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Forbidden Alchemy 2U
Instant (C)
Look at the top four cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.
Flashback 6B
Illus. David Rapoza
55/264

Memory's Journey 1U
Instant (U)
Target player shuffles up to three target cards from his or her graveyard into his or her library.
Flashback G
Illus. Slawomir Maniak
66/264

Think Twice 1U
Instant (C)
Draw a card.
Flashback 2U
Illus. Anthony Francisco
83/264

Corpse Lunge 2B
Instant (C)
As an additional cost to cast Corpse Lunge, exile a creature card from your graveyard.
Corpse Lunge deals damage equal to the exiled card's power to target creature.
Illus. Christopher Moeller
93/264

Falkenrath Noble 3B
Creature - Vampire (U)
Flying
Whenever Falkenrath Novle or another creature dies, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
2/2
Illus. Slawomir Maniak
100/264

Sever the Bloodline 3B
Sorcery (R)
Exile target creature and all other creatures with the same name as that creature.
Flashback 5BB
Illus. Clint Cearley
115/264

 

[siddx]

Sever the bloodlines seems like a really shitty Damnation. It's great against token decks but beyond that its a 4 cost single creature kill spell 95% of the time.
If it read non land permanent rather than creature then we'd be talking.

Speaking of tokens, Falkenrath Noble should be in every zombie token deck.

 

[Lucario]

Forbidden Alchemy is a fantastic card. Wish it was an instant, but I'm still very impressed; great common, especially in theorycrafting necrotic ooze/scholar/molten-tail decks! Also, think twice is a pretty powerful draw spell, and I'm very glad it's back. Happy with the previews today.

 

[Kurtofan]

Forbidden Alchemy is a fantastic card. Wish it was an instant, but I'm still very impressed; great common, especially in theorycrafting necrotic ooze/scholar/molten-tail decks! Also, think twice is a pretty powerful draw spell, and I'm very glad it's back. Happy with the previews today.

Forbidden Alchemy is an instant.

 

[f0rk]

Speaking of tokens, Falkenrath Noble should be in every zombie token deck.

He combos well with that flip bat token dude as well.

 

[rexor0717]

I kinda forbid myself from running curiosity in my Niv-Mizzet deck, but now that its going to be in standard again, I may reconsider. I wonder how much constructed play it'll see. Either way, looks like I'm definitely picking up a Innistrad Fat Pack.

 

[Kurtofan]

New cards again:



Feral Ridgewolf 2r
Creature - Wolf (C)
Trample
1r: Feral Ridgewolf gets +2/+0 until end of turn.
1/2
Illus. Martina Pilcerova
142/264

Geistflame r
Instant (C)
Geistflame deals 1 damage to target creature or player.
Flashback 3r
Illus. Scott Chou
144/264

Past in Flames 3r
??? (M)
Each instant or sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback until end of turn. The flashback cost is equal to its mana cost.
Flashback 4r
Illus. Anthony Jones
155/264

Elder of Laurels 2g
Creature - Human Advisor (R)
3g: Target creature gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of creatures you control.
2/3
Illus. Terese Nielsen
177/264

Make a Wish 3g
Sorcery (U)
Return two cards at random from your graveyard to your hand.
Illus. Howard Lyon
???/264

Mulch 1g
Sorcery (C)
Reveal the top four cards of your library. Put all land cards revealed this way into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.
Illus. Christopher Moeller
196/264

Naturalize 1g
Instant (C)
Destroy target artifact or enchantment.
Illus. Scott Chou
197/264

 

[Morn]

DUELS OF THE PLANESWALKERS 2012 IS CURRENTLY ON SALE FOR $5 ON STEAM

 

[OneEightZero]

DUELS OF THE PLANESWALKERS 2012 IS CURRENTLY ON SALE FOR $5 ON STEAM

Go! Go! Go!

 

[Totakeke]

They're reprinting Yawgmoth's Will? ;O

 

[WanderingWind]

Innistrad comes out next week? Spoilers successfully dodged!

 

[ultron87]

Innistrad comes out next week? Spoilers successfully dodged!

Well the prerelease is the weekend after this weekend. So you've still got a bit to go.

 

[WanderingWind]

Well the prerelease is the weekend after this weekend. So you've still got a bit to go.

Oh. So release is when?

 

[The Technomancer]

Wait...so is there a week between preview weeks and pre-release weekend? Have they ever done that before?

 

[kudos.]

DUELS OF THE PLANESWALKERS 2012 IS CURRENTLY ON SALE FOR $5 ON STEAM

No good for Apple Platforms. SAD.

 

[rexor0717]

They're reprinting Yawgmoth's Will? ;O

Its like Yawgmoth's Will Jr. Really interesting card though, I know a deck that could use it.

 

[TheSeks]

No good for Apple Platforms. SAD.

Buy it anyway. You can use it with Bootcamp.

 

[ultron87]

Oh. So release is when?

September 30th according to the product page on Wizards.

 

[Fragamemnon]

They're reprinting Yawgmoth's Will? ;O

I think the card's not too broken. It's like when they printed Time Reversal and people thought "they are reprinting Time Twister? OMG".

- Will cost one less and was/is a format with fastbond, rituals and artifact mana.
- There's no Black Lotus to play on a Will turn then recur on that same turn.
- What you can recur and do is much worse when your deck isn't the T1 restricted list.

It might be something useful in Legacy storm, which could honestly use some help. I don't think it's going to make TES start to look more like Vintage TPS though.

 

[kudos.]

Buy it anyway. You can use it with Bootcamp.

I already have MTGO on bootcamp and it's a hassle to switch over and not have music. It's one of the reasons I don't play too often. I wanted this more for convenience than anything.

 

[Haly]

The promo card can't be redeemed in MTGO, can it?

 

[siddx]

Some more new cards, blacked out for WW

Spoiler

Parallel Lives 3g
Enchantment Rare
If an effect would put one or more tokens onto the battlefield under your control, it puts twice that many tokens onto the battlefield instead.

Nice, a slightly cheaper doubling season that only targets tokens.

One-Eyed Scarecrow 3
Artifact Creature - Scarecrow Common
Defender
Creatures with flying your opponents control get -1/-0.
Illus. David Kendall #230/264 2/3

I really really like this for limited. Can go into any color deck and puts a hurt on flyer heavy decks.

Sharpened Pitchfork 2
Artifact - Equipment Common
Equipped creature has first strike.
As long as equipped creature is a Human, it gets +1/+1.
Equip 1

A decent enough cheapo equipment, again fairly decent for limited where throwing it on a creature turn three might make the difference.

Witchbane Orb 4
Artifact Rare
When Witchbane Orb enters the battlefield, destroy all Curses attached to you.
You have hexproof.

First ability is whatever, only good in block really. But the second is very nice. I'd play it if I drafted it.

 

[The Technomancer]

Hmmm

Spoiler

Paralell Lives doesn't excite me that much, it doesn't feel quite as wacky as DS. The latter of which seriously needs to drop in price, augh

 

[Totakeke]

Wait, what's WW and why are we using spoiler tags now?

Anyway I like the flavor on the cards if nothing else.

 

[The Technomancer]

Wait, what's WW and why are we using spoiler tags now?

Anyway I like the flavor on the cards if nothing else.

Wandering Wind, who's trying to avoid Innistrad spoilers.

 

[WanderingWind]

You guys rock! I'm good at scrolling past shit though.

So, what do you guys do when you get too many cards? Do you just have boxes of cards just kicking around?

 

[The Technomancer]

You guys rock! I'm good at scrolling past shit though.

So, what do you guys do when you get too many cards? Do you just have boxes of cards just kicking around?

Pretty much. However if I introduce another new player into the game I have waaaaay too much Zendikar with which to gift them, a result of drafting every week for two whole semesters my freshman year.

Also, new preview card today:

Spoiler

Geist of Saint Traft

looks extremely good in limited. Will be smashing a lot of faces at three mana.

 

[siddx]

You guys rock! I'm good at scrolling past shit though.

So, what do you guys do when you get too many cards? Do you just have boxes of cards just kicking around?

I have a ridiculous amount of cards just sitting in cardboard boxes. Eventually when I get some time I'm going to do what my friend does and sort out all the ones I want to keep and sell the rest as bulk. It's going to be a ridiculous process though that will take more time than I am willing to give right now.

 

[ultron87]

Also, new preview card today:

Spoiler

Geist of Saint Traft

looks extremely good in limited. Will be smashing a lot of faces at three mana.

Shame it doesn't share any colors with

Spoiler

parallel lives.

 

[Fragamemnon]

that new card you are talking about is a surefire $20-$25 mythic. I'll be shooting to get three, but him+snapcasters+liliana+real estate is going to put a whopper hit on my trade binder (and wallet). Hopefully I'll get lucky in some prereleases.

Happy to have

Spoiler

Think Twice

back in the format. That's an excellent Standard format card.

 

[Kurtofan]

Silence of Stone 1W
Enchantment (R)
Artifact abilities cannot be activated.
Illus. Wayne England
36/264

Edit:VVVVV Doh I feel very silly.

 

[Totakeke]

Silence of Stone
Enchantment (R)
Artifact abilities cannot be activated.
Illus. Wayne England
36/264

Mana cost??

Edit: It's 1W.

 

[f0rk]

Went to a draft today, my first time really playing Magic after that Celebration event and I went 2-1! Think I drew a good deck and had quite a bit of fun.
For anyone interested my deck was

Llanowar Elves x2
Gladecover Scout
Jade Mage
Garruk's Companion
Lurking Crocodile x2
Giant Spider
Carnage Wurm
Titanic Growth
Overrun
Merfolk Looter
Lord of the Unreal (my first pick, someone else got 3 bears I would have liked!)
Skywinder Drake x3 (had one in sideboard as well)
Aether Adept x2
Aven Fleetwing
Phantasmal Dragon
Unsummon
Mana Leak x2

Didn't get to play Overrun once

 

[Morn]

The Duels 2012 expansion is out...and it has Innistrad cards.

 

[darkside31337]

Some new trophies / achievements too.

The new Liliana deck in this expansion is so god damn bad. Literally struggling to win a match with it. It's just a total mess of a deck.

 

[Morn]

Some new trophies / achievements too.

The new Liliana deck in this expansion is so god damn bad. Literally struggling to win a match with it. It's just a total mess of a deck.

Huh? No way. It's an awesome old-school (like Alpha/Beta/Revised) Underworld Dreams/Rack combo deck.

 

[siddx]

Expansion is out? Fucking right, downloading it the minute I get home.

 

[An-Det]

I just bought it, about to try it out now (on steam).

 

[Home]

Going to get back into MTG at the prerelease next weekend - I haven't played in about 3 years. Will my DCI number still exist or do I need to get a new one?

 

[Ashenai]

Going to get back into MTG at the prerelease next weekend - I haven't played in about 3 years. Will my DCI number still exist or do I need to get a new one?

I don't think DCI numbers are revoked under any circumstances, it should still exist. You can check it yourself, though: try entering it HERE (in the "membership number" field.)

 

[Hex]

Some new trophies / achievements too.

The new Liliana deck in this expansion is so god damn bad. Literally struggling to win a match with it. It's just a total mess of a deck.

I have run through everyone with it yet, starting back at Koth and just beat Chandra.
Been pretty easy with it.

 

[The Technomancer]

Going to get back into MTG at the prerelease next weekend - I haven't played in about 3 years. Will my DCI number still exist or do I need to get a new one?

Yeah, you should be good. I took a break from sanctioned events from Ravnica all the way through Zendikar and I was fine.

 

[Totakeke]

Werewolves.dec got their ratchet bomb protection.

That's just asking to be broken! Free Myr Superion.

 

[Chojin]

Werewolves.dec got their ratchet bomb protection.

That's just asking to be broken! Free Myr Superion.

That doesn't protect them. CMC and Casting Cost while both having Casting Cost in their name are not the same thing. You can never alter the actual CMC of a card. Also, hosing your own creatures to make a creature maybe good is never um... good.

With that said, I could see it being broken in half with Myr Retriever for some kind of combo.

 

[Totakeke]

That doesn't protect them. CMC and Casting Cost while both having Casting Cost in their name are not the same thing. You can never alter the actual CMC of a card. Also, hosing your own creatures to make a creature maybe good is never um... good.

With that said, I could see it being broken in half with Myr Retriever for some kind of combo.

That's not the card that gives werewolves ratchet bomb protection. It's the full moon enchantment that can be sacrificed to regen all werewolves.

 

[Morn]

Going to get back into MTG at the prerelease next weekend - I haven't played in about 3 years. Will my DCI number still exist or do I need to get a new one?

I just started playing again after a TEN YEAR break, and got a new DCI number. But last week I was looking at Event Recorder and my old DCI number is still active from the last pre-release I did...Mirage?

 

[Kurtofan]

Some new cards:
Avacynian Priest 1W
Creature - Human Cleric (C)
1,Tap : Tap target non-Human creature.
1/2
Illus. Greg Staples
4/264

Frightful Delusion 2U
Instant (C)
Counter target spell unless its controller pays 1 . That player discards a card.
Illus. Anthony Palumbo
57/264

Abattoir Ghoul 3B
Creature - Zombie (U)
First strike
Whenever a creature dealt damage by Abattoir Ghoul this turn dies, you gain life equal to that creature's toughness.
3/2
Illus. Volkan Baga
85/264

Burning Vengeance 2R
Enchantment (U)
Whenever you cast a spell from your graveyard, Burning Vengeance deals 2 damage to target creature or player.
Illus. Raymond Swanland
133/264

Darkthicket Wolf 1G
Creature - Wolf (C)
2G: Darkthicket Wolf gets +2/+2 until end of turn. Activate this ability only once each turn.
2/2
Illus. Wayne England
175/264

Trepanation Blade 3
Artifact - Equipment (U)
Whenever equipped creature attacks, defending player reveals cards from the top of his or her library until he or she reveals a land card. The creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn for each card revealed this way. That player puts the revealed cards into his or her graveyard.
Equip 2
Illus. Daniel Ljunggren
235/264

 

[The Technomancer]

Oh yeah, Full Moons Rise is going to make Werewolf decks about ten times more viable.

 

[y2dvd]

Nevermore sounds nice. Use that Gitaxian Probe to reveal opponent's hand, cast Nevermore, name card. Done and done.

Trepanation Blade sounds dirty too. Will put it on my blighted agent or tormented soul.

 

[Chojin]

That's not the card that gives werewolves ratchet bomb protection. It's the full moon enchantment that can be sacrificed to regen all werewolves.

Ahh my bad, I took your post out of context.

Yeah it's a start. I just dislike the inherent weakness of the lack of a CMC in werewolves or transform cards. If I were to play werewolves, I'd play that card though, most definitely.