Zendikar Cards from Lotus Noir Magazine

Hey y’all, here’s another Zendikar update we all been waiting for. Here are the seven cards spoiled from the Lotus Noir magazine. These cards featured cool abilities of Landfall and Trap effects. Check it out below.

Blood Extractor BB
Creature – Vampire Spirit
(Rare)
Blood Abomination can’t block.
Blood Abomination has haste if an opponent has 10 life or less.
Landfall – Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, you may return Blood Abomination from your graveyard onto the battlefield.
2/1

Lavaball Trap 6RR
Instant – Trap
(Rare)
If an opponent had two or more lands enter the battlefield under his or her control this turn, you may pay 3RR rather than pay Lavaball Trap’s casting cost.
Destroy two target lands. Lavaball Trap deals 4 damage to each creature.

Oran-Reef Survivalist 1G
Creature – Human Warrior Ally
(Common)
Whenever Oran-Reef Survivalist or another Ally enters the battlefield under your control, you may put a +1/+1 counter on Oran-Reef Survivalist.
“I am strong enough to survive alone. I am smart enough to want companions by my side.”
1/1

Predatory Urge* 3G
Enchantment – Aura
(Rare)
Enchant creature.
Enchanted creature has “{T}: This creature deals damage equal to its power to target creature. That creature deals damage equal to its power to this creature.”

Plated Centipede 1R
Creature – Insect
(Common)
First strike
Landfall – Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, Plated Centipede get +2/+2 until end of turn.
“The Kor-Armorers buy the scales and claws. The Elvish oracles buy the rest.” – Nablus, North-Hada Trapper
1/1

Tomb Lord’s Quest B
Enchantment
(Uncommon)
Whenever a creature is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you may put a quest counter on Tomb Lord’s Quest.
Remove three quest counters from Tomb Lord’s Quest, sacrifice Tomb Lord’s Quest: Put a 5/5 black Zombie Giant creature token onto the battlefield.

Wavering Peaks*
Land
(rarity still unknown)
Wavering Peaks enters the battlefield tapped.
When Wavering Peaks enters the battlefield, target creature gains +2/+0 until end of turn.
{T}: Add R to your mana pool.

You can check out the magazine and card scans from MTG Realm here.

Zendikar Spoiler Updates

Hey guys, a lot of card updates for the upcoming Zendikar set has been revealed today. First off is the complete Sorin Markov planeswalker card. The final piece of the puzzle which is the second ability was revealed at the official Magic site today. It states, “-3 (Pay three loyalty): Target Opponent’s life total becomes 10.” Its a pretty awesome ability that negates whatever the life the opponent has whether its 40, 400 or even 4,000,000 (which is possible for combo decks). Here is the complete Sorin Markov planeswalker card that we will about to see in booster packs this October: Continue reading

French Site Previews A Zendikar Angel

Hey y’all. The Zendikar preview for today came from a French site named Magic Ville in which they showed a white card with an angel art, a flavor text and a name that translates as Iona, Shield of Emeria. Check out the French preview card below.

The card art is also from the two Zendikar playmat products. A closer look at the card image shows that the angel is somewhat casting a spell that wrecks the ruins around her.

This gave me a hint that the card could have an Landfall ability effect. Also, the 3 pairs of Angel wings reminds me of that guardian angel from the game Diablo. Lol. Anyway, my guess of the ability would be like destroying another target land when a land comes into the battlefield under your control or the much powerful Armageddon-like comes into the battlefield effect when you play this angel. The flavor text translates to “The righteous will no longer tremble before evil.” Pretty cool one.

I know everyone of you hate this slow spoiling of the cards but let’s just be patient and see what surprise Wizards has it for us.

The Wrath Of God Is Back In The Day Of Judgment

Yes you’ve read it right folks. It was revealed today at our favorite Rumor Mill that there’s a comeback or should we say a functional reprint for Wrath of God in the form of the sorcery spell Day of Judgment. This will be provided as a promo card for Magic Full Box Promotion (just like the previous Honor of the Pure in M10) for participating store outlets. Check out the card, also with a very cool art by Kev Walker, below. Continue reading

Miss Universe 2009 Bikini Pics

I recently visited a site that linked me to AcidCow’s bikini pics of the lovely contestants of Miss Universe 2009. For your info, the Miss Universe 2009 contest will be held on Bahamas this coming August 23. I hope this time our Ms. Philippines contestant Bianca Manalo would garner a top spot in the contest.

Miss Philippines Bianca Manalo (pic from MissUniverse.com)

Miss Philippines Bianca Manalo (pic from MissUniverse.com)

Some of my other favorites of the Miss Universe 2009 bikini pics are Ms. Venezuela, Ms. Switzerland, Ms. Sweden and Ms. Israel. You can also check their pics at the official Ms. Universe site.

Earthquake Slows RP Internet Connection

The recent slowdown in internet connection here in the country may have been caused by the quake that hit Japan yesterday. As quoted from this report, “While the exact cause is still to be confirmed, it is likely that the Japan earthquake which occurred yesterday, August 11, 2009 is the reason for the international cable faults.” The rest of the article here. Continue reading