I don't think it works with morph. Assemble looks at the power of the spell as it is in the library, not its power when it would be cast as a morph.
It's "you may cast a [type] spell," like Johann, Apprentice Sorcerer, which allows you to cast adventures even though the cards are creatures. What matters are the properties of the spell, not the card itself.
Kellan continues taking the color of his last adventure and getting an adventure in a new one, but now he's multicolor on both halves... Wonder where he'll go next, Dimir? Sultai?
Not that temples were all that good, but these new lands are better in two ways. Wonder if fetchable surveil is ever worth a slot outside standard.
No More Lies looks like a new staple. Probably Long Goodbye too - fails the Sheoldred test, but it gets a lot of relevant stuff easily - Raffine and Graveyard Trespasser are notable ward creatures it can hit.
Does that Mystery Booster "Red Herring" card really mean they can't use the name on an actual card? Because that's obviously what the Fish Clue is a reference to, and it'd be a shame if they had to dilute the joke by calling it "Crimson Herring" or somesuch. (Yes, I'm still annoyed that the Elephant token from Generous Gift is green and not white, thank you very much)
The split cards from the Mystery booster playtest cards reused names, which would otherwise not have been allowed. They still might avoid it, but it's evident the usual rules don't apply absolutely.
Few years back I would have 100% agreed that blending hybrid symbols like I suggested would be too complex to see print (and I personally agree), but WotC seems to have gotten a tad bit more comfortable with that kind of thing these days, so I'm hesitant to regard it as a full-stop dealbreaker. The two black thing is a sticking point, I admit-- perhaps either or , swapping out one of the black hybrids for an Izzet one? I really don't think it's a Nephilim (there's more than one of them, and I find it hard to believe they wouldn't have symmetrical mana costs). If it's not Nivvy (and I'm no longer quite so convinced that it is), I think it's either someone new, or, in keeping with the "detective story" theme of the set, a familiar face revealing their (literal!) true colors.
There don't need to be multiple nephilim in a set just because there were the first time. Legendary nephilim is a pretty common request and they may have decided there wasn't space for a cycle, but one would work.
Remember how the Alara Reborn multicolor hybrids were confusing? Those were literally just a hybrid mana and a mana of a different color. I do not think they're gonna toss out some weird mix of hybrid symbols. If it's not twobrid (maybe with one kind of normal hybrid), the only other thing that's relatively straightforward is one common color with each of the other colors. It's possible they found some reason to do that, but the effect in game is... kinda weird. It'd be readily playable in 1 and 3 color decks, but difficult to cast in 2-color, which seems like a weird dynamic to balance around and it seems hard to design a card that makes sense as both a 4 pip monocolor card and as a card that costs one each of the other 4 colors.
Any other mix and it's gonna be way too hard to watch your opponent tap 4 lands and know whether that's a valid combination without having to sit and think about it.
I think manifest has as much chance as morph to be the disguise mechanic. It always had somewhat of a problem with non-creatures, so they might fix it by doing the same thing they did with the cascade to discover tweak by allowing to cast non-creature face-down cards.
Manifest only lets you turn up creatures, not morph. Disguise does not seem like a great name for a manifest variant that works on noncreatures, however.
There’s a couple of people talking but niv-mizzet could be a red herring for the hybrid mana cost teaser
and It possible being ezrim
I wouldn't even consider it a red herring, I don't see why Niv is at all likely to be the card with four different hybrid symbols. He's been 5-color ever since being reincarnated.
Agreed, it doesn't really make sense for it to be Niv. Some people have suggested Rat from War of the Spark: Forsaken, but that requires acknowledging the existence of War of the Spark: Forsaken. A new character like Ezrim is possible. I could also see a nephilim.
Not real surprising, but the card number of 94 on a black card indicates less multicolor cards than previous Ravnica sets and if its name starts with an "M," likely still slightly more multicolor than typical.
Edit: I really don't know why I bothered checking this. We already have enough cards to have figured that out. Whatever.
Are the deck secret lairs different from normal ones? Isn't the point of secret lair that it's printed to order? Not sure how it would be a blood bath to get.
Clash is an easy one to eliminate. It's not a fun mechanic and nothing about the set screams for it. Persist and Wither may be the next as we know the set contains +1/+1 counters (Gleaming Geardrake) and they've consistently avoided mixing the two. The one creature type we know will matter is detective, which does not seem a great fit for prowl. That leaves reinforce, conspire and retrace. I'm guessing conspire, since there's an obvious flavorful reason to include it in a murder mystery set and a solid mechanical base for it on a plane that's know for multicolor cards. If there's an opposing creature type to detective that matters, it could be one of them gets prowl. Retrace and reinforce are both fine flavor fits, but they both closely resemble mechanics previously used on Ravnica.
I literally made two examples of two cards never meant to be played in any format but just to be readed to make a laugh that made in black border in identical form. If this is possible, anything is possibile, and therefore, also for the Heroes of the Realms cards. That is "so".
But A: your examples both already functioned in black border before being released as such (and The Cheese Stands Alonewas modified) and B: I'm still not saying these cards can't inspire released designs.
It is a net positive that these are not legal and there is no need to be mad about them being given as gifts to employees.
Mad me? I never gave a f*k about legality in kitchen table realm in all my life lol, the biggest MtG way to play in the whole world as Mark Rosewater always remind us. I regularly play Unorthodox Uncommander with my friends for over a decade and not only we had TONS of fun already with the previous HoTR cards, but we will have a blast even with those, despite -and actually in spite of- all the guys like you that says that wouldn't never see them in their games or in the game as a whole I just want to prove that so many observations about what's "wrong" on those cards are just fallacies or mere prejudices and subjective opinions.
And I'm not trying to say you can't play with these if you want. Have at it. That doesn't mean their balanced and it doesn't mean it's a good idea to pop them in boosters and set them loose on a draft format or a competitive metagame.
My point is not to say that none of these cards should ever see the light of day in any form as much as that it's reasonably evident they weren't designed with the intention that they play well.
You can never know this. So many cards that were crazy ideas at first were born as silly non-serious cards meant more to be readed than be played and then after years design decided it was the time to make them real. See The Cheese Stands Alone that became Barren Glory, Enchantmentize that became just one year later One With the Stars (it's literally the same exact card save the different name) and several others, so even those Heroes of the Realms could possibly be a glint of a near or remote future for a near equivalent black-border version, who knows. Sure thing is that Wotc is making so many new cards at such quick rate with a blatant power creep especially in supplemental sets, that the chances that this could happens are definitely higher than 0%. That's why I take even those cards very seriously, they could be in any form a prefiguration of the future of Magic that could be.
So?
Let's just rewind a second to the original reason I said any of this - to make a point that Wizards is not somehow hoarding the good cards for themselves. If these end up being the seeds for future cards, that makes that point even better than I could hope to here. In their current form, three of these cards are ones I don't want to see made for the stated reasons and the fourth would not be particularly exciting. It is a net positive that these are not legal and there is no need to be mad about them being given as gifts to employees.
It's "you may cast a [type] spell," like Johann, Apprentice Sorcerer, which allows you to cast adventures even though the cards are creatures. What matters are the properties of the spell, not the card itself.
Nah, hint says "a card with four different hybrid symbols in its mana cost"
I did my best to piece it together.
card #32 in Ravnica Allegiance is Benthic Biomancer, 164 is Cult Guildmage.
No More Lies looks like a new staple. Probably Long Goodbye too - fails the Sheoldred test, but it gets a lot of relevant stuff easily - Raffine and Graveyard Trespasser are notable ward creatures it can hit.
The split cards from the Mystery booster playtest cards reused names, which would otherwise not have been allowed. They still might avoid it, but it's evident the usual rules don't apply absolutely.
There don't need to be multiple nephilim in a set just because there were the first time. Legendary nephilim is a pretty common request and they may have decided there wasn't space for a cycle, but one would work.
Any other mix and it's gonna be way too hard to watch your opponent tap 4 lands and know whether that's a valid combination without having to sit and think about it.
Manifest only lets you turn up creatures, not morph. Disguise does not seem like a great name for a manifest variant that works on noncreatures, however.
I am guessing twobrid for the hybrid cost regardless just because doing it with two color ones seems both hard to play with and weird to design for.
Agreed, it doesn't really make sense for it to be Niv. Some people have suggested Rat from War of the Spark: Forsaken, but that requires acknowledging the existence of War of the Spark: Forsaken. A new character like Ezrim is possible. I could also see a nephilim.
Edit: I really don't know why I bothered checking this. We already have enough cards to have figured that out. Whatever.
https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/speeding-up-secret-lair-shipping
However, if these are the same $150 price tag as the last one, Anointed Procession alone is not gonna carry it.
The options are:
Clash
Prowl
Reinforce
Conspire
Persist
Wither
Retrace
Clash is an easy one to eliminate. It's not a fun mechanic and nothing about the set screams for it. Persist and Wither may be the next as we know the set contains +1/+1 counters (Gleaming Geardrake) and they've consistently avoided mixing the two. The one creature type we know will matter is detective, which does not seem a great fit for prowl. That leaves reinforce, conspire and retrace. I'm guessing conspire, since there's an obvious flavorful reason to include it in a murder mystery set and a solid mechanical base for it on a plane that's know for multicolor cards. If there's an opposing creature type to detective that matters, it could be one of them gets prowl. Retrace and reinforce are both fine flavor fits, but they both closely resemble mechanics previously used on Ravnica.
But A: your examples both already functioned in black border before being released as such (and The Cheese Stands Alone was modified) and B: I'm still not saying these cards can't inspire released designs.
And I'm not trying to say you can't play with these if you want. Have at it. That doesn't mean their balanced and it doesn't mean it's a good idea to pop them in boosters and set them loose on a draft format or a competitive metagame.
So?
Let's just rewind a second to the original reason I said any of this - to make a point that Wizards is not somehow hoarding the good cards for themselves. If these end up being the seeds for future cards, that makes that point even better than I could hope to here. In their current form, three of these cards are ones I don't want to see made for the stated reasons and the fourth would not be particularly exciting. It is a net positive that these are not legal and there is no need to be mad about them being given as gifts to employees.