SoM Spoilers 9-10

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G'Day MTG folks.

Just a reminder to all, be sure to check out our Scars of Mirrodin Spoiler list which is constantly updated - linky is HERE.

Righto - The spoilers gods were kind again and showered internet land with a decent volume of Scars of Mirrodin spoilers last night. We will cut the witty banter short and get straight to them . . .


Trigon of Contagion,4
Artifact, Uncommon
Trigon of Contagion enters the battlefield with three charge counters on it.
: Put a charge counter on Trigon of Contagion.
2 : Remove a charge counter from Trigon of Contagion: Put a 1/1 green Insect creature token with infect onto the battlefield.

Yummy delicious pizza - at least that's what we think the dude is holding. This is a solid example of a crap rare (edit - Uncommon) that won't be invited onto the red carpet anytime soon. Having said that, we still do think it a decent sink for late game mana.
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Leonin Arbiter, 1
Creature – Cat Cleric, Rare
Players can’t search libraries. Any player may pay {2} for that player to ignore this effect until end of turn.
2/2

Yep - this is a serious kick to the tenders for anyone hoping to play a lot of fetchlands after the release of the upcoming set.
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Painsmith, 1
Creature – Human Artificer, Uncommon
Whenever you cast an artifact spell, you may have target creature get +2/+0 and gain deathtouch until end of turn.
2/1

You know those cute little Memnites or Ornithopters ? Yeah - they just got a whole lot more dangerous with Painsmith which can give one of them a nice pump and deathtouch. Expect shenannagins with this card as players develop synergies.
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Galvanic Blast,
Instant, Common
Galvanic Blast deals 2 damage to target creature or player.
Metalcraft – Galvanic Blast deals 4 damage to target creature or player instead if you control three or more artifacts.

Dang. The 2 timmy to a criiter or player for just one red is decent, add in the new metalcraft abilitiy and this thing is the bee's knees and an auto-include in any Red-Deck-Win variant.
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Engulfing Slagwurm, 5
Creature – Wurm, Rare
Whenever Engulfing Slagwurm blocks or becomes blocked by a creature, destroy that creature. You gain life equal to that creature’s toughness.
7/7

Nice. Fatty.
Quite a beatstick which oddly enough does not even want to deliver damage to a creature, it just wants to destroy it. With the local meta-game all weird on life-gain decks, we know some of those players will be paying attention to the potential of this card.
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Molten-Tail Masticore, 4
Artifact Creature – Masticore, Mythic Rare
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Molten-Tail Masticore unless you discard a card.
{4}, Exile a creature card from your graveyard: Molten-Tail Masticore deals 4 damage to target creature or player.
{2}: Regenerate Molten-Tail Masticore.
4/4

Ummm. We dunno. We thought a bit about this and cannot quite fit it in with anything decent right now. We think there are a lot better cards out there for our casual constructed game. Perhaps the readership may want to enlighten us how this card is really good.
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Myr Battlesphere, 7
Artifact Creature – Myr Construct, Rare
When Myr Battlefield enters the battlefield, put four 1/1 colorless Myr artifact creature tokens onto the battlefield.
Whenever Myr Battlefield attacks, you may tap X untapped Myr you control. If you do, Myr Battlesphere gets +X/+0 until end of turn and deals X damage to defending player.
4/7

Did they just say 'Battlesphere' ??
- that name is reason enough to play this card. For 7 colourless, you essentially get to power up the game table with a 8/7 (edit - reading is tech) across 5 creatures. We definitely want to see this played with Myr Galvanizer to pump those other myr. Alternatively, if one could slide a trample effect on this, it might be decent late-game bombtastic times.
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