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Old 09-01-09, 21:34   #1
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[ZEN] Orb of Insight

I stole the stats from Sally. (too busy at work to get the info myself).

Really looking at a land block so let's see what we get.


SPECULATION/DATA INFERENCES:

- Land block hoooo! (106 hits for the word is a LOT, even counting Landfall.)
- Reprint of Harrow.
- 15 "quest" cards.


Card Types:

Instant - 39
Sorcery - 25
Enchantment - 29
Creature - 241
Artifact
Land - 106
Planeswalker - 3
Basic - 43
Legendary - 4
Equipment - 11
Plains - 21
Island - 20
Swamp - 19
Mountain - 19
Forest - 19


Creature Types:

Angel - 6
Ally - 41
Beast - 11
Demon - 2
Dragon - 1
Drake - 2
Elf - 9
Faerie - 0 (byeeee)
Human - 8
Goblin - 17
Insect - 3
Kor - 28
Knight - 0
Merfolk - 12
Octopus - 1
Rogue - 3
Soldier - 9
Sphinx - 5
Spirit - 2
Troll - 0
Vampire - 20
Wurm - 1


Numbers and Power/Toughness:

1 - 28
2 - 25
3 - 9
4 - 12
5 - 11
6 - 4
7 - 2
8 - 2
9 - 0
10 - 3
Eight - 1
0/1 - 1
0/2 - 1
0/3 - 2
0/4 - 2
1/1 - 21
1/2 - 4
1/3 - 3
1/4 - 1
1/5 - 1
8/8 - 3


Costs:

WWW - 1
2WWW - 1
3WWW - 1
6WWW - 1
3UUU - 1
5UUU - 1
BBB - 2
2BBB - 1
3BBB - 1
1RRR - 1
3GGG - 1


Rules Text:

Add - 19
Additional - 27
Cost - 2
Counter - 37
Counters - 23
Exile - 6
Exiled - 1
Graveyard - 21
Loss - 2
White - 4
Blue - 2
Black - 4
Red - 4
Green - 5
Token - 12


Mechanics:

Burn - 1
Double - 5
Flying - 21
Haste - 6
Kicker - 24
Kicked - 25
Landfall - 16
Trap - 34 (Keep in mind we'll likely have non-trap cards referencing "Trap".)
Unblockable - 1


Proper Nouns / Misc. Text:

Blood - 5
Crucible - 0
Exploration - 0
Harrow - 2
Molten - 5
Nimbus - 1
Quest - 45
Rain - 0
River - 2
Time - 1
Warren - 5


Zendikar (Set) Specific:

Eldrazi - 2
Emeria - 5
Hedron - 3
Zendikar - 1
Nissa - 2
Sorin - 3
Electropotence - 1
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Old 09-01-09, 23:20   #2
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The orb is always interesting. But it's a pretty cruel way to spoil cards.

15 quests? That's a lot! And so many lands and basic land types. This is gonna be pretty cool.
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Yeah when I get more time tomorrow night/thursday night I'll try and see what cards I like get reprinted. Hopefully cool things.
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Old 09-02-09, 03:28   #4
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The most surprising thing that I've seen currently (that isn't here is 75 for put. That is a massive number, and heavily suggests a full cycle of fetches (come on!)

More "proof": 26 for sacrifice. 16 for search.

What, we have 75 for put, but only 16 for search.

And maybe not a full cycle. 0 for "Windswept".
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I like the sound of "Electropotence" - I hope it doesn't suck.
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Some things I noted from playing around with the Orb:

Kor - 28 (Not bad. This suggests at least 7-8 Kor cards)
Dragon - 1 (One obligatory Dragon. )

Landfall - 26 (This is pretty good considering that Landfall only comes up once per card its on).
Kicker - 24 (This makes up a good chunk of cards as well, seeing that the word kicker is not repeated on the cards anymore due to he new wording)
Planeswalker - 3 (Sorin, Chandra Ablaze, and ???)
Legendary - 4
Equipment - 11 (That's a lot)
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Planeswalker - 3 (Sorin, Chandra Ablaze, and ???)
Nissa which has been known to be in the set for a long time
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Another thing that has been found: Cancel is in the set. Meh. They seem to like cutting interesting design space for limited playability.
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