The following cards are all in Master's Edition. Their ME wordings have changed significantly from their current Oracle wordings. It is reasonable to assume that, unless problems with the new wordings are found in testing, these new wordings will become the official Oracle wordings whenever the next Oracle update happens (probably with Lorwyn).
This list does not include cards whose wordings have changed in functionally irrelevant ways or have just received new creature types.
Animate Dead 1B
Enchantment -- Aura
Enchant creature card in a graveyard
When Animate Dead comes into play, if it's in play, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put into play with Animate Dead." Return enchanted creature card to play under your control and attach Animate Dead to it. When Animate Dead leaves play, that creature's controller sacrifices it.
Enchanted creature gets -1/-0.
Animate Wall W
Enchantment -- Aura
Enchant Wall
Enchanted Wall can attack as though it didn't have defender.
Clockwork Beast 6
Artifact Creature -- Beast
0/4
Clockwork Beast comes into play with seven +1/+0 counters on it.
At end of combat, if Clockwork Beast attacked or blocked this turn, remove a +1/+0 counter from it. X,T: Put up to X +1/+0 counters on Clockwork Beast. This ability can't cause the total number of +1/+0 counters on Clockwork Beast to be greater than seven. Play this ability only during your upkeep.
Oubliette 1BB
Enchantment
When Oubliette comes into play, remove target creature and all Auras attached to it from the game. Note the number and kind of counters that were on that creature.
When Oubliette leaves play, return the removed card to play under its owner’s control tapped with the noted number and kind of counters on it. If you do, return the removed Aura cards to play under their owner’s control attached to that permanent.
Tawnos's Coffin 4
Artifact
You may choose not to untap Tawnos’s Coffin during your untap step. ,T: Remove target creature and all Auras attached to it from the game. Note the number and kind of counters that were on that creature. When Tawnos’s Coffin leaves play or becomes untapped, return the removed card to play under its owner’s control tapped with the noted number and kind of counters on it, and if you do, return the removed Aura cards to play under their owner’s control attached to that permanent.
Animate Dead - 1B
Enchantment - Aura
Enchant creature card in a graveyard
When Animate Dead comes into play, if it's in play, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put into play with Animate Dead."
i'm constantly amused by the difficulty they have in making old cards conform to the new templating rules. animate dead was always a fairly intuitive card and i've never had a rules problem using it in a game. and yet its just a mess to make it work with the current versions of the rules.
Animate Wall's only change is that it says "wall creature" instead of just "wall". I'm disappointed that Oubliette and Tawnos's Coffin have been changed so that they no longer fit into my phasing deck. This also makes the coffin significantly more powerful.
I'm surprised they changed Animate Dead. The wording is so bizarre that it seems almost worth letting the pro-black thing slide. I assume that Dance of the Dead and Necromancy will also be updated.
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The others are leaving me with a serious sense of bewilderment. Oubliette and Tawnos' Coffin were far more elegantly worded with phasing, and handled Auras and counters inherently. The only thing that makes sense is that they probably didn't want to have to use reminder text... which makes me wonder if at least some cards in ME may actually be getting updates for future paper reprints as well.
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Yavimaya Ants: Insect? (biological incorrect, but likely)
Why is this biologically incorrect? Ants ARE insects.
This isn't like Giant Solifuge, which actually is biologically incorrect (solifuges are arachnids, not insects; giving them the type "Spider" would also be inaccurate, because not all arachnids are spiders, but it would be more accurate than their current type, "Insect").
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Animate Dead 1B
Enchantment -- Aura
Enchant creature card in a graveyard
When Animate Dead comes into play, if it's in play, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put into play with Animate Dead." Return enchanted creature card to play under your control and attach Animate Dead to it. When Animate Dead leaves play, that creature's controller sacrifices it.
Enchanted creature gets -1/-0.
It doesn't say enchanted creature. This is similar to Grafted Wargear's wording.
This list does not include cards whose wordings have changed in functionally irrelevant ways or have just received new creature types.
Animate Dead
1B
Enchantment -- Aura
Enchant creature card in a graveyard
When Animate Dead comes into play, if it's in play, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put into play with Animate Dead." Return enchanted creature card to play under your control and attach Animate Dead to it. When Animate Dead leaves play, that creature's controller sacrifices it.
Enchanted creature gets -1/-0.
Animate Wall
W
Enchantment -- Aura
Enchant Wall
Enchanted Wall can attack as though it didn't have defender.
Clockwork Beast
6
Artifact Creature -- Beast
0/4
Clockwork Beast comes into play with seven +1/+0 counters on it.
At end of combat, if Clockwork Beast attacked or blocked this turn, remove a +1/+0 counter from it.
X,T: Put up to X +1/+0 counters on Clockwork Beast. This ability can't cause the total number of +1/+0 counters on Clockwork Beast to be greater than seven. Play this ability only during your upkeep.
Oubliette
1BB
Enchantment
When Oubliette comes into play, remove target creature and all Auras attached to it from the game. Note the number and kind of counters that were on that creature.
When Oubliette leaves play, return the removed card to play under its owner’s control tapped with the noted number and kind of counters on it. If you do, return the removed Aura cards to play under their owner’s control attached to that permanent.
Tawnos's Coffin
4
Artifact
You may choose not to untap Tawnos’s Coffin during your untap step.
,T: Remove target creature and all Auras attached to it from the game. Note the number and kind of counters that were on that creature. When Tawnos’s Coffin leaves play or becomes untapped, return the removed card to play under its owner’s control tapped with the noted number and kind of counters on it, and if you do, return the removed Aura cards to play under their owner’s control attached to that permanent.
EDIT: Source: Official post on MTGO beta boards.
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This thread is in this forum because these changes will almost definately become Oracle updates.
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1) Oubliette and Tawnos' Coffin works exactly like phasing out.
2) Animate Wall: Enchant Wall _Creature_
3) Inelegant wordings for Animate Dead, Clockwork stuff blah blah blah
More, Is it just plain speculation? There is a speculation board around, I believe. (I expect this thread locked or deleted soon)
I'll post those as soon as they upload a MTGO build with the new cards. Should happen within the next couple of days.
@kunbu: Sorry, updated the original post with the source.
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Wall is so you could enchant your "tribal land - wall" card or whatever, consistent with how they've been handling most creature type errata.
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animate dead is amusing
i still think the duals will be in this and they are just waiting to make a big reveal on it
The wording before this made it so that if you animated a proc:black creature, it came into play with no aura stuck to it.
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I'm surprised they changed Animate Dead. The wording is so bizarre that it seems almost worth letting the pro-black thing slide. I assume that Dance of the Dead and Necromancy will also be updated.
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Oubliette actually used to say something about phasing out. I guess they decided the mechanic didn't exist then, so it's not ok now, or something.
Edit: Actually, it does now (meaning, prior to the errata mentioned by the OP).
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Nope, none of the original duals are in ME.
However, there IS a Plainswalker in ME.
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Khabal Ghoul: Zombie?
Yavimaya Ants: Insect?
Ball Lightning: Elemental?
Preacher: Human Cleric?
Argivian Archaeologist: Human ....?
Clockwork Beast: Beast or Construct?
[edit] stupid mistake
Current build has old creature types/oracle wordings, so no news on this front yet. Vesuvan Doppleganger is still a Doppleganger.
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Plains or Planes?
Hunter: what's wrong with ants being insects?
The others are leaving me with a serious sense of bewilderment. Oubliette and Tawnos' Coffin were far more elegantly worded with phasing, and handled Auras and counters inherently. The only thing that makes sense is that they probably didn't want to have to use reminder text... which makes me wonder if at least some cards in ME may actually be getting updates for future paper reprints as well.
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Why is this biologically incorrect? Ants ARE insects.
This isn't like Giant Solifuge, which actually is biologically incorrect (solifuges are arachnids, not insects; giving them the type "Spider" would also be inaccurate, because not all arachnids are spiders, but it would be more accurate than their current type, "Insect").
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Ah, I see you have posted the spoiler in the other forum
Yea, I've updated the original post with links to my posts in the MTGO forum with the spoiler and avatar.
This thread belongs in this forum because Oracle changes are relevant to paper magic.
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It doesn't say enchanted creature. This is similar to Grafted Wargear's wording.
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oubiette and tawnos coffin DO phase the creature out currently. why they dont just say phasing i dont know.