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Maro’s Tarkir: Dragonstorm Teaser

Before previews for Tarkir: Dragonstorm officially begin, I thought it would be fun to do another of my Duelist-style teasers where I give tiny hints of things to come. Note that I’m only giving you partial information. 

First up, here are some things you can expect:  

• A cycle of Dragonstorm enchantments

• Two planeswalkers

• Some counters in the set: decayed, lifelink, and time

• A card that can tutor for one of two other cards

• A legendary enchantment

• A Hydra that uses a clan keyword

• A common archetype theme gets an ability word

• An instant the generates five effects

• Dragons get a new typal enchantment based on a popular Zombie one

• A new instant and sorcery subtype

Next, here are some rules text that will be showing up on cards:  

• “Whenever you cast a Turtle spell, untap this creature.”

• “As long as there are three or more different kinds of counters among creatures you control,”

• “You may cast it without paying its mana cost if that spell’s mana value is 8 or less.”

• “If you put +1/+1 counters on five Dragons this way, you win the game.”

• “Whenever a creature you control enters, if you cast it, destroy that creature”

• “At the beginning of combat on your turn, if you’ve case both a creature spell and a noncreature spell this turn,”

• “Then if creatures you control have total toughness 20 or greater,”

• “During your end step, Warrior tokens you control have ‘This token can’t be sacrificed.’”

• “Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may search your library for a card named , reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.”

• “Spells you cast have delve.”

Here are some creature type lines from the set: 

• Creature – Dog Monk

• Creature – Elephant Druid

• Creature – Yeti

• Creature – Djinn Cleric

• Creature – Zombie Advisor

• Creature – Kirin

• Creature – Snake Shapeshifter

• Artifact Creature – Chimera

• Artifact Creature – Ape Snake

• Legendary Creature – Zombie Snake Warlock

Finally, here are some names in the set: 

• All-Out Assault

• Cruel Truths

• Desperate Measures

• Dragonologist

• Hundred-Battle Veteran

• Lightfoot Technique

• Rescue Leopard

• Seize Opportunity

• Stillness in Motion

• War Effort

 Tune into the Tarkir: Dragonstorm Debut stream on March 18th! Watch it on twitch.tv/magic at 10am PDT (Don’t forget, this weekend is Daylight saving time! So the US will shift their clocks forward 1 hour and the start time may be different than you expect as a result.)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Spells you cast have Delve

Can’t see any potential issues there! Particularly in the older formats. Hopefully that card costs a ton and does not itself have Delve.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Dragons get a new typal enchantment based on a popular Zombie one

I can see a Necroduality for Dragons, but given that this is Dragonstorm I feel like a Dragon version of Rooftop Storm is even more likely

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

@MysticKetchup Endless Ranks of the Dead/Dragons is my bet.

[–] Semjaza 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Hoping that can't sacrifice warriors effect is a rare build around for decayed. (Edit: it isn't, because as @[email protected] pointed out decayed sacrifices at end of combat, not turn. (And I think I've seen that the zombie tokens are also druids.))

The at the beginning of comabat on your turn creature and non-creature reads like a rare jeskai enchantment. Possibly one of the cycle.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

@Semjaza @MysticKetchup unfortunately decayed sacrifices at the end of combat, while the warrior thing is end of turn. I thought the same thing

[–] Semjaza 3 points 2 weeks ago

Oh you're right. That's sad. But thank you for pointing it out.

Still excited to see what it is, and now brain is spinning with other ideas.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

A common archetype theme gets an ability word

I would like to see "blink" get keyworded -- it would save a lot of text and be good flavor to boot -- but this teaser says "ability word" and that's not the same thing.