Zendikar at PAX

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Zendikar Spoilers courtesy of our good friends over at Gathering Magic. Reinhart attended PAX 2009 as well as the very cool 'Sights of Zendikar' MTG party at Trinity Nightclub. This was an absolutely great idea from Wizards and we hope that they will be planning similar 'sneak peak' Magic the Gathering parties in the future.

From our sneak peak, we see that the land theme continues, that Landfall will rock this block and that Ally is shaping up to be a very strong pseudo-tirbal. Perhaps one of the more notable spoilers unveiled at the Zendikar Party is Enemy Fetchlands ! Before we get to that, let's roll through what Reihart sent us earlier today. (thnx buddy!)

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Quest for Ancient Secrets,
Enchantment, Uncommon
Whenever a card is put into a graveyard, you may put a quest counter on Quest for Ancient Secrets.
Remove five quest counters from Quest for Ancient Secrets and sacrifice it: Shuffle your graveyard into your library.


Windrider Eel, 3
Creature - Fish, Common
Flying
Landfall - Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, Windrider Eel gets +2/+2 until end of turn.
2/2


Murasa Pyromancer, 4
Creature - Human Shaman Ally, Uncommon
Whenever Murasa Pyromancer or another ally you control enters the battlefield under your control, you may have Murasa Pyromancer deal damage to target creature equal to the number of allies you control.
3/2


Scythe Tiger,
Creature - Cat, Common
Shroud
When Scythe Tiger enters the battlefield, sacrifice it unless you sacrifice a land.
3/2


Arid Mesa
Land, Rare
, Pay 1 Life, Sacrifice Arid Mesa: Search your library for a Mountain or Plains card and put it onto the battlefield.

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We leave you off with additional images of the Trinity MTG party our good friend at Gatehring Magic snapped for us.

Needing Your Help

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MTG Realm needs your help. (plz.)
We need help in two areas today > (1) we need a minion at PAX, and (2) we need your braaains to help us with a deck.

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MTG Realm has been given a no-contact court order to stay away from WoTC employees, staff, or agents at PAX so we need you to be our minion at this event.

Actually we lied about the court-order thingy - we are just unable to cough up money for airfare to get our butts down to Seattle this weekend for the big Penny Arcade Expo (PAX), we are looking for any attendee willing to contribute stories, reports, and especially images from any Magic the Gathering related event to be posted here on the site.

Want to contribute to MTG Realm ? We are particularly interested in the "The Sights of Zendikar" event to be held this Saturday (from 7-9 pm) at the Trinity Nightclub in downtown Seattle. As Wizards will be showing a ton of exclusive Zendikar spoiler cards and new art from this upcoming set, we need you to be able to report back to us.

As we cannot offer you anything of value other than being our hero for the day and being provided credit for your submission, please take solace that you will be getting free nibbly-wibblys at the Trinity party while you do our leg-work for us.

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Now for some other help we need -

We appear to also need your serious assistance in tweaking this deck. Please tell us how you would fix it and why. Here is the deck list for our post-M10 mono-white soldiers.

3 x Cenn's Tactician
3 x Goldmeadow Harrier
3 x Path to Exile
4 x Militia's Pride
3 x Vetran Armorsmith
3 x Oblivion Ring
2 x Preeminent Captain
2 x Elspeth, Knight-Errant
4 x Rhox Pikemaster
4 x Armored Ascension
4 x Captain of the Watch
4 x Martial Coup

21 Lands

Help us Obi-Wan, you're our only hope . . .

Zendikar Advice

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Good Day my peeps, wherever you may be. Today here on MTG Realm, we hope to provide you with some timely advice in advance of the Magic the Gathering release of the next expansion, Zendikar.

You may recall our recent post regarding the anticipated Zendikar mechanic, 'Lanfall'. This is the new hotness that provides a bonus 'whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control'. The only Zendikar spoiler to date that has this is Rampaging Baloths which generates 4/4 green beast tokens whenever you drop a land.

Right - now that was prefaced for you, our timely advice . . . Do Not Trade away your Knight of the Reliquarys just yet - in fact, you may even want to pick up a deckset now while the price is right. While you are at it, you may want to consider holding onto that Terramorphic Expanse and those Alara panoramas which will accelerate the tech in your new Zendikar Landfall deck.


Speaking of Knight of the Reliquary prices, do you remember when this card was going for around $9.00 (U.S.) back in February ? Dang ! Man did that price fall like a prom skirt. Knight is now going for just over $1.60 and we anticipate that it will only go up from here.

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In other news, just a few notes about the recent GenCon Indy 2009. Wizards of the Coast had a strong showing at the convention with lots of very decent Magic the Gathering and Dungeons & Dragons events / side events going on . . . including several 'learn to play Magic' games with oversized cards.

One suggestion to Wizards from MTG Realm . . . if you have a great space like this and oversized cards, arrange a special 'full contact' MTG . . . I'm thinking something along the line of a Jerry Springer show gone south of cheese.

The highlight - using n00bs from the crowd as Zombie creature tokens . . . just WIN !

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Also of note, while we are on WoTC events . . .

If you are anywhere near Seattle on September 4th to 6th, MTG Realm directs you to attend the PAX (Pennyn Arcade Expo) 2009 event. Wizards promises to be there showcasing the XBLA title Duels of the Planeswalkers and a Magic Online tournament.

The best part of the weekend will occur afterhours at Trinity Nightclub . . .

This year Magic will be hosting a party that is sure to be the highlight of the weekend. On Saturday, September 5 from 7-9 p.m., hundreds of lucky players will behold "The Sights of Zendikar" at Trinity Nightclub in downtown Seattle. We'll be showing a ton of exclusive spoiler cards and new art from the upcoming set, as well as previewing the new Duels of the Planeswalkers downloadable content. We'll also have an interactive puzzle to test your wits, with the savvy winner taking home a big prize (along with smaller door prizes for everyone). Free food and drinks will be served while guests mingle with artists Jeremy Jarvis, Richard Whitters, Mark Tedin and Todd Lockwood, along with R&D designers and developers who make the game what it is.

Unless I get a 'press pass' from the host Starfish Events or the Wizards PR folks at Porter Novelli, I will be unable to attend so please Email ME ! all the pics you get of this and we will post.