MTG Salvation

extra turns, land, combat step?

Extra = 1

Quote from False God

Her second ability ISNT a plus ability! The icon on her card is for a minus ability. This has been said many times now.

Sorry, I forget a detail here and there occasionally. But it can work the other way too.

2nd ability
-1: return target red card from graveyard to hand if opponent has more life than you
3rd ability
-4: exile any # of cards from your graveyard deal dmg = to # of R mana symbols to target player

Quote from Namida

Pulse of the Forge came back to your hand if you had less life than an opponent. You could manaburn yourself just under your opponent's life total and cast it.

Maybe 2nd ability will be akin to this:

+1: Return target red card from your graveyard to hand if you have less life than an opponent.

Edit: third ability

-8/9: exile any number of cards from your graveyard, deal damage equal to the # of R mana symbols to target player.

This seems rather potent.

Quote from Valiant Green

Don't worry about the cost, they'll probably reprint Dark Ritual, too. Crazy bastards.

This would certainly be interesting, possibly in the form of a rare swamp.

Ritual Grounds

swamp

CIPT

T:B

Landfall swamps: if you control 2(3?) or more other swamps add BB to your mana pool

Edit: T4/5 sorin seems more balanced

I store mine in Ultra pro black backed sleeves for the FTV: Dragons set anyway. I had to press them in a dictionary with weights for quite some time to flatten them, but now in the sleeves they do not warp. Left in the open even regular cards will warp in my apt though. I think the AC does a poor job of reducing humidity in my building.

I think were regeneration is likely to come into its own is when we see a creature with regeneration and trample or deathtouch. This is a sound reason for taking "can not regenerate" clauses off from straight kill spells. You will now need to exile, -1/-1 or bounce creatures with regenerate. It makes new powerful combinations much more viable.

If cudgel troll is the end all, be all or regenerate I will be very suprised and dismayed. I expect something like:

3G

Deathtouch, Can only be blocked by 2 or more creatures
1G: regenerate

3/1

I really wish Wotc had tied the availability of this to the # of boxes a store moves, so that it would track better with demand. 11/22 per store seems like barely enough to help out stores and yet also leaves many customers high and dry. The price would not come down that much if they printed enough for demand as there would still be scalpers and stockpilers creating artificial shortages. My store sold the better part of 100 boxes of 2010 at 12am release night. I doubt their customers will be satiated with 22 boxes. I managed to preorder one before the store even knew it was being released so hopefully I'm safe.

Dinosaurs will not be in Zen. By definition what is a dinosaur?

The term "dinosaur" was coined in 1842 by Sir Richard Owen and derives from Greek δεινός (deinos) "terrible, powerful, wondrous" + σαῦρος (sauros) "lizard".
(wikipedia)

So why would they include subtype Dinosaur when it just means powerful lizard? It would be a Lizard subtype with larger power/toughness. Old Fogey is the only dinosaur and he is such because it was a gag set. There is no legitimate reason to start using dinosaur as a subtype. The word traditionally refers to extinct Earth creatures... it has no real use in the Magic multiverse.

Quote from jscolton

Every set I buy a playset of every common and uncommon and then typically buy the individual rares I need. I only buy boosters to draft with. Its much less practical to buy boosters to try and get the rares you want.

Getting off topic, but typically a box contains roughly $150 in value alone, from there trade/resell cards to get those you need. Again, buying playsets online does nothing to support the brick and mortar, without which magic would wither and die.

Quote from Mugaaz

Well considering it's the promo card for buying an entire box you can see how it can make them some decent green. The better the cards in a set the more people want to buy/open packs so putting good stuff in there helps sales also. I think people worried that this is rotating out of standard might have it wrong though. I have a feeling this is now the replacement to *** and will be reprinted as such.

Ok, 10 to 20 promo cards per store... So without this promo there are stores that would not sell 20 boxes of Zen? If you play Type 2 and do not order at least a box, how can you be competitive? $85 is much more economical than buying $4 packs. It is also more economical for stores to presell boxes rather than sit on stock they may or may not move. This is just a little icing to help brick and mortar stores as they can't compete with online prices. If you let them die out though, were are you going to play magic tournaments?

Out of curiosity, how is it a cash cow for wizards? People were going to buy the set either way. *** or DoJ were not going to determine if the set sells. So how does this decision constitute a blatant money grab by wizards? Unless you are declaring wotc to be directly looking out for the interests of resellers.

Also I have yet to hear any reason why regeneration can not be made relevant to the upcoming metagame.

I concur, they do not make this game to screw with our heads... If they did someone internally would surely leak it.

So out of curiousity, who here cares about improving flavor more than just keeping the same old cards in standard forever? Can people really stand there and say this is "nearly" a functional reprint? Is it not possible to make regeneration relevant in the ever changing Type 2 format?

Instill Energy anyone? I used to love this back when I started playing.