MTG Salvation

The "Combustible" in its name derives from his "Combustible Fist" ("significantly amplifying the discharge to provide the tremendous amount of power necessary to charge the Gearhulk's sparking combustible fist." from http://magic.wizards.com/en/content/immersiveeventpage/eshan-baat).

People are just ignoring that we already know its name and the hints that were given in that page. We can make more informed predictions based on the flavor those 2 things suggest. Act of treason like effects, team pump effects, seismic stomp like effects, none of that stuff makes any sense whatsoever regarding the flavor of the card. It'll either be AOE damage or gaining energy when it enters, those are the only two things that make sense based on what information we already have. Stop suggesting things that were already on Inferno Titan, like firebreathing and divided damage. Wizards is making a different cycle and will not make something that just feels the same thing from the titans. Just look at all the other gearhulks, they set themselves apart from the titans, the red one will not be different.

Trample is already the green one's keyword. It'll either be haste or first strike, most likely haste.

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Lightning Fist: tap/pay 4 energy to destroy target nonland permanent

For the millionth time...the cycle is keyword + etb. No. Activated. Abilities.

Nah...all the hulks so far are designed to be good on their own. Requiring you to have artifacts out to play it would make it downright worse than the others. It won't have any sac abilities either since the whole cycle is "a keyword + an ETB trigger", so scratch that.

The good friend that comment earlier than me brought up some good points that reinforce my predictions of it dealing with energy. Maybe giving a good chunk of energy when it enters. Either that or dealing 3~4 damage to all. I think it'll either be 4RR 5/4 haste when it enters deal 3~4 to all other creatures or 3RR 4/4 haste when it enters you gain 6 energy.

First, we alreay know that its name is Combustible Gearhulk. The fella on the art of Harnessed Lightning, Eshan Baat, made it for this year's Inventor's Fair. Font: http://magic.wizards.com/en/content/immersiveeventpage/eshan-baat

Anyway, moving on. It will most definitely not cost 4 mana. They wouldn't want it to be hit by Fragmentize (the new W: kills 4 cmc or less artifact or enchantment) So it'll definitely be 5 or 6 depending on its body and what it does. It's keyword will probably (and hopefully) be haste. Firebreathing was already on Inferno Titan. And I think it's obvious that they want to differentiate this cycle from the other, so I would scratch firebreathing from the possibilities. It could be first strike, although I highly doubt it. They want them to impact the board hard when they hit and haste is surely more impactful on an already big body creature than first strike.

Its ETB ability could be 3~4 damage to all other creatures, it would go along well with haste, so it would enter, clear the board and swing. I doubt it will be damage to target, since that was, again, Inferno Titan's ability, plus we already have a card from the very same set that does exactly that, Skysovereign, so forget damage to target. It'll be either the damage sweep, or it could be something more unexpected, like giving you a whopping amount of energy when it enters, let's say...4~5 Energy? It could make sense since there's a strong energy theme going on inside RG. If it costs 5 than it could be like 4/5 and it would be the perfect curve topper for the RG beatdown energy deck.

Also, forget act of treason effects, there's no flavor cohesion with it's name and the very idea of the card whatsoever.