Magic: The Gathering (Unreleased Sets)

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• Opening the Guildgates, featuring;
  • Guild Summit
  • District Guide
  • The Gate cycle reprints

Wow, I'm glad they stopped numbering the Story Spotlight cards, because now it's a total mystery which order these cards happen in.

New Vraska. That ulti...

I guess the flavor of that ulti is that Vraska somehow grants all of her minions her stonegaze ability.

Or equips them with terrible gnarly poisons and contagions, now that she has command of the Golgari. She was probably prepared for situations where she couldn't depend on her gaze before.

Midnight Reaper

Lazav in all his evil mastermind glory.

So Lazav is basically a Faceless Man.

Mission Briefing

New Lazav is hilarious with Phyrexian Dreadnought.

Is it me, or is Lazav's cape in the shape of a dragon wing? And is that Niv's stone head looming over him?..

Oh my!

Well, Nicol did disguise himself as a pregnant woman once. Clearly it was a trick he picked up from Chromium.

Trostani◊ is not talking to themself.

Edit2:Izzet is at it again.◊ And I must say, WOW. Dimir is pretty interesting this time around too.◊

Edit3:Now that is a Dimir assassin Commander if I have ever seen one.

Edited by googlebot on Sep 17th 2018 at 11:34:19 AM

Making Magic: Guild to Order, Part 2, featuring Divine Visitation (which I love the flavor text on).

Full card image gallery is up.

Boros, stop bullying the giants. It's rude.

Guild Kits in all their glory.

This made me anxious about what we will see in Simic one. Momir Vig swoon or Zegana shudder.

Edited by googlebot on Sep 25th 2018 at 12:52:25 PM

A new season of Spellslingers has begun, featuring Guilds of Ravnica decks.

...in which Sean doesn't pay attention to his life total and gets pecked to death by illusory birds.

Here's My Guilds of Ravnica Prerelease Deck and card pool. I chose Izzet for my prerelease pack, and my rares were:

• Bounty of Might
• Vivid Revival
• Firemind's Research (Promo)
• Knight of Autumn
• Swiftblade Vindicator
• Watery Grave

The Prerelease I was at went for 7 rounds. I ended up with a record of 3-4.

With today's October Magic Tournament Rules Release Notes came something I found interesting.

Section 1.4 (Participation Eligibility): We actually made this change back in July in a WPN announcement. We're just playing catch-up. Stores may now run Regular Rules Enforcement Level (only) tournaments with an age restriction (e.g., "16 and under" or "21 and over"). Stores need to make sure this restriction is well advertised.

Following the link in that quote came with a surprising revelation; Wizards has an alcohol policy! This answers a question that had been in the back of my mind for a while. Can a bar host a Magic tournament?

If I'm interpreting this right, the answer is "You can serve alcohol at tournaments or have players BYOB as long as local liquor laws are followed (you have whatever permits you need and don't serve it to minors, for example), but you can't hold it in an actual bar."

I very rarely drink alcohol, but the mental image of people trying to play Magic drunk amuses me to no end.

"I-I uh...hurghk...cast Terror...on...on Terror..."

"Can he do that...hic...cast a spell on itself?"

Now I have the mental image of smashed players puking all over their Mythic Rare cards.

Hopefully they'd sleeve up.

Hung-over Magic Player: "Ugh, what did I do last night?"

<Sees a bunch of Storm Crow cards on the floor around them>

Hung-over Magic Player: "...oh no."

Dude, Where's My Ovalchase Dragster?