I guess the tepid response to this card implies the answer to my question, but I'll ask anyway: Does the -10 let you 'go infinite' by activating a planeswalker's loyalty abilities arbitrarily often? It doesn't say "once per walker per turn" specifically.
No.
What it does is loosen the rules on when you can activate your Planeswalker abilities.
Instead of "on your turn during a main phase and when the stack is empty," it's now "on any player's turn any time a player could cast an instant."
I always figured the purpose was to save time. Shuffling 99 cards repeatedly on mulligains takes quite a while. Partial Paris mitigates that by just putting them on the bottom and drawing 1 fewer straight from the top.
My group does full mulligains, but remember again...it's a casual format. Your group is free to change the mulligain rules, deckbuilding rules, etc.
Or you can just not play. That's always an option as well.
Being reprints from the original Ravnica hurts as well. The "enemy checklands" from Innistrad block saw their first printings there. Older players have their shocks from long ago or only needed a few from RTR block to finish their playsets.
Wait, what?! Lifebane Zombie isn't a bulk rare? I opened my 3 packs that I buy for each set, got that card, and gave it to my 6 year old to play with. Why is it worth anything?
Anyone else think it's weird that the Elspeth token (and Elspeth herself) are using the old "indestructible" wording?
I'd bet the change didn't get made official internally until after Modern Masters went to print, unlike the Legend Rule/Planeswalker Uniqueness change.
I have a theory, and if it holds I feel your thoughts of "Tibalt 2.0" will all shred.
Duel Decks: Elspeth vs. Tezzeret released in September 2010. In October, Shards of Alara block, where they came from, rotated out.
(2011 was Ajani vs. Nicol Bolas, but Alara block had already rotated out. But also, the very next Duel Deck out would be Venser vs. Koth as they switched which part of the year got a Planeswalker Duel Deck and which got the other-themed Duel Deck.).
Duel Decks: Venser vs. Koth released March of this year. In October, Scars of Mirrodin block, where they came from, will rotate out of Standard.
So now we have Duel Decks: Sorin vs. Tibalt coming out in March 2013. What happens in September/October of 2013? Oh, yeah, Innistrad block rotates out.
Therefore, I think we can safely assume Sorin is Sorin, Lord of Innistrad and Tibalt is not a 2.0.
So then...any bets on Return to Ravnica's Planeswalker Duel Deck? lol!
I'm sort of expecting cards that work with lands (Crucible of Worlds/Zuran orb etc.), not just lands. Sort of like how dragons had Dragonstorm and Form of the Dragon.
It it weren't for the information in the OP, that would open the possibility.
The original announcement said "The 15 lands...", so there's no chance of cards that simply work with lands.
I'm gonna doubt this myself. Creating a "Rare that's not a Rare" is archaic and was dropped for a reason.
Why not just make some "Uncommons" Rares and just say there are 2 Rares per pack? At least it would be fair and accurate then.
Assuming the OP is right and the LGS owner doesn't make stuff up, it could be he misread some information somewhere that's not a WotC source if we assume this information to be false.
If it's true, I hope WotC comes out with a reason for it, because again wasn't there a reason it was abolished back in the day?
Spoilers five and a half weeks before the prerelease?!
Wow, either this is a big mess up from the web team or their investigation into that eBay leak has left them convinced that that the set is going to leak soon. This'll be interesting.
Or they're posting known cards that are shown in the Duels of the Planeswalkers 2013 game and are also in Magic Core Set 2013? Could anyone run through the video(s) and see if the spoiled cards are in any trailers?
Yay! I doubt they'd use card shots for a card product unless it was in there, so good job to whomever found this.
I was counting and it looks like there are six card edges. Does this mean we're still getting 1 Planeswalker for each color, just with Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker maybe taking up a former Titan slot?
No.
What it does is loosen the rules on when you can activate your Planeswalker abilities.
Instead of "on your turn during a main phase and when the stack is empty," it's now "on any player's turn any time a player could cast an instant."
You're still restricted to once per turn.
My group does full mulligains, but remember again...it's a casual format. Your group is free to change the mulligain rules, deckbuilding rules, etc.
Or you can just not play. That's always an option as well.
That's not enough of a sample from which to draw conclusions, but perhaps it can be a start.
(edited quote for card link to Lifebane Zombie)
I imagine at the moment it's a metagame decision against Restoration Angel, Thragtusk, Huntmaster of the Fells, and other good Green and/or White cards.
After rotation, it may crash when Blue/Black or Red/Black takes Standard by storm unexpectedly. lol.
New cards in D14 mean the new ones are in M14.
So news on new cards would help tremendously if they haven't already been spoiled.
Look at some of the whitening at the bottom of the original pic.
Now compare to the bottom of the one the OP received.
It seems the one the OP received has more card damage than border whitening if you follow the "p" in "spell" straight down.
The original showed definite whitening with no sign of damage in that same area.
I'd bet the change didn't get made official internally until after Modern Masters went to print, unlike the Legend Rule/Planeswalker Uniqueness change.
Duel Decks: Elspeth vs. Tezzeret released in September 2010. In October, Shards of Alara block, where they came from, rotated out.
(2011 was Ajani vs. Nicol Bolas, but Alara block had already rotated out. But also, the very next Duel Deck out would be Venser vs. Koth as they switched which part of the year got a Planeswalker Duel Deck and which got the other-themed Duel Deck.).
Duel Decks: Venser vs. Koth released March of this year. In October, Scars of Mirrodin block, where they came from, will rotate out of Standard.
So now we have Duel Decks: Sorin vs. Tibalt coming out in March 2013. What happens in September/October of 2013? Oh, yeah, Innistrad block rotates out.
Therefore, I think we can safely assume Sorin is Sorin, Lord of Innistrad and Tibalt is not a 2.0.
So then...any bets on Return to Ravnica's Planeswalker Duel Deck? lol!
Make that 100%.
http://www.wizards.com/magic/magazine/article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/arcana/918
It it weren't for the information in the OP, that would open the possibility.
The original announcement said "The 15 lands...", so there's no chance of cards that simply work with lands.
What's to be angry about?
Like last year and the version before that, promos were offered for purchasing the game.
All 3 are Mythics and tied to specific platforms.
They used to be foil. Now they're not. But they're still Mythics.
Now we're also getting 5 M13 preview cards, some of which are actually quite good...and you get mad about that?
Just no pleasing some people.
Why not just make some "Uncommons" Rares and just say there are 2 Rares per pack? At least it would be fair and accurate then.
Assuming the OP is right and the LGS owner doesn't make stuff up, it could be he misread some information somewhere that's not a WotC source if we assume this information to be false.
If it's true, I hope WotC comes out with a reason for it, because again wasn't there a reason it was abolished back in the day?
Or they're posting known cards that are shown in the Duels of the Planeswalkers 2013 game and are also in Magic Core Set 2013? Could anyone run through the video(s) and see if the spoiled cards are in any trailers?
I was counting and it looks like there are six card edges. Does this mean we're still getting 1 Planeswalker for each color, just with Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker maybe taking up a former Titan slot?