Let's start this right with a speculated thing we know, which is a mechanic of this block, Flashback, which hasn't been seen for some time, last time it occured it was in Judgment way back when, now it seems however this particular mechanic is going to make it's glorious return to current meta in some cards from this set, so it would seem, personally i am excited for this and hope to see if we get some good stuff from this, provided wizards did it correctly as usual, but i digress this set might just be the best starting set since Shards of Alara if all this good stuff keeps coming back by checking out a artwork from a speculated flashback card called Moan of the Unhallowed
So earlier last month we learned the five main tribe themes that are going to be in the set, they are as follows Red/Green Werewolves, Green/White Humans, Blue/White Spirits or Ghosts, Red/Black Vampires and of course to finish Black/Blue Zombies, which haven't been since since Shards block, with the last Blue/Black Zombie being Zombie Outlander, if they print the tribes this way it makes you wonder there is obviously going to be a sub tribal theme here, because apparently drafting we won't have to draft tribes, just the colors, since this set has 264 cards in it, giving us a wide array of choices for a starting block set which is a rarity since the last 3 blocks ended at 249 cards which is kinda small if you ask me, this will give us a bigger starter set then the past 3 starting sets of the past 3 block seasons, nice if you ask me personally. Vampires is expected because they've had instances where red abilites are sometimes given onto black vampires, IE Bloodghast when the requirement is met, or a pump effect which is similar to Bloodthrone Vampire. However we've not seen many werewolves in the game of magic with a grand total of 3 existing werewolves in magic today, so this is new terroritory for us all, in terms of that tribe, Humans and Spirits though are pretty common in magic being different but effective tribal themes, unlike the tribal themes of Lorwyn block which was pretty damned awesome, let's hope this is a good one personally.
So apparently rumor had it is that Steve Argyle was making a new Lillana called Lillana of the Veil which can be seen below
That my friends is some fantastic artwork right there, dark and dreary perfect for a graveyard based block, i wanna see more of this dark gothic style of artwork from mr Argyle here, he does some pretty unique art for magic and this is probably his best piece of art yet, if you haven't seen his work i will provide a link to his site at the end of this article, let's take a look at one final thing, which is artwork for a new Garruk apparently spoiled at Gen Con not too long ago.
Wow that's a giant axe there, geez and this is on a magic binder of all things, bloody hell if this is a legitmate card i am going to be shocked, it has the dark and gothic theme written all over it, rotting tree branches, big dude holding a axe, if this is Garruk 3.0 i'm going to be shocked since this is going to be the first time we have two different versions of garruk post rotation, just maybe i could be wrong though, anyhoo that's about it for today's innistrad feature, tommorow i want to take a look at the M12 event decks which are going on sale as of this Friday, stay tuned this is vergil signing off.
Link to Argyle's site ---> Steve Argyle's Site
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