July 2016 FNM Promo
Ouch! that looks rather uncomfortable
Spatial Contortion is a great defense and offensive cards, allowing a high toughness creature to lay the smackdown on our opponent or simply killing off a 3 toughness or less opposing pest. The artwork is just magnificent (much better than the regular card art) . So head on down to your local gaming store in the month of July to pick up this sweet card.
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MTG Announcement Day May 16, 2016
What a great day to be a Magic: the Gathering fanatic! Many changes and announcements for upcoming products spoiled on the mothership!
. New Magic set will be set in Kaladesh
. Planeswalker deck possibly replacing Intro decks (yes, there is a planeswalker in the actual deck as well as cards that revolve around your planeswalker)
. 4-color commanders
. Nissa vs. Ob- Nixilis Duel Deck
. Planechase Anthology
. Conspiracy: Take the Crown draft packs
It’s just a great bundle of news all at once for all. Wizards of the Coast is giving the players more value and bridging the gap for newer players to get into the game.
Source: http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/announcement-day-2016-05-16
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June 2016 FNM Promo
Not too fancy, but it’ll do the job
It’s pretty cool that we get a card that sees some minor Standard play as well as a decent amount of play in Modern in RG Tron decks. Of course, since it has the word ‘search’ on it, you can bet that it also gets jammed into a bunch of green-based commander decks.
You can really appreciate the original artwork in its larger form, since it allows us to see Nissa’s reflection in the water in great detail. So make a date for some June 2016 FNM’s at your local gaming store and grab yourself a pretty sweet card. Sylvan Scrying is just too fine to pass up.
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Planeswalkers of Shadows Over Inninstrad
Not a bad mix of abilities for a color comob that can’t draw cards. Pretty sweet maindeck Naturalize, so for that alone we may see her in many sideboards. The ultimate is fairly unexciting, but if you’re packing a few board-changing fatties in a somewhate reanimator build then it may be worth it. Also, Madness…
Arlinn Kord is somewhat reminiscent of Huntmaster of the Fells. It will be flipping a few times but not gaining you life in the process. The 5 total abilities will appeal to almost all casual players. With the new CMC ruling she may even be modern playable (ie: not dying to Abrupt Decay). Her ultimate is pretty nuts, effectively turning your creatures into removal spells much like a Warstorm Surge.
Ah, the mighty Jace! At 5 mana, he’s very average indeed. Still, much better than the one from M15, right? He is basically a flipped Erayo on ultimate, and it doesn’t take forever to get there so that’s not terrible. We get a very watered-down Jace, the Mindsculptor ‘Brainstorm’ ability. Still, if people tried to play Narset Transcendant in their Standard decks….
Ok, I have never seen a +1 ability as stupid as this. Yes, it’s based off of Baneful Omen and he does cost a whopping 6 mana. However, it’s his – x ability that’s sure to be activated quite often if and when he gets some of the Standard limelight. Being able to kill/finish off other planeswalkers is rather interesting. As with the original Chandra Nalar, killing off somewhat mid to fat creatures and still sticking around to do it again in a few turns is gravy!
The Commander-esque ultimate abilty is fine, but let’s not kid ourselves here: it’s not happening very often if ever.
There you have it! A brief look at the four planeswalkers we were promised by Mark Rosewater for what is sure to be a very very exciting revisit of Innistrad. Hope many of you will attend the pre-releases of Shadow over Innistrad to get a chance to crack one of these cool planeswalkers.
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FNM May 2016
Interesting FNM promo indeed
So is Wizards of the Coast bringing back this little guy in some way to Standard or Modern? Is it more of a nod to Eternal Masters? The artwork is super duper terrible, but a foil version of this paticular goblin is always welcome. Here’s the up-close and personal version:
Goblin EDH players rejoice! The time is nigh!
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From the Vault: Lore
source: http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/announcing-vault-lore-2016-02-29
Release Date: August 19, 2016
Magic Online Release Date: October 10, 2016
MSRP: $34.99
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Eternal Master Announced !
Finally, the rumors have come to fruition and a new set of reprint staples is announced. However, this time it’s not Modern Masters, but Eternal Masters. You guess it: It’s a bunch of legacy cards that are not on the reprint list.
Here are the 2 first spoiled, to get you started on what is sure to be a much-hyped set:
Source: http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/announcing-eternal-masters-2016-02-15
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Yu-Gi-Oh! Wing Raiders Spoilers
A few new cards were recently revealed for the upcoming Yu-Gi-Oh! set Wing Raiders
Source: http://www.ygonation.com/tcg-news/more-wing-raiders-cards
The set is scheduled to release in the upcoming week on February 12, 2016.
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Shadows over Innistrad Previews!
Over the course of the Modern pro Tour this weekend, several cards of the upcoming set: Shadows over Innistrad were shown.
As noted, Madness is the returning mechanic we haven’t seen in many many years (in fact, over a decade). Investigate and Delirium are two of the new mechanics showcased here. Investigate is like a delayed cantrip that you can stock up in the form of a artifact token and sac, pay 2 colorless to draw a card. In contrast, delirium is a ‘graveyard matters’ card reminiscent of Tarmogoyf ; granting the card bonuses if that 4 different card types threshold is achieved.
Werewolves are back! The little uncommon spoiled is actually quite decent in that it can potentially offer us some card advantage or just be a conditional ‘mana dork’ in the Etherium Sculptor sense as opposed to the Elvish Mystic one. As a side note flavorwise, Watcher in the Web is just hilarious and most probably one of the best limited spiders of all time (one block per leg, good stuff!)
Stay tuned for more updates as they come. It’s been rumored that a certain missing Eldrazi might make its way to Innistrad, hence the ‘Shadow’ over Innistrad.
