I'm guessing 'Student of Warfare' is the horseborn rider on one of the intro packs. Not sure about the Surrakar looking thing; maybe Gigantomancer...
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Makes me wonder if Leveler's ability would have some kind of play in the Leveler mechanic. Not sure how that would work though...
Maybe some kind of watered down version of Leveler like:
Eldrazi Pimp-Slap - 2W
Instant
Leveler 4 (As you cast this spell you may remove 4 cards from the top of your library)
Remove target creature from the game. If you paid the Leveler cost, remove two creatures from the game instead.
Leveler's Glory
Leveler's Scorn
Invading Spawn
Eldrazi Arisen
Totem Power
do we know which intro packs are which colors? i can easily tell (from the pics in the fat pack/intro pack picture thread) that Leveler's Glory is the UW one and Leveler's Scorn is the UB. and according to Captain Black the intro packs are all allied-color combos, so GW, GR, and RB are the other three, do we know which is which yet?
Gigantomancer
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Drana, Kalastria Bloodchief
Sphinx of Magosi
Student of Warfare
Conquering Manticore sounds really interesting seeing as there hasn't been a manticore in a long while (unless they tweaked the name to Masticore for a little). and yay another sphinx! if it turns out to be an artifact creature or has abilities that do anything with artifacts, it's so going in my Sharuum the Hegemon EDH. another bloodchief is cool, i'm not the hugest fan of the sudden "let's force black mages to use vamps for a while" thing, but it's not so bad.
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Given that Leveler is supposed to permanently increase the stats of the creature that activates it, I could see Gigantomancer giving other creatures--perhaps a whole team--Leveler.
I'm sure this set will have the ability to sac creatures to add mana to your pool for the purpose of casting these spells. Gigantomancer could be just that.
A cooler mechanic would be to give blue a bounce + add mechanic. Return target creature you control to it's owners hand. It's owner adds mana equal to half the CMC round down to his mana pool. This mana can only be used to pay for colorless eldrazi spells.
What do you think totem armor is? Pay 1 to prevent the sacrifice of this creature?
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For being so bent on saying how "THIS IS NOT ZENDIKAR! THE SET JUST TAKES PLACE THERE!" There sure is a lot of throwbacks! I sure wouldn't mind seeing more Vamps, just wasn't expecting there to be many!
Is it confirmed that "leveler" is the actual name of the mechanic?
I don't think it's the name of the mechanic, since I'm italian and i have seen the italian names of both Leveler's Glory and Leveler's Scorn, and they have the word Leveler translated in "Livellatore".
Which is exactly the translation of Leveler
And Livellatore in italian has nothing to do with the levels. It means "something that reduce all to the same level"
Something like that:
So, given that names I think that they have nothing to do with that particular mechanic
Recent discussions here and elsewhere have made it clear that there seems to be a group of players who consider blue and control synonymous, as if they somehow started playing a game with four identical and "bad" colors that do nothing interesting because they just "turn men sideways" and then true, glorious blue, the only thinking person's color.
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Hmm, the context of the hint does make it seem like MaRo was talking about leveler/level up. Is there any way to make the hint make sense with Totem Armor?
Edit - Doesn't really look like it, to me. The "to improve their goblins and goblins" part doesn't particularly work with auras.
Power and toughness? I'd think it does.
My idea of totem armor:
"totem armor 4: when you play this put 4 copies of this on enchanted creature"
enchanted creature gets blah if enchanted by x or more auras. "
Another way to make annihilate less devastating.
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I don't think it's the name of the mechanic, since I'm italian and i have seen the italian names of both Leveler's Glory and Leveler's Scorn, and they have the word Leveler translated in "Livellatore".
Which is exactly the translation of Leveler
And Livellatore in italian has nothing to do with the levels. It means "something that reduce all to the same level"
Something like that:
So, given that names I think that they have nothing to do with that particular mechanic
Za Warudo would be an awesome mechanic! A little similar to split second though.
do we know which intro packs are which colors? i can easily tell (from the pics in the fat pack/intro pack picture thread) that Leveler's Glory is the UW one and Leveler's Scorn is the UB. and according to Captain Black the intro packs are all allied-color combos, so GW, GR, and RB are the other three, do we know which is which yet?
Logically, given the information in your post, they have to be:
UW Leveler's Glory UB Leveler's Scorn RB Invading Spawn GW Eldrazi Arisen GR Totem Power
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Intro Pack names, colors, and card names of cards in them:
Leveler's Glory - WU - contains Student of Warfare (a creature with Leveler)
Leveler's Scorn - UB - contains Sphinx of Magosi
Invading Spawn - BR - contains Drana, Kalasria Bloodchief
Eldrazi Arisen - RG - contains Conquering Manticore
Totem Power - GW - contains Gigantomancer
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I'm guessing 'Student of Warfare' is the horseborn rider on one of the intro packs. Not sure about the Surrakar looking thing; maybe Gigantomancer...
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Maybe some kind of watered down version of Leveler like:
Eldrazi Pimp-Slap - 2W
Instant
Leveler 4 (As you cast this spell you may remove 4 cards from the top of your library)
Remove target creature from the game. If you paid the Leveler cost, remove two creatures from the game instead.
Yessss! Then some vampires will see the light
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Probably the same as Channel with channel - i.e. none.
Cool to have the names. I will be delighted to see another vampire legend.
The Leveler's Glory is UW and the Scorn is UB, as seen here.
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Its the name of an 8/8 Trample obv.
Oh and let me say, they better not reprint Leveler or its going to be REALLY confusing....
Maybe its just bad translation? I hope so, because Gigantomancer is a terrible name for a card.
do we know which intro packs are which colors? i can easily tell (from the pics in the fat pack/intro pack picture thread) that Leveler's Glory is the UW one and Leveler's Scorn is the UB. and according to Captain Black the intro packs are all allied-color combos, so GW, GR, and RB are the other three, do we know which is which yet?
Conquering Manticore sounds really interesting seeing as there hasn't been a manticore in a long while (unless they tweaked the name to Masticore for a little). and yay another sphinx! if it turns out to be an artifact creature or has abilities that do anything with artifacts, it's so going in my Sharuum the Hegemon EDH. another bloodchief is cool, i'm not the hugest fan of the sudden "let's force black mages to use vamps for a while" thing, but it's not so bad.
Decks (all casual at this point)
GW(R) Equipment
GBW Treefolk
U Sanity Grinding
U 16 Lord Merfolk
R burn, devastating summons/goblin bushwhacker
W Light From Within
G Wolves
A cooler mechanic would be to give blue a bounce + add mechanic. Return target creature you control to it's owners hand. It's owner adds mana equal to half the CMC round down to his mana pool. This mana can only be used to pay for colorless eldrazi spells.
What do you think totem armor is? Pay 1 to prevent the sacrifice of this creature?
Plus, MaRo's Goblin-hidden-text thingie pretty much confirms that the mechanic has two words in its name.
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YES!!!!! I've been waiting for a new Manticore FOREVER! Especially since there hasn't been one since I started playing(Judgment).
Can NOT wait to see some artwork for that bad mammajamma.
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I don't think it's the name of the mechanic, since I'm italian and i have seen the italian names of both Leveler's Glory and Leveler's Scorn, and they have the word Leveler translated in "Livellatore".
Which is exactly the translation of Leveler
And Livellatore in italian has nothing to do with the levels. It means "something that reduce all to the same level"
Something like that:
So, given that names I think that they have nothing to do with that particular mechanic
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Your argument is valid... So I have to give the possibility that this is a typical example of "very very bad translation for a mechanic"
(even although Livellatore is used in Italian particularly after the great MMORPG diffusion to indicate "someone who is leveling up")
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I strongly hope that the translators didn't use the term in that way...
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Probably not. they want Gigantomancer so you can cast Gigantiform on it
And woot! finally another manticore!
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Power and toughness? I'd think it does.
My idea of totem armor:
"totem armor 4: when you play this put 4 copies of this on enchanted creature"
enchanted creature gets blah if enchanted by x or more auras. "
Another way to make annihilate less devastating.
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Za Warudo would be an awesome mechanic! A little similar to split second though.
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Logically, given the information in your post, they have to be:
UW Leveler's Glory
UB Leveler's Scorn
RB Invading Spawn
GW Eldrazi Arisen
GR Totem Power
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BTW, I'll note that the last time we had a 'level up' mechanic was... Kamigawa? Flip cards?