COUNTERFEIT MAGIC IS A THING?

Words are floating around about a Chinese company counterfeiting magic cards. Words are also floating around that there’s a few places in the United States are under investigation for making counterfeit cards. Whatever is going on with the counterfeiters, they need to stop. Because if people buy these counterfeit cards and try to play at an event host by wizards, they could be banned and or just have the cards taken away (not 100% on that part but from what I’ve read, it’s a possibility).

Here are just a few ways you can test out the cards for it being fake or not. One of the cool ways you can find out is using a black light. The real card would appear luminescent as part of the property of the card-stock they are printed on, where the fake one would not luminate. This probably doesn’t work every time because the counterfeiters have gotten better with making it look like the real thing even under a black light.

Another neat way of checking for fakes is the light test. It’s where you take the card and hold it near a strong bright light bulb. If the card is easily readable from the back then it’s a fake, where the real one has a blue filament in the middle of the card that would only allow so much light through the card. So this could go either way.

There are a number of other ways to tall if its fake but in order to do those test, you got to have a lot of guts to do it. Such as the bend test to see if it will crease easily, and tear the card in half to see if there’s the blue filament in the middle of the card. Me for one will not do the tear test because if it’s the real thing, then I screwed myself out of having or owing that card.

One more thing to find out if the card is a fake is he artwork on the card. Because if it looks like cartoon characters or video game characters, its definitely a fake, Especially if it has ridiculous abilities in the flavor box.

What would you do with counterfeit cards if you ever come across one?

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WHAT A PAIN IN MY LAND

With the new release of the core set m-15 for magic the gathering from wizard of the coast they reprinted a lot of old cards. Within those reprints they reprinted the “pain lands” as they are called.  For some people, they really like these kinds of cards, but for me? I’m not a big fan of them.

        My personal opinion? I like shock lands better, only because you get hit for 2 if you want to untap the land card right away, and that’s the only time you will get hit with the damage. The pain lands you get hit with one damage each time you use the land cards for one of the colors that are listed on the card. If you don’t use one of the colors listed on the card you won’t be hit with 1 damage each time, you can get a colorless mana. That can be helpful at times, but not really.

How do you feel about the pain lands?

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THE SLIVERS ARE BACK IN TOWN

     

       With the newest core set of magic the gathering M-15 coming out officially July 18th 2014, the slivers are back. I’m sure everyone loves the new artwork for the new slivers, considering they look just about human in the last core set; now they look more like regular slivers in the new core set.

Let’s look at the biggest fattie of slivers, the sliver hivelord. It’s a 5/5 creature with the ability of giving other slivers indestructible. Sure it’s all the color of mana to drop out on the battlefield which is in some case pretty hard to do. But with the other slivers you can have in the deck with mana weft sliver and such shouldn’t be too much of a problem to bring out. The new slivers still have the slivers you control ability instead of the all slivers get the same kind of ability. Which me personally I like better because why would I want to help my opponent make their creatures better?

Some of the other slivers are pretty good to have. They seem to have one sliver for every color of the mana this time around instead of having two or three different ones for the same color. What’s also different is they have a sliver land card called sliver hive, which helps put sliver tokens out onto the battlefield by tapping 5 colorless and the sliver hive card to get the 1/1 colorless sliver onto the battlefield, but you can only do it if you control a sliver. It also has tap sliver hive to add 1 colorless to your mana pool and it also have tap sliver hive to add any one colorless to add to your mana pool only to cast a sliver. This card is very specific to what it can do only for sliver decks, then again who wouldn’t make a sliver deck with  the land card in it?

Then we have the venom sliver, a 1 and a forest to drop out onto the battlefield with a 1/1 power and toughness to give all slivers you control deathtouch. This is a great card to have in a slivers deck, you can use the venom sliver as a chump block to get rid of the other player’s creatures. If you have sliver hivelord out there with the venom sliver, your sliver will live and the other player’s creature won’t.

Belligerent sliver is 2 and a mountain to drop this bad boy out onto the battlefield with a 2/2 power and toughness and give all slivers you control “can’t be block except by two or more creatures”. This isn’t so bad for the mana cost. Although the sliver looks more like a lion sliver but that’s ok with me, the artwork doesn’t help my gameplay any.

There’s also a sliver that can provide control in your deck as well. Constricting sliver is a five and a plains to cast out. It’s a bit of an expensive sliver to cast but it’s sort of worth it to exile an opponent’s creature as long as the constricting sliver stays in the battlefield. When I say sort of, I really meant not really considering it’d be way late in the game to cast it, unless you have a bunch of spells and mana weft sliver that can give you more mana to produce to get it out quicker.

Diffusion sliver is a one and a island to cast for a 1/1 power and toughness to give all slivers the ability to counter spells or unless it’s controller pays two when they become targets of spells. This would go well against a burn, counter spells type of deck. But I’m not sure of how the counter would work, I think the sliver gets to stay put while the counter or spells that targets it goes straight into the grave yard. This can force the other player to keep mana open to do such spell and prevents them from putting anything else out onto the battlefield.

Then the last sliver I’m going to talk about is the leaching sliver which just like the diffusion mana cost but only with the swamp in the mana cost to drop a 1/1 power and toughness with the ability to give all slivers to give the defending player 1 damage whenever a sliver attacks. This card can be a good ending game win kind of card because even if the defending player blocks and they have very little life left to hold on to the 1 damage still goes to them and lose the game.

That’s all I have to talk about slivers today.

What is your favorite new sliver?

How do you like the new art work for them?

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M-15 PRERELEASE

Here we are again with another prerelease weekend for the newest core set M-15 which starts tonight Friday at midnight (which technically is Saturday) July 12, 2014. When you join the prerelease you will chose a color. You'll receive a Prerelease kit with five (5) M15 booster packs, one (1) special "seeded" booster pack loaded with cards in the color you chose, a spindown die, an exclusive foil promo that can be used in your sealed deck, and a Garruk the Slayer Challenge card for players to get involved with the "Hunt Bigger Game" contest.

As for the hunt bigger games contest, it looks to me that you can win a nerf Garruk axe and the duel of the Planeswalker online game, although I’m not 100% sure since searching for this info just leads me to enter the contest pages, and if you snap a photo of yourself being the victim or the victor with the cardboard cut out of Garruk to facebook using the hashtag #huntbiggergame in the image caption and then complete and submit an entry form for your chance to win, and both victors and victims can win.

I think if I were going to my LGS prerelease I think I would pic green for my color of choice. But since I am very broke (sucks to be a grown up) I won’t be able to go one of the prerelease event. But I have chosen red, and white at the previous prereleases and I wonder if green would do me any better.

What color would you choose for your prerelease?

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COMICS OF MAGIC

COMICS OF MAGIC

            The comic above is from cardboard-crack.com.  The comic strips on their webpage are about one of the most addictive game on tabletop, Magic the Gathering. I chose this particular comic strip only because I feel very relatable to it. Most of their comic strips are funny, real, and relatable in some way shape or form. This one is one of their not so funny ones but it’s still good because you can relate to it in so many ways. I’m sure a lot of people also feel the same way from this particular comic strip.

            Sometimes in life you may feel bullied, let down, get your feelings hurt by other people. Most people would go and pop pills or commit suicide (depending on how much of their life they were given crap) or runaway. Sometimes you would be better off forgetting about all the bad things that were happening to you and do what you do best, play magic the gathering (providing if you do play the game at all). A good compliment is the best feeling to receive. Sometimes all it takes is one simple compliment to make your day worth it.

            Sure I don’t get called a genius at magic games I’ve played, but someone saying “hey, that deck is pretty good” is good enough for me. I’ve been told I do a lot of wrong things at jobs, my personal life, and everyone pretty experience it on the road with other drivers (even if you didn’t do anything wrong). Simple thing to do is to not let it get you down. If you are feeling down from everyday life, put your magic decks to work and show it who the boss is.

          I would like to thanks cardboard-crack.com for letting me use this comic strip for my blog and as promised I will put their links up for their webpages. They do amazing work with the comic strips and obviously a big magic the gathering fan.

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