State of Design Innistrad Info

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From Maro's State of the Design (www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/mm/157):

Here are some things you'll find in Innistrad:

A card based on a silver-bordered white card
A token-making sorcery which makes more creature tokens than any previous token-making spell (not counting X spells or spells that make a variable number)
An enchantment that could let you play all your creatures for free
A spell that can deal 13 damage to multiple creatures for one mana (and yes, I mean 13 damage multiple times)
Many—and I'm talking more than a few—cards inspired by famous horror stories
A card that turns a loss into a win
A two-mana creature that lets you make a 2/2 creature each turn for two mana
A card that lets you exchange your life total with something you've never been able to exchange it with before

and...

A planeswalker with five loyalty abilities

Five loyalty abilities?!? Interesting...

[Jeff S]

Mindgames with turning a loss into a win:

Opponent: Haha I have succeeded!
You: JUST AS PLANNED!

[Kiki]

I feel like black has just gotten so nerfed on the planeswalker side of things (white has elspeth 1.0, blue has jace 1.0 and 2.0, black has nothing competitive, red has koth, green has the garruks).

So my guess is that the liliana will have 5 abilities since garruk already has 2 good versions and people havent been complaining about how green has received underpowered planeswalkers.

[tehwerr]

why no link?

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Fine, I put in URL tags. Just for you.

[vultanphase]

There is a Day/Night card half spoiled (though the rules still aren't out there - even how the cards are distributed is unclear) and my wild speculation is that the five-ability planeswalker will technically be a day and night version of the same planeswalker.

Also wild speculation - the Un sets are a red herring! Snow Mercy is the Silver-Bordered white card!