Breaking News! First “Rise of the Eldrazi” Spoiler Out!

Posted on March 1, 2010 by General

This came last night from Wizards. Check out this bad boy….

 

  2. In addition to being a pretty crazy card, the transparency on the card frame is pretty sweet.

  3. Yeah, really epic art. And, if I am reading this right, he comes with card advantage built in, since you get +4 cards just for casting him (not for him entering the battlefield). So basically he is a colorless tidings (for 4 more, admittedly), with the upside of being a 12/12, Annihilator 4, if he does not meet removal/counterspell.

    Of course the “cast” clause also makes him slightly wore as a reanimator target.

  4. Sadly he’s not even a Reanimator target as he will never see any amount of time in a graveyard… :(

  5. Please also note that:

    1- It isn’t an artifact creature. So no Tinker mumbo jumbo in Classic.

    2- It shuffles the whole graveyard and not just itself to the library. Bye bye mill decks!

    LE

  6. AND please also note that:

    3- It’s collector number is 6. Meaning that this is an all colorless set.

    LE

  8. I don’t believe this will be an all-colorless set. More likely it is a partially colorless set with an Eldrazi vs. everything else feel to it. Sort of like Kamigawa block with Spirits vs. nonSpirits.

    Beyond that, I think we’ve found a use for Mana ramping via mono-green with Omnath and friends…. at least in Standard.

    Also even without the draw 4, it’s a really nice target for Sneak Attack like effects. Sac 4 permanents, then block a 12/12, yeah, that’s fair.

  12. Someone let Tron get dusty. Good grief, how do you expect to hardcast this card without doing silly things with mana ramps.