This weekend Magic: The Gathering players around the world got a sneak preview of the upcoming Battle for Zendikar card block during the prerelease. So what should you be looking for with this new MTG set?
First and foremost, to all players, new and old, be very careful opening your cards. With the release of the Zendikar Expeditions, several dual-colored lands from the set are full art, extremely rare, and worth a LOT of money. One auction I found has the full set of foil cards of this type listed at $4,999. The regular, non-foil cards are often selling at $200-$300 each. So, if you pull one of these out of your packs, celebrate and sell. With the full release of the MTG: Battle for Zendikar coming up this Friday, tens of thousands more cards will be entering the market each day for the next while, leading to glut in the market and potential devaluation of these valuable Zendikar Expeditions cards. So if you aren't going to collect, try and sell them or trade them in quickly.
I thoroughly enjoyed the two Magic:The Gathering prereleases I went to over this weekend. I even got some cards I liked. Nothing too valuable, but still useful. What I learned from this event is the potential for several colors to really take off, especially in conjunction with the Khans block.
Two of the decks I that I had the least success in facing were a black-green and a white-green deck, in which I lost to each fairly quickly. The white-green provided significant mana ramp and continuous production of it, enabling my opponent to quickly get out both medium and large creatures very early on in the game utilizing cards like Call the Scions, Lifespring Druid and Beastcaller Savant. These allowed the casting of larger creatures, and the Eldrazi Scions to deal large amounts of damage by getting buffs from quite a variety of instants and sorceries. Not to mention allowing a more rapid cast of large spells by utilizing the Scions special ability where the controller gets one colorless mana by sacrificing them. With Beastcaller Savant and Call the Scions combined, a player can cast a 7 mana creature on their fourth turn easily.
Several of the black-green Eldrazi cards also bring out the Scions, as well as providing additional utility like the scry effect of Catacomb Sifter or the -2/-2 effect of Brood Butcher. Additionally the Ingest mechanism found on several of the black (and blue) Eldrazi creatures help trigger several powerful abilities of the high cost, high power colorless Eldrazi creatures like Blight Herder, Oblivion Sower, Ruin Processor, and Ulamog's Despoiler.
Overall, I think MTG: Battle for Zendikar going to be an extremely fun block on its own, and coupled with the Khans, it's going to be one of the best yet.
Interested in reading more about Magic: The Gathering and Battle for Zendikar?I'll be posting deck building guides on mono, dual, and three color decks over the next couple of weeks. Feel free to leave comments below. I always read them and often get useful advice for my own decks!
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