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  • Shadowmoor Preview: Holy Shift, Batman!

    Before I reveal today’s preview card, I want to talk a little bit about Time Spiral block, which was code named Reprint, Misprint, and Print. In Time Spiral, we introduced the brand new bold concept of Time Shifted cards: Cards we had printed before printed again with no change. This concept was well received, but just when players expected more of more of the same we threw a curveball in Planar Chaos with Plane Shifted cards: Cards we had printed before printed again with their color changed. As soon as players were beginning to recover from such a severe brainjob, Future Sight came along to blow their minds with Future Shifted cards: Cards we had never printed before which may or may not be printed again in the future without change.

    If you thought that was a trip, well, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet. You’ve seen Time Shifted cards, you’ve seen Future Shifted cards, you’ve seen Planeshift cards and you’ve seen Plane Shifted cards, but have you seen just plain shifted cards?

    The beauty of this design is that you can only play plain shifted cards in a deck with all plain shifted cards, meaning we can reprint broken cards without fear of players playing broken decks. For years we have been trying to build your decks for you, but you guys keep doing unforeseeable things that break our fragile game like putting Skullclamp in decks with 1-toughness creatures and playing Flametongue Kavu against decks with creatures. But now we really can build your deck for you, because there will only be enough plain shifted cards to build one deck. Good luck slipping one by us this time!

  • Shadowmoor Previews: Grin & Bear It

    Welcome to week two of Shadowmoor previews! Today I am going to introduce you to the first ever ultramegacycle minitheme. Shadowmoor has a minitheme of Bears, implemented as an ultramegacycle of common creatures: The Nonrarebear cycle. As you know, 2/2 creatures for 2 mana are often players favorite creatures, and they are also the easiest things in the world to design. Basically what happened here was we ran out of names and ideas simultaneously, so we randomly selected an existing card to expand into an ultramegacycle minitheme. It’s not that there aren’t more ideas or names to be thought up, it’s just that we don’t care anymore.

    Without further ado, let me introduce to you the first member of the new family of Nonrare Bears.



    Exciting, isn’t it? Right? Well, maybe that’s why we spoil rares instead of commons. That’s why this week I have decided to spoil 10 commons from the nonrarebear ultramegacycle minitheme.

    Additionally, we recently made the commitment to make all blocks work well with the blocks surrounding it. Unfortunately, that requires effort and communication between teams, so we have chosen a new strategy: Each block will be released with errata for the previous block to make the two blocks seem like a continuous flow. In this case, all Bear cards from Llorwyn block have been given errata to make them 2/2s for two mana. The following is a list of the affected cards:

    • Amoeboid Changeling
    • Avian Changeling
    • Blades of Velis Vel
    • Cairn Wanderer
    • Chameleon Colossus
    • Changeling Berserker
    • Changeling Hero
    • Changeling Sentinel
    • Changeling Titan
    • Crib Swap
    • Ego Erasure
    • Fire-Belly Changeling
    • Game-Trail Changeling
    • Ghostly Changeling
    • Mirror Entity
    • Moonglove Changeling
    • Mothdust Changeling
    • Nameless Inversion
    • Shapesharer
    • Shields of Velis Vel
    • Skeletal Changeling
    • Taurean Mauler
    • Turtleshell Changeling
    • War-Spike Changeling
    • Wings of Velis Vel
    • Woodland Changeling

    Until next time, may all your creatures be 2/2s for two, and may all your google image searches for “Underwear Bear” have safe search turned on. Seriously.

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  • ‘Chops: Best of Skeletor

    The first thing I posted on MT was some terrible photoshop of Demon tokens. I think I just added reminder text saying it was a token or something, making fun of the WotC reminder text.

    The second photoshop was the fractal split card. I don’t have the original, but I later redid it using proper frames:

    It was a smash success, and probably the reason I kept posting at MT.

    People also enjoyed this one while Arnold was running for Governor, and there was some scandal about him groping somebody.

    Then I missed so bad with my Goblin Pussy Wagon photoshop that I didn’t even save it.

    Someone responded to this with a clampclamp — an equip that equpped to equips.

    So I did a summationclamp:

    When Daniel Myr was doing MODO stuff, he kept giving us info and retracting it later:

    This was in response to some argument where someone kept calling Goblin Sledder a Mons’ Goblin Raiders or something:

    This was in a “make a card making fun of yourself” thread:

    Nobody found this as funny as I did:

    Random:

    Making fun of card art:

    Random:

    I hoped people would use this to tell people to STFU on the forum, but they didn’t:

    This was during 5th dawn spoilers. I guess we knew it was going to be a weird set. We did not yet know there would be a -1/-1 sunburst creature.

    This was a demonstration of how I keep my life total IRL;

    And this is my fav: