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Angry Lands, Brave Adventurers, and Other Decks for Vorthos

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Angry Lands, Brave Adventurers, and Other Decks for Vorthos

Viliana Vess and Garruk Wildspeaker hate each other's guts. They begin battering each other on sight, fastballing the nastiest spells they know at each other from moment one, leaving each other off of party invitations, and just generally wishing each other painful forms of death. But did you know that you can put both of them in the same deck together? Of course you can. The rules don't ... (more)

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tags: Allies, Deck Building, Flavor, Vampires, Vorthos

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Symbol of Phyrexia

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Shadowin 310 days, 21 hours, 44 minutes ago

In the distant past (2004 and 2005, anyway), we showed the Symbol of Yawgmoth and where it appeared on Order of Yawgmoth, the Seventh EditionYawgmoth's Edict, and the Ninth EditionYawgmoth's Demon. Senior creative designer Brady Dommermuth points out that the symbol more precisely represents Phyrexia itself. Yawgmoth’s own symbol is the so-called Mask of Pain, which is the Apocalypse set’s expansion symbol and appears on a different subset of Phyrexian cards. And since... (more)

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tags: Art, Flavor, Phyrexia

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A Planeswalker’s Guide to Zendikar: Guul Draz

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Shadowin 316 days, 23 hours, 1 minute ago

A Planeswalker’s Guide to Zendikar: Guul DrazMagic Creative Team Savor the Flavor ArchiveMagic Creative Team Archive uul Draz is a humid continent, with tangled jungles and waterways that twist and spread into vast marshes and lagoons. Guul Draz is home to more ruin sites than other continents, and it's rife with poisonous creatures and diseases. Despite the overall sense of decay, and the foreboding nature of the ruins that jut up out of the swamps, Guul Draz has thriving cultures. The merfolk move f... (more)

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tags: Flavor, Zendikar

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What's In a Name, Part I

featured 324 days, 10 hours, 20 minutes ago posted by

Summoner 325 days, 20 hours, 26 minutes ago

Some months ago, I was sitting at my desk when a member of Magic R&D came up to me looking for a specific article I'd written—one of the ones I wrote about the Star format, so that some of what I'd written could be used for a description of Shard Star in the Alara Reborn Player's Guide. (more)

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Zendikar Talk

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Summoner 325 days, 22 hours, 7 minutes ago

Hello, everyone. I've spent my preview weeks talking about Zendikar and the big picture. I walked you through the design of most of the mechanics. Now it's time to focus on some of the smaller pictures. I'm going to spend my column today exploring some of the stories about individual cards.Archive Trap The original version of Archive Trap "Cranial Extractioned" the opponent (it removed all copies of a single card from their librar... (more)

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tags: Flavor, Zendikar

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Chandra vs. Chandra

featured 326 days, 10 hours, 24 minutes ago posted by

Summoner 330 days, 54 minutes ago

As you are presumably aware, the planeswalker Chandra, who first appeared in Lorwyn as Chandra Nalaar, has reappeared in Zendikar as the angrier, more in-your-face Chandra Ablaze. So what we're going to do today is give you a chance to compare the two portraits of Chandra. Ready? Go! (more)

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tags: Art, Chandra, Flavor, Planeswalker

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The Moment of Discovery

featured 329 days, 10 hours, 35 minutes ago posted by

Summoner 331 days, 13 hours, 3 minutes ago

Welcome to Landfall Week! Sitting as it does at the intersection of adventurous mages, the terrain of Zendikar, and a sense of discovery, the landfall mechanic lies at the heart of Zendikar flavor. Today we take a look at landfall from a flavor perspective.Getting There Is a Large Percentage of the Fun When we talk about the flavor of lands in Magic, we employ the concept of the mana bond. As you play a land, you form a mana b... (more)

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Zendikar Art Quiz

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Summoner 332 days, 21 hours, 50 minutes ago

Zendikar is full of hidden perils. Also priceless treasures. And flying rocks, both Hedron and otherwise. How many of these Zendikar cards can you identify from the airborne things in their art?After you guess, click the images above to see the full art. (more)

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tags: Art, Flavor, Zendikar

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A Planeswalker’s Guide to Zendikar: Bala Ged and Elves

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A Planeswalker’s Guide to Zendikar: Bala Ged and Elves

Savor the Flavor ArchiveMagic Creative Team ArchiveBala Ged he subcontinent of Bala Ged, separated from the continent of Guul Draz by a miles-long marsh, seems stuck in time, a primordial throwback to the way Zendikar might have been eons ago. Damp, fetid air, thick vegetation, algae-choked marshes, and mold-covered thickets—these are the elements that define Bala Ged. The subcontinent is also home to the surrakar, a reptilian hu... (more)

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tags: Bala Ged, Elves, Flavor, Zendikar

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Your Mailbox is Over Vorthosity

featured 371 days, 12 hours, 59 minutes ago posted by

Summoner 372 days, 23 hours, 43 minutes ago

When I get that paradoxical little message that communicates to me that my email inbox has exceeded its capacity—and yet communicates by its claim-falsifying presence that my inbox is indeed capable of receiving at least one more message, I mean, right folks?—I know it's time to do a mailbag column. In truth, I am a savvy person and I archive my email off the server, so I never actually get that message anymore, but it'... (more)

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tags: Flavor, Planes, Planeswalker

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Seven Days in Exile

featured 377 days, 11 hours, 14 minutes ago posted by

Summoner 379 days, 14 hours, 12 minutes ago

'Lo, and welcome to a special "Exiled" version of From the Lab! To keep with the thematic spirit, I've gone and actually exiled myself in the African jungle, away from all human contact for this week. Nothing but me, my computer, my solar-powered generator, and the open fields for a whole seven days. (more)

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Topic Potpourri

featured 384 days, 8 hours, 55 minutes ago posted by

Summoner 387 days, 13 hours, 2 minutes ago

Welcome, ladies and gentlemen. On today's Jeopardy! round, your categories are as follows: Basic Principles I hope you've been checking out the full-art Zendikar lands in Magic Arcana this week. They are follicle-tinglingly exciting even just seeing them in the web browser, and I can tell you that they look even more fantastic laid out on the table. (There was a draft with real cards in the Wizards offices recently. But afterwards ... (more)

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tags: Art, Comic, Flavor, M10

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Keeping Spells Spellish

featured 391 days, 11 hours, 13 minutes ago posted by

Summoner 394 days, 7 hours, 40 minutes ago

An artistic crusade of Magic art director Jeremy Jarvis is to make sure that the art of "spells" (meaning, in this context, instants, sorceries, and enchantments, roughly speaking) looks like spells, and that the art of creatures looks like creatures. Sound easy? You'd be surprised. There's a lot of spells that look like—in creative team parlance—"just a dude." Take these two pieces, for example. Which is the creature, and whic... (more)

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The Widening Spiral

featured 400 days, 13 hours, 8 minutes ago posted by

Summoner 401 days, 8 hours, 21 minutes ago

Magic flavor serves two warring masters: breadth and depth. Breadth is the scope of Magic, the magnitude of its inclusiveness, the sheer number of flavor elements that combine to form its weft. Depth is Magic's intensity of focus, its ever-growing investment in its core iconic elements, the storied splendor of its traditions and institutions. Like two gods fighting over the fates of mankind, breadth and depth often pull Magic in op... (more)

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Two Great Flavors From Magic 2010

featured 403 days, 13 hours, 9 minutes ago posted by

Summoner 406 days, 12 hours, 59 minutes ago

Favorite Flavor Week presents me with an interesting challenge. People come to Magic for many reasons, and by far the biggest reason I came to Magic was that its game play was amazing. For me, Magic replaced games like chess and go. I approached Magic for years as just another classic game and was almost completely blind to flavor. That all changed when I started working here at Wizards. There are dragons, elve... (more)

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Spiritual Ice Cream

featured 406 days, 13 hours, 2 minutes ago posted by

Summoner 407 days, 12 hours, 55 minutes ago

Welcome to an extra flavorful dosage of magical laboratory wackiness! Why the added zest? Simple: It's Favorite Flavor Week, a week that is dedicated to the personal Vorthos taste buds of each columnist here on magicthegathering.com. For those who may be confused about a potential omission of the last results of the Birthday Contest, have no fear. As I mentioned last week, I'm taking this week to indulge my goober (which may or... (more)

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Nature's Golden Spiral

featured 406 days, 13 hours, 2 minutes ago posted by

Summoner 407 days, 12 hours, 57 minutes ago

Here's the art description for Nature's Spiral. Action: This is a symbolic representation of rebirth: Amid a patch of ferns, we see an extreme closeup of a trio of fern "fiddleheads," the curled-up fronds of a young fern. But these fiddleheads have taken on curled-up creature shapes -- a snake, a nautilus, and a human embryo. Focus: the fiddleheads Mood: Symbolic of renewed life of all kinds Now, before we look at the art, are you familiar with the Golden Sp... (more)

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Flavor of the Constellari

featured 406 days, 13 hours, 2 minutes ago posted by

Summoner 408 days, 13 hours, 6 minutes ago

Everyone's got their own favorite type of flavor text. Do I enjoy fun mage-driven trash-talk? Absolutely. (more)

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A Difference You Can Taste

featured 406 days, 13 hours, 2 minutes ago posted by

Summoner 409 days, 8 hours, 55 minutes ago

Many years ago, I had a conversation with my friend Chris in which each of us described exactly what it looked like when we summoned something in a game of Magic. After all, when you're exerting your will to pull something to yourself across an unfathomable distance, there must be some pretty powerful magic at work—and if movies have taught me anything about magic, it's that serious spells are always acc... (more)

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tags: Art, Flavor, Flavor Text

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The Core of the Multiverse, Part One

featured 410 days, 15 hours, 33 minutes ago posted by

Summoner 413 days, 13 hours, 32 minutes ago

Now that you've had the chance to play Magic 2010 at the Prerelease this past weekend, it's time for me to show you some of what went into its construction. To do that, we'll dive into Multiverse, the internal database we use to collaborate when we make Magic cards. There are too many comments I found interesting to do in one article, so I'll be splitting it across two. Let's go!Siege Mast... (more)

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Angry Lands, Brave Adventurers, and Other Decks for Vorthos

Symbol of Phyrexia

A Planeswalker’s Guide to Zendikar: Guul Draz

What's In a Name, Part I

Zendikar Talk

Chandra vs. Chandra

The Moment of Discovery

Zendikar Art Quiz

A Planeswalker’s Guide to Zendikar: Bala Ged and Elves

Your Mailbox is Over Vorthosity

Seven Days in Exile

Topic Potpourri

Keeping Spells Spellish

The Widening Spiral

Two Great Flavors From Magic 2010

Spiritual Ice Cream

Nature's Golden Spiral

Flavor of the Constellari

A Difference You Can Taste

The Core of the Multiverse, Part One

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