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‘Prosper,’ Zendikar’s 3rd Set is ‘Rise of the Eldrazi’

By ManaNation ⋅ November 6, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment ⋅

To many of us this isn’t going to be news, ‘Rise of the Eldrazi’ (short­ened to ‘RoE’) had been dis­cov­ered at the same time as ‘World­wake’ but it took a while longer to be accepted as the name for the third set of Zendikar. Well today, the set logo as well as the expan­sion sym­bol arrived on the MTGSal­va­tion forums Rumor Mill cour­tesy of Autharaf. There’s no telling when the set will be announced on Wizards.com, as today they fea­ture a Wall­pa­per graphic of ‘Oran-Rief Sur­vival­ist’ in the Arcana sec­tion, but with the graph­ics in hand it should be very very soon.

‘Rise of the Eldrazi’ is going to be an inter­est­ing set, as it some­what mir­rors what we had in Lor­wyn/Shad­ow­moor. This third set is designed to stand alone when it comes to lim­ited play, mean­ing that it is a “big” set as if it were the first set of the block. But, with the sep­a­ra­tion in lim­ited, the sets will have story con­nec­tions and an inter­weav­ing of ele­ments. How­ever, unlike Shad­ow­moor, it does not have a fourth smaller set fol­low­ing it.

And now for a pic­ture of Sorin Markov and Nissa Revane in the heat of battle.