Khans of Tarkir... The new something?

Some previews regarding Khans of Tarkir has recently been revealed. The information is easily found in MTG Salvation website so I will take no credit for the information.  The main article can be found here.

In just a quick summary, 

• Khans of Tarkir will be in a plane that was torned by Warlords. (Some sort of separation?)
• Dragons that used to roam the planes are dead (undead Dragons? graveyard mechanic?)
• Sarkan is involved in the plane (New Sarkan planeswalker variant!)
• 2 things that the MTG players always wanted; 1 new, 1 old
• There may be a reference to a wedge. (Wedge colours?)

Now, I'll give a quick discussion on the first 3 points; Khans of Tarkir will feature Warlords and the plane is torned by war. Dragons used to roam, but now dead. From the first point, I can infer that there may be some sort of mythic rare or rare legendary creature that will feature these Warlords. If we were to do some research, Khans are a formal title given to a ruler from Mongolia. So... We can make some sort of references to Mongolia? (Theros made some references from the Greek mythology.. So hey! We can start guessing from there?)

Marked in red is Mongolia. It's basically surrounded.

Geographically speaking, Mongolia is landlocked. Meaning that it is completely surrounded by other countries. If I were to make a wild story out of how Khans of Tarkir would turn out based on the geography, My wild guess would be 5 Warlords from the plane are living in their own territories before a fight break out to conquer more territories. If any references can be made directly from that, it would be Genghis Khan right? He was the Khan of Khans. So if any loose relations, these Warlords would probably want to claim the title of a supreme ruler, hence started to wage a huge war. 

The colours of these Warlords may follow the wedge colours of the colour pie. Now as to why wedge colours? Strategically speaking, it would be more wise to attack the opposing team than your own neighbors right? Even more logical that you have an ally on an opposing side, so in the end, you have a neighbouring ally and an ally at the opposing side to help fend off attacks. So with that description, it will match the wedge colours. But, if you think about it, if every Warlord have these kind of "wedge" alliance, then the war would be messy isn't it?

As for the Dragons? These dragons were killed by the Warlords before the war. (Wiki it up!) As they are some kind of mythical creatures, maybe there has to be some sort of ways to revive them to help end the war or help unify the Warlords. In the same line, Sarkan Vol will have an impact to the storyline as far as the dragons are concerned. Heck, he may even be a Khan or a Shaman originally before getting the planeswalker spark!

Now for the second point, I'm merely giving a strong speculation that dragons will appear. As they have been slain or hunted, this may mean that some sort of legendary artifact or ground that has some relation to the dragons' killing. There may be like a mechanic or two that allows some interaction with the graveyard. Maybe more form of reanimation or effects that occurs that when a card is a graveyard. (Threshold, dredge as recurring mechanic? Or some new mechanic?)

Sarkan will return and well... Sarkan, being Sarkan, will have some sort of affinity with dragons. He would be some sort of R/B planeswalker. So far we have mono and bi-coloured planeswalker. Will we have a tri-coloured planeswalker?

We know the Shard colours from the Alara block; Wedge colours made an appearance once, but little emphasis on the development of the characteristics of the different wedge colours had been placed. We had a strong characteristic development for the shards colour, giving us relevant flavour, creature abilities and mechanics that helps the shards to emphasize their uniqueness, but for the wedge colours... let's just say more could be done.

As mentioned, 2 things as to what the players want. My question to you all is, what do you all want from this set? My guess would be reprints that everyone very much anticipated or may unexpected but would definitely want. I'm speculating some sort of lands that helps tri-colours. Whether or not its in wedge colours, I'm guessing a tri-colour rare land for all combinations; both shards and wedge colour. 

Reprint of onslaught or zendikar fetchlands is a very hot discussion. I'm wanting a reprint for Tarmagoyf actually. In fact, I'd rather see Tarmagoyf reprint than fetchlands. 

More speculation articles

• General speculation mill
• General speculation 2
• Token based strategies
• Something old?

More to be updated when more information comes. In the meantime, start anticipating!