Now I am really scared that the pirate themed planeswalker deck is going to have Vraska as the cover card and is going to be Black Green, when pirates have nothing to do with green. If that was the case, it means that they are building the deck around the planeswalker, not around the theme, in which case I just wished they went back to theme decks. The worst part is, I can't think of any blue, red, or blue red planeswalker that can be the cover card of a pirate deck.
Unless you're asserting Vraska will get two cards in one block like Sarkhan in Tarkir there is absolutely zero chance of her being the face card of a Rivals of Ixalan Planeswalker deck. Those cards are exclusively jank variants of planeswalkers that are in THAT set.
Nissa is in Amonkhet, but her planeswalker deck card is in Hour of Devastation.
Huh. I thought for sure Nissa was in HOU.
Nope Nissa's actual blue/ green card was in Amonkhet along with Gideon and Liliana (who both also had a planeswalker deck).
In hours Nissa and Nicol Bolas got a planeswalker deck. Nissa was a monogreen walker for the deck. However the featured walkers for the set were Nicol Bolas and Samut the Tested.
I would probably run this if it said "put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order" instead of "exile the rest". Seems a bit of a risk if you draw into something good that is supposed to help you win the game.
So I counted 52 rares (without DFCs) The crunch says total rares is 53. Am I missing something or is there 52?
There's 53. There was a red rare on the spoiled sheet that hasn't been officially spoiled yet but was too blurry to describe conclusively.
So far we've seen Angrath's Marauders, Burning Sun's Avatar, Captain Lannery Storm, Rampaging Ferocidon, Sunbird's Invocation, and Tilonalli's Skinshifter. We haven't been formally spoiled the red card that is near the bottom right of the spoiled sheet (bottom card of the tenth column and fourth from the bottom of the eleventh column).
It doesn't have P/T or subtypes. So it looks like it's an enchantment, instant, or sorcery (I think the type-line word is too short to be Enchantment, too, so it's an Instant or Sorcery). It has RR is the cost as well as some other number of generic.
It looks like it has a keyword then a cost at the start of its second paragraph; I am guessing it's an instant or sorcery that has a "Return this card from graveyard to hand" ability for a mana cost, provided you've triggered Raid this turn. Basically, something akin to a new Hammer of Bogardan (or, alternately, a noncreature take on Bloodsoaked Champion )
My best guess at the name, through the blur: Resonating Barrage. Recurring? Repeating?
That does seem about right and I did notice that. I took another look at the rare sheet and there is one hard to read rare in the very top left corner that is another red rare. I also counted 16 red rares meaning 8 red rares. It looks like a tap one red and colorless mana effect. I saw that there is a guess text for that card with raid on the partial text spoilers but not this one. Anybody have any guesses on what it does? Sorry if this message sounds confusing but this is the best way I can word it.
I'm wondering if we are getting a rare cycle of DFC for all 5 colors. We got one for blue, black, and green already. I can see one for white and red to complete a rare cycle for DFCs. Then I can see the last DFC being a green mythic since it would balance for mythic in each color. I can already see the rares will be unbalanced for each color in this set.
Funny how a lot of people I know thought that this set would be a complete flop because of Master 25 next year. This set is even amazing me! If anything I'm more interested in how Master 25 will out do this!
I'm not sure if this would make sense to do but.....shouldn't this thread be pinned? I mean past number crunches have been pinned. On the other hand we got a ton of spoilers prior to the release of set so I'm unsure how much attention other people are paying to the number crunch for this set in comparison to past spoiler seasons.
I feel it may be redundant but I'm running this with Mechanized production from Arthur Revolt. Just attached mechanized production on a treasure token and either you'll win with mechanized production or reveal in riches.
Edit: seems like someone bought this idea up already. Either way this is what I'm running.
Yeah seems Vraska is there and we know she seems to be doing something for Nicol Bolas. I can see Bolas possibly using the portal to get Vraska off Ixalan after finding the treasure and possibly Jace in some weird way using the portal to escape. May seem like a far fetched theory but I can see it.
So "Invite the Party" does not fit the number crunch in terms of multicolored (the card supposisly is listed at 219). I'm thinking it's named "Gather the Party" or something like that instead for its translations. That's my guess anyway
Nope Nissa's actual blue/ green card was in Amonkhet along with Gideon and Liliana (who both also had a planeswalker deck).
In hours Nissa and Nicol Bolas got a planeswalker deck. Nissa was a monogreen walker for the deck. However the featured walkers for the set were Nicol Bolas and Samut the Tested.
https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/feature/ixalan-planeswalker-deck-lists-2017-09-20
I don't know how to transfer list onto post so anyone who can add list to the page feel free.
That does seem about right and I did notice that. I took another look at the rare sheet and there is one hard to read rare in the very top left corner that is another red rare. I also counted 16 red rares meaning 8 red rares. It looks like a tap one red and colorless mana effect. I saw that there is a guess text for that card with raid on the partial text spoilers but not this one. Anybody have any guesses on what it does? Sorry if this message sounds confusing but this is the best way I can word it.
Edit: seems like someone bought this idea up already. Either way this is what I'm running.