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A blog about all things Magic: the Gathering: News, Releases, Events, whatever!

[island-delver-go]

A reddit user made a flowchart to show you which format you should play

[theblogeternities]

Wooded Foothills x Gravity Falls

Planeswalk to the Archives

[mtg-realm]

To Catch a Dream

Narcomoeba, Illustrated by Howard Lyon

“What bait do you cast to catch a dream?” — Ravnican riddle

Illusion or not, from the size, I would likely cut the line for my safety.

[mtg-spot]

Flavor text makes more sense now, I never noticed the fisherman

[markrosewater]

“Tales from the Pit” #1894

[oddsbod]

I haven’t caught up on the Hour of Devastation stories yet, but I think it’s safe to assume that after handing Bolas his butt, the Gatewatch and Co. spent the rest of the block having lots of nice heartwarming domestic interactions and general light-hearted goofs.

(Also, sorry about the weird formatting, Tumblr is doing something obnoxious where my images come out super blurry when they’re uploaded as an imageset.  And it’s only if they’re in an imageset, and only on the dashboard and not on my actual blog.  The exact same images come out fine if they’re posted on their own—nothing to do with resolution or size, it’s literally just blurrying all images that I post in imagesets.  If anyone can help me at all with this I would super, super, super appreciate it, and may or may not be willing to promise you my firstborn child.)

[isharton]

sob this is too cute ;_; had to share

[isharton]

Decided I wont be beat. Fixed via a screenshot. My headcanon of the three gods that got corrupted by Bolas.  Each representing one aspect which later becomes a perversion of who they were. Qumat > Scorpion God, from someone who creates to someone who destroys. Basam > Locust God, Locusts eat crops Hasamat > Scarab God, creating a ‘family’ of eternals.

[wizardsmagic]

Here is a fun and cute Throwback Thursday to Amonkhet, and one interpretation of their three forgotten gods.

[vorthosjay]

what is the hidden lore of HORSE

A HORSE is a mythical creature that often shows up in works of high fantasy. Magic’s Horses are probably based on those from The Lord of the Rings, but they appear in a lot of popular fantasy, like Nintendo’s recent Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.

The best way I can think of to describe a horse is that it is a motorcycle but with legs. They stretch the imagination a bit to think they could run so fast with such skinny legs, but I enjoy them quite a bit. Usually they’re depicted with a rider, like a knight or soldier carrying weapons and armor. Frequently they appear in the art but aren’t represented in the card types. Every once in a while one will break free from the chains of human servitude and get its own creature card.

[commandtower]

Dinosaur Watch 2017 Begins

Try as I might to contain my excitement for Ixalan until after the Hour of Devastation release, there’s no denying that the return of the Dinosaur creature type has me bursting with joyful nostalgia for my days as a young kid watching VHS tapes of dinosaur documentaries recorded from TV broadcasts. I’m specifically avoiding unofficial spoilers so I can be fully surprised, but that doesn’t mean I can’t look forward to the reintroduction of the type and the integration of a number of creatures into the Dinosaur fold. Call me silly but I’ll always have a place in my heart for dinosaurs in popular culture, and seeing them officially return to Magic after so many years makes me very happy.

[mtg-realm]

Magic: the Gathering - the Destruction of Amonkhet

Superb illustration on the full-art lands highlighting the devastating changes on Amonkhet, after the arrival of Nicol Bolas, the god-pharaoh. Both the Amonkhet version and the Hour of Devastation version were illustrated by the same artist as noted below.  Full art Hour of Devastation lands are anticipated to appear roughly one in every four booster packs.

The ive full-art lands - Plains - Titus Lunter Island - Richard Wright Swamp - Clint Clearly Mountain - Florian De Gesincourt Forest - Yeong-Hao Han

[loreleywrites]

The Hour of Devastation Card Image Gallery is up with the rest of the non-promo art!

[markrosewater]

“Tales from the Pit” #1556

[loreleywrites]

What a nice kitteh. (Source)

[griselbrand-tm]

these last mercies have me killed. they are so so so so sad. it hurts man.

[loreleywrites]

Guess who else they’re gonna have killed.

[loreleywrites]

In Amonkhet, we built monuments. In Hour of Devastation, we tear them down! (Source)

[loreleywrites]

Say hi to your Hour of Devastation edition of Amonkhet Invocations! We’re 22/24, just missing the two Gods we haven’t seen yet. We have:

Armageddon - Capsize - Forbid

Omniscience - Opposition - Sunder

Threads of Disloyalty - Avatar of Woe - Damnation

Desolation Angel - Diabolic Edict - Doomsday

No Mercy - Slaughter Pact - Thoughtseize

Blood Moon - Boil - Shatterstorm

Through the Breach - Choke - Lord of Extinction

[The Locust God] - The Scorpion God - [The Scarab God]

[mtg-realm]

Magic: the Gathering - Hour of Devastation

Some rather lovely looking swag posted to the internets -

• Hour of Devastation Game Day Playmat

• Hour of Devastation Game Store Standees

[mtg-spot]

Bolas standees, huh? I got a photo-op in mind for those. Watch your back, Bolas, watch you back.

[gavinverhey]

Okay. I’m just going to say one thing about all the announcements we made today. Look closer at that key art. On Ixalan, our dinosaurs have feathers. AS THEY SHOULD.

(Didn’t see the announcements? Check them out! http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/25th-anniversary-announcement-day-2017-06-14)

[markrosewater]

Ixalan!

[mtg-realm]

The Art of Magic: the Gathering - IXALAN

The Art of Magic: The Gathering - Ixalan will be available January 2, 2018. 

Set sail for the uncharted jungles of Ixalan, where dangerous beasts, magnificent ruins, and lost treasures lie waiting to be discovered. 

Saddle up your Dinosaur mount and brave the unknown as you search the plane for a prize forgotten by history … until now!