Today Wizards announced the decklists for Duel Decks: Knights vs. Dragons. The expansion symbol is pictured to the left. (I’m seeing a dragon… but a knight? Hmm.) Notably, knight of the reliquary, with its ~$10 pricetag should cover the knights’ half of the $19.99 MSRP all by its self. Plus, she has some sick new [...]

War!  Mirrodin is under attack and this past weekend was the first chance players had to finally pick a side in the war.  The Mirrodin Beseiged Prerelease was very different from any event Wizards has ever organized before.  Players were asked to pick a side in the Mirran v. Phyrexian war, and that side would [...]

The rush of the holidays are behind us.  Between bouts of shopping and decorating I got a chance to visit some family and friends.  While on my pilgrimage to Texas I caught up with my best friend, Jim.  After some preliminary catching up we decided to play some Commander.  I was fresh off of building [...]

Welcome back to my card by card analysis of the Magic card illustrations of Rebecca Guay. This will be the 6th installment, and when we last parted ways we were looking at Onslaught, which was released in October 2002. Guay was to take a hiatus from the game as it… explored it’s more masculine side, [...]

Wizards’ arcana segment announced the new Mirrodin Besieged release event promo cards today. We get a sneak peak at three cards many of us are sure to get a few copies of, due to these events. Let’s have a look! First up is Hero of the Bladehold, the mythic rare Mirrodin faction pre-release promo: This [...]

I cracked open my box of Scars of Mirrodin and was really excited about all of the cool new cards that will make EDH more fun. Ezuri Renegade Leader, Geth Lord of the Vault, Kemba Kha Regent, and Skithiryx the Blight Dragon were the new generals waiting to command an army and I was ready [...]

Hello, and welcome to part 4 of this series covering the Magic card illustrations of Rebecca Guay. Today’s post begins with the Invasion block of late 2000. If you’re just joining us, here are links to parts one, two, and three of this series. Invasion Released in September 2000, this set involves the planeswalker Urza [...]

Scars of Mirrodin.  Looming large over the horizon, Wizards’ newest expansion is set to hit the stores on October 1st.  With the release of Scars of Mirrodin new strategies will emerge and once powerful decks will disappear to the realm of Extended.  With all of the available spoilers it is time to speculate on what [...]

Welcome to part 3 of my series covering the Magic card illustration work of Rebecca Guay. Apologies for the slight delay. I haven’t found the time to edit my interview with Mrs. Guay yet, but it will surely be available shortly. So far we’re up to Mercadian Masques, which was released in October 1999. If [...]

The mothership had two fun tid-bits today. In arcana, they announced the decklists of the new Elspeth v. Tezzeret decks. For this artwork fan, the highlight of this announcement was the fantastic new version of tournament staple Swords to Plowshares done by Terese Nielsen: Among the other 5 new artworks announced was a new Mishras [...]

Work has held me hostage the past few months but I could no longer resist the pull of Magic.  I needed to find something that would get my non-work self pumped again.  I decided to dig through my Legendary binder (I collected Legends before I ever heard of EDH, yay for me) to see what [...]

Rebecca Guay has long been my favorite Magic card artist. In this series, I take a chronological tour through her artistic contributions to the game, examining every card she’s ever done to date, including some which never saw print. While her career as an illustrator is not limited to Magic card illustration, the artwork which [...]