Thursday, 14 March 2013

New Release Tomorrow

 
The first Duel Decks of the year are in an interesting spot, as they are our last look at Magic's previous block, specifically looking through the lens of two of its Planeswalkers.

So, with Duel Decks: Sorin vs. Tibalt, we're reminded of two characters. The first, the powerful vampire Planeswalker who helped fight the Eldrazi on Zendikar and returned to his home plane ofInnistrad to discover that the balance he strove for had been shattered and the humans were quickly becoming overrun by the forces of evil. One of those forces of evil, although not a key player in Innistrad's troubles, was Tibalt. Tibalt is, to me, evil incarnate. He's a pain-mage only interested in hurting others—exceeding even his desire to kill them.

Tibalt is mono-red but his deck is black-red; while this doesn't match the card colors, the creative team was fully behind this idea because Tibalt's personality is really that of a black-red mage. He's out to cause pain and make every decision your opponent makes—and yes, also your own decisions—potentially painful. Really, really painful.

Main Deck
60 cards
2  Akoum Refuge
14  Mountain
2  Rakdos Carnarium
6  Swamp
24 lands

2  Ashmouth Hound
1  Coal Stoker
1  Corpse Connoisseur
1  Gang of Devils
1  Goblin Arsonist
1  Hellrider
2  Hellspark Elemental
1  Lavaborn Muse
1  Mad Prophet
1  Reassembling Skeleton
1  Scorched Rusalka
1  Scourge Devil
1  Shambling Remains
1  Skirsdag Cultist
2  Vithian Stinger
18 creatures
1  Blazing Salvo
1  Blightning
1  Breaking Point
2  Browbeat
1  Bump in the Night
1  Devil's Play
1  Faithless Looting
1  Flame Javelin
1  Flame Slash
1  Geistflame
1  Pyroclasm
1  Recoup
1  Strangling Soot
1  Sulfuric Vortex
1  Terminate
1  Torrent of Souls
17 other spells

1  Tibalt, the Fiend-Blooded
1 planeswalker
The Sorin deck is of course white and black and focuses as you would expect on vampires and token production

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