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Showing posts with label Spoiler. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spoiler. Show all posts

Friday, June 26, 2009

New Magic 2010 Cards!

I was going to try and get my next “Just For Beginners” post out today but it is turning out to be quite a project. I might be taking out content and making it into multiple posts but I haven’t decided yet. So instead I’m just going to write down some of my thoughts about some of the recent spoiled cards and how I think they will fit into the current meta.

White is going to be a good color for the core set. I already commented Silence which is an extremely cheap and effective control card. I can actually see this card seeing some extended play time. There are going to be some good cards for pure White Weenie decks coming in the core set as well. Probably the most notable of them is Captain of the Watch which has been recently spoiled by MTG Salvation.






Captain of the Watch
Creature - Human Soldier
Vigilance
Other Soldier creatures you control get +1/+1 and have vigilance.
When Captain of the Watch enters the battlefield, put 3 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens onto the battlefield.
3/3


As you can see its basically a Cloudgoat Ranger on roids! For 6 mana you get a 3/3 with vigilance that gives your other soldiers a boost and vigilance. Oh yeah it also gives you 3 more soldiers that gain the buff and become 2/2’s with vigilance as well. But it dies to path right?! :P This along with other cards being printed and ones that are already in standard are going to make for some exciting mono-white decks.

Along with the rest of the good white cards being printed or reprinted for the new core set is Soul Warden. This is a fun card to plan in a deck where a ton of creatures are coming into play like White Weenie. Using it with a card like say, Captain of the Watch you are not only getting 9 vigilance power for 6 mana you are also gaining 4 life! It can get kinda crazy and it makes racing your deck extremely difficult for someone who doesn’t have the same life-gaining abilities.




Fabricate has not been confirmed yet and after the Golden Lotus incident I am reluctant to put my trust completely in spoiler lists. A guy can hope though right?!


It, along with the fact that they are reprinting almost every core set card that I use in my Artifatties deck (link is to a slightly older list than what I’m using now) is being reprinted, nearly doubles my excitement over the new set. If I can tutor for my combo pieces without the aid of Tezzeret or Sphinx Summoner it will make the deck much more efficient and reliable. Fingers are crossed!!

Next week I will also be starting a new weekly post that I'm really excited about working on. I got the idea at work todaybut I don't want to share until I've had a chance to work on it a little bit. I hope you guys will enjoy it!

Please comment, email (homebrew.magic@gmail.com) or tweet (@homebrew_magic) any constructive criticism you have pertaining to this or any of my posts. Your input is both needed and appreciated. Happy Brewing!

(Pictures and links provided by Wizards of the Coast Inc and Quiet Speculation)

Thursday, June 18, 2009

Spoke Too Soon..

Apparantly the post I wrote about the spoiled card "Golden LotusAlign Center" that was supposedly part of the Magic 2010 core set was just me speaking too soon. It was up on MTG Salvation and turned out to be a fake card according to their forums and the fact that it is no longer up on their site. Im actually relieved because it almost seemed too powerful in certain situations. It would have been interesting but I'm more excited about Lightning Bolt being spoiled on their site. Three for one!

Lighning Bolt Card Art

Thursday, June 4, 2009

Golden Lotus

****EDIT**** Golden Lotus is now being considered a fake card and has been removed from mtg salvation and other preview sites. See my post about it here. Just figured I would put this here because of the hits I'm getting because of google searches about the card.

Golden Lotus

Legendary Land

Shroud

Golden Lotus enters the battlefield tapped.

When Golden Lotus enters the battlefield, sacrifice three lands, or sacrifice Golden Lotus.

Tap, Sacrifice Golden Lotus: Add nine mana in any combination of colors to your mana pool.

Golden Lotus is quite possibly the most intriguing card I've seen in a while. It can be paired with several cards to be insane. It can go off on at least turn five (if you don't use cards that fetch lands and put them into play) to do, well, pretty much anything you want it to. Banefire for at least 8-9 or maybe just hit for 9-10 with a turn five Hellkite Overlord. Oh, and Crucible of Worlds anybody? Powerful and elegant are the two words that best describe this card. Check out this and the other 39 spoiler cards for Magic 2010 currently on display at mtgsalvation.