Good Gamery

Month: January 2018

  • Dominaria Doom Fest 2018

  • Announcing From the Vault: Obvobvobv

    Play Magic the Way it’s Meant to Be Played

    Sling the most updated spells in the multiverse with this collection of sixteen of the most Oracle-accurate cards in Magic’s history. We’ve updated the rules for these recognizable, black-bordered, tournament-playable cards. You and your opponents will know exactly what these cards do when you see them.

    Contents and Details

    • 16 Premium foil cards, including 0 with new art.
    • An exclusive Spindown™ life counter.
    • A collector’s guide, redeemable online at magiccards.info or scryfall.com.
    • Each card has been printed using a foil process unique to the From the Vault series. They have not been treated for warping.
    • From the Vault: Obvobvobv will be available world-wide in English only, and will have a nonexistent print run.
    • All cards are black bordered and tournament legal. This means that these cards are legal for use in any tournaments where the original printings are still legal. This should not be construed as advice, legal or otherwise, to actually play these cards in tournaments, or to play the game at all.

    Please use the hashtag #MTGV18 for discussing this product on Twitter!

    Credits

    Product Concept and Development: A couple of nameless interns that have already been fired
    Release Date: April 1, 2018
    Magic Online Release Date: April 20, 2018
    MSRP: $34.99 *Applies to U.S. Only

  • The Oxidation of the Mirrodin Small Town

    The streets of Bismont, Tinnessee are quiet these days, but it wasn’t always like that. This small town, nestled in the shadow of the great furnace, was once a thriving mining community. Like many towns in the once thriving region of the plane called the rust clamp, Bismont sits on a large deposit of artifact, and the town’s whole economy revolved around mining it.

    “It used to be that everyone who needed a job could get one in the mines” said Slobill, a 75-year-old retired krark-clan grunt. I met Slobill at a diner on main street, one of the few businesses still open. He lost a hand to a shrapnel blast, and a son to a runaway megatog. Nevertheless, he wishes the mine was still open. “We used to make stuff in this country. Everything used to be powered by artifact lands. The ironworks, the frogmite factories, heck I even knew a guy in Mephidross who just wanted people to destroy artifact lands in front of him. But now, with all this government regulation, no one uses artifact lands anymore.”

    Artifact lands, once the premier energy source of the multiverse, fell out of favor when the DCI discovered the harmful effect that pollution from sacrificing these lands had on the metagame. As the fifth sun rose for the first time, a flurry of new regulations and treaties severely limited the use of artifact lands across the multiverse, forcing the mine here to shut down.

    Many here in Bismont are hopeful that the election of a new Praetor, Elesh Norn, will usher in an age of deregulation that will lead to massive demand for artifact lands. “I’m sure that any day now, there will be some sort of Battle for New Phyrexia, and then everyone will be clamoring for the mines to reopen to power their Inkbound Ravagers and Greater Frogmites” Slobill’s wife Korva, Vulshok Homemaker, tells me. But Slobill isn’t so sure. “Sure, everyone used to want artifacts to power their furnace dragons and broodstars, but can we really compete with these new alternate energy sources like natural gas or cats. I just don’t know.”