Premium Deck Series: Graveborn has arrived on store shelves this month and it's quite a package as i've spoiled in this article ---> Graveborn List and is available for around 40-50 dollars roughly depending on the local game store you go to, expect this to go quick however as it's a highly demanded product, onto some more important news though.
Another french player has been given a ban and his name is Lucas Florent, he got a lifetime ban for the following comment "I made a joke on the french forum, i said i was going to rape helene bergeot at worlds, after the announcent, i personally know helene and i sait right after it that i was gonna have a talk with her about the meaning of the announcments, and know i receive this." so this makes him the 3rd major french player banned this year for something that wizards didn't like, the first 2 were for the incident with the whole godbook of new phyrexia which was spoiled almost a month early, his lifetime ban basically negates him from ever attending any more Wizards Play Network events ever even little store events like prereleases, have a nice life Lucas, it's gonna be a boring one since your banned and all.
Worlds 2011 happened earlier this month and was in the nest egg of san francisco which was basically the last time we will see a worlds event in any place other then indiapolis since that is where worlds is being held next year effectively, we had a heap of a worlds this year with both the team and individual events happening but there could only be one really whom dominated this year, congratulations to Junya Iyanaga for winning the 2011 world championships, Team Japan for winning the team competition and of course Rookie of the Year going to Matthias Hunt
Organized Play in magic is perhaps the single biggest thing for magic today, with hundreds if not thousands of players going to gun at the next big Grand Prix or perhaps even attempting the pro tour, but as of this month wizards has done a few things i'm not particularly proud of, the first of the new changes was the ending of 16 long years of history by killing off the pro tour event that made worlds what it is but as of this month it's all dead guy ale basically and this means starting next year we can expect to see a Invitational Like event for worlds where the top 16 will battle it out at Gen-Con to become the best of the best, but the question is how do you get there to be fighting for the title of being the best magic player, let's take a look at the 5 ways you'll get to do so.
1) Win a Pro Tour - yes to basically get into this major event you gotta show off and be the best you can be, one of those spots is already taken thanks to Samuel Estrattie whom won the first Modern PT earlier this year, 2 more of those spots however have yet to be decided as of this point.
2) Be the World Champion - It wouldn't be fair to the defending champ if he/she didn't get to defend the title they worked for would it, no it would so be unfair to them and believe me wizards took considerations into this change for organized play.
3) Qualify via Your Geo Region - Your geo region is your continent basically, taking the planeswalker point system into account and determining via that who has the best PWP for the continent, this hurts smaller countries but doesn't really affect bigger countries, but magic countries like the United States will have very few particpants as of now in this big time event.
4) Win the Magic Online Title - Yes this spot is always decided somehow near the end of the year and whomever wins the event at Worlds usually ends up getting a shot to go to the next one, this year's defending MTGO champ will have his chance to fight for the world title next year, good on you wizards.
5) Professional Planeswalker Point Total - All that grinding you fine folks did earlier before this event basically is taken into account, the remaining slots which is who knows who many will be decided via the highest totals among all active players today, so this still gives those whom didn't win a Pro Tour a shot or didn't get in via Geo-Region a shot in the dark basically.
This change also affects how the National Championships are done, it basically means that nationals as we know it are no longer going to be feeding into worlds and those whom win their national title will get a substantial amount of Planeswalker Points plus the cash for winning the event as per usual, but the chance to go to worlds ended as of this year's big event, sorry all you folks whom were looking to go to nationals to win a shot to go to worlds this next year. During the process of this change it also means the end of the current Pro Players club system which pro players use to pay for their expenses and stuff at the events they attend, though it ends as of this current year, it means that all the events they were eligible for will still be able to be attended but 2013 is a whole new ball game with no idea what comes next in terms of this major change.
With the Player of the year this year it came down to worlds and how it all ended for the season, but i am pleased to say congratulations to the 2011 player of the year Owen Turtenwald of channel fireball for winning the title for the last year, good work dude.
In other news most recently a new promotion card has surfaced in the form of a card called Faithless Looting which is a new promotion card that is being featured in the 2nd edition of the Magic the Gathering comic starring a new face named Dack Fayden, here's the image for the card promo.
It's confirmed to be in the new set Dark Ascension which hits store shelves as of Feburary next year, this does beat a lot of the current red cards of choice, but since the promo versions are always rares it will have a different which we know this to be a common from the set thanks to this arcana Faithless Looting and it will have new art besides this of course, expect it to be a interesting set then with Flashback on a Careful Study
Last but most certainly not least it's time to take a look at something i feel is important for all you Friday Night Magic Players, the last FNM card of the year, which is going to be Savage Lands yes the alara block tri land that was the Red/Black/Green tri land of choice and i will be sure to post the necessary information picture in the next edition of the emporium which will follow this, so stay tuned, but for now this is all i have for the month of November, thank you for reading and i will see you at the Year End wrap up for Magic for the year of 2011 in December, this is vergil signing off.
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