Khans of Tarkir:

[easysantiago]

As announced on Pro Tour Journey Into Nyx stream:
Theme: Mongolian; home of Sarkhan Vol.
Release Date: September 26th, 2014
Lead Designer: Mark Rosewater
Lead Developer: Erik Lauer
Size of sets: large, small, large.

As quoted from the stream, they are "bringing back something old that [we] have been asking for for a long time, and something new that [they] have never done before". Does the former mean Fetches? What about the latter?

[lyracian]

As quoted from the stream, they are "bringing back something old that [we] have been asking for for a long time, and something new that [they] have never done before". Does the former mean Fetches? What about the latter?

My prediction is Snow Lands, and some sort of Snow Dual (although probably not with basic types).

[Megadeus]

Hopefully storm gets reprinted as well as flanking

[Shawon]

Hopefully storm gets reprinted as well as flanking

Considering WotC dislikes the Storm mechanic, I doubt it. But if a Storm card were to be reprinted, I'd call Dragonstorm in set 3.

[Julian23]

They have stated that Storm was too much of a mistake to bring it back. Onslaught Fetches would be super awesome...and also show how reprints actually increase the prize instead of a card.

[Megadeus]

It was sarcasm. I guess I should have said banding rather than flanking

Mongols ride horses right? Money says horseman ship. That's like kind of a joke but I could see it

[kaiserruhsam]

People have been bugging rosewater about dragons in sets where they make no sense, like innistrad, and the response is that mouth-breathers looooooove dragons so goddamn much there has to be one in every set unless r&d has a good reason against.

All the dragons are dead = set without a dragon.

[Gheizen64]

As announced on Pro Tour Journey Into Nyx stream:
Theme: Mongolian; home of Sarkhan Vol.
Release Date: September 26th, 2014
Lead Designer: Mark Rosewater
Lead Developer: Erik Lauer
Size of sets: large, small, large.

As quoted from the stream, they are "bringing back something old that [we] have been asking for for a long time, and something new that [they] have never done before". Does the former mean Fetches? What about the latter?

SNOW lands GO.

Time to obsolete ABU duals.

[Megadeus]

People have been bugging rosewater about dragons in sets where they make no sense, like innistrad, and the response is that mouth-breathers looooooove dragons so goddamn much there has to be one in every set unless r&d has a good reason against.

All the dragons are dead = set without a dragon.

I'm sure there will be a "Thrun, the Last Dragon" or whatever.

[janluis1]

SNOW lands GO.

Time to obsolete ABU duals.

would love to see that and i reckon is a real possibility.
Would be a HUGE business movement by wizard bringing a lot of players back in legacy, woudnt damage the currently underpowered standard format and would give modern duals that they dont do damage to the controller.

[Megadeus]

Make them Legendary Snow DUals so they arent clear 4 ofs in modern

[Barook]

Snow duals don't work under the current definition of the Rerserve list, just like legendary Duals. Adding a subtype would work. But they're going to do jackshit in that regard anyway.

Rosewater & Lauer in the lead again? Oh boy, I sure can't hold my excitement after Innistrad and Theros!

Fetches are still going to take a while to reprint, according to an interview at the end of April, so I doubt that could be it. New thing they've never done before? Probably another, glorified kicker variant. Or other crap in the league of flip cards (see: Innistrad).

[Megadeus]

Introduce a rehashed mechanic with a new name. Strive (multikicker), Devotion (chroma)

[Roman Candle]

Based on the theme, maybe the new thing will be Walls tribal.

[Jon]

Banding, Rampage, Flanking, and Phasing! Lets GO! Also lets hope there are some sweet Humans in this set.

[Megadeus]

Based on the theme, maybe the new thing will be Walls tribal.

[TheArchitect]

I am fairly confident the "thing players have been asking for but MTG has been without", will be a wedge themed block. The set is a bottom up design, casuals get massive nerdrections for multicolored stuff and the art shown has a very clear BWR look to it; both the pallet and characters depicted look very BWR. All the evidence supports a wedge themed block.

Don't expect fetchlands, Forscythe recently said they will reprint them eventually, but not anytime soon.

For the "thing we have never done before", it probably has to do with the "unique block structure" which I don't know for sure what it entails, but the fact that there are no dragons on the plane anymore, but the last set is called Dragons of Tarkir makes me think there might be some sort of change from the normal chronological story telling. So, Dragons of Tarkir (and possibly the middle set, Warlords?) will take place BEFORE the events of Khans happens.

[Esper3k]

I am fairly confident the "thing players have been asking for but MTG has been without", will be a wedge themed block. The set is a bottom up design, casuals get massive nerdrections for multicolored stuff and the art shown has a very clear BWR look to it; both the pallet and characters depicted look very BWR. All the evidence supports a wedge themed block.

Don't expect fetchlands, Forscythe recently said they will reprint them eventually, but not anytime soon.

For the "thing we have never done before", it probably has to do with the "unique block structure" which I don't know for sure what it entails, but the fact that there are no dragons on the plane anymore, but the last set is called Dragons of Tarkir makes me think there might be some sort of change from the normal chronological story telling. So, Dragons of Tarkir (and possibly the middle set, Warlords?) will take place BEFORE the events of Khans happens.

For me, it makes more sense for them to reprint fetch lands whenever we return to Zendikar block (or whatever is left of it). Wedges would make sense to me for when we go back to Alara as well.

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World without dragons and has Mongolianesque tribes. Dragons return to the world. Big stuff happens. Where have I heard this before?

























We better be getting a Khal Drogo!

[Barook]

For the "thing we have never done before", it probably has to do with the "unique block structure" which I don't know for sure what it entails, but the fact that there are no dragons on the plane anymore, but the last set is called Dragons of Tarkir makes me think there might be some sort of change from the normal chronological story telling. So, Dragons of Tarkir (and possibly the middle set, Warlords?) will take place BEFORE the events of Khans happens.

Or they just bring back dragons with a plot device - see Zendikar with the Eldrazi, Innistrad with the angels, or Mirrodin with the Phyrexians.

But all of those things are minor as long as they can/can't deliver a decent set/block.

[Grand Superior]

I am fairly confident the "thing players have been asking for but MTG has been without", will be a wedge themed block. The set is a bottom up design, casuals get massive nerdrections for multicolored stuff and the art shown has a very clear BWR look to it; both the pallet and characters depicted look very BWR. All the evidence supports a wedge themed block.

A wedge-themed block would finally give us official names for the wedges. I mean, I'm sure that BUG, RUG, and Junk/Rock would still be used but I think whatever names they give to the names of the WUR and WBR wedge Khans will stick.