Arcana Announcement: "Line" is Gatecrash

Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of the emporium, once again it's a bit of a follow up to the comic con magic panel update posted yesterday as today an official arcana announcement was made for the 2nd set of the ravnica block, we should remember this from friday, it's official "Line" is Gatecrash.

For those who need the full details let's begin.

Number of Cards: 249
Set Prerelease: January 26-27th, 2013
Set Release: Feburary 1st, 2013
Set Release Parties: Feburary 1st - 3rd, 2013
Game Day: Feburary 23-24th, 2013
Pro Tour Gatecrash Dates: Feburary 15th, 16th and 17th, 2013
Three Letter Code: GTC
Design Team: Mark Rosewater [Lead], Mark Gottlieb, Joe Huber, Dave Humpherys, Ethan Fleischer

For the rest of the information, see the link below.

http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/arcana/1016

But let's first break down which guilds are going to be shown in this set, with a little handy dandy guide to this set in the form of guild listings.

Set 1 of this block, Return to Ravnica contains these 5 particular guilds


                                                            Izzet

                                                               Rakdos

                                                                 Golgari

                                                                 Azorius 

                                                              Selesyna

Set 2 of this block will contain the following 5.

                                                                  Gruul

                                                                   
                                                                     Boros

                                                                    Orzhov

                                                                    Simic 

                                                                       Dimir        
                                                   
All 5 of the guilds i listed above will be featured in Gatecrash, with the other 5 already being known, Set 3 we know will hold all 10 guilds but be a small set, this set as we also know features the return of a old planeswalker, Gideon whom has sided it seems with the Boros as i showed yesterday, see yesterday's article for the pic. With that though it ends today's article, you can expect to have as much fun with this set as the upcoming return to ravnica honestly and i for one am pleased these guilds are coming back, till next time this is vergil signing off.

Comic Con Magic Panel Update

Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of the emporium, but today it's all about the Comic Con Panel that was done on friday night in San Diego including some spoilers and such for the upcoming sets, so without further ado let's begin.

We got us some spoilers for the upcoming From the Vault: Realms, let's start with the most expensive to the least.

Wow much, the first big one is Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth, which is just awesome honestly it's 20 bucks these days for most copies and with this collector set it's sure to be interesting.

We all remember this card, it's the card that combos off with Punishing Fire which got banned in modern last year, yes Grove of the Burnwillows is being reprinted for this set, with this being expensive card #2.

The rest of these are pretty basic, Forbidden Orchard, Dryad Arbor, Murmuring Bosk and of course Glacial Chasm which confirms our preview art to be that specific card for the set, amazing stuff wizards so far.

Friday we also got a sneak peek at the upcoming set, return to ravnica, yes as well as the 5 guilds in this set they are, Izzet, Golgari, Azorious, Selesyna and Rakdos, but here's the kicker for this set, for the first time ever you will be allowed to play your prerelease card at the prerelease, it's about time wizards, I'm so happy over this fact honestly, we also recently got 2 previews of legends for the set, Niv Mizzet and Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord.

Niv is the same as always, but mythic this time round with the same old, same old, except new art. However Jarad has been partially spoiled gee thanks wizards, wanna see so do i.

He's a whopping 4 mana for him and he's a Zombie Elf, other then that not much is known about him, though we do get new symbols for each of the guilds this time around, kinda nice.

For those curious here is the guild breakdown, Ravnica will have 5 guilds, Gatecrash which is set 2 and also a Large set, will have the remaining 5 guilds, then Sinker which is a Small set will have all 10 guilds included, the format to draft these sets is the following

RTR - Ravnica, Ravnica, Ravnica
Gate - Gate, Gate, Gate
Sinker - Sinker, Gate, Ravnica

Complex, no i didn't think so, oh we also got Gideon confirmed to be in Gatecrash via this picture here.

A certain Boros Archangel is behind him, so we know kinda what guild he supports, so expect to see multicolored walkers again, like our old friend Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker and Ajani Vengeant, but that is it for today, tommorow will continue the usual affair of updates, as well as much, much more till then this is vergil signing off.