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.

On the mothership, in his zendikar sneak preview article today, Kelly Digges reveals a new mythic rare legendary octopus creature called Lorthos, the Tidemaker.  Behold: Before I even see the casting cost or textbox or typline or anything, the name of this guy makes me wonder whether the psychographic profile / player type “Vorthos” is [...]

Wizards of the Coast has fulfilled player demands for enemy coloured fetchlands in the Zendikar expansion.

Just as I’m about to resume playing some more standard, Zendikar previews start up, and the rumour mill becomes ablaze (Chandra pun intended) with speculation and analysis. So, rather than write an article about my favourite standard decks, I thought I’d take on some of the main points of Zendikar. However, if you want to save the surprise for prerelease day, don’t read on, as I’ll name an reference specific cards.

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 [...]

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.