Tag: MindWarped

  • Rivals of Ixalan: Visual Spoiler

    Pirates and Dinosaurs? Why not both at the same time?

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  • Boat Leak? Rivals of Ixalan Sheet Discovered

    ORLANDO, FL — Early this morning, photos of an uncut sheet of Rivals of Ixalan were leaked on imgur.

    We contacted the leaker for an exclusive close-up glimpse of some of the new cards, seen below. More to come as this story develops.

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  • Just in time for the holidays, Good Gamery remembers all of our favorite Time Spiral cards

    Reminiscing about old sets is one of our favorite holiday pastimes. Here are twenty-seven of our favorite cards from the classic expert-level expansion block Time Spiral. We think you’ll be delighted to walk down memory lane with us.

  • HOW TO WIZARD—IN GRAPHICS

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    By Ertai, Professional Wizard

    Being a wizard can be a complex beast—and being a beast can be complex as well. Being a both a wizard and a beast at the same time? It can be downright overwhelming. Until you break it down. Below, Ertai breaks down four beastly wizard synergies into their component parts.

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  • Odric, Flippy Flappy Tactician

    Boy, Odric, Lunarch Marshal sure can grant a lot of abilities! Here’s a look at the original design. We shaved a number of keywords after development raised concerns about “rules confusion”, “tournament time limits”, “shuffling nightmares”, and “how on earth would you even print this”. Take a look for yourself if you want to really flip out!


  • Exclusive: From the Vault

    Are you determined to buy the next Magic: the Gathering collectable deck, but don’t yet know what it is? Have you been to the wizards.com website looking for the latest Magic products, only to turn away lost and bewildered?

    Fear not, woeful spell-slingers! Good Gamery has a special announcement: we’ve been asked by Wizards of the Coast to join them for an exclusive partnership! With the unprecedented popularity of Commander, Archenemy, Duel Decks, From the Vault, Premium Deck Series, Event Decks, and the Deckbuilder’s Toolkit, the good folks at Wizards are keeping busy designing ways to sell you cards they’ve already printed. But their web marketing team is not able or willing to keep up with the deluge of new products. That’s where GoodGamery comes in.

    We’ve agreed to devote some of our front page to alerting you to the newest Magic products. By virtue of their sheer quantity, we’ll have the privilege of spoiling some of these first! You’ll doubtless see many, many of these in the coming weeks, so start making room on your shelves and closets and apologizing to your loved ones. For now, follow this link for a taste of what’s to come:

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    We know what you’re thinking: how big is that vault? Bigger than you can possibly imagine. Remember to check our front page regularly for the newest one-of-a-kind Magic products!

  • The Plane of Grimneath

    On the plane of Grimneath, Unblinking Bleb would be an eye. Elsewhere in the Magic universe, he isn’t, despite all apparent evidence to the contrary.

    This isn’t surprising, really. In Magic’s history, there has been a long tradition of almost-but-not-quite-actually-eyes. There have been artifact eyes, creature eyes, land eyes, and enchantment eyes. There have been spells that you’d fairly expect to shower you in an explosion of eyes. But there have been few actual eyes.

    In fact, there are exactly two creatures with the creature type Eye in all of Magic: the infamous Evil Eye of Orms-By-Gore and his modern cousin from Urborg. Despite their modest numbers, these ocular bogeymen represent an archetype, one with an uncanny ability to evoke an emotional response. They’re mysterious and menacing and memorable, because ultimately, well, eyes are creepy. Specifically, disembodied eyes are creepy. Gigantic, man-sized eyes are especially creepy, and gigantic, malevolent disembodied eyes are perhaps creepiest of all.

    For this reason, I’ve always found them strangely compelling. So when I set about designing my world for the Great Designer Search 2, I was drawn to the sordid realm of Orms-By-Gore for inspiration. What might a Magic world populated by eyes look like? Well, it would be dark. Oppressive. Based on the meager available precedent, it would seem that eyes don’t play nicely with other creatures. I pictured them as captors, subjugating other races. Perhaps they’d oversee a mining operation. An underground plane seemed like a natural setting.

    And thus Grimneath was born. Though I unfortunately didn’t make the latter rounds of the GDS2, I did continue working on the set for my own edification. From the beginning, it felt like a set that I’d be excited to play with, and I’m pretty happy with the results. The entire 200+ card set is linked below—follow the link below for a brief visit to the world of Grimneath. And remember that if you see a bleb there, it probably really is an eye.

    Click here to View the complete Grimneath Spoiler!