The title is from the MTG website but I think evryone should read it. It explains plenty things that you would never gess about MTG. It also isnt boring so it isnt hard to read.

Here is the link to the page:

http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/stf/66

Hello. I’ve been low on time this past month, and I haven’t been able to post. Hopefully, I’ll be able to this weekend. Happy Thanksgiving, if you’re in the US.

I would like to say Happy Thanksgiving to all thoes who are celebrating Thanksgiving tommorow. Sorry neither Calvin nor I could post much this month, but trust us it will change.

Sorry it took so long I told Calvin to do it because I knew I wouldn’t get the time but I have and here it is, the card of the month for October 2009!

Lotus Cobra!

The #1 on the top 10 and the #2 on your fav from the top 10. This card makes landfalldecks into the most annoying decks from Zendikar!

Lotus Cobra currently went down and is now $23 and not the $30 it was apon release.

A foil Lotus Cobra is now $50 instead of $60

This card is great with…

Harrow-for 3 mana you get 4 mana in your mana pool and 1 extra land!(also set off all landfall abilities 2x)

Rampant Growth- 1 land for 1 mana!And set off Landfall!

Terramorphic Expanse-Two free mana and set off landfall 2x!

-All of which are in standard

Now all of these cards are common and great on there own. Now If you put this in a landfall deck…Well lets just say milling for 3 and getting a mana or your oponent loosing 3 life and getting a mana is not such a bad thing.

Now thoes cards help Lotus Cobra but lets look into Lotus alittle bit,

Its a 2/1 for 2 not that bad sure Grizzly is better. Also 1 toughness is verry easy to burn so Lotus Cobra usually ends up dead the second your oppoent gets removal, unless they underestamate Lotus. But Grizzly doesnt have another effect which is what makes Lotus Cobra such a great card. The Landfall add one mana of any color to your mana pool. Lets look into this, in a normal nonlandfall deck means this ability makes you play spells 1 turn earlier. Sure thats great and you can deal a decent amount of damage with just having lotus cobra attack. And usually with green you will have a deck with more than one color in it so that makes lotus cobra help you not getting mana screwed. But thats not the point having lotus cobra put in a deck built around it, a Landfall deck makes it insain. You can Play Rampaging Baloths or other big creatures 2-3 turns sooner! I mean I have played Rampaging Baloths on turn 4 and attacked with it and a 4/4 on turn 5. Also having some nice cards like Blaze and Fireball helps some too.

As you can see Lotus Cobra is an insain card in the Zendikar set now, but just wait until all new Landfall cards come out int worldwake.

Later today, I will post the last pack of the pack per day challenge. I haven’t been able to post much, but I can today.

Rise of the Eldrazi, although it hasn’t been officially announced, is the name of the spring set for 2010. It will be a large (Zendikar size, not Worldwake size) set that will be drafted by itself. (RRR, not ZWR) It will be set in Zendikar, but will be completely different. That means that there probably won’t be allies, traps, landfall, or kicker. (They will exist in Worldwake)

Prerelease: April 17-18, 2010

Release: April 23-25, 2010

Here’s the logo:

And here we see Sorin Markov and Nissa Reveane in front of something huge, which I’m assuming is the eldrazi:

Now on to Marit Lage. Whether or not Dark Depths is in Rise of the Eldrazi (I doubt that because the Eldrazi would have been free by then, and also Marit Lage was trapped in ice on a different plane.) there is a lot of evidence that Marit Lage is an Eldrazi. Let’s start the way we were able to figure out that Nicol Bolas would be in Conflux: We’ll look at a Zendikar card for comparison.

Now, there are a few things to compare this to. First, we’ll look at Dark Depths itself:

Compare this to the eldrazi monument and to the ROTE image. Looks similar, right? Even before looking at it, Eldrazi Monument makes creatures bigger, flying, and indestructible. Marit Lage is big, flying, and indestructible. Look at the Marit Lage token:

Compare that to the eldrazi. If you still aren’t convinced, look at the Ice Age card Wrath of Marit Lage and compare the flavor text to that of the Eldrazi Monument:

Dread Marit Lage lies dreaming, not dead. That’s the flavor text here, while on Eldrazi Monument the flavor text is: Gods don’t die. They Merely Slumber.

Now, the story line evidence. Marit Lage is very old, and isn’t a planewalker. Marit Lage can travel through the planes, in a different way. Here’s a link to the amazon.com book description of the Zendikar book, In the Teeth of Akoum. To quote the review:

For gamers and fantasy fans alike, a fast-paced, stand-alone adventure that brings the popular trading card game Magic: the Gathering® to life.

Lurking in the space between the aether and the physical plane, there is a great evil waiting to emerge.

Zendikar is a land of danger and adventure, a world of deadly risks and priceless rewards. It is also a prison to one of the most deadly species known to the Multiverse: the dreaded Eldrazi.

When our story opens, part of the mystical containment spell that has kept the Eldrazi captive for millennia has been breached. The brood lineage, the Eldrazi minions, have been released and are poring over the plane, devouring everything in their path, but the swath they cut across the land is nothing next to the destruction that the still-imprisoned Eldrazi Titans will wreck once released.

Nissa Revane, a planeswalker and proud elf warrior of the Jorga Nation, is witness to what the brood lineage can do. She sees that they pose a bigger problem than most suppose. Sorin, an ancient vampire planeswalker, knows this as well as anyone because he was among the original jailers of the ancient scourge. He has returned to Zendikar to make sure the Titans do not escape. They both want the Eldarzi threat extinguished but each has their own agenda. Nissa wants the Eldrazi off her plane entirely. Sorin wants to put the lock back on their cell. And there are still others who want the Titans to escape.

Together they set out across the land on search of the Eye of Ugin, the source of the Eldrazi uprising, where they will face what could be their final challenge. Will the Eldrazi escape to menace the Multiverse once again?

While we’re at it, look at Ghostfire, from Futuresight, and look at the flavor text:

Back to Marit Lage. The text shows that Marit Lage has the same characteristics that the Eldrazi do. They were ancient, hugely powerful beings that were trapped on Zendikar. Is it possible that one was trapped in ice on a different plane instead? I think the answer is yes.

I also want to make one more point. Because of Vampire Hexmage, Dark Depths has been thrown into actual use in tournaments. Was that intentional? (Actually, I don’t think that was intentional. But I think the rest was.)