Gatecrash Top Non-Rares

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Happy Tuesday MTG peeps,

We are very happy to received our bulk lot of Gatecrash 4x Uncommons and 4x Commons we pre-ordered from MTG Mint Card.  The order was processed on Friday 1st, shipped from Hong Kong and was in our paws on Monday 4th, February -THAT was damn fast.  With 101 commons and 80 commons, we now have 724 Magic: the Gathering cards obtained at a very good price.  Why?  After two pre-release events, a fat pack, and a handful of boosters, we were still missing quite a few rather important cards we wanted to build with, and definitely nowhere near the decksets we needed to go forward.  

Anywhoos - now that we have all the uncommons and commons, it's time now for our Top 8 picks for both these rarities.  Our selection is based upon what we experienced during sealed gaming and our evaluation of how we feel these non-rares will perform in the new standard constructed environment.  Here's the video first . . .
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Gatecrash - Top 8 Uncommons : Boros Charm / Skullcrack / Dimir Charm / Burning Tree Emissary / Ghor Clan Rampager / Orzhov Charm / Simic Charm / Wight of Precinct Six

Gatecrash - Top 8 Commons : Devour Flesh / Basillica Screecher / Smite / Cloudfin Raptor / Forced Adaptation / Executioner's Swing / Pit Fit / Beckon Apparition

If you have an Uncommon or Common card that you think will rock standard, please drop your thoughts in the comment thingy below.
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Top MTG Lords

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Happy Thursday MTG peeps,

We caught a recent episode of Magic TV over at Channel Fireball yesterday which got us all nostalgic for some of our older Magic the Gathering cards. In the video, Tristan Gregson and Luis Scott-Vargas went over their picks for the Top 8 Lords.

Magic the Gathering Lords are essentially creatures which grant effects to other creatures according to their creature types, colors, or other attributes and are most often used in tribal decks. Typically, only creatures which give (at least) +1/+1 to all others of its creature type without any sort of activation are considered 'Lords'. Creatures that pump entire colors or that shrink entire colors are not considered lords.

Anywhoos - here's the video :


Top 8 Magic the Gathering Lords

8 : Drogskol Captain
7 : Coralhelm Commander
6 : Imperious Perfect
5 : Scion of Oona
4 : Goblin Warchief
3 : Merrow Reejerey
2 : Elvish Archdruid
1 : Lord of Atlantis

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Since every MTG player has their own individual taste / character and game style, we invite you to provide additional honorable mentions for your favourite Lord. Some cards which we have a fondness for are :

Vampire nocturnus
Lord of the Undead
Master of Etherium
Bloodline Keeper
Adaptive Automaton / Brass Herald
Daru Warchief
Death Baron
Field Marshal

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Altough not strictly Lords according to the definition, we did want to mention our special inclination for the quasi-Lord 'Liege' cycle in the Shadowmoor mini-block. Each of the Lieges in this block has a mana cost of XHHH, where H is a hybrid mana symbol and X a colourless mana. Each liege had two seperate abilities which provided a +1/+1 bonus to a creature that matched either colour, and which stacked for those that matched both. There was also a cool ability or effect appropriate its colors.

The lieges from Shadowmoor have allied-colour costs and the Knight creature type — Thistledown Liege, Glen Elendra Liege, Ashenmoor Liege, Boartusk Liege, Wilt-Leaf Liege. The lieges from Eventide had enemy-colour costs and the Horror creature type — Deathbringer Liege, Mindwrack Liege, Murkfiend Liege, and Balefire Liege, Creakwood Liege.
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Also of note - the folks over at MTG Mint Card has cracked open a few more boxes of Innistrad and has now restocked. If you've been looking for that special hard-to-get sorcery or Planeswalker, drop by.
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