My problems getting MTGO have burnt me out on MtG. It didn't help to have 95% of my cards stolen. I think I'll take an indefinite sabbatical from MtG and branch out to see if anything else in the universe interests me. I guess I'll start a
Comic and Games Blog. :)
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On March 25th, Wizards of the Coast announced Zendikar, the October 2009 set of 249 cards, code-named "Live", or ZEN for short:
"Deadly Perils, Priceless Treasures"
Here are my predictions:
Zendikar will be Magic's version of...
Maztica
The set will be MesoAmerican: a mythical conglomeration of Mayan, Aztec, Incan, Toltec, and Spanish culture. Expect cards with stone ziggurats, blood sacrifices, gold artifacts, obelisks, UG Yuan-Ti Snake Druids, WUBRG Couatl plumed serpents / feathered dragons, GR jaguar-themed warriors to revamp your Nacatl Zoo decks, and an awesome Blue-based Pirate deck which dominates the last set of the block.
After Zendikar... Dark Elves. Flavor text will even use the word "Drow". ...because we love Drow Elves and WotC needs to give them their own set so we can have some awesome art of hot onyx-skinned Golgari Elf chicks. Are you with me? :-)
...but seriously, what do I know? This is all 100% completely unfounded speculation. How am I supposd to know any of this? What am I, a wizard? You want me to look into my crystal ball? Ok, I see your future... OMG! WAIT! I CAN see it! I can see... YOU! ...listening to people... people who ramble about things they have no idea about! ^_^
...but seriously, there will be alot of talk about the Mayan calendar as we approach the end of the world in 2012, so play some Magic, you don't have much time left.
Zendikar previews start September 7, 2009 on magicthegathering.com
Labels: magic, mayan calender, maztica, mesoamerican, spoiler, Zendikar, zendikar spoiler
Old joke, but I like it. :)Check out the
MTG Salvation Rumor MillLabels: Card, leak, spoiler, Zendikar
Today I defend yet another card people think may be...
THE WORST MAGIC CARD EVER:
Mistform Sliver
Mistform Sliver is probably THE WORST SLIVER EVER. Not much argument here. Surprised I said that? Don't be surprised. It's probably the worst Sliver ever.
...but it was an awesome Changeling. Too bad people never got into changelings.
The main problem with Mistform Sliver was player psychology. The only people who want Slivers are people making Sliver decks. When people make Sliver decks, they want
Slivers, but Mistform Sliver is all about making Slivers something else, like Merfolk, Wizards, and Faeries, but that's pointless in a Sliver deck, and what Merfolk, Wizard, or Faerie player ever thinks about splashing Slivers? People making Merfolk, Wizard, or Faerie decks want Merfolk, Wizards, and Faeries, not Slivers, or Mistforms, and now we can add the poor Changelings to the ranks of the sad and lonely Mistforms, ostracized for getting along with every tribe instead of being racist.
But oh, the possibilities people missed.
Consider Merfolk, they love to tap repeatedly: find the Slivers with tap abilities, make them Merfolk and tap away.
Or Fairies. Add Scion of Oona to Mistform Sliver and you get:
Other Fairie(Sliver) creatures you control get +1/+1.
Other Fairies(Slivers) you control have shroud.
The saddest part is I don't think most people ever realized Mistform Sliver's potential before Hivestone and Changeling came out, so now almost any glory Mistform Sliver could get from breaking cards will probably go to something else, like Amoeboid Changeling.
Amoeboid Changelings can turn Bitterblossom tokens into Virulent Slivers.
...and make Slivers count as Fairies, while being both a Sliver and a Fairie itself.
Poor Mistform Sliver, you were ahead of your time until you were obsolete.
Labels: Mistform Sliver, Sliver, slivers, worst magic card
