Tezzeret Returns!
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Posted on Sept. 5, 2016, 1:11 p.m. by Harashiohorn
So the flavor text of Larger than Life references our dear old friend Tezzeret being on Kaldesh. This makes sense since Bolas will be featured in the next block, and last we saw of Tezz he was working for bolas. This does raise some other questions though; Will Tezz will be getting a card in Aether Snap? And what are the implications of of this in so far as Phyrexia? Thoughts?
Post Script: Just wanted to mention that does this mean we might just might get to see infect maybe possibly come back soon?
mathimus55 says... #3
I don't think Phyrexians would be out of the question for Kaladesh. Kaladesh is all about building the biggest and the best machine, which I think the Phyrexians would be more than interested in. I think the title for the second set could rule out Phyrexians unless the Aether is revolting against the coming invasion.
I don't think it will happen, but I wouldn't be terribly surprised either. It could set up for a showdown from Phyrexians into Nicol Bolas in the next block as well which they announced. Infect I do doubt happening though. There is too much that can go wrong with it and they've shown some desire to slow down standard a bit.
September 5, 2016 1:30 p.m.
Long rambling post alert. If you don't want to read the strange way my brain works, just keep scrolling.
I really want Tezz to get a new card, and I think the first question that will need to be answered is this: what colors will he be? He's previously shown up as mono-U and UB, therefore he will probably be either mono-U or UX.
Let's look at what we already know about Kaladesh's 'walkers. The only 'walker we know (guaranteed) has a card is Saheeli. Chandra is also really likely to show up, but that's basically all we know.
Now back to color: Saheeli is UR, and Chandra is most likely mono-R. In SOI block, the only color overlap between a mono-color 'walker and a 2-color 'walker was in B (Sorin and Liliana). Assuming a mono-R Chandra, we already have this covered, therefore it's unlikely that Tezzeret will be mono-U. Possible, definitely, but unlikely.
What other colors Tezz turns out to be can really go any direction. If he's still under Bolas' control, he's probably UB. If he's broken out of Bolas' control and is now trying to undo the damage he's caused, he could be UW. If WotC really wants to change it up, he could even be now really in touch with his "natural" side and go UG. (Perhaps he was shunned from other worlds because of his etherium arm, and has found Kaladesh to be more welcoming.) The only thing that's totally out of the question is UR, as Saheeli's already taking up that space.
C'mon Wizards, give us something cool.
September 5, 2016 1:46 p.m.
CastleSiege says... #5
Don't rule out the possibility of him being 3 colored like Bolas/Sarkaan/Tamiyo. He could be the first Esper walker.
September 5, 2016 2:39 p.m.
CastleSiege says... #6
Also, I'll just leave this here. It's from the most recent lore article. 
Front left. You can tell it's Tezz by his arm.
September 5, 2016 2:45 p.m. Edited.
do you think that Liliana notices its Tezzeret? She's pointing in that direction...
September 5, 2016 2:54 p.m.
RazortoothMtg says... #8
she knows its tezz. read the article, its actually pretty good
September 5, 2016 2:56 p.m.
CastleSiege Do you have a link to the lore article? Esper Tezz would be freaking sick as hell. I would pre-order like a million of them. haha
September 5, 2016 3:40 p.m.
CastleSiege says... #10
I think there's a thread discussing it in the lore forum.
September 5, 2016 3:46 p.m.
ItchiUchiha117 says... #11
She actually didn't know it was Tezzeret until she saw his arm when he was accusing a renegade of causing trouble. Before that, she thought he was the renegade. It's actually a very good story over on the Mothership, if you want to read it.
As far as predictions for the card itself, I really hope that he does end up being full Esper' just because I want more three color walkers and he fits that color combo the best of anyone we've seen.
September 5, 2016 3:54 p.m.
RicketyEng says... #12
I don't think Phyrexia will invade Kaladesh or try to convert it. Maro said that during design he had a phrase to help it to not be Mirrodin: this is about artifacts as technology, not biology. I suspect Tezzeret has set up this inventors fair as a way to bring the best minds together for the sole purpose of seeing what technology they can come up with. He even went so far as to plant the seeds of the idea that a matter transporter is impossible, which naturally means that someone is going to pour her heart and soul into making it possible. He seeks to steal that technology for Phyrexia's or Bolas's use elsewhere.
As for colour, he will definitely not be mono blue. We are pretty confidant that Dovin Baan is part blue, so PW colour balancing suggests that three U/X walkers gives a value of 1.5 to blue. Chandra + Saheeli gives red 1.5. There is probably room for Liliana and Nissa to set black and green to 1 each. There is suspicion that Baan is W/U, so another partial W would bring white to 1. Ah, but I'm now at 6 walkers which is not likely, especially since we just had a 6 walker block. However, Tamiyo was able to be included as a 6th walker because they narrowed her usefulness by making her tri-coloured. The same principle could plausibly be applied to Tezzeret to make him Esper colours. That would make the colour balance as follows:
W = Baan + Tezzeret = 1
U = Saheeli + Baan + Tezzeret = 1.5
B = Liliana + Tezzeret = 1.5
R = Saheeli + Chandra = 1.5
G = Nissa = 1
I suspect Wizards would be satisfied with such a balance.
September 6, 2016 10:27 a.m.
DemonDragonJ says... #14
DarkLaw, if infect is too powerful of a mechanic, then WotC does not need to use it, again, just as they have not reused annihilator, another mechanic that is ridiculously overpowered.
I believe that there is no way that Tezzeret's appearance in this block will not somehow lead to Phyrexia returning to the story, perhaps much further into the future than Bolas returning, since they are the greatest villains in the story of this game; how else would they return to the story in a way that seemed believable?
September 7, 2016 9:13 p.m.
DemonDragonJ The person explicitly asked about infect.
Yeah, I could see a revisit to new phyrexia, but probably not for a while.
September 8, 2016 1:24 a.m.
DemonDragonJ says... #16
DarkLaw, yes, I agree that Phyrexia will not be returning to the story for some time, since Bolas is about to return to it, and I doubt that WotC wishes to have both of them in the story at the same time.
DarkLaw says... #2
Almost no chance of a Phyrexia tie-in, and Maro himself said that infect has developmental concerns, so same for that.
September 5, 2016 1:17 p.m.