Borderposts in tarkir?
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Posted on Aug. 31, 2014, 3:21 a.m. by Bsaf
Seeing how wizards are reprinting fetchlands and kahns is starting to look a lot like alara block, can i expect the enemy allied borderposts or is that just too much mana fixing? Because i really want a g/b borderpost to make my jund restore balance deck complete!
Epochalyptik says... #3
Unlikely. There's already a cycle of trilands and the ONS fetches. The fetches are rare, but the trilands are uncommon, so there's pretty decent fixing for Limited.
A few other points:
Remember that similarities between Khans and Alara don't necessarily have to generate other parallels.
Borderposts were printed in Alara Reborn -- an entirely multicolored set and the last set of the Alara block.
The idea of the borderposts came from the fact that there was a clear allied-based emphasis within Alaran color schemes. Shards are trios of sequential colors, meaning that the borderposts fall along the natural points in the color wheel. Wedges are trios of nonsequential colors, so it's harder to conceptualize borders.
Maybe we'll see a cycle of mana artifacts, but I doubt they'll be borderposts and I doubt they'd be in Khans.
August 31, 2014 7:54 a.m.
Yes i agree to all, i just noticed the similarities in the trilands coming this set as they did in alara and thought that the borderposts might show up sometime during the kahns block for mana fixing purposes in draft. Definitely think that there will be enough mana fixing from the creatures spoiled in kahn as well as the fetches indeed. And the spoiler site i use is mythicspoilers, they are up to date and have a nice clean no obtrusive ads site! My wondering about the borderposts came mostly from the fact that they are used to signify ally color schemes, so the ones that make up naya, jund, esper, grixis and bant were released during alara. It just made sense that the enemy aligned wedges would have the new ones for continuity as well! Most of all im hoping that they do come out eventually and havent been scrapped completely; my jund restore balance is a little odd with u/b and w/g borderposts in it haha
August 31, 2014 8:35 p.m.
And truth be told, how well would borderposts work as the signifying of boundaries of each of the groups of tarkir! Thematically at least i say they would make sense here, and of course as mana fixing so i am holding out with high hopes
pookypuppy6 says... #2
Trilands are at uncommon, they will have some form of common mana fixing likely in a cycle. Borderposts possibly, or maybe something new. They won't do obelisks though (Obelisk of Esper and co.), those didn't work very well in Shards.
Where's the confirmation for the Onslaught fetchlands? Though I'm one of the people who least care about them, I know others are.
August 31, 2014 5:03 a.m.