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8.27.2009

Zendikar Release Promos

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Big news from Digga on the forums . .

This art appears on the pre-release / launch party poster with Rampaging Baloths. Unfortunately, we have only partial text on the one card.


The safe / unobscured card we already know from a previous post . . .

Rampaging Baloths, 4
Creature - Beast, Mythic Rare
Trample
Landfall - Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, you may put a 4/4 green Beast creature token (onto the battlefield)
6/6


And the new card . . .

Valakut, the Molten Pinacle
Land, Rare
Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle enters the battlefield tapped.
Whenever a Mountain enters the battlefield under your control, as long as you control 5 other Mountains, Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle deals 3 damage to target creature or player.
: Add to your mana pool.


EDIT : This post was updated only 15 minutes with full card information - the following was speculation previously posted (so disregard eh.)

We can deliberate some assumptions for Valakut :

* Valakut is not a common. As it is safe to assume that Valakut is the Release / Launch promo card, it will be either a rare or a mythic rare.

* We may also assume the following card text given the partial wording . . . "Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle enters the battlefield tapped."

* There is a conditional line starting with "W", and we think it safe to say that the word here is 'When'.

* The 'When' is not likely to be associated with a 'kicker' cost as this would be another line above the conditional.

* T: Add R (or RR?) to your mana pool. Valakut obviously produces red mana '
' given the standard mountain card frame.


Some Valakut Speculation . . .

'When Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle enters the battlefield, acrifice it unless you return a land you control to its owner's hand.'

'When Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle enters the battlefield, you may search your library for a Plains card and put it onto the battlefield tapped. If you do, shuffle your library.'

'When Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle becomes tapped, it deals 1 damage to target creature or opponent'.

> Pipe in and provide a speculation in the comment thingy below !

4 comments:

  1. Good guesses but its been confirmed!:

    http://www.gatheringmagic.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/Valakut-the-Molten-Pinnacle-214x3001.png

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  2. Yikes! I want both!! A land that can act as a pinger for free? Nice!

    I'm already salivating over the Baloth, especially since green makes it easy to get lands into play. Scapeshift + Rampaging Baloths = "teh nutz".

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  3. I agree. I want both of them! Blarg! I don't suppose we know which is going to be given out where yet, do we? It seems likely lately the Mythic was always the pre-release card, but will that hold true here, too?

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  4. COOPEINSTIEN8/31/2009 4:25 AM

    HOW COULD IT BE CONFIRMED thats a made card..you can see the corner of the baloth card in the cards picture... god you people are redic... i mean i hope its right but that pic does not confirm it

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