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Some Interesting Extended Decks in GP Oakland

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The Mtg 2010 Season kicked off with Grand Prix Oakland last weekend, and as Day Two got to a close, we saw pros perform on the last remaining rounds to get to the top 8. Well, the final eight have 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.

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My Notable Worldwake Cards

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The previous weekend was the worldwide release party of the recent Magic: The Gathering expansion, Worldwake, which was also the expansion set of Zendikar. As players talk about the powerful cards of the set (I’m referring to the new Jace and the demon Abyssal Persecutor) which can be a possible inclusion in the current Standard, I think I can say that Worldwake isn’t that impressive like Zendikar. There are a number of playable cards though, waiting to be discovered and abused. Let’s take a look at the candidates. Continue reading →

Worldwake Spoiler Update

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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.
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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

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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: Continue reading →

MTG – How to Deal With Jund

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Hi all. It may be known to you or you have noticed lately that the Jund aggro seems to be the most dominating deck in the current Zendikar Standard.

As I have checked on the recent tournaments on Magic Online and on Magic League, the results have proven it. It seems that the new cards aren’t enough to counter the power of the Cascade spells.

However, we analyze a few weaknesses of the deck, which later on we can use to adjust to our deck-building strategies. Here are a few of them:

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