Time Spiral Speculation

[turgy22]

From Rosewater's article today:

Here, my faithful readers, are a few things that you'll find in Time Spiral:

an angel that costs two mana (yes, that angel, and no she's not some wimpy 2/2)
a female legend that players have been begging us to do for a long time
a new hermit with a love of tokens and an old keyword (but not the same one)
a direct damage spell that can do 5 damage for a single red mana
a new Lotus (oh wait, you've already seen that one)
a Power Nine card with buyback
a card with the word “squirrel” in its rules text
a legend who uttered one of the most popular lines of flavor text of all time
and a cycle of artifact mana sources that turn into creatures from the Reserved List
And finally, a few juicy card names for you to chew on:

Liege of the Pit
Magus of the Candelabra
Stuffy Doll
Vesuvan Shapeshifter
Wheel of Fate

That's a lot of weird information to chew on, so I thought it might be fun to throw out some speculation as to what some of these cards might be. Here's my thoughts:

1) Female legend - Serra? I couldn't think of any others. It comes up as 2 in the Orb.

2) A power nine with buyback - This one intrigues me the most. Obviously, it won't be any of the artifacts. Based on the high cost of Whispers of the Muse, I suspect that it's not a variation on Ancestral Recall. Any buyback cost on Time Walk would be outright broken, which makes me suspect that Time Twister got the reprint. My guess is that it's buyback cost will make it similar to Diminishing Returns (e.g. Buyback: Remove the top ten cards of your library from the game.) to balance it out.

3) Stuffy Doll - I think this is a reference to the doll from old staple cards like Black Vise, The Rack and Cursed Rack. Surely has something to do with hand size. Maybe it's a creature that makes you discard every time he's damaged. Or maybe he has some size variation depending on your hand size (e.g: a 4/4 creature if you have exactly 4 cards in hand. Gets -1/-1 for every card over or under 4)

Anyone else have baseless conjecture to chime in with?

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[Limited]

1) The female Legend is going to be Jaya Ballard, or so I've heard.

2) Timewalk. With a buyback cost of sacrificing something.. like three creatures or something.

3) The stuffed doll image contains a red Skull and an a green Flame, possible indicating some kind of manacolor screwing... (my conjecture, totally)

 

[DarthFerret]

I wonder if the "Squirrel" text is a Legend or Lord or something that Gives all Squirrels first strike, or flying (that would be cool, flying squirrels)....

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[Mooseman]

I wonder if the "Squirrel" text is a Legend or Lord or something that Gives all Squirrels first strike, or flying (that would be cool, flying squirrels)....

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Rocky!!!!!!

 

[Oversoul]

Female legend - Serra? I couldn't think of any others. It comes up as 2 in the Orb.

Serra was a planeswalker. And they already made Serra Avatar...

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[Nightstalkers]

[quote="Mark Rosewater]a legend who uttered one of the most popular lines of flavor text of all time [/quote]

I'm just going to say this to screw with you guys: Saffi Eriksdotter

 

[Limited]

"Ach Hans run!"

 

[DarthFerret]

The chic killed by the Llughorff? Really?

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[Limited]

That's what "people" are "saying" ..

(Lhurgoyf)

 

[Nightstalkers]

Well, it is a nice rumor to spread.


And besides, it is a famous line in magic.

 

[orgg]

What? Jaya Ballard wasn't killed by a 'goyf!

That's rediculous!

 

[Nightstalkers]

http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=magic/timespiral2/creative1

SOMEONE BROKE MY WHEEL!!!!


(about time they used the pic)

 

[Spiderman]

No one's saying Jaya was killed by the 'goyf. Just a difference in opinion from Limited saying the female Legend is Jaya while Nightstalkers was thinking Saffi (although NS was using a different hint for it, so they could actually both be in it! )

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[Limited]

That's right.. I think they are both in there:

a female legend that players have been begging us to do for a long time

This would be Jaya

a legend who uttered one of the most popular lines of flavor text of all time

And this would be Saffi.

 

[Nightstalkers]

Then again, I am just spreading rumors about the internets.

I'd also like to spread the rumor that there is a new academy land...


Academy Ruins

 

[jorael]

More and more info is gathered at Salvation. Based on what is known I was thinking:
"What if a design team would be discussing block interaction. Spirits in Ravnica to boost Kamigawa block, etc. Wouldn't it be very cool to create a block that has interaction with all other previous blocks? And perhaps even maybe some future blocks, if that could be done?"

Kobolds, assembly workers, old mechanics. THis seems to be the case. I'm starting to have hope that we'll see some Arcane spells

 

[Nightstalkers]

ROFL!

They changed the urza's factory to 7 mana to push out a 2/2 assembly worker instead of the 5 they had in playtesting. The artwork isn't all that great though...