Dominaria Planeswalker Decks

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Happy Monday MTG peeps,

There are a few Dominaria previews out today, but for this post, we would like to yatter about the Planeswalker Decks for Dominaria.  The full decklists are not out just yet, but SYFY Wire had posted an exclusive spoiler just a while ago.  For the full preview, pop on over to SYFY Wire linked here.

Releasing concurrently with the official Dominaria set on April 27, 2018, this set of two Planeswalker decks contain several exclusive cards with collector numbers above 269.  A planeswalker deck is a preconstructed theme deck designed by Wizards of the Coast as a starter product for Magic: the Gathering players. These Planeswalker decks had replaced Intro packs starting with the Kaladesh set.  Each decck features a different Planeswalker, and typically is tied back to the flavour / storyline of the block.

Teferi, Timebender deck

Chandra, Bold Pyromancer deck

One foil copy of a mythic rare planeswalker, is designed to be fun and flavorful but not necessarily powerful enough for tournament play. These Planeswalkers typically have high casting cost (converted mana costs), but are fairly showy.  Each deck contains a rare spell that has an but also allows the player to search their deck ('tutor') that specific planeswalker. There are typically three copies of an uncommon permanent that is enhanced by having the planeswalker on the battlefield as well as four copies of a common flavored to the Planeswalker with a basic staple effect.  should the deck be multicoloured, there would be included four copies of an appropriate common dual land.

For a suggested retail price of $15 (USD), here is what you can score in each Planeswalker deck :  
• 1 ready-to-play 60-card deck featuring a foil premium Planeswalker card
• 2 Dominaria booster packs
• 1 strategy insert

• 1 Magic learn-to-play guide
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RIX Planeswalker Decks

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Happy Thursday MTG peeps,

Magic: the Gathering fans are heading to their local game stores this very weekend to participate in the Rivals of Ixalan PreRelease.  As anticipated, Wizards of the Coast posted the decklists for this set's Planeswalker decks, as many (ourselves included) love 'dueling' with these in between games at the event.  Back in our day, these were Intro Packs, and although the intention of this product is much the same - that is to introduce a new or returning player to Magic, there have been some rather decent improvements to highlight the set's theme and new keywords.  The lists published today look like good value for your money and appear to be relatively balanced to be played against eachother.

For a suggested retail price of 15 clams,Planeswalker Decks acquaint players who are interested in Magic with basic strategy, the game's settings, and characters, and include a sweet foil Planeswalker card.  Here's what's inside - 

Contents: 
• 1 Ready-to-play 60-card deck &foil premium PW card
• 2 Rivals of Ixalan booster packs
• 1 Strategy insert

• 1 Magic learn-to-play guide

And here are the lists as posted on the mothersite - 

WHITE / BLACK
Vraska, Scheming Gorgon 
1 Mythic Rare, 4 Rares, 16 Uncommons, 39 Common (including basic land)
27 Creatures, 3 Sorcery, 5 Instant, 24 Lands, 1 Planeswalker

Legendary planeswalker (1) : 1 Vraska, Scheming Gorgon

Creature (27) : 1 Champion of Dusk, 1 Paladin of Atonement, 1 Bishop of the Bloodstained, 1 Deathless Ancient, 1 Dusk Legion Zealot, 2 Queen's Bay Soldier, 2 Skymarch Bloodletter, 4 Vampire Champion, 1 Vicious Conquistador, 3 Vraska's Conquistador, 1 Exultant Skymarcher, 2 Famished Paladin, 2 Inspiring Cleric, 2 Skyblade of the Legion, 1 Legion Lieutenant, 2 Gilded Sentinel

Sorcery (3) : 2 Vraska's Scorn, 1 Recover

Instant (5) : 2 Moment of Craving, 1 Bright Reprisal, 2 Moment of Triumph

Land (24) : 4 Forsaken Sanctuary, 11 Swamp, 9 Plains

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BLACK / RED
Angrath Minotaur Pirate
1 Mythic Rare, 4 Rares, 11 Uncommons, 44 Common (including basic land)
25 Creatures, 4 Sorcery, 5 Instant, 24 Lands, 1 Planeswalker

Legendary planeswalker (1) ; 1 Angrath, Minotaur Pirate

Creature (25) : 1 Daring Buccaneer, 2 Goblin Trailblazer, 2 Headstrong Brute, 2 Storm Fleet Pyromancer, 4 Swab Goblin, 2 Swaggering Corsair, 3 Angrath's Ambusher, 2 Fathom Fleet Boarder, 1 Fathom Fleet Cutthroat, 1 Grasping Scoundrel, 2 Dire Fleet Captain, 1 Dire Fleet Neckbreaker, 2 Gilded Sentinel

Sorcery (4) : 1 Repeating Barrage, 2 Angrath's Fury, 1 Impale

Instant (5) : 2 Lightning Strike, 3 Sure Strike

Artifact (1) : 1 Vanquisher's Banner


Land (24) : 4 Cinder Barrens, 11 Mountain, 9 Swamp


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Hour of Devastation Spoilers 6-21

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Happy Wednesday MTG peeps,

We have collected another slew of Magic: the Gathering previews from around the webs to summarize here again.  Before we get into today's Hour of Devastation spoilers, we should talk about the mothersite preview of this sets Planeswalker decklists -

Hour of Devastation Planeswalker Deck
Planeswalker Decks familiarize players who are interested in Magic with basic strategy as well as the setting, characters, and themes of the latest set. Each deck comes with a premium foil Planeswalker card that is likely to appeal to newer and veteran players.  MSRP $15

Contents: 
• 1 Ready-to-play 60-card deck, featuring a foil premium Planeswalker card
• 2 Hour of Devastation booster packs
• 1 Strategy insert
• 1 Magic learn-to-play guide

Nicol Bolas, the Deceiver

Wasp of the Bitter End

Zealot of the God-Pharaoh

Visage of Bolas

Cinder Barrens

Nissa, Genesis Mage

Nissa's Encouragement

Avid Reclaimer

Brambleweft Behemoth

Woodland Stream

And here is the summary of today's new cards - 

Angel of Condemnation - 2WW for a flying vigilent 3/3 Angel. 2W blinks another creature - or - 2W to exert the Angel to O-Ring another creature until the Angel leaves the battlefield

Driven // Despair - 1G sorcery giving the team tample with a Curosity effect card draw. Aftermath 1B has same card draw but gives the team menace.

Hostile Desert - Rare Desert Land, tap to add bland, or pay 2,exile a land from your graveyard to have Hostile Dessert becom a 3/4 Elemental creature until end of turn.

Hour of Glory - 3B instant to exile a creature. The clause after is likely never to apply, so meh.

Reason // Beleive - Blue (one U) sorecery to scry 3.  Aftermath 4G to peak at library top and put into hand unless it's a creature which will go straight onto the battlefield.


Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign - 4UU flying 4/4 Sphinx.  Kind of a Sphinx banneret reducing Sphinx spells by 2 colourless (Go Sphinx Tribal!). Sphinx EtB effect with draw 4 cards with a Fact or Fiction effect.

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Aether Revolt Planeswalker Decks

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Happy Wednesday MTG peeps,

The newest Magic: the Gathering set is hitting gaming store shelves near you this very Friday in time for Friday Night Magic.  We've heard through some friends in the States that the street release date may have been broken by undisclosed distributors and / or retailers, but have no further evidence to provide.   Anywhoos, be sure to head to an Aether Revolt Launch Event, and you may score a sweet date stamped alternate art Quicksmith Rebel promo card.

Before we get to the topic of today's MTG Realm post, here are some links for the MTG gamer to stay up to date :

• The next Magic Story is posted over on the mothersite.  This short story installment in the continuing Kaladesh / Aether Revolt Fiction fest is 'Breaking Points' and is penned by Doug Beyer.

• Abe Sargent over at Gathering Magic has his Top Ten list of best Aether Revolt Cards for Commander, multi-player and other variants.

• Todd Stevens over at StarCityGames has produced his list of Top Twenty best fav cards for standard constructed, and it is of little surprise that some of our fav new cards we'll want to get our paws on is on this list.

Righto -  On to the new Ather Revolt Planeswalker Deck article.  First, here is our video and discussion - 

A planeswalker deck is a preconstructed theme deck designed by Wizards of the Coast as a starter product for beginner Magic players. Planeswalker decks replace Intro packs starting with Kaladesh.  Each deck contains:
• 1 Ready-to-play 60-card deck, featuring a foil premium Planeswalker card
• 2 Aether Revolt booster packs
• 1 Strategy insert
• 1 Magic learn-to-play guide

Each of the 4 Planeswalker Decks to date (in Kaladesh and Aether RevoltO have the following types of cards suitable / appropriate to the Planeswalker -
• One foil copy of a mythic rare planeswalker, designed to be fun and flavorful but not pushed for tournament play. Expensive to cast and splashy.
• Two copies of a rare spell that has an effect and also tutors for the specific planeswalker. The rare usually will cost one mana less than the planeswalker. It only looks for the Planeswalker Deck's version of the planeswalker and not any version.
• Three copies of an uncommon permanent that is enhanced by having the planeswalker on the battlefield.
• Four copies of a common flavored to the Planeswalker with a basic staple effect.
• Four copies of an appropriate common dual land. 

 

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Aether Revolt Spoilers 12-05

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Happy Monday MTG peeps,

This afternoon, Wizards of the Coast previewed another Aether Revolt card in a rather unique way to provide a bit of storyline / flavour.  Specifically, WotC staffers Nate and Chris sat down in this video to discuss some Kaladesh cards which was interrupted by a 'rogue' Renegade broadcast which featured an 'anti-Consulate' message and a preivew cards - sweet !

 

Heart of Kiran, 2
Legendary Artifact - Vehicle, Mythic Rare
Flying, Vigilance
Crew 3 (Tap any number of creatures you control with total power 3 or more: This Vehicle becomes an artifact creature until end of turn.)
You may remove a loyalty counter from a planeswalker you control rather than pay Heart of Kiran's crew cost.
4/4

On the mothersite (linky here), WotC staffer Blake previewed Aether Revolt packaging as well as the related promo cards.  This post also include both Planeswalkers from the Planeswalker Decks.

 
Ajani, Valiant Protector, 4GW
Planeswalker - Ajani, Mythic Rare
+2 : Put two +1/+1 counters on up to one target creature.
+1 : Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a creature card. Put that card into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
-11 : Put X +1/+1 counters on target creature, where X is your life total. That creature gains trample until end of turn.
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Tezzeret Master of Metal, 4UB
Planeswalker - Tezzeret, Mythic Rare
+1: Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal an artifact card. Put that card into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
-3: Target opponent loses life equal to the number of artifacts you control.
-8: Gain control of all artifacts and creatures target opponent controls.
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Aether Revolt Planeswalker Deck Contents:
1 Ready-to-play 60-card deck, with a foil Planeswalker card
2 Aether Revolt booster packs
1 Strategy insert
1 Magic learn-to-play guide
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Kaladesh PW Decklists

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Happy Wednesday MTG peeps,

Kaladesh Planeswalker Decks

These two decks contain 10 exclusive cards with the collector numbers above 264 within the Kaladesh set.  Each deck contains:
• 1 foil premium Planeswalker card
• 1 Ready-to-play 60-card deck
• 2 Kaladesh booster packs
• 1 Strategy insert
• 1 Magic learn-to-play guide

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We suggest that if you are thinking of picking either (or both!), consider getting the very cool Ultra PRO card protector sleeves and deckboxes.

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