Worldwake

Worldwake is the second set in the Zendikar block and is the fifty-second Magic expansion. Prerelease events will be held January 30-31, 2010. Launch parties will be held February 5-7, 2010.

Set Details

Worldwake is like its predecessor Zendikar centered around lands. Thematically it emphasizes Manlands and cards that turn lands into creatures.

The promotional card given to participants at the Pre-release is Comet Storm, at the Release event is Joraga Warcaller, both highlighting multikicker.

Mechanics

While Kicker itself does not return, a variant of it called Multikicker is introduced. This variation allows for the kicker cost to be played multiple times with the repeated effect. Landfall also returns but does not solely mark triggered abilities anymore. Now some cards do additional static effects if a land came into play this turn. Allies, Vampires with their bloodied mechanic and the equipment theme to the Kor also return, as to Quests and Traps. New traps have new alternative costs; some decrease their costs depending on the magnitude of a certain event.

It is also thought that the set will feature a cycle of dual man-lands: Lands that can produce one mana of either of two allied colors and can be activated for one mana of each of those colors and an amount of unspecified mana to become a creature until end of turn. These lands come into play tapped.

The set also contains a new Planeswalker card representing Jace Beleren called Jace, the Mind Sculptor. The first planeswalker to have four abilities rather than the usual three and the first Planeswalker to have an ability that costs no loyalty to be added or subtracted to be activated. There will be no other Planeswalkers in the set.

Flavor

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A World Enraged

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Cycles

Worldwake has four cycles:

• Zendikon Cycle: A cycle of common Auras that turn lands into creatures and return the land to its owner's hand if it is put into a graveyard (as to not cause card disadvantage). — Wind Zendikon, Crusher Zendikon, Vastwood Zendikon.
• Quests: A cycle of rare Quests. — Quest for the Nihil Stone, Quest for Ula's Temple.
• Common Spell lands: Each of these common lands enter the battlefield tapped, taps for a color and has an appropriate enter-the-battlefield ability. — Bojuka Bog, Halimar Depths, Khalni Garden.
• Tapland Manlands: Six lands that can turn into creatures until end of turn. One rare for each allied color pair, able to produce either color and enters the Battlefield tapped. There is also one outlying uncommon land that turns into an artifact creature and produces colorless mana, Dread Statuary. — Celestial Colonnade, Creeping Tar Pits, Lavaclaw Reaches, Raging Ravine.

Reprinted Cards

The following cards have been reprinted from previous sets and included in Worldwake:

• Quicksand was last seen in 10th Edition.
• Smother was last seen in Onslaught.
• Twitch was last seen in 10th Edition.