We can see a few names for the first few white cards at least:
Abzan Advantage
Abzan Runemark
Abzan Skycaptain
Arashin Cleric
Aven Skirmisher
Channel Harm
I find it incredibly irksome how we moved away from unofficially spoiled sets which was very entertaining in its uncoordinatedness, to Wizards forcing a spoiler schedule but then not bothering to keep it. Of course we are not entitled to spoilers but if they just hadn't gone and taken all responsibility for spoiling, Wizards would not be in this situation, so they rightfully get blamed. It's just not cricket.
And of the cards that only work in draft, you'll only ever see one, maybe two depending on if they're on the foil sheet, per draft.
As I understand it you will see on average 3 drafting cards per card pool. In every 8-man there will be 24 draft specific cards instead of basic lands. The foil sheets probably skew this a bit, but I don't think we have information on how much.
I don't like drafting that much (simply because I'm terrible at it) so I will back off from buying entire booster box and just settle for individual cards for my EDH decks. My wallet won't bleed when I open that looter as a rare or tons of conspiracies and draft commons/uncommonds I won't use. I prefer cards that are playable in formats I play.
I'm not saying this set ain't cool, it is, but I feel I don't need to get tons of it right now.
I hate how Wizards cracks down on the unofficial spoiler season, makes me think of an analogy:
Wizards hated spoilers! The whole Spoiler season!
Now, please don't ask why. No one quite knows the reason.
It could be that their heads weren't screwed quite right.
It could be, perhaps, that their shoes were too tight.
But I think that the most likely reason of all
May have been that their heart was two sizes too small.
What I find strange about this spoiled card for Medomai is that it does not even fit the previously spoiled sentence.
There is no cost for timewalking whatsoever. There is a restriction, but it is pretty much a free timewalk every (normal) turn.
Edit: In particular because I'm building raspbutin dreamweaver right now. Nothing like dropping la general, copying the "put 7 counters on him," removing the 7 counters for boatloads of mana, and have him still "enter" the battlefield with 7 counters.
Also all the other ETB stuff. this will be soooo sweeeeeet
Pretty sure Rasputin doesn't work.
1. The oracle text isn't worded as a triggered ability.
2. I am not sure whether you would be able to remove the first batch before the second one would be put on and he is restricted to one batch.
Inofficial spoilers simply are the better system, since Wizards suck at making spoiler season fun and make it feel like work:
Stand up at 6 o'clock
Click through a laggy website
Get your fix.
Where is the exhilarating feeling of finding nice riddles (this season had one in that one Dimir article: it sucked) to work over as a community, where is the fun we had outwittting the big corporation. Now we are just cogs in a machine and they manipulate us, ineffectively.
At least give us an Orb of insight, fer chrissakes.
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Abzan Advantage
Abzan Runemark
Abzan Skycaptain
Arashin Cleric
Aven Skirmisher
Channel Harm
in the Chief Engineer thread someone created a deck to cast Myr Superion for free off Convoke.
Chief Engineer 1U
Creature - Vedalken Artificer
Artifact spells you cast have convoke.
1/3
Is this possible with the current Convoke rules?
As I understand it you will see on average 3 drafting cards per card pool. In every 8-man there will be 24 draft specific cards instead of basic lands. The foil sheets probably skew this a bit, but I don't think we have information on how much.
Just as a reminder, cards specifically referring to drafting go into the basic land slot. You still get a rare. Your complaint is invalid and you should give Wizards all your moneys
Source: Ultimately, we arrived at having one draft-influencing card per pack. These cards replaced the basic land slot.
Wizards hated spoilers! The whole Spoiler season!
Now, please don't ask why. No one quite knows the reason.
It could be that their heads weren't screwed quite right.
It could be, perhaps, that their shoes were too tight.
But I think that the most likely reason of all
May have been that their heart was two sizes too small.
There is no cost for timewalking whatsoever. There is a restriction, but it is pretty much a free timewalk every (normal) turn.
Pretty sure Rasputin doesn't work.
1. The oracle text isn't worded as a triggered ability.
2. I am not sure whether you would be able to remove the first batch before the second one would be put on and he is restricted to one batch.
Stand up at 6 o'clock
Click through a laggy website
Get your fix.
Where is the exhilarating feeling of finding nice riddles (this season had one in that one Dimir article: it sucked) to work over as a community, where is the fun we had outwittting the big corporation. Now we are just cogs in a machine and they manipulate us, ineffectively.
At least give us an Orb of insight, fer chrissakes.