Just a few hours earlier today, Wizards officially unveiled the complete card set of Dark Ascension. After checking each of the new cards, my general reaction regarding the set is a big “mehh…” Dark Ascension is good flavor-wise but most of the cards are not Standard-worthy. Continue reading
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Dark Ascension unveils First Planeswalker
Taken from the mothership’s article earlier, entitled Sorin’s Homecoming from Savor the Flavor by Doug Beyer, the card revealed to be the new planeswalker version of Sorin Markov. The article discussed about his relation to Innistrad’s history aside from the plane’s being his birth place. Continue reading
Deck Tech: U/W Shrine Control
Shrine of Loyal Legions is the new Squadron Hawk. Yes, that is my current theory (or those things that pops on your mind out of nowhere). After trying out the artifact in Green White Tokens, I immediately knew its potential, waiting to be explored in Standard. Continue reading
Smash and Throw: A Goblin Deck for Standard
I just love Goblins. My deck in Magic had Goblin Patrol and Goblin War Buggy in it. Those echo cost was a bit clunky but casting them on first and second turns felt really good. These little critters attracted me to become a red player in my early years in the game. Continue reading
Avacyn Restored Announced
The third set of Innistrad, code-named “Roll”, is now revealed as Avacyn Restored. This announcement was made at the mothership last Thursday, stating that this expansion will be a large set and considered separate when drafted. Quoting from the announcement page, Continue reading
Some Innistrad Block Decklists
While preparing for the Innistrad block portion of the Team tourney format for Iloilo Champs 2011, I’ve decided to browse the web for reference lists of the trending decks in the format. After a few clicks, I found a lot of the lists from recent Magic Online tournaments. Here are a few of what I’ve found: Continue reading