MTG Tumblr Thursday

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Happy Thursday MTG peeps,

A Happy Thanksgiving to all our American readers this weekend.  For today's post, we'll regurgitate and gourmandise previously posted Magic: the Gathering content from our sister site, MTG Realm on Tumblr.

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Photoset November 26, 2015 27 notes

Happy Thanksgiving !
Wishing all our American cousins to the south a Happy & Safe Thanksgiving weekend.
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Photoset November 25, 2015 50 notes
Magic: the Gathering - Just Murasa Things
Some flavour from the mothersite for Murasa, the ‘Walled Continent’

The island continent of Murasa is a vast, steep-walled plateau that rises sharply from the sea. Although smaller than other continents of Zendikar, Murasa conceals an incredible diversity of environments hidden behind its sheer, stony cliffs. Inland from these cliffs, the land drops off sharply, wreathing Murasa in an irregular “wall” of mountainous cliffs. The largest break in this wall is the Sunder Cove, an enormous, tide-wracked bay clotted by the massively trunked harabaz trees.

The interior of Murasa is a rugged landscape of steep, windy hills and precipitous jungle valleys. The most notable exceptions to the interior elevation are the Skyfang Mountains, the Na Plateau, and the canyon lands of Kazandu.

Murasa Ranger, illustrated by Eric Deschamps
Murasa Plane — Zendikar, illustrated by Jung Park
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Photoset November 24, 2015 115 notes

Magic: the Gathering - February 2016 FNM Promo
The February FNM Promo was revealed over on the mothersite today.

FNM Promo, illustrated by Anna Steinbauer shows Jace attempting mind magic on an Eldrazi on the Plane of Zendikar with this great quote “The Mind of an Eldrazi is a puzzle that can never be solved. The trick is to make sure a piece goes missing.”


Previous printing as a Magic Origins Ucommon, illustrated by Yan LI.  This card art shows Jace’s early story on Vryn confronting the Sphinx who tutored Jace with this flavour text - “Alhammarret rose to his feet, and the full force of his mind hit Jace like a storm front.”
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Photo November 24, 2015

Gaming Store - Black Friday Deals
At OMG! Games in Barrie, Ontario, Canada.

Black Friday Weekend - Friday & Saturday November 27 / 28

• Board Games, Warmachine, Sleeves and Acces - 20% off

• D&D Attack Wing - 50% off

• Dice masters - 50% off, boosers 50cents ($40 full box)

• Purchase a D&D Players handbook, receive 50% off any other RPG book or Miniature

• Force of Will - Buy an Outbreak Seven Kings starter and a Vingolf knight- Receive a second Vingolf free.

• Spend $100 receive a free OMG T-Shirts while supplies last.

• Flash Specials Friday Night and Saturday - watch for Tweets


• As well as hourly cards for cash deals during FNM and Saturdays Legacy.
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Photoset November 22, 2015 121 notes

Magic: the Gathering - Magic in the Bedroom

That is a lot of blister packs there.  From September Roman (@justseptember), a photographer living in Asia.

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Happy MTG Thanksgiving

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Happy Thursday MTG peeps,

A special greeting out to our American cousins south of us who are celebrating Thanksgiving!  We wish a happy time with family and safe travels to and from.  It is also a time stateside where a lot of folks are looking to Black Friday / Cyber Monday deals - happy hunting to you and may the odds forever be in your favor.  We'll be looking to see if MTG Mint Card has anything on special come this Monday.

Anywhoos,  the mothersite is on a short hiatus with this holiday weekend with some republishing of previous articles so no new items to report from that quarter nor our usual sources from the forums - so - we'll tuck into a review of what's be going on at our sister site MTG Realm on Tumblr which just got another Tumblr Milestone recently with over 3,000 posts, over 8,000 notes and close to 8,000 followers -
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November 22, 2014

3,000 posts! - w00t !
Please do not take this as a slight against my (almost non-existent) social life.  I do actually effect a large volume of IRL events.

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November 22, 2014

Magic: the Gathering - EDH Things
Project over the Christmas Holidays - work on a Commander decklist using Nahiri, the Lithomancer, Stoneforge Mystic and a selection of creatures ‘n’ equipment.

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November 22, 2014

Magic: the Gathering - EDH Elf•Ball
Another project with the group over the Christmas Holidays - Develop a Commander decklist featuring Freyalise, Llanowar’s Fury.  There’s almost 300 different Elf cards and similar number of rather decent support spells to choose from.  Eladamri, Lord of Leaves, Rofellos Llanowar Emissary, Priest of Titania, Elvish Champion, and so many more.

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November 24, 2014

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Magic: the Gathering - Foil Theros
Here’s a pic posted by Magic Dojo (Bangkok, Thailand) who is selling this …
I’m just here for the incredibly shiny eye-candy.

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November 26, 2014

Magic: the Gathering - Boggart Weaponry
We started playing MTG shortly after Lorwyn was released and one of our fav ‘tribes’ at the time were those mischievous scamps, the Boggarts.
You may recall a post here at MTG Realm a year ago showing an interesting Boggart weapon - the ‘Fish Brick’ - yep - it wasn’t that complex but still rather effective on Kithkin and other targets.
Here’s a post on other Boggart weaponry with concept art from Cyril Van Der Haegen showing other wild assault weapons such as the ‘snake on a stick’ and ‘the turder’.

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November 27, 2014

Magic: the Gathering - Happy Thanksgiving
Best wishes for a happy and safe thanksgiving to our American cousins south of the border.  Here’s a pair of rather good and apropos card alters from @kcsnipesalters with a pilgrim theme.

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LGS Spotlight - Gryfalia's Aerie

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Happy Friday MTG peeps,

Here in Canada-Land, it is the Thanksgiving long weekend where custom dictates the gathering of friends 'n' family and the consumption of domesticated Meleagris.  For some rather witty MTG related cards just for Thanksgiving, pop on over to this Tauntr post.  Kicking things off for us is Friday Night Magic at our local gaming store here in Barrie, Ontario - OMG! Games & Collectibles and hopefully a few Magic: the Gathering games at the kitchen table throughout the weekend.

For today's post, we wanted to do yet another local gaming store spotlight feature.  This time, the eye of Sauron has fixed upon Gryfalia's Aerie Games, located in Bloomington, Illinois.  Gryfalia's Aerie sells board games, minature games ('minis'), and of course card games including the best game in the world, Magic: the Gathering.  They have regular Friday Night Magic events and other tournaments.  You can pop by to see them on 309 North Main Street Bloomington, Illinois, give 'em a hollar at 309-828-9196 or drop by their Twitter, Website or Facebook page.  It looks to have had some decent reviews on Google as shown in the above image.

How this store caught our attention was by some images posted by Sydney ('missmetalreaper' on Tumblr) of the washroom of all things at Gryfalia's Aerie.  We'll suggest that you can tell a lot about a game store by the washroom - and in this case, we are declaring kewl 'n' awesome!  Below from Sydney, pics of the very sweet looking MTG card 'wallpaper' as well as the witty Harry Potter reference.

  

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Tumblr Thursday

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Happy Thursday MTG peeps,

A special Thanksgiving greeting to our American cousins south of the border as well - a Happy Turkey to you and yours.  The mothersite today / tomorrow is revisiting previously published content as staff are off feasting 'n' feting with friends 'n' family.  

As it is Thursday, we thought it an opportune time to catch up with our sister site, MTG Realm on Tumblr, which has been very busy delivering a miscellany of Magic: the Gathering items of interest.  Our Tumblr site has over 3,100 followers and post on average a few times daily.  Anywhoos - onto the latest from them . . .

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November 28, 2013

 

 

Magic: the Gathering - Wooden Deck Boxes
Beautiful Magic the Gathering deck boxes carved by ‘Ales the Woodcarver ’ (aka Ales Janosik, fellow Canadian).  Ales is essentially self-taught and started carving in 2010.  You can check out his other works here -
http://alesthewoodcarver.deviantart.com/
http://alesthewoodcarver.blogspot.ca/
http://www.etsy.com/shop/alesthewoodcarver

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November 28, 2013

Magic: the Gathering - EDH Storage
Franky Richard (@livewithfrank) recently upgraded his card storage solution (the bane of many MTG players).  From a variety of boxes, he has now consolidated all his 24 Commander (EDH) decks into the two MTG Holiday Gift Boxes.

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November 27, 2013

Magic: the Gathering - Alt Mox
Alternate Moxen with artist proofs from Volken Baga.
The Moxen or Moxes are a collection of powerful gems infused with one of the colors of mana — Mox Pearl for white, Mox Sapphire for blue, Mox Jet for black, Mox Ruby for red, and Mox Emerald for green.

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November 27, 2013

Magic: the Gathering - Christmas Decorating
Totally approved by Martha Stewart (maybe).  You know those oversized Commander Cards you have kicking around - yep, those ones - they’re pretty, they’re foily (real word maybe) - get that shizzle up on your festive Christmas tree.
EDIT - I finally found out who this is from - credit goes to http://plnsfrstmtn.tumblr.com/

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November 26, 2013

Magic: the Gathering - Born of the Gods

We now have the image and name of the special challenge deck that will be part of the sixth quest on the Hero’s Path will take place at the Magic: The Gathering, Born of the Gods Game Day, March 1–2, 2014.

The first challenge deck, ‘Face the Hydra’, required individual or a team of players to overcome the Hydra by eliminating all of its (ever regrowing) heads before it nom’d you. 

We think a similar game of knocking down an ever growing horde of angry Minotaurs will be employed here at the Born of the Gods game day event

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