Mirrodin Besieged Discussion Part 2: Speculation on Possible Mirran Cards

Now the source for these speculations all come from one place, mtgsalvation.com they know how to do rumours and that quite well for a magic the gathering site and they are perhaps the only people in the world besides wizards of the coast who know what the cards do before they are spoiled to the rest of the world so let's begin part 2 with my personal ideas on everything so far.

Now according to speculation there are 18 cards per color slot in this set and it would seem to be correct, while the remainder would of course be the multicolor and of course the artifacts and lands, artifact wise it would appear to be 52 for actual artifacts and 5 artifact lands according to the number and name crunch found there. Let's observe some of the cards found to be rumoured and nearly true shall we first thing is first let's take a look a blue card called Consecrated Sphinx, now right off the bat you can tell this is going to be a rare because it's a sphinx all sphinx in magic have always been the rare setting or higher, this case seems to prove that this is also going to be a mirran card because of the last sphinx in this block which was Argent Sphinx was also a mirran card and it had metalcraft thus speculation aside i believe this card will look something like this, also here is the photo of this but my speculation on this could be wrong as always.

Consecrated Sphinx 2mana mana blue, mana blue
Creature - Sphinx (R)
Metalcraft
Flying
4/3 but then again this is just my speculation on this particular card, let's move onto another card which has a lot of rumour surrounding it and that is Goblin Wardriver, one would think due to the picture shown to the world about this card you're expecting this to be a rare in itself, one might believe it to be true, is this the new standard goblin lord maybe, because elves saw their lord last set in the form of Ezuri, Renegade Leader and his overrun ability is just a dominant force in general one would possibly think this is a worthwhile card, lords normally have some kind of ability that gives other creatures of their type a boost in power/toughness so here are my card predictions for this one

Goblin Wardriver :1mana::symr::symr:
Creature - Goblin (R)
Haste, Mountainwalk
Other goblins you control get a +1/+1 boost for each other goblin on the field.
2/2

Now this third ability makes this broken but then again there may be very few goblins in this set of mirrodin besieged so this might balance the issue out so we will have to wait and see, the next card on the list has a sort of flair for the dramatic and that is Koth's Courier, the photo of this particular creature is seen below

Note the artwork on this particular creature shows it is a vulshok and is probably one of the hammer tribe, now speculation aside here's how i believe this creature will turn out.

Koth's Courier :1mana::symr:
Creature - Vulshok Berserker (U)
Battle Cry (Whenever this creature attacks, all other attacking creatures get a +1/+0 bonus till end of turn)
Haste
2/3 however this prediction could be wrong in itself we will have to wait and see when the card is spoiled to determine if i was wrong or right in this regard the final few cards i wanna talk about for this article are Titan forge and Contested War Zone, these are the only other ones worth talking about right now so let's see how it goes Titan Forge sounds like a token producer if i had to guess it would go something along the lines of the following, it also has a photo which is shown below as per usual.

Titan Forge :4mana:
Artifact - (R)
Metalcraft - Whenever another artifact enters the battlefield under your control put a 4/4 Darksteel Titan token into play and place all equipments onto it under your control

Now this is all just speculation but the card specifics may end up changing in the long run of this, now as for contested war zone, since this seems like it is going to be a artifact land i think it will go something like this with a photo of the card shown below

Contested War Zone
Artifact Land (R)
:Symtap: Add 2 to your mana pool, only use this mana to play artifact spells this turn.
:symtap: Add 1 to your mana pool, Use this to play creatures this turn.

It may turn out a little different in the long run but with spoilers one can never be too sure of course, thank you for reading part 2 of my speculation for mirrodin besieged i'll be attending to the phyrexian side or the dark side in the next article, till then enjoy the spoiler season thoughts from me, this is vergil signing off.