The first is your Prerelease promo card. You can play with this in your deck—and there's a good chance you'll want to—so be sure to put it in your deck-building stack! It's one of eight different rares (well, seven rares and one mythic rare) in your color. If you open just right, you can even pull out a double-faced Planeswalker as your Prerelease promo!
The first is your Prerelease promo card. You can play with this in your deck—and there's a good chance you'll want to—so be sure to put it in your deck-building stack! It's one of eight different rares (well, seven rares and one mythic rare) in your color. If you open just right, you can even pull out a double-faced Planeswalker as your Prerelease promo!
Here's my raw transcript of notes, including the Q+A
I might have missed a few things because I was watching on mobile.
staff introductions
DTK video, ugin awake, sarkhan doing dragon things
doug beyer with brief background, flavor explanation
dromoka g/w
"anafenza protective spirit" she died, continues on as spirit
ojutai u/w, learning from ojutai
Narset, show PW card
Silumgar u/b, undead servants, sidisi zombie
kolaghan r/b, 'keep up with dragons'
zurgo bellstriker, 'demoted', biff tanner joke, alerts clan when dragons take flight
show zurgo card
atarka r/g
clan struggles to find food to feed dragons
surrak huntcaller, picture
no punching bears, surrak punches other dragons
EPIC CONFRONTATION 1G C SORC TARGET CREAT YOU CONTROL +1/+2, FIGHT TARGET CREATURE YOU DONT CONTROL
sarkahn's christmas time
STORMWING DRAGON 5R U CREAT - DRAGON, FLYING FIRST STRIKE 3/3 MEGAMORPH 5RR WHEN TURNED FACEUP +1/+1 COUNTER EACH DRAGON CREAT YOU CONTROL
deathbringer regent creature card
cunning breezedancer card,
3 cycles of gold dragon U/R/MR, double prowess
dragonlord dromoka card
dragonlord kolaghan card, gives team speed
dragonlord silumgar card, tasigur jewelery
dragonlord atarka card
profound journey card
3 new mechanics for clans
returning mechanic: rebound
pairs well with prowess
formidable, total 8 power
mimics/plays well with ferocious
exploit, silumgar gets rid of weakest to produce stronger, fuels delve
SUNBRINGER'S TOUCH 2GG R SORC BOLSTER X WHERE X IS NUMBER OF CARDS IN YOUR HAND EACH CREAT YOU CONTROL WITH +1/+! COUNTER GAINS TRAMPLE UNTIL EOT
DRAGONLORD OJUTAI 3WU MR LEGEND CREAT ELDER DRAGON FLYING DL OJUTAI HAS HEXPROOF WHILE UNTAPPED WHENEVER DL OJUTAI DEALS COMBAT DMG TO A PLAYER LOOK AT TOP THREE OF LIB PUT ONE IN YOUR HAND AND REST ON BOTTOM IN ANY ORDER
SARKAHN 2RUG MR PW - SARKHAN 4 LOYALTY
+1 -2 -8
-2 PUT A RED 4/4 WITH FLYING ONTO BF
+1 DRAW A CARD ADD ONE MANA OF ANY COLOR
-8 SEARCH LIB FOR ANY NUMBER OF DRAGON CREATURE AND PUT ONTO BF THEN SHUFFLE YOUR LIB
notes about pack order and drafts, representing timeline/time travel
also through game mechanics
master of pearls, morph -> cloudform, manifest -> stratus dancer, megamorph
less trickery more size
DTK Prerelease kits picture
Prerelease 3/21-22/2015
prerelease 'super' pretty dice as breath weapon for dtk dragonfury mini game
MODERN MASTERS 2015 ED
people excited?
MM2 Weekend, May 29-31, 2015, 3 GPs
coverage around the clock
WHAT CARDS ARE RETURNING
MM2 GOYF REPRINT MR
KARN LIBERATED REPRINT MR
+zen +scars +2012
Magic Origins Ignite Your Spark July 2015
Video preview
the focus of origins is when mages become planeswalkers
see the moment
get in on ground floor of storyline going forward
how gideon changed from street tough to being champion
jace's homeplane
the place he doesnt remember he's from
how his mental abilities were used against him
Liliana pre demonic pact and post
how she tried to make her way as a healer
master death to keep death at bay and it didn't work out and how she got to necromancy
chandra
world didn't appreciate fire magic
nissa
traumatic vision
opened her mind to limitless possibilities to travel multiverse
stream cut out for me for a few secs
white? liliana
how do we show transition
DOUBLE FACED PWS
legendary on one side pw on other
LILIANA
LILIANA HERETICAL HEALER 1BB LEGENDARY CREAT HUMAN CLERIC LIFELINK 2/3 WHENEVER ANOTHER NONTOKEN YOU CONTROL DIES EXILE NAME THEN RETURN HER TO BF TRANSFORMED UNDER OWNER'S CONTROL IF YOU DO PUT A 2/2 BLACK ZOMBIE ONTO BF
LILIANA DEFIANT NECROMANCER 3 LOYAL
+2 EACH PLAYER DISCARDS
-X RETURN TARGET NONLEGENDARY CREAT WITH CC X FROM YOUR GY TO BF
-8 YOU GET EMBLEM WITH <dead can never rest> i missed it the last text
Magic Duels Origins, first time with PWs
Play through origin story of each PW
2HG as a playmode
Thousands of AI decks
July 2015 Xbone PS4 Steam iPad
Questions and Answers time
Shaun and Allsion from Social Media as well
1. future draft formats, triple last set, any weird draft formats coming up forward/
it's possible to mix it up between 2 set block paradigm
2 set isn't set forever
2. @doug, why isn't zurgo a coward
wanted to change some things about his character
he's still part of kolaghan
he's more cowardly then before for sure
ironclaw text was added
3. Tiny Leaders, any plans for 3cc legend BUG?
LEgendarys aren't
TL is on the radar as it gets more popular
looking for opportunities to support
4. dylan, saying thanks for wider character identification, re: gender issues, ex acceptance/encouragement
actual q, commander precons went back in time, see old PWs, what's teferi been up to
any plans to see past planes/PWs
ask crowd, decent yes response
5. from liverpool
why was nissa chosen/gideon chosen
because they have a role to play in upcoming storyline
doesn't mean other chars are out of story
we may see other chars that aren't in origins in the future anyway
6. @doug
does bolas know ugin is alive, is he mad
bolas doesn't know yet
unclear how he would react
we will see what will happen from here on out
gonna see how this changes the multiverse
how bolas will react
does sorin know
stay tuned
7. gp liverpool
what are the DTK lands
wait and see
really cool art!
8. re: silumgar's jewlery
tasigur card in DTK?
tasigur been magically preserved
spends days in jewelery box, only taken out on special occassion
tasigur lives on in silumgar card
9. 2 quick q
3rd set in unseries?
people want to see 3rd unset
better response than before
2nd q - creatures like steamflogger boss?
can't answer qs about future
10. who do you think is the best planeswalk(er)
ajani+lili cosplayers in front row
tezz
sarkahn new set
nissa, wait for magic origins!
doug says chandra
child says jace
11. what artifact would you bring into real life?
mirari is tempting,
all of them
darksteel colossus
<missed last one>
12. liverpool
will time travel impact other planes
this will come up in coming weeks
definitely affects tarkir
outside of tarkir this will affect PWs?
sarkhan orphan of time, wasn't born in DTK timeline
things localized around sarkhan, you will see
13. what goes into deciding what goes into PAX pin PW
sit down with brand/r+d,
make it lineup with what's going on in magic at the time
14. is origins looking back/ depowering PWs, like mending
no, it's just a look back at origins story
some PWs were born premending ex liliana
she's been around a while
this isn't redoing the rules around PWs
just a look at crucial event
storytelling is the main thrust
15. when ojutai took over, dragonslayers were killed, narset had 0 dragonslayer ancestors?
in order to see how changes play out, see how characters change
some chars are repeated for this
17. really great job with flavor on arcana/mothership articles
any plans to compile into print/ebook?
have thought about it, is there interest?
yes from crowd
have considered ebook for U.Realms stories
complexities in the way
18. fan of changes to modern banlist
any plans on experimenting in the future with BL? laughter behind him
short term bans/unbans?
they've more considered out of box solutions
happy with where modern's at
provide stability
dont want ppl to worry about bans
dont need much out of the box
most formats are looking good at the moment
one of the appeals is eternal, play a deck for a long time
shaking it up too much makes ppl unhappy
19. <my stream cut out on q>
20. thanks for coming to east coast
weather jokes
bigger q - MaRo talks about NWO, how does 2 block structure affect NWO, more or less complexity?
NWO is about managing complexity, 2 block structure allows more mechanics in 1 year span than normal
with 2 block, 2 blocks worth in a year
more things in less time
tiny q - no love for tibalt?
poor tibalt
a non-answer
21. @doug
Sarkhan is a title, what was his warname?
he never actually took a warname
he never fit into Mardu
no warname besides sarkhan
he heard ugin's voices while still on tarkir originally
lets talk about this afterwards
22. core sets
since they're done
more PWs in regular sets?
depends on what the story is calling for
stay tuned
try to keep the same # of PWs in standard at a time
23. creatures with 2 types
lili+ajani action pose
2 PWs on the same card when
technically allowable in the rules
not something we want to do
problem PW is
PW art is optimized for a single figure
24. 2 qs
is Nahiri going to become important and
haven't seen the last of her
2nd version of Ugin?
non answer
basically no
25. double faced cards and drafting
how will this work for origins?
2fc in every pack or just PW?
non answer
play with friends who play fairly
it'll be obvious when you have a PW
checklists will be there
play with sleeves
26. 1 more q
fetches are controversial
shuffling adds time, it was a consideration
these are cards wanted to make more accesible for modern
I tested a similar list that was more pillowy/control and less combo based against some other decks, it worked out pretty well.
I'm not sure how good Minamo, School at Water's Edge using Kor Haven or Boseiju, Who Shelters All twice is. Have you considered Tolaria West to search for a specific land, Thespian's Stage as a clone effect for utility lands, or Creeping Tar Pit for the unblockable to hit planeswalkers?
Also, I think it was mentioned earlier, but I believe Collective Restraint would be better than Windborn Muse. It's more resilient as you won't sweep your own taxer away and I think the deck shouldn't have difficulty getting at least 2, if not all 3 basic land types out.
I'm not in love with Daxos of Meletis, it's way too vulnerable in my opinion, and how much attacking do you think you'll do with this deck?
USA. COMY7LC. Position in case unknown. Packs from top to bottom.
I didn't undo the shifting, but based on the pattern (SOBDG), the first column of three in my first picture should be shifted 4 columns to the left, and the first of column of three in my second picture should be shifted all the way to the end.
http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/feature/magic-origins-prerelease-primer-2015-07-06
http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/feature/magic-origins-prerelease-primer-2015-07-06
At least it's getting some sort of reprint.
Damnation, Dualcaster Mage, Feldon of the Third Path, Ravages of War, Wasteland.
Flavor wise, Sorin raising his sword? Onwards to Zendikar?
I might have missed a few things because I was watching on mobile.
staff introductions
DTK video, ugin awake, sarkhan doing dragon things
doug beyer with brief background, flavor explanation
dromoka g/w
"anafenza protective spirit" she died, continues on as spirit
ojutai u/w, learning from ojutai
Narset, show PW card
Silumgar u/b, undead servants, sidisi zombie
kolaghan r/b, 'keep up with dragons'
zurgo bellstriker, 'demoted', biff tanner joke, alerts clan when dragons take flight
show zurgo card
atarka r/g
clan struggles to find food to feed dragons
surrak huntcaller, picture
no punching bears, surrak punches other dragons
EPIC CONFRONTATION 1G C SORC TARGET CREAT YOU CONTROL +1/+2, FIGHT TARGET CREATURE YOU DONT CONTROL
sarkahn's christmas time
STORMWING DRAGON 5R U CREAT - DRAGON, FLYING FIRST STRIKE 3/3 MEGAMORPH 5RR WHEN TURNED FACEUP +1/+1 COUNTER EACH DRAGON CREAT YOU CONTROL
deathbringer regent creature card
cunning breezedancer card,
3 cycles of gold dragon U/R/MR, double prowess
dragonlord dromoka card
dragonlord kolaghan card, gives team speed
dragonlord silumgar card, tasigur jewelery
dragonlord atarka card
profound journey card
3 new mechanics for clans
returning mechanic: rebound
pairs well with prowess
formidable, total 8 power
mimics/plays well with ferocious
exploit, silumgar gets rid of weakest to produce stronger, fuels delve
SUNBRINGER'S TOUCH 2GG R SORC BOLSTER X WHERE X IS NUMBER OF CARDS IN YOUR HAND EACH CREAT YOU CONTROL WITH +1/+! COUNTER GAINS TRAMPLE UNTIL EOT
DRAGONLORD OJUTAI 3WU MR LEGEND CREAT ELDER DRAGON FLYING DL OJUTAI HAS HEXPROOF WHILE UNTAPPED WHENEVER DL OJUTAI DEALS COMBAT DMG TO A PLAYER LOOK AT TOP THREE OF LIB PUT ONE IN YOUR HAND AND REST ON BOTTOM IN ANY ORDER
SARKAHN 2RUG MR PW - SARKHAN 4 LOYALTY
+1 -2 -8
-2 PUT A RED 4/4 WITH FLYING ONTO BF
+1 DRAW A CARD ADD ONE MANA OF ANY COLOR
-8 SEARCH LIB FOR ANY NUMBER OF DRAGON CREATURE AND PUT ONTO BF THEN SHUFFLE YOUR LIB
notes about pack order and drafts, representing timeline/time travel
also through game mechanics
master of pearls, morph -> cloudform, manifest -> stratus dancer, megamorph
less trickery more size
DTK Prerelease kits picture
Prerelease 3/21-22/2015
prerelease 'super' pretty dice as breath weapon for dtk dragonfury mini game
MODERN MASTERS 2015 ED
people excited?
MM2 Weekend, May 29-31, 2015, 3 GPs
coverage around the clock
WHAT CARDS ARE RETURNING
MM2 GOYF REPRINT MR
KARN LIBERATED REPRINT MR
+zen +scars +2012
Magic Origins Ignite Your Spark July 2015
Video preview
the focus of origins is when mages become planeswalkers
see the moment
get in on ground floor of storyline going forward
how gideon changed from street tough to being champion
jace's homeplane
the place he doesnt remember he's from
how his mental abilities were used against him
Liliana pre demonic pact and post
how she tried to make her way as a healer
master death to keep death at bay and it didn't work out and how she got to necromancy
chandra
world didn't appreciate fire magic
nissa
traumatic vision
opened her mind to limitless possibilities to travel multiverse
stream cut out for me for a few secs
white? liliana
how do we show transition
DOUBLE FACED PWS
legendary on one side pw on other
LILIANA
LILIANA HERETICAL HEALER 1BB LEGENDARY CREAT HUMAN CLERIC LIFELINK 2/3 WHENEVER ANOTHER NONTOKEN YOU CONTROL DIES EXILE NAME THEN RETURN HER TO BF TRANSFORMED UNDER OWNER'S CONTROL IF YOU DO PUT A 2/2 BLACK ZOMBIE ONTO BF
LILIANA DEFIANT NECROMANCER 3 LOYAL
+2 EACH PLAYER DISCARDS
-X RETURN TARGET NONLEGENDARY CREAT WITH CC X FROM YOUR GY TO BF
-8 YOU GET EMBLEM WITH <dead can never rest> i missed it the last text
Magic Duels Origins, first time with PWs
Play through origin story of each PW
2HG as a playmode
Thousands of AI decks
July 2015 Xbone PS4 Steam iPad
Questions and Answers time
Shaun and Allsion from Social Media as well
1. future draft formats, triple last set, any weird draft formats coming up forward/
it's possible to mix it up between 2 set block paradigm
2 set isn't set forever
2. @doug, why isn't zurgo a coward
wanted to change some things about his character
he's still part of kolaghan
he's more cowardly then before for sure
ironclaw text was added
3. Tiny Leaders, any plans for 3cc legend BUG?
LEgendarys aren't
TL is on the radar as it gets more popular
looking for opportunities to support
4. dylan, saying thanks for wider character identification, re: gender issues, ex acceptance/encouragement
actual q, commander precons went back in time, see old PWs, what's teferi been up to
any plans to see past planes/PWs
ask crowd, decent yes response
5. from liverpool
why was nissa chosen/gideon chosen
because they have a role to play in upcoming storyline
doesn't mean other chars are out of story
we may see other chars that aren't in origins in the future anyway
6. @doug
does bolas know ugin is alive, is he mad
bolas doesn't know yet
unclear how he would react
we will see what will happen from here on out
gonna see how this changes the multiverse
how bolas will react
does sorin know
stay tuned
7. gp liverpool
what are the DTK lands
wait and see
really cool art!
8. re: silumgar's jewlery
tasigur card in DTK?
tasigur been magically preserved
spends days in jewelery box, only taken out on special occassion
tasigur lives on in silumgar card
9. 2 quick q
3rd set in unseries?
people want to see 3rd unset
better response than before
2nd q - creatures like steamflogger boss?
can't answer qs about future
10. who do you think is the best planeswalk(er)
ajani+lili cosplayers in front row
tezz
sarkahn new set
nissa, wait for magic origins!
doug says chandra
child says jace
11. what artifact would you bring into real life?
mirari is tempting,
all of them
darksteel colossus
<missed last one>
12. liverpool
will time travel impact other planes
this will come up in coming weeks
definitely affects tarkir
outside of tarkir this will affect PWs?
sarkhan orphan of time, wasn't born in DTK timeline
things localized around sarkhan, you will see
13. what goes into deciding what goes into PAX pin PW
sit down with brand/r+d,
make it lineup with what's going on in magic at the time
14. is origins looking back/ depowering PWs, like mending
no, it's just a look back at origins story
some PWs were born premending ex liliana
she's been around a while
this isn't redoing the rules around PWs
just a look at crucial event
storytelling is the main thrust
15. when ojutai took over, dragonslayers were killed, narset had 0 dragonslayer ancestors?
in order to see how changes play out, see how characters change
some chars are repeated for this
16. black-lined heroes, white-lined villains, coming up/
sure
17. really great job with flavor on arcana/mothership articles
any plans to compile into print/ebook?
have thought about it, is there interest?
yes from crowd
have considered ebook for U.Realms stories
complexities in the way
18. fan of changes to modern banlist
any plans on experimenting in the future with BL? laughter behind him
short term bans/unbans?
they've more considered out of box solutions
happy with where modern's at
provide stability
dont want ppl to worry about bans
dont need much out of the box
most formats are looking good at the moment
one of the appeals is eternal, play a deck for a long time
shaking it up too much makes ppl unhappy
19. <my stream cut out on q>
20. thanks for coming to east coast
weather jokes
bigger q - MaRo talks about NWO, how does 2 block structure affect NWO, more or less complexity?
NWO is about managing complexity, 2 block structure allows more mechanics in 1 year span than normal
with 2 block, 2 blocks worth in a year
more things in less time
tiny q - no love for tibalt?
poor tibalt
a non-answer
21. @doug
Sarkhan is a title, what was his warname?
he never actually took a warname
he never fit into Mardu
no warname besides sarkhan
he heard ugin's voices while still on tarkir originally
lets talk about this afterwards
22. core sets
since they're done
more PWs in regular sets?
depends on what the story is calling for
stay tuned
try to keep the same # of PWs in standard at a time
23. creatures with 2 types
lili+ajani action pose
2 PWs on the same card when
technically allowable in the rules
not something we want to do
problem PW is
PW art is optimized for a single figure
24. 2 qs
is Nahiri going to become important and
haven't seen the last of her
2nd version of Ugin?
non answer
basically no
25. double faced cards and drafting
how will this work for origins?
2fc in every pack or just PW?
non answer
play with friends who play fairly
it'll be obvious when you have a PW
checklists will be there
play with sleeves
26. 1 more q
fetches are controversial
shuffling adds time, it was a consideration
these are cards wanted to make more accesible for modern
thanks for coming.
befor you go
1 more thing
BATTLE FOR ZENDIKAR
OCTOBER 2 2015
#MTGBFZ
Feldon of the Third Path - https://twitter.com/PatrickWRollens/status/525668937204531200
Angelic Field Marshal - https://twitter.com/PatrickWRollens/status/525683277894791168
Grabbed link from other thread. Official M:tG instagram? Probably confirmed legit.
I'm not sure how good Minamo, School at Water's Edge using Kor Haven or Boseiju, Who Shelters All twice is. Have you considered Tolaria West to search for a specific land, Thespian's Stage as a clone effect for utility lands, or Creeping Tar Pit for the unblockable to hit planeswalkers?
Also, I think it was mentioned earlier, but I believe Collective Restraint would be better than Windborn Muse. It's more resilient as you won't sweep your own taxer away and I think the deck shouldn't have difficulty getting at least 2, if not all 3 basic land types out.
I'm not in love with Daxos of Meletis, it's way too vulnerable in my opinion, and how much attacking do you think you'll do with this deck?
I didn't undo the shifting, but based on the pattern (SOBDG), the first column of three in my first picture should be shifted 4 columns to the left, and the first of column of three in my second picture should be shifted all the way to the end.
Left
(5) Five Alarm Fire
(3) Boros Reckoner
(1) Borborygmos Enraged
(4) Whispering Madness (Mountain #268)
(2) Foundry Champion (Boros Keyrune)
(3) Obzedat, Ghost Council
(1) Stomping Ground
(1) Diluvian Primordial
(4) Ogre Slumlord
(2) Treasury Thrull
(5) Molten Primordial
(3) Sepulchral Primordial (Leyline Phantom)
Center
(4) Illusionist's Bracers
(2) Stomping Ground
(5) Watery Grave
(3) Luminate Primordial
(1) Skaarg Goliath
(2) Gideon, Champion of Justice (Dutiful Thrull)
(5) Unexpected Results
(5) Fathom Mage (Dimir Charm)
(3) High Priest of Penance
(1) Firemane Avenger
(4) Undercity Plague
(2) Breeding Pool
Right
(3) Merciless Eviction
(1) Treasury Thrull (Madcap Skills)
(4) Molten Primordial
(2) Immortal Servitude
(5) Gyre Sage
(1) Clan Defiance
(4) Nightveil Specter
(4) Ooze Flux
(2) Mind Grind
(5) Crypt Ghast (Shadow Slice)
(3) Godless Shrine
(1) Lazav, Dimir Mastermind (Undercity Plague)