Gatecrash Spoiler

The good ol’ times

We are Boros we are legion

 Gideon didn’t die?!

Orzhov new keyword yay!

Can’t wait to see the savage GRUULS back again!

CANT WAIT FOR DIMIR. Dimir seal will be OP seeing as they are the mill deck! And then I can bring my mill deck from the last block because that was black-blue as well! Dimir FTW! Also, I hope they do something really good if they do planeswalkers this set because Vraska and Jace will be hard to one up!

they need to make dak fadden a plainsalker

everybody knows that dimir is better than everyone.

all about some boros and gruul

hopefully we’ll see three or four colored decks in standard this time around…

Dimir. nuff said
 

I don’t know which guild will be the best to go for in the pre-release. 

I went Golgari, because Green and Black have been my colours, and thought that Scavenge would’ve been beastly in limited. 
Deadbridge Goliath proved himself over and over again, so I somewhat picked right. Detain screwed me time and time again, but 

However, I don’t know if I’m going to go Gruul or Simic for the Green. I’ve found that Green is a strong limited colour, as seen in the last 3 sets (especially Avacyn Restored), but Red has been hit or miss, and I’m not a fan of blue in limited. 

Maybe i should try Orzhov. Or maybe Dimir

F**k Boros, no offence.

Can’t wait to see her magistrate Teysa Karlov again!

Simic planeswalker will be in the last set of the block

Kiora = second planeswalker in Gatecrash?

God I hope so, cause it won’t be Ral Zar and that would only leave room for 1 of them in the next set… which would be Ral Zar, likely, considering the subject matter of all we know about him is he is from the Izzet Guild

Boros & Gruul all the way!

Savagery. Primal. Rage. THIS IS GRUUL!

Boros and Orzhov! 

looks like i can almost completely skip this set. might be a gem in the Simic Merfolk, Dimir might have a decent Vampyer, Boros could have a few decent Sorcery/Instant and Gruul and Orzhova can just die all together, so all in all not expecting anything really worth getting. Wish so much that they had not put Izzet, Selesnya and Azorius together.

This pre-release is gonna be the hardest decision for me to make.

ummm, did anyone even think to rock Selesyna and Boros together, thus allowing you to play things from Selesnya, Boros, and Gruul

Troll Deck Simic Deck  

Dimir!

Gruuuuuuuuullllll

Opponent: I play Enter the Infinite and pass turn.
Me: Wit’s End

Here’s my thoughts on these five guilds and their new effects.

For the Simic, in their new lore, it is said that they have creating hybrid creatures. What if the new Simic keyword lets you combine your creatures into bigger, nastier creatures, sharing the effects of their component parts? So you could sacrifice a creature with the keyword, and toss +1/+1 counters on another one, while giving it whatever effects that creature had. Let’s say I have a neat 2/4 Simic spider-thing. I sacrifice it, and my other creature gets +2/+4 and gains reach. That would be solid, flavor-wise, and would have some potential, especially if I could force my mutations on my opponent’s creatures.

The Dimir’s last ability wasn’t very stellar. Basically, it allowed you to put yourself behind on mana to pick and choose what you had in your hand. My thoughts are that the Dimir are all about stealing secrets. You could ‘steal’ an opponents secrets by looking at their hand and deck, and then reap the rewards by exploiting that. Here’s some examples. 

Exploit – When this creature deals combat damage to an opponent, name a nonland card. If that player has the named card in their hand, they reveal it and lose 2 life. 

Exploit – Select target player and name a nonland card. If that player has the named card in their hand, they reveal it, and you draw two cards.

Exploit – Name a nonland card. If an opponent has the named card in their hand, they reveal it and discard it.

Fun, right?

The Boros also didn’t have a great keyword last time around. It wasn’t flavorful or powerful, and basically sucked. It’s difficult to think of an ability that’s both red and white that hasn’t already been done. The Boros are all about attacking with armies, but what can you do with that? My first thought is some kind of wait-until-the-right-moment gambit, where your creatures accumulate +1/+1 counters as long as they don’t attack, but lose them all once they do. That’s flavorful, but who likes not attacking? The Boros should be able to attack and keep attacking until their opponents are nothing but dust. Maybe a triggered ability where they burned any creature that battled them, before combat damage was dealt. 

The Gruul are not my favorite. I was never a fan of red/green. They would probably have keyword ability that showed off and supported a lack of planning and much destructing. Perhaps creatures that could smash artifacts when they attacked, or forced tiny creatures to block them. I don’t know, it could be anything with this one.

Finally, the Orzhov. I liked the haunt ability, but it lacked power and was very confusing to most people. The Orzhov seem to focus on debts and money, so I think it would be neat if you could force your opponents to be in debt to you. Give them something nice, but call in their debt at the worst possible time. With interest, of course. 
Hey buddy, you can gain 2 life now, but later you lose 4 life and I gain 4 life. 
Draw some cards, my friend, fill up your hand. You never know when you’ll discard it all.
Here, have a Spirit token. Now sacrifice it, along with another one of your creatures.

BOROS DOMINATES!!!!!!

Boros and Gruul  will both be heavily played and broken.

To Nordic: I never saw a set with only one planeswalker, but if you will…

Does anyone know where I can find more cards? Besides this I was able to find only one charm, but that’s it and I already pre-order’d 2 booster boxes and 2 decks!!

Orshov looks pretty cool, i like their mechanic, i’ll be putting vizkopa guardian in my rakdos deck even though i can’t pay the ressurection cost.

Damn it, my guilds keyword sucks.

We Are House of DIMIR

Dimir card revealed

Whispering Madness – 2UB
Sorcery (Rare)
Each player discards his or her hand, then draws cards equal to the greatest number of cards a player discarded this way.
Cipher (Then you may exile this spell card encoded on a creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player, its controller may cast a copy of the encoded card without paying its mana cost.)

lol boros

oh, so they have a lot of gruul spoiled but only one dimir. me no likey.

is firemane avenger for real!? its so epic

Ooh, I like those bracers. I really wanna build around them.

i have a feeling that there going to have a gild format of play. it would be awesome ^^

Oh hay look, blue is op, again.

I’m actually really underwhelmed with “Deathpact Angel”…while her artwork is AMAZING, I feel she lacks the “Epicness” that defines a mythic and feel that they should have either given her an additional keyword ability that would fit Orzhov (i.e. lifelink, deathtouch, heck even regenerate would work) or made the ability of the Human Cleric token cheaper like WBB instead of 3WBB because without her “resurrection” ability she’s just a 5/5 flyer for 6CMC…otherwise I feel like she is a card that should just be a rare, heck Serra Angel is a 4/4 vigilant flyer for 5CMC and she’s only an uncommon. How does everyone else feel about her? Am I missing the forest for the trees and not seeing why she’s a mythic or does anyone else agree that she doesn’t feel as awesome as she should.

Wow so wizards lied about Gideon being in the boros clan. I was really expecting a Red white Gideon. Sad day for boros

I think I smell some Rite of Replication with the Simic guild…

i’m really curious to see the charms. anyone got any guesses on what they are gonna do?

We’re Is here

simic and dimir all the way

damn im going dimir
jace memory adept and the first dimir guildmage ability lose 10 life from jaces “+0″ 
have two guildmages 6 mana and a memory adept that could be game -20 life
lots of defenders like fog bank and that 0/6 wall from RTR defend till you have a gulidmage and jace out
thats just a simple build i thought of but it will be way more complex when i build the deck

We’re is the last guild leader!¡!¡

I’m posting this just to make 400 comments…

So i did a comparison of the new guild leaders against the old and here my thoughts. please give feedback.

Orzhov:

Ghost Council of Orzhov: minimal life sap that is
repeatable. Early mid-game. Reasonable mana cost. Second ability could be used
as awkward version of vigilance.

Obzedat, Ghost Council: still has the minimal repeatable
life sap. Mid-game. No less unreasonable. Downfall of second ability is that
you lose him as a blocker or count.

Would say tie.

Dimir:

Szadek, Lord of Secrets: Increasing mil ability. Flying and
decent P/T which increases. High CMC but is reasonable for what he does.

Lazav, Dimir Mastermind: Hexproof is one of the greatest
keywords we have, early mid-game. The copy ability is great and with the Dimir
focus on mill will be incredibly useful.

Lazav is the better mainly because of the lower cost.

Gruul:

Borboeygmos: Trample makes it easy to trigger second
ability, which is great. At CMC 7 he really comes out to late to be used fully.

Borborygmos Enraged: Trample makes it easy to trigger second
ability but it has a great downfall of putting cards in the graveyard.
Discarding land is unpractical in most situations but when you are able to get
him out for the 8 it not as difficult to foresee discarding lands.

Personally I’m for the old one the ability to make all your
creatures stronger at once is much more useful late game.

Boros:

Razia, Boros Archangel: Slightly over costed, CMC 7 would be
better. Vigilance and a tap ability is great combo. Damage redirect is great
but for CMC 8 should be more than 3 damage. Can protect self.

Aurelia, the Warleader: Easily broken because of the haste
and combat ability. The second combat phase is something that is dangerous and for
the CMC 6 it not over costed.

Aurelia is the clear winner, lower cost and greater ability
for it.

Simic:

Momir Vig, Simic Visionary: helps you get the ideal creature
for the situation. Slightly under powered even with the abilities(should cost 4
or be 3/3).

Prime Speaker Zegana: creates the strongest creature you
have at the time. Gives card adventage but could overload your hand, CMC 6 slightly
harder to cast.

Zegana takes the win for the greater ability and stronger creature.

Art wise there is no contest the new are the better.

aurelia is crazy!

Orzov is da best 

is it just me, or are there not many ciipher cards revealed yet?

Need a destroy for permanents or field wipe

Battering Raam!!!!!

do anyone notices that in the card Cartel Aristocrat, simic does not appear in the triangle ? 

So they are not gonna put any 1 hybrid mana drop for each guild? I’m surprised they put in the guild leaders

I’m willing to bet my entire college fund that Boros is going to be the most chosen Guild at prerelease events. Sadly, I’m also willing to bet that i can build a Dimir deck that will beat any of them if it plays our right.