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Old 03-19-2009, 06:29 PM   #1
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Default [ARB]Playmats/Card Art and names
Got a promotional e-mail from one of my local tourney organizers, asking people to preorder boxes of ARB, and they had images of 5 cards which will be made into 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


Looks like some sort of dual color artifact cycle, possibly manafixing.
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Old 03-19-2009, 06:32 PM   #2
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Yeah, looks like the colored artifacts have spread beyond esper.
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Old 03-19-2009, 06:32 PM   #3
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Very interesting, cool find!

These definitely look like mana fixers, probably tapping for mana as opposed to fetching lands...
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Old 03-19-2009, 06:33 PM   #4
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Old 03-19-2009, 06:35 PM   #5
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It seems like:
Mistvein = U/B
Fieldmist = W/U
Wildfield = G/W
Firewild = R/G
Veinfire = B/R
...not that it isn't clear from the art anyway

edit: right, shards work too
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Old 03-19-2009, 06:36 PM   #6
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That's pretty clever, marking where the shards are merging together. The backgrounds are quite nice.
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interestingly enough..

Mistvein Borderpost - Esper-Grixis
Fieldmist Borderpost - Esper-Bant
Wildfield Borderpost - Bant-Naya
Firewild Borderpost - Naya-Jund
Veinfire Bolderpost - Jund -Grixis

well another strong hint on how shards would ally each other in the new alara..
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This somehow beats the Shards of Alara and Conflux playmats by far!
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Old 03-19-2009, 06:40 PM   #9
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Yeah, looks like the colored artifacts have spread beyond esper.
Not that "Esper" exists in Alara, but if they produce wedge colors or 4 color, they'd still have w,u, and/or b in them.
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Not that "Esper" exists in Alara, but if they produce wedge colors or 4 color, they'd still have w,u, and/or b in them.
Seems pretty clear these are allied. Especially with the info we have so far.
Can these be enchantments? Is that a stretch?
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Old 03-19-2009, 06:47 PM   #11
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Anyone else notice that all the names share the same word structure?

Mistvein = mist + vein
Veinfire = vein + fire
Firewild = fire + wild
Wildfield = wild + field
Fieldmist = field + mist

From this, and if darkhiroki is correct, we can assume that:

Mist = Esper
Vein = Grixis
Field = Bant
Fire = Jund
Wild = Naya

And so:

Mistvein = Esper-Grixis
Fieldmist = Esper-Bant
Wildfield = Bant-Naya
Firewild = Naya-Jund
Veinfire = Jund -Grixis
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These are very nice.

If colored artifacts are spreading beyond Esper, I think that more or less conclusively proves that the other "shard mechanics" are doing so as well.
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Old 03-19-2009, 06:52 PM   #13
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Wonder if they will be like the Talisman of Unity cycle, I hope not pain mana is annoying.
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Old 03-19-2009, 06:54 PM   #14
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I'd guess something along the lines of:
Firewild Borderpost 1gr
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taddgrwb to your mana pool.
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Old 03-19-2009, 06:55 PM   #15
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Wildfield Borderpost looks epic, will have to get that mat and stop using my states 08 one.
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