Kalitas is a 7 mana legend, which means it can do whatever it wants. Vampire Nighthawk is definitely very strong, but I would go so far as to say overpowered. It does strike me as being strong enough to be constructed playable, but we'll have to see.

Great Sable Stag has a 3 mana cost, has 3 quality abilities, and is a 3/3 creature...

I'd be more worried about the double striking Goblin Lackey or the new Force of Will that stops storm cards.

This rumour started last night and has now been confirmed thanks to international prereleases:
We don't know the rarity of this yet, but in some packs of Zendikar the basic land will be replaced with a card from the reserved list (These cards are not reprints, they are old copies that were inserted into the print run and are not in pack fresh condition). Cards that have been opened so far:
dual lands, mox diamond, mox jet, ancestral recall, lich, lion's eye diamond, and some others.

Oh, and if you open one of those in a sealed deck they aren't legal in that tournament.

For real. We ordered 3 more cases of Zendikar this morning to make sure we get stuff from the first shipment. Boxes are already minimum $120 on ebay, so this set is crazy.

And yeah, dead serious. So far the WORST old card someone has opened was Lich. There have now been sightings of The Abyss, Sinkhole, and Mox Pearl as well as more dual lands (Dunno what edition). It has now been confirmed that, while the distribution is random, it will work out that there will be aproximately 1 old card per 20 boxes, which is actually really good odds. Also, there has been at least one box found to have 2 old cards in it.

Just as an update: Should've mentioned in the last post, but the inclusion of Sinkhole shows that the cards do NOT need to be on the reserved list. The only qualification is that the cards are old and awesome. I'd hate to have to open a pack with a foil fetch land and a Beta Chaos Orb in the same pack! What to choose!

Very much really. The question is: is "priceless treasure" a block theme or just for Zendikar? Will we see legacy staples in Worldwake and foil extended stapes in Prosper?

No one has opened one yet, but Black Lotus is now confirmed as one of the 90ish different vintage cards that you can open.

Yeah, the Candelabra was near mint and the Mox Pearl was very fine. These are very much the original ones just being recirculated.

Black Zarak wrote:

That's retarded. I'd love to open something crazy, but this pretty much ensures I'll never even see Zendikar packs in the wild and probably have to pay a huge mark up for them in hobby shops. Gay.

Wizards was actually able to keep this secret until the prerelease. Wizards was also sold out of Zendikar 3 weeks before the prerelease and boxes were already $110 online WITHOUT this information. The set is selling itself, this is just a bonus.

Also, if you can get a working car or if the roomies wanna come down, we'll be damned sure to keep it in stock for drafts and to have packs out there. Afterall, did we ever let you down with M10? And we weren't even prepared for that one! We doubled our initial order this time around.

Syd Lexia wrote:

Between traps and landfall, this set is massively unfun for draft/sealed. MASSIVELY.

You've done a single sealed event with what you said you felt was a mediocre card pool. Let's not make blanket statements about the entire format based on that yet.

We now know 61 of the 90ish different cards. While most of them are awesome, you can pull a total piece of shit like Hecatomb.*.


*Note: I love Hecatomb, but it's worth like 50 cents so I'd be pissed if that was my "priceless treasure".

Wait, so what you guys are saying is that in sealed deck whoever gets the best sealed pool wins? That's true in every set. In M10 whoever gets more removal and bomb flyers wins.