Female King Arthur... Either she is Sabre or the set is dead to me
Anyway, everyone with a drop of good taste knows that King Arthur can only be depicted in the likes of Graham Arthur Chapman.
...The set really needs a Killer Rabbit, tho...
If WotC is going to take pretty much every popular public domain fairy tale and switch it around in order to "subvert expectations", the gimmick is going to grow old very soon.
It is pretty early to jump to conclusions, but with WotC being WotC, I don't expect them becoming creative with this kind of source material. At most they will switch some roles around (Goldilocks becoming a bear hunter) and the little mermaid being a human girl turned into a mermaid. All "damsel in distress" tropes will either be genderbent or removed outright (because there otherwise would be a twittermob calling for their heads at the cry of "toxic masculinity" and "kissing Sleeping Beauty / Snowwhite is sexual assault!").
I would have been hyped for the setting as long as it was just high fantasy... Put in the fairytales and WotC adding a "twist" on them and you lose me...
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AtraxianShade posted a message on Next set is called "Throne of Eldraine"Posted in: The Rumor Mill -
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boombox_smk posted a message on Role ReversalPosted in: The Rumor MillQuote from RedGauntlet »We need those legendary creatures. A Sphinx acting like a Goblin is hilarious
Uthlon theWiseMANIC! 2UUUR
Legendary Creature - Sphinx
Flying, Haste
When ~this~ enters the battlefield, create two 2/2 Blue Sphinx creature tokens with flying.
UR: Sacrifice a sphinx, ~this~ deals damage equal to the sacrificed creature's power to any target.
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Grangle,the FRANTIC!in Repose URR
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SilverWolf_27 posted a message on Mothership Spoilers 04/04/19Those two look like something left over from Battlebond.Posted in: The Rumor Mill -
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Pollaski posted a message on Grim Initiate + Gleaming OverseerPosted in: The Rumor MillQuote from void_nothing »Hexproof AND menace. That's actually quite scary, that's two abilities that make a beater VERY hard to deal with, especially in conjunction.
The 1-drop looks great in Limited; amass looks like a fun theme to draft.
This is the kind of stuff that's going to make Amass actually worth something. I was concerned at first because basically you're pumping resources into creating a massive single creature. Especially with something like The Wanderer that could just off it the moment it became enough of a threat. Start throwing out hexproof and making it harder to block with menace? We're getting somewhere. -
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FunkyDragon posted a message on [Announcements] Core 2020 and Commander 2019Posted in: The Rumor Mill
And yet, if the reprint it, it could be a $10 card rather than a $100 card. So the question now becomes "Why do the cards I want in my deck need to cost $100?"Quote from cyberium_neo »People should really ask themselves: 1) Why do I need $100+ cards in my deck, in a format that's meant to be casual? 2) Do I require a $100 card in my deck to make it good or perhaps I just need better deck-building? - To post a comment, please login or register a new account.
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Or you are assuming Legendary creatures are fairly rare, which might be true in standard. After this set, it might be more common to have a PW out than a Legendary creature.
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(unless it was benefiting from any zombie synergies, of course)
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Then, acknowledging that they aren't out of the woods yet, asks if there are any more reinforcements immanent.
That said, I do think a Viking plane is incoming; it would tie in to the wolf theme in a way that doesn't step on Innistrad's toes.