First Pick & Giveaway:

GIVEAWAY -  7 Wonders Duel - Winner chosen Friday at 11PM ET - https://gleam.io/cLWet/7-wonders-duel-giveaway

 

EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW - 4/12
ERIN PREVIEW - 4/4

 

Amonkhet Spoilers

http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/so-much-amonkhet-news-2017-03-27

 

• Punch card token?!
• • “Embalmed” / Exerted / Brick Tokens / -1/-1 Counters
• Exerted Mechanic (“Tryhard”)
• • Glorybringer
• Archfiend of Ifnir
• • Return of Cycling!
• Oracle’s Vault
• • Brick Counters
• Trueheart Duelist
• • Embalm mechanic

 

Invocations:

http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/card-preview/masterpiece-series-amonkhet-invocations-2017-03-29

 

Trick GIF: https://twitter.com/TrickMTG/status/846850855626145792

 

Via Aaron Forsythe - They were meant to look not English; So...good job?

https://twitter.com/mtgaaron/status/846898199893852160

 

Gather the Townsfolk:

MTG Art Show Kickstarter - Josh Krause and Mike Linnemann

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/originalmagicart/magic-art-show-art-exhibition-at-gp-las-vegas-2017

 

Three Unique pieces of Original Artwork to show off based on our chosen guild:

 

• Erin - Overgrown Tomb by Rob Alexander
• Reuben - Guttersnipe by Steve Prescott
• Evan - Render Silent by Kev Walker

 

Cascade Games partnering with DreamHack Austin for $10k event; is this the next big thing for non-CFB TOs” To partner with non-MTG big gaming conventions?

https://austin.dreamhack.com/17/magic-tournament/

 

Announcement Day moved to “June” http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/announcement-day-moved-june-2017-03-24

 

Lack of Graveyard Hate was planned

http://markrosewater.tumblr.com/post/158927141188/have-we-already-seen-the-reason-for-the-lack-of

 

Mike Davis has died

http://markrosewater.tumblr.com/post/158835525848/sad-news

 

Going Infinite

http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/latest-developments/update-standard-2017-03-24

 

• What makes Standard Good?
• No Core Set means no ‘random cards’ (like Steel Overseer in M11 to help Scars block, etc) to help previous themes.
• 4 Huge Set Themes vs 2 Huge Set Themes = a problem with balance.
• Hate cards are lacking. Kaladesh didn’t need Shatterstorm, but not even a Naturalize?

 

Besides Tibalt, what is the worst Planeswalker in a Standard Set?

https://www.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/61fr3j/besides_tibalt_what_is_the_worst_planeswalker/

 

Popular:

• Chandra Ablaze (Zendikar)
• Gideon, Champion of Justice (Guildpact)
• Jace, the Living Guildpact (M15)
• Liliana of the Dark Realms (M14)
• Sarkhan Unbroken (Dragons of Tarkir)
• Dovin Baan (Kaladesh)
• Kiora, Master of the Depths (Battle for Zendikar)

 

 

The Finisher

I stumbled across a Reddit thread this week that got me thinking: we’ve seen Homelands, Prophecy, Dragon’s Maze, Rebecca Guay-gate, Necro, Affinity, Bant Company, Eldrazi, enemy fetchlands, enemy fetchland reprints, counterfeits, Wingdings mana, Wingdings abilities, and now Wingdings Masterpieces. But so far, nothing has successfully killed Magic. So in one sentence, what can actually kill Magic?