M14 (Baseless Speculation and Spoilers)

[prayos]

New Garruk + {Doubling Season}. Super broken.

[Quisequise]

They won't reprint doubling season because of planeswalkers. Words from the great MaRo himself.

[prayos]

Still legal in Modern though.

[Kaleo42]

{Duress} means probably no {Thoughsieze} I think

This is true

[Rass]

Did they give a card count on how many cards in this set

[Birdbrain]

I see an archetype named "Jonah" which centers around the collosal whale emerging

And why is goblin diplomats the only full art card?

[Birdbrain]

Or maybe it will be inspired by Herman Melviles book, or something

[Kagain123]

Did they give a card count on how many cards in this set

249 cards

[Dudecore]

It's possible to have both of them, but extremely unlikely because of limited. It would be rather silly to repeat what is conceivably a worse effect ({Thoughtseize}) compared to {Duress}. One has to imagine that the target demo of the core set (new players) really wouldn't understand why {Thoughtseize} was even a rare while they have {Duress} that doesn't hurt them.

New players HATE paying life for anything, they don't understand the point. Eventually they learn the benefits and why life is just another resource you use to reduce your opponent to 0 - {Thoughtseize} seems like it would grade especially low amongst new player market research.

[JustAWalrus]

When i started just a while ago i didn't understand the point of shock lands so i traded them all to my friends for guildgates. That was really stupid of me.

[Dudecore]

{Thoughtseize} has potential in an expert expansion. It doesn't have a thematic name (unlike {Jarad's Orders} which make zero sense outside of the Ravnica context). It doesn't fit into a core set because of the previously stated demographic for those sets. Here's hoping Theros holds its future.

[prayos]

And why is goblin diplomats the only full art card?

It's one of the Game Day promos.

[All-Mana Mania]

I think we will see another planeswalker in the set, and I have a decent feeling its ramaz. Just because since we're following chandra it seems right lol.

[5/9 Turtle]

Who's ramaz

[Wackaman9001]

I believe its chandras old teacher