Hey all. I hope you had a fun weekend. I’m sure you are all excited to see the start of the Zendikar previews today. There was quite a lot added today in the visual spoiler as well the card previews from today’s articles (we gotta thank them because despite the Labor Day holiday, they still went with the previews). Anyway in case you haven’t heard, fetchlands are back in Zendikar. This time its with the enemy colors. Check out Arid Mesa: Continue reading →

You might be curious about the title, but today’s Zendikar previews proved my post title above and you will be happily swinging with your Goblin friends again. First, let’s do a recap.

I remembered my early days of playing Magic wherein I first gazed upon the Goblin deck in Standard at the time of Tempest and Urza block. That deck featured powerful Goblin cards, a couple of burn spells, and fueled late game with the insane artifact named Cursed Scroll. I’m sure you’ll remember this particular Goblin which was also popular in Legacy and was even banned at one time. Yep, I’m talking about this card: Continue reading →

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.

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 →