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Maro's Zendikar Rising Teaser

Mark Rosewater gave his traditional teaser with the following hints.^[1]

First up, here are some things you can expect:

A white creature that can make an opponent lose the game simply by attacking them no matter how much life they have — Angel of Destiny
A multicolor creature that lets you repeatedly reanimate permanents out of your opponent’s graveyard for no mana — Zareth San, the Trickster
Three creatures with five creature types — Tajuru Paragon, Veteran Adventurer, and Stonework Packbeast
An artifact granting +2/+2 to a subset of creatures that first appeared in Alpha — colorless creatures (Forsaken Monument)
X being used for a variable it's never been used for before — party size (e.g. Cascade Seer)
A 6/6 artifact creature that costs 3 and a 7/5 artifact creature that can cost 3 — Relic Golem and Sea-Gate Colossus
The return of four mana symbols that have each only ever been used on two cards before — two-brid mana (Tazri, Beacon of Unity)
Lands that come with a choice you've never had before — Pathway lands and in general all modal double-faced cards have on land side in Zendikar Rising
Targeted enchantment removal in black — Feed the Swarm
A red/white creature with a line of rules text that starts with "Whenever" and ends with "draw a card" — Akiri, Fearless Voyager
A card with three different activated abilities that all copy something — Lithoform Engine

Here are snippets of rules text, you’ll see:

"three plus" — Skyclave Plunder
"different converted mana cost X or less" — Agadeem's Awakening
"equal to 20 minus" — Scourge of the Skyclaves
"Cowards can't block Warriors" — Kargan Intimidator
"don't lose unspent red mana" — Leyline Tyrant
"twice the number of Equipment" — Nahiri, Heir of the Ancients
"If it's the third time" — Omnath, Locus of Creation

And finally, here are some creature type lines you’ll see:

Mouse — Canyon Jerboa
Leviathan Crab — Charix, the Raging Isle
Shapeshifter Rogue — Glasspool Mimic
Demon Cleric — Taborax, Hope's Demise
Wurm Horror — Dreadwurm
Hydra Horror — Grakmaw, Skyclave Ravager
Cat Horror — Skyclave Shadowcat
Angel Wizard — Linvala, Shield of Sea Gate

References

↑ Mark Rosewater (August 27, 2020). "Maro's Zendikar Rising Teaser". Blogatog. Tumblr.

[1] Mark Rosewater (August 27, 2020). "Maro's Zendikar Rising Teaser". Blogatog. Tumblr.

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 * [[Cat]] Horror {{-}} <c>Skyclave Shadowcat</c>
 * [[Angel]] [[Wizard]] {{-}} <c>Linvala, Shield of Sea Gate</c>
-==Banned and Restricted cards==
-* <c>Omnath, Locus of Creation</c> was the fourth in the series of the ever-expanding Omnath legendary creatures, adding White mana to the Temur combination. Despite the four-color mana cost it became trivially easy to cast, and the base rate of a 4/4 that draws a card and gains 4 life every turn turned aggro from a traditionally bad matchup to a laughably easy one. Decks quickly built to exploit Omnath to its full potential, with <c>Lotus Cobra</c> managing the color requirements and <c>Escape to the Wilds</c> or <c>Genesis Ultimatum</c> being ways to continuously hit four or five land drops a turn, playing almost as a Storm deck. The deck was weakened with the <c>Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath</c> banning, but that merely took away one avenue of long-game inevitability, and controlling a deck with so much mana was nearly impossible. A second build hybridized Omnath with the Adventures deck, making a ramp strategy with enough interaction that only the pure Omnath ramp decks would overpower. After a 70% metagame domination at the 2020 Grand Finals, Omnath was banned alongside <c>Lucky Clover</c> (part of the Omnath Adventures shell) and <c>Escape to the Wilds</c>.
-==Miscellaneous==
-*<c>Charix, the Raging Isle</c> has the highest printed toughness of any [[Black border|black-bordered]] creature at 17.
-*Years seemingly have passed for the <c>Teeterpeak Ambusher</c>, improving his skills and equipment, but using the same method since he was a <c>Reckless Bushwhacker</c> in ''[[Rise of the Eldrazi]]'' and a just a young <c>Goblin Bushwhacker</c> in the ''[[Zendikar]]'' set.
-*Zendikar Rising is the first draft set since [[Scars of Mirrodin]] where no Auras were designed to be placed on one's own creatures due to the prevalence of "snap-on" Equipment.
-*<c>Skyclave Relic</c> is the first non-creature artifact with [[Indestructible|indestructible]] since <c>Darksteel Relic</c> from ''[[New Phyrexia]]'', around nine years after the latter was printed.
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Maro's Zendikar Rising Teaser

First up, here are some things you can expect:

Here are snippets of rules text, you’ll see:

And finally, here are some creature type lines you’ll see:

References

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First up, here are some things you can expect:

Here are snippets of rules text, you’ll see:

And finally, here are some creature type lines you’ll see:

References

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