Silver & Gold - Unstable Surprises, Rivals Spoilers, GDS 3 & More!

First Pick & Giveaway

Giveaway - A Booster Box of Unstable!

https://gleam.io/z3mhL/win-a-booster-box-of-unstable

 

First Pick - Holy cow Unstable still surprises w multiple textboxes

https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/unstable-variants-2017-12-06

 

Gather the Townsfolk

New Rivals Cards:

https://imgur.com/a/4eqfr

 

World Magic Cup champions Japan https://magic.wizards.com/en/events/coverage/2017WMC

• Superteam of Shota Yasooka (HOF), Yuuya Watanabe(HOF), and Kenta Harane (Nat’l champ, Gold pro) win
• Poland finalists, Germany & Italy semis (3rd semis in a row for Italy)
• USA finishes top 16 after being eliminated by Wales
• “Global Game for Everyone” promo video featuring teams

 

Steve Argyle makes Angel token for Christine Sprankle

https://twitter.com/Steve_Argyle/status/938505483886903296

 

Team MGG & sponsor Legion Games part ways with Travis Woo: https://twitter.com/TeamMGG/status/936694342906888192

 

GP Santa Clara off to a slow start: http://gpsantaclara.cfbevents.com/

Hotel block was not updated until last Friday. Side events today. Still missing artists, vendors, etc.

 

Rivals of Ixalan spoilers, or leaks: https://www.polygon.com/2017/12/5/16738902/magic-the-gatherings-rivals-of-ixalan-exclusive-new-cards-art

 

Great Designer Search 3: https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/great-designer-search-3-2017-12-04

 

Product Architecture: How a product is made by Gavin Verhey

https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/feature/product-architecture-how-product-made-2017-12-06

 

VSL finals: Reid Duke defeats Kevin Kron in the finals. **Rich Shay impression plz! https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/magic-online/vintage-super-league-season-7-decklists#FINALS

 

Red Zone

Commander tribunal led by Sheldon Menery allows silver-bordered cards to be used until January 15, causing community upheaval.

https://twitter.com/SheldonMenery/status/936468110512742400

http://mtgcommander.net/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=18749

So: should silver bordered cards be allowed in Commander going forward?

 

Desperate Ravings

Magic Board Game for Cheap - https://www.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/7gxvg7/psa_you_can_get_the_mtg_origins_boardgame_for/

 

Origins of Phyrexian name?

https://www.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/7hitky/til_the_origin_of_phyrexias_name_ϕphirexia/

 

Game Knights: Unstable Draft w/ Mark Rosewater l Game Knights #13 l Magic: the Gathering Gameplay

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QR_CD_Lj7ds

Excellent example of Unstable gameplay, how Contraptions work, how Host works, etc.

 

Going Infinite

The 20 Most Important Magic Cards Printed in the Modern Era, by Brian Demars

https://www.channelfireball.com/articles/the-20-most-important-magic-cards-printed-in-the-modern-era/

Our next Top Ten is this topic!

 

Giveaway Time!

 

The Finisher

 

With the release of Unstable, we finally have the ability to staple two creatures together with the Augment and Host mechanics, letting us have access to both our chocolate and our peanut butter. So with combinations like Half-Shark Half-Rocket, Half-Squirrel Half-Vacuum, and Half-Kitten Half-Kitten able to be created, what would be your ideal Unstablestein’s Monster?