Commander Anthology Vol. II

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Happy Thursday MTG peeps,

Commander Anthology Volume II is Magic: the Gathering's second collection of classic decks from across Commander history, showcasing some of the game's most renowned, legendary creatures.  The four decks featured are some of the most iconic and hard to come by in the Commander series.These preconstructed Commander decks will be released by Wizards of the Coast on June 8, 2018 and have an MSRP of $165.

The anthology box contains four classic decks from four different commander releases, including thirteen premium foil commanders. Namely Commander (2011), Commander 2014, Commander 2015 and Commander 2016. All legendary cards have the special card frame that had been introduced with Dominaria.  Each of the decks features alternate Commanders to encourage different play styles and deck building experiences.

Contents: 
• Four 100-card decks, including 13 foil commanders
• Sixty single-sided token cards
• Four deck boxes, each capable of holding 100 sleeved cards
• Four 100-point spinning life total trackers
• Rules and information insert

The Decks in this collection include -

Devour for Power, Blue / Black / Green : graveyard as a resource theme.
Commander - The Mimeoplasm
Alternate Commanders - Damia, Sage of Stone, Vorosh, the Hunter

Built from Scratch, Mono-Red : artifact / salvage theme
Commander - Daretti, Scrap Savant
Alternate Commanders - Feldon of the Third Path, Bosh, Iron Golem

Wade into Battle, White / Red : large creatures theme
Commander - Kalemne, Disciple of Iroas
Alternate Commanders - Anya, Merciless Angel, Gisela, Blade of Goldenight

Breed Lethality, White / Blue / Black / Green : +1/+1 counters theme
Commander - Atraxa, Praetors' Voice
Alternate Commanders - Ikra Shidiqi, the Ursurper, Ishai, Ojutai Dragonspeaker, Reyhan, Last of the Abzan


Full decklists are featured at this link.

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MTG Collectibles

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Happy Wednesday MTG peoples,

Most Magic the Gathering Players love playing their game almost as much as collecting the cards (hence the term collectible card game). Several players we know have certain cards they have a penchant for whether it is just one card, a series from a particular set or just a collection of promos.

Speaking of promos, we should segue into which cards gamers can expect to win at upcoming Friday Night Magic Events . . .

January, 2011 FNM Promo
Everflowing Chalice (Worldwake Uncommon)

If someone has a better image of the promo, please eMail it to us and we will get it posted.

February, 2011 FNM Promo
Spellstutter Sprite (Lorwyn Common)

Simply awesome epic promo art here by Christopher Molier- would love to get our paws on one of these.

Righto - anywhoos -

We were yattering about players collections.

Here's someone we know who has a special kind of thing for the Time Spiral rare, Norin the Wary. Why? We're not certain even he knows.


Personally, we would rather collect a nice 'n' clean sort of collection with definite and finite margins of start and end - perhaps something along the line of the recently released 'From the Vaults : Relics'. This lovely set chocked full 'o' foily goodness could perhaps be expanded to include other awe inspiring (foil only) artifacts and equipment.












If you know someone who has an interesting collection of MTG cards, drop us a comment below.
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Finally, your local stores should be receiving very soon (or have already received) some excellent MTG swag / promos for the upcoming Mirrodin Besieged pre-release / release events. Items such as reversible deck boxes, posters, faction war charts, and the very cool poison dice. Send us your pics of upcoming promos such as these and we'll post 'em.









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Disenchanted

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Fellow Magic player and blogger WinterN over at the Spanish site Prismagic has a very interesting project . . . He is working on collecting a 'Global' Set of the popular white spell Disenchant. If you can help them out, drop by the site.


What is a Global Set?
A Global Set is a collection of a specific card in all / every printed version that exists, including all the collections in which there appeared, in all languages, foil and non foil, and promotional publications of any kind. With the case of disenchant the number of cards to complete the collection is 153 of which WinterN and his other friends have collect 88 at the time of this post.

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While I'm yattering on about Disenchant, here is an interesting article from MaRo regarding this card from 2003 . . .

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Small Change, Mark Rosewater, Monday, July 21, 2003

Don’t let the title of this column fool you. This is no “small change”. Our examination into the colors forced a number of bigger changes. Once such change stemmed from the fact that we realized that the king of artifact hate needed to be green.

Why? Because when we examined the green/blue conflict, nature versus artifice, it became obvious that part of green's identity is its hatred of things unnatural. And in Magic, that’s artifacts. This hatred of artifacts is built into the core of green’s definition. At the time we realized this, green was number three at artifact destruction. (Red being first and white being second.) So green got moved up two spaces. This meant white was knocked down to third. What third means is that white can have a little bit of artifact destruction but it has to be a pretty low power level. (In addition, it doesn't get any in the basic set.)

No matter how you slice it, Disenchant is of a pretty high power level. In fact, some of R&D argued that white was the true number one artifact destruction color solely because of Disenchant. Thus, Disenchant had to go. But R&D really liked Disenchant. We felt it served a very important function in the game keeping dangerous combo pieces in check. So, we decided to move it. As green was number two at enchantment removal (white’s first), it seemed the obvious choice.

For those fans of white out there, have no fear. For each area it loses something, it gains it elsewhere. The metamorphosis of white has taken a little longer than the other colors, but I promise, when are shifting is done, white will be equal to the other colors.

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