Well, they've uploaded the full list into the image gallery (scroll down) for M15, so I can actually give a decent prerelease guess at what are going to be good cards (more so for limited) and just cards I'm exited about. Minor warning though as they don't appear to be in gatherer yet, just the gallery, so links are going to not exist in this article. I suppose I should keep with the "probably better in limited" stack and mix in the favorite cards with those.
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Friday, July 4, 2014
Wednesday, July 2, 2014
Theros Block: Part the Second
After the entertaining set that was Theros, I was hoping to see some good things out of Born of the Gods, but alas, as a whole, the set didn't live up to that personal hype.
Inspired was a cool mechanic, in theory. The only problem was to use it effectively you needed two conditions: A) Tap your creature and B) Untap a still living creature. In a limited format, this is somewhat easy, as Deepwater Hypnotist is a better card than I first thought if your opponent chooses to make a poor early choice, effectively keeping itself alive. But in a more....planned format you basically need to rely on tap effects or tap costs under most situations. This made it a lot less desirable. Then again, we saw a Springleaf Drum reprint for this so.......I'm not one to judge beyond that.
Tribute was another introduced mechanic, although this was a bit cooler and well done. Take Oracle of Bones for example. Either you deal with a 5/3 haste Minotaur, or you let it be a 3/1 and possibly take a Bolt of Keranos to the face, or worse, Fated Return. (On a side note, the Fated cycle were interesting, but maybe could have been handled a tiny bit better.)
Once again they bring us more enchantment creatures, and bestow, but not on the same card. Meet the bane of EDH for this one, and the reason why I'm/we're no longer allowed to do 4 man Bant vs Bant, Perplexing Chimera.
Inspired was a cool mechanic, in theory. The only problem was to use it effectively you needed two conditions: A) Tap your creature and B) Untap a still living creature. In a limited format, this is somewhat easy, as Deepwater Hypnotist is a better card than I first thought if your opponent chooses to make a poor early choice, effectively keeping itself alive. But in a more....planned format you basically need to rely on tap effects or tap costs under most situations. This made it a lot less desirable. Then again, we saw a Springleaf Drum reprint for this so.......I'm not one to judge beyond that.
Tribute was another introduced mechanic, although this was a bit cooler and well done. Take Oracle of Bones for example. Either you deal with a 5/3 haste Minotaur, or you let it be a 3/1 and possibly take a Bolt of Keranos to the face, or worse, Fated Return. (On a side note, the Fated cycle were interesting, but maybe could have been handled a tiny bit better.)
Once again they bring us more enchantment creatures, and bestow, but not on the same card. Meet the bane of EDH for this one, and the reason why I'm/we're no longer allowed to do 4 man Bant vs Bant, Perplexing Chimera.
I don't often intend to post full cards in summaries like this, at least for more recent sets, but this card was made to cause glorious chaos. I'm tempted to use this and Kiki-Jiki for some high level shenanigans. The only downside of creatures like these comes to adding another way to get rid of them (i.e. enchantment hate). Getting back on topic though we also got the rather entertaining Archetype cycle, which I like the call the "no one is allowed to have nice things" cycle. No to trample, first strike, flying, hex proof or death touch, just not allowed to have them. They're more worth to have in a deck to deny the benefits they give, although the benefits are nice indeed.
Scry returned, devotion and gods returned, but this time with 7 devotion requirements and no enchantment artifact cycle. Due to the multiple color requirement they were easier/harder to get out. As you may have noticed this (seems to me anyway) is shorter than the first part, one because fewer new things to explain, and two smaller set.
Sunday, June 22, 2014
Theros Block: Part the First
Theros (when it first came out) was a very interesting set concept. With focus on enchantments for the block, I sort of had high hopes for how things would turn out. The first set was a fun one for that initial draft and still has some gems to it. My personal favorites of the set are probably still Curse of Swine and Shipbreaker Kraken, and I normally don't run blue (nothing against it, but for most of my MtG experience I was usually white/green/black with a splash of blue and red over the years). Voyaging Satyr is an all around great card as well. But enough about silly things in blue, I suppose I should go on about the set as a whole. Let us talk first about enchantments.
It's all a Conspiracy, I tell ya!
Sure enough, one of my recent experiences was to have a nice sample game of MtG's weirdest set in a while, Conspiracy. If I didn't know better, they were working out not having made an Un-set in a long time.
For those that don't know, Conspiracy is basically a draft set with a bunch of silly new cards and reprints like Exploration or Phage, the Untouchable (which is aZombie Avatar Minion like it should always have been rather than a flavor fail Zombie despite her having a kid while being Phage instead of Jeska...but enough about lore) and fun new cards like Selvala and Marchesa, and reprinting the classic land cycle set of commons. Oh right, and official squirrel tokens.
For those that don't know, Conspiracy is basically a draft set with a bunch of silly new cards and reprints like Exploration or Phage, the Untouchable (which is a
Friday, September 28, 2012
Return of the Duelist Special Edition RevOpening (Review and Opening)
Monday, August 27, 2012
A Look Back, Yugioh!: Duelist Pack 2 Chazz Princeton
Let us move on in order to the second Duelist Pack, Chazz Princeton. It had the same release dates in the TCG and the OCG as the first Duelist Pack, as it went hand in hand with Jaden's pack, and overall was a good choice to help introduce this new idea of a small, character focused pack.
On the cover is Armed Dragon LV10, card only found in this pack and in Duel Terminal 5, while the other levels are easier to come by (with LV7 being found in three packs, including this, and not counted was the promo in a Wal-Mart package, and LV3 and LV5 being in several decks). A rather nice yet difficult card to get out at times, due to its unique summoning conditions, but more on that later.
Overall in terms of the cards in this pack, 17 of the 30 cards are monsters (including fusions), 9 spells, and 4 traps. Time to break these down a bit.
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
A Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG Wall of Text Review: STARTER DECK: XYZ SYMPHONY
Well, it is that time of year again, where those of us who play the Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG get to see the new Starter Deck come out. And boy, there are some rather nice things to come in this one, at least in my humble opinion as both a player of the game and a general fan of it. Biggest thing to point out is this comes with 5 monsters for the Extra Deck, which I believe was a first for a preconstructed deck, and all of them are different to boot.
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| Rather odd to have that 39 cut out and a separate illustration underneath the top of the box, although I rather like it. The general deck box format has kind of gotten monotonous. |
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
A Look Back, Yu-Gi-Oh!: Duelist Pack 1 Jaden Yuki
Released back in early 2006 for us in the TCG, this was a new concept for us. Rather than having a set of cards that were usually based on a few concepts, we got a set of cards belonging to the main character, well kind of. We didn't get all of them (and to this day I wonder what the list of cards Jaden used in show and manga adds up to, but I'm certain it probably is not legal for deck size).
Elemental HERO Steam Healer was the cover card, and outside of the packs that made up the Slifer Red Mega Packs in The Legendary Collection 2, the only place to pull one. With a seemingly unimpressive 1800 attack and 1000 defense points, this fusion of Elemental HEROs Burstinatrix and Bubbleman has the nice effect of gaining Life Points equal to the attack of any monster it destroys in battle and sends to the grave. This means all you really need is some proper buffing. Worst case scenario it is a Water attribute so if you have Masked Hero Vapor (or the soon to be released Acid for us in the TCG) then Mask Change will be useful. But enough on the signature card, let us break down the card list quickly.
Saturday, March 10, 2012
Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG Order of Chaos Special Edition
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| Above: An opened box of the Order of Chaos Special Edition |
Monday, February 20, 2012
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