Theros Tokens

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Happy Tuesday MTG peeps,

This is our second post for today - the previous post here addressed new Theros previews so check that out too.  In this post, we wanted to catch up with all the tokens you can expect in Theros which was revealed by WotC Magic Arcana minion TJ over on the mothersite earlier.  We went a bit further and provided the spell which generates the given token as well - but we have to caution you that not all the Theros cards are yet previewed / spoiled, so you should expect an amendment or two to the list below.  By-the-way, if you haven't been with us since 2008 when we started blogging about Magic: the Gathering, you should know that we have a thingy for tokens.  Anywhoos - lets rip through the list . . .

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Heliod, God of the Sun - 2/1 white Cleric enchantment creature token.

Elspeth, Sun's Champion - 1/1 white Soldier creature token and emblem.

Akroan Horse - 1/1 whilte soldier creature token.

Swan Song - 2/2 blue Bird creature token with flying.

Curse of the Swine - 2/2 green Boar creature token.

Master of Waves - 1/0 blue Elemental creature token.

Abhorrent Overlord - 1/1 black Harpy creature token with flying.

Hammer of Purphoros - 3/3 colorless Golem enchantment artifact creature token.

Akroan Crusader - 1/1 red Soldier creature token with haste.

Xenagos, the Reveler - 2/2 red and green Satyr creature token with haste.

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Magic 2014 Tokens

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Happy Monday MTG peeps,

Very exciting day today for Magic: the Gathering players - the whole M14 set is now up on the mothersite.  We've updated our Magic 2014 Spoiler List here on MTG Realm to reflect this, with all the card text up as well as every rare and mythic rare card image.  This weekend (July 13 / 14) is the PreRelease event so make sure you touch base with your local gaming store to see when / where and if you need to pre-register for the event.  We will be making plans to get out to at least one PreRelease event over at OMG! Games here in Barrie (Ontario) over the weekend and hope to report back.

EDIT - MISSING 2/2 RED DRAGON TOKEN NOW UP - See below.

For today's post, we wanted to go over all the M14 cards which generate tokens.  If you're looking for tokens or want to pre-order, click on over to MTG Mint Card.  Let's go!
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 4/4 White Angel creature token with flying

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3/3 Green Beast creature token

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 2/2 White Cat creature token

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 2/2 Red Dragon creature token

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 1/1 Red Elemental creature token

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0/1 White Goat creature token

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1/1 Green Saproling creature token

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 1/1 Colorless Sliver creature token

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 2/2 Green Wolf creature token

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 2/2 Black Zombie creature token

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 Garruk, Caller of Beasts Emblem

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 Liliana of the Dark Realms Emblem

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Angry Ghosts

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Happy Tuesday MTG peeps,

Following up with the theme of yesterday's post on Arcane  / Spiritcraft, we wanted to get to something we've been thinking about for some time but really never followed through on - an aggro homebrew featuring blue / white Spirits.  We first thought of a more control / mill version when we saw Return to Ravnica's Psychic Spiral which allows you to dump all the cards in your 'yard back into your library while milling your opponent the same number.  To get there, we had contemplated using Gloom Surgeon and Mindshrieker along with other similar cards.  Unfortunately, we did not move forward with this.

Yesterday on Gathering Magic, we had read with interest the article 'Tokens of Appreciation' by Mike Cannon. As we have a soft spot for tokens, we were keen to evaluate Mike's Esper Tokens list.  Ever since Honor of the Pure rotated out of standard, white weenie and black / white tokens just did not have the same appeal and we were looking for a replacement.  Mike's list has some lovely anthem effects with Drogskol Captain, Intangible Virtue and Favorable Winds.  Here's our particular take on this, bent to our own individual tastes, the available cards in our collection and the local meta-game at our Friday Night Magic venue, OMG! Games, here in Barrie, Ontario. 

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4x Doomed Traveler
4x Thought Scour
4x Beckon Apparition
4x Favorable Winds
3x Intangible Virtue
4x Drogskol Captain
4x Lingering Souls
4x Midnight Haunting
3x Geist of Satint Traft
2x Geist-Honored Monk
2x Entreat the Angels

4x Glacial Fortress
3x Drowned Catacomb
1x Moorland Haunt
5x Island
9x Plains
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This is all about attempting to field as many flying spirit creatures onto the game table as possible in a short amount of time as games which run longer will likely end in a frown for this list.  Doomed Traveller is our fav one-drop providing an earlier blocker and latter a spirit token.  Thought Scour provides some limited card draw while dumping cards into the opponents graveyard to be targeted by Beckon Apparition, giving you another spirit token.

Our anthems are Favorable Winds (enchantment giving +1/+1 to flying creatures), Intangible Virtue (enchantment giving +1/+1 and vigilance to tokens), and Drogskol Captain (a creature giving +1/+1 and hexproof to other spirits).

A full book set of Lingering Souls and Midnight Haunting provide the fuel for the aggro fire here on turn three or we have the option of dropping a Geist of Saint Traft, where benefits may be provided either to himself, the 4/4 Angel token he generates or to both.

After turn three, we will welcome either a Geist-Honored monk and the two spirits that this card brings along or perhaps a miracle Entreat the Angels which hopefully by that time are finishing the game for us with several 6/6 flying / vigilance tokens.

We've not completely dismissed our earlier iterations using a mill strategy and will likely get a few more cards from MTG Mint Card to complete a list and give it a spin.
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Gatecrash Tokens

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Happy Monday MTG peeps,

What a rather exciting day it is.  At midnight countless numbers of Magic: the Gathering players anxiously awaited as the mothersite uploaded the full reveal of all Gatecrash cards.  We here at MTG Realm  feel like its kinda like Christmas and will be spending the full week reviewing all the new cards and prognosticating how it will impact each game format.  Keep an eye on MTG Mint Card who will upload the price the remaining Gatecrash cards for preorder shortly.

Our first post after the reveal is tokens.  Here's the full list of all Gatecrash cards which generate token creatures.

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4/4 white Angel Token - Urbis Protector

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1/1 white and black Cleric creature token - Deathpact Angel

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3/3 green Grog Lizard token - Rapid Hybridization

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1/1 blue and black Horror creature token with flying - Call of the Nightwing

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2/2 white Knight creature token with vigilance - Knight Watch

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X/X  green Ooze creature token - Miming Slime Mystic Genesis, Ooze Flux

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1/1 black Rat creature token - Ogre Slumlord

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1/1 red and white Soldier creature token - Assemble the Legion, Sunhome Guildmage

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1/1 white Soldier creature token - Murder Investigation

~1/1 white and black Spirit creature token with flying - Beckon Apparition.

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un-BEAR-able

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Happy Tuesday MTG peeps,

To those folks in North America above the 49th parallel, we hope you had a great Thanks-giving long weekend filled with dishes of delicious feathered beast.  To those elsewhere, we hope you had a great weekend sorting through your new Return to Ravnica cards and building your new stack of 60-card awesomeness.

Anywhoos - we are popping off R2R for this post and taking a quick look at some Magic: the Gathering related humour / coolness, so just BEAR with us.   Cyber artist 'hinga dinga durgen' had recently posted to his Tumblr a very lovely collection of bear tokens - and pawseabily some of the funniest ones we've seen for a awhile, but first up - what strange spells generate these bear tokens - let's have a looky -

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 - and here are the bears !

The 'DreadBear' one nearly gave us a kodiak arrest, we lOl'd very hard.  Righto - we're off to MTG Mint Card to start assembling a deck to make the most use of these sweet tokens - and thank-you to 'hinga dinga durgen' for not including any Winnie-the-Pooh tokens.
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Return to Ravnica Tokens

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Happy Wednesday MTG peeps,

The Return to Ravnica Spoiler List is now complete at 274 / 274 cards and we will work to get the last few missing images up over the next few days.  For today's post, we wanted to cover Return to Ravnica tokens and their respective token-generating cards - Why?  Because Lingering Souls is still in standard and there may be populate shananigans to be had of course.  Yesterday on the Mothersite, WotC Monty provided a run down of tokens but of course could not give you the complete list of generators as they had not yet been officially previewed yet.  You can get all these cards pre-ordered at MTG Mint Card. Here is our list -

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1/1 White Bird Creature Token

 1/1 White Soldier Creature Token

 2/2 White Knight Creature Token

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 1/1 Black Assassin Creature Token

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1/1 red Goblin Creature Token

 6/6 red Dragon Creature Token

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1/1 green Saproling Creature Token

3/3 green Centaur Creature Token 

 4/4 green Rhino Creature Token  

 X/X green Ooze Creature Token

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 8/8 green and white Elemental Creature Token

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