Monday, May 30, 2011

Magic the Gathering News: Vol 6, Judge Promos for PT Nagoya, Some FNM Changes and More

Hello all and welcome back to Volume 6 of the monthly news, i'm vergil and it's time we wrap up may in style, Pro Tour Nagoya's Judges are gonna get a sweet card, FNM changes round the block and much more to discuss so let's get straight into it.

Pro Tour Nagoya is gonna get a bit of flavour for Judges as recently on MTGsalvation there's a promo for PT Nagoya judges in the form of Mana Crypt, wanna see the art, let's take a look at it shall we?


So as you can clearly see the wizards promo cards have been redesigned for some time now FNM wise and well today's no exception to this rule, the new and improved mana crypt which is going to be the Judge's promo for Pro Tour Nagoya or magic weekend Nagoya if you wanna call it that since a GP and a PT happen on the same weekend. This card however going for about 60 dollars at the moment in time is a gentle giant in the world of magic and perhaps may see a limited print run for these promos but i'm sure one or two will float on around EBay or something of that nature we will have to wait and see, onto a more serious piece of news, FNM changes.

Well Friday Night magic is gonna get a lot sexier with two new formats entering FNM's starting in July with Extended and Block Constructed formats hitting FNM's locally starting this summer, so this means as follows, FNM's not only can hold the usual assortment of Standard, Limited and even Two Headed Giant events, but now these two monster formats enter the battlefield as well, dear god help us all, but there are a few downsides to this little bit of news promos from FNM's can no longer be sold via shops but they can be distributed as door prizes at these events making them a nice piece of work, the link to the full news can be found here -> FNM Changes Article meanwhile today being the 30th of May begins Commander Previews starting with a already spoiled card but then again it could be a different piece of art since the one i showed earlier was a promotion card for the event, let's take a look at Edric, Spymaster of Trest which was spoiled via MTGCommander.net.


You are just asking for trouble with this dude out, he's a 2/2 a legendary creature, costs 1, a blue and a green mana is a rare, it has whenever a creature deals combat damage to one of your opponent's it's controller may draw a card, simple right, as i said before this itself replaces Momir Vig, Simic Visionary for sure and is perhaps the best general so far for the new commander cards, though i'm sure we will end up seeing a usual better commander, ahem Skullbriar, the Walking Grave for Green/Black but this is a decent enemy general for the format and is perhaps a worthwhile promo, expect me to show up at the promotion event on June 19th, that's all for today, so till next time magic fans, this is vergil saying Keep your legendary creatures untapped for now see ya next time.

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