MTG Radiant

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Happy Tuesday MTG peeps,

 We hope all had a good weekend and had a time to reflect during Remembrance / Veterans Day.  Speaking of remembering - we wanted to follow up on our little trip down memory land we first started in this article last week.   

In February 1999, the original members of MTG Realm hit up a games store and picked up two theme decks from Urza's Legacy.    Yours truly (CopySix) picked up the Green / White 'Crusher' and RetroTech picked up the Blue / White Radiant's Revenge Theme deck - RTech is thinking she would like to reassemble this deck again (as some cards had been traded away), so we'll pick up some singles over at MTG Mint Card.  Anywhoos - Let's have a peek at Radiant's revenge.

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“Before Urza can complete the famed ship Weatherlight, the planeswalker must face the new ruler of Serra's realm, an archangel hell-bent on revenge. "Radiant's Revenge" is a time bomb that explodes with artifact and opportunity spells.”

Radiant's Revenge  Decklist

Lands : 1 Drifting Meadow, 12 Island, 11 Plains
2 Remote Isle

Creatures : 1 Fog Bank, 1 Mobile Fort, 1 Mother of Runes, 1 Radiant's Dragoons, 1 Raven Familiar, 2 Sanctum Custodian, 2 Sustainer of the Realm, 1 Thornwind Faeries, 2 Ticking Gnomes, 2 Vigilant Drake

Enchantments : 2 Opal Champion, 1 Pacifism

Instants : 1 Catalog, 1 Erase, 1 Disenchant, 2 Miscalculation, 2 Opportunity, 1 Power Sink, 3 Radiant's Judgment

Sorceries : 2 Path of Peace

Artifacts : 2 Dragon Blood, 1 Ring of Gix, 1 Urza's Blueprints
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As we indicated in our previous post on these theme decks - dang they sucked hard but we loved theme.  The 2 rares in this deck are Ring of Gix and Urza's Blueprints.  During all the games we had, the MVC had to be Mother of Runes.  The Ring was OK and Urza's Blueprints would be better perhaps in an EDH build.  These theme decks were good but really only for the kitchen table unless you made a major overhaul where one would have a slim chance at a games store with it.

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MTG Crusher

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Happy Thursday MTG peeps,

A very, very long time ago (in late February, 1999), the founding members of MTG Realm trudged through deep snow and braved cold winds to pick up our very first Magic: the Gathering cards.  Yours truly (CopySix) picked up the Green / White 'Crusher' and RetroTech picked up the Blue / White Radiant's Revenge Theme deck from the most recently released set, Urza's Legacy.

Here's trip down memory lane and a run down of 'Crusher' - 

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Before Urza can complete the Legacy and build the famed ship Weatherlight, the planeswalker must overcome some large obstacles: hulking worms and treefolk. They're big, they're bad, and they're worth the wait. Once you bring them out, "Crusher" is bound to leave your opponents hurting.

Sealed pre-constructed theme deck of 60 cards is from the Urza's Legacy Pre-Constructed Theme Deck Box.  There are a whopping TWO rares in this theme deck.  This deck contains:

4    Plains
17    Forest
3    Drifting Meadow
   
1    Argothian Swine
2    Cradle Guard
1    Crosswinds
1    Defense of the Heart (R)
1    Disenchant
1    Elvish Herder
1    Erase
1    Gaea's Bounty
1    Gaea's Embrace
1    Gang of Elk
2    Humble
1    Lone Wolf
2    Mother of Runes
2    Pacifism
1    Radiant's Judgment
1    Rancor
1    Silk Net
3    Simian Grunts
1    Symbiosis
1    Ticking Gnomes
1    Treetop Village
1    Weatherseed Treefolk (R)
1    Wing Snare
2    Yavimaya Granger
2    Yavimaya Scion
3    Yavimaya Wurm
 
The deck really did completely suck rancid lemons when gaming against almost everyone else we played but we still loved it and it is still mostly all together even today.  The very first modification we made was making this deck mono-green and adding a few Titania's Chosen into the mix.
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BONUS -
Retro MTG magazine ads for Urza's Legacy !
 
 

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