only sane angel left on Innistrad right now. So yes, she's looking a little haggard in that art, but she's still doing her best to maintain composure.

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Perhaps Arlinn's Werewolf transformation is inferred through an ability similar to Sarkhan, the Dragonspeaker's dragon mode?

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So I can't help but notice the lack of +1/+1 counters in the booster. That leaves the possibility that this is a -1/-1 counter block. If Emrakul really is lurking in the set, that seems like a good way to represent twisted biology.

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Jace again? Really? I'm so sick of Jace. He's the Wolverine of Magic.

Couldn't agree more. He did the entire Ravnica thing, then went to Zendikar and now to Innistrad? Does his planeswalking get frequent miles? I'm secretly hoping that it's not Jace on that booster pack but Geist of St. Traft who is going undercover as a ghost in Jace's robes creating all the shenanigans in Innistrad because he's lonely. It's up to the scooby gang (Tamiyo, Garruk, and Nahiri) to find the missing clues.

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I'm betting/dreaming that we're going to have a 2 drop mana dork that produces rainbow mana to replace ye ol' Sylvan Caryatid so there's a chance (if dreams are real) that you would be able to drop this guy with a 6/6 body.

Even if there isn't, there's always Honored Hierarch. And Rattleclaw Mystic produces three colors. If this can be reliably cast with four colors, it could be solid.

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I'm quite fed up with that seeded booster thing. They're too swingy, the seeded rare can go from complete bomb with all excellent support in terms of common/uncommon to total chaff, and as such ruins the depth of your pool. It ruined my DTK PR experience twice, my FRF PR was a bad Abzan and a nuts Temur, then again, I go DTK Dromoka and Ojutai with okay/bad seeded boosters of course not backed by the regular boosters... and come back home frustrated. It doesn't really make me want to attend PR anymore. I wish they'd get back to regular sealed deck but with more emphasis on side animations like the Dragon Roar which are quite fun.

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A lot of conservative Republicans are of the view that the rich are superior human beings. Ayn Rand's entire philosophy is essentially plutocracy in its most exaggerated form. The rich get richer on the backs of the inferior workers because if the workers were good enough to be rich they would be.
Ayn Rand was a disgusting human being and a hypocrite of the worst order. She lived off of her disciples for the latter half of her life because she was a failure as a writer and everything else she tried. All "Randroids" seem to forget that her books were almost universally panned by critics as simplistic, shortsighted and lacking in personality, compelling characters and stories. She was trying to spread her message but it mostly only resonated with rich kids who were born into money. Unfortunately followers of her philosophy have been in positions to spread their insidious worldview in the form of policy. Most visibly is Paul Ryan, but most egregiously is Alan Greenspan. His constant efforts to deregulate markets and give benefits to the wealthy caused at least 2 economic downturns and the largest wealth gap in American history.
The Randian ideology is a dangerous and heartless one.