Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Magic 2012 Update Part 6: Rarities are so much fun, As are reserved effects

Hello all and welcome back to perhaps the most exciting Magic 2012 update in a long while, i've got a special treat for most of you legacy players, ever wonder what Windfall was like on a body, now we get to experience this with a new blue rare sorta translated at the moment as Jace's Archivist the name may be changed in the future but let's take a look at the card itself.


Oh and if you wondering what it does let me tell you, you pay 1 blue mana, tap it and it does the following "Each player discards his/her hand, then draws cards equal to the greatest number of cards a player discarded this way." did i mention it's a 2/2 rare that does this almost at will, just untapping and retapping his effect means a nasty Blue/Black control build is on it's way out the door soon enough with this guy for me at least, this card was even featured at the last pro tour stop which was Pro Tour Nagoya, it ended up giving out this and the other card called Obstinacy which is a pretty rough translation, for the other one at least but this as i said is also a rough translation, but it's a Vedalken Wizard as far as i can tell as well, so wizards printed a limited effect on a body, are you asking for your set to be broken huh wizards, i guess so.

Let's take a look back at another 2 cards cause i've not previewed them yet, the photo is courtesy of Jay Boosh on twitter, take a look at Swiftfoot Boots and Manalith.




Now that's some sick beats right there, Hexproof and haste on the boots with a casting cost of 2 and a equip cost of 1, as a uncommon busted right there, the other artifact is a mana generator that taps to add one mana of any color to your mana pool, it slots perfectly into any build unlike Birds of Paradise, which is green generating the same amount of mana, but with a higher casting cost to do so which is 3 mana to summon this, decent but the rarity is left to be questioned as of this point since the boots cover up the rarity for this particular card, well that's all she wrote for this update in question, stay tuned next time as i take a look at more M12 stuff coming down the general pipeline, see you all next time.

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