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We're starting to get some real information on Battle for Zendikar, which is pretty exciting. We got our hands on a couple keywords from the spoiler for Duel Decks: Zendikar Vs. Eldrazi, which gives us some idea what we'll be working with.
Ingest is kind of a lame mechanic, but it suggests to me that we'll see more "big" Eldrazi with abilities like Oblivion Sower's that are based on cards in Exile. At the end of the day I would imagine that delve will matter more than ingest in this regard, but it's hard to say at this point.
Devoid isn't the most exciting mechanic, but it does open up some interesting design space. I don't much care about a Ghostfire reprint, but a non-colored one or two mana spell that kills Kor Firewalker would be a neat addition to Modern. I do think that the other devoid creature from the spoiler has a lot of constructed potential.
The haste ability is going to be strong if there are a couple more bodies this efficiently costed for a Rakdos beatdown deck. It won't take too many devoid creatures to make Ghostfire Blade into a Standard powerhouse with this and Hangarback Walker as shoe-ins for such a deck. Devoider Drone is even within the realm of playability here with its life-draining 187.
The unfortunate news with this printing is that there are a few cards that are about to see a pretty serious drop in value. It That Betrays being a $10 card was pretty silly, but these other positions really weren't asking for this.
there are 3 mechanics spoiled! read the whole article please!
Oh yeah, the limited one. It’s not that I didn’t read it, it’s that I forgot about it like right away.
Actually the implication was that there was;
Ingest
Devoid
Awaken
AND a return of Landfall
Stirring Wildwood was confirmed?
where can I read the article?
Found it! 🙁
It’s important to note that Stirring Wildwood was confirmed…IN the duel deck…not that it’ll be in BFZ (in fact that would direclty contradict MaRo’s statement about BFZ having a new dual land cycle)
I’m betting that we actually only get 4 new dual lands. For some reason I’m thinking that we might finally get a finished cycle of one of the Future Sight lands. River of Tears is the one that comes to mind since it has an ability very similar to landfall. I have no evidence to support this idea, it’s just a hunch.
MaRo said a cycle of enemy lands, so Future Sight cycles would be out.
How about enemy man lands?
I’d love to see it.
I thought the cycle would have a new design/theme.
My mistake. Didn’t notice that he specified enemy lands.