Wizards announced way back in late July that they were going to release Premium Deck Series: Slivers on Novermber 20th of this year.  MSRP $34.99.  The deck will be all foil, 60 cards, and sliver based, with a limited English-only print run.  Now they’ve revealed the packaging for Premium Deck Series: Slivers, along with a [...]

Welcome to the fourth and final batch of Zendikar preview cards.  We’d like to take a moment to thank the tireless folks at mtgsalvation for their work on the spoilers we’ve all come to know and love. Below you’ll find the first impression, knee-jerk reactions of myself and my teammate James, upon seeing these cards [...]

I review the latest Planeswalker novel: The Purifying Fire by Laura Resnick.

Welcome to another preview season, those joyful times when we Magic players experience the christmas-like joy of opening presents four times a year or so. We here at power9pro can hardly wait to try this new set, as it already looks to be bomber. Here is the first batch of cards… there’s 111 spoiled so [...]

Today’s arcana revealed that the Zendikar pre-release promo will be rampaging baloths: However, there’s another bonus promo, while supplies last, a planechase card from a new plane, “Luvion” with the location “Celestine Reef:” This looks like an intriguing planechase look at island sanctuary.  Very interesting.

FNM Magic Report 7.24.2009 Still in Wellington, and out of work on time, so I make the 6:30 draft.   I get in a 7 man pod and we open packs. First pack is a Clone and a motley assortment of 1/1 dorks.  There’s a diabolic tutor and I take it.  In retrospect it may have [...]

Holy Planes, Batman!  WotC has announced the contents of a new planechase deck “Elemental Thunder.”  In addition to previews of all the cards, we’re given a glimpse into some as-of-yet unseen planes.  To wit: Zendikar – most avid magic types know this is the plane of the upcoming expansion set of the same name, but [...]

So the first thing you might be wondering (or at least what I wrestled with) is why write about a draft you didn’t enjoy or win at? I believe that ultimately, if my goal is really to improve my game, I need to post-mortem all of my drafts. Ask myself what worked and what didn’t [...]

August 7th through August 9th, Superstars Game Center hosted a $5k Standard event. Friday the 7th was an early bird, main flights on Saturday and then the official day 2 on Sunday. (If you’re looking for my 3 main take-aways, those are at the very bottom of this report). I played in the Early Bird [...]

As promised yesterday, Wizards has revealed the new full frame Islands on the back of their announcement yesterday of the Plains.  These feature some awesome artwork.  I was torn trying to choose which was a cooler image for this post, so I’ll show both.  However, I urge you, dear reader, to check out the large [...]

Wizards announced in their arcana segment today that the upcoming set Zendikar will contain basic lands with full-frame artwork. The full frame lands will appear in boosters and fat packs, but not intro packs, which will contain the old, “normal” frame.

FNM tournament report for 7.16.2009 I show up at 6:30 loaded for bear – we have 18 players so we separate into 2 pods – most of the players seem pretty casual – the binder carrying dudes from last week apparently are boycotting the store and they’re actually outside the store at a table in [...]