By: hamtastic, Erik Friborg
Jul 01 2009 12:37am

Spoiled cards

Cards from mtgsalvation, and are subject to change or being completely wrong. Using any information stated here for, you know, financial purposes is not advisable! While infrequent, mistakes CAN happen!

Rumored Cards (Highlight to read): Rumor talk ends at 27:00, there's a lot of new goodies.

Baneslayer Angel 3ww
Creature - Angel
Mythic Rare
Flying, first strike, lifelink, protection from Demons and from Dragons.
5/5

Captain of the Watch 4ww
Creature - Human Soldier
Rare
Vigilance Other Soldier creatures you control get +1/+1 and have vigilance. When Captain of the Watch enters the battlefield, put three 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens onto the battlefield.
3/3

Elite Vanguard w
Creature - Human Soldier
Uncommon
2/1

Honor of the Pure 1w
Enchantment
Rare
White creatures you control get +1/+1.

Planar Cleansing 3www
Sorcery
Rare
Destroy all nonland permanents.

Ice Cage 1u
Enchantment - Aura
Common
Enchant creature Enchanted creature can't attack or block, and its activated abilities can't be activated. When enchanted creature becomes the target of a spell or ability, destroy Ice Cage.

Time Warp 3uu
Sorcery
Mythic Rare
Target player takes an extra turn after this one.

Doom Blade 1b
Instant
Common
Destroy target nonblack creature.

Dread Warlock 1bb
Creature - Human Wizard
Common
Dread Warlock can't be blocked except by black creatures.
2/2

Sign in Blood {bb}
Sorcery
Common
Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Xathrid Demon 3bbb
Creature - Demon
Mythic Rare
Flying, trample At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature other than Xathrid Demon, then each opponent loses life equal to the sacrificed creature's power. If you can't sacrifice a creature, tap Xathrid Demon and you lose 7 life.
7/7

Great Sable Stag 1gg
Creature - Elk
Rare
Great Sable Stag can't be countered. Protection from blue and from black (This creature can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, or enchanted by anything blue or black.) Ineffable and incorruptible.
3/3

Master of the Wild Hunt 2gg
Creature - Human Shaman
Mythic Rare
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a 2/2 green Wolf creature token onto the battlefield. {T}: Tap all untapped Wolf creatures you control. Each Wolf tapped this way deals damage equal to its power to target creature. That creature then deals damage equal to its power divided as its controller chooses among any number of those Wolves.
2/2

Gargoyle Castle
Land
Rare
{T}: Add 1 to your mana pool. 5, {T}, Sacrifice Gargoyle Castle: Put a 3/4 colorless Gargoyle artifact creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

News:

Player Rewards Program

The biggest news this week is easily the Player Rewards program. Lots of cards, lots of difficulties getting to the top of the heap. For all the gritty details: http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=magic/online/rewards/welcome And More Details: http://wizards.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wizards.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=1869.

And the discussion: http://forums.gleemax.com/showthread.php?t=1208920

Some quick thoughts (I'll go more in depth in State of the Program this week): Buying one draft set, playing the draft, + 5 log-ins a month = Tier 3 (aka 1 Alt art land, 1 foil alt art land, 1 level 3 promo). Doing that twice nets you a new tier 4 promo (Kird Ape this time).

Clan chat to be fixed! More information is here: http://forums.gleemax.com/showthread.php?t=1210249 And I'm certainly looking forward to this coming back!

Upcoming Release Schedule

Another nice announcement this week was the statement of what to expect from new sets coming up in MTGO. We appear to have a pretty busy rest of the year ahead, so start saving up now if you're going to be getting into MED3 and the newest From the Vault set! http://forums.gleemax.com/showthread.php?t=1210330

Events

http://www.wizards.com/Magic/digital/Article.aspx?x=magic/magiconline/eventsmain#070109 MOCS, Mirage Nix Tix Qualifiers, OTJ Qualifiers, SHM Sealed - Nix Tix, and much more!

Card Prices

Maelstrom Pulse continues to decline as tons and tons of Alara singles are still being pumped into the system. Necroskitter is up to $4 on the back of being a crazy card featured in the BoaB Column Regal Force has stayed strong thanks to Green suddenly being good, and has gone up about another quarter of a ticket to 3.75 each.

Article of the Week

Hamtastic - Waiting for Godot: ACR #2 - Swiss
Jamuraa - Scoop Phase -- The Art of Sideboarding

9 Comments

Hmm, how to do this without by Anonymous at Wed, 07/01/2009 - 09:22

Hmm, how to do this without actually showing any spoiler info...

On one of the spoiled cards, there are two words that appear to be new Keywords.

One of the words kind of points out what it probably does, but the other is royally unclear.

I went and looked up the actual word in the dictionary and now it makes even less sense as a Keyword.

Is there any info out there about these {potentially} new Keywords?

Just a link would be nice or a "go here", so as to not do any spoiling for those who don't want to know.

Sorry, Nevermind. I went out by Anonymous at Wed, 07/01/2009 - 09:32

Sorry, Nevermind.

I went out and looked at the spoiler myself and realized those aren't Keywords, they are just the flavor text.

Sometimes I'm an idiot (or maybe all the time...it's hard to tell).

My vote by Anonymous at Wed, 07/01/2009 - 12:53

My vote is that you are an all the time idiot (just kidding).

Funniest thing was Jamuraa by hamtastic at Wed, 07/01/2009 - 14:03

Funniest thing was Jamuraa joking about Roots, two days before the green cards were added to the spoiler. St. Jams?

Only for usa? by Anonymous at Wed, 07/01/2009 - 15:15

I read only for ppl living in usa? =(

Yep. :( USA Only. Evidently by hamtastic at Wed, 07/01/2009 - 15:19

Yep. :(

USA Only. Evidently there's a lot of legal things with it being based out of the USA and sending stuff to other countries based on reward items.

I like it, free stuff for by draconias at Wed, 07/01/2009 - 15:35

I like it, free stuff for doing what I normally do is cool.

I'm curious what this will do to the secondhand market. When I think about it the reason tickets for cards work is because you can sell tickets for real money. But those buying $100 for 100 tickets on ebay might as well just get the tickets directly from wotc, and get free stuff.

Generally the people buying by hamtastic at Wed, 07/01/2009 - 15:57

Generally the people buying on eBay are doing it to avoid VAT (over seas folks pay a LOT of tax for 'imported' goods). But I imagine that there will be more people turning back to WotC to buy those tickets if it nets them some free stuff.

Which is good, since it will hopefully serve to drive the ticket prices back down a bit. :)

Regal Force by Atmapalazzo at Thu, 07/02/2009 - 19:43

to be more specific about why it's up there hammy. The standard deck elfball (the one I played you with the other night) uses Regal force since it provides a nice body and massive card advantage around turn 4. Last week's Top Decks on the WotC site shined some light on the finicky deck.