Infest is very much reprintable, I agree with you there. Anathemancer and Swerve each have equivalent effects somewhere in the zendikar block anyway, not to mention Anathemancer has Unearth, the Grixis ability. Oblivion Ring may face another reprint, if not, a new card with similar power is definitely in order.

I think you've under-rated Cumber Stone, especially if rumours of a New Mirrodin turn up true.

You're right, Anathemancer does use an Alara keyword, which is bad. Still, he's a useful chap.

I think Swerve has a place as a continuing core spell, whereas that trap that you're thinking of is a bit convoluted by comparison, plus it only targets blue spells? Or is it triggered by someone casting a blue spell? I forget. Anyway, I <3 Swerve.

Cumber Stone will never be underrated by me. Great card. Would love for it to be reprinted.

I'd like to see good old Retaliator Griffin come back :P

Nothing as fun as prolonging a game with that especially if you can shroud it :P.

I have a horrible feeling that anything multicoloured will disappear after a block as multicolour-heavy as Alara. Just look at Zendy, so far only 2 multi-coloured cards for the whole block, and RotE is going to be full of NON-coloured cards.

@KC: Ricochet Trap can swerve anything, it just costs 1 if your opponent has cast something blue in the turn. Otherwise it's a mono-colour, more expensive Swerve. I agree, Swerve is a gorgeous card, the mechanic has a place in Standard magic, and it's likely to face a reprint some time in the future, just not anytime soon, in my not-so-humble opinion.

i think you could also add Woolly Thoctar and Sprouting Thrinax to the glad to see go list.

I"m gonna miss Knight of the White Orchid . After it cycles out, the only white ramp there is going to be is.... Kor Cartographer , ew.

But yea, I pretty much agree with the thoughts posted here.

Maybe I'm biased cause I just made a deck with it but Knotvine Paladin should be in M11. It doesn't use the 'exalted' keyword even though it kind of does the same thing and it's just the sort of card I would have been all about when I started playing magic.

world wake had Perimeter Captain as a defender

Three colored decks are pretty much gone now since the whole tri land thing is gone ahah. Am I the only one thinking that eldrazi's huge, efficient, with annihilation keyword is going nowhere good? Sacrificing 4 permanents ruins the fun of a game.

True OMGZYAOV but it looks like the Eldrazi are gonna be quite expensive and so far they Die To Everything, so there shouldn't be any reason to get Annihilated on!

Still, it is just that i imagine the feeling of getting attacked by one. shudder

I'm gonna miss alara. I think I liked it better than lorwyn/shadowmoor. Jund is going to be broken up - I wonder what'll be next? rediculous eldrazi ramp?

Spellbook and Reliquary Tower in the same environment does seem a little redundant, I have to admit. you can Fabricate Spellbook , or Expedition Map Reliquary Tower , but the book is easier to get rid of than the tower, if you opponent wants to force you to drop the 25-card hand that you're holding onto.

To go on a bit of a tangent about scrubbing out Planeswalkers using green: if you have a ton of mana sitting around or an Elvish Piper that has somehow managed to survive a whole turn without being turned into fricassee, a Terastodon definitely helps, ditto a kicked Mold Shambler . (Extended has Woodfall Primus and Rootgrapple , too.) Otherwise, yeah: not really a whole lot of answers in green, though it seems to have more than white does.

I wonder about Terminate . how can WotC NOT reprint a card that would help make the eldrazi cards a bit less powerful. There arent enough destroy effects to deal with them; Terminate would be a perfect fit.

as for Blightning ... i wish.

too bad cascade wont be reprinted. ever.

i would argue that they ditch Pulse, rather than Terminate.

re: Terminate and Blightning

Good riddance, I say.

I'm not worried about the fatties coming in Eldrazi. They look a lot like Darksteel Colossus - I can't count the number of decks I've built around him. Can never seem to get him out consistently or quick enough. Aggro Red should make a huge comeback.

i think the eldrazi will see TONS of play. just look at the evidence; Eye of Ugin , Everflowing Chalice , etc.

these types of cards (which there will obviously be more of in RoE) will these creatures probably see turn 5 or 6 play. image that game if you dont pull a Terminate to kill it?

They won't reprint Terminate for the same reason they aren't making good counter spells anymore: they piss people off. It took them years to reprint Terminate from the first time it was made, it will be a long time, if ever, before they print it again. And it's unlikely to be a core set card, just too OTT.

In terms of Eldrazi, as has already been stated, they are vulnerable to pretty much every creature destruction spell made, until they print something that says 'destroy target non-colorless creature'. I'd have to see more of the actual Eldrazi and the support besides the 4 cards that exist to help drop them before 10th turn before I make judgements about how much playtime they'll see.

Dragon Appeasement is a horrible, horrible card. It should never be reprinted ever.

Everyone's freaking out about terminate! Eldrazi so far dont have haste, so you have plenty of answers to them, they're just answers you wouldn't normally think of. Journey, O-ring, etc. Any Sweeper... YES you'll have to play around the eldrazi a bit, but that's kind of the point, right?

so to beat eldrazi you have to play white? GREAT.

nah, you just have to be creative. equip your Magma Phoenix with Basilisk Collar then Lightning Bolt it for a red wrath, similarly send a collared wolf against it with Master of the Wild Hunt , discard it out or Sadistic Sacrament it, use Boomerang variations to completely tie down their mana, steal it with Mind Control or Roil Elemental or whatever... seriously, these cards are meant to look big and scary, and they'r showing them because they're mythic rares and they get people excited about spending money on cards, but it's not their intention to unbalance the game.

im pretty sure since Magma Phoenix is already in the graveyard when it does its damage, deathtouch doesnt work? correct if im wrong.

Darkness is right. "When Magma Phoenix is put into a graveyard," it is definitionally no longer equipped by the collar.

Nope, it totally works - when it's put into the graveyard, its ability goes on the stack, and when the ability resolves it uses that whole 'last known information' rule - and the last time the Phoenix was on the board, it had deathtouch AND lifelink. I gather that it's one of those things about the new M10 way of dealing with those abilities that makes this work.

this thread on wizards' forum actually cites the rules in question, looks like. Now, think of the implications... :

Indeed. Yet another reason why I'm not a judge yet.

don't feel too bad - I wouldn't have known if drewskig hadn't hit me with it.

wow. crazy. i need ro review.

@ Siegfried ne mirrodin was confirmed on mtg site today called "scars of mirrodin"

The only cards on your list that have ANY chance of getting reprinted in M11 are Infest , O-Ring, and Terminate . Terminate won't see reprint because it has 2 colors and they want to keep the color pie as clear cut as possible in core sets. You notice how many multicolored spells are in M10? Don't expect that trend to change much, if any. Also, any spell with a keyword from Alara block won't be reprinted in a core set, so no Anathemancer or fatesticher. Wretched Banquet , on the other hand, is probably one of the most likely cards you mentioned to get reprinted. It is a simple, basic card that defines the color pie (black kills creatures) and isn't too powerful.

@ Siegfried The reason they don't reprint Counterspell anymore, or any of the other powerful counters, is because they were too good. Get used to the countermagic that you see now, its likely all you are going to see for the next year or so, at least in common/uncommon slots. Maybe the original Counterspell can be reprinted as a rare later on, but that isn't any time soon.

@mrenglish Yeah, you're right re: keywords. Be good to have something similar to Anathemancer to punish excessive non-basic use, though; Tectonic Edge doesn't do it for me.

I agree that Infest and Oblivion Ring are the most likely reprints. Infest is a solid all-around card that's been in and out of the game for a while. Oblivion Ring was carried over from Lor/Sha because it's so handy.

I still think you can make solid cases for Path to Exile and Swerve , though.

@KC: Nope. No Swerve . Last two core sets have had ZERO multicoloured cards. So that trend will continue. Maybe we'll see it in the Scars block. O-Ring is a massive candidate. I really hope they do, 'cause that'll mean us control players losing Path won't hurt /that/ much. I also agree with Infest to an extent, but we do have Marsh Casualties .

Also, we have cards that punish non-basic use. Spreading Seas and Convincing Mirage .

I'm with mrenglish on this. Matter of fact, have ANY core sets had multicolored cards? I sure don't remember any, I doubt this will be changing. It's the "Core" set because it's the base color spells. I could actually see Wall of Reverance making it to M11. Maybe Banefire, Ranger of Eos, Wild Nacatl(keep in mind Kird Ape had seen core sets). And as a friend and I were discussing, the power curve in standard has only been increasing the last few sets, counterspell may see the light of day once again, blue did get a beef-up from worldwake, but it's still weaker then most of the other colors. And counterspell isn't on the reserve list, so that says something. It's actually suprising Force of Will isn't on the reserved list, with things like Baneslayer Angel, don't be suprised if a nuke in that price range for one of the other colors shows up in M11.

the should reprint Knight of the Reliquary and Noble Hierarch

Btw Blightning is the third best card in standard, the best being Bloodbraid Elf of Path to Exile

@ Feece- not really gonna spend too much time arguing, but blightning is current the best card in standard because of its cost:payoff ratio. its just way too rediculous.

path is just spot removal, and you still give your opponent ramp. bloodbraid is for sure the best cascade card, but blightning is definitely better.

@ everyone- i dont expect too much out of the next few sets. as for RoE, Counterspell and maybe 1 or 2 overpowered vampires. Man, i sure wish Terminate would show up...

M11: I expect Banefire , Path to Exile , and Infest will all make it in. Otherwise, I'm just sticking to Zendikar block basically...

yeah, Path to Exile does really feel like a house card at this point - it reinforces white removal as 'exile' rather than 'destroy,' and appeals to the old guard of magic players as a 'fixed' Swords to Plowshares .

I'm with Matt. Feels good and old school. There's not much that your trusty Path can't take care of, but it does cost you, and waayyy more than Swords, in most cases.

-C

I can't see them NOT reprinting Path, honestly. It's so standard these days, and is practically the standard-bearer for White removal. It might get new art, but I will be surprised if it's not in there.

Infest and O-Ring as well, I expect.

Like the others, I doubt Swerve will make it because the core sets are typically single-color only. I could see them including cards like Loam Lion, Sejiri Merfolk, Kird Ape, Wild Nacatl, etc. that care about other basic land types, but not true multicolors. Which is a shame, because I like Swerve, Wall of Denial, and Behemoth Sledge all quite a bit.

I love Reliquary Tower because it's hard for me to want to take up card spaces in my deck for Spellbook, but tacking the effect on a land feels just fine, and there's more than enough colorless costs out there (especially with RoE!) that the lack of colored gen isn't a hindrance. But it's a pretty setting-heavy card, really, so even if they do reprint it I think it might see a new name.