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‘Dark Ascension’ — New Magic Product?

By ManaNation ⋅ October 12, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment ⋅ Print This Post

‘Dark Ascen­sion’ was filed on Sept. 29th, 2009 by Wiz­ards. The prod­uct descrip­tion is their stan­dard boiler plate that pro­vides lit­tle to no hint as to what it could per­tain to, but it was filed at the same time as Wiz­ards renewed the ‘Here I Rule’ TM they hold so we are led to believe it is Magic related.

Our best guesses:

  • Novel — It seems to be a pos­si­ble novel, and given the ‘Ascen­sions’ in Zendikar could prove to be some­how tied to the block, or per­haps to the final set of the block.
  • Stand­alone Prod­uct — This could be some unknown stand alone prod­uct, per­haps a deck or col­lec­tors item.
  • Name of a Set — We have yet to learn the offi­cial name of the third set in the Zendikar block. It has been com­monly believed to be ‘Rise of the Eldrazi’ but that name has never set well with me as it is so dras­ti­cally dif­fer­ent than the nam­ing scheme of pre­vi­ous sets. Per­haps this is it, ‘Dark Ascen­sion’ is the third set in Zendikar?

Comments

  1. I think it might have some­thing to do with Ob Nix­ilis, the Fallen, who is noted (in his fla­vor text) as being a planeswalker who has lost his spark. It could be the name of the novel, telling the story of him regain­ing his spark, or as you spec­u­lated it could be the set name. Obvi­ously I’m in the dark as well (no pun intended), but my hunch is that Dark Ascen­sion will relate in some way to the ascen­sion of Ob Nix­ilis to planeswalker status.

    Joseph Pasco | October 12, 2009, 10:53 am | #

  2. I don’t think he’ll get his spark back. I think, instead, he is the one who has acti­vated the Hedrons in order to free the Eldrazi and there­fore get the revenge he seeks.

    There are sev­eral other cards whose fla­vor text indi­cates the hedrons have only recently “awoken.” But, we’ll only see in time.

    Steve Floor | October 19, 2009, 12:56 pm | #

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