[ARB] Compiled Info

**Caranthir** · 03-12-2009, 02:56 PM

Set Name Alara Reborn
Block Set 3 of 3 in the Shards of Alara block
Number of Cards 145
Release Date Thursday, April 30, 2009
Prerelease Events April 25-26, 2009
Launch Parties April 30-May 3, 2009
Previews start on magicthegathering.com April 13, 2009
Design Team Aaron Forsythe (lead)
Mark Gottlieb
Alexis Janson
Brian Tinsman Development Team Matt Place (lead)
Dave Guskin
Alexis Janson
Erik Lauer
Mike Turian

Expansion Symbol:

Fat Pack:

Fat Pack Contents:

Booster box:

Intro Packs:

Playmats:

Mistvein Borderpost by Pete Venters

Fieldmist Borderpost by Michael Bruinsma

Wildfield Borderpost by Zoltan Boros & Gabor Szikszai

Firewild Borderpost by Jean Sebastien Rossbach

And finally Veinfire Borderpost by Ralph Horsley

The five shards of Alara merged in a single world of "new" Alara again, their borders erased and each brought into contact with each other, losing their individual properties in the process. As seen above at the Intro pack cards, the creatures from the shards intermingle, therefore things like etherium angel (Esper/Bant hybrid) or black-aligned thoctar (Naya/Jund) can be observed.

According to Aaron Forsythe, the set was one of the greatest design challenges ever, and it includes a special hook for the players, something that "has never been done before".

As it appears from the special preview card provided in Magic Arcana, Ardent Plea...

...featuring Elspeth Tirel in ruins of Bant palace, and bearing the collector's number of 1/145, it is almost certain that there is not a single monocolored card in the set (that would be before a multicolored card in numbering), only multicolored cards, artifacts and lands.

The "all-multicolor" set concept could very well be the "never been done before" mentioned above.

A mail describing "Key Selling Points for ARB) received by the retailers confirmed this fact:

Quote:

Alara Reborn is solid gold! Multicolored or ‘gold’ cards are among the most popular set themes, and every single card in Alara Reborn is gold. It will be the first set in the history of Magic: The Gathering to be 100% multicolored.

Further info will be added when available.

Prerelease card and release card:

Dragon Broodmother

(PRERELEASE)
Creature - Dragon (M)
Flying
At the beginning of each upkeep, put a 1/1 red and green Dragon creature token with flying and devour 2 into play.
4/4
Jean-Sebastien Rossbach, *53/145

Knight of New Alara

(RELEASE)
Creature - Human and Knight (R)
Each other multicolored creature you control gets +1/+1 for each of its colors.
2/2
David Palumbo, *70/145

Other promo arts:

Rafiq of the Many & Bantian soldiers/angels fighting zombies:

Viashino warrior with sigils around, and an angel.

Another sphinx and Slave of Bolas art:

Booster pack images:

**Caranthir** · 03-21-2009, 05:00 AM

NO. SPECULATION. IN. THIS. THREAD. THANKS.

Post here only if you have a new piece of information, that would be edited into first post.

Horseshoe_Hermit · 03-29-2009, 02:16 AM

The texts of ~~Broodmate Dragon~~ 'Dragon Broodmother' and Knight of New Alara are wrong.
This is also the case for the Partial Spoiler.

They should say

'Genitrice dragonne'

Creature - Dragon (M)
Flying
At the beginning of each upkeep, put a 1/1 red and green Dragon creature token with flying and devour 2 into play.
4/4

(card name in quotes since I do not confirm it)

and

Knight of New Alara

Creature - Human and Knight (R)
Each other multicolored creature you control gets +1/+1 for each of its colors.
2/2

Riftmarked Knight, Thunderheads.

mirrorman95 · 04-01-2009, 08:11 PM

I found out that the WotC sample hand decks for the next arcana were the Alara Reborn theme decklists, and I got copies of the names of all the new cards:

GW
2 Grizzled Leotau
1 Qasali Pridemage
1 Dauntless Escort
1 Knight of New Alara
1 Enlisted Wurm
2 Pale Recluse
1 Sigiled Behemoth
1 Reborn Hope
1 Sigil of the Nayan Gods
1 Captured Sunlight
WU
2 Ethercaste Knight
1 Aven Mimeomancer
1 Wall of Denial
2 Arsenal Thresher
2 Glassdust Hulk
2 Sanctum Plowbeast
1 Filigree Angel
1 Stormcaller's Boon
1 Offering to Asha
UB
1 Vedalken Ghoul
1 Lich Lord of Unx
2 Architects of Will
1 Nemesis of Reason
2 Jhessian Zombies
1 Soul Manipulation
1 Brainbite
1 Deny Reality
BR
2 Sanity Gnawers
1 Singe-Mind Ogre
1 Lightning Reaver
1 Monstrous Carabid
1 Deathbringer Thoctar
2 Igneous Pouncer
1 Bituminous Blast
1 Breath of Malfegor
Terminate
RG
1 Godtracker of Jund
1 Bloodbraid Elf
1 Rhox Brute
1 Spellbreaker Behemoth
1 Blitz Hellion
1 Gorger Wurm
2 Valley Rannet
1 Colossal Might
1 Vengeful Rebirth

Sniffnoy · 04-01-2009, 08:28 PM

"Aven Mimeomancer" is presumably our "Aven Mimic".
"Ethercaste Knight", well, duh.
"Bituminous Blast" is presumably what we've been calling "Tar Shards".
"Pale Recluse" might be "Pale Priest-Spider", as a recluse is a type of spider. (Also "Soul Manipulation" might be our "Soulquake", but that seems to be a stretch.)
And "Nemesis of Reason" is presumably the name for the 3/7 miller that Cantrip just spoiled.

Harbinger_ · 04-02-2009, 02:23 PM

http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=155460

In this thread they have a pic that shows Fieldmist Borderpost. Its a bit blurred but the card looks exactly what it should be.

Fieldmist BorderPost

Artifact Common

T: Add to your mana pool.

Esper is not that far from Bant. In fact, it is getting closer.

With this available I'm sure it should be reasonably easy to show the other Borderposts as cards. These look alot like the signets from the Ravnica Block except with multi-color costs to add to the 100% gold set we're having.

Edit: When I looked at the first pic in the thread that was editted it seemed that it was a new card rather than the old scan.

***urzassedatives*** · 04-02-2009, 02:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Harbinger_

http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=155460

In this thread they have a pic that shows Fieldmist Borderpost. Its a bit blurred but the card looks exactly what it should be.

Fieldmist BorderPost

Artifact Common

T: Add to your mana pool.

Esper is not that far from Bant. In fact, it is getting closer.

With this available I'm sure it should be reasonably easy to show the other Borderposts as cards. These look alot like the signets from the Ravnica Block except with multi-color costs to add to the 100% gold set we're having.

Read the flavor text again.
Esper it not that far from Bant.

The card is a fake, just like the previous mockup called 'Firemist Borderpost'.

Harbinger_ · 04-07-2009, 08:42 AM

The picture of the angel with the purple halo has been shown to be Slave of Bolas with art by Steve Argyle linked in this article on the wizards website.

http://www.wizards.com/magic/magazin...g/daily/sf/33a

Edit: Oh, the fat pack and booster box images got removed from Photobucket again in the first post.

JarethStormreaver · 04-09-2009, 01:42 PM

Here are pictures of some of the cards in the spoiler.

More to follow.

JarethStormreaver · 04-09-2009, 01:43 PM

Here are the others.

***urzassedatives*** · 04-09-2009, 01:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JarethStormreaver

Here are pictures of some of the cards in the spoiler.

More to follow.

Thank you for attaching them here and not on the partial spoiler thread. (I would delete that post...and the attachments. >.<
I will update the spoiler with these later.

propagandist · 04-09-2009, 04:35 PM

Knotvine Paladin
Artwork

LordLorenSoth · 04-12-2009, 08:20 PM

Hello
here are some new cards image enjoy

***urzassedatives*** · 04-13-2009, 06:31 AM

This is not the spoiler thread.
This is the compiled info thread, a compilation of general information about the set, not a spoiler.

Deamontai · 04-15-2009, 01:34 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by urzassedatives

This is not the spoiler thread.
This is the compiled info thread, a compilation of general information about the set, not a spoiler.

I do belive that a spoiler is info about the set.

03-21-2009, 05:00 AM	#2
Caranthir Scion of Fire Moderator Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Brno, CZ // Rochester, MN Posts: 5,212 Blog Entries: 1	NO. SPECULATION. IN. THIS. THREAD. THANKS. Post here only if you have a new piece of information, that would be edited into first post. __________________ 100% Vorthos Spike and Storyline Expert Fact Prospector of the Greek Alliance >>Banner by Spanglegluppet<< Extendo-sig Last edited by Caranthir : 03-22-2009 at 04:53 AM.

03-29-2009, 02:16 AM	#3
Horseshoe_Hermit rerum cognoscere causas Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: America Junior, way down there... Posts: 7,523	The texts of ~~Broodmate Dragon~~ 'Dragon Broodmother' and Knight of New Alara are wrong. This is also the case for the Partial Spoiler. They should say 'Genitrice dragonne' Creature - Dragon (M) Flying At the beginning of each upkeep, put a 1/1 red and green Dragon creature token with flying and devour 2 into play. 4/4 (card name in quotes since I do not confirm it) and Knight of New Alara Creature - Human and Knight (R) Each other multicolored creature you control gets +1/+1 for each of its colors. 2/2 Riftmarked Knight, Thunderheads. __________________ Muchisimas gracias a Erasmus, from the æтђєг sig & avvy shop, for this banner. Awesome avatar provided by Krashbot, from [Epic Graphics]. Member of Clan Mono Blue Tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.

04-01-2009, 08:11 PM	#4
mirrorman95 Just Getting Started Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 5	Magic Arcana 159 ARB theme deck new cards I found out that the WotC sample hand decks for the next arcana were the Alara Reborn theme decklists, and I got copies of the names of all the new cards: GW 2 Grizzled Leotau 1 Qasali Pridemage 1 Dauntless Escort 1 Knight of New Alara 1 Enlisted Wurm 2 Pale Recluse 1 Sigiled Behemoth 1 Reborn Hope 1 Sigil of the Nayan Gods 1 Captured Sunlight WU 2 Ethercaste Knight 1 Aven Mimeomancer 1 Wall of Denial 2 Arsenal Thresher 2 Glassdust Hulk 2 Sanctum Plowbeast 1 Filigree Angel 1 Stormcaller's Boon 1 Offering to Asha UB 1 Vedalken Ghoul 1 Lich Lord of Unx 2 Architects of Will 1 Nemesis of Reason 2 Jhessian Zombies 1 Soul Manipulation 1 Brainbite 1 Deny Reality BR 2 Sanity Gnawers 1 Singe-Mind Ogre 1 Lightning Reaver 1 Monstrous Carabid 1 Deathbringer Thoctar 2 Igneous Pouncer 1 Bituminous Blast 1 Breath of Malfegor Terminate RG 1 Godtracker of Jund 1 Bloodbraid Elf 1 Rhox Brute 1 Spellbreaker Behemoth 1 Blitz Hellion 1 Gorger Wurm 2 Valley Rannet 1 Colossal Might 1 Vengeful Rebirth Last edited by mirrorman95 : 04-01-2009 at 08:14 PM. Reason: It was reprinted from planeshift so I forgot to add it in

04-02-2009, 02:23 PM	#6
Harbinger_ Summons Bigger Fish Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: The Undercity, er I mean Somewhere. Posts: 1,388	http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=155460 In this thread they have a pic that shows Fieldmist Borderpost. Its a bit blurred but the card looks exactly what it should be. Fieldmist BorderPost Artifact Common T: Add to your mana pool. Esper is not that far from Bant. In fact, it is getting closer. With this available I'm sure it should be reasonably easy to show the other Borderposts as cards. These look alot like the signets from the Ravnica Block except with multi-color costs to add to the 100% gold set we're having. Edit: When I looked at the first pic in the thread that was editted it seemed that it was a new card rather than the old scan. __________________ Decks in the Making Grixis Control Minister of Security: For a Dark Alley of No Importance Many Thanks to SB4 and the Crew at HLS! Last edited by Harbinger_ : 04-02-2009 at 02:37 PM. Reason: I'm stupid

04-07-2009, 08:42 AM	#8
Harbinger_ Summons Bigger Fish Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: The Undercity, er I mean Somewhere. Posts: 1,388	The picture of the angel with the purple halo has been shown to be Slave of Bolas with art by Steve Argyle linked in this article on the wizards website. http://www.wizards.com/magic/magazin...g/daily/sf/33a Edit: Oh, the fat pack and booster box images got removed from Photobucket again in the first post. __________________ Decks in the Making Grixis Control Minister of Security: For a Dark Alley of No Importance Many Thanks to SB4 and the Crew at HLS!


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04-01-2009, 08:28 PM	#5
Sniffnoy Ascended Mage Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 257	"Aven Mimeomancer" is presumably our "Aven Mimic". "Ethercaste Knight", well, duh. "Bituminous Blast" is presumably what we've been calling "Tar Shards". "Pale Recluse" might be "Pale Priest-Spider", as a recluse is a type of spider. (Also "Soul Manipulation" might be our "Soulquake", but that seems to be a stretch.) And "Nemesis of Reason" is presumably the name for the 3/7 miller that Cantrip just spoiled.

04-09-2009, 01:42 PM	#9
JarethStormreaver Just Getting Started Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 8	Here are pictures of some of the cards in the spoiler. More to follow. Attached Thumbnails

04-09-2009, 01:43 PM	#10
JarethStormreaver Just Getting Started Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 8	Here are the others. Attached Thumbnails

04-09-2009, 04:35 PM	#12
propagandist Common Mage Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Henderson, NV Posts: 45	Knotvine Paladin Artwork

04-12-2009, 08:20 PM	#13
LordLorenSoth Just Getting Started Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Milano Posts: 2	some new ARB cards images Hello here are some new cards image enjoy Attached Thumbnails

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