April 2016: Shadows over Innistrad
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Posted on Oct. 31, 2015, 6:42 p.m. by JWiley129
Announced during GP Indy, the Spring 2016 set is Shadows over Innistrad!
Edits for FAQ:
- Here is Mark Rosewater on why we're getting two returns in a row.
Hidetsugu's Second Rite & Grove of the Burnwillows & Triskaidekaphobia. I must build.
March 22, 2016 8:59 a.m.
You mean like... Triskaidekaphobia + Soul Conduit + Tree of Redemption?
My life total becomes 13... your life total becomes 13... you die!
March 22, 2016 9:01 a.m.
Does Triskaidekaphobia create a trigger on upkeep or just it just check with state based actions?
March 22, 2016 9:57 a.m.
"At the beginning of your upkeep..." = Trigger
And since it triggers regardless of peoples life total, you can respond to the trigger before it resolves (either to gain/lose life to avoid being at 13 when it resolves, or to make your opponent gain/lose life to try to get them to 13.)
March 22, 2016 10 a.m. Edited.
ducttapedeckbox says... #7
The new UR enchantment might force me to update my Ebony Owl Netsuke deck. Owl + Howling Mine in one card!
March 22, 2016 10:01 a.m.
secondwhiteline says... #8
My dream is now to make a deck where Triskaidekaphobia and Demonic Pact can reliably go off at the same time. NO ONE WINS, BABY.
March 22, 2016 10:11 a.m.
Cool... Triskaidekaphobia was the 13th card spoiled yesterday!
March 22, 2016 10:12 a.m.
@secondwhiteline - One will always resolve before the other. - Someone will win, and someone will lose.
For there to be no winner, you just need 'Triskaidekaphobia', and make each player's life total be 13.
March 22, 2016 10:13 a.m.
secondwhiteline says... #12
Dammit, you're right. Boo, my dreams. Life totals at 13 it is.
March 22, 2016 10:15 a.m.
More Triskaidekaphobia fun...
I also count 13 items that are not in sets of 13.
- Candle
- Chair
- Bowl
- Barrel
- Windows Frame
- Copper Pot
- Black Pot
- Corner Trim
- Upper Left Trim
- Upper Right Trim
- Left Connector Trim
- Right Connector Trim
... and the thing that set the terrified man off... HE was the 13th item not in a set of 13!
March 22, 2016 10:35 a.m.
Castigator is certainly all about Risk vs. Reward... very red.
March 22, 2016 10:42 a.m.
Stormcaller says... #16
phone rings
Dude picks up the phone: R&D's Secret Lair speaking!
Voice on the other end of the line: Hello, do you realize you put an un-card in an actual set?
R&D-Guy: Yes, we like to mess with People. That's why Steamflogger Boss exists!
March 22, 2016 10:42 a.m.
GoldGhost012 says... #17
Avacyn's smashing through the stain glass window to get Jace and Tamiyo, just like in the trailer, yelling "SURPRISE, BITCH!"
That Castigator looks like a Abyssal Persecutor-type card.
March 22, 2016 10:43 a.m.
This set.
THIS SET.
I want to express how I feel about it, but that would require the use of some seriously NSFW imagery.
March 22, 2016 10:45 a.m.
Castigator + Assault Formation... 4 mana, swing for 9... but still die on the swing back...?
March 22, 2016 10:47 a.m.
Hamster2558 says... #21
So who do you want to die Nahiri, Olvia, or Sorin....you have to pick one. Who will it be.
March 22, 2016 10:48 a.m.
And you just know she's going to be referred to a 'castrater'.
March 22, 2016 10:48 a.m.
JANKYARD_DOG says... #23
Is that Tamiyo rescuing Jace from that crumbling arch?
That angel top curve for U/R prowess maybe?
March 22, 2016 10:49 a.m.
Ermagherd those token arts... and that Cleric tho...
That's awesome work. Well done Wizards.
March 22, 2016 10:49 a.m.
Tentacled Ooze...
Tentaclooze
Tenta-clues
....OMG, I think I'm onto something!
March 22, 2016 10:54 a.m.
GoldGhost012 says... #30
Kenji Egashira will apparently also be previewing another card on his stream.
March 22, 2016 10:59 a.m.
so now that we have vampire knight, human cleric, and human soldier creature tokens, do you think they'll change the oracle texts on previous cards to specify race? like Captain of the Watch for example
March 22, 2016 11:04 a.m.
Dalektable says... #33
I'm actually not a fan of the clue token. Like, It's an artifact so shouldn't the clue be like a dagger or weapon or something of that nature. I get that the clue is about the Angels, but the clue isn't an artifact? Very poor flavor wise IMO.
EDIT: Specifically the clue with the feather and bloody arm. The rest are pretty good.
March 22, 2016 11:08 a.m. Edited.
There's nothing saying that the Soldiers that fight for/with Captain of the Watch were all humans, so there's no reason to change the card.
March 22, 2016 11:10 a.m.
true but non-token creatures are always specified now, so i thought maybe they could be doing the same with tokens.
March 22, 2016 11:12 a.m.
Stormcaller says... #37
tempest could very well happen. Since Goblin King
went from Lord, to Goblin Lord, to just Goblin over the course of 3 Editions (eighth, nineth and tenth].
March 22, 2016 11:14 a.m.
So, that's 15 Mythics and no mono-green...
Do you think there will be more than 15 Mythics in the set due to the extra large card pool (297), or do you think that's it for the Mythics?
March 22, 2016 11:14 a.m. Edited.
GoldGhost012 says... #39
Nah. They'll almost certainly have more than 15 mythics.
March 22, 2016 11:19 a.m.
I'm interested if anything but sigarda makes those human tokens for the Thalia's Lieutenant brew I'm wokring on
March 22, 2016 11:55 a.m.
Not horrible as far as common white removal goes... plays nice with token draft strategies.
March 22, 2016 11:58 a.m. Edited.
Look at the new black enchantment on SGC and look how much it goes for. I'm snickering manically here.
March 22, 2016 12:10 p.m.
My guess is there will be at least 16 mythics (maybe 17). Origins had 16 and was only 272 cards. I'll bet there will still be a mono-green mythic and possibly a U/x mythic (simic Gitrog Toad, maybe?) since blue is the second least represented and doesn't appear on any multicolor mythics yet.
March 22, 2016 12:39 p.m.
Angelic Purge uses what we thought was Gisela's art, which probably means no new Gisela, at least not till EDM.
March 22, 2016 12:53 p.m.
Naww that new angel art we saw in "A Gaze Blank and Pitiless" is really just the art for a removal spell :''(
March 22, 2016 12:59 p.m.
MagicalHacker says... #50
If I make a techno song based on eldritch moon, would it be EDM EDM?
Hamster2558 says... #1
Man i cant wait to make combos with triskiadiphobia
March 22, 2016 8:56 a.m.