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Full M10 Spoiler

July 4th, 2009
by Calvin

The full M10 spoiler is out, and I’ve been fixing plenty of problems with the spoiler with help from the people at MTG Salvation. It is still MSE mockups, and I appreciate any help with the card arts, so if you have any images, please post them in a comment. You can download the spoiler here. I will post some highlights tomorrow. If you want to find out the fate of Wrath of God, you can look in the spoiler, but I won’t post is here.

The prerelease is July 11-12, and the release is July 19-20. I will post again tomorrow, until then, happy Independance Day. (For Americans)

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Card Of The Month…June 2009?

July 2nd, 2009
by Zach

Ok aparently we have a tie…Exactly between
Maelstrom Pulse
Noble Hierarch

…I know which one I want to win…
Alright I’m going to put up a new poll that will be untill next wednesday.

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Many new M10 cards

June 28th, 2009
by Calvin

In fact, 220/249 cards in M10 have been spoiled. I can’t post every one of them here, but I have the Visual Spoiler as always. (8.1 MB file) In it, you’ll find every single reprint. In fact, you can find out all 8 cards in the poll through it – but I’m not going to post what they are here because some people do not like to be spoiled. Instead, I’ll just update as Magic Arcana updates. I’m going to post all of the mythic rares today, and over the next few days I will post a few rares each day. (You can still see all of them in the visual spoiler.)

Darksteel Colossus

This is a reprint, so we already know its power. It’’s a tournament staple in formats where it is easy to sneak into play

Master of the Wild hunt

Platinum Angel

This creature is surprisingly resistant, lying just out of reach of lightning bolt and having protection from a lot of black’s removal. But the fact that it dies to terminate and costs 7 makes it unlikely that it help prevent you from losing in a tournament. (Although it can result in situations where your life total is at -20 and you’re alive, in casual games)

Protean Hydra

This is another fun casual card. In a casual game, this can become huge.

Sphinx Ambasador

Another casual mythic. (Most mythics are)

Xathrid Demon

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M10 Previews, Wrath of God out?

June 25th, 2009
by Calvin

First, here’s the visual spoiler, with all of the known cards so far. (It has some cards not shown here, and they’re all MSE mockups) Second, with the new cards, it seems unlikely that Wrath of God is in M10. There aren’t many sets with more than one full board sweeper.

Bogardan Hellkite

Boggardan Hellkite is back, at mythic rarity this time.

Baneslayer Angel

This is a good card, if you’re a casual player. It’s a lot like any other angel, large with a long list of abilities.

Harms Way

Harm’s Way is another card that can make up for the lack of Wrath of God, along with Silence and the next card. You redirect 2 damage from you to your opponent’s face, or one of their creatures, which can keep you alive one turn longer so that you can, next turn, play:
Planar Cleansing

This gives you a good excuse to play oblivion ring on your own permanents, which would give you a big advantage after this resolves.

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Overrun and Giant Growth in M10m Duel Land, Magic Facebook group

June 24th, 2009
by Calvin

As you might have noticed, I’ve been updating the poll, setting the number of votes to 950 or 0 as we know what’s in and out. So far, the poll has guessed correctly 4 times out of 4, or 100%.  Magic has a Facebook group where they’ve been spoiling some cards – two so far. You can view the page here. I have been updating the MSE visual spoiler. You can download that here. Overrun is also going to be in M10, and I also have one duel land image – Drowned Catacomb. Here are all 3 images:

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“Fixed”

June 22nd, 2009
by Zach

Hi its Zach I’ve fixed the Polls part on the sidebar. You can now vote on all the old Polls that were there and a “new” poll did YOU like the SoA block?

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Golden Lotus is fake, Fear not in M10

June 22nd, 2009
by Calvin

The image on Golden Lotus is actually on one of the duel lands. This messes up the card of the month poll. I had to delete the poll and remake it. You can vote again, if you voted in the original poll. Fear, one of the cards printed in every core set until now, is not going to be in M10. This leaves 14 cards, out of which 7 will be in M10. (Nightmare is the eighth.) Also, the polls aren’t working. Only the newest poll is displayed, instead of any that I want displayed. This is a problem with the plugin, not something I can fix. I have compressed my MSE mockups so far into a .zip file that you can download here. This is the first time I’ve done it. Each time I spoil cards, I will include the newest version. Feel free to comment on any of the cards or point out errors if you find any. No, I do not have the arts for the basic lands. I included them because they are in the set.

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Lightning Bolt in M10, other preview cards

June 18th, 2009
by Calvin

Lightning Bolt

While this is a MSE mockup, the image is correct. This is an old card that was discontinued because of power level. But now it’s back, dealing 3 damage for one mana. Actually, it is possible that it is going to be uncommon, but it is more likely to be common. Does this mean Counterspell is coming back, too? We’ll see about that.

The Rack

The Rack is back, also. This will be its first time in the new frame, like lightning bolt.

Shivan Dragon

Another classic in M10.

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Golden Lotus Fake?

June 12th, 2009
by Calvin

Now there is a possibility that Golden Lotus was a fake card. some people on MTG Salvation are saying it’s fake. I don’t know right now if it is or not, we’ll find out in July.

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7 Rules Changes as of M10 + Preview cards

June 11th, 2009
by Calvin

On July 13, 2009, the rules of Magic will change slightly. These are mostly small changes that won’t be noticed, but some are importand. I’ll summarize each one, but if you want to read everything, there are detailed descriptions here.

1.  Simultaneous Mulligans

Starting July 13, mulligans will no longer be taken be one person first, then the other person. Instead, everyone will take announce their mulligans at the same time and take them simultaneously. If you didn’t know that you were supposed to take the mulligans in a certain order, than this won’t affect you at all.

2. Terminology changes

This is a change that won’t affect gameplay at all. In play now is the battlefield, spells that are played are now cast, abilities are activated, cards that are removed from the game are exiled, and abilities that happen at end of turn now happen at the  beginning of the end step. (While things that last until end of turn end after those things)

3. Mana Pools and Mana Burn

Mana burn is gone. Also, mana polls empty after every step and phase, instead of just emptying after every phase.

EDIT: I just realized that this invalidates the poll… I’ll close it now.

4. Token Ownership

Instead of the owner being the person who controlled the effect that put it into play, the owner is now the player whose control it came into play under.

5. Combat Damage No Longer Uses the Stack

This is simple. This eliminates a ton of tricks, and Mog Fanatic is now much less useful. Also, the way multiple blockers are handled has changed. Instead of the attacker assigning damage as s/he chooses, s/he chooses the order in which the creatures receive the damage, and damage is not done to the second creature in line at all until enough damage has been done to he first creature to kill it.

6&7. Lifelink and Deathtouch no longer use the stack

Both of the effects happen as a state-based effect as soon as the damage has been done. This means that if you are at 1, and block a 3/3 with a 2/2 with lifelink, and you let a 1/1 go through, you will not die. Under the old rules, lifelink would go on the stack, but then you would die before it could do anything. Also, 2 instances of lifelink now create only one effect. (For example, under the old rules, if you played Titanic Ultimatum on a rhox war monk, you would gain 14 life from the attack, but now you will only gain 7.)

Now for the preview cards. They are also in the article:

This is the new nonbasic duel land. It looks like Wizards is printing more and more nonbasic land hate, and they actually managed to print nonbasic hate on a nonbasic land with this card. This is probably a cycle of 5 lands with the same effect, only different colors, so this card is actually 5 preview cards in one.

This is a 2/1 with lifelink. Not a big deal.

This card is also not a very big deal, because it’s a 2/2 which will destroy one creature, and one artifact, enchantment, or land.

Any deck with enough skeletons, vampires, and zombies to make this useful will also have enough removal to destroy it as soon as it comes into play.

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