Time Spiral

[eunhathes]

To quote MaRo:

• an angel that costs two mana (yes, that angel, and no she's not some wimpy 2/2)
  
• a female legend that players have been begging us to do for a long time
  
• a new hermit with a love of tokens and an old keyword (but not the same one)
  
• a direct damage spell that can do 5 damage for a single red mana
  
• a new Lotus (oh wait, you've already seen that one)
  
• a Power Nine card with buyback
  
• a card with the word “squirrel” in its rules text
  
• a legend who uttered one of the most popular lines of flavor text of all time
  
• and a cycle of artifact mana sources that turn into creatures from the Reserved List

• Liege of the Pit
  
• Magus of the Candelabra
  
• Stuffy Doll
  
• Vesuvan Shapeshifter
  
• Wheel of Fate
  

Also, the Orb is up: Link.

To bring it together:

• Female legend... Oracle for Jaya and/or Ballard. Go ahead, arte, you know you want to.
  
• P9 reprint... Hmm.. the Oracle doesn't hit on "shuffle", so perhaps Time Walk?
  
• Famous flavor.... Saffi. Eriksdotter
  
• Vesuvan Shapeshifter... X.X~! Expect me to want four of these.

I think that the rest is self-explanatory.

[celest]

ok, what we all want to know...

sliver- 54 (just letting you know that fear hit me hard when this number came up. I pray most of this is flavor text.)
slivers- 26 (again, praying)

Well, seems like there will be a few of them, huh.

Ok lets look at the other important stuff

Angel- 1
Goblin- 13
Wizard- 15
Beast- 4
Snake (hehe)- 1
Saproling- 12
Elf- 5

and a key key words
counter- 59 (if only we could seperate the spells from the +1)
destroy- 19
remove- 99
return- 29
game- 51
creature- 394

well thats all i can think of right now

edit: i orbed the words "the" and "a". both were less that creature, low 200s

[artemi]

Ok, ok... Here's some goodies on my side. I hate Orbs... *laugh*

Jaya- 3 (!)
Ballard- 3 (!!)
Task- 2 (!)
Mage- 3
Task Mage- 0 (...Though, I am not sure the orb can handle two words)
Cabal- 3
Yawgmoth- 0
Urza- 0
Teferi- 1
Serra- 2

Kobold- 1
Atog- 1
Spike- 4
Kavu- 4
Sengir- 3
Shapeshifter- 4

Flanking- 21
Phasing- 0
Threshold- 0
Cycling- 0
Flashback- 23
Buyback- 7
Split- 10
Second- 11
Echo- 13
Morph- 18
Storm- 5
Suspend- 26
Shadow- 28 (!)
Kicker- 0
Bushido- 0
Cumulative- 0

World- 0
Legendary- 20
Basic- 25
Land- 52
Artifact- 40
Equipment- 0 (What...?)
Enchantment- 25
Aura- 16

WW- 3
1WW- 5
BBB-0

And finally...

Time- 72 *laugh*

[eunhathes]

Minisite.

Check out the images for TS. Mmm Mmm mmmmmmm.... Now, who's ready to forget...?

Also:
Double: 1
First: 8
Strike: 6 (?)
Band: 0
Rampage: 0
Phyrexian: 3
Tolarian: 1
Academy: 1
Ruins: 1

[eunhathes]

Also, that Buyback P9:
Au travers des éons[/b]
4UU
Rituel
Le joueur ciblé joue un tour supplémentaire après celui-ci
Rappel : sacrifiez trois îles

If I understand my Romantic languages correctly:
Traverse the Eons(?)[/b]
Eon Walk? Walk of Eons? Time Travelling? To Traverse the Eons?
4UU
Sorcery(?)
Target player takes another turn after this one.
Buyback: Sacrifce three Islands.

Keraz or 'lambe: confirmation?

Also, from a Japanese mag:
Pentarch Paladin
2WWW
Creature- Human Knight
Flanking
When Pentarch Paladin comes into play, choose a color.
WW, T: Destroy target permanent of the chosen color.
3/3

Urza's Factory
Land- Urza's
T: Add 1 to your mana pool.
7, T: Put a 2/2 Assembly-Worker artifact creature token into play.

Link.
So, there you are AC. A new Knight for your "Knights". One, that I must admit, will also be in "The Color I Hate" because Antaeus Paladins are so damned hard to find. >.<!

[artemi]

admin said:

Urza's Factory
Land- Urza's
T: Add 1 to your mana pool.
7, T: Put a 2/2 Assembly-Worker artifact creature token into play.

Now THIS I am intrested in. This puts the total number of Urza land up to 16... OR DOES IT?

Orb of Insight...
Urza's: 2.

Does that mean the Tron gets a couple of brothers?

Also, am I the only one that find Flashback and Buyback in the same set really, really odd?

[eunhathes]

artemi said:

Urza's Factory
Land- Urza's

[/color]
T: Add 1 to your mana pool.
7, T: Put a 2/2 Assembly-Worker artifact creature token into play.
[/quote]
Two Urza's.

I'm ok with Buyback and Flashback, so long as they don't end up on the same card. >.<

[celest]

ok this is probaly a one liner, sorta, forgive me but i thought of something ealier that I wanted to orb.

Dragon- 8

hmmmmm, this should be fun.

btw. reading the book. I wish I had read them back in the day. I would be helpful.

[eunhathes]

Firstly, this kicks off sneaky peak weeks at WotC, so we are seeing official crads, now. Next, ANOTHER WIZARD!! Also, note the keyword on Teferi. ^.^ Woot.

Secondly, our first peek at the Slivers. Ouch. I thought the Troll was bad. >.< ALL OF THEM!!

[artemi]

Wow... Teferi's a badass!

A couple of quotes from here I wanted to mention...

[/li][li]a female legend that players have been begging us to do for a long time

If she weren't a planeswalker, she would have been in Coldsnap. That's the great thing about messing with time; you can grab people from before they became too powerful to put on a card.[/quote]
This pretty much comfirms it. Guys, I need your Jaya Ballard cards. Now~!

[/li][li]a legend who uttered one of the most popular lines of flavor text of all time

Famous last words.[/quote]

Any guesses, here? My guess? That friend of Hans...



I think I like this card. But... I'm not sure. Its such a situational card, espically for the color with all the Pacifisms, Fetters, and Pillorys...

[celest]

ok, well I'm nearly done with the book so I figured I'd try a few key words from the book in the Orb.

This could possibly be considered spoilers so I'll give fair warning now. If you want to read on, go ahead, I'm not going to give details, just some names and places of interest.

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Teferi - 1 (well, we know about that one already, but I still wanted to try it)
Jhoira- 0 (damn. oh well, maybe later in the set)
Radha- 0 (damn again)
Venser- 0 (I'll accept this one)
Freyalise- 0
Nicol- 0
Bolas- 0
Umezawa- 0
Nekoru- 0
Skyshroud- 0
Stronghold- 1 (finally something)
Madara- 0
Talon Gates- 0
Rift - 3

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Oh well, so much for the books giving clues about the set. Atleast I found a couple of hits.

[artemi]

celest said:

Umezawa- 0

!!! Is this who I think it is? The bearer of our ever loved Legendary fork?

Oh, and I just ran into this. *points below* My heart actually stopped for a moment when I realized who's name was written there. And then I read the ability. What!?

[eunhathes]

O.o~! WANT!

Also, I went to read the article. "Not enough memory to complete the request" means simply "DAMNITALL! IT'S JUST MISHRA!! GET OFF OUR BANDWIDTH!!!"

Also, Mishra reads, in part, "When you remove the last time counter off of a Lotus Bloom, put two Lotus Blooms into play. If you play a Jitte, concede now. If you play an Owl, you're DQed." I discovered that little reminder text on the Oracle. ^.^

EDIT: On another note, tomorrow seems to be an article dedicated to Jaya Ballard. I expect to be on MtG.com at midnight to see it revealed. Expect information then.

[celest]

to Artemi: yes, yes it is. maybe theyll bring back the fork in 10th

to Eun: you couldnt use that ablity on Jitte cuz its Legendary. But yor right about the Blooms. And that is just awsome. And he reminds me of someone from the books by the quote, but youll have to read the book. Then again you say you know who it is so maybe not. We'll have to wait and see.

[eunhathes]

As promised, midnight coverage of the Jaya Ballard extravaganza!! Here she is, artemi and gentlemen!


ZOMG!!

And, her date for the evening, Serra Avenger!

[celest]

Well, there's the Angel that only costs two white. They came up with an interesting way of blanacing it. But its not Legendary so I can see playing two on turn four.

As for Jaya, well, she certainly has methods of clearing the board.

[artemi]

...Wow. Just.... wow. I was actually giggling the entire Jaya article... Ok, now, to start building her deck... Suffice to say, I will require a playset, here. And at least one foil.

Set.

As for our little miss Avenger... She's a good card. But... I think the poor girl had the thunder stolen from her today... *laugh*

[thehuntingbeast]

OMFG! Mishra? Jaya? When did Time Spiral become the Twilight Zone? I just recently read The Brothers War AND The Eternal Ice!
If I hear that creepy music I'm just going to sh*t myself!








Also their abilities are pretty sweet!

celest said:

ok, well I'm nearly done with the book so I figured I'd try a few key words from the book in the Orb.

This could possibly be considered spoilers so I'll give fair warning now. If you want to read on, go ahead, I'm not going to give details, just some names and places of interest.

**************************************************

Teferi - 1 (well, we know about that one already, but I still wanted to try it)
Jhoira- 0 (damn. oh well, maybe later in the set)
Radha- 0 (damn again)
Venser- 0 (I'll accept this one)
Freyalise- 0
Nicol- 0
Bolas- 0
Umezawa- 0
Nekoru- 0
Skyshroud- 0
Stronghold- 1 (finally something)
Madara- 0
Talon Gates- 0
Rift - 3

****************************************************

Oh well, so much for the books giving clues about the set. Atleast I found a couple of hits.

Wait, What? Nicol Bolas? the only planeswalker with a card (while he was a planeswalker) is back? Along with Umezawa and his cat dragon, and possibly her kits and Skyshroud? Now I know something is trying to destroy my mind, I also just read the second cycle of the Legends set last week and the anthology Rath and Storm before that! (Never mind I am always reading) My brain hurts. And with 3 Phyrexian from the Orb (I am now reading Planeswalker) I think I'm going to implode right about n

[thehuntingbeast]

Looking at the pictures of some cards I believe that weird looking 'gating' picture is part of the suspend ability. It matches up on most of the cards so far. More often than not the background one the other side of what might be some sort of time rift is less colorful, kind of a bluish gray area and the other side is fully colored. Even in the lotus it is there.

[eunhathes]

Yeah, so Ith. Hey, do you think he knows Augustin yet?

Also, the other card: Here's my take...

Endrek Sahr, ?
?
Legendary Creature - Human ?
Whenever you play a creature spell, put X 1/1 black Thrull creature tokens into play where X is that spell's converted mana cost. When you control seven or more Thrulls, sacrifice Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder.
?/?

The rest is a mathematical treatise that I dare not touch. Anyone else got any ideas on this one?