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Wizards Finally Confirms ‘Rise of the Eldrazi’ is Real

By ManaNation.com ⋅ November 16, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment ⋅

Today we have finally got­ten Wiz­ards’ con­fir­ma­tion that ‘Rise of the Eldrazi’ is real. 100% this time. They con­firmed it in the Magic Arcana sec­tion of their site, as has become their stan­dard prac­tice for new prod­uct announcements.

Unfor­tu­nately Wiz­ards’ thun­der was stolen two weeks ago when a mem­ber of MTGSalvation.com spoiled the set logo, expan­sion sym­bol and a kick-ass piece of art. How­ever Wiz­ards released an addi­tional piece of amaz­ing art.

Also of major inter­est is the sub­ti­tle, “And Car­nage Shall Follow.”

Set Name: Rise of the Eldrazi
Block: Set 3 of 3 in the Zendikar block *
Three-Letter Abbre­vi­a­tion: ROE
Num­ber of Cards: 249

Release Date: April 23, 2010
Pre­re­lease Events: April 17–18, 2010
Launch Par­ties: April 23–25, 2010
Pre­views on magicthegathering.com start­ing: April 5, 2010

Design Team: Brian Tins­man (lead), Aaron Forsythe, Graeme Hop­kins, Gre­gory Mar­ques, Bill McQuil­lian, Devin Low
Devel­op­ment Team: Matt Place (lead), Mark Globus, Erik Lauer, Gre­gory Mar­ques, Mark Rosewater