Tarkir's Change

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Happy Thursday MTG peeps,

Today's article is short 'n sweet with load of Magic: the Gathering eye candy.  Specifically, a very lovely bunch of 'merged' images created by Andrew Weisel who runs the Tumblr blog 'Sarpadian Empires Vol. VIII', which, if you have not yet dropped by, we encourage you to.

Anywhoos, the theme here really is the Whovian timey-wimey thingy on the Plane of Tarkir which was initiated by Sarkhan resulting in a number of changes which had cascaded through time.  In game play, there is a truck load of cards bearing this out.  Enough of us yattering, here's the kewl before 'n' after from Andrew -

Former Khans: Four rare legendary creatures and one mythic planeswalker that detail the fates of the Khans from Khans of Tarkir in the new timeline. — Anafenza, Kin-Tree Spirit, Narset Transcendent, Sidisi, Undead Vizier, Zurgo Bellstriker, Surrak, the Hunt Caller 

Dragonlords: five mythic legendary allied-colored elder dragons that are the aged-up versions of their Fate Reforged counterpart. — Dragonlord Ojutai, Dragonlord Silumgar, Dragonlord Kolaghan, Dragonlord Atarka, and Dragonlord Dromoka 

Zurgo really got the cr@ppy end of the stick here we think.  We are rather happy to have all the previous set's Fate Reforged dragons but are unable to collect the five new dragonlords from Dragons of Tarkir until the singles pricing becomes a titch more reasonable (if ever)  :(
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Times of Tarkir

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Happy Saturday MTG peeps,

We've spent a good chunk of today going through all the new Magic: the Gathering cards that Dragons of Tarkir has delivered.  One item of no small amusement is how clever Wizards has been with the support of a stable of talented artists in illustrating the changes from the original to the altered timeline quite often hidden as subtle hints or 'Easter Eggs' within the card art.

One rather nice tool to quickly look up Magic: the Gathering cards as we compare timelines is MTG Quick Search, a Google Chrome extension, and we never have to step off the tab we're on to bring up a card image, even when we fudge-up the proper card name.

Anywhoos, continuing on with the incredible comparitive card arts in the funky Tarki timelines, we've got to bring you attention to some great work that Redditor 'raicicle' (in this post) with some help from the community had done to catch all the small nuisances of the time shift on Tarkir.  Please check out that cool timey-wimey post and Imgur ablum and here's a few for you now . . .

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