Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Gatecrash Spoilers: January 2nd, 2013

Hello and welcome back to another edition here at the emporium, where it's still quite spoiler season, we got lots to talk about today, so let's get down to it.


Well, well, well, we finally have Gideon revealed, he's Gideon, Champion of Justice, costs 2, White, White and is a mythic rare of course, he has 3 different abilities this time around, his +1 grants him a loyalty counter for each creature target opponent controls, his 0 ability turns him into a Indestrucible human soldier which P/T equal to the number of loyalty counters on him, he's still a planeswalker of course and prevent all damage that would be dealt to him this turn, until end of turn, his ultimate is for -15, exile all other permanents, wow just straight up exile, really neat wizards.


We also got a preview of the launch card for the set, Skarrg Goliath, which is a 8 drop 9/9 with trample, as well as bloodrush for 5, green, green it's scheduled to be the launch card for release day this time around, which is kinda interesting i guess.


Introducing the game day sign up promo, Zameck Guildmage, the simic guild mage, of course he costs, Blue,  Green and is a 2/2 elf wizard that has 2 abilities, pay green, blue for this turn each creature enters the battlefield with a additional +1/+1 counter on it, pay green, blue and remove a +1/+1 counter from a creature you control, draw a card, glad green and blue is playing around the whole drawing cards and +1/+1  counter vibe.


Our buy a box promo this time is known as Nightveil Specter, the one we've been looking for for a month and a half now, now we know what it does, it costs, Blue/Black, Blue/Black, Blue/Black and is 2/3 with flying that whenever it deals combat damage to a player, that player exiles the top card of his/her library, you also get to play the cards exiled with him, not bad.


We also get a taste of the promo cards for the prerelease today as well, with Consuming Aberration which is  a 5 drop that it's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards if your opponent's graveyard, then whenever you cast a spell, each opponent reveals cards from the top of their library, until he/she reveals a land, then puts those cards into the graveyard after, holy mill streak here batman, there will be a seperate article for these prerelease cards as well.


Clan Defiance is a dual colored burn spell which you can deal X damage to either a target creature with flying, a target creature without flying or target player, did i mention you get to choose 1 or more modes for this, so you can literally take out a flyer, a non flyer and burn your opponent's face off, it costs X, Red and Green and is sorcery speed and rare.


Keyrune #2 has been revealed and it's the gruul's this time around, it's 3 mana like always to cast, adds either Red or Green to the mana pool and for Red and Green it becomes a 3/2 beast artifact creature with trample until end of turn at the uncommon rarity.


Finally for today it's Hands of Binding, it costs 1 and a blue to cast and states that you can tap target creature a opponent controls, that creature doesn't untap during it's controller's next untap step, it also has Cipher which is the Dimir mechanic for this set, is a common and is a sorcery as well, very interesting wizards to be most frank.

And well that's all the previews for today, tommorow we will continue to take a look at what wizards is giving us in terms of everything, so until then this is vergil signing off.

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