Mycoid Shepherd's ability states that you gain 5 life when itself dies (regardless of its Power at the time of death) or when another creature with a power of 5+ dies.
Normally, prerelease drafts are triple of whatever set that is being released.
But if they're recommending the drafts be SHA CON CON could suggest something about the set. Maybe the commons aren't strong enough to stand on its own?
You're right, and there was one for Naya, too. Just change the URL to say "1280" at the end. What the hell? Why are they hosting 1280x1024 versions and then not linking to them?
The links are bugged. If you look carefully all 3 links to the different sizes all go to the same page. The different sizes are hosted, but they screwed up the links.
I doubt it's because he's been fired over this. It's more likely because he was too busy dealing with the fallout personally this past week.
Yet he managed to find time to write his article for his column over at SCG. If he really was busy, I don't think he would have time to read all the entries from his contest and write an article about it.
April 25, 2008 Q: I have a foil Reflecting Pool from Shadowmoor that has the plains symbol. Is this a print mistake?
–Vic, Philippines A: From Aaron Forsythe, director of Magic R&D:
Sadly, it is. To ease your pain, here is a bit of a long story:
For a long time, various DCI promos (including Friday Night Magic prizes) have had foil "knockouts" in their text boxes as a way to make the card feel more special. By "knockout" I mean that the physical colored ink printed on the card is more or less the same as it is on the normal versions of the card, but some extra voodoo is performed on the layer of foil applied to it, allowing a logo to shine through.
When Mark Rosewater was compiling his long list of ways for jokes to be worked into the Unhinged set several years ago, he came up with "jokes in the foil," using a trick similar to the one done on the DCI promos. The premium versions of cards such as Goblin Mime and Gleemax show hidden things in the foiling of the card art, and there are several other such cards in the set.
We had all that in mind when the question came up during Shadowmoor development of how obvious it would be that the lands in the Sapseep Forest cycle had basic land types. We wanted a way to show the big mana symbol in the text box similar to the way they appear on normal basic lands. Because these cards have text, the big mana symbol wouldn't look nice in the frame, but art director Jeremy Jarvis was willing to try doing a special foil treatment so that the premium versions of the cards had something special going on that the normal versions do not.
Unfortunately, when you are trying new things, mistakes can easily be made. The premium versions of our cards don't have nearly as many pairs of eyes scrutinizing them as the regular versions do, mostly because we always assume that they are essentially going to be the same. The white mana symbol was inserted into the text box of the premium Reflecting Pool, carried over from the premium Mistveil Plains, and no one noticed it until the printed cards were in our hands.
All printed versions of the foil Shadowmoor Reflecting Pool have the white symbol on them, so yours isn't a particularly rare version or anything like that, but rather just a result of an oversight. We certainly know what to check for the next time we do special foil treatments like this.
since you're so big on semantics, how about the fact that there is no such thing as lorwyn block. exclusive or not. lorwyn isn't a block. it's a single set. which combines to make lorwyn/shadowmoor block. it's a 4 set block. there won't be any real block tourneys until all 4 are out.
Oh i dont know...
How about the fact that there's a GP and a whole PTQ Season coming up?
I'd say block is gonna be pretty damm relevant with or without Eventide
p1p14 - Jhessian Infiltrator
p2p14 - Jhessian Balmgiver
p3p14 - Ethercaste Knight
Which was quite interesting cause I was already building a sick Bant deck already
Hellkite Overlord
Broodmate Dragon
Flameblast Dragon
the rares I didn't run....
Elspeth, Knight-Errant & Tezzeret the Seeker
Alara Reborn prerelease
FOIL Predator Dragon
Ajani Vengeant
Flameblast Dragon
Where Ancients Tread
FOIL Deathbringer Thoctar
Thraximundar
Lord of Extinction
Identity Crisis
http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/arcana/1743
http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/arcana/1741
But if they're recommending the drafts be SHA CON CON could suggest something about the set. Maybe the commons aren't strong enough to stand on its own?
Grand Prix Los Angeles
January 16 - 18th, 2009
@ Radisson LAX
I think the Main Event is Extended so it would seem to feed into PT Honolulu
Guest Artist: Volkan Baga
Gatherer Search (Elspeth, Stoic Angel, Ranger of Eos)
Kinda an inverted Shads logo?
This plus Clock of Omens or Lodestone Myr= infinite mana of any color
The links are bugged. If you look carefully all 3 links to the different sizes all go to the same page. The different sizes are hosted, but they screwed up the links.
Infinite with Elemental Mastery?
Yet he managed to find time to write his article for his column over at SCG. If he really was busy, I don't think he would have time to read all the entries from his contest and write an article about it.
http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=mtgcom/askwizards/0408
So just a misprint, no other meaning.
Whenever a card references it's name it really means ~this~ in MtG.
Following Basementbob "Rules of English" the Redcap reads
When ~this~[Murderous Redcap] comes into play, ~this~ [it] deals damage equal to its power to target creature or player.
Oh i dont know...
How about the fact that there's a GP and a whole PTQ Season coming up?
I'd say block is gonna be pretty damm relevant with or without Eventide