[FS] Assorted rumors (Rumored rumors tht is)

[Hunter]

Hello, you all!

The rumors keep streaming in from different directions, although they are getting a bit more vague as well. Even the FBI has been in touch with me, regarding to the strange going-on's, and I'm expecting a visit by a certain agent MOULDER.

Believe me, if I knew more I would post it. Because they seem to be very interesting.

New Benalia
land
New Benalia comes into play tapped.
When New Benalia comes into play Scry 1
add to your mana pool

Card 174 is suppossed to be a Land Creature (Dryad)
Card 180 is supposed to be a morph Land

Ghostfire
Instant
Ghostfire is colorless.
Ghostfire deals 3 damage to target creature or player.

Snake Cult Initiation
Enchantment-Aura
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has poisonous 3


Knight of Sursi
Human Knight
Flying, Flanking
Suspend 3-
2/2

[Alfred]

New Benalia looks very interesting. That looks like it could matter in a lot of slower white based control decks.

[Shaharazad]

Oh wow, poisonous 3 is wicked! I keep on hoping for a sorcery that "doubles the number of poison counters on target player".

The scry land is pretty sexy.

Land Creature Dryad sounds fantastic. New Manland!!? Perhaps. Though it's more then likely a Dryad that counts as a land.

Ghostflame is sexy too. I love how they reference older cards. Edit: Good call on the art.

Thanks Hunter! You sir, rock.

Molder, meh.. Just let me know when Skully shows up. Nothing like a redhead with a badge.

[Hunter]

I think we've been having the description for Ghostflame-art for a very long time now in the compiled info:

[*]An assassin who looks like he's blowing some kind of powder (like the martyrs from CS) and it creates "invisible fire". It is a thin grey skinned warrior with a third eye in the middle of his forehead. The eye has no pupil and is glowing pure white. Another man has the entire top of his body charred and white from heat, and a red-hot sword falls from his hand, although no fire is shown in the art. There was a second imolated warrior in the background whose body was being ravaged by fire. Cyril said this artwork was very special, in that Wizards asked for it to be in full portrait scale, so that it may be printed on the full card.

[JollyTheOctopuss]

Good lord, they really are bringing poison back, and in turn, they are certainly bringing sexy back along with it.

I seriously can't wait to make this badass G/B poison deck!!! Mmmmmm

[Burning_Lotus]

I just love what they are doing with this set. I am a HUGE land lover and I love how they are reverting back to the old days and giving lands sick abilities. No library, but man will I sure take it!

[zindabad]

Going to have to thumbs-down New Benalia. Feels out of place, like they wanted a land to scry and ran out of colors so just slapped it on white.

No flavor. White, Benalia, rebuilt...library manipulation? No thanks.

[KingTurtle]

Wait, so the other 4 lands in the cycle have rav guild on-colour abilities, but the white one has scry?

It seems a little out of place...

[riddle]

yeah and the white creature spellshpaer is the only one that shapes a heretofore non-existent creature, while the others make the promised "iconic" creatures. strange indeed...

[LoganB]

Love the new Poison thing. Man this news keeps getting better. Still wish I knew what Planeswalker cards were though.

[RanDomino]

wait, wait, I've got it
Benalia was where there was the University during the Weatherlight story a-
... wait, that was New Argive. nm, it makes no sense.

[Pharmalade]

Got a p/t for the new Suspend guy? I'm guessing 2/2 or 2/3 for limited.

New Benalia is good. I was wondering what the white land would have. Transmute, Hellbent, Graft, and Dredge are all simple and to the point, but Forecast or Radiance would've needed some extra loving, Haunt would've been too narrow, and Convoke doesn't do anything. Scry, on the other hand, gives white some library manipulation. White likes that.

And an aura that gives Poisonous 3? And black gets shadow too? That's cool. (Note: Two hits with a double striker enchanted with this spells game.)

-Pharmalade.

[Machius]

New Benalia is okay, but scry of less than 2 is pretty weak usually.

A land creature- wow sounds interesting, looks like their genuinely trying to combine every possible card type with creature.

Morph land- we knew already(or speculated) but should be interesting and nice way to do a man land.

Ghostflame- its going to be a great limited removal spell and will go into every red decks SB to deal with COP: red and pro red creatures. Hopefully it will be an instant although even as a sorcery it would see play.

Snake Cult Initiation- Really nice with cheap black shadow creatures or any evasion creature, limited pretty strong, constructed potential? maybe.

Knight of Sursi- Hard to rate without the power and toughness but as a 3/3 it would be very good, as a 2/3 it would be okay and as a 2/2 it would be only borderline playable outside limited.

[rootwallapunk]

2/2 seems about right for the knight, given the other abilities, though, i wouldn't be shocked if it only had 1 power : (

[Darkon~]

Hmmm, colorless burn ehh? I like this idea. Flying Flanking Suspendible Knights...ouch. Scry land? Okay...whatever, why is this white lol.