First Pick: New cards in Standard/Modern
1st big Standard event. Notables:
Pyromancer’s Goggles
Westvale Abbey
Drownyard Temple
Thing in the Ice
Thalia’s Lieutenant/Humans in General/White cards in General
Angel Wars - Round 12
Eldrazi Displacer
Fall of the Titans - playtesting for Avacyn’s Judgment
Tireless Tracker
Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim
Underwhelming effects of Vision and Sword on Modern, Gifts Tron, Scapeshift
New GY deck tools: Prized Amalgam, Insolent Neonate
Desperate Ravings - Enter The Battlefield
Enter The Battlefield premiers April 25 on Twitch:
http://magic.wizards.com/en/content/enter-the-battlefield
Narrated by Wil Wheaton; Netflix release; YouTube release
Owen’s Mom in trailer: “My son never loses.”
Gather the Townsfolk - The New New Order (MTGJudge)
Judge Program Overhaul:
http://blogs.magicjudges.org/blog/2016/04/11/the-new-new-world-order/
First major overhaul since New Order came into effect Sept. 2004
Important to note: there wasn’t WotC interference/input AFAIK here, purely MTGJudge driven
Splash Damage - New president of Hasbro, Leeds to Cocks (heh)
Greg Leeds resigns, Chris Cocks takes over:
http://newsroom.hasbro.com/mediakit/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=964479
http://seekingalpha.com/news/3172497-hasbro-charts-path-wizards-coast
Two new design jobs popped up on MTG/WotC:
https://www.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/4ekph6/hasbros_annual_report_new_digital_platform_for/
https://www.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/4ekph6/hasbros_annual_report_new_digital_platform_for/
Going Infinite
https://www.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/4ennvn/what_bad_magicrelated_decision_did_you_make_long/
The Finisher:
This weekend is the first
StarCityGames Invitational of 2016 is happening in Columbus Ohio
and as you know the winner of this weekend’s Invi gets their own
token. So if you somehow won an Invitational, what kind of token
would you be?
