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[Magic: The Gathering] Kellen's Excellent Adventure
Kevin Crist
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C&P'd from last thread:
Magic: The Gathering is a fantasy trading card game from Wizards of the Coast that has been in continuous production for over 25 years. You can check out the official website for more information on the franchise as a whole, including articles on game design, strategy, and lore.
The game is played in a variety of formats, from those that can include nearly every card ever printed, to formats that only use sealed product for deck building, to formats that only use common cards. You can find information about all of the official formats here, and both a quick-start guide and the comprehensive rules here.
Here’s a quick rundown of the supported formats:
Vintage – You can play nearly any card ever made, supes expensive
Legacy – You can play most cards ever made, supes expensive
Modern – Play cards from 8th edition and the first robot set, just kind of expensive
Historic - Arena only, not actually mentioned on Wizards website as a format
Pioneer – Play cards from Ravnica (Return to) forward
Standard – Type 2
Brawl – Standard and Commander bumped uglies and made this
Commander – A format of dragons and highlanders
Pauper – Format of the commons
There are also tons of unofficial formats that are supported by communities both online and at your local gaming store.
Arena is the latest digital version of the game, utilizing a free-to-play model and currently supporting the Standard, Historic, and Brawl format and current limited formats, as well as some occasional digital-only formats/oddballs. You can download the game here.
Magic Online is the original digital Magic platform and is still the primary official way to play non-Standard constructed formats online. They also run cube and chaos drafts on MTGO. It looks like an orcs butt, but it gives you the Magic experience. You can download the client here.
If you're interested in competitive play, you can find information on the various levels of paper competitive play here. In addition to Wizards' own high-level tournaments, Star City Games runs their own national tournament series with large monetary prizes and Invitational, you can find information on their tournaments here.
Some other resources:
TCGPlayer.com can help you find the market values of cards before you make a purchase or trade. They also have an iPhone/Android app that allows you to scan cards and find their value/catalog them.
MTG Goldfish also has a price tracker feature with graphs, as well as articles on the game.
Gatherer is the official card search engine from WotC, featuring up-to-date oracle text, errata, format legality, and important rulings for every elk in the game.
Channel Fireball has a lot of articles on magic, but you have to pay for them.
2023 set release dates
I play swamp and thoughtseize.
Magic: The Gathering is a fantasy trading card game from Wizards of the Coast that has been in continuous production for over 25 years. You can check out the official website for more information on the franchise as a whole, including articles on game design, strategy, and lore.
The game is played in a variety of formats, from those that can include nearly every card ever printed, to formats that only use sealed product for deck building, to formats that only use common cards. You can find information about all of the official formats here, and both a quick-start guide and the comprehensive rules here.
Here’s a quick rundown of the supported formats:
Vintage – You can play nearly any card ever made, supes expensive
Legacy – You can play most cards ever made, supes expensive
Modern – Play cards from 8th edition and the first robot set, just kind of expensive
Historic - Arena only, not actually mentioned on Wizards website as a format
Pioneer – Play cards from Ravnica (Return to) forward
Standard – Type 2
Brawl – Standard and Commander bumped uglies and made this
Commander – A format of dragons and highlanders
Pauper – Format of the commons
There are also tons of unofficial formats that are supported by communities both online and at your local gaming store.
Arena is the latest digital version of the game, utilizing a free-to-play model and currently supporting the Standard, Historic, and Brawl format and current limited formats, as well as some occasional digital-only formats/oddballs. You can download the game here.
Magic Online is the original digital Magic platform and is still the primary official way to play non-Standard constructed formats online. They also run cube and chaos drafts on MTGO. It looks like an orcs butt, but it gives you the Magic experience. You can download the client here.
If you're interested in competitive play, you can find information on the various levels of paper competitive play here. In addition to Wizards' own high-level tournaments, Star City Games runs their own national tournament series with large monetary prizes and Invitational, you can find information on their tournaments here.
Some other resources:
TCGPlayer.com can help you find the market values of cards before you make a purchase or trade. They also have an iPhone/Android app that allows you to scan cards and find their value/catalog them.
MTG Goldfish also has a price tracker feature with graphs, as well as articles on the game.
Gatherer is the official card search engine from WotC, featuring up-to-date oracle text, errata, format legality, and important rulings for every elk in the game.
Channel Fireball has a lot of articles on magic, but you have to pay for them.
2023 set release dates
Dominaria Remastered – January 13th, 2023
Phyrexia: All Will Be One – February 10th, 2023
March of the Machine – April 21st, 2023
March of the Machine: The Aftermath – May 12th, 2023
Shadows over Innistrad Remastered – March 21, 2023
The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-Earth – June 23rd, 2023
Commander Masters – August 4th, 2023
Wilds of Eldraine – September 8th, 2023
Doctor Who Commander Decks – October 13th, 2023
The Lost Caverns of Ixalan – Q4 2023
I play swamp and thoughtseize.
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Magic Online - Bertro
Chapter 3
Tamiyo dies at the end of the chapter. She leaves behind a holographic copy of herself, like Superman's dad. Kaya confirms that it's not a spirit in the conventional sense, but Kaito's description of it makes it sound like a sort of artificial kami.
Elspeth is being pushed super hard as this messianic figure who is destined to save everyone. Makes me wonder if the 11th hour reveal about her true nature won't be even crazier than we've guessed. Like, maybe she's not just an angel planeswalker, but also a clone of Serra or something?
Chapter 4
Saheeli and Chandra's mom warned the authorities on Kaladesh that the invasion was coming, so they've spent the last three days mass producing weapons, attack vehicles, and fortifications. Unfortunately, the Phyrexians are smearing themselves all over the defenses to assimilate them and turn them against their creators.
Atraxa is dominating Capenna with little opposition. No planeswalkers have come to the plane's defense. She finds a Maestro museum of Old Phyrexian artifacts. In compliance with the orders she was given in Chapter 1, she destroys the artifacts as a symbolic punishment for the Old Phyrexians' failure in conquering Capenna.
Initial build had lands evenly split 5-5-5 (plus 2 Terramorphics) but I talked myself out of that. Probably shouldn't have run the Vat Emergence at all (I had two and only cut one); it was the card I most boarded out for Compleat Devotion or Sinew Dancer. Two TMs and a Dune Mover really smoothed the mana and it wasn't really a problem.
Did anyone get any Arena codes for ONE from going to a prerelease tournament? I don't recall those getting handed out like usual.
Oh... yeah. I'm sitting on a few, but I've had a crazy couple of weekends since and forgot about them.
I'll dig them up in the morning and do the thing.
OK! After sending one off to Shadowen I have 6 codes left. I'll check the thread periodically, but you can ask via PM too if you'd prefer.
I think I have a couple sitting in my locker, with the kits, I'll dig them out
Edit - thanks Vyolynce!
EDIT: And it's been spoken for. G'night!
I'm wanting to get into standard on arena and I have enough stuff to craft the mono white or mono red deck that are going around right now just not sure if I should go ahead or wait.
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Arcavios:
Ikoria:
I really like how they're showing that multiple other planes besides Capenna have ways to stop the oil or the Phyrexian invasion, they're definitely trying to write themselves out of the oil being a completely unstoppable antagonist.
I am, to be clear, not sorry this will not be happening. But it would have been a bold strategy, Cotton.
Arcavios
Strixhaven itself is basically in ruins. The students performed a ritual successfully enough that it repelled the Phyrexians, but due to complications it failed to restore the school. The invasion is gradually adapting to the protective magic, but it has been slowed enough that Liliana's army can fight it to a standstill.
Dean Shaile and Dean Nassari were both compleated and likely subsequently killed by the ritual.
Dina, Killian, Rootha, Zimone, and Dean Embrose are all confirmed alive.
Quintorius awakens as a planeswalker. His current location is unconfirmed, but if you've been paying attention to the promo art for the next couple sets, you probably have a pretty good guess.
Ikoria
Vivien came to Ikoria's defense. She is currently watching over the refugees.
Chevill, Jirina, Haldan, and Vadrok are confirmed alive.
Finally, they’ll earn that banana this big.
Ever since they committed to return visits to planes being a regular occurrence, WotC has made a conscious effort to keep the geography of newly introduced planes larger and more mysterious.
This is why many recent sets focus on single cities. Kaladesh's Ghirapur, Amonkhet's Naktamun, New Capenna, etc. It's also why Ixalan has whole continents of which we've been informed but have never seen. Bigger planes means fewer headaches when introducing new concepts on return visits, especially new sources of conflict. No more "the merfolk on Ravnica were just deep underground the whole time" and other such embarrassing retcons.
The final broken sword is getting printed in the set.
Legendary Creature – Elder Giant Dog sounds fun.
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Cyclops Homunculus is probably Fblthp & the Humongulus, maybe?
You know, it occurs to me that there's isn't really any support for dog tribal. Rin and Seri exists, but that's cats and dogs. Otherwise you just have Pack Leader, that's it.
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Gonna guess this will be an Autumn Willow & Baron Sengir team-up card. While the Baron has been seen many times since Homelands, Autumn Willow has not. They are both immortal, whereas most other legendary creatures from Homelands would be dead from old age. And they are the two dominant powers on Ulgrotha, with their rivalry referenced in the flavor text on the Fifth Edition reprints of the cards Deathgrip and Lifeforce.
No shit. Even popular planes like Eldraine and Kaldheim have never been in a card name before, so this "hint" tells us nothing. Would have been nice if he had told us how many instances of this are in the set.
I suspect the other draft archetype that cares about creature types will reward playing creatures who don't share a type, This synergizes with the "team up against the existential foe" flavor of the set. Safe bets are that Black/Green will be the Phyrexian combo and Red/White will be team up combo.
As the spellshaper creature type originated in Mercadian Masques, I'm going to guess that this card will be a Kyren, one of the Bizarro World smart goblins of Mercadia.
As has been discussed above, these are all team up cards. Specifically, they are Kroxa & Kunoros, Kolga & Yidaro, and Borborygmos & Fblthp.
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Are they in town?
Hopefully not. I think towns cease to be towns when Borborygmos is in them.
But technically yes, if you count "world-spanning city" as "town."
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