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The World of Kaladesh Part II: Aether Revolt
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Follow Archive Trap on Twitter and Tumblr Welcome back to Archive Trap, the unofficial guide to Magic: the Gathering. Today we return to the story of Kaladesh. In Part I, we learned about the world and how Chandra's mother, Pia Nalaar, was not as dead as Chandra believed. Their reunion was cut short by the revelation that Tezzeret, the old foe of Jace and Liliana, was not only still alive but had somehow found a position of power within the Consulate. What was an unplanned trip back home turned into a full-fledged mission for the Gatewatch. Chandra, Liliana and Nissa escaped Tezzeret's clutches through Pia turning herself in, and the kindly old Oviya Pashiri, secretly a renegade leader herself, found the three errant planeswalkers and led them to safety. We now return to the story of Kaladesh, already in progress.
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The World of Kaladesh Part I: The Inventors' Fair
Welcome back to Archive Trap, the unofficial guide to Magic: the Gathering. Today we turn to Kaladesh, the world of invention! Kaladesh is our third ‘artifacts matter’ world. Throughout the block, Kaladesh establishes itself as very different from its predecessors Mirrodin and Esper. On the face of things, Kaladesh is a world of invention and optimism, all powered by refined aether. The aether supply is strictly controlled by the Consulate, a relatively benign organization, but a planeswalker with dark designs has infiltrated the Consulate for his own nefarious purposes. To understand Tezzeret’s conflict with the Gatewatch, read Jace, Tezzeret, and the Infinite Consortium. The story of Kaladesh relies on lot on their history, so if you have not read up, you might be confused about a few things. The story of Kaladesh begins with the seemingly innocuous Inventors' Fair, an opportunity for Kaladesh's best and brightest to compete for Consulate support and funding. One inventor in particular has made a breakthrough that could change the multiverse.
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The Magic Market Index for January 6, 2017
Welcome to The Magic Market Index. This article series documents the price changes of cards currently in print. This article will track how cards go from release to its time out of Standard, and as long as deemed necessary for non-Standard sets, as well as offer insight into what cards to invest in and what to ignore. The Magic market is a dangerous place, and this article is here to help guide players and speculators through the murky waters to greater returns.
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The Magic Market Index for December 23, 2016
Welcome to The Magic Market Index. This article series documents the price changes of cards currently in print. This article will track how cards go from release to its time out of Standard, and as long as deemed necessary for non-Standard sets, as well as offer insight into what cards to invest in and what to ignore. The Magic market is a dangerous place, and this article is here to help guide players and speculators through the murky waters to greater returns.
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The Magic Market Index for November 11, 2016
Welcome to The Magic Market Index. This article series documents the price changes of cards currently in print. This article will track how cards go from release to its time out of Standard, and as long as deemed necessary for non-Standard sets, as well as offer insight into what cards to invest in and what to ignore. The Magic market is a dangerous place, and this article is here to help guide players and speculators through the murky waters to greater returns.
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The Magic Market Index for October 28, 2016
Welcome to The Magic Market Index. This article series documents the price changes of cards currently in print. This article will track how cards go from release to its time out of Standard, and as long as deemed necessary for non-Standard sets, as well as offer insight into what cards to invest in and what to ignore. The Magic market is a dangerous place, and this article is here to help guide players and speculators through the murky waters to greater returns.
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The Magic Market Index for October 13, 2016
Welcome to The Magic Market Index. This article series documents the price changes of cards currently in print. This article will track how cards go from release to its time out of Standard, and as long as deemed necessary for non-Standard sets, as well as offer insight into what cards to invest in and what to ignore. The Magic market is a dangerous place, and this article is here to help guide players and speculators through the murky waters to greater returns.
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Word of Command - Kaladesh Post-Review
Kaladesh. The home of inventors, tinkerers, and master crafters. No wonder that this set is sure to excite the craftiest of deck builders! With the set now released, it is time to see what cards can provide value to existing decks, and which ones might push the creation of a new deck altogether. So let's get to looking at what works, and what does not.
In this month's look at Kaladesh, the Commander mod team looked over some of the cards that show great promise and selected the card of each color that showed the most promise.
We also came up with some more technical options: some hidden potentials which will not be for every deck, but something some crafty builders could make good use of. Finally, we of course go over the new legendary creatures of the set, and see how they might measure up as potential Commanders. -
The Magic Market Index for October 6, 2016
Welcome to The Magic Market Index. This article series documents the price changes of cards currently in print. This article will track how cards go from release to its time out of Standard, and as long as deemed necessary for non-Standard sets, as well as offer insight into what cards to invest in and what to ignore. The Magic market is a dangerous place, and this article is here to help guide players and speculators through the murky waters to greater returns.
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The Magic Market Index: Set Reviews of Kaladesh and Inventions
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Kaladesh is coming out this weekend. This article will review all the cards in this set that are not completely Limited fodder. This is not meant as to a guide to what to play, but rather what cards will be in demand and thus worth it keep and/or go after. However, there will be some commentary on what cards may be good in and whether they have a place in a given format, as playable cards tend to have more value and demand then unplayable cards.
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Kaladesh Spoiler Digest Part 2: Full Spoiler and Inventions
The full spoiler for Kaladesh has been released, bringing with it several exciting final spoilers, including the Red Gearhulk, Dovin Baan, and many others. On top of that, we had an exciting announcement about the Masterpiece series, an ongoing set of Zendikar Expeditions-style foil mythic rares, beginning with Kaladesh Inventions in Kaladesh.
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Magic Market Index: Kaladesh Inventions
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Kaladesh Inventions is a thing and the question that is on a lot of player's mind is "Is this good or bad for Magic?"
This edition of the Magic Market Index will answer that question.
Note: This is not replacing the normal Magic Market Index article this week.
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Kaladesh Spoiler Digest and Announcement Day
With PAX behind us and Kaladesh spoilers in full swing, we have many exciting spoilers revealed. Kaladesh is an exciting artifact-themed block with light Indian flavor trappings, and it brings two new mechanics that have been years in the making - Energy and Vehicles. Also in this digest, we'll look at the upcoming sets revealed at the recent Announcement Day.