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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 →

Jamie Mackintosh Wins Australia Nationals

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Jamie Mackintosh is the 2009 Australian Nationals champion piloting a G/W Elf Ball deck and defeating (or rather sweeping) Ian Wood’s 5-color Blood deck in the finals. Here’s the decklist:

Maindeck
8 Forest
1 Plains
4 Wooded Bastion
4 Sunpetal Grove
2 Windbrisk Heights
19 land

1 Burrenton Forge-Tender
1 Mirror Entity
1 Cloudthresher
4 Nettle Sentinel
4 Llanowar Elves
4 Heritage Druid
4 Devoted Druid
4 Regal Force
4 Ranger of Eos
4 Elvish Archdruid
4 Elvish Visionary
35 creatures

2 Manamorphose
4 Primal Command
6 other spells

Sideboard
4 Great Sable Stag
2 Cloudthresher
3 Oversoul of Dusk
3 Burrenton Forge-Tender
1 Platinum Angel
2 Qasali Pridemage

Summary of the matchup results on the Top 8:
Quarterfinals vs. Garry Wong (5 Color Blood) Won 3-0
Semifinals vs. Hugh Glanville (UB Faeries) Won 3-2
Finals vs. Ian Wood (5 Color Blood) Won 3-0

What Magic (The Gathering) Has Taught Me

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Playing Magic for almost half of my life has been very memorable and fun of course. The game has brought me strategies, creative thinking, innovations, and new friends, colleagues, and even long-time buddies. With that, I decided to reminisce about some important lessons I have learned in my nine years as a Magic player/enthusiast. Here it goes:

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Freebies and Bonuses: Magic The Gathering Edition

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Can’t think of something to post. I got stuck at work in the office in the past few days, doing keyword research and writing Google ads for my new client. This just popped out of my mind while searching for online marketing stuff. I’ve noticed that a lot of bonuses and freebies are given every time you join their coaching program or buy their products. These marketing strategies are also applied in Magic card and creature spells. Here are some of them.

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MTG Pauper Magic Deck Strategies

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My friends and day shift colleagues have been playtesting Pauper decks on MWS in preparation for our upcoming month-end Pauper Magic tournament. The five of them started playtesting last week, holding mini tourneys every afternoon. So far, they have come up with great deck ideas for the tournament. Check out some of their build below.

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