Except for the fact that we don't have photo confirmation of Thassa?
Edit: Also, I saw these about a week before I decided to post anything at all.
You might or might not be telling the truth about the lands, but your arguments that you're telling the truth are not helping your credibility.
You claim to have seen a bunch of other cards early, but conveniently decide not to post about any of them until after all such cards have been spoiled (including the Thassa, for which we actually DO have photo confirmation).
I'm really not seeing the seizing of thoughts going on? Looks more like some sort of burn spell that killed a creature from the inside out. What does your hands burning and turning to ash have to do with stealing thoughts from people?
I'm convinced this was one of those art swaps, wherein that art was originally commissioned for some other card, but then some cards got cancelled/changed during design, necessitating art swaps that ended up putting this art on Thoughtseize: I bet this was art originally for some card based on the stoning effect of gorgons/medusae (which are, after all from Greek mythology); this might even have originally been an artifact card, for a petrification curse transmitted by the mask in the background.
Could anyone explain where the information that Medomai was confirmed as a 4/3? I seriously hope this isn't true, if so then this card got a lot worse from previous speculation.
The first post says 3/4, not 4/3.
And the confirmation was by a mod's secret source.
I look forward to getting around Medomai's drawback by using Morph shenanigans. The tricky part will be keeping Ixidor face up and also the whole thing, but Shenanigans Are Shenanigansy.
0. Medomai, Echo Tracer and Weaver of Lies already on battlefield. And you have 14UUUUUUUU. Just go with it.
1. Attack for with Medomai for an extra turn.
2. Take extra turn.
3. Cast Ixidron, turning Medomai, Echo Tracer, and Weaver of Lies face down. (3UU)
4. Cast Ixidor, Reality Sculptor. (3UU)
5. Attack with the face down Medomai.
6. Flip Medomai face up with Ixidor. (2U)
7. Face up Medomai hits for an extra turn.
8. Flip Echo Tracer to return Ixidron to your hand. (2U)
9. Flip Weaver of Lies with Ixidor, turning Echo Tracer face down. (2U)
10. Flip Echo Tracer to return Ixidor to hand. (2U)
11. Return to step 2.
Totally doable. And way classier than putting a Time Warp on a Panoptic Mirror.
Before getting too enthused about this, keep in mind that the currently-given drawback is the least sure thing about the card and just a very tentative guess, and the actual drawback might be quite different, in which case this is just a nombo (no-combo).
It was said thst the new lands are a cycle of 10, 5 in theros and 5 split between the rest of the block. This is strange and goes against the whole article where theros duals were first confirmed.
No, the information doesn't go against the article at all and fits the article just fine:
Quote from Sam Stoddard »
I believe the lands we have in place for Theros block are wonderful, but they do not offer the same level of ease and power with three-color mana bases as the shockland/M10-dual-land combination.
Quote from Sam Stoddard »
Keeping only one set in the core set instead of both would've caused an inequity in the mana fixing and led us to printing only one set of duals in Theros, making Block worse, and forcing us to continue an inequity somewhere else.
The article implies there is more than 1 cycle of duals in Theros block, which fits the information.
Medomai the Ageless 4UW
Legendary Creature — Sphinx
Flying
Whenever Medomai the Ageless deals combat damage to a player, take an extra turn after this one.
Medomai the Ageless c____ a____ d____ e____ t____.
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My thoughts on this is that the last ability is "Can't attack during extra turns."
Sure, because in an enchantment block, even a strictly worse Erase would be strong removal in limited (just like how, in the Mirrodin blocks, artifact kill was dramatically better than normal, and Terror was worse than normal).
And it wouldn't even be strictly worse, since it could be used to gain life from your own enchantments in response to the opponent targeting it with removal or if you're about to die.
You might or might not be telling the truth about the lands, but your arguments that you're telling the truth are not helping your credibility.
You claim to have seen a bunch of other cards early, but conveniently decide not to post about any of them until after all such cards have been spoiled (including the Thassa, for which we actually DO have photo confirmation).
Wrong thread, man. Underworld Cerberus, Hammer of Purphoros, and Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx were spoiled at the PAX party and are being discussed in that thread, not here.
I'm convinced this was one of those art swaps, wherein that art was originally commissioned for some other card, but then some cards got cancelled/changed during design, necessitating art swaps that ended up putting this art on Thoughtseize: I bet this was art originally for some card based on the stoning effect of gorgons/medusae (which are, after all from Greek mythology); this might even have originally been an artifact card, for a petrification curse transmitted by the mask in the background.
The first post says 3/4, not 4/3.
And the confirmation was by a mod's secret source.
Leyline of the Void is cheap, just a couple of dollars, not the money cards that Tarmogoyf, Vendilion Clique, and Thoughtseize are.
Except that this wouldn't be fully aimed at Modern, cuz Jace TMS is kind of, you know, banned, and all.
If you really wanted to aim it at Modern, it'd by Tarmogoyf vs. Vendilion Clique, splashing Thoughtseize.
Before getting too enthused about this, keep in mind that the currently-given drawback is the least sure thing about the card and just a very tentative guess, and the actual drawback might be quite different, in which case this is just a nombo (no-combo).
No, the information doesn't go against the article at all and fits the article just fine:
The article implies there is more than 1 cycle of duals in Theros block, which fits the information.
Nice! But power/toughness?
Why? What's so wrong with Nimbus Maze?
Sure, because in an enchantment block, even a strictly worse Erase would be strong removal in limited (just like how, in the Mirrodin blocks, artifact kill was dramatically better than normal, and Terror was worse than normal).
And it wouldn't even be strictly worse, since it could be used to gain life from your own enchantments in response to the opponent targeting it with removal or if you're about to die.
I think Trollcreature means an StP for enchantments, not an StP that is an enchantment. So:
Instant
Exile target enchantment. Its controller gains life equal to its converted mana cost.