Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Magic the Gathering News Vol 18: Pro Tour Avacyn Restored, Grand Prix's and Much, Much More

Hello everyone and welcome to yet another edition of the monthly news here at the emporium, this month with the return of Avacyn we got ourselves a new pro tour, Pro Tour Avacyn Restored, as well as the results of that pro tour and much much more, so without further ado let's begin this month's edition of the news.

Well with Avacyn Restored officially on the shelves and the Pro tour done and over with,  i must admit this was quite a good set to look forward to, 244 cards, 15 of them being lands gave us a decent chunk of cards to work with for this particular set in question.

But when the final card was said and done, it was Alexander Hayne and his Miraculous Blue/White miracles build that took the day, featuring a heavy total of 16 miracles in deck, including the now famous card, Entreat the Angels which helped him win 1st place at Barcelona this year, congrats to you canada man and team Mana Deprived for the win, here's to the world magic cup later this year, go canada go.

Also with Avacyn restored, we got ourselves Event Decks which recently went on sale here plus a chance to take a look at some of the events featuring this particular set in question, with one of them being Grand Prix Anaheim, which we alll know to be a Innistrad Block format only, which has had some success on the Canadian front as of late. But a huge congraulations go to Marc Lalauge for winning GP anaheim and qualifying for Pro Tour: Return to Ravnica later this year, good job, also other winners of GP's this month include Christian Calcano who took the crown at Grand Prix Minneapolis good job man and of course, i am looking forward to seeing you on the Pro Tour once again in a few months time.

In other magic related news, we got a change to the rules in regards to Cavern of Souls as of late, for the full changes to the rules on this particular card in question, please address the link below.

Cavern of Souls Changes ---> New Cavern Ruling

It breaks it down in a way that it now officially makes sense, which believe it or not, is how people have been abusing the card,  that forces the rule change to this particular card in question.

On the Magic 2013 front we got ourselves a few new cards of choice including a brand new legendary creature known as Nefarox, Overlord of Grixis, which believe it or not, has a feature photo down below, take a look


Isd that a 5/5 black flyer with Exalted, yes Exalted is returning and to a core set, finally, let's reminisence about the past 2 core sets shall we

In 2011 we had ourselves Scry, the fun mechanic which basically shifted different cards and the like making it fun to draw cards again.

2012 gave us Bloodthirst, which was a original Ravnica mechanic which was featured on specific cards in the old days which took off like a rocket and now we are returning to what i think is the coolest mechanic yet, Exalted but instead of 3 colors having it, it looks like Black is getting it as well which is no surprise here.

Well i am afraid that is it for this edition of the monthly, right on time as usual, on the 1st of next month Planechase 2012 will hit stores and have fun playing that particular format again, till next time this is vergil signing off.

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