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An eldrazi spawn crouching over a floating mountain.
This is inspired directly by Magic: the Gathering, but as opposed to my Wandering Tombshell MOC, this one is not inspired by any specific card or art piece, but an expansion as a whole (two expansions I guess?). The eldrazi are mindless mana devouring monsters from the blind eternities and as cards they are represented by large colourless creatures. The whole eldrazi concept is pretty complicated and would take forever to explain, so whatever.
I made this MOC pretty quickly after making a tablescrap hedron, then made this thing in about a day or two. This is now my desktop background.
When I was in Seattle for PAX, I went to a party for the newest Magic: The Gathering release. While I was there, the nice people from Wizards of the Coast gave me a few cards that I guess nobody else in the world outside of WotC had. This is one of them, an insanely awesome card that is apparently super duper ultra double secret rare.
This card has all those nifty holographic foil thingies all over it, and it looks beautiful when the light hits it just right. This picture doesn't capture that at all, unfortunately.
My history with the card game Magic: the Gathering is a long and winding one; I remember when my brother first learned when we were kids, and he was so keen for me to play with him, but I just found it such a struggle to focus or keep the rules in my head; I would play when I particularly wanted to be nice to him and make him feel happy! But I just couldn't come to grips with it.
Then when I was at university and became best friends with Simon, who also played, he and my brother Richard managed to ignite my interest in the game by telling me about the Invitational - a competition whose winner would get their face on a Magic card!! Of course this appealed to my vanity, and to my enjoyment of excessive ambition in the face of utter lack of ability. My brother pointed out to me that one of the most popular artists of the cards, John Avon, lived in the UK, and that if I really wanted to be on a card I'd be better off just making friends with him - information I filed away for future use...
I used to really enjoy the Magic pre-release events in London, but I never played that seriously outside the events. I was more a collector, enjoying the acquisition of novelty and rare cards, and I really enjoyed the social interaction of the game; playing cards with strangers is a great way to meet people without it feeling too pressured, and I made some lifelong friends at those pre-release events. I also once made friends with a Guardian editor at an event who subsequently took me around the Guardian offices, which was cool, though we later lost touch.
When I moved to Brighton, I hadn't played for a while, but ended up knowing lots of players here, including my now ex Joe. Inevitably I got absorbed back into the hobby, and ended up with a serious collecting habit, and attended weekly club events to play and trade cards - again, largely incentivised by the social element of it. Again I made great friends, one of whom is now my neighbour! But one of the friends I made, initially through buying his artwork prints and one original piece (Pyroclasm) was the artist John Avon - who it turns out lives not too far from me! The framed print in this shot is a print that John sent me for my birthday!
When Joe and I broke up, I gave most of my cards to him, and sold the rest to pay bills. Having given them up, I drifted away from the Brighton Magic community somewhat - for one thing, there was absolutely no time for anything like that on my SKE and PGCE course!
However, since Clare has been running Magic events at Waterstone's in Bath, and since I've had more time and spare money - and since the aforementioned friend Matthew has moved only a few doors down and is talking about running drafting events - I have been hankering to get back into it! There's something about being part of it that really makes me happy (even though I still, 15 years on, really suck at actually playing it!)
So today I made a sort of deal with myself; I would buy a couple of Core Set 2013 boosters (sealed packs of 15 cards each containing one 'rare' card) and if I drew a Planeswalker (specific type of card) as my rare, I would rejoin the hobby. I also bought a handful of other boosters from different sets to get a feel of how the game is in the current renditions.
I opened my first booster and drew Nicol Bolas (or Nicholas Bowl as I like to call him). Imagine! A Planeswalker on the first draw!
I then opened number two to reveal Garruk, Primal Hunter - another more valuable Planeswalker!
Well, that felt like destiny calling right there.
The rest of my packs revealed rares that retail for £5-£6 apiece, so I already made my money back - and I got a foil Mountain too! So I definitely still have my 'magic' touch with the boosters! I can already feel the thrill of it in my bones! Although I now need to teach Tom, and I don't have any of my old land cards (I had so many beautiful Zendikar foil lands and of course I immediately want them back - though thankfully I still have a fair few foil Unhinged lands!) Still, I've made that first step - I'm back in the game!
I also mailed John Avon to get back in touch. In an unusual turn of events, I actually ended up teaching his son on one of my school placements, and I haven't really spoken to him since then, so it was nice to have the reminder to get in touch.
Also for sale: $43 for shipping in PWE (plain white envelope) I will cover it. If you want shipping with tracking and a bubble mailer it will be $3 more. For international it's $2/$8 respectively. #magic #magicthegathering #zendikar #fetches #fetchlands #pucatrade #pimp #modernmtg #legacy #legacymtg #nerd #nerdlife #edh #commander #bfz #battleforZEndikar #scg #cfb #mtgigcommunity (PucaTrade is a new way to trade MtG cards online).
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I loaned my buddy my twin deck for the modern GP. He cashed gave me 10% and the mat. Not too shabby lol cards doing the work for me. #magicthegathering #magic #mtg #mtgigcommunity #mtgpimp #pimp #pucatrade #planeswalker #edh #expeditions #deathandtaxes #dissension #cfb #cardboardcrack #commander #shiny #scg #modern #modernmtg #legacymtg #legacy #zendikar #gppittsburgh #gppitt #nerdlife #nerd (PucaTrade is a new way to trade MtG cards online).
I made a few dividers out of cardstock, printouts and glue for my Magic (the Gathering) cards. They're Zendikar lands! So pretty :D
Artwork is (c) Wizards of the Coast
This really is a sexy #foil #mythicrare #magic #mtgfoil #mtg #mtgigcommunity #MtgCommunity #worldwake #legacymtg #modernmtg #commander #vintagemtg #standardmtg #expeditions #eldrazi #eldraziwinter #ugin #planeswalker #pucatrade #oathofthegatewatch #OGW #bfzexpeditions #battleforzendikar #bfz #zendikar #kozilek (PucaTrade is a new way to trade MtG cards online).
El conocido actor Wil Wheaton, presentó en el PAX Prime La batalla por Zendikar, la siguiente expansión de Magic: The Gathering
Será la primera vez en la historia de Magic en la que una expansión se lanzará al mismo tiempo, de forma digital, en el videojuego gratuito Magic Duels: Oríg...
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Snuff out for #pauper #edh. Sabertooth and the Song for Child of #alara EDH. Imps and groundswells for pauper #golgari #delve. The temple and the sliver for a crazy Sygg #tinyleaders. Innocent Blood for pauper #rakdos #suicide. Others cause they're cool! #magicthegathering #mtg #mtglife #nerdlife #modern #standard #vintage #legacy #pucatrade #pucamail #mailday #commander #unhinged #kamigawa #lands #zendikar #mirrodin (PucaTrade is a new way to trade MtG cards online).
This kind of reminded me of the Hardons from the Zendikar block of Magic: The Gathering or any un-named monolith shooting out of the ground.
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Anyone want to send me some trades on puca? #mtg #magicthegathering #mtgtcg #zendikar #scaldingtarn #zendikar #jace #sdcc #oathofthegatewatch #pucatrade #puca #mtgpuca #expeditions #zendikarexpeditions (PucaTrade is a new way to trade MtG cards online).
Sorry its been a while since I've uploaded. Been doing a lot of online gaming, But new photos of what i opened in my "Battle For Zendikar" booster box will be up by sunday
Wish me luck :) puca trade. Nothing bug just lots of rares, full art lands, tokens, foils and a few good cards pictured up there. #mtg #mtggang #magicthegathering #tcg #mtgzendikar #battleforzendikar #zendikar #mtgtrades #trustedseller #mtgtcg #zendikarexpeditions #expeditions #magictcg #puca #pucatrade #magicorigins (PucaTrade is a new way to trade MtG cards online).
Another one bites the dust. #edh #eldrazi #expeditions #battleforZEndikar #zendikar #zendikarexpeditions #new #nerd #nerdlife #planeswalker #pucatrade #new #legacymtg #modernmtg #mtgigcommunity #mtgpimp #mtg #magic #magicthegathering #fetchlands #fetches #foil #fnm #foils #foilfriday #expeditions #bfzexpeditions #modern #cfb #scg #shiny #shinysaturday (PucaTrade is a new way to trade MtG cards online).