[FS] Llanowar Empath, Lymph Sliver & Spirit en-Dal (updated with scans)

[Orange Mage]

I know you’ll understand if I tell you that, what with all the strange goings-on recently, when I settled down to sleep last night, I felt a little uneasy. In fact, I lay staring at the ceiling for what seemed like hours before I finally dropped off. No sooner was I asleep, though, when I felt that chill breeze again, and my eyes snapped open. I looked up to see the moon hanging low and gibbous in the sky, and realised I was lying on a gritty stone floor in the shell of a ruined building! Leaping to my feet, I looked around at what seemed to be the remains of a small settlement atop a ridge on a dusty, barren plain. I must be dreaming, I thought to myself, but how can I wake myself up?

The breeze rose up again, blowing the salty dust into my face, but this time it carried a faint voice with it. “Kom…,” it seemed to be saying. “Kom…” I quickly clambered over the broken wall, and hurried down the empty streets in the direction the wind was coming from. I soon left the broken buildings behind, and found myself heading towards a wall of majestic trees, that looked as though they must be the edge of a vast forest. With a few strides, I was in amongst the trees, and the wind died away, leaving a peaceful silence. The trees were bare of leaves, I noticed, and a musty smell hung in the air. Looking around for the source of the voice, I caught sight of a faint phosphorescent glow ahead of me through the trees. With nothing else to guide me, I headed towards the light.

In moments, I found myself in a small clearing, lit by luminous patches on the inner sides of the encircling trees. In the centre of the clearing was a broad tree-stump about waist-high, ringed with mushroom-shaped stones. Sitting on one of these, gazing intently at me, was a long-limbed blonde woman. She smiled sweetly, and gestured at the stone opposite her.

“Kom,” she said, and I couldn’t refuse. I crossed to the stump and sat down, looking at her more closely. She was wearing some kind of shimmering, layered white robe, and I noticed that her ears were elongated, tapering to a point at the top. She smiled again, and handed me a deck of Magic cards. You can imagine my surprise! Taking the deck, I looked through it, and realised it was the black-red sealed deck I’d managed to do rather poorly with at the Planar Chaos pre-release. She was shuffling a deck of her own, and clearly intended for us to play a game. If this was what she had brought me here for, who was I to argue? I began to shuffle my deck, and woke with start.

Back in my bedroom, I found myself sitting on the edge of the bed. I quickly turned the light on, but my room looked no different than normal. Trying desperately to recall my dream, I had a vague sense that we’d played a whole game, but the details were hard to recall. She’d beaten me soundly, I felt, with a white-green deck that stalled the ground and then finished me off with unblockable fatties – and she was playing with Future Sight cards! I’ve managed to piece together a couple of cards for you – I’m sorry I couldn’t remember any more.

Llanowar Empath
Creature – Elf Shaman (common)
When Llanowar Empath comes into play, scry 2, then reveal the top card of your library. If it’s a creature card, put it into your hand.
2/2

Lymph Sliver
Creature – Sliver (common)
All Sliver creatures have absorb 1. (If a source would deal damage to a Sliver creature, prevent 1 of that damage.)
3/3

Spirit en-Dal
Creature - Spirit (uncommon)
Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)
Forecast - , Reveal Spirit en-Dal from your hand: Target creature gains shadow until end of turn. (Play this ability only during your upkeep and only once each turn.)
2/1

[Dragoon26]

Sounds like Spirit en-Dal would have Lifelink and Shadow...

[quodo]

More limited goodness, prerealese will be sooo nice !! I really love this set.

[Caranthir]

Spirit en-Dal?

Since it is en, not il, we can rule out shadow.

I am willing to place my bets on lifelink (if it is spirit-link ability), and probably flying.

[eskay2001]

maybe lifelink and first strike?

[Belgareth]

Gah..... bad elf
Why can't we have elvish ringleader please
or better yet Elvish recruiter I promise it's not broken... honest.

Both cards seem ok for limited filler

[quodo]

Spirit en-Dal could have Absorb 1+Soulshift, which would be quite nice ( even if not really usefull).

[Zombiemachine]

Not much, just limited cards. Still, the story was quite...different.

[Greenliness]

White sliver got a boost [in limited at least]. The elf is cool specially for MGC as cards filter. If you can't work out how you control in mono-green you're too unimaginitive.

[Qfx]

Green gains a lil more draw and Slivers are now wearing Urza's Armor.

[Shaharazad]

Nice dream! It reminded me of this dream I had where that hot elf chick from lord of the rings and Angelina Jolie..

umm
So how about them cards eh?

I bet Spirit en-dal has lifelink and an as of yet unknown keyword which makes the creature completly unblockable.

[FirstType]

The Elf is a bit disappointing in that it doesn't put the creature card into play, like Call of the Wild, Killer Instinct, or Zoologist do (all three of those carrds have a similar ability that depends on the top card of the library being a creature). Still, decent in Limited, I'd say.

We've expected the Lymph Sliver from earlier rumors. I dislike the keyword Absorb; it doesn't seem an important enough ability that they need to keyword it.

Originally Posted by Orange Mage

The breeze rose up again, blowing the salty dust into my face, but this time it carried a faint voice with it. “Kom…,” it seemed to be saying. “Kom…”

I think the vital piece of evidence you missed was that she was stuttering and trying to tell you that she really wanted to play an Acclaim game with characters with names like Liu Kang, Scorpion, and Sub-Zero.

[ghosthack]

The new word templating can really open up some crazy possibilities (i.e.: scry 2 in the middle of the rest of the abilities).

It feels weird at first but then you see the possibilities open and it seems so cool.

[Orange Mage]

Originally Posted by Shaharazad

I bet Spirit en-dal has lifelink and an as of yet unknown keyword which makes the creature completly unblockable.

I don't recall her gaining life. And I'm sure both the keywords were old ones - I'd just never seen them together before. Oddly enough, I think the reason I don't remember the card too clearly was because it was never on the table...

[sqeetschy]

It would be funny if you actually just dreamed these up....like you even warned us and put a tag in the title.But i guess your credibility would suffer so i guess you wouldn't do that. Cards in itself are kinda boring and I agree that absorb is not much of a common ability.Perhaps that will change in Future (sigh(t))?
My bet is on Flying and Haunt.