Hello all and welcome to the 8th edition of Magic News via the emporium as usual, this monthly edition will cover Magic 2012's arrival onto the scene, Innistrad news and rumours and Dark Ascension which is scheduled to be the small set of Innistrad block scheduled for release next Feburary so let's begin with a look back at M12 as a whole
Magic 2012 brought with it a few new terms and a change to what we know today as Shroud and Leaving the Battlefield turning into Hexproof and Dies, that's not all it brought, we also saw new incarnations of Jace, Chandra and Garruk along with the return of Gideon and Sorin as the core set walkers of choice for the respective colors, after a few weeks magic 2012 has impacted quite a few things, changed some decks altogether, made new decks out of existing cards and brought back a old mechanic known as Bloodthirst from the ravnica block which is a nice change since last year's core set consisted of Scry cards, this year seems to be focused on the Black/Red bloodthirst style deck with the return of my favorite Lorwyn block common Ponder not because of how powerfully good the card was, but how well it got you good cards to use on turn 1, drafting of the core set has never been better as most players are returning find a certain familarity to the core set as a whole with returning commons and now being uncommons like Sengir Vampire and Shock being ever present in this year's post rotation. Magic 2012 has been a long time coming and i was personally glad to see the return of some old favorites, new cards which may end up impacting other formats and well just overall balance in terms of power levels of specific cards, remember folks we have 2012 and 2011 for the next 2 months in standard don't be afraid to use 2011's cards in existing decks till rotation if not just to make space.
Innistrad had a bit of a reveal at comic con in san diego recently with the release of new information, here is what we know so far, 2 planeswalkers will be present in this set, we are going to have dual colored mythical creatures like Werewolves, Ghosts etc, the card from the newest from the vault has yet to be spoiled, which is supposed to be a mythic level card, Lillana is confirmed to be in this set for the most part, we have yet to see proof she is but i would like to believe she is, this set is going to be the largest set we've seen in a long time, with the last largest set being Time Spiral if memory serves me correctly, if i am wrong please don't hesitate to tell me, i'm not going to fact check this fully i'm just using my memory of past sets to determine this fact. The amount of cards for the set is scheduled to be 264 cards, with about 16 mythics i would think for a set of this size, multicolor cards are abound and old types of creatures not used for horror themed sets will probably see a return, in other words, we don't know much bout innistrad at this point other then that, we do know that it is going to be huge and will impact standard for sure as expected.
Recently set number 2 of the innistrad block was revealed and it's known as Dark Ascension which is the small set of this particular block, for the official arcana announcement please go here for the full information
---> Dark Ascension Announcement which contains all the set information, even though it was first revealed at Comic Con this year, the official announcement for this set was revealed the monday after the event which as of this writing was about 6 days ago. Even though comic con didn't give us much else about this, except for a few pieces of art and the basic set information, i can tell you it drops on Feburary 3rd 2012, has a total set number of a 158 cards and may end up featuring a new sorin based on the art, we will have to wait and see of course.
Finally Comic Con 2011 is over and the wizards official panel happened twice in the 5 day span of the event, we got a taste of what's going down in From the Vault: Legends, we also got a taste of Innistrad's new stuff which is dual colored tribal theme along with stuff we've not seen before in magic, we've also got our hands on the ability to check out some of the cool products wizards is going to be sporting in the next 12 months, one of them being the new premium deck series Graveborn which i talked about already, before i make this article sound boring as hell, let me remind you that there are only a few more things to be released magic wise this year, one of them being the first set of the new block Innistrad, with a duel deck, a premium deck series and From the Vault: Legends left to go according to the chart for this year, well that's it for me for this time, this is vergil signing off for the month of July 2011, see you next magic news where i can finally talk about FTV: Legends in full glorious detail.
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