Based on the borderless art and on how the flavor text is written, I’d wager there’ll be quite a few different versions of this card. And when placed next to each other, the arts will form a mural full of petitioners and the flavor text will be a very long petition spanning all those cards.
How many copies of the card are in a typical petitioner deck? That’s likely the number of different versions we’ll see appearing in secret lairs…
Wow Rebbec is mindblowing. She was just a brief mention in the Invasion series novels of a past love of Yawgmoth.
I had no idea they would actually make a card for her... strange that she is the one who was obsessed with artifacts and Yawg was a doctor, yet Yawg became uber artifact lord later and Rebbec became Gaia.
Interesting stuff
There’s actually a novel from ‘99 in which she plays a major role. She’s the woman on the cover. It’s called ‘The Thran’ by J. Robert King and it’s the origin story of Yawgmoth and his Phyrexia. Very much worth the read for those interested in the lore.
Anyway, quite some characters from that book really deserve a card, including Rebbec (and Glacian, Dyfed and Gix). As far as I can tell, the only card ever printed in direct connection to the book is the Yawgmoth card from Modern Horizons.
Based on the info we have on Ikoria, what do you all think the mechanic that allows you to ‘build your own monster’ will be?
According to MaRo, there will be a mechanic to allow you to build your own monster.
Also, it was revealed that the prerelease kits will have ‘a set of double sided keyword counters’.
My guess is the following:
Because the second bit of info seems to be something similar to Amonkhet’s punch cards, these could be used in Ikoria to place these keyword counters on your monster to give it an ability.
We will then most likely see something like this:
Ikorian DIY-monster 3GG
Creature - beast 4/4 GG: enhance (choose one ability not chosen before from: trample, deathtouch, vigilance, reach and place the corresponding ability counter on DIY-monster). 2GG: enhance (choose one ability not chosen before from: trample, deathtouch, vigilance, reach and place the corresponding ability counter on DIY-monster).
Whenever you enhance DIY-monster, DIY-monster fights another target creature.
This could be done with a frame similar to the one on creatures with level up.
How many copies of the card are in a typical petitioner deck? That’s likely the number of different versions we’ll see appearing in secret lairs…
There’s actually a novel from ‘99 in which she plays a major role. She’s the woman on the cover. It’s called ‘The Thran’ by J. Robert King and it’s the origin story of Yawgmoth and his Phyrexia. Very much worth the read for those interested in the lore.
Anyway, quite some characters from that book really deserve a card, including Rebbec (and Glacian, Dyfed and Gix). As far as I can tell, the only card ever printed in direct connection to the book is the Yawgmoth card from Modern Horizons.
According to MaRo, there will be a mechanic to allow you to build your own monster.
Also, it was revealed that the prerelease kits will have ‘a set of double sided keyword counters’.
My guess is the following:
Because the second bit of info seems to be something similar to Amonkhet’s punch cards, these could be used in Ikoria to place these keyword counters on your monster to give it an ability.
We will then most likely see something like this:
Ikorian DIY-monster 3GG
Creature - beast 4/4
GG: enhance (choose one ability not chosen before from: trample, deathtouch, vigilance, reach and place the corresponding ability counter on DIY-monster).
2GG: enhance (choose one ability not chosen before from: trample, deathtouch, vigilance, reach and place the corresponding ability counter on DIY-monster).
Whenever you enhance DIY-monster, DIY-monster fights another target creature.
This could be done with a frame similar to the one on creatures with level up.
Anyway, what are your predictions?