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[Firemind]

Even if everything else in the set sucks, I'm in for the living township with trample and haste.

What the hell am I even looking at?

 

[kirblar]

Bruna/Gisela are totally a BFM card.

 

[Ashodin]

Just had a thought - what if it's an Enchant Land enchantment?

http://hanweirchronicle.com/post/146281258911/thus-concludes-the-hanweir-chronicle

spooky

Bruna/Gisela are totally a BFM card.

The art is big enough for it.

 

[Firemind]

wait what you mean big furry monster?

 

[Santiako]

uh guys

Eldrazi flip cards confirmed

That is awesome, I'm really curious about the regular side now.

 

[kirblar]

wait what you mean big furry monster?

Ya.

Front normal, flip is BFM

 

[Yeef]

Source of the Hanweir card: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NGO14oKtXk

 

[SigmasonicX]

Just had a thought - what if it's an Enchant Land enchantment?

http://hanweirchronicle.com/post/146281258911/thus-concludes-the-hanweir-chronicle

spooky

Oh, the card was revealed by Hanweir Chronicle after all. That's good.

 

[Ashodin]

Bruna/Gisela are totally a BFM card.

Personal mockup:

FAKEFAKEFAKEFAKEFAKE

 

[Yeef]

Just realized, it swings for 13.

 

[keeblerdrow]

Ash, it's spoiler season. Don't even post mock ups, please. It's too easy to put people's hearts a flutter.

 

[The Technomancer]

Oh man, an entire village turned into a protoplasmic mass is so cool

 

[Angry Grimace]

Bruna/Gisela are totally a BFM card.

I bet you this isn't happening

 

[kirblar]

Personal mockup:

FAKEFAKEFAKEFAKEFAKE

Put MOCKUPMOCKUP acoss diagonally in indented clear font.

I bet you this isn't happening

If it doesn't happen, you can't complain about mana flood or screw for a year.

 

[Angry Grimace]

Put MOCKUPMOCKUP acoss diagonally in indented clear font.

If it doesn't happen, you can't complain about mana flood or screw for a year.

It's far easier to just make it so one of them is a flip card and the other isn't and just say if you control both you can sac them to flip the one with the flip side. There's no benefit to the BFM design and that kind of design isn't new: they've had Tron-like mechancis forever.

Also the chance of ♦ appearing on a card is like negligible, they're not gonna make colorless matters stuff

 

[kirblar]

I mean, they literally just set up the flip design in the story.

 

[Ashodin]

Full art brehs

Check out the baby in the middle near the bottom. sheeit

The art is so fucking good

 

[Angry Grimace]

I mean, they literally just set up the flip design in the story.

There's no benefit to using a BFM design other than proving your theory is right. The identical in practice mechanic could be made by having Bruna's card say "Sac Gisela: Transform Bruna." and having the combo card on the reverse of Bruna's card.

 

[kirblar]

But that's so much less cool.

 

[The Technomancer]

When Magic goes for body horror they fucking nail it.

 

[Angry Grimace]

I'm disappointed there's apparently lots of Eldrazi in this set. I think they're actually fucking up in a way I didn't think they could.

The only thing I can guess is that they dramatically underestimated how much people like Eldrazi and how well the Return to Zendikar would be received.

 

[The Technomancer]

Although lol, the axes and swords on the lefthand side of that image have to be like 9 feet tall

 

[SigmasonicX]

I love those two kids watching.

So, for the new OT OP, we already have the title card (moons everywhere), and the Set Details art will probably be Emrakul rising out of the water. The art at the end will probably be that. I was otherwise planning on using the merged angel art, but I don't want to scroll past that every time I edit the OP.

 

[Ashodin]

I'm ambivalent about having lots of Eldrazi in this set. I think they're actually fucking up.

I don't think we'll be having LOTS. Just certain cards morphed into eldrazi counterparts.

I love those two kids watching.

So, for the new OT OP, we already have the title card (moons everywhere), and the Set Details art will probably be Emrakul rising out of the water. The art at the end will probably be that. I was otherwise planning on using the merged angel art, but I don't want to scroll past that every time I edit the OP.

shit is scary af

 

[Angry Grimace]

I don't think we'll be having LOTS. Just certain cards morphed into eldrazi counterparts.



shit is scary af

There are at least 6 colorless cards before Emrakul, and this one is not one of them (check the collector number).

 

[El Topo]

shit is scary af

Eh. There's worse things. Like, at least Bruna and Gisela are together.

 

[Ashodin]

Think this is the front side of Hanweir?

actually, now I think it's highly likely with the tentacles above in the sky.

 

[Angry Grimace]

finally the legendary wall

 

[Crocodile]

How the hell do they justify revealing only one half of a flip card?

 

[The Technomancer]

There are at least 6 colorless cards before Emrakul, and this one is not one of them (check the collector number).

Emrakul at 7 actually has me thinking we're seeing no more than 20-25 Eldrazi in the set. Even for a small set that's not a ton, I don't feel

 

[Ashodin]

finally the legendary wall

holy shit, this might be it hahahaha

 

[Angry Grimace]

Emrakul at 7 actually has me thinking we're seeing no more than 20-25 Eldrazi in the set. Even for a small set that's not a ton, I don't feel

There's 40 in Oath of the Gatewatch. 25 is a lot for a "non-Eldrazi" set, particularly given we also have an Eldrazi tutors.

 

[Santiako]

As much I would love them to, I don't think they'll do a BFM card just because it would be a rules nightmare.

 

[FreedomFrisbee]

I'm not disappointed with any of this so far. I anticipated Bloodborn, I have received Bloodborn. The eldrazi filling the cosmic aspect of bloodborn fits perfectly.

I can see the angle where people are bummed about it from a continuing mechanic perspective, at least. Infect was hated by tons of people back in the day and if that had continued to appear there would have been people wouldn't have been happy. So far tho, this is just flavoring. Gameplay wise, it just seems like we're getting Innistrad mechanics with cosmic horror flavor.

Emrakul gets sealed in the moon at the end, lili breaks the chain veil during, accidentally resurrects Yawgmoth, everyone moves on to another plane, status quo restored. In hindsight the players will see that Emrakul actually drove them irrationally mad and we'll all just have a pint down at the winchester.

 

[Angry Grimace]

I'm not disappointed with any of this so far. I anticipated Bloodborn, I have received Bloodborn. The eldrazi filling the cosmic aspect of bloodborn fits perfectly.

I can see the angle where people are bummed about it from a continuing mechanic perspective, at least. Infect was hated by tons of people back in the day and if that had continued to appear there would have been people wouldn't have been happy. So far tho, this is just flavoring. Gameplay wise, it just seems like we're getting Innistrad mechanics with cosmic horror flavor.

Emrakul gets sealed in the moon at the end, lili breaks the chain veil during, accidentally resurrects Yawgmoth, everyone moves on to another plane, status quo restored. In hindsight the players will see that Emrakul actually drove them irrationally mad and we'll all just have a pint down at the winchester.

But flavor is a reason people want to see different Planes. I don't want to play Innistrad for Zendikar flavor.

 

[The Technomancer]

I guess this specific version of eldritch horror fits well into Innistrad for me. I don't feel like this is Zendikar style Eldrazi

 

[SigmasonicX]

Yeah, what we've seen of the Eldrazi so far is a very different presentation from what we saw in Battle for Zendikar block. Remember that people in this very thread were complaining about how BFZ didn't do much Lovecraftian Horror stuff with them.

 

[FreedomFrisbee]

But flavor is a reason people want to see different Planes. I don't want to play Innistrad for Zendikar flavor.

I wouldn't call Eldrazi part of the Zendikar flavor. They were after all kept separate originally, to the extent that people are actively mad that BFZ block had Eldrazi in it (to the point of hounding Maro).

Can't wait to see how people react to the coming interplanar war.

 

[y2dvd]

Think this is the front side of Hanweir?


actually, now I think it's highly likely with the tentacles above in the sky.

It's The Myst creature yo!

 

[Matriox]

uh guys

Eldrazi flip cards confirmed

After tokens it swings for 13 pointed out by a friend mine.

 

[Santiako]

MaRo just confirmed in blogatog that there are no Devoid cards in Eldritch Moon.

 

[El Topo]

Good.

 

[A Serious Man]

The real question is whether we see cards requiring colorless mana.

 

[Angry Grimace]

The real question is whether we see cards requiring colorless mana.

0% chance

 

[SigmasonicX]

MaRo also confirmed he doesn't like Coax from the Blind Eternities.

 

[ElyrionX]

Why is the new Emrakul such utter garbage?

 

[charlequin]

How dare they continue to use guillotines but declare guns a no go. That's such a flavor fail, there's just no way at looking at Innistrad and not asking where's the guns.

Right.. because... guillotines use.. .gunpowder (???)

Eldrazi flip cards confirmed

This was super obviously going to happen. The theme of Innistrad flip cards is "dark transformation"; Emrakul causes people and things to transform; doing flip cards lets you pay colored mana for a card that becomes colorless without using devoid.

I was expecting them to use devoid on the transformed side if it was colorless, but I guess they thought the flavor and card frame would be enough since the mana cost isn't visible.

Similarly, devoid was obviously never going to happen here since it doesn't mean anything in-block. In BFZ it's a major mechanical theme and super relevant to limited, it wouldn't do anything here.

Full art brehs

zomg this image is incredible

The real question is whether we see cards requiring colorless mana.

Maro also confirmed this is not happening today, it's a Kozilek thing only.

 

[kirblar]

MaRo also confirmed he doesn't like Coax from the Blind Eternities.

The rest of R&D to MaRo: *crying motions*

Eldrazi Wish is awesome.

 

["God's Beard!"]

Commune with Lava + Pull from the Blind Eternities is kinda fun synergy.

 

[Ashodin]

No surprise, MaRo hates exile effects