Merry Christmas.

This year, I’ve made a Christmas themed card. I’m planning on making more holiday cards soon, so look out for them. Here’s the first, Santa Claus:

Wow totally didn’t see that I thought calvin did the card of the month but here it goes…

The card of the month was Sorin Markov!!!!

Yes good old Sorin

Many many poeple love this card while a few think it is terrible for Vampire decks because it costs 6 mana but my opinion is if you have one you might as well put it in I wouldnt put more than 1 in maybe 2.

Its first ability is good because…well do I even need to say it? It’s deal alittle more damage to a creature to kill it or steal some of your oponents life. Its minus ability is great in a vampire deck because a bunch of vampire abilities go off. Its last one is just amazing you can totally have some fun with it make you oponent attack and loose all its creatures or play all there cards in there hand agenst themselfves or anyhting the posabilities are endless!

It has a good chance of surviving becuase it starts off at 4 and probobly goes to 6 loyalty on turn it comes but like all plainswalkers its just a walking target.

This card is good in alot of black decks if on turn 6 you can spare the mana otherwise dont put it in.

Sorin Markov has gone up..alot it used to be a $7 mythic now it is $16!

Its foil has gone up alittle bit form $25 to $34.

And yes Sorin Markovs ability counts as loose of life so Wound Reflection the card is just fun.

Sorry thats all I have for Sorin Markov theres not really alot to talk about but please vote for CoM for Dec 2009! Have a happy Halidays!

Are you having trouble making your deck work? Keep getting mana screwed, or mana flooded? Well I have come up with a calculation that gives you the perfect % of lands for each color you need in a nonmonocolored deck. I have also made a calculation that tells you the perfect % of lands you need for your deck based on the mana costs of the cards.

First Calculation # of lands:

1) Count the # of cards in your deck then times that by .4

X= # of cards

Y= 40% of cards in your deck

X*.4=Y

For a 60 card deck Y is 24.

Fora 40 card deck Y is 16.

If you have a premade deck Skip this part and make Y= to the # of lands already in your deck.

2) Now minus X(# of cards in deck) by Y(# of lands in deck/calculation above) then times that by 4.

Z= Avrage overall mana in your deck.

(X-Y)4=Z

Z is 144 in a 60 card deck (with Y as 24)

Z is 96 in a 40 card deck (with Y as 16)

3) Now add up all your cards in your deck’s converted mana cost and let the # be A. Now minus Z by A

Z-A=#

Now if your number is a posative and less than ten (Ex. 8). Than you are fine but if it is over posative 10 than you need to minus a land from your deck and add a new card per 10. (Like if you got 25 then you will need to minus two land and add 2 new cards, if its 11 then you will need to minus 1 land ect). Now if you get a negative number less than ten (-8) than your fine. Now if you get like with posotive, if you have -10 then you need to insted take out a card and add a land. And like above per 10 like if you have a -22 then you need to minus two cards and add 2 lands. After this redo this problem and adjust accordingly until you do not have anything <-10 or >10.

This equasion is experimental so please try it out for me and tell me what I need to adjust accouringly. (Use Comments)

Now the Second equasion: How to choose how mana lands of each color.

1) “Catagorize” how mana points of each color gets.

Rules:

A monocolored card gives 1 point to its color (including artifacts)

A gold card counts as 1 for each of its colors unless it is 1 of each color in the deck then put it off to the side well deal with it later.(including artifacts)

A hybrid card counts as 1 to each of its colors or if it has 1 of evry color in deck then count it as 0

A colorless artifact counts as 0 if it is colored look above.

2) Now add up all of the color points and divid 100 by it (round to nerest whole #).

Ex. 2 W +14 U= 16   then 100/16 =6.25 rounded =6.

Now times the number you just got (my ex is 6) by the origional number then at a % sign to the back.

Ex. 2 (W) *6=12 add a % to make it 12%

       14 (U) *6=84 add a % to make it 84%

(It might not come out to 100% so add the extra evenly to all %s

Ex. 12+84= 96. 100-96=4 so add 2 to all % making 14% and 86%

3) Almost done now you need to make all percents a decimal (move decimal point two spaces over to the left).  Then times the amount of lands in your deck by that amount. Round to the nerest whole number.

W 14% and U 86%

20 lands in the deck so 20*.14=2.8 -> 3

20*.86=17.2 -> 17

4)Now for the last step remember the gold cards before well I had 15 that were evry color so divid that number by 3 and round to the nearest whole number.

15/3=5

Lastly take that number and subtract it from the most amount of lands and add it to the least.

17-5=12 islands

3+5=8 plains

Note: If your most becomes tied take from the one you havnt taken lands from yet. If the least amount becomes tied with the second least amount add to the one you havnt added to yet.

Thank you for reading this long  LONG equasion of mine the Color one worked for me perfectly but the top one is untried please comment on how this works or how i can make it similer. You may also e-mail me and calvin at czmtgblog@gmail.com

Ok sorry I havn’t been posting alot ( I dont know why calvin has not) but I just got my new laptop today and after I’m done fadditleing around and setting evrything right I will start posting agian. (If you didnt know my old laptop died…)

I have a nice way I figured out to tell how many lands and what colors they should be. I wil probobly post later today or tommorow… and YES! this is the first time I’m using the keyboard!