The desert oasis of Amonkhet forges warriors. You have trained your entire life for a chance to face the Trials of the Five Gods and join the elite ranks of the Worthy. Using your strength, speed, and cunning, overcome deadly challenges and rise above the competition to claim an honored place in the Afterlife!So they finally got around to an Egyptian themed set. Neat. Just hope it is a little better (Eternal wise) than just Theros 2.0.Set Name: Amonkhet
Block: Amonkhet
Number of Cards: 264
Prerelease Events: April 22-23, 2017
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Launch Weekend: April 28-30, 2017
Game Day: May 19-21, 2017
Magic Online Prerelease Events: May 5, 2017
Magic Online Release Date: May 8, 2017
Pro Tour Date: May 12, 2017
Official Three-Letter Code: AKH
Twitter Hashtag: #MTGAKH
Languages Available: English, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish
MSRP: $3.99
"The Ancients teach us that if we can but last, we shall prevail."
—Kaysa, Elder Druid of the Juniper Order
The more interesting part about the announcement was that Nicol Bolas rules the plane instead of just sitting on his ass.
Possibly also a new Bolas 'Walker being printed? That will probably be in the later set though.
The mention of Gods certainly puts the possibility of Theros style Gods returning on the table. Interesting about the mention of The Afterlife as a key point. Perhaps some kind of new Haunt mechanic or hopefully something better. Perhaps cards that have a function while Exiled?
Please, let's only discuss things that are actually possible,
"The Ancients teach us that if we can but last, we shall prevail."
—Kaysa, Elder Druid of the Juniper Order
I bet Elspeth comes backs. She went to the underworld in Greek world, so it seems perfect to come back from the underworld in Egyptian world... Along with super-pushed Bolas card.
More God cards seem a shoe-in, maybe without devotion though.
What else screams Egypt?
Mummies?
Pyramids?
Chariots?
Crocodiles?
Shaven body hair?
There are early cards that specifically reference Egypt, though I think they're all on the reserved list, and WotC has done a bunch of stuff that's very Egyptian under the aegis of 'generic fantasy'.
Gods with animal heads (i.e. Ra, Anubis, Bastet, Set, Heqet, and so on) and the corresponding animals (hawks, frogs, jackals, shas, and cats). Sphinxes, scarabs, obelisks, pyramids, reed boats, the Nile, and snakes also come to mind. There's also the North Africa stuff which features a lot of what we'd consider to be generic desert and coastal themes.
Ahhh. Dragons... That most important of creatures in the Egyptian mythology.
The long awaited return of...
"The Ancients teach us that if we can but last, we shall prevail."
—Kaysa, Elder Druid of the Juniper Order
"The Ancients teach us that if we can but last, we shall prevail."
—Kaysa, Elder Druid of the Juniper Order
If Nicol Bolas isn't common, then he isn't the theme
Mother of Runes reprint confirmed.
Wizard: "Whe have listened to the old players demands about the reserved list, and how this list prevented them from playing with the cards they love in the eternal formats. That's why I'm proud to announce that Pyramid will been taken off the reserved list and it will be reprinted in this set.
Please do rejoice in a composed manner."
Egyptian mythology as theme could be great. Enough of the Alien and Technology stuff and back to good old fantasy and mythology!
Wegde theme would be nice, since Nicol Bolas is notoriously Grixis.
A new take on Theros-style Gods would be crazy, although Theros isn't that long ago.
I just hope Nicol Bolas won't be just killed off with a fingersnap by the childish Gatewatch like Ulamog, Kozilek and Emrakul with spoiling the story event cards way too soon! :/
Since we know these "Masterpiece" reprints will all be themed and in every new set, I wonder what they might be for this coming block.
Since BFZ had Lands (Zendikar-Land connection would be obvious) and now Kaladesh is Artifacts, I wonder where they will be taking it in this new set? Perhaps Creatures, a la, the tag line "the desert oasis of Amonkhet forges warriors?" Returning powerful Creatures as "elite ranks of the Worthy?"
"The Ancients teach us that if we can but last, we shall prevail."
—Kaysa, Elder Druid of the Juniper Order
I think the biggest thing is the deep seeded emotional understanding that the right play is the right play regardless of outcomes. The ability to make a decision 5 straight times, lose 5 times because of it, and still make it the 6th time if it's the right play. - Jon Finkel
"Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupation of men engaged in rash undertakings."
While flavorful, what would be any sort of a draw there? The most valuable cards in the set that aren't on the Reserve List is Erhnam Djinn and Oubliette which is fine, but Erham sees absolutely no play (and has been printed numerous, numerous times) except in Old School, while Oubliette does, but only for Pauper.
It gets worse in Mirage, where Enlightened Tutor is the highest value non-Reserve List card, which isn't really all that exciting, but you do see the other top-deck tutors there.
Visions doesn't get too much better, with Vampiric Tutor, Natural Order but there is a precipitous drop off after, all the way to Desertion which is pretty bad.
I feel like we'll see a bunch of Egytpian themed reprints of Dark Confidant and others like that, although which others (maybe even Tarmogyf?) I can't think of off-hand.
"The Ancients teach us that if we can but last, we shall prevail."
—Kaysa, Elder Druid of the Juniper Order
There are currently 1 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 1 guests)