Dragon's Maze spoilers! - MTGCombos.com

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So, here's the first thing - no basic lands in booster packs.

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Period. You will either draw a guildgate, a shock land... or the mythic rare land.

Second - all ten guilds will be represented in the set. You'll pick your guild... And in your guild pack, you're going to get a secret booster pack, with nothing but cards from that guild's secret ally guild. Each guild from Gatecrash will be linked with one from RtR.

Third, and most cool of all... is the maze.

Successes in the guild battles will further you guild along the maze's path. If your guild reaches the center first, your guild takes the event - so there's a legit team element to it, this time around. The guild which takes the most events worldwide will decide the direction of this block's canon story. :D

Everyone involved will get a foil basic land for taking part - the only basic lands to be associated with the set.

Everyone involved will get the usual foil prerelease card. Those are the facts. Here's the speculation.

So far, there's three theories on what the prerelease card will be.

One theory is that either Niv-Mizzet or Nicol Bolas will be revealed as the main antagonist. Nicol Bolas was rumoured to be involved in this block somehow since the release of M2013, whereas several parts of Ravnica canon have intimated that this set will be the culmination of Niv-Mizzet's grand design.

The second theory is that the prerelease card will be Ral Zarek. All signs point to his being the set's solitary Planeswalker - rumours surround suggesting he'll also be an alternate art Prerelease. I'm not putting too much stock in this one. It's a fun idea, but a bit part of Planeswalkers is how rare they are - after teasing this guy since Duel of the Planeswalkers 2012, I can't see them making him one of the most accessible, ever.

The third - and most likely - is that the card will be an alternate art foil of the mythic rare land. Speculation holds the land to be the Dragon's Maze itself - giving away a card to commemorate the event is a likely possibility.

More as I get it. :D

-edit- sorry, forgot two bits of speculation. First is that one of the legendary creatures will be Feather, the former leader of the Boros legion.

Given how awesome Aurelia turned out, I want this one to be true. Well, for that reason, and my love of the angels. :)

The other is that the Guildless will be a major part of this plot. Expect some amazing unaffiliated cards to pop up from the set. -edit-

[Edited by Academic on 23/Apr/13 at 2:46PM]

[Edited by Academic on 23/Apr/13 at 3:14PM]

Date Posted: Sat Feb/02/13 at 10:12pm

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Hell yeah, can't wait for this series....

Date Posted: Sun Feb/03/13 at 4:19am

Just had a friend aim me at a major point - if you are into the buying and selling of cards, ditch your shocklands now. Their price is going to drop significantly in the next few weeks. Along the same token, hold off on buying shocklands until the set drops - there'll be a surplus, so there'll never have been a better time to buy.

[Edited by Academic on 3/Feb/13 at 5:00AM]

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Date Posted: Sun Feb/03/13 at 6:44am

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That is great news, the fact that I don't sell, I plan on collecting all the shock lands..
Curious how much the drop will be..... Now if only they would drop the price for the lands in unhinged

Date Posted: Sun Feb/03/13 at 10:44am

Why thank you, new and original user! /:D

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Date Posted: Sun Feb/03/13 at 11:09am

Academic are you positive that they will be lowest when the set comes out? I have some extra money right now and need 5-6 of most of them (I only have 1 godless shrine atm) and I need to know exactly when would be the best time to put all of my cards on the table so to speak. Thanks for getting me pumped! :D

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Date Posted: Sun Feb/03/13 at 11:22am

Give it a week or two after the set releases, but absolutely. Shock lands are pricy because they'd been high demand, low supply. That low supply is going right out the window, and the oversaturation of the market is going to lead to a drop in the market. That will be your time. :D

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Date Posted: Sun Feb/03/13 at 12:20pm

Won't the bajillionty other people who have figured this out and start buying cause them to be in even bigger demand and go right back to their current state?

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Date Posted: Sun Feb/03/13 at 12:28pm

No chance. This is going to be the single biggest flood of a (once) rare and useful card to have happened in ages. There is going to be a huge surplus of these cards available, relative to the demand. It would take some serious buying power to get so many of these cards off the market that the both the supply and demand go back to the way they were - and even then, their efforts are undone each and every time someone opens a new case.

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Hold out on your purchase - you'll save a good chunk of change.

Date Posted: Sun Feb/03/13 at 3:29pm

the funny thing is i remember reading that not only is the pre-release card is the same no matter what guild you choose, but that you can't use it in the pre-release itself. i agree with the speculation that it might be the maze itself.

[Edited by ninnyz on 4/Feb/13 at 1:14PM]

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Thank you so much!

Date Posted: Mon Feb/04/13 at 1:14pm

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Date Posted: Wed Feb/06/13 at 3:06pm

I'd just like to point out this is by far the most viewed thread this week, despite everything. :D

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Date Posted: Wed Feb/06/13 at 3:57pm

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There is also speculation that the 10 guild champions will appear in this set. However, most small sets only have 10 mythics (DKA had 12), so if the champions are mythic, then them plus Ral Zarek plus the mythic land are all the mythics. Personally, I think it's more likely that they are rare.

There is also lots of speculation on who the champions are. Teysa is a good bet for the Orzhov. Lavinia is a decent bet for Azorius, other than that, it's up in the air.

Date Posted: Wed Feb/06/13 at 9:07pm

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I agree I think the champions are going to be the legendarys, though I think they'll be mythic status.
I agree with teysa for the orzhov and lavinia
For the gruul i'm thinking ruric thar
Radkos -Massacre Girl
Boros- I can't say Feather, because 1) Aurelia wouldn't have a disgraced angel represent her, 2) its implied that Feather is dead. I'm thinkg Grozdan, because you have to have a minotaur when a maze is involved

Date Posted: Thu Feb/07/13 at 1:00pm

Kind of a half-spoiler here - according to Wizard's latest press release, the name of the Buy-A-Box promo card is "Render Silent". Dimir, maybe?

[Edited by Academic on 7/Feb/13 at 1:01PM]

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Date Posted: Thu Feb/07/13 at 6:08pm

What are peoples' thoughts/hopes/dreams/fantasies for 3 or 4-color legends?!?! I for one am soooooo pumped. I really really hope Mark got us some sick color combinations. If I see previously-printed guild champions I will rip 2 Obzedats in half. And eat them.

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Date Posted: Fri Feb/08/13 at 1:14pm

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Some people speculate that Wizards will make 5 new Nephilim and make each of them four-colour and legendary. That could happen. Between guild champions, leylines and nephilim, there is a lot of stuff to either look forward to, or be disappointed in not getting once DGM does finally get released.

Date Posted: Mon Feb/18/13 at 10:31am

We may have a spoiler on the titular Dragons Maze card. This is speculation, as opposed to out-and-out spoiler, but it's showing up on damn near every spoiler feed out there.

Dragon's Maze
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: Add

to your mana pool.

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Return Dragon's Maze to your hand: Search your library for a Gate card, put it onto
the battlefield, then shuffle your library. If you control ten or more
Gates with different names, you win the game.

It has a bounce mechanism, which is fun, and it fetches, which is nice. That could save you from a mana-fucking. And I like win conditions. A lot.

This is just not a card I'd just choose to play. Assuming it's legendary, then this is basically a colorless version of Oboro, Palace in the Clouds with a more expensive, more restrictive bounce mechanism. Granted, that mechanism also allows you to fetch a dual-colored land and put it into play tapped, but to get there, you had to kill a chunk of your turn by putting a land into play, using up three mana (and the Maze can't tap itself for this) to put a land into play tapped.

There are much, much better ways (and cheaper ways) of doing this.

So, tl;dr version - I kind of hope this one turns out to be false. The rumored card isn't terrible, but everyone's been expecting the latest iteration of the "Maze of X" cards - a nice, simple variation of "Untap target attacking creature, it deals nor receives combat damage". Dragon's Maze might not be worthless, but it's looking like it'll be a lot less than everyone expected.

[Edited by Academic on 18/Feb/13 at 10:32AM]

Date Posted: Mon Feb/18/13 at 11:40am

Okay, a few more things...

First - It's just been announced that there's only going to be one event deck for this set... and every set after this. This is an official policy change, with no explainations so far - all future sets will only have the one event deck.

Second - The Dragon's Maze event deck is rumored right now to be either a five-colored deck, a Gateless deck, or both.

Third - all ten of the Gates in Dragon's Maze will have new art, and new flavor text. Instead of the "Enter..." style from RTR/Gatecrash, you'll get a "Beyond..." style quote.

The Izzet, for example, are reputed to now read "Beyond lies the culmination of all Izzet projects, a grand experiment led by the dragon Niv-Mizzet himself." No word as of yet if there's an Easter Egg in the flavor this time around.

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Date Posted: Mon Feb/18/13 at 2:18pm

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I guess the event deck thing makes sense. As it is now, one deck is always worth much more than the other and no one buys it, so it's like there's only one demand for one deck anyways. I'd rather Wizards release one solid value deck than two shitty decks any day. Let's just hope they don't throw in Thragtusks to run up the value... -_-'

Date Posted: Tue Feb/19/13 at 3:17am

My only complaint about the Gatecrash event decks was that I didn't have enough money to pre-order four -rather than 2- of the Rally and Rout deck when they were still at 29.99.

If that does turn out to be the actual Dragon's Maze we can only hope for allied guild wedge-gates. We can hope for those anyways but they would make Dragon's Maze be much better. They would also be awesome for EVERY SINGLE FORMAT.

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Date Posted: Tue Feb/19/13 at 6:16pm

One small little thing for everyone. Take a look at the RTR logo. Then, take a look at Gatecrash.

Now look at the one for Dragon's Gate. :D

Aaaaand here's more speculation from a myriad of sites. Borborygmos fucking dies. Something bigger and badder will take him down, and lead the Gruul into the Maze.

The same sites are also suggesting that one of the Guild leaders is actually a Dimir shapeshifter.

I like the chatter I'm hearing that it's Aurilia, but who fucking knows, this early. :D

[Edited by Academic on 19/Feb/13 at 6:33PM]

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Date Posted: Tue Feb/19/13 at 9:01pm

I can't accept that theory. It throws my mind into turmoil and I don't like it. AURELIA IS TOO PERFECT TO NOT BE REAL! ;_;

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Date Posted: Fri Feb/22/13 at 10:17am

Here's a brand new spoiler - Emmara Tandris, the elven healer from the Agents of Artifice novel, will be back as a Mythic Rare legendary creature in this set. She's also a major character in the cannon story for the block.

No word on whether or not she's going to be the guild Champion, but she is a member of the Selesnya, and Doug Beyer has suggested that she's going to be a major player in the endgame.

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Date Posted: Fri Feb/22/13 at 12:54pm

Call me crazy, but I don't think a guild like Rakdos is going to be secretly allied with Azorious. It makes more sense, given the game's history, to do Apocalypse pairings.

Azorious+Boros= Apoc Red, looks very good
Dimir+simic= Apoc Green, looks good
Rakdos+Orzhov= Apoc White, looks unlikely
Gruul+Izzet= Apoc Blue, looks highly unlikely
Selesnya+golgari = Apoc Black, looks odd

Boros+Rakdos =Apoc White, looks weird
Azorious+Izzet = Apoc Red, looks okay
Dimir+Golgari = Apoc Green, looks great
Gruul+ Simic= Apoc Blue, looks okay
Orzhov+ Selesnya= Apoc Black, looks interesting

That being said, if one switches to Invasion colors, you not only get a pentagram but these pairings.

Izzet and Dimir = Blue
Orzhov and Azorious = White
Simic and Selesnya = Green
Boros and Gruul = Red
Golgari and Rakdos = Black

Without reading any of the novels in this block (and it has been ages since I read the first Ravnica block book) I feel like this would fully work.

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Date Posted: Fri Feb/22/13 at 1:32pm

:D Wow. Nice work, and you're right, the Invasion match-ups look almost too perfect.

Just some follow-up speculation on Emmara Tandris, the latest spoiler. More than a few forums which were heavily suggesting that a Dimir infiltrator was leading one of the Guilds have quickly started suggesting that it's the Selesnya leadership that's been replaced, with Emmara at the head of the guild.

This is being fueled by heavy participation in The Secretist series - and the fact that the second book has Lazav on the cover.

The other branch of speculation holds that Emmara is Lazav (either he always was, or he killed/replaced her) - and that Lazav is going to use her friendship with Jace to take down Niv-Mizzet.

I personally can't wait to find out - and I can't wait to find out how this will all translate into the cards.

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Date Posted: Thu Feb/28/13 at 9:06am

Here's the latest interview with Doug Beyer, the author of the novel, and one of the guys who worked on the flavor for the latest set. Fun tease, though - this set will likely involve some big, fun Jace-style cards.

Here. :D

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Date Posted: Sat Mar/09/13 at 11:19am

Remember how I'd mentioned that Borborygmos was rumored to be dead by the start of Dragon's Maze?

They've just released some official art which seems to confirm this. Ruric Thar ('the Unbowed'), the leader of the second largest Gruul clan (and considered first rival for the leadership of the Gruul) is without question going to be a legendary for this set. Considering everything that's been going on as far as back story, it's fairly safe to say that Borborygmos has gone the way of all flesh.

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Date Posted: Sun Mar/10/13 at 6:01pm

Sweet Jesus this guy looks amazing!

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JUND-COLORED PERHAPS?!?!?!?!?!?!

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Date Posted: Sun Mar/10/13 at 7:05pm

Some speculation on my part! I really hope Ruric Thar is Jund so here are my pairings based off of that fantasy:

Gruul and Rakdos = Red (Jund) Focusing on the anarchy and destruction theme.
Boros and Azorius = White (Numot or America) Focusing on enforcing laws and upholding order.
Izzet and Simic = Blue (Intet) Focusing on experimentation and augmentation and CREATION.
Orzhov and Dimir = Black (Esper) Focusing on controlling the other guilds and assassinating other leaders.
Golgari and Selesnya = Green (Teneb or Junk) Focusing the creation of new life, regardless of what they have to sacrifice.

(I originally had Golgari and Simic together but that would force Selesnya to be with Izzet which couldn't work)

I like these pairings a lot. I think they make more sense guild identity-wise than invasion pairings but anything goes at this point. What do you think about these alliances I've forged? Are there any reasons why they couldn't work?

-edit- My pairings seem to put all of the guilds in a bad light lol. -edit-

[Edited by on 11/Mar/13 at 6:53AM]

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Date Posted: Wed Mar/13/13 at 2:52am

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Lazav was disguised as Calomir. read it on the MTGsalvation wiki.

edit-
and I've read the quilds will be paired by return and crash. my friend and i came up with these pairings.

Azorious and Orzhav (detain to control long enough to extort to death)
Izzet and Dimir (overload with cipher? yes, please)
Golgari and Gruul (swing with everything, and make anything bigger)
Selesnya and Simic (lots of creatures, and ways to make + counters)
Rakdos and Boros (Uleash for some mad aggro to set the Battalion off)

[Edited by DTKing999 on 13/Mar/13 at 3:11AM]

Date Posted: Sun Mar/24/13 at 1:41pm

Fucking. Called. It. :D

Ladies and gentlemen - meet the Champion of the Gruul, Ruric Thar.

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Same price as Bory was - just a little bigger, a little badder, and a little better. :D

There was also the official spoiler of the foil pre-release card. It's
pretty much exactly what was posted here before, but now we know it's
name - Maze's End.

Backstory spoilers!

Niv has sent Ral Zarek from guild to guild to announce a giant maze challenge, with an amazing prize for the winner. Each guild picks it's champion ('maze runner') to represent the guild.The 'runners' are:

Exava, Blood Witch of the Rakdos
The Weird, Melek, Izzet Paragon (This decision pisses off Ral Zarek a bit)
Vorel of the Hull Clade, representing the Simic

Boros Tajic, Blade of the Legion
The Golgari send a fucking troll
Mirko Vosk of the Dimir
The above mentioned Ruric Thar
Emmara Tandris of the Selesnya (fucking. called. it. :D)

Bitchfaced Lavinia of the Tenth, for the Azorius

And last, but definitely not least... Teysa, Envy of Ghosts will represent the Orzhov. :D

Wizards reps implied that we can expect the 'runners' of the 'secret ally guilds' will compliment one-another. This could be interesting - it's not often that you see legends build specifically to compliment other legends. They're also looking to really make the Planeswalker Points a meaningful part of tournaments. One way of doing this is by offering achievements for players of the physical game. If your guild wins the event at your location, you'll be given a card with a code on it - and this code will give you bragging rights.

Wizards acknowledged that the Dimir kind of got fucked this block, and their reasoning was that they played too safe because of how overpowered Cipher could be. They've stated that their intention is to make Cipher very compatible with some of the upcoming black sets.

(These next few spoilers aren't Dragon's Maze related, but are still cool, so I'm including them here. One, we can expect more Commander products out by the end of the year. Two, within the next few sets, we can expect four-colored legends. Three, R&D seems to want to keep hexproof and shroud in separate sets, at all times - so if you see an upcoming set has shroud, it won't have hexproof, and vice versa. Four, we will never see a Homunculus as a planeswalker. Apparently, it's impossible for homunculito have active sparks.)

Last, but not least: This has been the most viewed thread for almost two months - so thanks for the hits. :D

Date Posted: Sun Mar/24/13 at 7:30pm

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Did everyone see my lovely combo for Ruric http://www.mtgcombos.com/view.php?fid=2&tid=68275&t=ruric-thar and ITs most envious comment?-D
I'm looking forward for some interesting EDH generals.

Date Posted: Sun Mar/24/13 at 8:34pm

I neglected to mention a few of the other spoilers from PAX, and frankly, some of them were huge enough to need to spill. These aren't Dragon's Maze specific, but there's a lot of information here.

First, DOTP2014 is going to have a storyline, featuring Chandra, as she seeks out a new planeswalker in the next block - the sets of which have been revealed as 'Theros' (Friends), 'Born of the Gods' (Romans), and 'Journey into Nyx' (Countrymen). These all sound epic as hell - and that makes me first with the spoilers with the next block. :D

A lot of the art that was shown at the PAX reveal revolved around the idea of Jace tracking down the maze itself. The general feeling is that a lot of mono-blue in this set will be Jace-related.

Not only will the Shocklands have new art - so will each of the Guildgates.

The Dragon's Maze is actually being designed with tri-colored in mind - and my people are saying that Ruric Thar, the big and beefy attack machine of the Gruul is going to be backed up by the Rakdos.

That's right. They've made a set that brings back Jund. :D

There's apparently a push by R&D right now to make a lot of EDH-friendly commanders, also. You can expect a few more legends per upcoming set, and expect them to cover interesting color combinations.

While there are no immediate plans right now, Wizards is expecting to make another Un-set in the future. :D

And last, but certainly not least.... Phyrexia lives.

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Date Posted: Sun Mar/24/13 at 9:00pm

First off, all hail phyrexian mana!
Secondly...doesn't that mean that Karn failed? That or Karn/Urza/whatever-the-heck-Karn-called-himself-at-the-end-of-the-apocalypse-book-that-no-one-cared-to-remember-when-they-brought-him-back will once again be battling Phyrexia. Hopefully this returns the wackiness of gating.

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Date Posted: Mon Mar/25/13 at 12:39am

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Behold...behold a world...where all ALL Shall bow before the father of machines...

Date Posted: Mon Mar/25/13 at 6:04am

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Eli Whitney?

Date Posted: Mon Mar/25/13 at 10:35am

What do you mean by Phyrexia? You are neglecting to mention that Ruric-Thar, The Unbowed IS THE COOLEST RG GENERAL SINCE THAT CENTAUR DUDE WHO ISN'T REALLY THAT COOL. I love him so much. He is an every-format-all-star. In standard he's a midrange answer to midrange and control! JUST WOW.

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Date Posted: Mon Mar/25/13 at 2:37pm

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Ahh...but you forget...this jester has a necrofetish....and wants him some hawt Elesh Norn alternate art...

Date Posted: Mon Mar/25/13 at 3:27pm

the whole shockland thing blew my mind. i should definitely have held out on the few that i just got.

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Date Posted: Mon Mar/25/13 at 8:34pm

Well... to be fair, by the sounds of things, it'll be a drop of about $2-3 per card. It's not terrible.

But yeah, pretty much. :D

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Date Posted: Tue Mar/26/13 at 6:00am

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Artwork / spoiler visible here http://mythicspoiler.com/

Date Posted: Tue Mar/26/13 at 11:57am

i've heard a lot of speculation that they will all drop to around five dollars. it's going to be awesome if that's what happens.

oh and you all might like this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZf08OBag4o

[Edited by Starship on 26/Mar/13 at 11:58AM]

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Date Posted: Tue Mar/26/13 at 2:01pm

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i cant wait i had to give up magic for a while i just umpped back in and it looks like i jumpped in at the right momment

Date Posted: Tue Mar/26/13 at 2:21pm

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Tajic was the boros guildmage in charge of the Warmind initiative, a joint project between boro and izzet to create the perfect/ultimate soldier.

Izzets champion is the perfect weird -perhaps a product of the warmind project (note wizards use of "paragon" in reference to warriors and knights)

creator and creation- if the allies are suppose to pair well together this seems like a natural fit.

If it is tricolor, it would make sense that the each color unites 2 guilds. for the above reason i feel boros and izzet will take the R spot, but they will still have Jund with Gruul and Goglari-they are both the dredges of society and are the only ones that have a health respect for the natural order of things.

Besides I like the idea of orzhov-radkos the abilities pair well together with extort overing the life lose for some of the radkos effects, and radko's unleash offering the aggro ozhov needs

Date Posted: Tue Mar/26/13 at 4:34pm

Boros and Izzet team up to make the ultimate soldier.

WR and UR pair up to create a super soldier

America creates the super soldier serum.

Analysis: Captain America is weird!

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Date Posted: Thu Mar/28/13 at 11:54am

http://www.mythicspoiler.com/

are these the actual legend names?

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Date Posted: Thu Mar/28/13 at 1:45pm

Awesome, Starship.

Here's a full embed of the video.

Okay, - These trailer animatics are always made by 'animating (in the loosest possible sense) card art. So each 'scene' is a bit of a spoiler in and of itself.

I love how casually arrogant Ral Zarek is. "I'm right. Deal with it". And he is right, no matter how much you don't like it.

I can't quite put my finger on why I like that so much. :D

1:03 -Unless I'm wrong, we're looking at the Maze's End here.

1:10 - FUCKING FINALLY. I've wanted an explanation as to why the Tablet of the Guilds had the Dimir on it. This trailer implies it has something to do with the maze. And I'm glad for that. The whole thing was pissing me off. :D

Starship - two quick things - One, card prices are more likely to drop to around $7-9. There was a lot of misunderstanding of the original announcement - that said, dealers are expecting the price of the shocklands to still go down. Two, the names on Mythic Spoiler are close, but a little off. Tesya, for example, is the envy of ghosts, not the envoy. This is one place where Mythic Spoilers drops the ball.

Gericault - I had remembered that bit of flavor before - That said, I was yet to put two and two together, regarding the secret guild alliances. Good call. This would also explain why Niv might choose the Weird over Ral Zarek to run the maze - this is a great chance to test what should be perfection.

(Or Niv knows that by not choosing Ral Zarek, Niv knows that Zarek's spark will ignite. :D)

Boyachi - fuck you. From now on, Melek is going to be called Captain America. And it's your fault. :p

Just dropping off a little bit of speculation here - word is Ral Zarek will be a very 'Izzet' planeswalker, with both a ping ability, as well as a draw ability, coupled with his ultimate. No word on the ultimate as of yet, though, not even enough to call speculation.

[Edited by on 28/Mar/13 at 7:04PM]

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Date Posted: Thu Mar/28/13 at 8:56pm

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Two, the names on Mythic Spoiler are close, but a little off. Tesya, for example, is the envy of ghosts, not the envoy. This is one place where Mythic Spoilers drops the ball.
I have to disagree, there seems to be a lot of speculation about her name and I have actually seen it both ways. The level of respect and influence she has would cause others to envy her, however, since she is a diplomat, the orzhov representive, and holds the title of Grand Envoy of the Obzedat, I feel Envoy is more appropriate

This is a great chance to test what should be perfection.
agree
though part of me thinks it might be niv is afraid of Ral and doesn't want him to get stronger with the prize (I admit not reading the newest books, but thought I remember reading somewhere else Ral already ascended but was hiding it from Niv, maybe not as well as he thought)

[Edited by gericault5 on 28/Mar/13 at 9:02PM]

Date Posted: Fri Mar/29/13 at 12:55am

The Tesya isn't exactly up for debate, gericault. :D

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This is the slide from Wizard's PAX release.

Date Posted: Fri Mar/29/13 at 1:44am

Academic I believe Maro has stated that it was a mistake and that she is actually the 'envoy' of ghosts.

Guild champions I'm scared of: Mirko Vosk and Teysa. I predict that Mirko Vosk will make up for Lazav and cipher and just be overpowered as hell. Teysa will probably make Esper Spirits competitive (yikes).

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Date Posted: Fri Mar/29/13 at 8:38am

You were both right. :D

Next time, give us a link. That's important enough for a spoiler thread. :D

[Edited by Academic on 29/Mar/13 at 8:38AM]

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Date Posted: Fri Mar/29/13 at 12:45pm

spiderman1100

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So what do you expect Mirko to be like? Draw up a card

Date Posted: Mon Apr/01/13 at 3:06pm

Fucking. Called. It.

Again. :D

I was bang-on about the trailer's art - ladies and gentlemen, the second official reveal - Maze's End.

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Date Posted: Mon Apr/01/13 at 5:06pm

Okay... this may just be people getting trolled on April First - but here's this thing.

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I want to call fake. It's asymmetric as hell, the logo looks forced in, and that ability is pretty amazing, considering he's supposed to be a 4/4 for CMC4.

And it's a troll on April Fools' day.

But that is a hella sweet pair of abilities.

Date Posted: Mon Apr/01/13 at 9:24pm

That would blow standard right open. I hope it's not real and he does something lame with Saprolings so I don't have to feel bad about Skullbriar.

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Date Posted: Tue Apr/02/13 at 7:48am

Wizards has announced that they'll be spoiling their preview cards next week. It never takes too long after the preview spoiler for the rest of the cards to leak, so keep your eyes open.

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Date Posted: Tue Apr/02/13 at 10:12am

I have a question: what on earth is the point of going through the maze?
I understand (somehow) the person that does will (supposedly) rule Ravnica, but from the looks of it, Maze's End doesn't seem too difficult to find. Why not just saunter over into its center during the hours/days of all the other champions bickering?

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Date Posted: Tue Apr/02/13 at 11:06am

Basically, the only way to actually activate the shrine(?) at the Maze's End is by following the leylines of Ravnica through each of the Guildgates. The whole challenge is basically one giant spell - and running the maze is one of the components of the spell.

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Date Posted: Tue Apr/02/13 at 5:00pm

...and THAT will summon Nicol Bolas into the middle of the City. Love it.

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Date Posted: Wed Apr/03/13 at 12:56pm

Also not Dragon's Maze spoilers.... but I'm about to spoile cards from either Magic 2014, Theros, Born of the Gods, or Journey into Nyx, so whatever. I'm about to spoil sets way down the road. :D

First up - it's a new, more useful form of Relentless Rats!

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Isn't it awesome? :D

A one drop, unlimited copies allowed, and it's real special ability lets you play a demon for 'free'. And it's a common. I don't play demons, but I've rocked the hell out of a Relentless Rat deck. I'm looking forward to this.

Again - I don't play demons. That said, I can respect a overcosted 'destroy target creature' spell that also gives you a 5/6 flyer. And considering it's black, the downside is negligible.

This is rediculous. Remember when this sort of creature used to cost three mana, was usually a gold card, and required you to return a creature to your hand?

This is an amazing card, and I will play the hell out of it.

-edit- It's not strictly better than Garruk's Companion, but I'd play this more, just because it's more likely to survive. -/edit-

[Edited by Academic on 3/Apr/13 at 12:58PM]

Date Posted: Wed Apr/03/13 at 10:19pm

Just for the record - if you're going to this tournament, I'll buy any of the foil basic lands you're able to get your hands on, at .50 cents a card.

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Date Posted: Thu Apr/04/13 at 9:51am

The apostle makes so much more sense than it did last night. I thought only one had to be sacrificed, not six.
Could be fun with Lord of the Void and Demon of Death's Gate. Griselbrand is always fun, regardless.

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Date Posted: Thu Apr/04/13 at 10:25am

Chewy

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So, my question is, where are you getting all of this from? Because I tried to search it to find out lol

Date Posted: Thu Apr/04/13 at 11:20am

@academic, thanks for the info. honestly 7-9 isn't a bad price to pay, especially compared to how over priced they were.

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Date Posted: Thu Apr/04/13 at 11:22am

Boyachi - The first thing I thought of was actually the Demon of Death's Gate. That way, you have either the option of using it's 'three creatures/six life' cost, by pitching three Apostles, or if you can get the full six apostles out, you can fetch a 9/9 flying trampler. :D

Again, I don't play demons, period - but the apostles are hella cool.

Chewy - Honestly, mate, I google about twenty different iterations of "Dragon's Maze" related searches, and since I do it regularly enough, I can restrict my searches to within twenty-four hours. I also keep up regularily on about a half-dozen spoiler blogs, and some fifteen or so MTG forums (including this one).

This all takes me about five minutes, provided I have dual-monitors and a good internet connection. :D

-edit- Starship, not a problem. ^_^

Also, Spider - I didn't just ignore you, mate, I just have no idea what the new Dimir vampire is going to be like. I haven't heard any speculation at all - that said, I absolutely want to know what the only blue Vampire in Magic (aside from changelings/Mistform Ultimus) is capable of. -/edit-

[Edited by Academic on 4/Apr/13 at 12:17PM]

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Date Posted: Fri Apr/05/13 at 11:34am

Hooooooooly shit, that did not take long.

Ladies and gentlemen (Oh who am I kidding, you're all male):

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So..... anyone like Demon decks, where they can fetch and play all of their demons for one mana each? /:D

[Edited by Academic on 5/Apr/13 at 11:34AM]

Date Posted: Fri Apr/05/13 at 1:20pm

Chewy

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Only flaw is they don't come back the first time if that demon isn't out. If he is, though, that'd be amazing to see played lol.

Date Posted: Fri Apr/05/13 at 1:47pm

It's not actually a Demon, Chewy - just a Spirit. That said, people are already dreaming up EDH decks based off of this idea.

Also, y'all might consider jumping on the Buy-A-Box promo right now. Because this is the next spoiler for the set.

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Date Posted: Sat Apr/06/13 at 12:32am

Absorb will soon retire. Undermine is looking for a nursing home as we speak.

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Date Posted: Tue Apr/23/13 at 3:12pm