Arcana Announcement: Planechase 2012

Hello everyone and welcome to this special edition of the emporium, today's edition covers the announcement of the newest multiplayer format which will hit store shelves in June of 2012, that is Planechase 2012 effectively. For the purpose of the article i will be talking a little about the previous edition of this multiplayer game and featuring all the new information we have on it, so let's get started.

Planechase is a multiplayer game where 1 deck of oversized cards is placed in the center, then the first player in the game flips over the top oversized card, which grants specific effects in game, along with various field bonuses towards all or one player depending on the card flipped over, each turn a player may roll a Planar Die which has two symbols, a chaos symbol which represents the card's chaos effect and a planeswalker symbol which sends you from one planar card to the next. When the game was introduced in the middle of 2009, i was just a young punk back then who didn't know what multiplayer was essentially, however with this new Planechase coming out, it's sure to be different.

In this edition of Planechase we are going to have 32 new planes to venture onto, 8 different Phenomenon effects and 21 new magic cards introduced with this format, like this guy for example

Maelstrom Wanderer is a legendary creature introduced with this format, wait what's that i see do i see haste for all creatures you control, but that's not all, a 7/5 double cascade dude, wait what not a single cascade as introduced on let's say a Bloodbraid Elf or Bituminous Blast but two cascades for the price of one, he's also listed a mythic rare with a casting cost of 5, a blue, a red and a green mana so essentially he's a enemy color legend introduced solely for this format, impressive wouldn't you agree. Now moving on from creatures we have ourselves the first new planar card to show off as well by the name of Time Distortion

This particular card is the first Phenomenon introduced to us via the latest arcana announcement, it basically makes the game go in reverse order any time this is flipped, so if you were playing clockwise, you'd go counter clockwise and so forth. This is a weird card but good nonetheless, now let's move onto the details of this particular multiplayer format and when it hits store shelves.

Release Date: June 1st, 2012

MSRP: 19.99 US

Initial Concept and Game Design: Mark Globus (lead), Kelly Digges, Dave Guskin, and Ryan Miller

Final Game Design and Deck Development: Mark L. Gottlieb (lead), Ryan Miller, Lee Sharpe, and Ken Troop, with contributions from Matt Tabak

That's about it for this edition of the emporium for more information see the link below for the arcana announcement, till next time this is vergil signing off.

Planechase 2012 Announcement