MTG Salvation

These seem fairly legitimate for two reasons. 1. I'm fairly sure some of the arts shown are new. 2. The collector's numbers seem to be about right.

If true, I'm so building a mass polymorph deck that drops out all the praetors.

So assuming 18 rares, 4 are taken up by legends (3 tricolor and one dual colored) leaving 14 rare slots per deck. Also the new rares appear to be unique to the decks they are in, so 70 rare slots with about 45 potential new cards.

Quote from bLatch

Have they had launch parties for these products in the past? I wasn't aware of it if they had... seems like this woudl be fun.

They had launch parties for archenemy and planechase where you got a promo plane and scheme respectively. I'd guess a promo legend here? Maybe the only wedge colored legend not represented here, Doran. Or perhaps you get an oversized foil of one of the bicolored legends? There's a couple of ways they could go with it.

Here's a thought on the minotaur monk that may actually fit better for the color combo than life gain. Gaining control of creatures. Blue and red both have this on quite a few cards, and white has it in the form of preacher and evangelize. So maybe the minotaur evangelizes at the beginning of your upkeep? Oh wait the word where there doesn't really fit with anything other than lifegain. Well I'm going to now assume my idea works for the middle guy on political puppets, even though it doesn't really make sense for his art.

Swans of Bryn Argoll would be fun with Nin too, although not in EDH with Nin as a generaL, draw X times 2 cards.

I Wonder which deck these will be in? I'd think the BWR one rather than the GWB one for the angel. Hmmm can't really see whether Nin would fit more in UWR or GRU. Its hard to deduce things for wedges.

There is actually a schedule for it, here http://east.paxsite.com/schedule.php

At any rate the Magic panel on there is not until 5:00 PM Eastern.

Here's a thought though, the creature in the art most resembles a mirrodin Ogre if anything, so if that is Karn's hand he's suddenly become really freaking huge, which isn't suggested by any of the besieged cards upon which he appears.

I don't really play magic online so I'm not sure about this, but I assume the reserved list doesn't apply there? Nothing in the rules mentions it, and as it turns out one of the cards I want to use, carrion is on there.

Quote from CX316

You cast the leveler first, THEN cast the beacon

But galvanoth doesn't really help with that since if you cast it with galvanoth's ability, you have no card to draw for the turn and you lose.
Correction it does kind of work, it's just you need to then hard cast the beacon every turn after drawing it that turn, but galvanoth doesn't really help this setup all that much.

Quote from Dark Akroma

Selective Memory is the first card that comes to mind, but unfortunately you can't get rid of lands.
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Mana severance would remove the lands and if you build your deck with only instants sorceries and galvanoths you're set.

Its a gate to the aether for instants and sorceries. I'd definitely put them into my djinn illuminatus mill deck.

Quote from jdmike

we'll know in 12 minutes. lol @ people still trying to figure it out. just wait.

The point is not simply the knowing of it, in part its the simple pleasure of successfully deciphering a puzzle. Its an intellectual challenge I suppose.

Oh and spiraling duelist uses the word three not the number 3, those are different in the orb.

okay to try and get this, itemized uses of the number 3. 19 in orb for mirran

sangromancer 2
slagstorm 2
burn the impure 2
brass squire 1
darksteel plate 1
myr welder 1
piston sledge 1
peace strider 1
shimmer myr 1
copper carapace 1
brass squire 1
spin engine 1
sword of feast and famine 1
titan forge 1
training drone 1
That is 18 with one left over for galvanoth.

Hmmm there appears to be a 3 colorless left as well. That seems a more likely cost than 1 and its probably just that the word was used instead of the number on the split by faction spoiler. In fact that does seem to be the case as I was way under with the 3s at first.

So it looks like its this now.

Galvanoth 3RR
Creature- Beast
3, T: You may look at the top card of your library, if its an instant or sorcery card you may cast it without paying its mana cost.

3/3

Okay unless I'm missing something there's 7 instance of 1 colorless mana on spoiled cards but 8 in the orb as near as I can tell.

And when I count the combined instances in the main spoiler I get 15 of 17 for instances of 1. Maybe something that's the word one right now should be the number?