Holiday Spoilers Are Not Prerelease Promos

Master Moja · 12-31-2012, 08:18 AM

I figured this was worthy information to post, considering everyone has thought that the five Holiday Spoilers were going to be the five Guild promos, but it turns out, they are not. If you look at the link here:

http://www.wizards.com/magic/tcg/pro...ucts/gatecrash

You can see easily that all of the cards mentioned for the Prerelease are going to be creatures. You can easily see the power and toughness boxes. My speculation on the actual cards is this.

Ozhov - Still looks like Treasury Thrull to me.
Dimir - Looks like a giant centipede, but we can't tell really.
Gruul - Looks like Rubblehulk.
Boros - Definitely a Flamekin, but as for the actual card, I can't tell.
Simic - Assuming it's Fathom Mage.

Well, I figured it was worth posting, so go ahead and discuss!

GenericUser · 12-31-2012, 08:23 AM

"Holiday Spoilers Are Not Prerelease Promos"

Actually, they are. Just not all of them.

Orzhov gets alt-art Treasury Thrull, Gruul gets alt-art Rubblehulk, Simic gets alt-art Fathom Mage.

YamiJoey · 12-31-2012, 08:23 AM

http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=474290

Already a discussion about this.

Verseau · 12-31-2012, 08:25 AM

2 things are for sure,
Dimir and Boros one is absolutely not the Holiday Spoiler

CommanderZ · 12-31-2012, 08:27 AM

The Fathom Mage alt-art looks awesome already! And the Boros thing looks kinda G.O.R.T-is.

EDIT:

Upscaled and sharpened the image:

Denegaar · 12-31-2012, 09:16 AM

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Originally Posted by CommanderZ

The Fathom Mage alt-art looks awesome already! And the Boros thing looks kinda G.O.R.T-is.

EDIT:

Upscaled and sharpened the image:

Awesome!

Clearly the Boros and the Dimir ones are different. It was pretty obvious that the last week ones weren't going to be the prerelease promos.

Master Moja · 12-31-2012, 09:24 AM

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Originally Posted by CommanderZ

The Fathom Mage alt-art looks awesome already! And the Boros thing looks kinda G.O.R.T-is.

EDIT:

Upscaled and sharpened the image:

Looks like the Dimir creature has two abilities, and the Boros creature has 3 or more. The last two abilities on him look like:

"(Cost) gains (ability) until the end of the turn."

Also, judging by the similarities in costs, it looks like the Boros card's Cmc is 6, and the Dimir one could maybe be 5? It's toughness looks like 7, but it's so hard to tell.

coolgriff14 · 12-31-2012, 09:35 AM

I just hope Boros has something awesome, definitely want to play as that guild at prerelease!

Master Moja · 12-31-2012, 11:25 AM

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Originally Posted by coolgriff14

I just hope Boros has something awesome, definitely want to play as that guild at prerelease!

It looks like a Flamekin! Flamekin Zealot style.

Crimson · 12-31-2012, 12:30 PM

My guess is that the boros card gets firebreathing and first strike as activated abilities for

or

.

Nobody Likes Nicol Bolas · 12-31-2012, 02:51 PM

Firemane Angel would have been a sick prerelease promo, but alas.

I still don't think Fathom Mage is sufficiently Timmy enough to be a promo, but I'm willing to be proven wrong.

Soulflame · 12-31-2012, 03:05 PM

The Boros one can still be the Firemane Avenger, because the part of the art that is shown can be the enemy which gets hit by the helix (sure looks like that anyway).
I think only the Dimir is different as they wanted a creature as the Prerelease promo, and creatures don't get the Cipher keyword... (and they wanted to show all the guild keywords last week).

**Drifting Skies** · 12-31-2012, 03:12 PM

I wonder if this might be a better image capture / upscale than the one that is already in the thread. (See attachment)

signofzeta · 12-31-2012, 03:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Soulflame

The Boros one can still be the Firemane Avenger, because the part of the art that is shown can be the enemy which gets hit by the helix (sure looks like that anyway).
I think only the Dimir is different as they wanted a creature as the Prerelease promo, and creatures don't get the Cipher keyword... (and they wanted to show all the guild keywords last week).

It is guaranteed that the Boros prelease promo is 100% not Firemane Avenger. You only need to compare the name and type line of both cards.

leslak · 12-31-2012, 03:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Drifting Skies

I wonder if this might be a better image capture / upscale than the one that is already in the thread. (See attachment)

i see the boros one as a 6CMCand 2 AA thats ends at the end of turn
and the dimir one looks like 5CMC with 2 A one of that with a mana symbol(dont can say for sure but i see a

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