Magic the Gathering News Volume 24: Judge Promos, Dragon's Maze Prerelease information And Much, Much More

Hello everyone and welcome to the end of yet another month in magic the gathering, this month we've got quite a bit to talk about, besides the tournaments that happened, 2 judge promos were revealed this month, along with information on Dragon's Maze pre-releases as well as next month's FNM promo, so let's go.

Excited for more modern FNM's next month, well you should, how about a Foil Reliquary Tower for you folks for FNM next month, yes the M13 reprint is scheduled to be next month's FNM promo and it's something I am sure everyone is happy about, since January's was a little lack luster.

So a couple of Judge promos popped up on the net, one of them was a promo Bribery which has the collector's number 2/8, it's a very nice card and it is sure to fetch a pretty penny since the original is a hefty sum, a very nice choice wizards for commander players.

Another was this foil Swords to Plowshares which also popped up which has the collector's number 1/8 and like the previous one is a commander favorite for all white players, competitive or not, be sure to scoop this bad boy up while you can.

Dragon's Maze pre-release information was revealed earlier this month as well, it's the same as the other two, you pick a guild, but with all 10 available, you get to have a shot at any guild of your choice, this time though the prerelease card is not allowed to be used in your deck, but here's the catch, for the guild you pick, you get 4 dragon's maze booster packs, 1 gatecrash pre-release pack with the aligned colors you choose, so if you choose Azorius, you'll get a Dimir pack, then you'll receive a Return to ravnica azorius prerelease pack.

Also in Dragon's maze the basic lands are gone for the set, you'll open non basic lands, guildgates with the Dragon's Maze set symbol on them, the shock lands will also appear in this set, as their normal rarity, plus with their normal set symbol, wizards is really pushing modern here folks. As well as there's a Mythic rare land scheduled to be in this set, we will see when the time comes of course.

Over the course of the month, the next core set was announced Magic 2014, previewing what could be a brand new Chandra, let's take a look at the preview piece.

For the full set details, see the link below.

http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/arcana/1141

And that's it for the month of January, with pro tour gatecrash around the corner, I will be expecting to see how good the standard format is with the brand new cards of Gatecrash in combination with return to ravnica, so until next time this is vergil signing off.

December 2011 FNM Card - Savage Lands

Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of the Emporium, today we look at the latest Friday Night Magic promotion card to be fully revealed and it is none other then Savage Lands, which is the Alara block tri land for Black/Red/Green so without further ado let's see the FNM card of choice for the month of December.

Yes that is the FNM card for the month of December and will be the last for 2011, remember folks if your playing FNM this week this is the going to be the first week with this up for grabs, so keep that in mind whether you Draft, Play standard or do some other ridiculous event like Winston Draft or something of that nature, this card of choice is not legal for standard at all anymore but when it was in Standard it was a powerful card for a land, since it helped Jund to victory so many times when Jund was a dominant force in the game of magic, however that is all for today since i wanted to bring this to your attention, this is vergil signing off.

November 2011 FNM Card - Go for the Throat, Speculation for Next Buy-A-Box Promotion Card

Hello everyone and welcome back to another emporium update for the month of october, today i will be talking about two things, the november Friday Night Magic promotion card and the slated names for the Buy-A-Box and Prerelease for Dark Ascension the 2nd set of the Innistrad block so let's go.

As we all well know friday night magic is all about cool promos and the ability to play magic on those days, whether it be draft or standard, today i bring the official photo of the new FNM card for november 2011.

Go for the Throat which was featured in Mirrodin Besieged as the next big removal spell of choice is the choice card for november 2011, it also has new artwork for it as well as it having the obvious symbol for a promo card of this caliber, now let's compare it to the old artwork which was the original

Pretty different eh from the original, plus it's the english version of the text this time instead of the different language used in the photo below, anyways time to move onto the speculated names for the Buy a Box and Prerelease for Dark Ascension the 2nd set of the Innistrad block.

Here is what we know so far, the names of Ravenous Demon and Gravecrawler are the names of the two promo cards so far, the demon is rumoured to be the buy a box promotion card and the Gravecrawler is rumoured to be the prerelease card for the set, now known information aside time to speculate, the demon sounds like something in black, the gravecrawler is sounding a hybrid type of card, perhaps this is the notion that the hybrid cards are coming back, who knows, names aside this is pretty much all we know for the set so far since wizards doesn't seem to wanna give us hints as of yet these days, though i could be wrong like always but again speculation is speculation it means nothing till proof is shown, if i know wizards though they will be tight lipped about this until the worlds event in november, since that is the event before the prerelease of Dark Ascension which is also rumoured to have a new Sorin Markov variant in it, due to the pictures shown at the Penny Arcade Expo, anyways that's all for today i just wanted to bring these two things to everyone's attention i will be continuing with my set review as always and expect it to be shoved down the pipeline before the 20th of this month, till next time this is vergil signing off.

Magic the Gathering News Vol 10: Innistrad, B&R List, Promos

Hello everyone and welcome back to another emporium update, this is your monthly edition of the Magic News, this edition of the monthly news is all about Innistrad, the Banned and Restricted List and all the neat promos that are coming up, so let's go.

Innistrad arrives on store shelves today and is sure to bring a lot of fun to the table, with the arrival on a friday as per usual, this means draft format which is currently Magic 2012 switches over to Innistrad Draft, for those curious about Double-Sided Cards in this format i suggest looking at the rules of Innistrad itself, remember for those whom play draft it's not M12 anymore so you don't have to remind yourself to make sure to snag those titans and stuff again.

The banned and Restricted list for the month of september was quite a doozy, we had a few changes to multiple formats for the first time in a long while, Legacy, Modern, Vintage and EDH all had some changes and for the full announcement on these changes i suggest using my article found here ---> Banned and Restricted List Update which detailed everything in one shot not like the usual wizards shenigans of course.

Promos abound this month, we have one more FNM to win Teetering Peaks which will be below of course

Today is your last chance to win this card, next month's FNM promo of choice is Contagion Clasp from scars of mirrodin and that will also be below.

It's in another language but we all know what Contagion Clasp does since i have like 5 copies of the card lying around in boxes, November's FNM promo of choice is rumoured to be Go for the Throat which is a mighty fine FNM promo no picture as of yet, but will keep you updated as usual, remember FNM is usually standard, so make sure the deck you bring is standard legal which means it can contain cards from Scars of Mirrodin, Mirrodin Besieged, New Phyrexia, Magic 2012 and of course Innistrad and when Dark Ascension releases in Feburary of next year that will also be standard legal, anyways that's about it for now and apologies for the short update, but this will be the last true update for the month and we will begin anew tommorow with the draft reports and how i did in FNM, till next time this is vergil signing off.

Friday Night Magic Promotion Card: July 2011

Yes it's that time again we got our newest promo card of the year and it follows a certain announcement with a rare wizard that is appearing in M12, let's take a look the original of this card though before we begin.

Yes it is Jace's Ingenuity which was a planeswalker spell from Magic 2011, it was perhaps the most underused of the 3 walker cards in the last core set and such has seen little play aside from drafts, now for those curious let's take a look at it's promo card for the next month's Friday Night Magic events.

Alternate art or not it is cool, because for 1) thing they got rid of the nasty FNM watermark in the text box making it that much of a better promotion card, 2) it's artwork is just beautiful and i think it represents the spell perfectly, 3) This is the 2011 promotion card for Magic's Friday Night magics around the world starting in July of this year, so what that means is the following. These promotion cards are given out as prizes for winning a friday night magic, either to the 1st or 2nd place person depending if the 1st place person didn't sweep the night with a 4-0 victory over his/her opponents, the other 2 at my local game store are given out as random door prizes to particpants at the end of the night, along with whatever cards they got from the event, i do not know how it works at other game stores so please do tell me in the comments below, note this is the first promotion card that cannot be sold if a game store has extra copies of this card so don't go looking for it in a local game store because of the new wizards policies on promotion cards for Friday Night Magic. Instead any other copies leftover are given out as door prizes during the event, that's what should happen i hope all the game stores observe this policy i sincerely hope so, well that's all for now, till next time magic fans, this is vergil signing off.

June 2011 Friday Night Magic Promo Card - Rhox War Monk

So earlier last week it was revealed that the next promotion card in the long line of friday night magic cards is gonna be Rhox War Monk which is the uncommon from the shards of alara block for the Bant color scheme of Blue/White/Green, let's see the final piece of artwork for this particular card shall we?

Yep, this is the final art for this card, it has it's standard lifelink abilities along with the friday night magic logos all over the place, it's a alternate art card and sure to be something else in particular, though this is june we are still about 3 weeks away from seeing this in stores, though things are sure to be better with this art and such, a lackluster card for friday night magic but i cannot complain, that's all for this edition of this one, since i got nothing more to say on this one, till next time this is vergil signing off.

May 2011 Friday Night Magic Promo: Squadron Hawk

Yes may's FNM promo has leaked out today and it's a doozy of a promotion card, it's Squadron Hawk from the M11 core set which is also the feature card of Caw-Blade and Caw-Go this card is just stupidly fun to play and if you attend FNM on a weekly basis starting in may you'll get a shot to win this one, though the fact of the matter is, there are limited numbers of this made, so then again there won't be many issues for demand there, unless someone decides to sell these online somewhere but enough about that it's time to reveal the promo.

Yes brand new artwork for this one and believe me it's fun to play and all of that stuff, remember to win one of these you gotta place in the top 2 at your FNM or get it as a door prize or something of that nature, depending on your local game store. But this article is as short as it can be since all this is about is the FNM promo for next month as of this writing, so till next time magic fans, attach your swords to a hawk and swing for mass damage, this is vergil signing off.

April 2011 Friday Night Magic Promo Card: Artisan of Kozilek

It's official this next FNM card will shock you, as it has a new symbol, new artwork and everything and for those whom read the title of the article you've just spoiled yourself, It's Artisan of Kozilek from the Rise of the Eldrazi set and boy have i got a few pics to show off.

These images recently surfaced on MtgSalvation and are going to be the new design of the next card including the Logo in the corner of the artwork and the fact there is a big hulking shooting star in the text box it kind of sucks to be honest, but however small this is the newest itirration of the FNM promo card design and is a poor choice thank god i stopped doing these a long time ago, however said it is, i am impressed since this will be a decent one but only for EDH, till next time from this short article this is vergil signing off.

March 2011 Friday Night Magic Promo Card: Wall of Omens

So as is the case with every single promotion card wizards brings out the news is as follows, for those wondering what the march promo for the year is it is Wall of Omens, featuring the usual FNM symbol in the back of text box and the ever present new art for the card, as usual it's a short one this time around but i figured i'd show this off for those curious.

As you can see since wall of omens was a popular card it was the selected choice for a FNM promo card due to the fact it's original art seen here below was pretty interesting.

Howard Lyon did the art for the FNM promo and the original art was done by James Paick, so i will leave you to gaze at the glory of this card for the next while, this is vergil signing off from another shorty.

Feburary FNM Promo Card - Spellstutter Sprite

So if you've not been paying full attention to the latest magic news and rumours, shame on you shame i say, the recent announcement of this addition to the FNM promo card lot is quite interesting to say the least as there have been a few good decent cards to come out from the past 12 months that list being as follows

Gatekeeper of Malakir, Everflowing Chalice and of course Wild Nacatl now with the addition of the sprite to the list fairies players are gonna need to find a all foil fairies deck like a certain frenchmen foiled his entire worlds deck from scratch lucky bastard, anyhoo it's time to reveal the FNM promo itself and here we go it's down below for those who want to know

Tada that's all she wrote for that one, it's pretty much the same abilites and brand new artwork done by Christopher Moeller, not too special but this could be really useful for a all foil fairies deck down the line provided the others are also made this way, what's next on the list Jund's Putrid Leech?, anyhoo i've not got much to say bout this but i'm sure it's nice to see a short article from me for a change, see you next post.