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

Tournament Report: Phil. Open Day 2 – Standard (11th place)

Hi all. It’s been one week since I went to Manila to participate in the Magic: the Gathering Philippine Open 2009, together with the rest of Team Iloilo. To recall, Mao and Oliver got invites to the Nationals and the Phil. Open was the side event. They started well on the Standard part but got the losses on the Drafts. On Day 1 of the Philippine Open which is an Alara Block format, I decided to pilot my friend’s 5 color aggro. I started 1-2 and frustrated, decided to drop early because I wasn’t really comfortable with the deck’s lack of removal. I just went ahead and took some pictures of the Day One happenings and promised myself to get it back on the Standard format the next day. Continue reading

The One Booster Draft

Hey guys. If you want to enjoy drafting but don’t have the budget, why not try the one booster draft. Here’s how it works:

What You Need

1. A booster pack
2. Some basic lands

The Rules

1. Each player picks a card from the pack and pass it to the direction agreed by the group. Do this until all the cards in the pack are drafted.

2. The players will then create a deck out of the chosen cards provided the deck will have a minimum of 25 cards and all the drafted cards must be used.

3. They will then be randomly paired and the game time will be the same with the normal time on regular drafts.

4. Each player starts at 15 life. Whoever gets his opponent’s life to zero wins.

5. The top four players after three rounds get the prizes, or you can make it cheaper and utilize the packs by picks by rank (i.e. the first place gets the first pick, and then the next pick for the 2nd placer and so on).

So there you have it. I hope you can try it and still enjoy drafting with just a booster to spend. 😀

p.s. watch out for the report of our trip to the MTG Philippine Open last weekend. Until next time.