#amonkhet speculation

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Gryffnwing’s top 5 predictions at what’s going to happen with Amonkhet

Since so much speculation is going on, I thought I’d jump in. Somethings I say might overlap what others have said, and that’s ok. Let’s see how many of us are right, and how many of us are wrong.  Let’s begin. 1) The Gods of Amonkhet, were made  or employed by Nicol Bolas. Given what little information we received in the battle between Liliana and Tezzeret. It’s noted that the plane was apparently made by the Elder Dragon. If this is the case, I foresee the Gods to be a means of gaining worship through obedience. If the case turns out that he didn’t make it, I could see the dragon manipulate these beings to helping him control the plane. Probably through a promise that they will always live on and be remembered. 2) The only Gate Watch characters to return in print form, are Gideon and Liliana. With Battle for Zendikar, and Shadows over Innistrad block cycling out in the fall set. Also with Nissa and Chandra being in Kaladesh; plus having it confirmed that they are cards in the set, that just leaves out Jace. I feel like Jace will be in the upcoming Fall Block. While Liliana had garnered more character development in SOI, this is a plane that looks like it gives respect to the dead. So I think Liliana will be enjoying the new attendants to her entourage. Gideon has only been depicted as the reckless leader. Now I think he has a calmer head, he is going to try to take on whatever challenges on his own. Perhaps thinking no one will die. In the story, I think he will resent the white-aligned God, due to Heliod. From there, he might do battle with one of them, before trying his hand at Bolas. 3) No one from the Gate Watch is going to die. This is something I’ve speculated on, and many others have debated. Still, I think the Gate Watch are going to lose harshly in this block, but I don’t think anyone is going to die. Yes, something might happen to Gideon; I feel more like he might have a form of PTSD, after fighting Sun God 2.0, and perhaps have a breakdown. Where we will see him talk to the Gate Watch about his ordeals. Secondly, perhaps we will see a death of a characters sense of self. Each goal the Gate Watch has won, was due to sheer luck, pity (Emerakul), or in the case of Kaladesh, things changed but we have no idea to what extent. This is the block where character confidence will be broken, where we might see characters slowly change how they operate, and what abilities are truly useful.  4) The returning mechanics and card cycles to this set will be Devotion; Gods are here, and this thematically makes sense for how Nicol Bolas does business. Secondly, I think we will see the return of Spell Mastery. Again, this fits in with how were are facing off against a Planeswalker with extensive knowledge of how to control a plane. The cycle of cards I see returning are the ally filter lands. Mostly due to the price tag they demand, and because our last block had enemy colored fast lands, so we don’t have the “perfect” mana base. We haven’t seen this cycle in almost 10 years, so it’s high time we see it again. 5) Oh, the last one. How exciting! The Gods are going to be shards colors. Gryff, are you dumb? How would that work? We don’t want more multi-colored legends! Plus, they might be jank, if that were the case! Calm down, I’ll explain. I think the Gods are going to be Mono-colored casting, but have activated abilities that use their ally/ enemy color pairings. The Sun God will be mono white, with either a Green/ Blue activated ability, or a White/ Green, and White/ Blue activated ability. This would allow us to see “Shard color Gods”, while still having a simplistic casting cost. Also, we haven’t seen many legends in the past few blocks do this. This might be a fun way of doing multi-colored legends in the future. So do you think I’m right? Wrong? Am I just a mad rambler? Comment below, and share around. Let’s see what Amonkhet gives us in April. First though, let’s hope Modern Masters 2017 gives us some nice reprints. Thanks as always for reading, and I’ll see you all in the next article. Gryffnwing~

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Me: *is obsessed with cycles and patterns while speculating for Magic: the Gathering* 

Magic Story: *mentions the number eight* 

Me: 

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I’m not necessarily saying these two cards will, or even should, be reprinted in Hour of Devastation. 

I’m just saying it sure would be a darned good flavorful combination if they were... 

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From earlier preview cards, we could surmize that the cat god of Amonkhet is named Oketra.

Thanks to this promotional material, we now know her full name:

Oketra The True

(Do you think that will be the name of her card?)

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Amonkhet Gods Speculation Variety Pack

Here’s a smattering of randomly assorted wild speculation and unfounded predictions about the gods of Amonkhet! (Seriously, I don’t have solid evidence for any of these.)

• They will NOT be enchantment creatures • They will NOT use the Devotion keyword • They WILL have additional creature types (“Cat God,” “Bird God,” etc) • They will be artificially created, but NOT artifact creatures (similar to created angels like Avacyn or Akroma) • They will be legendary creatures • They will NOT be lords (boosting other creatures by creature type) • They will be Mythic Rare • Each will have a weapon with its own card as a legendary artifact equipment • The legendary equipment will care about the colors of the corresponding god • None of the gods will be aware of the true nature of Nicol Bolas

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Have I mentioned yet that I think Amonkhet is going to finally give us official symbols/watermarks for the 3-color shard combos? (And that those icons will be based off the weapons/masks of the Amonkhet gods?)

Because that is TOTALLY a thing that I’ve been thinking about a LOT lately. 

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Question: Is this dude on the booster pack art the same person as the one walking up the steps? And if so, WHO IS HE?!