Reading through Rosewater's article, he was discussing the birth of Suspend:
"For example, when we added suspend into the design, the ability wasn't optional. Cards with suspend could only be played using suspend (and yes, Lotus Bloom is part of a six-card rare cycle that still does this). It was the development team that decided to make suspend an optional ability."
Anyone think it's possible the other 5 cards that have suspend without casting costs could be the 5 Mox's? I mean, since they are making a new Lotus and Time Walk, it's not too far fetched that they would bring them back. It could also be why they have the Lotus as the prerelease card. Most people didn't think the Lotus would be the prerelease card because it would've been decently valuable, maybe this is why. With 5 other cards that will be worth plenty, maybe they felt it was fine to put the new Lotus as the prerelease card. Just a thought. Speculate, bash, whatever.
Sorry this is kinda far behind but I just read this thread. The comment about the Yuki-ona on the cover of the R/G precon deck is possible, but highly unlikely. In DnD Oriental Adventures, the Yuki-ona is an ice spirit that later get reprinted in Frostburn. Since Wizards of the Coast also make DnD, they will most likely be still to their original adaption of the Yuki-ona, but they might always change it.
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The deck I made with the Genju of the Realm seems to work pretty nicely in casual. It's mono black using Crystal Quarry. I had put it together a little while back and when I used Legacy Weapon and Last Stand. Not really tournament quality but a lot of fun to play.
If you look at article "When Trees Attack" (http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=mtgcom/daily/af49) and you look towards the end of it, you can see the black genju being covered up by a forest. The card says Genju of the Fens. I don't know what Fens are exactly but I thought it was a rather cool way of giving the black genju's name in the article. If this is old news I apologize. :smile2:
edit: lol had to correct the spelling errors.
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"For example, when we added suspend into the design, the ability wasn't optional. Cards with suspend could only be played using suspend (and yes, Lotus Bloom is part of a six-card rare cycle that still does this). It was the development team that decided to make suspend an optional ability."
Anyone think it's possible the other 5 cards that have suspend without casting costs could be the 5 Mox's? I mean, since they are making a new Lotus and Time Walk, it's not too far fetched that they would bring them back. It could also be why they have the Lotus as the prerelease card. Most people didn't think the Lotus would be the prerelease card because it would've been decently valuable, maybe this is why. With 5 other cards that will be worth plenty, maybe they felt it was fine to put the new Lotus as the prerelease card. Just a thought. Speculate, bash, whatever.
edit: lol had to correct the spelling errors.