Jund Domination in SCG $5K Richmond, Virginia

Jund does it again! Yes folks, the Shards of Alara plane continues to dominate the Standard metagame with the recent top finish at Star City Games $5000 Open event in Richmond, Virginia. The pilot was Alex Bertoncini which had previous top finishes in the previous SCG events. He faced a Jund mirror matchup in the finals against Alessandro Culotti and proved he is the better Jund master. Here’s the list that he used: Read more

Some Interesting Extended Decks in GP Oakland

The Mtg 2010 Season kicked off with Grand Prix Oakland last weekend and as Day Two getting to a close, we saw pros perform on the last remaining rounds to get to the top 8. Well, the final eight has been decided as of the writing of this post. It features the best players and high level pros of Magic with the names Conley Woods, Tomoharu Saito and Adam Yurchick. The rest had big accomplishments in their playing career too. Read more

Worldwake Spoiler Update

Here’s the recent update of the upcoming Worldwake, Zendikar’s 2nd set. The spoiler season has been a little slow today as we have only revealed about 46 cards out of 145 cards in the set. Here they are:

White (8)

Name:	Admonition Angel
Cost:	3WWW
Type:	Creature - Angel
Pow/Tgh:	6/6
Rules Text:	Flying Landfall - Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, you may exile target nonland permanent other than Admonition Angel. When Admonition Angel leaves the battlefield, return all cards exiled with it to the battlefield under their owners’ control.
Rarity:	Mythic Rare
Set Number:	#1/145
Name:	Hada Freeblade
Cost:	W
Type:	Creature - Human Soldier Ally
Pow/Tgh:	0/1
Rules Text:	Whenever Hada Freeblade or another Ally enters the battlefield under your control, you may put a +1/+1 counter on Hada Freeblade.
Rarity:	Uncommon
Set Number:	#7/145
Name:	Join the Ranks
Cost:	3W
Type:	Instant
Rules Text:	Put two 1/1 white Soldier Ally creature tokens onto the battlefield.
Rarity:	Common
Set Number:	#9/145
Name:	Kitesail Apprentice
Cost:	W
Type:	Creature - Kor Soldier
Pow/Tgh:	1/1
Rules Text:	As long as Kitesail Apprentice is equipped, it gets +1/+1 and has flying.
Illus.	Austin Hsu
Rarity:	Common
Set Number:	#10/145
Name:	Kor Firewalker
Cost:	WW
Type:	Creature - Kor Soldier
Pow/Tgh:	2/2
Rules Text:	Protection from red Whenever a player casts a red spell, you may gain 1 life.
Rarity:	Uncommon
Name:	Ruin Ghost
Cost:	1W
Type:	Creature - Spirit
Pow/Tgh:	1/1
Rules Text:	{W}, {T}: Exile target land you control, then return it to the battlefield under your control.
Flavor Text:	“Haunting us, these different meanings and spectral beings. We’re fighting sleep with broken, rusted weaponry.”
Rarity:	Uncommon
Set Number:	#19/145
Name:	Talus Paladin
Cost:	3W
Type:	Creature - Human Knight Ally
Pow/Tgh:	2/3
Rules Text:	Whenever Talus Paladin or another Ally enters the battlefield under your control, you may have Allies you control gain lifelink until end of turn and you may put a +1/+1 counter on Talus Paladin.
Rarity:	Rare
Set Number:	#21/145
Name:	Terra Eternal
Cost:	2W
Type:	Enchantment
Rules Text:	All lands are indestructible.
Rarity:	Rare
Set Number:	#22/145

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Magic 2011 Announced

Wizards announced yesterday at Magic Arcana regarding the next upcoming Core set in Magic: The Gathering Trading card game, Magic 2011 which will be released this July 16, 2010. The set is dubbed “A set everyone can sink their teeth into.” which made me think of new interesting cards they’re going to include. Here’s a part of the announcement: Read more

Jamie Mackintosh Wins Australia Nationals

Jamie Mackintosh is the 2009 Australian Nationals champion piloting a G/W Elf Ball deck and defeating (or rather sweeping) Ian Wood’s 5-color Blood deck in the finals. Here’s the decklist:

Maindeck
8 Forest
1 Plains
4 Wooded Bastion
4 Sunpetal Grove
2 Windbrisk Heights
19 land

1 Burrenton Forge-Tender
1 Mirror Entity
1 Cloudthresher
4 Nettle Sentinel
4 Llanowar Elves
4 Heritage Druid
4 Devoted Druid
4 Regal Force
4 Ranger of Eos
4 Elvish Archdruid
4 Elvish Visionary
35 creatures

2 Manamorphose
4 Primal Command
6 other spells

Sideboard
4 Great Sable Stag
2 Cloudthresher
3 Oversoul of Dusk
3 Burrenton Forge-Tender
1 Platinum Angel
2 Qasali Pridemage

Summary of the matchup results on the Top 8:
Quarterfinals vs. Garry Wong (5 Color Blood) Won 3-0
Semifinals vs. Hugh Glanville (UB Faeries) Won 3-2
Finals vs. Ian Wood (5 Color Blood) Won 3-0

What Magic (The Gathering) Has Taught Me

Playing Magic for almost half of my life has been very memorable and fun of course. The game has brought me not just strategies, creative thinking and innovations but also new friends, colleagues and even long-time buddies. With that, I decided to reminisce some important lessons I have learned in my nine years of being a Magic player/enthusiast. Here it goes: Read more

New MTG Gateway Promo Cards

I don’t know if you already know about this but for the sake of those who don’t, here are the two new Conflux cards (with an alternate art) that will be included in the Conflux Gateway kits.

The kit is actually composed of the following:
- 40 each of 2 different alternate art promotional cards
- Conflux Magic The Gathering Gateway Kit poster
- Gateway Kit Information Sheet
- Gateway League Tracking Sheet
- How to Run a Magic The Gathering Tournament information
- How to Schedule and Report a Casual Event information
- 5 DCI membership cards to sign up new players

More info about MTG Gateway here.

Info source: The Rumor Mill.

Freebies and Bonuses: Magic The Gathering Edition

Can’t think of something to post. I got stuck at work here in the office in the past few days, doing keyword research and writing Google ads for my new client. This just pop out of my mind while searching for online marketing stuff. I’ve noticed that alot of bonuses and freebies were given every time you join their coaching program or buy their products. These marketing strategies is also applied in Magic card and creature spells. Here are some of them.

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Divine vs. Demonic Packaging Revealed

An update regarding the upcoming Duel Decks: Divine vs. Demonic which was announced last December, Magic Arcana revealed today its packaging. Check it out below.

The display box

A closer look at the box.

We can see that the two cards are the legendary angel Akroma, Angel of Wrath and the demon Lord of the Pit. I am assuming the cards for the Divine deck are something on creatures like Angel of Mercy, and Venerable Monk and holy spells like Angelic Blessing, Angelsong, Congregate, etc.

The black cards I assume would be Terror and the related “evil” stuff. I just hope the list will include strong and Standard playable cards.

Duel Decks: Divine vs. Demonic will be released on April 10.

Top Standard Decks for the First Week of Conflux

Hey all. Looking at the recent online tournaments at Magic League and the Standard decks posted at Deckcheck.net, I’ve decided to give you an update on the top Standard decks people are playing just after Conflux entered the scene. Read more

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