First Rise of the Eldrazi Spoiler

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If you have not already, we suggest you make tracks over to Wizards right now (after reading our post of course) and check out today's Magic Arcana (linky HERE).

We received our very first Rise of the Eldrazi Spoiler (full card) in this very neat and creative animation. Essentially, you click on the Eye itself in the Eye of Ugin art and then something very wonderful happens - An Eldrazi (somewhat irritated by being imprisoned for so long), starts wrecking the screen - great job Wizards !



Anywhoos - Here is the clip from today's article - The Secrets of the Eye : Daily MTG : Magic: The Gathering . . .

The Eye of Ugin.

What is it, really? The flavor text of Ghostfire says "Only those gifted with the eye of Ugin, the spirit dragon, can see his fiery breath."

But that makes it sound like a physical eye. Which is only fair. After all, Ugin presumably has (or is it had?) at least one eye, whoever he is.

But what about the legendary land? What is it? Where is it? And what secrets does it hold? Well, we're about to show you.

First you'll get a good look at the Eye of Ugin, then, when your curiosity has consumed you and you absolutely can take no more suspense, go ahead and click on it. But beware! Because the secrets of the Eye are not for the faint-hearted!


Kozilek, Butcher of Truth, 10
Legendary Creature - Eldrazi, Mythic Rare
When you cast Kozilek, Butcher of Truth, draw four cards.
Annilihator 4 (Whenever this creature attacks, defending player sacrifices four permanents.)
When Kozilek is put into a graveyard from anywhere, its owner shuffles his or her graveyard into his or her library.
12/12
6/248

OK - Let's just let that settle in for a moment . .

Right - It's a whopping 12/12 for 10 mana - so it's well into the 'fatty' range. Also - it's a legendary creature so we know the EDH folks out there are already evaluating it. It doesn't take a dirt nap but simply gets shuffled back into your library WITH everything else that happens to be in there at that time.

The mechanic spoiler - 'Annihilator' - very decent - you swing and then defending player sacs critters - very tough to defend against this.

And finally - check out the card number - "6/248" - what the heck does this mean ??? At this location, one is usually still expecting white cards - at least until the 23rd or 24th slot in the set. Can this mean that we are looking at an entirely colourless set ?? We don't think so as we were under the impression that Rise of the Eldrazi was meant to be a set that could be drafted by itself.

Big questions here - drop in a comment and let's start speculating . . .

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