Unboxing Video

For those of you that are not entirely sure of what you get in some of the boxed MTG product here are a couple of videos of them being opened for you to view...

MTG Amonkhet TRAILS

Amonkhet Story

"When the Gatewatch arrive on the harsh desert plane looking for Nicol Bolas, they discover a shielded city-oasis being protected by five gods that walk among the people. There, citizens devote their lives training for the trials of the gods to ultimately earn a place in the promised Afterlife."

Following the prerelease this weekend all players will get their own "trials" which will start from from next Friday's FNM (when the set is released)

In your Prerelease Packs, you will receive a trials checklist card that lists five challenges:



These challenges sync-up with our organized play programs. For each trial that you complete, we will hand out one of the rare four-sided dice (while supplies last). Please note the supply of these is limited so please remember to present your card at the relevant events to get it ticked off and receive your dice.

Amonkhet Trailer

The Amonkhet trailer was released today. Time to start getting excited...

Amonkhet Prerelase

In a few weeks players will get the chance to see the new MTG set Amonkhet at one of our prerelease events.

Prereleases are your first chance to crack open packs and play with the newest cards in Magic.

WHAT HAPPENS AT A PRERELEASE?

You'll experience the thrill of opening new cards for the first time, at an event filled with other Magic players who enjoy the game just as much as you. Everything you'll need to play will be provided as part of your entry fee - you simply show up and play!

You'll build a 40-card minimum deck using the contents of a themed Prerelease pack. This play format is called "Sealed Deck."

After you build your deck, you'll be randomly paired with another player for a best-two-of-three match. Each round, you'll report who won and be paired up with a new player. If you do well, you may get additional booster packs as prizes!

AMONKHET PRERELEASE PACK CONTENTS

• 6 Amonkhet booster packs
• Randomized date-stamped premium promo card
• Spindown life counter
• The Five Trials of the Gods card to complete for rewards
• Insert with deck-building advice

Details of event times, costs etc will be announced this week as well as the online ticket sales via Eventbrite, so watch this space!

Split cards in Amonkhet?

Is this the new split card format for Amonkhet? It has been leaked in the last couple of days and looks like it may be legitimate. If so what are you thoughts?

Dusk  - 2ww
Sorcery
Destroy all creatures with power greater or equal to 3
Dawn  - 3ww
Sorcery
Consequence - Cast this spell only from your graveyard, then exile it.
Return all creature cards with power less than or equal to 2 from your graveyard to your hand.

The design of the card maybe so that when it goes to the graveyard you can place it on its side so that the graveyard cast is still visible.

Amonkhet Packaging

Amonkhet Packaging

Toy Fair released a bundle of information last Friday. First up are Amonkhet booster pack images, none of which you will or should recognize. Because they're new!

And when you show up at a Prerelease, you'll get one of these:

We'll also have artwork for the Bundles!



Amonkhet Planeswalker Decks

Wizards also showed these off. The Planeswalker Decks of Amonkhet, featuring versions of Gideon and Liliana.


Let's take a closer look at those two face cards (without text):

Amonkhet Basic Lands

Finally, Wizards announced full-art basic lands as part of some in-store promotions last week, but that's not the only place you'll find them—you can also get them in Amonkhet booster packs! Full-art basic lands will appear in approximately one out of every four boosters and will be available in other products as well.