Zendikar Mini-Site UP!

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w0w (!) . . . we have quite a post for you today. The following wondrous things are promised to be paraded before your hungry eyes before post's end. The Zendikar Mini-Site is now up and live on Wizards. This site provides information on flavour, the orb of insight, activities such as puzzles, a visual spoiler and product information.

There is a lot to cover, so buckle up and let's go . . .

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First off - Some Arts -

Armament Master,
From the Kor Army Zendikar Intro Pack

Turntimber Ranger, 3
From the Adventurers Zendikar Intro Pack

Now some other arts which we do not have any details on yet . . .










A big saucer of glowing milk ?

Very kewl terrain

The Map is the key.

Beetle girl loves insects.

New Zendikar wallpaper this week

Zendikar Orb of Insight (link HERE)

For those that have never had the chance to use it, you type in a word (or number) and the Orb tells you how many times that word appears on Zendikar cards. It doesn't count flavor text but you can enter numbers and mana abbreviations to try and figure out mana and activation costs.

In theory, if you entered every single word in the English language, plus the words and mana costs in Magic, you could put together every single word in the set. Except we know that there are some Magic-specific words that appear in Zendikar for the first time, so you'll probably want to enter in every possible string of letters, just to be safe.

Some Results to date . . .

Card Types: Instant - 39, Sorcery - 25, Enchantment - 29, Creature - 241, Artifact - 24, Land - 106, Planeswalker - 3, Basic - 43, Legendary - 4, Equipment - 11, Aura - 9, Plains - 21, Island - 20, Swamp - 19, Mountain - 19, Forest - 19

Creature Types / Sub-types: Angel - 6, Ally - 41, Archer - 4, Avatar - 1, Basilisk - 3, Beast - 11, Berserker - 4, Bird - 4, Cat - 4, Cleric - 6, Construct - 1, Demon - 2, Dragon - 1, Drake - 2, Druid - 2, Elemental - 13, Elf - 9, Fungus - 1, Human - 8, Giant - 5, Goblin - 17, Hound - 1, Illusion - 2, Insect - 3, Kor - 28, Kraken - 2, Merfolk - 12, Minotaur - 4, Octopus - 1, Rogue - 3, Scout - 8, Soldier - 9, Snake - 3, Soldier - 9, Sphinx - 5, Spirit - 2, Vampire - 20, Wizard - 6, Wolf - 1, Wurm - 1, Zombie - 4

Evergreen Mechanics: Deathtouch - 2, Defender - 2, Double - 5, Enchant - 8, Equip - 3, First - 7, Flying - 21, Forestwalk - 1, Haste - 6, Intimidate - 4, Landwalk - 1, Lifelink - 2, Mountainwalk - 1, Protection - 4, Reach - 1, Regenerate - 2, Shroud - 1, Strike - 6, Swampwalk - 1, Trample - 3, Unblockable - 1

Some speculations / other notes :
Keywords and Mechanics
- 'Expedition' (12 hits) ?
- 'Kicker' has 24 hits; 25 references to kicked ("Whenever a spell is kicked?")
- Trap 34, but 14 for "rather", so likely several traps that are NOT instants?
- Possible new mechanics for equipment and about the library? (11 equipment with 3 equip; 51 library)

Set Contents
- Chandra Ablaze's other two abilities do NOT deal damage. Only her +1 does.
- Land - 106 hits for the word is a considerable number, even counting Landfall and likely 40 uses for basic lands (full art and normal versions)
- Some 9 to 11 "quest" enchantment cards

Possible Reprints : Harrow, Ravenous Baloth, Mind Sludge