Seemly we will get an bonus epilogue story as part of the ARG puzzles sprinkled in the set.
my guess it reveals why Rakdos goes the Thunder junction
The epilogue story being published (probably around Feb. 14) is confirmed, but my bet is that it focuses entirely on Jace. (There are too many Jace puppets, lookalikes, and symbol bearers in the set already - they're clearly building up towards this guy.)
Just the straight equipment can win limited games by ensuring your fatties gets through every turn. The fact it *also* provides bodies repeatedly, turns your land into 2/2 and, in a way gives you an extra draw for 5, which can be split into two mana installments if needs be... this is a limited all-star.
This doesn't have an equip cost and only cloaks cards from the top of your library. This card's main value in Limited is as an unblockable weenie machine.
I think #3 is the most obvious fake (at least to me). I actually suspect #9 is the other fake - I don't think they'll purely colorshift a Morph card into another Morph card in these decks.
One of Stoneforge Mystic's best friends in UW for when she really wants a grindfest. (Batterskull seems to be relegated to a grindfest role, while Kaldra Compleat has been promoted to the main option these days, being a significantly faster clock against combo.)
Lamplight Phoenix actually looks fairly good. Get enough instants and sorceries in the graveyard and that phoenix can recur itself twice or more in a row. (Tests of Kylox's Voltstrider in Modern RUG Crashing Footfalls Cascade have been going fairly well.)
If Altar's Reap wasn't obsolete now it should be at this point.
Altar's Reap and friends are great at saccing my blockers before they die to combat damage. They're also great at saccing creatures I just played this turn. Treacherous Greed can't do those.
All my ramp and colour fixing needs are taken care of for the rest of the game with just a fetchland in my graveyard. And this lets me effectively play two lands per turn! One of the best cards in the set.
There seems to be some character assassination on Teysa if the murderer's words are to be believed. The Teysa I know wouldn't cohort with Phyrexia
We may as well believe Etrata's later words that Teysa was, in fact, consorting with partially converted Phyrexians instead. That would explain the note in Phyrexian she was writing at the time she was killed.
Whoops, I misremembered - turns out that Oba is the dryad of life, not harmony (and yes, the other members of Trostani are sane enough to realize that Oba is destroying harmony big-time). Sounds like Oba was flushing out the Phyrexian corruption that damaged Mat'Selesnya and then went overboard (e.g. turned her wrath to anyone who thought the Phyrexian enemy might have had good designs they could appropriate Dominaria- or Oltec-style, e.g. Kylox). I'm still convinced Judith may have been the final straw permitting Oba to do the purges, but it increasingly looks like Aurelia won't attack Rakdos after all and that Rakdos will just want a vacation after waking up.
The epilogue story being published (probably around Feb. 14) is confirmed, but my bet is that it focuses entirely on Jace. (There are too many Jace puppets, lookalikes, and symbol bearers in the set already - they're clearly building up towards this guy.)
The Clash card is Marvo, Deep Operative, which is visible on Wizards's page of the Commander decklists.
This doesn't have an equip cost and only cloaks cards from the top of your library. This card's main value in Limited is as an unblockable weenie machine.
Altar's Reap and friends are great at saccing my blockers before they die to combat damage. They're also great at saccing creatures I just played this turn. Treacherous Greed can't do those.
Barbed Servitor may as well be unlockable unless your opponent is willing to lose quite a lot of life to prevent you from drawing a card.
We may as well believe Etrata's later words that Teysa was, in fact, consorting with partially converted Phyrexians instead. That would explain the note in Phyrexian she was writing at the time she was killed.