220+ comments and counting. This thread will soon pass Metamorphosis 2.0 in responses. It's been six hours as I write this since anybody has commented in Metamorphosis 2.0 thread. This thread is roughly four hours old. The leak that hit reddit this morning hit at roughly the same time as WotC's Announcement Week articles went live on their website, and today's article never even made it here.
It's ludicrous to self leak though. Discussion of your product is a bad thing.
Take your screenshots and downloads now before these are gone.
I'll call it "Ixaleaks" (verbal TM, just kidding)
This smells of corporate sabotage/espionage. No way Wizards would leak this and anyone in their direct employ would know the consequences. Someone has gotten access covertly on behalf of a Hasbro/Wizards competitor to try to take the wind out of their sales during this week and for the upcoming HASCON. Wizards will be PISSED.
Actually, there are plenty of reasons for WotC to self leak this. It's called marketing. Look at all the discussion it will generate here today during announcement week when today's actual announcement was pretty tame.
If this were corporate sabotage the leaker would make sure all the images were clearly visible.
Wizards isn't going to leak a set months in advance. And yes if you are undergoing a clandestine operation you aren't going to have time to take perfect photos as someone is probably there with you. Someone has gotten access that shouldn't have. This is not a self leak.
More importantly, they wouldn't leak a set before spoiler season has started for the previous set.
If it were corporate sabotage, why wouldn't they just leak the master text file that all the cards go on, before they go through the printer? it is an odd leak, not likely a corporate opponent, maybe they forgot take all the cellphones away during the printing process with a guest.
Everything about this says self leak by WotC. Where are the new mechanics?
I'm supposed to believe that somebody secretly whipped out a cell phone to take a picture of this quickly and all they happened to get of the sheet was the part where nothing about new mechanics is revealed and they JUUUUSSST missed giving me the text for the new Jace. Yeah, right. Oh, they also showed me enough of some new answer cards as WotC said are coming and those are clear enough to read.
This is a leak designed to tamper the blow of what is going to be an underwhelming HoD. Watch...
Take your screenshots and downloads now before these are gone.
I'll call it "Ixaleaks" (verbal TM, just kidding)
This smells of corporate sabotage/espionage. No way Wizards would leak this and anyone in their direct employ would know the consequences. Someone has gotten access covertly on behalf of a Hasbro/Wizards competitor to try to take the wind out of their sales during this week and for the upcoming HASCON. Wizards will be PISSED.
Actually, there are plenty of reasons for WotC to self leak this. It's called marketing. Look at all the discussion it will generate here today during announcement week when today's actual announcement was pretty tame.
If this were corporate sabotage the leaker would make sure all the images were clearly visible.
2/3 When Hostage taker enters the battlefield, exile target artifact or creature until Hostage Taker leaves the battlefield. You may cast that card for as long as it remains exiled, and you may spend mana as though it were many of any type to cast that spell.
Dragonskull Summit and Drowned Catacomb are also visible.
There is a card: Vraska's ???
2B and 2colorless instant:
Exile target creature or planeswalker. You gain 2 life.
Also: Ashes of the Abhorrent, appears to be white enchantment:
Players can't cast spells from graveyards or activate abilities of cards in graveyards. Whenever a creature dies, you gain 1 life.
And just below Ashes is Bishop of Rebirth 2W and 3 colorless that gets around Ashes.
3/4 Vigilance Whenever Bishop of Rebirth attacks, you may return target creature card with converted mana cost 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Not quite as exciting as the previous three days, and wastes momentum heading into HoD reveals tomorrow. Self leaking some cards from a future set is a great way of keeping the momentum going...
This smells like an internal, and intentional leak from WotC. They are crushing it this week w/ modern marketing...
Yeah. There's no way that this is leaked three months in advance on accident.
And, if real, no way a real leaker is going to leak this w/o a clean shot of the PW in upper left corner...just a tease from WotC this is...also a way for them to "prove" some of what they've said about Standard lately. See, we told you answers were on their way, and here's a glimpse of one!
Well the text box on Jace appears to have been intentionally obscured with Photoshop so that isn't likely to help.
It's ludicrous to self leak though. Discussion of your product is a bad thing.
Everything about this says self leak by WotC. Where are the new mechanics?
I'm supposed to believe that somebody secretly whipped out a cell phone to take a picture of this quickly and all they happened to get of the sheet was the part where nothing about new mechanics is revealed and they JUUUUSSST missed giving me the text for the new Jace. Yeah, right. Oh, they also showed me enough of some new answer cards as WotC said are coming and those are clear enough to read.
This is a leak designed to tamper the blow of what is going to be an underwhelming HoD. Watch...
Yeah that's how I say G...sorry for confusion there.
And the card above that one is that a new watermark?
Below Emperor's Vanguard is Old-Growth Dryads for 1G...
Card to left of Dskull Summit looks like: Rowdy Crew 3/3 w Trample that has some kind of looting/pump effect when it ETBs
Actually, there are plenty of reasons for WotC to self leak this. It's called marketing. Look at all the discussion it will generate here today during announcement week when today's actual announcement was pretty tame.
If this were corporate sabotage the leaker would make sure all the images were clearly visible.
To the left of Drowned Catacomb appears to be Star of Extinction, fitting for a dinosaur themed set.
2/3 When Hostage taker enters the battlefield, exile target artifact or creature until Hostage Taker leaves the battlefield. You may cast that card for as long as it remains exiled, and you may spend mana as though it were many of any type to cast that spell.
Dragonskull Summit and Drowned Catacomb are also visible.
2B and 2colorless instant:
Exile target creature or planeswalker. You gain 2 life.
Also: Ashes of the Abhorrent, appears to be white enchantment:
Players can't cast spells from graveyards or activate abilities of cards in graveyards. Whenever a creature dies, you gain 1 life.
And just below Ashes is Bishop of Rebirth 2W and 3 colorless that gets around Ashes.
3/4 Vigilance Whenever Bishop of Rebirth attacks, you may return target creature card with converted mana cost 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/organized-play/playing-pro-tour-2017-06-15
Not quite as exciting as the previous three days, and wastes momentum heading into HoD reveals tomorrow. Self leaking some cards from a future set is a great way of keeping the momentum going...
And, if real, no way a real leaker is going to leak this w/o a clean shot of the PW in upper left corner...just a tease from WotC this is...also a way for them to "prove" some of what they've said about Standard lately. See, we told you answers were on their way, and here's a glimpse of one!