Hello. Today, I am going to pose a challenge to all of you. When you buy your Zendikar booster packs, instead of opening them all at once, open them one pack per day. Each day, open one pack and post your results in a comment. I am taking the challenge, with somewhere between 18 and 36 packs to open (Or more if I win prizes at the release party). I will post the contents on the blog when I open them. Now, if you open 200 booster boxes (and you know who you are), you can still take the challenge. You are the store owners or über collectors. Open the packs you would usually open, but leave one for each day until Worldwake comes out to open one per day.

<Zach edit> Hi this is Zach I am also taking this challenge  with packs between 18-36. Also what will be a nice addition is if you send to the email adress czmtgblog@gmail.com the results of you opening you pack. Once we start with the challange Calvin and I will post them on the blog/page that we made. We would love to add your results too!

Umm…Wow? That was a great prerelease! For all of you that missed the prerelease heres how it went/a few tips. And the Prerelease cards:

6/6 for 6 with trample = good. 6/6 for 6 with trample that makes minime’s = Oponent has to kill this card or else they loose.

Ya…If you can keep this in play this is a great great card. When both players roll choas symbol then the game gets extreamly interesting…Or boring you choose.

Calvin went Green/White. He got a few nice rare cards, I’m not 100% sure of what he got because I was usually stuck playing my own games.

I played (Red/Blue) / (Red/White) -Ill explain this later-

I got six rares from the six packs I opened (duh) and calvin got seven (one foil)

I got 3/1 (1st game lost, rest won)

Calvin got 1/3 (1st, 3rd, 4th game lost, 2nd game by) -Bad Time for Calvin-

The main highlight that I opened were World Queller, Nissa Revin and the red/blue fletched land. The sad part was I only used World Queller and it wasn’t based on World Queller, it was just thrown in thier for the fun of it.

I played Red/Blue for the First game of the First Match. I lost…Utterly…I had no hope of winning whatsoever. I then (thanks to my nice partner allowing me) compleatly redid my deck. Taking out all blue cards and making a nice red/white deck. I based my deck off of well putting all my red and or white cards into the deck. Exept for the white cards that have to do with equippments because I had no equippments.

Also a funny (very funny) thing that happend was… I traded the Flettched land (red/blue) I traded for a pack and $3.  I opened the pack… Went through it slowly the guy was watching over my shoulder. The rare I got was…………..The fletched Land the Red/Blue! We both had a great laugh calvin was there laugh his head off as well. The guy said it was totally worth it just for the laughs. After that I traded the Fletched land for $1 and another pack, didn’t really get a good rare.

Well now that you are done reading about my “life” here are a few tips and tricks about Zendikar.

Make a RED DECK! Almost all the poeple that got 3/1 and 4/0 used a deck with red in them. The basis of the set is just like the basics of magic. Get cards out and kill. Its basic compared to Alara Reborn with trying to make a Multicolored deck or the Morningtide/ Shadowmoor set with trying to make tribal.

Another great tip is use Landfall, No dont just use it Spam it! It is such a great abilitiy it makes life so much easier.

Kicker is also another great thing to use. It is alot better than when it was first intoduced.

Trap cards are nice but they arereally good when you play them for there trap ability you say “My god you have made me use my trap card!”. Yes my opponent did say that…And yes it did lighten the mood.

A few Great cards to use are…: (Sorry I dont rememember names)

1/3  scorpion with deathtouch, It is a great card I went agenst an opponent with 2 out ouch, that was hard to beat.

2/3 vampire with deathtouh, flying, lifelink. That is a hard card to beat.

1/1 goblin with kicker {2} {R}. The kicker deals 2 damage to target creature. This has helped so much!

Thies are just a few great cards but in this set a few “bad” cards will actually end up being good. Closly examine each card some cards are great and well others are kinda…well….pethetic.

First, the visual spoiler. here it is. It is around 10 MB.

There have been reports from various stores around the world of store owners opening prerelease stock packs early, and finding in them an old (valuable) card in place of the basic land. There have been Taiga, Mox Diamond, Ancestral Recall, and Underground Sea. I don’t know if these will only be from the prerelease, or if it will continue after the prerelease, so you might want to go to a prerelease to have a chance at one of those.

By the way, if you open one at the prerelease, you’re very lucky, but you can’t put it into your sealed deck.

It’s been a while since I’ve had the time to post, and the preview cards have been piling up.

When Zendikar comes out, I am going to have some number packs. (between 18 and 36) I am going to open them one each day, and post the contents of those packs here. Zendikar comes our October 3, and I will be at the release party October 4, so that’s when I’ll start.

I’m going to post the visual MSE spoiler today, you can download it here. It will update automatically when I upload new cards (even if I don’t post), so check back.

Journey to Nowhere:

This card is an O-Ring variant, but it can only target creatures.

Ior Ruin Expedition:

Spell Pierce:

Hellkite Charger:

Burst Lightning:

Rite of Replication:

Into the Roil:

Sadistic Sacrament:

Eldrazi Monument:

Pyromancer Ascention:

Lotus Cobra:

Oran-Rief, the Vastwood:

I have a lot of them today. I’m going to split them into 4 separate posts. If you’re on the home page, scroll down for parts 2, 3, and 4. If you are on the post page, you can use these links to find the other parts:

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Let’s start with Sphinx of Lost Truths:

Next, Crypt of Agadeem:

Third Pitfall Trap:

Bala Ged Theif:

If you’re on the home page, scroll up for part one and down for 3 and 4. If you are on the post page, you can use these links to find the other parts:

Part 1

Part 3

Part 4

Continuing from part 0ne, here’s Devout Lightcaster:

Geyser Gilder:

Blade of the Bloodcheif:

Needlebite Trap:

If you’re on the home page, scroll up for parts 1 and 2 and down for 4. If you are on the post page, you can use these links to find the other parts:

Part 1

Part 2

Part 4

Continuing from part 2, here’s Archive Trap:

World Queller:

Baloth Woodcrasher:

Sea Gate Loremaster:

If you’re on the home page, scroll up for parts 1, 2,  and3. If you are on the post page, you can use these links to find the other parts:

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Continuing from part 3, here’s Scute Mob. This image does have a watermark in the bottom right corner. There’s not much I can do about that:

Next, Gigantiform:

Next, Kazandu Blademaster:

Last card for now, Kabira Evangel:

It’s Zach here. Now I’m a decent artist, I can draw some pictures but nothing fancy like well….this:

We were looking for an image to put onto the sidebar/header. We couldn’t find anything anywere to put on and then it hit me… Why not let a fan make make the image? I mean if we let them make it creativly or even better competitivly we will see the true colors of artists and Magic the Gathering fans.

So thus a competitition was born!

To take part all you have to do is draw a picture and scan it! (unless you made it on the computor!) Then send it to:

czmtgblog@gmail.com

Just a couple of rules of course:

1) Remember copyrights!

2)Must be 800 by 800!

3)Must have to do with magic

Optionals:

1)Name it! (or else we will)

2)Dragonguardian or something to do with it might give an edge…

No matter how good you are at drawing sumit a picture! What harm can come out of it?

And remember Calvin and I are not going to look for one and put it up thats for you fans to decide! Were going to put a poll up and you can look at the entries and vote on a poll.

Thanks for enterting and thanks for reading we’ll injoy looking at your entre will evryone alse!

–This contest will end at March 1st–

It’s Zach I have added the soon to be plainswalkers to the which is the best plainswalker poll (/ reseting it) and I also took out the Jace vs. Chandra poll and made it Divine vs Demonic.