The mothership has officially revealed all the hero cards for the prerelease, launch weekend, and Game Day of Born of the Gods. The hero card for red's Destined to Conquer will be The Warmonger, which, like The General, gives a power-up to your creatures. Instead of +1/+1, it gives +2/+0 which makes it ideal for the offensive, not to mention giving haste to all creatures. The Provider, on the other hand, is the hero card for green's Destined to Thrive. It does fit the name because although it won't affect all of your creatures, it provides one of your creatures with two +1/+1 counters, making it tougher to kill, and giving you life points equal to its toughness. The Born of the Gods prerelease tournaments will be from February 1-2, 2014.
The Hero Cards for Born of the Gods have been released. For those who are not yet acquainted with them, they are basically cards which you are allowed to use with a special deck for certain events, or of course, in casual play. Just like in Theros, there will be one Hero card for each color in Magic. Presumably, we would get another five Hero Cards as we face Xenagos in Journey into Nyx. The first one, The Vanquisher, is the one you receive during Game Day, which is why the card has the number 6 in it.
The last three - The General, The Savant, and The Tyrant - are three of the five hero cards that you can acquire during the Prerelease weekend. The General is the Hero Card you get for playing white, which is Destined to Lead. It is fitting because generals seem to relate with the soldiers, knights, and weenies of White, not to mention that The General can power them up. The Savant is the blue Hero Card for Destined to Outwit, and the ability of it to tap all of the creature's opponents is something out of, say, Hidden Strings, for example. Moreover, the word 'savant' itself means being an intellectual or a scientist, which basically makes it fitting for blue. Finally, The Tyrant at first might seem to be for red because of, well, Dragon Tyrant from Scourge, but a closer look at the ability is essentially more reminiscent of the black Infest and Festering Goblin. The Tyrant will be the Hero Card for black's Destined to Dominate.
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| The Provider (image from WOTC) |
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| The Warmonger (image from WOTC) |
The Hero Cards for Born of the Gods have been released. For those who are not yet acquainted with them, they are basically cards which you are allowed to use with a special deck for certain events, or of course, in casual play. Just like in Theros, there will be one Hero card for each color in Magic. Presumably, we would get another five Hero Cards as we face Xenagos in Journey into Nyx. The first one, The Vanquisher, is the one you receive during Game Day, which is why the card has the number 6 in it.
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The second one, The Explorer, which lets you play an additional land, is for the BNG Release weekend. Moreover, there are nine quests or challenges which will allow you to collect all of the Hero Cards. This means that you have to go to these events if you want to have them. The number in the middle, which is 6 for The Vanquisher and 5 for The Explorer, essentially mean that they are for the 5th and 6th challenges, respectively. The 5 is what you get during the Release weekend. The Launch Weekend is from February 7-9, 2014. The number 6 is for Game Day, which will be from March 1-2, 2014.
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