Friday, August 07, 2015

3 Reasons why I believe that the new land cycle for Battle for Zendikar may not be Enemy-Colored Manlands [Flash!]

So with the apparent news, everyone went bananas. Zendikar Fetches spiked back to their "original" prices and Khans fetches are soon to follow the trend. Damn that wasted opportunity to find that one Arid Mesa... I am still in need of that as a singleton. Nevertheless, life moves on. And, so does card prices. 
Here is the thing; earlier I posted on twitter remarking that since the dual lands in BFZ expansion is confirmed not to be the enemy-cycle fetchlands, then what can else can it be? The first thought that I have and am sure many have already guessed, Enemy-colored Manland cycle. 
However, I have 3 reasons why I don't think it is
  1. It is too easy... (to predict)
    Other than Shocklands prediction in the Return to Ravnica block, Did you actually guess correctly what lands are going to be printed or created in a new expansion? How did you know that Innistrad, a completely new block at that time, is going to contain a cycle of enemy checklands? Likewise, how did you know that Theros block will give you the incredibly controversial scrylands?
    My point here is that if it's something that was so easily predicted, the anticipation and the hype behind the set is not really worth right? Remember how the anticipation and hype for Khans was rather mediocre until the reveal of the Allied-Fetches? Yes, it's something we want, but because it was also because it wasn't expected!
  2. Looking at the colour fixing, the new cycle has to be Allied color
    Note that the rotation of the sets will occur when BFZ is released. We're losing the scrylands from Theros. What is left are the enemy cycle of Painlands from Magic Origins, Allied Fetchlands and, if you wish to include, the gain-life tapped lands from Khans of Tarikir.
    But note that whatever the land cycle in BFZ must survive 2 rotations as the transition from a two 3-block set to a three 2-block set. Hence, they still must cater to the loss of khans fetchlands, which means, the Allied colors will require the necessary mana fixing.

  3. Read in between the lines
    The key-phrase here is this phrase: "but they’re brand new designs..." If we define brand new designs as it is, it means these land cycles are NOT yet printed. Yes, Enemy-coloured Manlands are considered new, but read in between the lines. The highlight is brand new. Passing off the Enemy Manland cycle as a brand new is really misleading.

    Bonus: in the same reasons, I believe that the Enemy Fetchlands / Man-lands is possibly in the 2nd expansion of Battle for Zendikar Block.

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