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What is Worldwake?

By ManaNation.com ⋅ June 9, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment ⋅

Update: Wiz­ards has announced that World­wake is the 2nd set in the Zendikar block. Read more…

Perus­ing the US Patent and Trade­mark Office can be quite ben­e­fi­cial when you’re look­ing to peek ahead a few chap­ters in the world of Wiz­ards. They, like any good busi­ness, seek to pro­tect their assets. By brows­ing the USPTO the name Zendikar broke, and now Man­a­Na­tion believes it has found another hot one — World­wake.

Three the­o­ries what World­wake is:

1. The real name for ‘Long’ the sec­ond set in the Zendikar block. Given the tim­ing this seems the most likely though the nam­ing doesn’t quite jive. Wiz­ards applied for World­wake in April, this would allow them plenty of time to get it com­plete and thus pro­tect the set if that is its pur­pose. How­ever, if we look at it as ‘World Wake’ and take it lit­er­ally, Zendikar is pretty much uni­ver­sally believed to be jun­gle themed, and so it could be a spin off as the plane awak­ens to its latent Mag­i­cal powers.
2. The name most closely resem­bles the recently announced ‘Plane­chase’ which is a vari­ant for Magic. The sim­i­lar­i­ties in name is the most com­pelling rea­son to fol­low this belief; along with Wiz­ards’ cur­rent run of extras that they’re releas­ing to the hordes. The prob­lem though is that Plane­chase made sense, you’re rac­ing to the dif­fer­ent Plane loca­tions. How does World­wake work? Per­haps play­ers are trav­el­ling to new planes and awak­en­ing them to their Mag­i­cal poten­tial? We’ll see!
3. It’s actu­ally the secret code-name for Chuck Nor­ris’ new cus­tom card type.