M14 FAT PACK RELEASE WEEKEND

This past weekend was the official release of the new core set M14. I am very excited for this to come out mainly because I’m in hopes of getting enough slivers to make a decent or even a good deck with. But slivers aren’t really the only thing I am really looking forward to using, am looking forward to any other new cards, and planeswalkers, I never had before.

Upon opening the shrink wrap, I pulled out of the cardboard sleeve a deck holder box and a player’s guide. Out of the box holder comes with 2 60 card deck box you put together yourself, 9 booster packs, a deck of land cards, and a M14 D20. I am going to run a list of the cards I’ve gotten from the booster packs.

BOOSTER PACK 1

Plummet

Suntail Hawk

Zephyr charge

Undead Minotaur

Show of valor

Siege mastodon

Lava Axe

Archaeomancer

Minotaur abomination

Sensory deprivation

Wall of frost

Doom blade

Sengir vampire

Garruk’s horde

Mountain

BOOSTER PACK 2

Suntail hawk

Zephyr charge

Lightning talons

Brindle boar

Coral merfolk

Striking sliver

Seacoast drake

Solemn offering

Quag sickness

Divine favor

Voracious wurm

Blightcaster

Dragoness

Ratchet bomb

Swamp

BOOSTER PACK 3

Undead Minotaur

Pitchburn devil

Show of valor

Chandra’s outrage

Scroll thief

Quag sickness

Academy raider

Solemn offering

Predatory sliver

Merfolk spy

Opportunity

Windstorm

Blessing

Domestication

Island

BOOSTER PACK 4

Ranger’s guile

Pitchburn devil

Essence scatter

Lay of the land

Lava axe

Wring flesh

Brindle boar

Regathan firecat

Nightwing shade

Charging griffin

Briarpack alpha

Molten birth

Staff of the magus

Ratchet bomb

Swamp

BOOSTER PACK 5

Shadowborn apostle

Marauding maulhorn

Pay no heed

Armored cancix

Seacoast drake

Goblin shortcutter

Divine favor

Liturgy of blood

Mind rot

Woodburn behemoth

Diabolic Tutor

Stonehorn chanter

Into the wilds

Master of diversion

Island

BOOSTER PACK 6

Negate

Child of night

Lay of land

Capashen knight

Brindle boar

Vile rebirth

Wild guess

Pillarfield ox

Groundshaker sliver

Nightwing shade

Flames of the firebrand

Vial of poison

Trading post

Swamp

BOOSTER PACK 7

Frost breath

Plummet

Master of diversion

Shock

Chandra’s outrage

Regathan firecat

Rumbling Baloth

Archaeomancer

Auramancer

Spore mound

Encroaching wastes

Rod of ruin

Flesh pulper giant

Imposing sovereign

Plains

BOOSTER PACK 8

Capashen Knight

Essence scatter

Seismic stomp

Undead Minotaur

Vile rebirth

Dawn strike paladin

Nephalia Seakite

Dark favor

Griffin sentinel

Sensory deprivation

Bubbling cauldron

Vampire warlord

Barrage of expendables

Galerider sliver

Forest

BOOSTER PACK 9

Child of night

Lay of the land

Duress

Goblin shortcutter

Divine favor

Liturgy of blood

Mind rot

Deadly recluse

Striking sliver

Accorder’s shield

Manaweft sliver

Stonehorn chanter

Xathrid necromancer

Diabolic tutor

Island

   Eventually I am going to make decks out of these cards, not sure what color decks I am going to make as of yet, but I was thinking along the line of maybe a bant or jund deck, Or I might just make two colors decks. Although it may seem like the cards I opened aren’t as good as they look, but I am sure a decent deck can be made with them, even if I add them to the existing decks I have laying around. I didn’t get as many slivers as I hoped to get but I have no problem with buying them individualy to make myself a maybe sort of decent sliver deck. We will see when that time comes around, until then thanks for reading my blog and leave comments of what you would do with these cards to make a deck with? And if you yourself have gotten the core set of any kind (booster, fat pack, etc.) what cool cards did you get from them?

SLIVERS.....YEA OR NAY?

               Word has it that the slivers are being revived for the new M14 core set. Word also hasit that mostpeople are kinda upset about the fact that the slivers are coming back. Me on the one hand is pretty happy about the slivers making a comeback. The abilities they have are pretty good for what they are, not to mention having other slivers in the deck will become more powerful than they already are before they even reach your hand.
               

               I've some of the spoilers MTG has on their Facebook, website, and other spoiler pages. Some of them are pretty expensive mana cost to be bringing out, but is their abilities worth the extra mana cost to have in the deck? for some I do think it's worth it, but only for the ones that would make the other slivers more powerful. Ones with the ability to give other sliver vigilance doesnt seem all that worthy of the extra mana cost to bring it out, unless the mana cost is what the power and toughness eqals to, then it's ok (I guess). The ones that would give other slivers hatse or +2/+2 or something like that would be well worth the effort to give mana to get out.

              I've seen in the comments for the slivers on various pages all pretty much stating how much they hate the way the new slivers look. For me I like the way they look, I think they are pretty cool looking. It was the fact that people are hung up on how the slivers have 2 legs instead of one, this doesnt seem to bother me much as the next person. I really worry more about the abilities and power and toughness than the actual artwork. maybe when I have a bit much to drink or something I'll praise the artwork but even then not that much.

              It seems like from what I've seen from the spoilers there could be a good amount of red and white slivers to be able to pull off a nice red/white deck. It also looks like a all green sliver deck might show up as well. but I haven't seen any for black or blue yet, or if they are going to make one for those colors at all. If they do make them for those colors then they might want to surprise us or something (but highly doubt it would be of any kind of surprise at all).

               Before I sign off of here I just want to ask you readers if you like the whole sliver idea coming back or would you rather it stay away? and if you were ever into slivers in the past what color did you use for the deck and how fast can you get a win by?

           

Mediocre Chandra? Yea most of us thought so too.

So I've seen the new spoiler for the m14 Chandra. I'm not quite sure where they were heading with her or they got her confused with another planeswalker, but I'm saying I'm not to happy with the new Chandra. She's usually a burn kind of planeswalker, but this time around it seems to be the opposite of what she can normally do. 

As most of you seen before how happy I was to finally get Chandra the firebrand and she's one of my favorite planeswalker around. But this new one, I'm not looking forward to it too much, I mean if I happen to get her in a booster draft or something sure I might just keep her because she won't (or probably) be worth much to try and sell to a store or online. And maybe the fact that its Chandra. Who knows. 

Her new abilities seems kind of mediocre compared to what she use to do. Her second ability seems like the only abilities that's worth using just because it don't cost you anything on the dice to do it. If it were me I would just work it up to the ultimate ability and then just kill her (I know seems harsh don't it?) but at the same time I probably wouldn't even put her into a deck at all. I will probably put her in one of those hard sleeve and just store her away in one of my boxes or something. 

So here's the pic of the new m14 Chandra. Let me know in the comments of what your thoughts are about the new Chandra and which Chandra would you rather be using. While you are at it you can leave me a comment of who is your favorite planeswalker and why. 

Thanks for reading my blog and see you next time.