Paladins & Princesses

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Happy Thursday MTG peeps,

Today's post title is a bit odd. Paladin is taken from the new Magic the Gathering 'Action' art, Puresteel Paladin and Princesses derived haphazardly from the accompanying art of Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite Wallpaper. We may be a bit off here, but from all the very excellent art spoilers we've seen over the last few weeks, we are seriously considering that the last set in this block will hold more legendary creatures than your average set - time will tell when the set is released May 13th. (Will players of this game love additional legendaries ?)

Righto - anywhoos - let's get to the kewl wallpapers - usually seen on our Friday posts here at MTG Realm . .

Puresteel Paladin Wallpaper

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"Dark times do not last forever. It's true our losses are great, but we have not yet lost this war. These are our homes, our lands, and our people. As long as there is steel in my hand, I will not back down, and neither should you." – Yavash, Accorder Paladin, to Kemba

Puresteel ? What's this all then. Perhaps and answer to Darksteel seen in Mirrodin Besieged ? Speculate away please. The art from Jason Chan is all that and a bag 'o' chips.
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Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite Wallpaper

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"Ah the glorious symphony of bitter hymns and forced hallelujahs! See the ignorant fall to their knees when I remove their heathen feet! All will be blessed with the pains of redemption! Look inside yourself to see the truth, or see my suture priests so they can open your chest to find it for you!" – delirious sermon of Elesh Norn

We have a feeling that the cheese has slid completely off the cracker for Elesh - perhaps hanging out too much Charlie Sheen. Anywhoos - on a side note, the flavour of this character reminds us of the mother-in-law and we can't wait until we see this card in a deck.

EDIT : Following up on Jeff's comment as well as n0rm's eMail - here's the critter from the movie you guy's were talking about . . .
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Next up -

Some news via a tweet from Michael Robles, WoTC minion - it appears that there will be an early preview of the upcoming Duel Decks : Knights vs. Dragons at PAX East. Michael spoiled this image here - pretty much the same product shot we spoiled in this post HERE last month.

Anyways - if you are not aware, PAX East is a three-day game festival for tabletop, videogame, and PC gamers and will be held this weekend March 11th to 13th, 2011 in Boston, Massachusetts. Wizards of the Coast have regularly attended this event and have several times in the past provided previews on their video games or upcoming Magic the Gathering product releases - if you're in that neck of the woods, check it out - and more importantly - send us pics of new MTG cards / products / WOTC booth shot, etc. and we'll post 'em.

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Lastly,

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