Conspiracy Spoilers 8-18

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Happy Thursday MTG peeps,

Magic: the Gathering news on tap again today is all about those Conspiracy: Take the Crown previews.  We are fans of the storyline and think Wizards has done a tip top job of creating the world of Fiora.  Yesterday's story re-introduced Daretti and as expected from the story, we have Grenzo back in the story and on a card for Conspiracy 2.

We're fired up with today's previews, so lets get to them now -

Berserk - Awesome reprint is awesome - great combat trick for pushing lethal damage through.  Everyone should fear a single untapped forest.

Dragonlair Spider - Reprint - a lot of players like this but this never really floated our boat.

Garbage Fire - What's that smell?  It's the Card from yesterday's story art.  Fun card.

Grenzo, Havoc Raiser - He'll leave the burning to the arsonist-loving minions while he pillages. Ain't too bad with some decent conditional abilities for 'goad', and a take on that 'Daxos of Meletis' ability.

Illusionary Informant - very sneaky bird will sneak a peek a what is being drafted.

Skyline Despot - Damn powerful card - delivers you the crown and the chance to puke dragon tokens to help keep that crown.

Spire Phantasm - another injection of fun during draft that may net you a card draw.


Volatile Chimera - cool card but perhaps too random for our tastes.

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Conspiracy Spoilers 8-16

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Happy Tuesday MTG peeps,

As you may have guessed, Conspiracy 2 ('Take the Crown') official previews are on tap again for today.  Before we take it there, we want to draw your attention to our recent post on our sister site, MTG Realm on Tumblr.

To find our more as to what is inside, pop on on over to Tumblr.

Righto - let's get on to today's Conspiracy: Take the Crown previews !  There is some damn fine flavour in today's cards too - Recruiter is recruiting and the Desertion counterspell is having a spell desert to your side.  On the other hand (or foot), Phyrexian Arena is a bit weird in this set - have the folks on Fiora even heard of Phyrexia ?

In other news, Burning Wish is broken, and the boros-coloured legendary creature, Adriana, is having a melee party !

Conspiracy card : Hired Heist (Hidden Agenda)

Phyrexian Arena
Recruiter of the Guard
Wings of the Guard
Adriana, Captain of the Guard
Throne Warden
Custodi Lich
Hallowed Burial
Desertion 11 hours
Protector of the Throne
Burning Wish
Ballot Broker
Thorn of the Black Rose

BIG Magic Japanese language preview (rough translation) - 

Protector of the Throne, 5W
Creature - Giant, Rare
When Guardian of the Throne enters the battlefield, you become the monarch.
If damage would be dealt to you, you may instead have that damage be dealt to Protector of the Throne.

2/5

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Conspiracy 2 Kaya Spoiler

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Happy Thursday MTG peeps,

MTG Realm is still catching up with Magic: the Gathering news hanging over from the vacation we took last week, while at the same time scrambling to catch up with our day jobs as well.  We are presently tuning our standard constructed decklists to sleeve-up with some Ultra PRO for Eldrtich Moon Game Day for this weekend's events at our local gaming store OMG! Games, here in Barrie, Ontario.  

Before we get to the first Conspiracy 2 spoiler, previewed on the mothersite, take a moment to catch this cool article over at Hipsters of the Coast, where Matt Jones asks the critical question of 'What if . . . Bob Ross painted the full art Unhinged Lands'?  

Righto!  Let's look at the official preview from yesterday's Magic Story, penned by one of our fav staffers Alison Luhrs, titled 'Tyrant' - 

Kaya, Ghost Assassin, 2WB
Planeswalker - Kaya, Mythic Rare

[0]: Exile Kaya, Ghost Assassin or up to one target creature. Return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of your next upkeep. You lose 2 life.
[-1]: Each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
[-2]: Each opponent discards a card and you draw a card.
[5]

As suspected from last week's story when the character was first introduced, this Planeswalker is Orzhov colours of Black and White.  CMC of 4 mana for a 'Walker with 5 loyalty ain't bad at all, but how is the rest of the card?

First ability at zero blinks Kaya and a target critter.  If you target a creature with Kaya's zero ability, you choose on resolution whether to exile that creature or Kaya.  The minus one ability is similar to a Syphon Soul effect while the minus two ability is similar to a Syphon Mind ability.

For those loving the vorthos / flavour of the card, there is some very cool cleverness WotC has provided - there is no plus ability as Kaya the assassin is loyal to none, while the the other two abilities may be akin to signing (in blood) a contract with her.

Anywhoos, we strongly suggest reading this week's Magic Story article, the second in the continuation of Conspiracy.  In this short story we witness the assassination of the ghost king Brago by Kaya, the ascension of Marchesa and the reaction of Adriana, Captain of the Guard.

 Both arts by Chris Rallis

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