Rosewatta Stone

Before previews for The Hobbit officially begin, I thought it would be fun to do another of my Duelist-style teasers where I give tiny hints of things to come. Note that I’m only giving you partial information.

First up, here are some things you can expect:

• a bunch of Dwarf typal cards

• a mechanic from The Lord of the Rings returns with one small change

• some of the creature tokens: 1/1 Human Soldier, 4/4 white Bird Soldier, 6/6 red Dragon, 2/2 green Wolf, and 3/1 colorless Wall

• a card with affinity for Elves

• the biggest Bear we’ve ever printed

• a mechanic that’s a tweak of a faction mechanic that has been brought back in another premier set

• more Sagas that are songs

• a new type of counter created by a hackathon group looking to expand red’s slice of the color pie

• some cards will be able to have “an endearing story”

• a mechanic that’s the cross of two different mechanics that both premiered in a return set

Next, here are some rules text that will be showing up on cards:

• “{T}, Add {C} for each Halfling you control.”

• “you may pay {0} rather than pay the equip cost of the first equip ability you activate each turn.”

• “Whenever another legendary Elf you control enters,”

• “That player may search their library for that many basic land cards,”

• “reveal the top thirteen cards of your library.”

• “Whenever you sacrifice a token, target opponent loses 1 life.”

• “Other Bears you control get +2/+2.”

• “[CARDNAME] has all activated abilities of all [CARDNAME’S CREATURE TYPE] cards in your graveyard.”

• “Whenever a player loses life, that player mills that many cards,”

• “Whenever you attack with creatures with total power 12 or greater”

Here are some creature type lines from the set:

• Creature – Dog

• Creature – Rabbit

• Creature – Goblin Ranger

• Creature – Dragon Wurm

• Creature – Elf Bard

• Creature – Goblin Bard

• Legendary Creature – Dwarf Bard

• Legendary Creature – Elf Advisor

• Legendary Creature – Human Noble Archer

• Legendary Creature – Bear Shapeshifter Warrior

Finally, here are some names in the set:

• Confusticate and Bebother

• Dancing from Dark to Dawn

• Down, Down to Goblin-town

• Getaway Barrel

• Great Ugly-Looking Goblin

• Hobbit Hole

• Old Fat Spider

• Stone by Sunlight

• Troop of Ponies

• Well-Worn Spatula