-Haste
-At the beginning of your upkeep, you may sacrifice a creature. If you do, Fireblade Artist deals 2 damage to target opponent or planeswalker. Let's find out what kind of audience you are. Festive? Fearless?
2/2
Hes well alive. The Guildgates have the Guildmasters and the champions quotes on them.
Yeah I don't know why WotC put Ruric on the guildgate flavor text and then didn't give him a card when all the other gates have their leader/champion referenced.
What was the rare you opened the least? The only rare I didn't pull at least one of is Noble Hierarch.
What was the mythic you opened the least? It's probably easier to list the mythics I did open: Liliana x2, Emrakul, Ulamog, Cavern of Souls x2, Leovold, Balefire Dragon, Snapcaster (9 mythics total)
What were your box toppers? #1 Mikaeus, the Unhallowed, #2 Eternal Witness, #3 Snapcaster Mage
What, if any, were your FOIL Mythic pulls? No foil mythics. I did open 5 foil rares though; Back to Basics, Nourishing Shoal, Lavaclaw Reaches, Fulminator Mage, and Wall of Reverence.
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My first box was nutty, with Lili, Cavern, Leo, and Emrakul in there, as well as the foil Back to Basics. Most of the rares were worth something as well, except for 5 of them. There was also a foil Kodama's and a foil Pyromancer to round out some added value.
The second box wasn't bad either, as it had one of the four toppers I was after (EWitness). I pulled an Ulamog, Lili, and Snap from its contents, as well as two Altars, a foil Sleight of Hand, another foil Pyromancer, foil Frantic Search, and various Finks/Edicts.
Box 3 was kind of a let down with only two mythics in it (Cavern and Balefire), but it made up for the fact by having Snapcaster Mage as the topper. No foils of note in this box, nor many decent rares.
Wait, teferi's protection get a flavo test? Zhalfir may return? Wasn't it lost forever?
Retconretconretcon because teferi is popular?
I feel like the flavor text is concurrent with Teferi phasing out Zhalfir, not him saying it in modern-day. So as he's phasing it out to protect it from Phyrexia, I'm sure he's pretty hopeful he can bring it back, not knowing he will give his spark to heal a different rift.
I mentioned this in the shockland thread that the 5 shocks were at the tail end of the set, pushing basic lands out. My initial thought was that shocks were a special case and came after basics, but seeing two slots between foundry and vents, the fact that they aren't sequential, as well as confirmation now that basics come after, just means that we have alternate sources of basics. There's probably some sort of guildgate land that takes the slot, with basics being obtainable in the planeswalkers decks. I wonder if you can pull foil basics.
Maybe this is their way of trying to spoil less of the story. When we know how many cards there are then we can figure out beforehand some semblance of a story, but not knowing where they fit makes it a little more of a puzzle. Or something.
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Fireblade Artist BR
Creature - Human Shaman (U)
-Haste
-At the beginning of your upkeep, you may sacrifice a creature. If you do, Fireblade Artist deals 2 damage to target opponent or planeswalker.
Let's find out what kind of audience you are. Festive? Fearless?
2/2
EDIT: Added flavor text
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Yeah I don't know why WotC put Ruric on the guildgate flavor text and then didn't give him a card when all the other gates have their leader/champion referenced.
Nikya of the Old Ways 3RG
Legendary Creature - Centaur Druid
-You can't cast noncreature spells
-Whenever you tap a land for mana, add one mana of any type that land produced.
5/5
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What was the rare you opened the least? The only rare I didn't pull at least one of is Noble Hierarch.
What was the mythic you opened the least? It's probably easier to list the mythics I did open: Liliana x2, Emrakul, Ulamog, Cavern of Souls x2, Leovold, Balefire Dragon, Snapcaster (9 mythics total)
What were your box toppers? #1 Mikaeus, the Unhallowed, #2 Eternal Witness, #3 Snapcaster Mage
What, if any, were your FOIL Mythic pulls? No foil mythics. I did open 5 foil rares though; Back to Basics, Nourishing Shoal, Lavaclaw Reaches, Fulminator Mage, and Wall of Reverence.
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My first box was nutty, with Lili, Cavern, Leo, and Emrakul in there, as well as the foil Back to Basics. Most of the rares were worth something as well, except for 5 of them. There was also a foil Kodama's and a foil Pyromancer to round out some added value.
The second box wasn't bad either, as it had one of the four toppers I was after (EWitness). I pulled an Ulamog, Lili, and Snap from its contents, as well as two Altars, a foil Sleight of Hand, another foil Pyromancer, foil Frantic Search, and various Finks/Edicts.
Box 3 was kind of a let down with only two mythics in it (Cavern and Balefire), but it made up for the fact by having Snapcaster Mage as the topper. No foils of note in this box, nor many decent rares.
FWIW, it looks like it says Buy-a-Box at the bottom of Haunt, so if they're keeping with tradition then it will be unavailable in packs.
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I feel like the flavor text is concurrent with Teferi phasing out Zhalfir, not him saying it in modern-day. So as he's phasing it out to protect it from Phyrexia, I'm sure he's pretty hopeful he can bring it back, not knowing he will give his spark to heal a different rift.
Most likely Vraska, since it fits alphabetically and they spoiled art of hers alongside Ral.