Thanks so much Hydro for the info, however i know theres quite a few members who will resent your use of the "mysterious note" thing for explaining how you got the info
Well, I could just stop rumormongering altogether if they'd like... I'm sure those peeps would be pleased to see that happen...
...Mysterious note is exactly what it was. So let's not get our nickers in a twist over this 'story'... 'cause it simply ain't one.
I'm just saying, from that picture, I can't tell whether that creature has legs or not.
It isn't that I dislike the IDEA of merfolk, it's that I dislike the name and the fact that they are waterlocked. They could be 99% like merfolk and I'd think it was a great idea.
Some people would say, "then why bother?". Well, if fish tails and "-folk" don't bother you as much as they bother me, that's a fair question. Aesthetically and internal-logically, they bug the heck out of me, at least.
I did start off my initial post with the words "crazy speculation", remember.
The Elemental deck is really stoking my inner Johnny/Vorthos. I can't wait for the Lorwyn rumor season to begin in full. I started during the Onslaught/Mirrodin era and since I was too poor to play Ravager I played Soldiers and Clerics and Zombies and pretty much every other Tribal theme other than Goblins(they didn't appeal to me then). I suspect that Time Spiral/Lorwyn/10th will be a better format than Ravnica/Time Spiral/9th.
The fact that we're getting a 5 color precon still really intrigues me. Looks like multicolor's still going to be playable, which is cool - and Time Spiral/10th is making monocolor decks playable as well, so if we're lucky, we'll have an even more diverse meta than we've got now!
Let me just reiterate this-
I hate tribal themes.
I like playing with tribes, but I hate it when a card's efficacy is dependent on how many of a tribe you have. (In standard those would be the black muse and the blue wizard popping invitational card)
I didn't play during Onslaught block, but I didn't much like it.
Anywho, the colors of the decks are interesting.
Each deck is associated with a tribe, sure.
I wonder how the 5 color deck will work. (Surprised they didn't try a 5 color sliver deck in TS block...)
The thing that still gets me is that I don't understand how Tribal is considered the 'first new card type since Alpha', when Equipment (a subtype) was advertised as the SAME deal in the past.
Tribal is a supertype that can't stand alone. WoTC has recently been hinting at a card type not mentioned on mass destruction spells, a card type that will require a rules card to fully explain, as it is all new to us.
Tribal does not require a rules card.
Tribal can be killed by all existing removal, because it is attached to another type at all times.
So it isn't tribal...unless we ignore all that, and just assume this is going to be another tribal block because we have a push in solidarity of creature types here.
I still say...
GOGOGO Enchantment block.
But that is just me.
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WUBRG La Senda De Los Elementales / Same name Quest of the Elementals
Theme deck #2
WU Fluviovias Sirenideas / Vias Fluviales Merrow Riverway of the Sirens
Theme deck #3
W Milicia Kithkin / Same name
Theme deck #4 BR Banquete Papao / Festin Boggart Feast of the Bogeyman (papão literally means bogeyman in portuguese..not sure if it's the same in spanish..)
I know this seems kinda stupid and obvious, but haven't blocks and their expansions as sets only have four preconstructed decks before (Core Sets are the only one I recall having 5). Pardon me if this is rather pointless speculation, but the fact that there are five precons makes me wonder if Lorwyn as a set will be bigger than the average main set.
I know this seems kinda stupid and obvious, but haven't blocks and their expansions as sets only have four preconstructed decks before (Core Sets are the only one I recall having 5). Pardon me if this is rather pointless speculation, but the fact that there are five precons makes me wonder if Lorwyn as a set will be bigger than the average main set.
That is a good catch.
Core sets have 5 Precons...
But base sets have 4.
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Boggarts were mentioned in the flavor text of Mistmeadow Skulk, which (like Goldmeadow Lookout seems likely to have to do with lorwyn (i.e. the lorwyn preview printed on the 9th tips'n'tricks card looks like a Goldmeadow Harrier or some similar style kithkin - more D&D gnome than halfling).
Just for the people unsure about the merfolk because you think they have legs LOR the merfolk in the Odessey story line used magic to grant them legs so they could inteact with the land dwellers. So merfolk are a big possibility in LOR
Boggarts were mentioned in the flavor text of Mistmeadow Skulk, which (like Goldmeadow Lookout seems likely to have to do with lorwyn (i.e. the lorwyn preview printed on the 9th tips'n'tricks card looks like a Goldmeadow Harrier or some similar style kithkin - more D&D gnome than halfling).
A quick google says this about Boggarts (ignoring Harry Potter in lieu of traditional folklore or whatever)
a Boggart is a mischievous, sometimes malicious imp or poltergeist character.
If we add in Harry Potter, they take on the form of your worst fear, etc etc.
Sounds decidedly Black to me.
That makes for a bunch of precons which seemingly include tribes of only one color. (B/G for Green Elves, W/U for Blue Merfolk, and B/R for Black Boggarts)
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Like someone has said before kamigawa had lots of tribal precons.
I dont like the new look of kithkin, plains =/= short in fact the opposite.
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Many beat me to the post, but here's my translation anyway (being a native Spanish speaker, almost-native English and knowing some Portuguese):
Theme deck #1
WUBRG La Senda De Los Elementales / Same name
The Path of the Elementals. *
Theme deck #2
WU Fluviovias Sirenideas / Vias Fluviales Merrow
Merrow? Riverways / Waterways of the Sirens **
Theme deck #3
W Milicia Kithkin / Same name
Kithkin Militia
Theme deck #4
BR Banquete Papao / Festin Boggart
Feast of the Boggarts
And Theme deck #5
BG Predacao Elfica / Depredadores Elficos
Elvish Predators
*Costanza: I don't think the "Quest" of the Elementals is an accurate translation. Senda suggests "path" or "way" or "trail".
However, props for the Bogeyman translation, it's spot-on, although I believe the "Magic" name for the race will be Boggarts. BTW the name Boggart is the same one used in Harry Potter, and they show up on the futureshifted kithkin
**Fluvial means "pertaining to a river" and via=way so that bit is for certain (River/Water)ways ; Sirenideas means "pertaining to or of the Sirens but I don't have any idea on the Merrow word but Spanish translations often keep the English name.
BTW I also agree with the poster that says Merrow will be this block's kind of Merfolk, or maybe Sirens (like the akki).
I think Kithkin Militia and Elvish Predation or Elvish Predators (Depredadores is literally Predators in Spanish, but Predaçao is Predation in Portuguese) can be agreed upon... I'm not so sure about the Feast of the Boggarts and Path of the Elementals, and I'm the least sure about the Merrow Waterways or Riverways
Another thought: the block doesn't have to have "only" one theme, although there will be a dominant one, but it can have sub-themes. Either the Enchantment theme will be dominant, or the Tribal one, but I'm betting on both being in. Also speculating, I'm thinking on ways to implement Planeswalker and one could be as a sort of World Enchantment or Enchantment supertype, and doing Vanguard-style stuff with a Leyline-like mechanic (play it for free, but only one in play at any given moment).
It definitely seems like there's a tribal subtheme to Lorwyn, at least.
I honestly still don't believe that R&D is so unoriginal and predictable as to do a block whose core theme is Tribal exactly as long after the first Tribal block as they took between gold blocks. (And I don't really buy that they'd duplicate an existing type -- Elves in this case -- if they were in fact doing another core Tribal set.)
I do think we'll see a heavy subtheme kind of like we did in Kamigawa -- several creature types that share close-knit abilities and support one another to a certain degree.
I guess we'll see soon!
EDIT: Yeah, note that 8 of the 12 Kami block precons had "tribal" names -- that is, names that described the theme in terms of a creature type. This seems a little more than that, but keep that in mind.
I still say...
GOGOGO Enchantment block. But that is just me.
Here Here! Im with ya on the whole enchantment deal. I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that Lorywn will be a Enchantment/Tribe block! Since there are going to be 5 precons, this would mean, as stated above, that the Lorwyn block will be huge and therefore capable of supporting two themes. Also if the fact that Lorwyn is a four set block truns out to be a fact for more reasons than me saying its a fact, then it would also support my two theme theroy. Thats theorical proof for ya.
(On an other note: I am still the ruler of Spain.)
Aren't boggarts kinda like ghosts? Or more like Poltergeist? That might be an interesting idea.
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I think they're supposed to be more like pranksters.
Quoting again from Wikipedia:
In British folklore, a boggart (or bogart, bogan, bogle or boggle) is a household spirit, sometimes mischievous, sometimes helpful. In Northern England, at least, there was the belief that the boggart should never be named, for when the boggart was given a name, it would not be reasoned with or persuaded and become uncontrollable and destructive.
I am going to bet they are going the Akki route with the Merfolk; different card names, same creature type. It just makes everything so much easier, though if they were to introduce something new, it should be blue since they havn't had a single race for quite awhile.
Boggarts I doubt will be a new race, or at least not a full one. Boggart just seems overly simplistic and narrow to populate the entirety of black like Merfolk, Kithkin, or Elves can populate their colors. However, if they go with the entire arthurian/welsh theme they seem to be going with, the myriad of bogeyman and various mischievious spirits that populate those myths might just all get the title of Boggart.
My bet: Boggarts=spirits.
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Right, lets get [LOR] rumor season pumping eh?
Here's the tip: a mysterious note was left for me this morning when I logged in: So here it goes: It was in Portugese/Spanish, and mine is rather rusty, so translations would be great!
Theme deck #1
WUBRG La Senda De Los Elementales / Same name
5-colour theme deck? Odd. Especially since white isn't hot on Elementals.
Theme deck #2
WU Fluviovias Sirenideas / Vias Fluviales Merrow
Fluvias would have to do with rivers, or at least water. From colour, theme and name, Sirenideas would have to do with Merfolk. Someone mentioned "water as a commercial transport system" - the English word is canal. Merrow Canals makes sense.
Theme deck #3
W Milicia Kithkin / Same name
Kithkin Militia - same name in English too.
Theme deck #4 BR Banquete Papao / Festin Boggart
Hey, Boggarts really are a creature type! Why are they having a banquet/festival?
But I can tell without looking what the next one is - Elves will be involved.
And Theme deck #5
BGPredacao Elfica / Depredadores Elficos
However did I guess? Depredadores - depredations?, predacao - predacious?
Note: I don't know these languages especially well, but I've got a basic knowledge of the root derivations of European languages (and such English equivalents as fluvial).
But the important points to take from this:
1. Five decks. Five colours. Five tribes. Whatever else it may or may not be, we can settle one argument - Lorwyn is tribal. When was the last time one set's theme decks were *all* tied to colour-specific tribes?
2. We now know the main tribes and their colours:
White: Kithkin
Blue: Merfolk
Black: Boggarts - but will this be a creature type (like Fungus) or a common name for cards with another type (e.g. Fungi are often Thallids), such as giants?
Red: Elementals
Green: Elves
3. These are all two or more colour decks. True, this is normally the case and, say, BG might be misleading (the Thallid deck was BG but barely had any B). However, the absence of mono-colour theme decks in a set themed to tribes which are traditionally monocoloured (Elves, Merfolk) suggests that speculation that Lorywn may have a multicolour tribal theme could be on the mark.
4. We have some idea of colour associations which might give us an idea of where these tribes fit flavourwise. Elves - GB - evil, or at least capricious? Merfolk - WU - so, closer to Saprazzans than their usual portrayal in Rootwater Merfolk or modern-Dominaria Vodalians, which would be more UB. This is an interesting reversal of the usual trend, where elves tend to be good guys and merfolk bad guys. Sort of Skyshroud turned upside down. Kithkin mono-white, no surprise. Boggarts their mortal enemies (BR).
And people can breathe a sigh of relief that neither Goblins nor Zombies seem to be in the running this time round.
Thanks - this gives some interesting glimpses into the near future.
You know when Goblins became akki while they actually aren't the same thing. Well, this is too. It's just Merfolk, my plain old merfolk, my favourite creature type. I don't understand why it is:symw::symu:, but I don't hope there will be white Merfolk. I hate it when the put an iconic creature in another color.
Yep, just because the deck's named for the type of Merfolk, that doesn't mean the creature type isn't Merfolk. If "Fun with Fungus" had been called "Thrills with Thallids", the creatures would still have the type Fungus rather than Thallids - they'd just be called Thallids in the card names. A deck called "Golgari Deathcreep" doesn't imply the creature type needs to be Golgari.
I suspect we'll see something similar with Boggarts. Elementals aren't the only creature type to get a boost recently - there have been a lot of giants in TS block, and one piece of Lorwyn art that was doing the rounds on another thread (sorry, can't remember which) seemed to have a Kithkin being chased by a giant, Jack-and-the-Beanstalk like. My feeling is that Boggart is the theme race name, and Giant is the creature type. Which fits red-black since both use this creature type quite a lot (though not as much as red-white).
The fact that we're getting a 5 color precon still really intrigues me. Looks like multicolor's still going to be playable, which is cool - and Time Spiral/10th is making monocolor decks playable as well, so if we're lucky, we'll have an even more diverse meta than we've got now!
What makes me happy is support for BG (which really ought to be allied anyway since green and black have so much in common and are arguably mechanically more closely related than green/white).
I've never associated a whole set with the word 'cute' before. Well, aside from the Un-sets.
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Well, I could just stop rumormongering altogether if they'd like... I'm sure those peeps would be pleased to see that happen...
...Mysterious note is exactly what it was. So let's not get our nickers in a twist over this 'story'... 'cause it simply ain't one.
I'm just saying, from that picture, I can't tell whether that creature has legs or not.
It isn't that I dislike the IDEA of merfolk, it's that I dislike the name and the fact that they are waterlocked. They could be 99% like merfolk and I'd think it was a great idea.
Some people would say, "then why bother?". Well, if fish tails and "-folk" don't bother you as much as they bother me, that's a fair question. Aesthetically and internal-logically, they bug the heck out of me, at least.
I did start off my initial post with the words "crazy speculation", remember.
Anyways I will be upset if they bring back Lord of Atlantis then redesign Merfolk meaning that he does nothing with the new one.
If they retroactively change them all maybe but that would destroy flavor in the process.
I think they have realized that we don't like Cephalids much or Moonfolk or any of the other wannabe blue races.
Merfolk are the best and hold the most flavor if they are water bound it doesn't matter the game doesn't make any sense anyways.
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Let me just reiterate this-
I hate tribal themes.
I like playing with tribes, but I hate it when a card's efficacy is dependent on how many of a tribe you have. (In standard those would be the black muse and the blue wizard popping invitational card)
I didn't play during Onslaught block, but I didn't much like it.
Anywho, the colors of the decks are interesting.
Each deck is associated with a tribe, sure.
I wonder how the 5 color deck will work. (Surprised they didn't try a 5 color sliver deck in TS block...)
The thing that still gets me is that I don't understand how Tribal is considered the 'first new card type since Alpha', when Equipment (a subtype) was advertised as the SAME deal in the past.
Tribal is a supertype that can't stand alone. WoTC has recently been hinting at a card type not mentioned on mass destruction spells, a card type that will require a rules card to fully explain, as it is all new to us.
Tribal does not require a rules card.
Tribal can be killed by all existing removal, because it is attached to another type at all times.
So it isn't tribal...unless we ignore all that, and just assume this is going to be another tribal block because we have a push in solidarity of creature types here.
I still say...
GOGOGO Enchantment block.
But that is just me.
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WUBRG La Senda De Los Elementales / Same name
Quest of the Elementals
Theme deck #2
WU Fluviovias Sirenideas / Vias Fluviales Merrow
Riverway of the Sirens
Theme deck #3
W Milicia Kithkin / Same name
Theme deck #4
BR Banquete Papao / Festin Boggart
Feast of the Bogeyman (papão literally means bogeyman in portuguese..not sure if it's the same in spanish..)
And Theme deck #5
BGPredacao Elfica / Depredadores Elficos
Elvish Predation(Predação(/Predators (Depredadores)
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That is a good catch.
Core sets have 5 Precons...
But base sets have 4.
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A quick google says this about Boggarts (ignoring Harry Potter in lieu of traditional folklore or whatever)
If we add in Harry Potter, they take on the form of your worst fear, etc etc.
Sounds decidedly Black to me.
That makes for a bunch of precons which seemingly include tribes of only one color. (B/G for Green Elves, W/U for Blue Merfolk, and B/R for Black Boggarts)
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I dont like the new look of kithkin, plains =/= short in fact the opposite.
Theme deck #1
WUBRG La Senda De Los Elementales / Same name
The Path of the Elementals. *
Theme deck #2
WU Fluviovias Sirenideas / Vias Fluviales Merrow
Merrow? Riverways / Waterways of the Sirens **
Theme deck #3
W Milicia Kithkin / Same name
Kithkin Militia
Theme deck #4
BR Banquete Papao / Festin Boggart
Feast of the Boggarts
And Theme deck #5
BG Predacao Elfica / Depredadores Elficos
Elvish Predators
*Costanza: I don't think the "Quest" of the Elementals is an accurate translation. Senda suggests "path" or "way" or "trail".
However, props for the Bogeyman translation, it's spot-on, although I believe the "Magic" name for the race will be Boggarts. BTW the name Boggart is the same one used in Harry Potter, and they show up on the futureshifted kithkin
**Fluvial means "pertaining to a river" and via=way so that bit is for certain (River/Water)ways ; Sirenideas means "pertaining to or of the Sirens but I don't have any idea on the Merrow word but Spanish translations often keep the English name.
BTW I also agree with the poster that says Merrow will be this block's kind of Merfolk, or maybe Sirens (like the akki).
I think Kithkin Militia and Elvish Predation or Elvish Predators (Depredadores is literally Predators in Spanish, but Predaçao is Predation in Portuguese) can be agreed upon... I'm not so sure about the Feast of the Boggarts and Path of the Elementals, and I'm the least sure about the Merrow Waterways or Riverways
Another thought: the block doesn't have to have "only" one theme, although there will be a dominant one, but it can have sub-themes. Either the Enchantment theme will be dominant, or the Tribal one, but I'm betting on both being in. Also speculating, I'm thinking on ways to implement Planeswalker and one could be as a sort of World Enchantment or Enchantment supertype, and doing Vanguard-style stuff with a Leyline-like mechanic (play it for free, but only one in play at any given moment).
I honestly still don't believe that R&D is so unoriginal and predictable as to do a block whose core theme is Tribal exactly as long after the first Tribal block as they took between gold blocks. (And I don't really buy that they'd duplicate an existing type -- Elves in this case -- if they were in fact doing another core Tribal set.)
I do think we'll see a heavy subtheme kind of like we did in Kamigawa -- several creature types that share close-knit abilities and support one another to a certain degree.
I guess we'll see soon!
EDIT: Yeah, note that 8 of the 12 Kami block precons had "tribal" names -- that is, names that described the theme in terms of a creature type. This seems a little more than that, but keep that in mind.
Here Here! Im with ya on the whole enchantment deal. I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that Lorywn will be a Enchantment/Tribe block! Since there are going to be 5 precons, this would mean, as stated above, that the Lorwyn block will be huge and therefore capable of supporting two themes. Also if the fact that Lorwyn is a four set block truns out to be a fact for more reasons than me saying its a fact, then it would also support my two theme theroy. Thats theorical proof for ya.
(On an other note: I am still the ruler of Spain.)
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Quoting again from Wikipedia:
In British folklore, a boggart (or bogart, bogan, bogle or boggle) is a household spirit, sometimes mischievous, sometimes helpful. In Northern England, at least, there was the belief that the boggart should never be named, for when the boggart was given a name, it would not be reasoned with or persuaded and become uncontrollable and destructive.
Boggarts I doubt will be a new race, or at least not a full one. Boggart just seems overly simplistic and narrow to populate the entirety of black like Merfolk, Kithkin, or Elves can populate their colors. However, if they go with the entire arthurian/welsh theme they seem to be going with, the myriad of bogeyman and various mischievious spirits that populate those myths might just all get the title of Boggart.
My bet: Boggarts=spirits.
I've never associated a whole set with the word 'cute' before. Well, aside from the Un-sets.
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Merfolk Waterways/Riverpath (though there may be an english word for a "river as a commerce/transportation method")
Kithkin Militia
Boggart's Feast (or Feast of the Boggarts)
Elvish Predation/Predators (the Spanish and Portuguese names do not agree)
G/W Rhys the reedeemed Token
RWU Zedruu
5-colour theme deck? Odd. Especially since white isn't hot on Elementals.
Theme deck #2
Fluvias would have to do with rivers, or at least water. From colour, theme and name, Sirenideas would have to do with Merfolk. Someone mentioned "water as a commercial transport system" - the English word is canal. Merrow Canals makes sense.
Kithkin Militia - same name in English too.
Hey, Boggarts really are a creature type! Why are they having a banquet/festival?
But I can tell without looking what the next one is - Elves will be involved.
However did I guess? Depredadores - depredations?, predacao - predacious?
Note: I don't know these languages especially well, but I've got a basic knowledge of the root derivations of European languages (and such English equivalents as fluvial).
But the important points to take from this:
1. Five decks. Five colours. Five tribes. Whatever else it may or may not be, we can settle one argument - Lorwyn is tribal. When was the last time one set's theme decks were *all* tied to colour-specific tribes?
2. We now know the main tribes and their colours:
White: Kithkin
Blue: Merfolk
Black: Boggarts - but will this be a creature type (like Fungus) or a common name for cards with another type (e.g. Fungi are often Thallids), such as giants?
Red: Elementals
Green: Elves
3. These are all two or more colour decks. True, this is normally the case and, say, BG might be misleading (the Thallid deck was BG but barely had any B). However, the absence of mono-colour theme decks in a set themed to tribes which are traditionally monocoloured (Elves, Merfolk) suggests that speculation that Lorywn may have a multicolour tribal theme could be on the mark.
4. We have some idea of colour associations which might give us an idea of where these tribes fit flavourwise. Elves - GB - evil, or at least capricious? Merfolk - WU - so, closer to Saprazzans than their usual portrayal in Rootwater Merfolk or modern-Dominaria Vodalians, which would be more UB. This is an interesting reversal of the usual trend, where elves tend to be good guys and merfolk bad guys. Sort of Skyshroud turned upside down. Kithkin mono-white, no surprise. Boggarts their mortal enemies (BR).
And people can breathe a sigh of relief that neither Goblins nor Zombies seem to be in the running this time round.
Thanks - this gives some interesting glimpses into the near future.
Yep, just because the deck's named for the type of Merfolk, that doesn't mean the creature type isn't Merfolk. If "Fun with Fungus" had been called "Thrills with Thallids", the creatures would still have the type Fungus rather than Thallids - they'd just be called Thallids in the card names. A deck called "Golgari Deathcreep" doesn't imply the creature type needs to be Golgari.
I suspect we'll see something similar with Boggarts. Elementals aren't the only creature type to get a boost recently - there have been a lot of giants in TS block, and one piece of Lorwyn art that was doing the rounds on another thread (sorry, can't remember which) seemed to have a Kithkin being chased by a giant, Jack-and-the-Beanstalk like. My feeling is that Boggart is the theme race name, and Giant is the creature type. Which fits red-black since both use this creature type quite a lot (though not as much as red-white).
What makes me happy is support for BG (which really ought to be allied anyway since green and black have so much in common and are arguably mechanically more closely related than green/white).
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Creature - Boggart
Kiss (When ~ comes into play, gain control of target creature. This effect does not end at end of turn)
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Current Type 2 deck: Snakes on a flying thing
Current Type 1 deck(s): SerraBomber & "Cheaper by the Lazuli"
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