Tumblr Tuesday

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Happy Tuesday MTG peeps,

It's Tumblr time again here on MTG Realm where we republish all the Magic: the Gathering updates from our other site on Tumblr.  This time around, it's all about the amazing Dragon's Maze and Magic 2014 spoilers and previews which have been coming fast and furious from Wizards and PAX East this last weekend.  Don't forget to start planning your Dragon's Maze pre-orders soon from MTG Mint Card as they start getting singles up.

First up however, here's the Dragon's Maze trailer WotC had posted to the 'Tube . . .

  
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Righto - onto the material from our Tumblr . . .
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Photoset

March 26, 2013

 

Magic: the Gathering - Dragon’s Maze Prerelease

Some Dragon’s Maze Prerelease on the mothersite today. As anticipated,  Maze’s End will be the prerelease promo card with that kick-butt art by  Cliff Childs.
• One Return to Ravnica Guild Booster Pack
• Four Dragon’s Maze Booster Packs
• One Gatecrash Guild Booster Pack

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Photoset

March 26, 2013

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Magic: the Gathering - FNM Promos

April 2013 FNM Promo is Call of the Conclave (Return to Ravnica Uncommon) with art by Anthony Palumbo.  Original art by Terese Nielsen.  In place of the ‘shooting star’ FNM watermark, there is the Ravnica Guild watermark, in this case, Selesnya.

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Photoset

March 25, 2013

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Magic: the Gathering - Guild Champions

 

• Dimir - Mirko Vosk, Mind Drinker, a  Dimir vampire
• Azorious - Lavinia of the Tenth,  an Azorius lawmage

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March 25, 2013

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Magic : the Gathering - Teysa Then and Now

Teysa, Orzhov Scion (Guildpact Rare) gets the nod for a re-iteration in the next set, Dragon’s Maze.  Check out the new art for Teysa Envoy of Ghosts.  Image from CosPlayer Christine Sprankle (Twitter / Tumblr)

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March 24, 2013

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Magic: the Gathering - Dragon’s Maze Champions

From WotC FB page -
• Rakdos - Exava, Rakdos Blood Witch
• Izzet - Melek, Izzet Paragon
• Boros - Tajic, Blade of the Legion

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Giveaway !!! Candy Shop Vintage

Goodmorning.

I tricked you with yesterday's baby announcement post...turns out I'm getting back to regular blogging sooner than planned;)

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Metallic Linen

I get asked a lot about where to buy good metallic linen. I always have pointed people in the direction of Gray Line Linens in the past, but they recently came out with some new colors that are pretty darn amazing.

I tried to scan these in so you could better seen the color, sheen and texture (since the photos on the website are worthless), but if you need a very specific color, I recommend ordering one of the swatch cards here before place your fabric order.

I'd say these are all heavy enough for light use upholstery (like secondary chairs, headboards, and obviously curtains and pillows). The fabric is so pretty in person - I wish the depth and shimmer were translating better! 

I'm thinking of having a summery dress made out of the yellow above (MM68). Wouldn't that be so cute? I have an old favorite dress that's on its last leg and I'm hoping my tailor can rip it apart to use as a pattern for a new one in the yellow.

Post PAX East

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Happy Monday MTG peeps,

What a heck of a weekend for Magic: the Gathering fans at PAX East in Boston this past weekend.  Between the Wizards of the Coast MTG panel Saturday afternoon to Duels of the Planeswalkers 2014, there was just so much amazing spoilers 'n' previews around every corner - and that's not even mentioning the great swag WotC had provided.  Over the course of the weekend we here at MTG Realm attempted to keep up with all the news on both the main MTG Realm site as well as our Tumblr site - and apparently you were on top of all our updates.  We had just over 12,000 visits on Sunday alone.

Anywhoos - enough gushing - let's get to some of the big news - namely the announcement of the next block as well as some DotP 2014 / M14 spoilers 'n' previews. We promise to summarize the Dragon's Maze material in the next post.

First up - the next large fall set was previewed at the PAX East MTG panel and followed up with the official announcement on the mothersite today.
• Theros
• Born of the Gods
• Journey into Nyx

Set Name : Theros
Block : Set 1 of 3 in the Theros block
Number of Cards : 249
Prerelease Events : September 21-22, 2013
Release Date : September 27, 2013
Game Day : October 19-20, 2013
Pro Tour Theros Formats Swiss:
Official Three-Letter Code : THS
Twitter Hashtag : #MTGTHS
Initial Concept and Game Design : Mark Rosewater (lead), Ethan Fleischer, Ken Nagle, Zac Hill, and Jenna Helland
Final Game Design and Development : Erik Lauer (lead), Zac Hill, Dave Humpherys, Doug Beyer, Shawn Main, and Tom LaPille

We are very excited indeed about this block - we could be totally wrong here but it feels like there may be a Greek mythology theme here.  We're already thinking about picking up some potentially related cards from MTG Mint Card which may fit thematically with this block.  We'll get to speculations in another post but here's a short list of existing creature types which have already seen print :
White: Griffin, Pegasus
Blue: Hippocampus, Siren, Sphinx
Black: Gorgon, Harpy, Lamia
Red: Chimera, Cyclop, Minotaur
Green: Centaur, Dryad, Hydra, Satyr
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Next up - Some new cards spotted during preview play of Duels of the Planeswalkers 2014 at PAX East.  These are of particular interest to Magic: the Gathering gamers who play the physical (paper) version as both the electronic and paper Core Set release are very often contiguous.  Here are some cards we may expect come 19th July, 2014 -
Shadowborn Demon, 3bb
Creature - Demon, Mythic Rare
Flying
When Shadowborn Demon enters the battlefield, destroy target non demon creature.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if there are fewer than 6 creatures in your graveyard, sacrifice a creature.
5/6
Shadowborn Apostle, b
Creature-Human Cleric, Common
A deck can have any number of cards named Shadowborn Apostle.
b, sacrifice six creatures named Shadowborn Apostle: Search your library for a demon creature and put it onto the battlefield. Then shuffle your library.
1/1

Kalonian Tusker, gg
Creature - Beast, Uncommon
3/3

Regathan Firecat, 2r
Creature - Elemental Cat, Common
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Jasper Campbell Dovey

Hello!!!

A quick post to announce the arrival of our sweet little peanut...

-Jasper Campbell Dovey-

All in all, I had a pretty OK labour...4.5 hours from start to finish and despite a case of the really bad epidural shakes, all was good.

Having my entire family there was absolutely the best part...meant the world to me.

And now, we're home and settling into our new and infinitely more joy filled, albeit sleep deprived, normal.

I'm hoping to get back to regular blogging over the next few weeks (including a nursery reveal in a few days:) but for now, with this face staring at me...

...it's pretty difficult to focus on much else...so in love.

xoxo

New Art in the Living Room

Over the weekend I hung up some more art in the living room. I had left the wall shared with the kitchen pretty uncovered up until now because there's a gallery wall in the room already and I didn't want to overpower the space. But mostly the lady portrait painting and an abstract photographic print I had hung up for a few months just felt lonely and too sparse to me. Here's the  before shot:

I had a meeting with Bloglovin' on Friday morning at Cafeteria, which is right by my favorite Housing Works location. So if course I had to pop in just to see what they had, and there was a treasure trove that day! Thrift stores in NYC are usually not so fruitful and they are really ridiculously expensive, but some times you can luck out. One of the things I brought home was this exhibition print. I fell in love with the shade of green from across the store and was so glad to see the print was only $15.

I had been wanting to add something in this tone to the walls to pick up on the color of the green sofa, so this was a happy find. I hung it up almost all the way up to the moulding and put back up the lady and the photo print right below the new print. 

I also hung a piece of art I bought a couple years ago at the flea. I talked more about it here, but a lot of times you can find vendors who have purchased a deceased artist's entire estate. It's a good time to buy up a few pieces of an artist you like for almost nothing. I bought a lot from this artist's estate. This one was a rice paper and ink drawing called "If Not Sound, Then, Music is Feeling."

Right next to Michael's guitars felt like a good place to hang it.

I like how the four pieces play off each other. And I'm happy with how the kitchen pass-through is less of a focus on that wall now.

We're getting there! Slowly but surely the bargains are finding their way to me :)