I don't why people are complaining. Yes, I wish we had more cards too but guess what: you'll have almost a week before the prerelease to see the full set. Officially from WotC. Isn't that awesome? Complaining that there isn't enough spoiled cards is completely bonkers. When a set is completely spoiled weeks before the prerelease, the excitement for the set dies down. This happened during New Phyrexia. This happened with Judgment.
I like the official spoilers and when nothing gets spoiled too early. You know what? On the days where WotC writes up about three new cards, and they're ones we've seen, it's boring. Yes, the articles are good, but you don't get that same rush as seeing the card for the first time. A slow trickle of information has been working out best.
In less than 12 hours, we'll get the full set and we'll be pouring over it for a week. WotC used to not release the full set until the Monday after the prerelease, so this is a huge bonus. So everyone calm down, take a deep breath, and enjoy.
At first I was like, "whatever, it's late at night." But then I looked. I was thinking it just might be the font, but there's inconsistencies here. There could be something going on there. Some of the letters do looked raised, but it's hard to tell on screen what they are without blowing them up and photoshopping a line underneath them.
If you're going to put together a "secret message", I'd suggest do them in "wheel" order as seen on Tablet of Guilds:
Is a five mana counterspell that creates a creature good enough? We did get a 2/2 for 4 with Mystic Snake, but you could at least bounce it back to your hand. There's always Snapcaster Mage though. I like the ability though...
If I'm not mistaken, you can activate the first ability several times to make a single player lose multiple life for each card that went to their graveyard. I like that. (Goes in Sygg, RC EDH)
There have to be hundreds of these cards out there for us to hear about one. It's intentional; conspiracy theory - possibly from the same saboteur that's trying to sell the mythic rares (which was definitely not Wizard's wizardry; though this one might be). Or their printer really, really sucks.
Yeah, such a huge error rate of cards from future sets in all of our packs. I can't open a box of Return to Ravnica without getting like 10 cards from Gatecrash in there. WotC's printer must suck. [/Sarcasm]
Yeah, Goyf and Snapcastet are not going to show up as FNM promos. Serum Visions is already a FNM card, and WotC has never repeated a FNM promo. Modern wasn't decided as a FNM legal format until recently, so there'd no way they would be pushing those promos out so soon (Maybe March/April for Modern promos). This is just some person trying to pull a fast one. Ignore.
I like the official spoilers and when nothing gets spoiled too early. You know what? On the days where WotC writes up about three new cards, and they're ones we've seen, it's boring. Yes, the articles are good, but you don't get that same rush as seeing the card for the first time. A slow trickle of information has been working out best.
In less than 12 hours, we'll get the full set and we'll be pouring over it for a week. WotC used to not release the full set until the Monday after the prerelease, so this is a huge bonus. So everyone calm down, take a deep breath, and enjoy.
If you're going to put together a "secret message", I'd suggest do them in "wheel" order as seen on Tablet of Guilds:
Azorious
Orzhov
Dimir
Izzet
Rakdos
Golgari
Gruul
Boros
Selesnya
Simic
Maybe there's a larger code at work. (Think Dimir).
Lazav, Dimir Mastermind With Dimir Keyrune
Still really good. I'm happy with it.
EDIT: Er, state based effects and everything.
EDIT 2: Make it a Bant deck with Juniper Order Ranger and so on and so forth.
Yeah, such a huge error rate of cards from future sets in all of our packs. I can't open a box of Return to Ravnica without getting like 10 cards from Gatecrash in there. WotC's printer must suck. [/Sarcasm]
Nope. They're "silver" bordered (it's more like a foil border that you see on Un-cards)
That said, I like this year's one. But no one ever pays me in holiday cards...