Conflux MiniSite

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Yeah ! ! Conflux Mini-site is finally up at Wizards. Which means my spoiler job is just about to come to an end and I start posting biased uniformed opinions and witless banter about this set's new cards and its possible / potential interaction.


Make sure you check out the Mini-Site from occasionally to get updates to the Flavour section, and any new Puzzles (which you can download to use as nifty/kewl desktop wallpaper). The set's production information page is expected to be static but still worth checking out to drool over what you are going to get in your Fat-Pack.




And of course, the reason for the season . . . Conflux Visual Spoilers ! I would suggest that you make time to check this out on a daily basis to get the latest card goodness. Below we have random cards I grabbed from the visual spoilers section. Dragonsoul Knight, Martial Coup and a host of others are waiting for your sage review now over at WoTC.











WoTC also has details posted for Pre-Release Torunaments. My local gaming store will be running an event on both Saturday 31st January AND Sunday 1st February. Here in Ontario, we have a regional event held in Toronto (about 1 to 1.5 hours away) which is expected to be well attended. The event is being hosted by Marvin over at SkyFox games and will be held at Best Western Primrose Hotel on Saturday 31st.

>> I just remembered about last year being at the Primrose Hotel for a Chess Tournament. A bunch of us were hanging around in the lobby after when the Hotel Manager came out of his office and asked us to leave. We told him that we were part of the Chess Tournament but he said that he hated "Chess-Nuts boasting in an open foyer".

(sorry) . . . see ya latter.

Conflux Spoiler 1

~ With the full Shards of Alara spoiler now completely off the plate and in our tummies for digestion, we turn our attention to Conflux, the second set in the Alara block.

Before we get underway, here are two handy links from Wizards which you should keep close before you venture into the official release event scheduled next weekend . . .
1. Sortable Shards of Alara card list, and
2. Shards of Alara Visual Spoiler.

The second set features a total of 145 Cards, including 10 Mystic Rares, 35 Rares, 40 Uncommons, and 60 Commons. The official release date is February 6, 2009 with launch parties scheduled that same weekend. Official previews are scheduled to start on January 19.


We have a full list of 145 Conflux card names which was accidentally posted (and quickly removed) from MJMJ.info, a Japanese website which provides MTG Rules and errata.

Let's Draw !

1. Absorb Vis
2. Aerie Mystics
3. Ancient Ziggurat
4. Apocalypse Hydra
5. Armillary Sphere
6. Asha's Favor
7. Aven Squire
8. Aven Trailblazer
9. Banefire
10. Beacon Behemoth
11. Blood Tyrant
12. Bloodhall Ooze
13. Bone Saw
14. Brackwater Elemental
15. Canyon Minotaur
16. Celestial Purge
17. Charnelhoard Wurm
18. Child of Alara
19. Cliffrunner Behemoth
20. Conflux
21. Constricting Tendrils
22. Controlled Instincts
23. Corrupted Roots
24. Countersquall
25. Court Homunculus
26. Cylian Sunsinger
27. Dark Temper
28. Darklit Gargoyle
29. Drag Down
30. Dragonsoul Knight
31. Dreadwing
32. Elder Mastery
33. Ember Weaver
34. Encumbering Stone
35. Esper Cormorants
36. Esperzoa
37. Ethersworn Adjudicator
38. Exotic Orchard
39. Exploding Borders
40. Extractor Demon
41. Faerie Mechanist
42. Fiery Fall
43. Filigree Fracture
44. Fleshformer
45. Font of Mythos
46. Frontline Sage
47. Fusion Elemental
48. Giltspire Avenger
49. Gleam of Resistance
50. Gluttonous Slime
51. Goblin Outlander
52. Goblin Razerunners
53. Grixis Slavedriver
54. Gwafa Hazid, Profiteer
55. Hellkite Hatchling
56. Hellspark Elemental
57. Hermitage Illusionist
58. Ignite Disorder
59. Infectious Horror
60. Inkwell Leviathan
61. Jhessian Balmgiver
62. Kaleidostone
63. Kederekt Parasite
64. Knight of the Reliquary
65. Knotvine Mystic
66. Kranioceros
67. Lapse of Certainty
68. Maelstrom Archangel
69. Magister Sphinx
70. Malfegor
71. Mana Cylix (reprint)
72. Manaforce Mace
73. Maniacal Rage (reprint)
74. Mark of Asylum
75. Martial Coup
76. Master Transmuter
77. Matca Rioters
78. Mayael's Retaliator
79. Might of Alara
80. Mirror-Sigil Sergeant
81. Molten Frame
82. Nacatl Hunt-Pride
83. Nacatl Outlander
84. Nacatl Savage
85. Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker (!)
86. Noble Hierarch
87. Nyxathid
88. Obelisk of Alara
89. Paleoloth
90. Paragon of the Amesha
91. Parasitic Strix
92. Path to Exile
93. Pestilent Kathari
94. Progenitus
95. Quenchable Fire
96. Rakka Mar
97. Reliquary Tower
98. Rhox Bodyguard
99. Rhox Meditant
100. Rotting Rats
101. Rupture Spire
102. Sacellum Archers
103. Salvage Slasher
104. Scarland Thrinax
105. Scattershot Archer
106. Scepter of Dominance
107. Scepter of Fugue
108. Scepter of Insight
109. Scornful Ather-Lich
110. Sedraxis Alchemist
111. Shambling Remains
112. Shard Convergence
113. Sigil of the Empty Throne
114. Skyward Eye Prophets
115. Sludge Strider
116. Soul's Majesty
117. Sphinx Summoner
118. Spore Burst
119. Suicidal Charge
120. Sylvan Bounty
121. Telemin Performance
122. Thornling
123. Toxic Iguanar
124. Traumatic Visions
125. Tukatongue Thallid
126. Unstable Frontier
127. Unsummon (reprint)
128. Vagrant Plowbeasts
129. Valeron Outlander
130. Valiant Guard
131. Vectis Agents
132. Vedalken Outlander
133. Viashino Slaughtermaster
134. View from Above
135. Voices from the Void
136. Volcanic Fallout
137. Voracious Dragon
138. Wall of Reverence
139. Wandering Goblins
140. Wild Leotau
141. Worldheart Phoenix
142. Worldly Counsel (reprint)
143. Wretched Banquet
144. Yoke of the Damned
145. Zombie Outlander

Stay tuned for more . . .

Alara Art Spoiler 2

~For you spoiler nutters, we have for you another installment featuring art from the next MTG set 'Shards of Alara'. Let's get straight to it . . .

Our first set of images are from premium gaming supplier UltraPro.
In deck boxes, we have the side-loaders featuring the w/u/b Mindwright Mage from the Esper Realm and another creature that has yet to be identified. For the top loading deck boxes, we have feature art for the r/g/w Ajani Vengeant from the Naya Realm and the u/b/r Sarkhan Vol from the Grixis Realm.

In portfolios, we have the following;
Another Ajani Vengeant from the Naya Realm, the very goth Vein Drinker from Grixis, and two more yet-to-be-identified critters, also from Grixis.

Lastly, we have a very lovely playmat featuring Empyrial Archangel most likely from the g/w/u realm of Bant.

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Next we have a series several card art images (with names!), all of which with the exception of Ranger of Eos, were possibly leaked from an eastern European distributor.

Ajani Vengeant - Naya Realm. This most certainly appears to be a form of the visiting Planeswalker Ajani Goldmane.

Here is Akrasan Squire from the Bant Realm.

Archdemon appears to have several extra mouths to feed here.

Battlegrace Angel looks to be a close friend of the Empyrial Archangel shown on the playmat above.

Caldera Hellion seems a perfect fit for the b/r/g realm of Jund.

Godsire, likely from Naya, is an Orthodontist's worst nightmare.

Predator Dragon, possibly from Jund likes his lunch burnt to a crisp.

Speaking of crispy critters, the Predator Dragon art also provides clues for another creature we may expect. These appear to be additional wolf-like inhabitants from Naya.

Ranger of Eos, again from Bant, was spoiled by MaRo while answering fan mail.

The heavily armoured dude, with critter side-kicks is none other than French Pro Antoine Ruel.

Mindwright Mage, a wizard from Esper is our final art image spoiler. From the looks of her filigree appendage, she is quite likely advanced in her magic arts.



Drop by soon for the next post, when we will take a more in-depth look at all of the 5 shards / realms of Alara.

Eventide Tokens

~ Wizards has finally released the list of Eventide tokens today on Magic Arcana. There appears to be a MISSING TOKENs (?) - I was unable to find the Kithkin Soldier and Wolf Creature tokens. I will assume that Wizards will not provide these for the new set but will use the existing ones from Shadowmoor.

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Here is the list of tokens that had been posted and the cards which generate them . . .

W - Kithkin Soldier - 1/1 (Cenn's Enlistment, Patrol Signaler, Gwyllion Hedge-Mage)
W - Goat - 0/1 (Springjack Shepard, Springjack Pasture)
U - Bird - 1/1 - Flying (Fable of Wolf and Owl)
G - Beast - 3/3 (Savage Conception)
G - Wolf - 2/2 (Fable of Wolf and Owl)
U/R - Elemental - 5/5 - Flying (Call the Skybreaker)
B/G - Worm - 1/1 (Creakwood Liege, Worm Harvest)
B/W - Spirit - 1/1 - Flying (Beckon Apparition)
R/W - Goblin Soldier - 1/1 (Rise of the Hobgoblins)


































Where the Eventide card has not yet been spoiled on the preview minisite, I have included the artwork for it.

Cenn's Enlistment / 3w
Sorcery - EVE Common
Put two 1/1 white Kithkin Soldier creature tokens into play.
Retrace

Patrol Signaler / 1w
Creature - Kithkin Soldier EVE Uncommon
1{W}, {T}: Put a 1/1 white Kithkin Soldier creature token into play.

Gwyllion Hedge-Mage / 2{wb}
Creature - Hag Wizard EVE Uncommon
When Gwyllion Hedge-Mage comes into play, if you control two or more plains, you may put a 1/1 white Kithkin Soldier creature token into play.
When Gwyllion Hedge-Mage comes into play, if you control two or more swamps, you may put a -1/-1 counter on target creature.

Springjack Shepherd / 3w
Creature - Kithkin Wizard Uncommon
Chroma - When Springjack Shepherd comes into play, put a 0/1 white Goat creature into play for each white mana symbol in the mana costs of permanents you control.

Springjack Pasture / Land / EVE Rare
{T}: Add 1 to your mana pool.
4, {T}: Put a 0/1 white Goat creature token into play.
{T}, Sacrifice X Goats: Add X mana of any one color to your mana pool. You gain X life.

Fable of Wolf and Owl / 3{ug}{ug}{ug}
Enchantment - EVE Rare
Whenever you play a green spell, you may put a 2/2 green Wolf creature token into play.
Whenever you play a blue spell, you may put a 1/1 blue Bird creature token with flying into play.

Savage Conception / 3gg
Sorcery - EVE Uncommon
Put a 3/3 green Beast creature token into play.
Retrace

Call the Skybreaker / 5{ur}{ur}
Sorcery - EVE Rare
Put a 5/5 red and blue Elemental creature token with flying into play.
Retrace

Creakwood Liege / 1{bg}{bg}{bg}
Creature - Horror - EVE Rare
Other black creatures you control get +1/+1.
Other green creatures you control get +1/+1.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a 1/1 black and green Worm creature token into play.

Worm Harvest / 2{bg}{bg}{bg}
Sorcery - EVE Rare
Put a 1/1 black and green Worm creature token into play for each land card in your graveyard.

Beckon Apparition / {wb}
Instant - EVE Common
Remove target card in a graveyard from the game. Put a 1/1 white and black Spirit creature token with flying into play.

Rise of the Hobgoblins / {wr}{wr}
Enchantment EVE Rare
When Rise of the Hobgoblins comes into play, you may pay {X}. If you do, put X 1/1 red and white Goblin Soldier tokens into play.
{rw}: red and/or white creatures you control gain first strike until end of turn.

Don't forget to prepare yourself for the Pre-release Event this weekend !

Eventide Booster Spoiler

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From the look at the Eventide Booster Pack preview posted today at Wizards, it appears that the prediction of enemy hybrid is confirmed.

The rare provided in this sample Eventide booster pack visual spoiler was Overbeing of Myth / Creature - Spirit Avatar

Overbeing of Myth's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your hand. / At the beginning of your draw step, draw a card. */*

The other 14 commons and uncommons provided in this sample booster pack is as follows:
Cinder Pyromancer (C), Snakeform (C), Dream Thief (C), Desecrater Hag (C), Hoof Skulkin (C), Aerie Ouphes (C), Kithkin Zealot (C), Nettle Sentinal (C), Insie Out (C), Drain the Well (C), Double Cleave (C), Soul Sniffers (U), Voracious Hatchling (U), and Unwilling Recruit (U).

Following are my prognostication of what these new cards may be - - based on absolutely nothing but my 'hunch' suspicion. Please click on each image to enlarge in order to better see my baseless and uniformed blathering.















































































Until next time spoiler nutters, Happy & Safe gaming.