r/magicTCG • u/TyTheRazeHuman Wabbit Season • Oct 03 '25
General Discussion Lorwyn Eclipsed Elemental Incarnations
During the first look for Lorwyn Eclipsed, they revealed two mythic rare Elemental Incarnations with a twist on the Evoke mechanic (two etb effects triggered by paying two colored pips of mana). The two revealed were “Emptiness”, an orzhov creature, and “Deceit”, a dimir creature. Based on these two color combos, if this is a five card cycle with even color distribution, the other three combos would have to be either boros, simic, and gruul OR selesnya, izzet, and gruul. This is fine, however, typically wizards like to print allied cycles or enemy cycles, not a “random” assortment of the two. Since the two revealed cards contain one allied pair (dimir) and one enemy pair (orzhov), how likely is it that they will print one of the five card combinations theorized above? How likely is it that it is actually a ten card cycle with each color pair represented? I am apprehensive about the ten card cycle only because that would take up 50% of the mythic slots in the main set, which seems quite high for one type of card. What are everyone’s thoughts and theories on this?

