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Shards of Alara Release Date and Events on Magic Online

October 14, 2008

Wizards of the Coast just released the schedule of release events as well as the release date for Shards of Alara on Magic Online, or MTGO.

Shards of Alara will be released on Monday, October 20. The release events will begin on Friday, October 24. There will five types of release events:

  • Draft Queues
  • “Top 8″ Premier Events
  • “Competitive No Top 8″ Flights
  • “Casual No Top 8″ Flights
  • Release Event Championship

Two things to note.

The sealed events will consist of 1 Shards of Alara tournament pack and 3 Shards of Alara booster packs for your card pool. This is different from PTQs, at least in my area (Texas, USA). The PTQs only give you 2 boosters.

The release championship is the same day as States, November 8.

Source: Shards of Alara Release Events

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Bad Shards of Alara Prerelease Experience

October 3, 2008

Here is a video with Evan Erwin talking about his horrible prerelease experience. It includes Patrick Chapin, a popular Magic The Gathering pro, and friends. Evan also covers the Conflux card names leak.

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Sarkhan Vol Spoiler (Badass Planeswalker)

September 8, 2008

We finally get the full card text of Sarkhan Vol :)

Back in June, on Magic The Gathering’s official site, we were shown Sarkhan Vol without his stats or abilities. Today, they gave us the full spoiler of this awesome planewalker from Shards of Alara.

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“Exalted”, a New Magic The Gathering Keyword Mechanic

September 8, 2008

The previews for Shards of Alara started today so we got a couple of new previews on Wizards.com.

Mark Rosewater’s article talked about the a new keyword mechanic for the creatures in the world, or shard, of Bant. (Bant is the white-centered shard with green and blue.) The new mechanic is:

Exalted (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)

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Shards of Alara Minisite

September 7, 2008

Minisite

Here is the official page for Shards of Alara. Check it out to get the latest information about Magic the Gathering’s new card set. The page includes prerelease dates, puzzles, and a visual spoiler.

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