Templars Vs Undead

I just got details this morning of the new Templars versus Undead which Black Box are releasing as a Kickstarter  project. If you liked the other sets I am pretty sure that you will love the next one, so why not have a look at : http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/388956994/lords-of-war-templars-versus-undead?ref=live

As you can see the artwork is pretty cool and the new mechanics are ready to play, it just needs to get the backing ....

Commander Deck Review "Mind Seize"

Today's commander deck review is 'Mid Seize'....


Commander - Jeleva, Nephalia’s Scourge

Main Deck
99 cards Commander
1 Akoum Refuge
1 Bojuka Bog
1 Command Tower
1 Crumbling Necropolis
1 Dimir Guildgate
1 Evolving Wilds
1 Grixis Panorama
9 Island
1 Izzet Boilerworks
1 Izzet Guildgate
1 Molten Slagheap
5 Mountain
1 Opal Palace
1 Rakdos Carnarium
1 Rakdos Guildgate
1 Rupture Spire
8 Swamp
1 Temple of the False God
1 Urza's Factory
1 Vivid Creek
1 Vivid Marsh
40 lands
1 Augur of Bolas
1 Baleful Force
1 Baleful Strix
1 Charmbreaker Devils
1 Diviner Spirit
1 Echo Mage
1 Fog Bank
1 Guard Gomazoa
1 Guttersnipe
1 Hooded Horror
1 Jace's Archivist
1 Mnemonic Wall
1 Nekusar, the Mindrazer
1 Nightscape Familiar
1 Nivix Guildmage
1 Terra Ravager
1 Thraximundar
1 True-Name Nemesis
1 Uyo, Silent Prophet
1 Vampire Nighthawk
1 Viseling
21 creatures
1 Annihilate
1 Arcane Melee
1 Armillary Sphere
1 Army of the Damned
1 Crosis's Charm
1 Cruel Ultimatum
1 Curse of Chaos
1 Curse of Inertia
1 Curse of Shallow Graves
1 Decree of Pain
1 Dismiss
1 Eye of Doom
1 Fissure Vent
1 Grixis Charm
1 Illusionist's Gambit
1 Incendiary Command
1 Infest
1 Mirari
1 Molten Disaster
1 Obelisk of Grixis
1 Opportunity
1 Phthisis
1 Price of Knowledge
1 Propaganda
1 Prosperity
1 Skyscribing
1 Sol Ring
1 Soul Manipulation
1 Spiteful Visions
1 Starstorm
1 Strategic Planning
1 Sudden Spoiling
1 Swiftfoot Boots
1 Temple Bell
1 Tempt with Reflections
1 Vision Skeins
1 Wayfarer's Bauble
1 Wild Ricochet
38 other spells

This Grixis deck's commander Jeleva, Nephalia's Scourge is in the game for the long haul, exiling cards off the top of everyone's deck and allowing you to cast the most broken spell you find.

There's plenty of fun interactions in the deck to explore. One fun combo is controlling a Nekusar, the Mindrazer or Price of Knowledge on the battlefield and then activating Jace's Archivist or using any of the other cards that force your opponents to draw. Most of the action happens later on in this deck, such as casting Army of the Damned or Cruel Ultimatum, and early creatures like True-Name Nemesis,Vampire Nighthawk, and Augur of Bolas play a pivotal part in ensuring you live long enough to cast your huge spells with or without the help from Jeleva, Nephalia's Scourge. Hooded Horror is an unblockable threat when you're attacking the player with the most creatures.

Curse of Chaos, Curse of Inertia, and Curse of Shallow Graves are three new auras that you'll use to "curse" one of your rivals with. Nivix Guildmage allows you to copy any of the powerful spells you play or snag with Jeleva, Nephalia's Scourge and Charmbreaker Devils will randomly Regrowth one spell each turn, perhaps that Illusionist's Gambit which saved your hide and killed one of your rivals last turn. With plenty of mana fixing from Evolving Wilds to Opal Palace you shouldn't have any color problems with the included lands, although making a few upgrades with the new Temple lands or any other powerful nonbasics you have kicking around certainly wouldn't hurt.

Sol Ring and Commander Tower return, however Lightning Greaves has been replaced with Swiftfoot Boots. Speaking of reprints, there's quite an enormous value in the deck. Massive isn't even an appropriate word to use when describing the amazing amount of value crammed into the deck, which retails for £24.99. Baleful Strix is an uncommon that was printed in "Planechase (2012 Edition)" and Strategic Planning is a very hard to find uncommon from "Portal: Three Kingdoms" . Additionally, a few cards appear for the first time in new the card frame and with alternate art. Granted these cards and others reprinted in "Mind Seize" will most likely go down in value, however getting a whole deck of cards for less than market price of just one of them is an total steal.

The new XY Decks

Here is the first ever Jakes Pokemon News, today I had a quick look at the new XY decks...

Start your adventure in the Kalos region either with the Grasstype Pokémon Chespin, the Fire-type Fennekin or the Watertype Froakie and these 60-card ready-to-play decks!

With spikes, toughness, and resilient moves, the Chespin deck is perfect for the small but fierce competitor who never gives up! It grows and grows to outperform the competition!

As a Fire-type deck, the Fennekin deck is full of powerful moves—grab it and blaze your path! Unlocking a world of exciting Pokémon battles this deck gives you the head start you need to win!

The new Froakie deck leaps over the competition with its unexpected powers, including all the shifting speed and thrilling moves that Water-type Pokémon are famous for!

£9.99

The Deluxe deck contains 1 bonus Pokémon TCG: Black & White booster pack.

£11.99

Thanks for reading, Jake

Commander Deck Reviews

Commander - Prossh, Skyraider of Kher

Main Deck

99 cards Commander
1 Akoum Refuge
1 Command Tower
1 Evolving Wilds
7 Forest
1 Golgari Guildgate
1 Golgari Rot Farm
1 Grim Backwoods
1 Gruul Guildgate
1 Jund Panorama
1 Kazandu Refuge
1 Khalni Garden
1 Kher Keep
1 Llanowar Reborn
7 Mountain
1 Opal Palace
1 Rakdos Guildgate
1 Rupture Spire
1 Savage Lands
6 Swamp
1 Temple of the False God
1 Terramorphic Expanse
1 Vivid Grove
39 lands
1 Brooding Saurian
1 Capricious Efreet
1 Charnelhoard Wurm
1 Deathbringer Thoctar
1 Deepfire Elemental
1 Elvish Skysweeper
1 Endless Cockroaches
1 Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder
1 Fell Shepherd
1 Goblin Sharpshooter
1 Golgari Guildmage
1 Hooded Horror
1 Hua Tuo, Honored Physician
1 Hunted Troll
1 Inferno Titan
1 Jade Mage
1 Ophiomancer
1 Quagmire Druid
1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
1 Scarland Thrinax
1 Sek'Kuar, Deathkeeper
1 Shattergang Brothers
1 Silklash Spider
1 Sprouting Thrinax
1 Stalking Vengeance
1 Stronghold Assassin
1 Terra Ravager
1 Viscera Seer
1 Walker of the Grove
1 Wight of Precinct Six
30 creatures
1 Armillary Sphere
1 Blood Rites
1 Carnage Altar
1 Curse of Chaos
1 Curse of Predation
1 Curse of Shallow Graves
1 Dirge of Dread
1 Fecundity
1 Foster
1 Furnace Celebration
1 Goblin Bombardment
1 Jar of Eyeballs
1 Jund Charm
1 Mass Mutiny
1 Night Soil
1 Obelisk of Jund
1 Plague Boiler
1 Primal Vigor
1 Reincarnation
1 Restore
1 Rough // Tumble
1 Sol Ring
1 Spine of Ish Sah
1 Spoils of Victory
1 Sudden Demise
1 Swiftfoot Boots
1 Tempt with Vengeance
1 Tooth and Claw
1 Vile Requiem
1 Widespread Panic
30 other spells

This Jund deck features Prossh, Skyraider of Kher as its commander, and many of the cards revolve around sacrificing your creatures to gain a benefit.

You can sacrifice creatures to Fell Shepherd in order to significantly weaken or kill one of your opponent's creatures, and Sprouting Thrinax is Fell Shepherd's best friend. Each time you do, the sexy new frame alternate art Goblin Sharpshooter will be able to ping another creature or player. If one of your foes has more creatures on the battlefield than you it's okay: Hooded Horror will still be able to get in and deal damage to them.

Curse of Chaos, Curse of Predation, and Curse of Shallow Graves can buy you time to reach the late game when your awesome cards like Shattergang Brothers go online, which is especially fun when you control a Spine of Ish Sah. Ophiomancer is another creature that will slow down your rivals and can gain you a significant amount of card advantage with the deck's many sacrifice outlets. As the game progresses longer, Terra Ravager can become a massive threat. Infermo Titan can deal a lot of damage if left unchecked and Sudden Demise can blow up all the creatures of whatever color is giving you the most trouble on the battlefield.

Primal Vigor doubles the amount of creature tokens you create with your commander or from abilities on you other creatures such as Jade Mage. Restore will steal one of your opponent's special lands or recoup one of your own. Tempt with Vengeance can create a massive horde of 1/1 red Elemental creature tokens with haste for you to take out one of your rivals with. Although the deck can have problems against control players, Widespread Panic will allow you to gain card advantage. Grim Backwoods allows you to gain value whenever one of your adversaries manages to blow up one of your threats.

Hua Tuo, Honored Physician, Spoils of Victory and Reincarnation are three interesting reprints in this deck, all of which are making their debut in the modern card frame. There's a lot of fun interactions to discover and pull off against your opponents in "Power Hungry," and I am looking forward to getting my hands on this "Commander (2013 Edition)" deck.

Commander Deck Reviews

So with the commander decks being released this Friday, I thought I would have a look at each deck, starting with 'Eternal Bargain' which is in Esper colours of Blue, White and Black!

Commander - Oloro, Ageless Ascetic

Main Deck

99 cards Commander
1 Arcane Sanctum
1 Azorius Chancery
1 Azorius Guildgate
1 Barren Moor
1 Command Tower
1 Dimir Guildgate
1 Esper Panorama
1 Evolving Wilds
6 Island
1 Jwar Isle Refuge
1 Lonely Sandbar
1 Opal Palace
1 Orzhov Basilica
1 Orzhov Guildgate
9 Plains
1 Rupture Spire
1 Springjack Pasture
9 Swamp
1 Temple of the False God
1 Transguild Promenade
41 lands

1 Ajani's Pridemate
1 Augury Adept
1 Azorius Herald
1 Disciple of Griselbrand
1 Diviner Spirit
1 Divinity of Pride
1 Filigree Angel
1 Hooded Horror
1 Kongming, Sleeping Dragon
1 Marrow Bats
1 Myr Battlesphere
1 Phyrexian Delver
1 Phyrexian Gargantua
1 Raven Familiar
1 Razor Hippogriff
1 Serene Master
1 Serra Avatar
1 Sharding Sphinx
1 Sharuum the Hegemon
1 Sphinx of the Steel Wind
1 Stormscape Battlemage
1 Sydri, Galvanic Genius
1 Tidal Force
1 Tidehollow Strix
1 Tower Gargoyle
1 Vizkopa Guildmage
1 Wall of Reverence
27 creatures

1 Act of Authority
1 Brilliant Plan
1 Cradle of Vitality
1 Crawlspace
1 Curse of Inertia
1 Curse of Shallow Graves
1 Curse of the Forsaken
1 Darksteel Mutation
1 Death Grasp
1 Deep Analysis
1 Dromar's Charm
1 Famine
1 Greed
1 Lim-Dûl's Vault
1 Nevinyrral's Disk
1 Nihil Spellbomb
1 Obelisk of Esper
1 Order of Succession
1 Phyrexian Reclamation
1 Pristine Talisman
1 Reckless Spite
1 Sanguine Bond
1 Sol Ring
1 Spinal Embrace
1 Sun Droplet
1 Survival Cache
1 Swiftfoot Boots
1 Tempt with Immortality
1 Thopter Foundry
1 Toxic Deluge
1 Well of Lost Dreams

This deck is all about life gain. Gaining life from your commander will trigger abilities on cards like Ajani's Pridemate, Cradle of Vitality, and Well of Lost Dreams. Not only does extra life help prolong the time you'll stay in the game, it'll make cards like Serra's Avatar and Divinity of Pride into massive threats.

Serene Master is a powerful creature that'll help keep your opponents from dealing to much combat damage to you early on and Darksteel Mutation can render one of your rival's commanders completely useless. Curse of Inertia, Curse of Shallow Graves, and Curse of the Forsaken all give your adversaries a reason to attack a different enemy instead of you.

Sydri, Galvanic Genius can transform any of the deck's creatures or artifacts into a deadly deathtouch creature with lifeflink. Tempt with Immortality can reanimate your best dead creatures after an opponent's Wrath of God or other board sweeper. Later on, Tidal Force can allow you to lock down a troublesome opponent. Act of Authority will bounce around the table blowing up your foe's permanents. Toxic Deluge is another potent new exclusive to this deck that can strategically wipe out a portion of the battlefield and leaving your forces intact to take out another player.

There's some choice reprints featured in the "Eternal Bargain" deck. Lim-Dûl's Vault returns for the first time, and in the modern card frame. We also get Nevinyrral's Disk, a reset button for when board states get out of control. Kongming, Sleeping Dragon was previously a hard to find card and Crawlspace can slow down Commander games drastically, giving "Eternal Bargain" an advantage over more aggressive strategies.

Pokemon XY

With XY due for release early next year here are some of the details of what is coming ...

Features of the Pokémon TCG: XYexpansion include:
2 all-new Mega Evolution Pokémon
6 new Pokémon-EX
Pokémon TCG Online code cards
Over 140 cards in all!

The Pokémon TCG: XY—Kalos Starter Decks will give you the choice of three 60-card decks, each one featuring a brand-new Pokémon: Chespin, Fennekin, or Froakie. You’ll discover other new Pokémon from the Kalos region.

The XY—Kalos Starter Decks introduce Fairy-type Pokémon and basic Fairy Energy! Fairy, the eleventh Pokémon type in the Pokémon TCG, is the first new type since the Dragon type was added in 2012. There are still many mysteries about the new Fairy type, such as which Pokémon will be Fairy types and how matchups will be affected by Fairy-type Pokémon. In order to attack with Fairy-type Pokémon, players will need to use basic Fairy Energy, the ninth Energy type in the Pokémon TCG.

The revolutionary Mega Evolution game mechanic is coming to the brand-new Pokémon TCG: XY expansion! Mega Evolution Pokémon evolve from Pokémon-EX, extremely powerful cards in their own right, creating a force that will change the way Pokémon TCG players build decks and create strategies for battle.

Before playing a Mega Evolution Pokémon to evolve a Pokémon-EX, players must consider the situation carefully—doing so ends their turn immediately, which means they can’t attack that turn! The risky move is worth the reward, however, because Mega Evolution Pokémon exhibit a strength that surpasses that of Pokémon-EX. Hard-hitting attacks and high HP totals make Mega Evolution Pokémon dominant during Pokémon TCG matches.

Some of the cards ...

Venusaur-EX

Your average Venusaur is a Stage 2 Pokémon, but Venusaur-EX is a Basic Pokémon, meaning you can put it into battle right away! Both Venusaur-EX’s Poison Powder and Jungle Hammer attacks are versatile and effective. But Venusaur-EXholds even more potential—it can become a Mega Evolution Pokémon to gain unsurpassed power!

Blastoise-EX

Joining Venusaur-EX is the awesome Blastoise-EX, a powerful Basic Pokémon that can quickly turn the tide of battle. With 180 HP and two strategic attacks, Blastoise-EX can be both powerful and disruptive. But that’s only part of the story—as your opponent will discover when Blastoise-EX becomes an even more powerful Mega Evolution Pokémon!

Yveltal-EX

The sturdy Yveltal-EX has 170 HP and two potent attacks, proving without a doubt that this Darkness-type Pokémon is a great new attacker for Darkness-type decks! Its Evil Ball is extremely powerful—the more Energy is attached to both Active Pokémon, the greater the damage. And Yveltal-EX’s Y Cyclone attack does 90 damage and moves Energy to a Benched Pokémon. Set up your Benched Pokémon while you attack!

Xerneas-EX

The Fairy-type Xerneas-EX is sure to be useful in Fairy-type decks. Use its Break Through attack to hit the Defending Pokémon for 60 damage and a Benched Pokémon for another 30! Then go for the Knock Out with X Blast, which does an imposing 140 damage. You can’t use X Blast two turns in a row, so choose your timing carefully!

Seal Dragons Unleashed

Bonus: With every booster box purchase of BT11: Seal Dragons Unleashed, you’ll receive a random Deck Box from below!

Eradicator, Sweep Command Dragon	Armor Break Dragon
Blue Flight Dragon, Trans-core Dragon	Solidify Celestial, Zerachiel