#mtgdominaria

[mysteriouslygenerousmozzarella]

[baerthe]

Glory to Phyrexia! The hope is by the end of the year the cycle should be 'Compleat' 😄. Been giving out stuff like this on my $6/month Ko-Fi memberships, this month the backs of tokens and art cards will have this smelly swamp.

[wizardsmagic]

We want to know what you think of Dominaria United in our latest set survey! Take it and help shape what we're working on here at Wizards.

[lumina46]

Got the girl all right! Definitely was a major player in the pre release for Dominaria the other night, securing two games just by herself to give a nice 4-1 finish to the night.

[cantemplario]

Hens, ren!

"Ermahgerd! Hens ren! Et's de Urbergh Lhergef!"

—Maggi Goldensdotter, last words

Celebrating MtG's 30 anniversary with an old meme and an Ice Age reference just seemed fitting.

[travelunknown]

Even this cat can become more! If he can do it so can I... Lol awesome art from #mtg #magicthegathering #dominaria ... Perhaps against his will in this one but the point is let’s not give up let’s always strive for more. ——————————————- #beyourbest #believeinyourself #dream #mtgcommunity #motivate #mindset #growth #mtgdominaria #mtgart #futureself #dreambig #fun #takeaction #notetoself #justforfun #rpg #keepgoing #timeless #write #anewme #beautiful #funstuff #draw #artrocks #breakfree #beautifulart

[mr-fascismo-blog]

Screams from Within: Dominaria

Dominaria Prerelease weekend has passed and I can say for certain that Dominaria is a SWEET set. Call it a set review, call it just discussing Dominaria. Let’s talk about it in today’s article in Screams from Within.

Aesthetic/Rules Changes

Legendary Title Bar

These look AWESOME. I really enjoy these and I LOVE them in foil. Great change.

Flavor Text Separator(The Portal Line)

I appreciate this and it’s a nice little addition to the graphic design palette. It’s not subtle, but not Portal- levels of not subtle. Thumbs-up from me.

They/Their/Them Templating

I’m going to leave out the fact that using him/his/her/hers aren’t inclusive to genderfluid/nonbinary/etc. people because this discussion has been had a lot and I personally believe this is a good change. That aside, this is a good change solely because this new templating takes up less space on a card. Another good change.

“Add” Phrasing Changes

This is the only change I’m not completely on board with. I think this’ll grow on me in time, but right now it doesn’t strike me as necessary. However, the Llanowar Elves Open House promo with the centered text looks SWEET and I NEED THREE MORE FOR MY PLAYSET.

Planeswalker Redirection Rule

I am so happy to see this change. When I was first learning how to play, I was told I couldn’t Lightning Strike an Ashiok(I started playing around M14), but then I started to play Burn in Modern and I learned about Planeswalker Redirection. It’s too complicated and cards like Leyline of Sanctity stops you from bolting a Jace when it shouldn’t. A great change.

“This spell” Templating Changes

Another change that frees up space on cards is always welcome. It doesn’t make anything confusing, so another thumbs-up.

The Actual Set

Dominaria has become my favorite set in recent years, even before its actual release. The themes and archetypes are all viable and unique. The saga cards all look awesome and they’re fun to play with. Yargle alone makes the set a 10/10 in my book, but since the rest of the set is so good I’ll give it a 20/10.

In Conclusion...

Dominaria is awesome and you should play the limited environment this weekend for Draft Weekend. 

I hope you enjoyed this installment of Screams from Within! I have multiple more ideas for SfW going forward, and most of them aren’t about Dominaria. Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoyed.

[mr-fascismo-blog]

The Dominaria Prerelease Guide

What’s a prerelease? A prerelease is an event where you get to open six packs of the new set a week early and build a deck. You then play in a tournament. Sound good? Great. Now let’s get on to the archetypes of the set and what else you get at prerelease.

What You Get

What do you even get at prerelease? 

This is a prerelease kit. With it, you get 6 packs of Dominaria, a spindown d20, a foil date-stamped rare or mythic rare from Dominaria, and a random foil date-stamped legendary creature from Dominaria.

How to Build a Deck

A deck at prerelease(or at any limited event) can be at least 40 cards. When you open your packs, separate the cards into piles based on color. Then you need to find out what to play.

Archetypes

In White/Blue or Blue/Black, you have Historic. For WU, you want Raff Capashen and a bunch of historic stuff/historic payoffs. In UB, you want cards like Cabal Paladin.

Then in Black/Red, you have Aggro. You don’t need payoff cards for historic or kicker, just spells and creatures that help you turn your dudes sideways.

Red/Green: Kicker. In this deck, you want cards that ramp like Llanowar Elves and payoff cards like Hallar, the Firefletcher. 

Then you have Green/White Tokens. Play Shanna, Sisay’s Legacy or similar cards that care about you having creatures. Then, play cards like Charge and Wild Onslaught to swing in for the win.

Legendary creatures are in White/Black. If you get a lot of legendary creatures, play this deck. Arvad the Cursed is great in this deck, but sadly Yargle is not.

Blue/Red Wizards is my favorite archetype in the format. Look for cards like Adeliz and Wizard’s Lightning/Retort.

Black/Green has Saproling Sacrifice, and Slimefoot, the Stowaway is one of the best cards in this deck. Play it only if you have a lot of the specific cards.

Red/White uses a lot of Equipment and Auras. Play Danitha Capashen, Paragon, Valduk, Keeper of the Flame, and/or Tiana, Ship’s Caretaker in this one.

Finally, Green/Blue Ramp is pretty decent but only if you have a lot of payoff cards like Tatyova, Bethnic Druid is good but only if you can actually get them into play.

For more information about Archetypes, go to this link.

Ideal Deck Builds

Here are some infographics from Wizards that I took from them to show you. Here’s where I found them so you can read more about specific deckbuilding:

^(This one will be in your Prerelease Kit.)^

Good luck at prerelease and may you draw well. See you next time!

Extra Resources:

CFB Primer

TCGPlayer Primer

Prerelease Kit Opening from Life Begins at 20