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Kaladesh Promos

This is the Buy-a-Box promo you will receive if you get your product at your local game store. Pretty sweet dragon to take over for the loss of Thunderbreak Regent in Standard. The old dragon deck mainstay will be missed but I’m sure this guy will fill the void nicely. Firebreathing, haste and striking first is very good design and makes it totally feel like a dragon (perhaps one out of the Game of Thrones series). It’s sort of Dragon-Morphling, except it does nothing to protect itself. Well, that’s cause it doesn’t need to. It’s a freaking dragon!

skyship-dragonA modern-day Shivan Dragon

Continuing the Release day blue clone theme we had with Eldritch Moon, we get this gem:

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Sure, it’s maybe overcosted for most purposes but Commander is a format and of course you get soo much more value by copying two things if possible. I believe it works fine with Precursor Golem. I mean, in a multiplayer game you can do some small rampy stuff like take a mana rock and a Solemn Simulacrum at worst.

essence-exSorin’s thirst upgrade

A pseudo-lightning bolt or whatever you wanna call it. It’s got some great art and probably fine applicatons in a more controllish deck for Standard. It’s only the uncommon you get for partaking in the Kaladesh Game Day. Top 8 participants will get:

cultivator-of-bladesSmall army in a can or semi-overrun guy

It may seem underwhelming at first, but it should be a role-player in any token strategy with things like Westvale Abbey. The artwork and creature type is sweet ‘Artificier’ . Good job Wizard!

game-mat

If you’re some kind of Game Day playmat collector enthusiast, you can walk away with this bad boy(girl)

I’m frankly a little shocked it’s not Chandra, Torch of Defiance (sort of like Liliana from Eldrtich Moon) but still pleasantly surprised at the beauty of this particular playmat. So go out and play some Magic while taking part in your store’s Kaladesh Game Day

MTG: Announcement Day Aug 31, 2016

It’s a pretty big bunch of announcements for some great upcoming products.

  • Rise Among the Worthy” on the plane of Amonkhet. Discover a world ruled by Nicol Bolas when the first set of the Amonkhet block releases April 28, 2017.
  • Nicol Bolas is among the most powerful beings in the Multiverse—don’t face him alone! Much like the originalArchenemy release, Archenemy: Nicol Bolas pits you and two friends against a single powerful foe where you must work together to survive—or fall to Nicol Bolas himself.
  • The second set in the Amonkhet block, Hour of Devastation, releases July 14, 2017.
  • In the same spirit as Duel Decks: Anthology and Planechase Anthology, Commander Anthology gathers four previous Commander products together in one convenient package, releasing June 9, 2017.
  • Draft like a master once more as we release Modern Masters 2017 Edition March 17, 2017—featuring cards from Eighth Edition through Magic 2014, including new trips through Innistrad and Return to Ravnica.
  • Brains or brawn? Cunning or strength? Test your guile and brute force with Duel Decks: Mind vs. Might, releasing in May of 2017.
  • Updates to Magic: The Gathering: Puzzle Quest are here, with Kaladesh content!

Source: http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/feature/announcement-day-2016-08-31

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Overall, some rather exciting news for everyone, especially the reprints for those looking to make even more commander decks or add a few planeswalkers to their collection.

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From the Vault: Lore Spoilers

beseech the queencabal ritualconfluxdark depthsmairt lageglissahelvaultmemnarchminds deisremomir vignear death expobliterateph proctolaria westumezawasunmask

So this year’s From the Vault lineup is not the greatest, however still much better than say, Annihilation. You have a few Legacy mainstays such as Umezawa’s Jitte, Dark Depths and Cabal Ritual. A few flavor cards and mostly Commander stuff. I was really anticipating a planeswalker in here, more specifically Karn Liberated (since he got his spark while defeating the Phyrexians on Dominaria). Would have probably been a little cooler than having Obliterate for that era of the Magic: the Gathering storyline. The Marit Lage token is pretty sweet and thankfully doesn’t count in the fifteen cards of the box set.

Three alternate art cards is a little low, but I think that’s about average for the course for a FTV set. Conflux is a really sweet tutor for those 5 color Commander decks that even saw some fringe play in a Dream Halls Legacy deck a few years back. Definitely one of the less annoying tutors since it costs so darn much to cast in the first place. Getting this product at MSRP is still going to be a bit of a challenge, but I still suspect the price to be somewhat lower than previous over-hyped From the Vault sets.

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Source: http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/feature/vault-lore-2016-08-01