Unsure of the name but it reads:
“mechanic: as long as you have no cards in your hand, x.”
For instance, the 2/2 rat for BR has “Mechanic: +1/+0, B:regenerate”
It’s much like threshold, except it can trigger at any time, like in combat, or in response to a spell.
Mindslicer anyone? maybe even One with Nothing? This also solves the knack that red has for “running out of gas”
Love,
Matt
Standard: Ideal 31-7-8
AWESOME we got the Rakdos ability now. I like the ability alot. Now when you dump your hand, you get benefits. Not to mention the Seals, Jin, Master of Disruption, madness in extended, and what will be my fav probably, is Bottled Cloister. I think it will be a nice ability.
I hope it’s true that every snowflake is unique, because I never want to see one like this again.
HELLBENT lol the best mechanic name there is.
I hope it’s true that every snowflake is unique, because I never want to see one like this again.
HELLBENT!
that is the BEST mechanic name EVER!
makes “running out of gas” a new strategy.
Love,
Matt
Standard: Ideal 31-7-8
Lyzolda must be the name of the other Legend for BR.
I like the card. Will make playing BR very interesting.
Any idea what the other cards released or leaked so far?
"Some have said there is no subtlety to destruction. You know what? They’re dead.” -Jaya Ballard, task mage
I just can’t help the name of the card, too. What the blick is a Gobhobbler anyway? And it sounds like a vaguely popular questionable phrase as well. Well, get your Bottled Cloisters while they’re hot! 
Doesn’t Bottled Cloister not really work with this card? Am I missing something or does it only work if you’re using this B/R creature to block? Which is fine, I guess, regenerating blockers are good, but not quite the aggro powerhouse with Bottled Cloister. One with Nothing, however...Instant speed Hellbent, ftw....lol
Doesn’t Bottled Cloister not really work with this card? Am I missing something or does it only work if you’re using this B/R creature to block? Which is fine, I guess, regenerating blockers are good, but not quite the aggro powerhouse with Bottled Cloister. One with Nothing, however...Instant speed Hellbent, ftw....lol
Assuming Hellbent is always looking at cards in hand (which we don’t even know yet; that portion could be a variable, too), Bottled Cloister only guarantees activation of your Hellbent on the opponent’s turns. However, with both Seal of Doom and Seal of Fire back in the set, as well as the fact that Rakdos looks like it will be highly aggressive, I don’t think you’d have to worry too much about playing out cards before you attack in order to get your Hellbent for the turn. Is it a huge problem to draw two cards, play a land, Char a blocker, and play a Seal of Fire before attacking? I don’t think it will be. I’m sure there will be some combat tricks that can be played as your last card to suddenly go Hellbent in the middle of combat, too.
WHOA! It’s Magus from ChronoTrigger!
Rakdos has two more cards revealed, a tutor and an enchantment. also, the dual land pictures are finally out and on mtgsalvation…
Tutor 1B
reveal a card in your hand, search your library for a copy of that card and put it into your hand.
hellbent- search your library for a card and put it in your hand.
Love,
Matt
Standard: Ideal 31-7-8
WOW. That’s pretty cool. I really hope the English name for the Azorius land is not Sacred Fountain (which is the literal translation), since we already have a Sacred Foundry. That would be very lame.
I actually read the cards in French. And I don’t speak a word of French. Yay for latin-based languages.
EDIT/UPDATE!
Go check out the Dissension spoiler on MTGSalvation.com. There’s a bunch of new cards now, including this one that makes me happy:
Cranky Hufflepuff (will likely be something else in English):
4G Creature-Beast 4/4
When this comes into play, destroy target artifact or enchantment.
Incidentally, the Chant of Rakdos is a lot better than I thought at first, though I’m not totally sure if it is quite Constructed playable. It seems pretty good for a finisher though:
2BRR Enchantment
Whenever a creature you control attacks, it gets +2/+0 until end of turn and Chant of Rakdos deals 1 damage to you.
Hellbent-As long as you have no cards in your hand, whenever a source you control would deal damage to a creature or player, it deals double that damage to that creature or player instead.
Note that the second ability is extra, meaning that your creatures still get the +2/+0, and you will take 2 damamge for each attacking creature. So now a team of Bob, Ravenous Rats, and Gobhobbler Rats will attack for 24 damage to your opponent (and 6 to you) if unblocked. This lets you do some tricks, too. You can attack and get the power bonus while still having a card in hand (say, Char). Then you’d only take 1 from each attacker. You can then stack damage and play your Char (which will hit you for 4, but hey, it’s dealing 8) and the Hellbent will kick in.
Nutty.
Rakdos has two more cards revealed, a tutor and an enchantment. also, the dual land pictures are finally out and on mtgsalvation…
Tutor 1B
reveal a card in your hand, search your library for a copy of that card and put it into your hand.
hellbent- search your library for a card and put it in your hand.
ZOMG!! I love this card!! Even though I hate the idea of playing a Rakdos card!
Here is a list of cards I have in my only T2 deck at the moment:
3x Mindslicer
4x Nantuko Husk
3x Plagued Rusalka
...um, perfect fit? I really hope this works:
Tutor on the stack, I sac Mindslicer to Husk, I find any card I feel like, your hand is empty, and I’m swing with a potentially dangerous 4/4… I mean, this card is playable even if you aren’t hellbent(I have to admit, I LOVE saying that). I vote semi-chase rare… the Char/Rumbling Slum of this expansion… 
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Current Decks:
UG Aggro
Mono-Green Turbo-Allosaurus!
Mono-Red BURN
RGD Draft: 25-7-2
RGD Sealed: ***Censored***
Hellbent does sound like something you could do for a yugioh term in one of thier dramatic cartoons.
Evil guy who is planning on stealing my soul:
Coyote:
Evil guy who is planning on stealing my soul: For my next card, I play persecute and choose Green!!!!
Coyote: Blast! (reveals hand revealing 2 green cards and discards them)
Evil guy who is planning on stealing my soul: MU HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!! Now what will you do? With no cards, I shall have this victory, and with it… YOUR SOUL!!!
Coyote: Not so fast wierd guy! (draws a card) Perfect! I play, INFERNAL TUTOR. Normally this would only allow me to reveal a card and serch for a copy of the card. But now that I have no cards in my hand, Hellbent will replace that and allow me to look for any card.
Evil guy who is planning on stealing my soul: WHAT??? NO!!!!
Coyote: And I search for… 3 MANA PUNCH!!! With my 10 untapped lands and 2 Mirari?s Wakes on the board… You can either concede, or I can beat you into submission.
"Some have said there is no subtlety to destruction. You know what? They’re dead.” -Jaya Ballard, task mage
The Orb of Insight is available on the Wizards website now. There are fourteen instances of Hellbent, twelve of Graft, and forty-nine of the word “counter.” Yikes. Here are some others.
Token: 6
Sacrifice: 29
Double: 5
Advisor: 3
Legendary: 6 (so no extra Legendary stuff here)
Wizard: 7
Demon: 1 (presumably Rakdos)
Witch: 2 (the Rakdos Bloodwitch; her name likely appears in her rules text)
Blood: 8
Return: 18
Library: 32
If you thought Rumbling Slum was efficient, how about this one?
Dread Slag 3BR
Creature - Horror
Trample
Dread Slag gains -4/-4 for each card in your hand.
9/9
I’ll bet we see more than one One with Nothing at Regionals…
Also, Azorius Guildmage looks pretty darn spiffy…
2W: tap target creature
2U: counter target activated ability
Seems fine.
it’s funny that two howling mines in play can kill something
forced draw is pretty good now too, compulsive research, mikokoro, etc.
Kevin
“Wasn’t our plan just to get to 900 life and f***’em?”
Coldsnap Sealed: who cares
Coldsnap Draft: who cares
Some more fun from the Oracle
Life - 24 times, but Gain shows for 13, Lose is 0, and Pay is 9 so what else does one do with life
3 Elf, 3 Goblin, 9 elemental and 10 spirit (boo, only 3 elves?)
5 shaman and 7 wizard, 5 zombie and 6 ogre (dang making the elves even madder!)
flying is present 30 times, but fear only twice (wow, can you say bombs away?)
with 3 haste and 6 trample
Graveyard shows 20, 10 discard but 20 draw (knew they liked blue better!)
3 forest, 2 island, 1 plains, 1 mountain and 1 swamp (so a forest island, an island plains, a mountain swamp leaves two extra forest right?)
Artifact - 19 times, aura 15 times and enchantment 32 times
Mana shows 42 times
and finally....destroy destroy destroy destroy destroy destroy destroy destroy destroy destroy destroy destroy destroy destroy destroy (yes, destroy shows up 15 times!)
