Journey into Nyx

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Happy Monday MTG peeps,

We trust you had a great weekend, hopefully filled with some Magic: the Gathering.  Our weekend was rather productive, at least in terms of MTG.  We took that standard Slivers (featuring Bow of Nylea and Thorncaster Sliver) build to OMG! Games for Friday Night Magic to give it a spin and promptly lost every match - but - dang, that was pretty fun to play actually.  We'll likely just keep it at the kitchen table, or perhaps grab a few MTG singles from MTG Mint Card to make it a bit more competitive at FNM - we don't know yet.  Also of note, we think there are a few more players trying out that funky Maze's End Turbo-Fog build - although it seems a bit non-interactive, we have a thingy for alternate win condition games and might just have to give this a try.

Anywhoos - on to today's MTG news.  Over on the mothersite today, we now have the official announcement for the third and last set in the Theros block.  Although we've had the name for some time, we just did not have some of the nitty-gritty until today.  Again, Wizards did not provide an art teaser along with the announcement - rather  sad about that, so we've just added a few images from the very lovely 'Hero's Path' website below to fill in.  Righto - Here's the full run-down now -  
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Set Name     : Theros
Block : Set 1 of 3 in the Theros block
Large September Expansion
Number of Cards : 249
Prerelease Events : September 21-22, 2013
Release Date : September 27, 2013
Launch Weekend : September 27-29, 2013
Pro Tour Theros Dates : October 11-13, 2013
Game Day : October 19-20, 2013

 

Set Name     : Born of the Gods
Block : Set 2 of 3 in the Theros block
Number of Cards : 165
Small February Expansion
Prerelease Events : February 1-2, 2014
Release Date : February 7, 2014
Launch Weekend : February 7-9, 2014
Game Day : March 1-2, 2014
   
 

Set Name     : Journey into Nyx
Block : Set 3 of 3 in the Theros block
Number of Cards : 165
Small May Expansion
Prerelease Events : April 26-27, 2014
Release Date : May 2, 2014
Launch Weekend : May 2-4, 2014
Game Day : May 24-25, 2014

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