So in lieu of the New Phyrexia massive information dump a while back wizards of the coast officially made a statement on this one, it turns out it was the fault of a few pro players, as listed in the article here NPH Leak News and the culprit is, dun dun dun it's Guilaume Matignon wait what that's right the 2010 world champion and contender for player of the year, this is a rare thing indeed since he was provided with what is known as a Godbook which contains all the cards from a upcoming set, such as New Phyrexia and he was to do a article on them for Lotus Noir magazine which is a french publication look it up, not only did he not keep it a secret but it was also spoken of to a few of his close buddies including one Guillaume Wafo Tapa yes the very constructed and master deckbuilder from france was in on this one too along with two other pro players i won't mention, what does this mean though. Well it means the following Matignon is suspended for 3 years from the DCI meaning he won't be in PT's GP's or any sanctioned wizards events for the next 3 years probably effective monday. 2 it means Wafo Tapa who was only suspended for 18 months is ineligible to return to the pro tour or GP's for the duration till October 2012, when new phyrexia rotates out of standard along with the other two accomplices of this incident, even though Matignon formally apologized he still broke wizards trust by distributing images of this godbook to friends and countrymen whom were his friends circle, so i will leave this story at that, now to continue on with this article.
Early friday morning a image popped up on MTG salvation and it pertains to Magic 2012 which in all likelyhood is fake but i wanted to bring this to your attention anyways, could we be seeing a new mechanic rise out of the ashes of current standard, since scry was reintroduced last year, could it be that another new mechanic is making it's way back into standard check out Gideon's Avenger and Furyborn Hellkite
Oh man check out that white weenie beatstick if it's legit then i am in heaven, a 2/2 that basically says when a a opponent attacks it gets a +1/+1 counter on it, that's not all folks the hellkite is a boss 6/6 for a 7 drop that doubles it's power when damage is dealt before playing this at the mythic slot, there was only one real bomb mythic for red which somehow always gets the shaft in the form of Inferno Titan could this mechanic mean the replacement of those nasty titans probably not but if this is legitmate i will be sure to note it in a future update which will probably be next month.
Onto some tournament news now, the number of GP's for next year is gonna double from the usual 20 to 40, meaning there will be more stops on the wizards tour in lieu of the Star City Games open series which happens almost every single weekend, players as of next year will have more of a chance to play on a standard level with some of the best players in the world in their hometowns, but in exchange the pro tour level of play it appears is being closed off for this and the regional prereleases are being killed off as of Magic 2012 so NPH will be the last official regional prerelease and only small stores will have prereleases from now on making things more crowded since most stores already fill both days to their max capacity which is a downer but hey it's life and stuff like this happens. That is all for this week on the magic news frontier and i hope you enjoyed this rather lengthy article on the last month and a half of magic news, see you all next time this is vergil signing off
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