Rok 2017 zahájilo legacy GP v Louisville, kde mezi 1 607 hráči triumfoval Reid Duke s vlastní verzí BUG Controlu, která byla postavená na interakci mezi manovači a silnými třídropy v podobě True-Name Nemesis a Leovold, Emissary of Trest.
You may pay 1 life and remove a blue card in your hand from the game instead of paying Force of Will's casting cost. Effects that prevent or redirect damage cannot be used to counter this loss of life. Counter target spell.
True-Name Nemesis
As True-Name Nemesis enters the battlefield, choose a player. True-Name Nemesis has protection from the chosen player. (This creature can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, or enchanted by anything controlled by that player.)
Murderous Cut
Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.) Destroy target creature.
Tarmogoyf
Tarmogoyf's power is equal to the number of card types among cards in all graveyards and its toughness is equal to that number plus 1.
Daze
You may return an island you control to its owner's hand instead of paying Daze's mana cost. Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1}.
Ponder
Umezawa's Jitte
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage, put two charge counters on Umezawa's Jitte. Remove a charge counter from Umezawa's Jitte: Choose one — Equipped creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn; or target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn; or you gain 2 life. Equip {2}
Noble Hierarch
Exalted (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) {T}: Add {G}, {W}, or {U} to your mana pool.
Sylvan Library
You may draw two extra cards during your draw phase. If you do so, put two of the cards drawn this turn back on top of your library (in any order) or pay 4 life per card not replaced. Effects that prevent or redirect damage cannot be used to counter this loss of life.
Abrupt Decay
Abrupt Decay can't be countered by spells or abilities. Destroy target nonland permanent with converted mana cost 3 or less.
Deathrite Shaman
{T}: Exile target land card from a graveyard. Add one mana of any color to your mana pool. {B}, {T}: Exile target instant or sorcery card from a graveyard. Each opponent loses 2 life. {G}, {T}: Exile target creature card from a graveyard. You gain 2 life.
Nihil Spellbomb
{T}, Sacrifice Nihil Spellbomb: Exile all cards from target player's graveyard. When Nihil Spellbomb is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay {B}. If you do, draw a card.
Thoughtseize
Target player reveals his or her hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player discards that card. You lose 2 life.
Bayou
Counts as both swamp and forest and is affected by spells that affect either. Tap to add either {B} or {G} to your mana pool.
Underground Sea
Counts as both swamp and islands and is affected by spells that affect either. Tap to add either {B} or {U} to your mana pool.
Tropical Island
Counts as both forest and islands and is affected by spells that affect either. Tap to add either {G} or {U} to your mana pool.
Jace, the Mind Sculptor
+2: Look at the top card of target player's library. You may put that card on the bottom of that player's library. 0: Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order. -1: Return target creature to its owner's hand. -12: Exile all cards from target player's library, then that player shuffles his or her hand into his or her library.
Misty Rainforest
Polluted Delta
Verdant Catacombs
Brainstorm
Wasteland
Island
({T}: Add {U}.)
Forest
({T}: Add {G}.)
Zbytek ledna byli hráči zaměstnáni releasem Aether Revoltu, s jehož nástupem na formát proběhla velká změna, když byla zabanovaná trojice karet - Emrakul, the Promised End, Smuggler's Copter a Reflector Mage. Šlo o první ban na standardu od června 2011, kdy byl zkázán Jace se Stoneforge Mysticem.
Banovalo se i na modernu - ten opustila Gitaxian Proba a Golgari Grave-Troll
Před PT se hrály dvě velké dvojky v rámci SCG Open - první se zúčastnilo 604 hráčů a zvítězil zde Brennan DeCandio za pomocí dvou nových karet, Winding Constrictor a Walking Ballista.
{T}, Sacrifice Evolving Wilds: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle your library.
Swamp
({T}: Add {B}.)
Forest
({T}: Add {G}.)
O týden později Open zcela ovládly decky s kombem Saheeli Rai + Felidar Guardian. Ze 428 hráčů se nejvíce dařilo Dylanu Doneghanovi s Jeskai verzí decku. Ve finále byla k vidění i čtyřbarevná varianta decku. Z dnešní perspektivy je úsměvné, že tehdy nebyl v decku Attune with Aether a jako hlavní fixace tam byl playset Evolving Wilds.
{T}, Sacrifice Evolving Wilds: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle your library.
Plains
({T}: Add {W}.)
Island
({T}: Add {U}.)
Mountain
({T}: Add {R}.)
Forest
({T}: Add {G}.)
Konala se také první ze čtvrtletních kvalifikací na MTGO Championship, což byla záležitost modernu. Zvítězil zde Corey Burkhart s Grixis Controlem a druhým kvalifikovaným byl neméně známý hráč v podobě Steva Rubina, jenž pilotoval Bant Company.
Choose two — • Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. • Target player discards a card. • Destroy target artifact. • Kolaghan's Command deals 2 damage to target creature or player.
Countersquall
Counter target noncreature spell. Its controller loses 2 life.
Tasigur, the Golden Fang
Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.) {2}{G/U}{G/U}: Put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard, then return a nonland card of an opponent's choice from your graveyard to your hand.
Snapcaster Mage
Flash When Snapcaster Mage enters the battlefield, target instant or sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback until end of turn. The flashback cost is equal to its mana cost. (You may cast that card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Sulfur Falls
Sulfur Falls enters the battlefield tapped unless you control an Island or a Mountain. {T}: Add {U} or {R} to your mana pool.
Thought Scour
Target player puts the top two cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard. Draw a card.
Spell Snare
Counter target spell with converted mana cost 2.
Engineered Explosives
Sunburst (This enters the battlefield with a charge counter on it for each color of mana spent to cast it.) {2}, Sacrifice Engineered Explosives: Destroy each nonland permanent with converted mana cost equal to the number of charge counters on Engineered Explosives.
Surgical Extraction
({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.) Choose target card in a graveyard other than a basic land card. Search its owner's graveyard, hand, and library for any number of cards with the same name as that card and exile them. Then that player shuffles his or her library.
Serum Visions
Draw a card. Scry 2 (Look at the top two cards of your library. Put any number of them on the bottom of your library and the rest on top of it in any order.)
Cryptic Command
Terminate
Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated.
Ancestral Vision
Ancestral Vision is blue. Suspend 4—{U} (Rather than play this card from your hand, pay {U} and remove it from the game with four time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, play it without paying its mana cost.) Target player draws three cards.
Lightning Bolt
Lightning Bolt does 3 damage to one target.
Creeping Tar Pit
Creeping Tar Pit enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {U} or {B} to your mana pool. {1}{U}{B}: Until end of turn, Creeping Tar Pit becomes a 3/2 blue and black Elemental creature and is unblockable. It's still a land.
Flooded Strand
Polluted Delta
Scalding Tarn
Steam Vents
Watery Grave
Blood Crypt
({T}: Add {B} or {R}.)
As Blood Crypt enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.
Whenever an opponent casts a spell during your turn or when Voice of Resurgence dies, put a green and white Elemental creature token onto the battlefield with "This creature's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creatures you control."
Collected Company
Look at the top six cards of your library. Put up to two creature cards with converted mana cost 3 or less from among them onto the battlefield. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
Gavony Township
{T}: Add {1} to your mana pool. {2}{G}{W}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.
Kessig Wolf Run
{T}: Add {1} to your mana pool. {X}{R}{G}, {T}: Target creature gets +X/+0 and gains trample until end of turn.
Scavenging Ooze
{G}: Exile target card from a graveyard. If it was a creature card, put a +1/+1 counter on Scavenging Ooze and you gain 1 life.
Knight of the Reliquary
Knight of the Reliquary gets +1/+1 for each land card in your graveyard. {T}, Sacrifice a Forest or Plains: Search your library for a land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle your library.
Spellskite
{U/P}: Change a target of target spell or ability to Spellskite. ({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.)
Qasali Pridemage
Exalted (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) {1}, Sacrifice Qasali Pridemage: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.
Vendilion Clique
Flash Flying When Vendilion Clique enters the battlefield, look at target player's hand. You may choose a nonland card from it. If you do, that player reveals the chosen card, puts it on the bottom of his or her library, then draws a card.
Noble Hierarch
Exalted (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) {T}: Add {G}, {W}, or {U} to your mana pool.
Unified Will
Counter target spell if you control more creatures than that spell's controller.
Birds of Paradise
Flying {T}: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool. This ability is played as an interrupt.
Path to Exile
Exile target creature. Its controller may search his or her library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle his or her library.
Flooded Strand
Misty Rainforest
Temple Garden
Windswept Heath
Wooded Foothills
Retreat to Coralhelm
Ghost Quarter
Horizon Canopy
Tireless Tracker
Selfless Spirit
Spell Queller
Breeding Pool
({T}: Add {G} or {U}.)
As Breeding Pool enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.
Hallowed Fountain
({T}: Add {W} or {U}.)
As Hallowed Fountain enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.
Stomping Ground
({T}: Add {R} or {G}.)
As Stomping Ground enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.
Plains
({T}: Add {W}.)
Forest
({T}: Add {G}.)
Týden před PT se již tradičně na GP hrálo limited. Jedno z GP se konalo v Praze, druhé bylo v San Jose (1908 hráčů).
Pražské GP se do paměti hráčů zapsalo hlavně díky spektakulárnímu požáru stánku s občerstvením během pátečního programu (který byl pak bohužel celý zrušen). Možná vás ale překvapí, že GP se 2 005 hráči zůstalo až do konce roku coby největší evropské GP.
Vítězem se tu stal Yusuf Kemal-Vefa, což byl vůbec první zástupce tureckého magicu, který triumfoval na GP, či PT. Z našich hráčů se do peněz dostal pouze Michal Hříbek, kterému patřilo konečné třiatřicáté místo.
V San Jose se z výhry radoval neznámý John Asbach.
Únor
Hlavní událostí únoru byl pochopitelně PT Aether Revolt v Dublinu, kterého se zúčastnilo 425 hráčů, včetně devítí českých reprezentantů.
Turnaj naprosto opanovaly Mardu Vehicly, které měly šest zástupců v top8. Ve finále v mirroru porazil brazilský Lucas Berthoud Marcia Carvalha. Zajímavostí je, že ve standardové části turnaje měl 100% win se skóre 12:0.
Na turnaji se také extrémně dařilo našim hráčům. Oba dva non-vehicle decky v top8 totiž patřily právě jim. Po dlouhých sedmi a půl letech byl v top8 Martin Jůza s vlastním brew v podobě Jund Aggra a dopnil ho tam ještě Jan Ksandr s agresivní verzí BG Deliria, který byl dokonce teprve na svém třetím PT!
Skvělé výsledky naší výpravy tím ale neskončily, do top64 se ještě probojovali Martin Hrycej a Lukáš Blohon.
{T}, Sacrifice Evolving Wilds: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle your library.
Swamp
({T}: Add {B}.)
Forest
({T}: Add {G}.)
O týden později se hrál opět standard, a to na GP Pittsburgh, kam přišlo 1 334 hráčů. Celé GP se neslo ve znamení souboje GB Deliria proti Vehiclům, ze kterého vzešlo vítězně GB, když s ním zvítězil Ryan Haare. Šlo o agresivní verzi s nižší křivkou, která hrála Sylvan Advocaty a více kusů třímanové Nissy.
Další týden patřil modernu, když se hrálo GP Brisbane a Vancouver. Na australském GP (966 hráčů) byl průlomovým deckem Dredge týmu MTG Mint Card (po banu Trolla nad deckem všichni zlomili hůl), nicméně vítězem se nakonec stal domácí matador Oliver Oks s Lantern Controlem.
{T}, Sacrifice Mishra's Bauble: Look at the top card of target player's library. Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.
Infernal Tutor
Reveal a card from your hand. Search your library for a card with the same name as that card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle your library. Hellbent — If you have no cards in hand, instead search your library for a card, put it into your hand, then shuffle your library.
Lantern of Insight
Each player plays with the top card of his or her library revealed. {T}, Sacrifice Lantern of Insight: Target player shuffles his or her library.
Ghoulcaller's Bell
{T}: Each player puts the top card of his or her library into his or her graveyard.
Glimmervoid
At the beginning of the end step, if you control no artifacts, sacrifice Glimmervoid. {T}: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool.
Surgical Extraction
({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.) Choose target card in a graveyard other than a basic land card. Search its owner's graveyard, hand, and library for any number of cards with the same name as that card and exile them. Then that player shuffles his or her library.
Abrupt Decay
Abrupt Decay can't be countered by spells or abilities. Destroy target nonland permanent with converted mana cost 3 or less.
Codex Shredder
{T}: Target player puts the top card of his or her library into his or her graveyard. {5}, {T}, Sacrifice Codex Shredder: Return target card from your graveyard to your hand.
Inquisition of Kozilek
Target player reveals his or her hand. You choose a nonland card from it with converted mana cost 3 or less. That player discards that card.
Ancient Stirrings
Look at the top five cards of your library. You may reveal a colorless card from among them and put it into your hand. Then put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order. (Cards with no colored mana in their mana costs are colorless. Lands are also colorless.)
Mox Opal
Metalcraft — {T}: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool. Activate this ability only if you control three or more artifacts.
Ensnaring Bridge
Each creature with power greater than the number of cards in your hand cannot attack.
Pithing Needle
As Pithing Needle comes into play, name a card. Activated abilities of sources with the chosen name can't be played unless they're mana abilities.
Pyxis of Pandemonium
{T}: Each player exiles the top card of his or her library face down. {7}, {T}, Sacrifice Pyxis of Pandemonium: Each player turns face up all cards he or she owns exiled with Pyxis of Pandemonium, then puts all permanent cards among them onto the battlefield.
Thoughtseize
Target player reveals his or her hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player discards that card. You lose 2 life.
Academy Ruins
{T}: Add {1} to your mana pool. {1}{U}, {T}: Put target artifact card in your graveyard on top of your library.
Flying When Narcomoeba is put into your graveyard from your library, you may put it onto the battlefield.
Dakmor Salvage
Dakmor Salvage enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {B} to your mana pool. Dredge 2 (If you would draw a card, instead you may put exactly two cards from the top of your library into your graveyard. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Otherwise, draw a card.)
Golgari Thug
When Golgari Thug is put into a graveyard from play, put target creature card in your graveyard on top of your library. Dredge 4 (If you would draw a card, instead you may put exactly 4 cards from the top of your library into your graveyard. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Otherwise, draw a card.)
Life from the Loam
Return up to three target land cards from your graveyard to your hand. Dredge 3 (If you would draw a card, instead you may put exactly three cards from the top of your library into your graveyard. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Otherwise, draw a card.)
Stinkweed Imp
Flying Whenever Stinkweed Imp deals combat damage to a creature, destroy that creature. Dredge 5 (If you would draw a card, instead you may put exactly five cards from the top of your library into your graveyard. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Otherwise, draw a card.)
Blackcleave Cliffs
Blackcleave Cliffs enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands. {T}: Add {B} or {R} to your mana pool.
Copperline Gorge
Copperline Gorge enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands. {T}: Add {R} or {G} to your mana pool.
Thoughtseize
Target player reveals his or her hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player discards that card. You lose 2 life.
Conflagrate
Conflagrate deals X damage divided as you choose among any number of target creatures and/or players. Flashback-{R}{R}, Discard X cards. (You may play this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then remove it from the game.)
Gemstone Mine
When Gemstone Mine comes into play, put three mining counters on it. {T}, Remove a mining counter from Gemstone Mine: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool. If there are no mining counters on Gemstone Mine, bury it.
Bloodghast
Bloodghast can't block. Bloodghast has haste as long as an opponent has 10 or less life. Landfall — Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, you may return Bloodghast from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Bloodstained Mire
Wooded Foothills
Faithless Looting
Insolent Neonate
Prized Amalgam
Haunted Dead
Blood Crypt
({T}: Add {B} or {R}.)
As Blood Crypt enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.
Stomping Ground
({T}: Add {R} or {G}.)
As Stomping Ground enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.
Cathartic Reunion
As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard two cards.
Draw three cards.
Mountain
({T}: Add {R}.)
Velkým překvapením skončilo druhé modernové GP, kterého se zúčastnilo 1 545 hráčů. Turnaj totiž opanovala skupinka pro hráčů se zcela novou verzí Death's Shadow zaměřenou na delirium, jejiž základy byly v Jund barvách, ale často se splashí na bílou. Revoluční byl zejména velmi nízký casting cost většiny karet, což předtím u midrange decků nebývalo pravidlem.
Z vítězství se radoval Josh-Utter-Leyton právě se čtyřbarevným Death's Shadow. Modern se hrál i na týmovém SCG Open, kde zvítězila trojice Mat Nass, Sam Pardee a Ben Stark. Modernovou část turnaje hrál Mat Nass a nebyla rozhodně náhoda, že i on hrál čtyřbarvnou vezi Death's Shadow.
{T}, Sacrifice Mishra's Bauble: Look at the top card of target player's library. Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.
Kolaghan's Command
Choose two — • Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. • Target player discards a card. • Destroy target artifact. • Kolaghan's Command deals 2 damage to target creature or player.
Temur Battle Rage
Target creature gains double strike until end of turn. (It deals both first-strike and regular combat damage.) Ferocious — That creature also gains trample until end of turn if you control a creature with power 4 or greater.
Liliana of the Veil
+1: Each player discards a card. -2: Target player sacrifices a creature. -6: Separate all permanents target player controls into two piles. That player sacrifices all permanents in the pile of his or her choice.
Tarfire
Tarfire deals 2 damage to target creature or player.
Street Wraith
Swampwalk Cycling—Pay 2 life. (Pay 2 life, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Tarmogoyf
Tarmogoyf's power is equal to the number of card types among cards in all graveyards and its toughness is equal to that number plus 1.
Ghor-Clan Rampager
Trample Bloodrush — {R}{G}, Discard Ghor-Clan Rampager: Target attacking creature gets +4/+4 and gains trample until end of turn.
Inquisition of Kozilek
Target player reveals his or her hand. You choose a nonland card from it with converted mana cost 3 or less. That player discards that card.
Ranger of Eos
When Ranger of Eos comes into play, you may search your library for up to two creature cards with converted mana cost 1 or less, reveal them, and put them into your hand. If you do, shuffle your library.
Thoughtseize
Target player reveals his or her hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player discards that card. You lose 2 life.
Death's Shadow
Death's Shadow gets -X/-X, where X is your life total.
Bloodstained Mire
Marsh Flats
Overgrown Tomb
Polluted Delta
Verdant Catacombs
Wooded Foothills
Traverse the Ulvenwald
Collective Brutality
Fatal Push
Blood Crypt
({T}: Add {B} or {R}.)
As Blood Crypt enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.
Godless Shrine
({T}: Add {W} or {B}.)
As Godless Shrine enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.
Stomping Ground
({T}: Add {R} or {G}.)
As Stomping Ground enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.
Swamp
({T}: Add {B}.)
Forest
({T}: Add {G}.)
Závěrem února se v Utrechtu konalo první evropské dvojkové GP roku. Zahrát si přišlo 1 232 hráčů včetně třiadvaceti našich.
Triumfoval zde Samuel Vuillot s novou verzí Mardu Vehiclů, ve které byli Walking Ballisti, jenž byli důležitější proti neustále se zlepšujícím 4C Energy deckům se Saheeli kombem.
Na GP se celkem dařilo i našim hráčům - Ondřej Stráský skončil s netradičním RUG Controlem jedenáctý a na peníze těšně dosáhli i Petr Sochůrek a Martin Jůza na 63. a 64. místě.
Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
Island
({T}: Add {U}.)
Mountain
({T}: Add {R}.)
Forest
({T}: Add {G}.)
Březen
Začátek března patřil MTGO Championshipu, do kterého se kvalifikoval i náš Lukáš Blohon. Turnaj měl skvělou coverage, když jednotlivé zápasy komentovali hráči jako Reid Duke, či Patrick Chapin, ale standard moc zajímavý nebyl. Na turnaji se hrály de facto jenom dva decky - Mardu Vehicly a 4C Saheeli.
Až do finále se probojoval Lukáš Blohon se 4C Saheeli, kde ale nestačil na Joshe Utter-Leytona s Vehicly, jenž si tak připsal druhou velkou výhru během jednoho měsíce.
Týden na to se konala dvojice standardových GP v Barceloně (1 262 hráčů) a New Jersey (1 627 hráčů).
Oba turnaje byly pokračováním soubojů mezi Mardu Vehicly a 4C Saheeli. Za delší konec poprvé tahaly 4C Saheeli decky, které ovládly oba dva turnaje.
Pro nás bylo nejdůležitější, že v Barceloně jsme se dočkali dalšího skvělého úspěchu, protože oním vítězným hráčem se 4C Saheeli byl Petr Sochůrek. A další dobrý výsledek si připsal i Martin Hrycej, který skončil na čtyřiačtyřicátém místě.
V New Jersey si své premiérové vítězství na GP připsal Corey Baumeister.
Zajímavé věci se děly alespoň na modernu. Na SCG Open v Dallasu (887 hráčů) se v top8 objevil "nový" deck v podobě GW Collected Company Todda Stevensona. Vítězil ale i nadále midrange s Death's Shadow v Jund barvách...
Play with the top card of your library revealed. You may play the top card of your library if it's a land card. Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, you gain 1 life.
Azusa, Lost but Seeking
You may play two additional lands on each of your turns.
Voice of Resurgence
Whenever an opponent casts a spell during your turn or when Voice of Resurgence dies, put a green and white Elemental creature token onto the battlefield with "This creature's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creatures you control."
Collected Company
Look at the top six cards of your library. Put up to two creature cards with converted mana cost 3 or less from among them onto the battlefield. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
Dromoka's Command
Choose two — • Prevent all damage target instant or sorcery spell would deal this turn. • Target player sacrifices an enchantment. • Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. • Target creature you control fights target creature you don't control.
Whisperwood Elemental
At the beginning of your end step, manifest the top card of your library. (Put it onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.) Sacrifice Whisperwood Elemental: Until end of turn, face-up nontoken creatures you control gain "When this creature dies, manifest the top card of your library."
Stony Silence
Activated abilities of artifacts can't be activated.
Gavony Township
{T}: Add {1} to your mana pool. {2}{G}{W}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.
Scavenging Ooze
{G}: Exile target card from a graveyard. If it was a creature card, put a +1/+1 counter on Scavenging Ooze and you gain 1 life.
Knight of the Reliquary
Knight of the Reliquary gets +1/+1 for each land card in your graveyard. {T}, Sacrifice a Forest or Plains: Search your library for a land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle your library.
Engineered Explosives
Sunburst (This enters the battlefield with a charge counter on it for each color of mana spent to cast it.) {2}, Sacrifice Engineered Explosives: Destroy each nonland permanent with converted mana cost equal to the number of charge counters on Engineered Explosives.
Tarmogoyf
Tarmogoyf's power is equal to the number of card types among cards in all graveyards and its toughness is equal to that number plus 1.
Surgical Extraction
({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.) Choose target card in a graveyard other than a basic land card. Search its owner's graveyard, hand, and library for any number of cards with the same name as that card and exile them. Then that player shuffles his or her library.
Qasali Pridemage
Exalted (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) {1}, Sacrifice Qasali Pridemage: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.
Noble Hierarch
Exalted (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) {T}: Add {G}, {W}, or {U} to your mana pool.
Birds of Paradise
Flying {T}: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool. This ability is played as an interrupt.
Path to Exile
Exile target creature. Its controller may search his or her library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle his or her library.
Temple Garden
Windswept Heath
Wooded Foothills
Ghost Quarter
Horizon Canopy
Tireless Tracker
Blessed Alliance
Renegade Rallier
Aven Mindcensor
Plains
({T}: Add {W}.)
Forest
({T}: Add {G}.)
O týden o později se hráči standardu znovu snažili na dvou GP vyzrát na dvojici dominantních decků, což se jim povedlo tak napůl.
Japonskou Shizuoku (2 717 hráčů) ovládly Vehicly, které tam zabraly šest míst z top8. Celkovým vítězem se stal Ryohei Kirino.
Naproti tomu v brazilském Porto Alegre (576 hráčů) triumfoval Victor Fernando Silva s RUG Controlem, který měl transformační sideboard s Longtusk Cuby a Tireless Trackery.
Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
Island
({T}: Add {U}.)
Mountain
({T}: Add {R}.)
Forest
({T}: Add {G}.)
Kromě toho se konala i první zastávka v rámci MKM Series v italském Miláně, kde se zrodil nejzajímavější výsledek na legacy, kterou mezi 134 účastníky vyhrál Marius Hausmann s novou verzí Food Chainu, která obsahovala playset Walking Ballistů.
You may pay 1 life and remove a blue card in your hand from the game instead of paying Force of Will's casting cost. Effects that prevent or redirect damage cannot be used to counter this loss of life. Counter target spell.
Misthollow Griffin
Flying You may cast Misthollow Griffin from exile.
Hydroblast
Counter target spell if it is red or destroy target permanent if it is red.
Manipulate Fate
Search your library for three cards, remove them from the game, then shuffle your library. Draw a card.
Food Chain
Remove a creature you control from the game: Add X mana of any color to your mana pool, where X is the removed creature's converted mana cost plus one. This mana may be spent only to play creature spells.
Surgical Extraction
({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.) Choose target card in a graveyard other than a basic land card. Search its owner's graveyard, hand, and library for any number of cards with the same name as that card and exile them. Then that player shuffles his or her library.
Baleful Strix
Flying, deathtouch When Baleful Strix enters the battlefield, draw a card.
Ponder
Vendilion Clique
Flash Flying When Vendilion Clique enters the battlefield, look at target player's hand. You may choose a nonland card from it. If you do, that player reveals the chosen card, puts it on the bottom of his or her library, then draws a card.
Abrupt Decay
Abrupt Decay can't be countered by spells or abilities. Destroy target nonland permanent with converted mana cost 3 or less.
Deathrite Shaman
{T}: Exile target land card from a graveyard. Add one mana of any color to your mana pool. {B}, {T}: Exile target instant or sorcery card from a graveyard. Each opponent loses 2 life. {G}, {T}: Exile target creature card from a graveyard. You gain 2 life.
Diabolic Edict
Target player sacrifices a creature.
Pithing Needle
As Pithing Needle comes into play, name a card. Activated abilities of sources with the chosen name can't be played unless they're mana abilities.
Thoughtseize
Target player reveals his or her hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player discards that card. You lose 2 life.
Bayou
Counts as both swamp and forest and is affected by spells that affect either. Tap to add either {B} or {G} to your mana pool.
Underground Sea
Counts as both swamp and islands and is affected by spells that affect either. Tap to add either {B} or {U} to your mana pool.
Tropical Island
Counts as both forest and islands and is affected by spells that affect either. Tap to add either {G} or {U} to your mana pool.
Engineered Plague
When Engineered Plague comes into play, choose a creature type. All creatures of the chosen type get -1/-1.
Mindbreak Trap
If an opponent cast three or more spells this turn, you may pay {0} rather than pay Mindbreak Trap's mana cost. Exile any number of target spells.
Misty Rainforest
Polluted Delta
Verdant Catacombs
Brainstorm
Eternal Scourge
Walking Ballista
Island
({T}: Add {U}.)
Swamp
({T}: Add {B}.)
Forest
({T}: Add {G}.)
Poslední březnový víkend patřil v Orlandu (1 284 hráčů) Kaladeshi a Aether Revoltu, jelikož se hrálo limited. S konkurencí si v něm nejlépe poradil Joel Larsson, ale ještě zajímavější bylo čtvrté místo Chrise Pikuly, což byl jeho nejlepší výsledek od listopadu 2005. Díky tomu by mohl v budoucnu znovu usilovat o uvedení do Hall of Fame.
Duben
Duben načalo oblíbené týmové GP ve formátu unified modern. Zahrát si přišlo 556 týmů. Ve finále porazila trojice Gregory Orange, Adam Jensen a Andrejs Prost aktuálně nejobávanější tým na světě - Owen Turtenwald, Reid Duke a William Jensen.
Vítězný tým hrál trojkombinaci UW Control, Jund Midrange a Affinita, zatímco Peach Garden Oath vsadili na Grixis Control, Abzan Death's Shadow a Eldrazi Tron.
Nejzajímavější z finálových decků byl UW Control, který byl s kartami jako Ghost Quarter, Spreading Seas a Condemn specificky zaměřen na porážení Death's Shadow decků.
Flash When Snapcaster Mage enters the battlefield, target instant or sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback until end of turn. The flashback cost is equal to its mana cost. (You may cast that card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Spell Snare
Counter target spell with converted mana cost 2.
Serum Visions
Draw a card. Scry 2 (Look at the top two cards of your library. Put any number of them on the bottom of your library and the rest on top of it in any order.)
Cryptic Command
Vendilion Clique
Flash Flying When Vendilion Clique enters the battlefield, look at target player's hand. You may choose a nonland card from it. If you do, that player reveals the chosen card, puts it on the bottom of his or her library, then draws a card.
Detention Sphere
When Detention Sphere enters the battlefield, you may exile target nonland permanent not named Detention Sphere and all other permanents with the same name as that permanent. When Detention Sphere leaves the battlefield, return the exiled cards to the battlefield under their owner's control.
Supreme Verdict
Supreme Verdict can't be countered. Destroy all creatures.
Jace, Architect of Thought
+1: Until your next turn, whenever a creature an opponent controls attacks, it gets -1/-0 until end of turn. -2: Reveal the top three cards of your library. An opponent separates those cards into two piles. Put one pile into your hand and the other on the bottom of your library in any order. -8: For each player, search that player's library for a nonland card and exile it, then that player shuffles his or her library. You may cast those cards without paying their mana costs.
Seachrome Coast
Seachrome Coast enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands. {T}: Add {W} or {U} to your mana pool.
Mana Leak
Counter target spell unless its caster pays an additional {3}.
Condemn
Put target attacking creature on the bottom of its owner's library. Its controller gains life equal to its toughness.
Crucible of Worlds
You may play land cards from your graveyard.
Elspeth, Sun's Champion
+1: Put three 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens onto the battlefield. -3: Destroy all creatures with power 4 or greater. -7: You get an emblem with "Creatures you control get +2/+2 and have flying."
Ancestral Vision
Ancestral Vision is blue. Suspend 4—{U} (Rather than play this card from your hand, pay {U} and remove it from the game with four time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, play it without paying its mana cost.) Target player draws three cards.
Path to Exile
Exile target creature. Its controller may search his or her library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle his or her library.
Celestial Colonnade
Celestial Colonnade enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {W} or {U} to your mana pool. {3}{W}{U}: Until end of turn, Celestial Colonnade becomes a 4/4 white and blue Elemental creature with flying and vigilance. It's still a land.
Spreading Seas
Enchant land When Spreading Seas enters the battlefield, draw a card. Enchanted land is an Island.
Flooded Strand
Ghost Quarter
Blessed Alliance
Hallowed Fountain
({T}: Add {W} or {U}.)
As Hallowed Fountain enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.
Plains
({T}: Add {W}.)
Island
({T}: Add {U}.)
Zajímavý turnaj bylo také evropské mistrovství v eternal formátech, které pořádal Bazaar of Moxen. Legacy byla se 448 hráči beznadějně obsazená již během předregistrace. Turnaj potvrdil dominanci Miraclů, když ve finále zvítězil v mirroru Thomas Mechin. Největším překvapením ale byli hned troji elfové v top8.
You may pay 1 life and remove a blue card in your hand from the game instead of paying Force of Will's casting cost. Effects that prevent or redirect damage cannot be used to counter this loss of life. Counter target spell.
Entreat the Angels
Put X 4/4 white Angel creature tokens with flying onto the battlefield. Miracle {X}{W}{W} (You may cast this card for its miracle cost when you draw it if it's the first card you drew this turn.)
Counterbalance
Whenever an opponent plays a spell, you may reveal the top card of your library. If you do, counter that spell if it has the same converted mana cost as the revealed card.
Council's Judgment
Will of the council — Starting with you, each player votes for a nonland permanent you don't control. Exile each permanent with the most votes or tied for most votes.
Monastery Mentor
Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, put a 1/1 white Monk creature token with prowess onto the battlefield.
Terminus
Put all creatures on the bottom of their owners' libraries. Miracle {W} (You may cast this card for its miracle cost when you draw it if it's the first card you drew this turn.)
Sensei's Divining Top
{1}: Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order. {T}: Draw a card, then put Sensei's Divining Top on top of its owner's library.
Pyroblast
Counter target spell if it is blue or destroy target permanent if it is blue.
Snapcaster Mage
Flash When Snapcaster Mage enters the battlefield, target instant or sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback until end of turn. The flashback cost is equal to its mana cost. (You may cast that card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Engineered Explosives
Sunburst (This enters the battlefield with a charge counter on it for each color of mana spent to cast it.) {2}, Sacrifice Engineered Explosives: Destroy each nonland permanent with converted mana cost equal to the number of charge counters on Engineered Explosives.
Surgical Extraction
({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.) Choose target card in a graveyard other than a basic land card. Search its owner's graveyard, hand, and library for any number of cards with the same name as that card and exile them. Then that player shuffles his or her library.
Predict
Name a card, then put the top card of target player's library into his or her graveyard. If that card is the named card, you draw two cards. Otherwise, you draw a card.
Ponder
Flusterstorm
Counter target instant or sorcery spell unless its controller pays {1}. Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.)
Volcanic Island
Counts as both islands and mountains and is affected by spells that affect either. Tap to add either {U} or {R} to your mana pool.
Counterspell
Counters target spell as it is being cast.
Red Elemental Blast
Counters a blue spell being cast or destroys a blue card in play.
Tundra
Counts as both islands and plains and is affected by spells that affect either. Tap to add either {U} or {W} to your mana pool.
Swords to Plowshares
Target creature is removed from game entirely; return to owner's deck only when game is over. Creature's controller gains life points equal to creature's power.
Jace, the Mind Sculptor
+2: Look at the top card of target player's library. You may put that card on the bottom of that player's library. 0: Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order. -1: Return target creature to its owner's hand. -12: Exile all cards from target player's library, then that player shuffles his or her hand into his or her library.
Flooded Strand
Scalding Tarn
Arid Mesa
Brainstorm
Plains
({T}: Add {W}.)
Island
({T}: Add {U}.)
Mountain
({T}: Add {R}.)
Druhým vrcholem akce byla vintage, které se zúčastnilo 152 hráčů. Papírově nejlepší deck zde byl UWR Mentor, ale nakonec se jeho pilotům příliš nevedlo a finále bylo ze zcela jiného soudku - Joaquin Solis s White Eldrazi v něm porazil Ravager Shopy pilotované dalším španělským hráčem, Aurelio Crespem.
As Cavern of Souls enters the battlefield, choose a creature type. {T}: Add {1} to your mana pool. {T}: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type, and that spell can't be countered.
Containment Priest
Flash If a nontoken creature would enter the battlefield and it wasn't cast, exile it instead.
Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
First strike Noncreature spells cost {1} more to cast.
Trinisphere
As long as Trinisphere is untapped, each spell that would cost less than three mana to cast costs three mana to cast. (Additional mana in the cost may be paid with any color of mana or colorless mana. For example, a spell that would cost {1}{B} to cast costs {2}{B} to cast instead.)
Aegis of the Gods
You have hexproof. (You can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Thorn of Amethyst
Noncreature spells cost {1} more to play.
Phyrexian Revoker
As Phyrexian Revoker enters the battlefield, name a nonland card. Activated abilities of sources with the chosen name can't be activated.
Chalice of the Void
Chalice of the Void enters the battlefield with X charge counters on it. Whenever a player casts a spell with converted mana cost equal to the number of charge counters on Chalice of the Void, counter that spell.
Dismember
({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.) Target creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn.
Mana Crypt
At the beginning of your upkeep, flip a coin. If you lose the flip, Mana Crypt deals 3 damage to you. {T}: Add {2} to your mana pool.
Karakas
{T}: Add {W} to your mana pool. {T}: Return target legendary creature to its owner's hand.
Rest in Peace
When Rest in Peace enters the battlefield, exile all cards from all graveyards. If a card or token would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.
Eldrazi Temple
{T}: Add {1} to your mana pool. {T}: Add {2} to your mana pool. Spend this mana only to cast colorless Eldrazi spells or activate abilities of colorless Eldrazi.
Kataki, War's Wage
All artifacts have "At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this artifact unless you pay {1}."
Tormod's Crypt
{T}, Sacrifice Tormod's Crypt: Remove target player's graveyard from the game.
Mox Emerald
Add 1 green mana to your mana pool. Tapping this artifact can be played as an interrupt.
Mox Sapphire
Add 1 blue mana to your mana pool. Tapping this artifact can be played as an interrupt.
Mox Jet
Add 1 black mana to your mana pool. Tapping this artifact can be played as an interrupt.
Mox Pearl
Add 1 white mana to your mana pool. Tapping this artifact can be played as an interrupt.
Black Lotus
Adds 3 mana of any single color of your choice to your mana pool, then is discarded. Tapping this artifact can be played as an interrupt.
Null Rod
Players cannot play any artifact abilities requiring an activation cost.
Lodestone Golem
Nonartifact spells cost {1} more to cast.
Seal of Cleansing
Eldrazi Displacer
Reality Smasher
Thought-Knot Seer
Ancient Tomb
Wasteland
Thalia, Heretic Cathar
Grafdigger's Cage
Creature cards in graveyards and libraries can't enter the battlefield.
Players can't cast spells from graveyards or libraries.
Plains
({T}: Add {W}.)
Další týden se konalo poslední GP před releasem Amonkhetu. Šlo o týmové limited v Mexico City. Tahle lokace bohužel příliš hráčů nenalákala a šlo tak o letošní nejmenší GP s pouhými 444 hráči.
Ve finále se utkaly dva super týmy - trojice Andrew Cuneo, Eric Froehlich a Ben Stark porazila Matta Nasse, Jacoba Wilsona a Sama Pardeeho.
Do top24, která brala finanční prémii, se dostali i dva naši hráči. Martin Jůza byl spolu s Corey Burkhartem a Shuheiem Nakamurou šestý a Ondřej Stráský spolu s PVm a Thiagem Saporitem devatenáctý.
Následoval release Amonkhetu, který pořádně zamával s eternal formáty. Na legacy byla konečně zakázána Sensei's Divining Top a na vintage došlo k omezení Gitaxian Proby a Gushe.
Po několika dnech, kdy se s Amonkhetem mohlo hrát na MTGO, přišla ještě jedna nečekaná, leč vítaná zpráva. Původní změny v banlistu byly ještě doplněny o zákaz Felidar Guardiana na standardu.
Na víkendovém SCG Open v Atlantě (505 hráčů) byly tak rázem největším favoritem na výhru Mardu Vehicly. Předpoklady plně naplnil Andrew Jessup, když triumfoval s verzí decku, ve které byla pouze jedná nová karta jakožto one-of a to Cut//Ribbons.
V top8 bylo hned pět vehiclů a pouze dva nové decky v podobě WR Humanů a Monoblack Aggra.
Konala se také druhá zastávka MKM Series, a to ve Frankfurtu, kde byla opravdu parádní návštěvnost. Modernu se zúčastnilo rekordních 674 hráčů a z výhry se v něm radoval Simon Bülhoff s Affinitou.
Legacy měla 437 hráčů a vítězství v ní uzmul Johannes Gutbrod se Show and Tellem, když ve finále porazil BR Reanimator.
You may pay 1 life and remove a blue card in your hand from the game instead of paying Force of Will's casting cost. Effects that prevent or redirect damage cannot be used to counter this loss of life. Counter target spell.
City of Traitors
If you play any land, sacrifice City of Traitors. {T}: Add two colorless mana to your mana pool.
Pyroblast
Counter target spell if it is blue or destroy target permanent if it is blue.
Surgical Extraction
({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.) Choose target card in a graveyard other than a basic land card. Search its owner's graveyard, hand, and library for any number of cards with the same name as that card and exile them. Then that player shuffles his or her library.
Ponder
Gitaxian Probe
({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.) Look at target player's hand. Draw a card.
Flusterstorm
Counter target instant or sorcery spell unless its controller pays {1}. Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.)
Griselbrand
Flying, lifelink Pay 7 life: Draw seven cards.
Emrakul, the Aeons Torn
Emrakul, the Aeons Torn can't be countered. When you cast Emrakul, take an extra turn after this one. Flying, protection from colored spells, annihilator 6 When Emrakul is put into a graveyard from anywhere, its owner shuffles his or her graveyard into his or her library.
Lotus Petal
Sacrifice Lotus Petal: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool. Play this ability as a mana source.
Pyroclasm
Pyroclasm deals 2 damage to each creature.
Blood Moon
All non-basic lands are now basic mountains.
Sudden Shock
Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't play spells or activated abilities that aren't mana abilities.) Sudden Shock deals 2 damage to target creature or player.
Grim Lavamancer
{R}, {T}, Remove two cards in your graveyard from the game: Grim Lavamancer deals 2 damage to target creature or player.
Volcanic Island
Counts as both islands and mountains and is affected by spells that affect either. Tap to add either {U} or {R} to your mana pool.
Defense Grid
During each player's turn, spells played by another player cost an additional {3}.
Show and Tell
Each player may choose an artifact, creature, enchantment, or land card in his or her hand and put that permanent into play.
Sneak Attack
{R}: Choose a creature card from your hand and put that creature into play. The creature is unaffected by summoning sickness. At end of turn, sacrifice the creature.
Flooded Strand
Scalding Tarn
Brainstorm
Echoing Truth
Preordain
Ancient Tomb
Spell Pierce
U
Grafdigger's Cage
Creature cards in graveyards and libraries can't enter the battlefield.
Players can't cast spells from graveyards or libraries.
Island
({T}: Add {U}.)
Mountain
({T}: Add {R}.)
Květen
Před PT se konala trojice limited GP. Hrálo se v Asii, v Evropě a v Americe. Nejméně hráčů přišlo do Pekingu (1 029), kde se z výhry radoval singapurský Kelvin Chew.
Lepší to bylo v Richmondu, kde bylo hráčů 1 593. Jelikož se i následný PT konal za velkou louží, tak se GP účastnili i Petr Sochůrek a Ondřej Stráský. Na GP dokázal Brian Braun-Duin uhrát 15:0, ale poté se stal obětí tzv. 15:0 kletby a vypadl ve čtvrtfinále. Z vítězství se radoval doposud neznámý Michael Baraniecki.
Z našeho dua si lépe vedlo Petru Sochůrkovi, který se těsně dostal do finančně ohodnocené top64 (59. místo).
Překvapivě nejvíce hráčů přišlo do Bologny (1 669), kde bylo i osmadvacet zástupců českého magicu, kteří se na turnaji rozhodně neztratili.
Parádní jízdu předvedl Martin Jůza, který se probojoval až do finále, kde bohužel nestačil na domácího Corrada De Sio. Smůlu měl Michal Brodzák, který se skóre 13:2 skončil na pomocné desátý. Do peněz se dostal ještě Tomáš Langer, který obsadil dvaačtyřicáté místo.
O týden později se v Nashvillu konal PT Amonkhet, kterého se zúčastnilo 379 hráčů, včetně devíti našich.
Turnaj byl naprostým propadákem z pohledu Mardu Vehiclů, a naopak jsme po dlouhé době viděli návrat na výsluní pro Aetherworks Marvel, kterému sekundoval pouze nový deck v podobě Monoblack Zombies.
Top8 se skládala ze čtyřech RUG Marvelů, dvou Monoblack Zombáků, BW Zombáků a zbytek světa zastupovalo BG Aggro s velmi nízkou křivkou.
Ve finále se utkali dva ostřílení mazáci - Yuuya Watanabe s Marvelem a Gerry Thompson se Zombies. Poměrně hladce zvítězil Gerry, pro kterého to byl už druhý vyhraný PT.
Pro českou výpravu tentokráte skončil turnaj velmi špatně. Do peněz se dostal pouze Martin Jůza za šedesáté místo.
O týden později Marvely zombákům porážku pěkně oplatily, za což mohla hlavně adice Chandry Flamecaller. Na GP Montreal (848 hráčů) i GP Santiago (718 hráčů) jsme ve finále mohli vidět mirrory RUG Marvelů. Z vítězství se radovali Kevin Jones a Mauro Sasso.
V Santiagu bylo i několik českých hráčů, kteří dosáhli na velmi dobrá umístění. Smolně devátý byl Martin Hrycej, třicátý Martin Jůza a devětatřicátý Ondřej Stráský.
Konalo se i finále druhé letošní sezóny na MTGO, kde se soupeřilo o dvě další místa pro online mistrovství 2018. Podobně jako u prvního finále se i tentokráte dařilo známým hráčům. Ze 137 hráčů se kvalifikovala dvojice Brock Parker (RUG Marvel) a Dmitry Butakov (Jund Aggro).
Zbytek měsíce patřil modernu, kde nejvíce uřadovala Grixis verze Death's Shadow, která už byla několik týdnů předtím považována za nejlepší verzi decku. Zvítězil s ní Brad Nelson na SCG Open Baltimore (rekordních 903 hráčů) a také Mattia Rizzi na GP Kodaň (1 836 hráčů), ačkoli ve spěchu napsal do decklistu omylem Flooded Strand místo Scalding Tarn a musel s touto chybou odehrát celý turnaj.
V Kodani byla samozřejmě i česká výprava čítající šestadvacet hráčů. Nejlepší výsledek z ní uhrál Martin Jůza, který jako jediný skončil v top64 (třinácté místo), když vsadil na Elfy, ve kterých měl nové infinite kombo s Vizierem of Remedies a Devoted Druidem.
Poslední turnaj bylo GP Kobe, kde mezi 2 802 hráči triumfoval Joe Soh s vlastním brew v podobě BW Eldrazi.
Choose two — • Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. • Target player discards a card. • Destroy target artifact. • Kolaghan's Command deals 2 damage to target creature or player.
Gurmag Angler
Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.)
Tasigur, the Golden Fang
Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.) {2}{G/U}{G/U}: Put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard, then return a nonland card of an opponent's choice from your graveyard to your hand.
Snapcaster Mage
Flash When Snapcaster Mage enters the battlefield, target instant or sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback until end of turn. The flashback cost is equal to its mana cost. (You may cast that card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Thought Scour
Target player puts the top two cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard. Draw a card.
Stubborn Denial
Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays {1}. Ferocious — If you control a creature with power 4 or greater, counter that spell instead.
Street Wraith
Swampwalk Cycling—Pay 2 life. (Pay 2 life, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Surgical Extraction
({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.) Choose target card in a graveyard other than a basic land card. Search its owner's graveyard, hand, and library for any number of cards with the same name as that card and exile them. Then that player shuffles his or her library.
Serum Visions
Draw a card. Scry 2 (Look at the top two cards of your library. Put any number of them on the bottom of your library and the rest on top of it in any order.)
Inquisition of Kozilek
Target player reveals his or her hand. You choose a nonland card from it with converted mana cost 3 or less. That player discards that card.
Terminate
Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated.
Thoughtseize
Target player reveals his or her hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player discards that card. You lose 2 life.
Lightning Bolt
Lightning Bolt does 3 damage to one target.
Death's Shadow
Death's Shadow gets -X/-X, where X is your life total.
Bloodstained Mire
Flooded Strand
Polluted Delta
Steam Vents
Watery Grave
Fatal Push
Blood Crypt
({T}: Add {B} or {R}.)
As Blood Crypt enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.
As Cavern of Souls enters the battlefield, choose a creature type. {T}: Add {1} to your mana pool. {T}: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type, and that spell can't be countered.
Collected Company
Look at the top six cards of your library. Put up to two creature cards with converted mana cost 3 or less from among them onto the battlefield. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
Nettle Sentinel
Nettle Sentinel doesn't untap during your untap step. Whenever you play a green spell, you may untap Nettle Sentinel.
Elvish Archdruid
Other Elf creatures you control get +1/+1. {T}: Add {G} to your mana pool for each Elf you control.
Dwynen's Elite
When Dwynen's Elite enters the battlefield, if you control another Elf, put a 1/1 green Elf Warrior creature token onto the battlefield.
Heritage Druid
Tap three untapped Elves you control: Add {G}{G}{G} to your mana pool.
Elvish Mystic
{T}: Add {G} to your mana pool.
Chord of Calling
Convoke (Each creature you tap while playing this spell reduces its cost by {1} or by one mana of that creature's color.) Search your library for a creature card with converted mana cost X or less and put it into play. Then shuffle your library.
Ezuri, Renegade Leader
{G}: Regenerate another target Elf. {2}{G}{G}{G}: Elf creatures you control get +3/+3 and gain trample until end of turn.
Razorverge Thicket
Razorverge Thicket enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands. {T}: Add {G} or {W} to your mana pool.
Devoted Druid
{T}: Add {G} to your mana pool. Put a -1/-1 counter on Devoted Druid: Untap Devoted Druid.
Pendelhaven
{T}: Add {G} to your mana pool. {T}: Target 1/1 creature gets +1/+2 until end of turn.
Llanowar Elves
Tap to add green mana to your mana pool. This tap can be played as an interrupt.
Activated abilities of artifacts can't be activated.
Mutavault
{T}: Add {1} to your mana pool. {1}: Mutavault becomes a 2/2 creature with all creature types until end of turn. It's still a land.
Dismember
({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.) Target creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn.
Inquisition of Kozilek
Target player reveals his or her hand. You choose a nonland card from it with converted mana cost 3 or less. That player discards that card.
Eldrazi Temple
{T}: Add {1} to your mana pool. {T}: Add {2} to your mana pool. Spend this mana only to cast colorless Eldrazi spells or activate abilities of colorless Eldrazi.
Ratchet Bomb
{T}: Put a charge counter on Ratchet Bomb. {T}, Sacrifice Ratchet Bomb: Destroy each nonland permanent with converted mana cost equal to the number of charge counters on Ratchet Bomb.
Relic of Progenitus
{T}: Target player removes a card in his or her graveyard from the game. {1}, Remove Relic of Progenitus from the game: Remove all graveyards from the game. Draw a card.
Tidehollow Sculler
When Tidehollow Sculler comes into play, target opponent reveals his or her hand and you choose a nonland card from it. Remove that card from the game. When Tidehollow Sculler leaves play, return the removed card to its owner's hand.
Lingering Souls
Put two 1/1 white Spirit creature tokens with flying onto the battlefield. Flashback {1}{B} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Caves of Koilos
{T}: Add {1} to your mana pool. {T}: Add {W} or {B} to your mana pool. Caves of Koilos deals 1 damage to you.
Thoughtseize
Target player reveals his or her hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player discards that card. You lose 2 life.
Path to Exile
Exile target creature. Its controller may search his or her library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle his or her library.
Wasteland Strangler
Shriekmaw
Reality Smasher
Thought-Knot Seer
Fetid Heath
Collective Brutality
Concealed Courtyard
Fatal Push
Godless Shrine
({T}: Add {W} or {B}.)
As Godless Shrine enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.
Plains
({T}: Add {W}.)
Swamp
({T}: Add {B}.)
Červen
Začátkem června se konala trojice dvojkových GP, kde byl veřejným nepřítelem číslo jedna RUG Marvel. Nekonečné mirrory začaly hráče nudit a návštěvnost pomalu upadala...
První GP bylo v Manile (Filipíny), kam přišlo 757 hráčů, kterým se na Marvel povedlo vyzrát. Zvítězil tu Ryoichi Tamada s UW Flashem.
Marvel byl poražen i v Amsterodamu, kam si přišlo zahrát 1 170 hráčů. Dočkali jsme se tu dalšího velkého úspěchu, když tu triumfoval Lukáš Blohon s BG Deliriem, kde měl kvůli Marvelu playset Dissenter's Deliverancí.
Dobrý výsledek naší výpravy ještě podtrhl třináctým místem Jiří Obraz, devatenáctým Martin Jůza a třicátým Petr Sochůrek.
Zastavit Marvel se nepodařilo pouze v Omaze (832 hráčů), což ale není divu, jelikož ho hrál Brad Nelson.
As Cavern of Souls enters the battlefield, choose a creature type. {T}: Add {1} to your mana pool. {T}: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type, and that spell can't be countered.
Hangarback Walker
Hangarback Walker enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it. When Hangarback Walker dies, put a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying onto the battlefield for each +1/+1 counter on Hangarback Walker.{1}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on Hangarback Walker.
Chalice of the Void
Chalice of the Void enters the battlefield with X charge counters on it. Whenever a player casts a spell with converted mana cost equal to the number of charge counters on Chalice of the Void, counter that spell.
Karn Liberated
+4: Target player exiles a card from his or her hand. -3: Exile target permanent. -14: Restart the game, leaving in exile all non-Aura permanent cards exiled with Karn Liberated. Then put those cards onto the battlefield under your control.
Surgical Extraction
({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.) Choose target card in a graveyard other than a basic land card. Search its owner's graveyard, hand, and library for any number of cards with the same name as that card and exile them. Then that player shuffles his or her library.
Dismember
({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.) Target creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn.
Urza's Mine
{T}: Add one colorless mana to your mana pool. If you control Urza's Mine, Urza's Tower, and Urza's Power Plant, add two colorless mana to your mana pool instead of one.
Urza's Power Plant
{T}: Add one colorless mana to your mana pool. If you control Urza's Mine, Urza's Tower, and Urza's Power Plant, add two colorless mana to your mana pool instead of one.
Urza's Tower
{T}: Add one colorless mana to your mana pool. If you control Urza's Mine, Urza's Tower, and Urza's Power Plant, add three colorless mana to your mana pool instead of one.
All Is Dust
Each player sacrifices all colored permanents he or she controls.
Eldrazi Temple
{T}: Add {1} to your mana pool. {T}: Add {2} to your mana pool. Spend this mana only to cast colorless Eldrazi spells or activate abilities of colorless Eldrazi.
Ratchet Bomb
{T}: Put a charge counter on Ratchet Bomb. {T}, Sacrifice Ratchet Bomb: Destroy each nonland permanent with converted mana cost equal to the number of charge counters on Ratchet Bomb.
Wurmcoil Engine
Deathtouch, lifelink When Wurmcoil Engine is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, put a 3/3 colorless Wurm artifact creature token with deathtouch and a 3/3 colorless Wurm artifact creature token with lifelink onto the battlefield.
Relic of Progenitus
{T}: Target player removes a card in his or her graveyard from the game. {1}, Remove Relic of Progenitus from the game: Remove all graveyards from the game. Draw a card.
Pithing Needle
As Pithing Needle comes into play, name a card. Activated abilities of sources with the chosen name can't be played unless they're mana abilities.
Basilisk Collar
Equipped creature has deathtouch and lifelink. Equip {2}
Expedition Map
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Expedition Map: Search your library for a land card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library.
Ghost Quarter
Mind Stone
Endbringer
Matter Reshaper
Reality Smasher
Sea Gate Wreckage
Thought-Knot Seer
Warping Wail
Wastes
Walking Ballista
Grafdigger's Cage
Creature cards in graveyards and libraries can't enter the battlefield.
Players can't cast spells from graveyards or libraries.
V polovině června se konala největší událost roku v podobě mamutího GP Las Vegas, které trvalo čtyři dny a zahrnovalo tři různé main eventy. Jako první se hrála legacy, které se zúčastnilo 2 656 hráčů. Poté následovalo limited s 2 562 hráči a končilo se modernem, kterému se 3 410 hráči až do konce roku vydržel primát v kategorii největší event.
V legacy bylo dost překvapivé finále, ve kterém Death and Taxes porazily UR Delvera. Vítězem se stal Andrew Calderon.
Limited opanovala známá jména, když ve finále porazil Thiago Saporito Steva Rubina.
A konečně v modernu zvítězil Mani Davoudi s Affinitou, když ve finále porazil Death and Taxes Theau Meryho. Kromě toho, že šlo o největší turnaj roku šlo také o jedno z nejdivnějších finále, protože v rozhodující hře vyhrál Mani po mulliganu do čtyř, protože jeho soupeř nechal ruku s ne-moc dobrým "kombem" v podobě Aether Vial + Stony Silence.
V top8 tu byla také k vidění dost divoká kreace v podobě UB "Time Walk" decku.
As Cavern of Souls enters the battlefield, choose a creature type. {T}: Add {1} to your mana pool. {T}: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type, and that spell can't be countered.
Spirit of the Labyrinth
Each player can't draw more than one card each turn.
Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
First strike Noncreature spells cost {1} more to cast.
Rishadan Port
{T}: Add one colorless mana to your mana pool. {1}, {T}: Tap target land.
Phyrexian Revoker
As Phyrexian Revoker enters the battlefield, name a nonland card. Activated abilities of sources with the chosen name can't be activated.
Flickerwisp
Flying When Flickerwisp enters the battlefield, exile another target permanent. Return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.
Aether Vial
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a charge counter on ?ther Vial. {T}: You may put a creature card with converted mana cost equal to the number of charge counters on ?ther Vial from your hand onto the battlefield.
Mirran Crusader
Double strike, protection from black and from green
Umezawa's Jitte
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage, put two charge counters on Umezawa's Jitte. Remove a charge counter from Umezawa's Jitte: Choose one — Equipped creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn; or target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn; or you gain 2 life. Equip {2}
Sword of Fire and Ice
Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from red and from blue. Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, Sword of Fire and Ice deals 2 damage to target creature or player and you draw a card.
Karakas
{T}: Add {W} to your mana pool. {T}: Return target legendary creature to its owner's hand.
Batterskull
Living weapon (When this Equipment enters the battlefield, put a 0/0 black Germ creature token onto the battlefield, then attach this to it.) Equipped creature gets +4/+4 and has vigilance and lifelink. {3}: Return Batterskull to its owner's hand. Equip {5}
Serra Avenger
You can't play Serra Avenger during your first, second, or third turns of the game. Flying, vigilance
Swords to Plowshares
Target creature is removed from game entirely; return to owner's deck only when game is over. Creature's controller gains life points equal to creature's power.
Mother of Runes
{T}: Target creature you control gains protection from a color of your choice until end of turn.
Path to Exile
Exile target creature. Its controller may search his or her library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle his or her library.
Stoneforge Mystic
When Stoneforge Mystic enters the battlefield, you may search your library for an Equipment card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle your library. {1}{W}, {T}: You may put an Equipment card from your hand onto the battlefield.
You may pay 1 life and remove a blue card in your hand from the game instead of paying Force of Will's casting cost. Effects that prevent or redirect damage cannot be used to counter this loss of life. Counter target spell.
Thunderous Wrath
Thunderous Wrath deals 5 damage to target creature or player. Miracle {R} (You may cast this card for its miracle cost when you draw it if it's the first card you drew this turn.)
Monastery Swiftspear
Haste Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
Daze
You may return an island you control to its owner's hand instead of paying Daze's mana cost. Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1}.
Vapor Snag
Return target creature to its owner's hand. Its controller loses 1 life.
Chain Lightning
Chain Lightning deals 3 damage to target creature or player. Then that player or that creature's controller may pay {R}{R}. If the player does, he or she may copy this spell and may choose a new target for that copy.
Price of Progress
Price of Progress deals damage to each player equal to twice the number of nonbasic lands that player controls.
Ponder
Vendilion Clique
Flash Flying When Vendilion Clique enters the battlefield, look at target player's hand. You may choose a nonland card from it. If you do, that player reveals the chosen card, puts it on the bottom of his or her library, then draws a card.
Gitaxian Probe
({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.) Look at target player's hand. Draw a card.
Volcanic Island
Counts as both islands and mountains and is affected by spells that affect either. Tap to add either {U} or {R} to your mana pool.
Lightning Bolt
Lightning Bolt does 3 damage to one target.
Fireblast
You may sacrifice two mountains instead of paying Fireblast's casting cost. Fireblast deals 4 damage to target creature or player.
{T}: Add {1} to your mana pool. {1}: Inkmoth Nexus becomes a 1/1 Blinkmoth artifact creature with flying and infect until end of turn. It's still a land. (It deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)
Arcbound Ravager
Sacrifice an artifact: Put a +1/+1 counter on Arcbound Ravager. Modular 1 (This enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it. When it dies, you may put its +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.)
Glimmervoid
At the beginning of the end step, if you control no artifacts, sacrifice Glimmervoid. {T}: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool.
Blinkmoth Nexus
{T}: Add {1} to your mana pool. {1}: Blinkmoth Nexus becomes a 1/1 Blinkmoth artifact creature with flying until end of turn. It's still a land. {1}, {T}: Target Blinkmoth creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
Darksteel Citadel
Indestructible (Effects that say "destroy" don't destroy this land.) {T}: Add {1} to your mana pool.
Dispatch
Tap target creature. Metalcraft — If you control three or more artifacts, exile that creature.
Cranial Plating
Equipped creature gets +1/+0 for each artifact you control. {B}{B}: Attach Cranial Plating to target creature you control. Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
Signal Pest
Battle cry (Whenever this creature attacks, each other attacking creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.) Signal Pest can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.
Vault Skirge
({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.) Flying Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)
Etched Champion
Metalcraft — Etched Champion has protection from all colors as long as you control three or more artifacts.
Galvanic Blast
Galvanic Blast deals 2 damage to target creature or player. Metalcraft — Galvanic Blast deals 4 damage to that creature or player instead if you control three or more artifacts.
Memnite
Mox Opal
Metalcraft — {T}: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool. Activate this ability only if you control three or more artifacts.
Master of Etherium
Master of Etherium's power and toughness are each equal to the number of artifacts you control. Other artifact creatures you control get +1/+1.
Ornithopter
Spire of Industry
Steel Overseer
{T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on each artifact creature you control.
Take an extra turn after this one. Exile Temporal Mastery. Miracle {1}{U} (You may cast this card for its miracle cost when you draw it if it's the first card you drew this turn.)
Commandeer
You may remove two blue cards in your hand from the game rather than pay Commandeer's mana cost. Gain control of target noncreature spell. You may choose new targets for it. (If that spell is an artifact or enchantment, the permanent comes into play under your control.)
River of Tears
{T}: Add {U} to your mana pool. If you played a land this turn, add {B} to your mana pool instead.
Gigadrowse
Replicate {U} (When you play this spell, copy it for each time you paid its replicate cost. You may choose new targets for the copies.) Tap target permanent.
Snow-Covered Island
{T}: Add {U} to your mana pool.
Snapcaster Mage
Flash When Snapcaster Mage enters the battlefield, target instant or sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback until end of turn. The flashback cost is equal to its mana cost. (You may cast that card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Inkmoth Nexus
{T}: Add {1} to your mana pool. {1}: Inkmoth Nexus becomes a 1/1 Blinkmoth artifact creature with flying and infect until end of turn. It's still a land. (It deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)
Serum Visions
Draw a card. Scry 2 (Look at the top two cards of your library. Put any number of them on the bottom of your library and the rest on top of it in any order.)
Cryptic Command
Dictate of Kruphix
Flash At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player draws an additional card.
Mikokoro, Center of the Sea
{T}: Add {1} to your mana pool. {2}, {T}: Each player draws a card.
Time Warp
Target player takes another turn after this one.
Thoughtseize
Target player reveals his or her hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player discards that card. You lose 2 life.
Gemstone Caverns
If Gemstone Caverns is in your opening hand and you're not playing first, you may begin the game with Gemstone Caverns in play with a luck counter on it. If you do, remove a card in your hand from the game. {T}: Add {1} to your mana pool. If Gemstone Caverns has a luck counter on it, instead add one mana of any color to your mana pool.
Snapback
You may remove a blue card in your hand from the game rather than pay Snapback's mana cost. Return target creature to its owner's hand.
Howling Mine
Each player draws one extra card each turn during his or her draw phase.
Exhaustion
Creatures and lands target opponent controls do not untap during his or her next untap phase.
Flooded Strand
Misty Rainforest
Polluted Delta
Scalding Tarn
Watery Grave
Part the Waterveil
Sunken Hollow
Fatal Push
Censor
Fetid Pools
Drowned Catacomb
Island
({T}: Add {U}.)
Závěr června patřil týmovému limited, které se hrálo na GP Sydney (284 týmů) a GP Cleveland (537 týmů).
V Sydney triumfovali domácí hráči James Wilks, Simon Linabury a Ivan Schroder, a v Clevelandu se konečně radovala nerozlučná trojka Reid Duke, Owen Turtenwald a William Jensen, když ve finále porazili Martina Jůzu, který byl v obvyklé trojici se Shuheiem Nakamurou a Corey Burkhartem.
Červenec
Prázdniny načaly SCG se svým Invitational v Cincinnati, kde se hrál první standard po dalším banu, který tentokráte potkal dominantní Aetherworks Marvel.
Turnaje se zúčastnilo 547 hráčů a triumfoval v něm Brain Koval s neobvyklou kombinací decků v podobě Death and Taxes na modernu a Grixis s Metalwork Colosussem na standardu.
Hlavní novinkou víkendu byl dvojkový WU Midrange založený na Oketra's Monumentu, který nejvíce propagoval Todd Anderson, za což mu bylo odměnou celkové čtvrté místo.
As Cavern of Souls enters the battlefield, choose a creature type. {T}: Add {1} to your mana pool. {T}: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type, and that spell can't be countered.
Eiganjo Castle
{T}: Add {W} to your mana pool. {W}, {T}: Prevent the next 2 damage that would be dealt to target legendary creature this turn.
Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
First strike Noncreature spells cost {1} more to cast.
Stony Silence
Activated abilities of artifacts can't be activated.
Phyrexian Revoker
As Phyrexian Revoker enters the battlefield, name a nonland card. Activated abilities of sources with the chosen name can't be activated.
Burrenton Forge-Tender
Protection from red Sacrifice Burrenton Forge-Tender: Prevent all damage a red source of your choice would deal this turn.
Flickerwisp
Flying When Flickerwisp enters the battlefield, exile another target permanent. Return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.
Aether Vial
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a charge counter on ?ther Vial. {T}: You may put a creature card with converted mana cost equal to the number of charge counters on ?ther Vial from your hand onto the battlefield.
Mirran Crusader
Double strike, protection from black and from green
Blade Splicer
When Blade Splicer enters the battlefield, put a 3/3 colorless Golem artifact creature token onto the battlefield. Golem creatures you control have first strike.
Weathered Wayfarer
{W}, {T}: Search your library for a land card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library. Play this ability only if an opponent controls more lands than you.
Sunlance
Sunlance deals 3 damage to target nonwhite creature.
Restoration Angel
Flash Flying When Restoration Angel enters the battlefield, you may exile target non-Angel creature you control, then return that card to the battlefield under your control.
Leonin Arbiter
Players can't search libraries. Any player may pay {2} for that player to ignore this effect until end of turn.
Relic of Progenitus
{T}: Target player removes a card in his or her graveyard from the game. {1}, Remove Relic of Progenitus from the game: Remove all graveyards from the game. Draw a card.
Serra Avenger
You can't play Serra Avenger during your first, second, or third turns of the game. Flying, vigilance
Path to Exile
Exile target creature. Its controller may search his or her library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle his or her library.
Ghost Quarter
Horizon Canopy
Tectonic Edge
Thraben Inspector
Grafdigger's Cage
Creature cards in graveyards and libraries can't enter the battlefield.
Players can't cast spells from graveyards or libraries.
O týden později bylo v centru dění SCG Open Cincinnati, což byla první velká dvojka s Hour of Devastation (487 hráčů). Za nejlepší deck byl považován již zmiňovaný WU Monument, ale všechny dokonale zaskočil Michael Hamilton s Jeskai Controlem (s malou splashí na Nicol Bolase) vlastní konstrukce.
Poté už přišlo na řadu obvyklé limited, což značilo, že PT je za rohem. Hrálo se v Kyotu, kde mezi 2 398 hráči triumfoval William Jensen a v Torontu (1 391 hráči), kde zvítězil domácí Robert Anderson.
Kromě toho bylo na programu ještě týmové Open v Atlantě, kde v konkurenci 268 týmů zvítězili Tom Ross, Todd Stevens a Jody Keith. Zajímavý byl zejména standardový deck Toma Rosse, kterým bylo Monored Aggro využívající "free" damage v podobě Sunscorched Desert a Ramunap Ruins.
Naproti tomu velké online PTQ se 181 hráči ovládlo zajímavé brew v podobě UW Selfmillu s God-Pharaoh's Giftem.
Další týden na PT Hour of Devastation v japonském Kyotu (463 hráčů) ale opět řádila červená aggra, která zabrala šest míst v top8.
Jediný, kdo se jim dokázal vzepřít, byl Sam Pardee s BG Constrictorem, který ale ve finále nestačil na Paulo Vitora Damo da Rosu, jenž si ve své dvanácté (lepší je pouze Jon Finkel) top8 připsal druhý triumf a zároveň v souboji o hráče roku předběhl do té doby suverénního Marcia Carvalha.
Pikantní bylo, že PV se přitom do finále neměl vůbec dostat. V top4 mu dětinskou chybou postup daroval Wing Chun Yam, který v nadšení z topdecku lethal burn spellu zapomněl na to, že vstoupil do kombatu, když měl Hazoret a dvě karty v ruce.
Pro úplnost dodám, že posledním deckem v top8 byli Monoblack Zombies s jedinou novou kartou v podobě Ifnir Deadlands...
Z našich hráčů se po peněz dostal pouze Martin Jůza, kterému patřilo konečné pětatřicáté místo. To ale zcela zastínil fakt, že se jako první Čech v historii dostal do Hall of Fame (spolu s Joshem Utter-Leytonem), a také se coby PT draft master kvalifikoval na MS.
{T}, Sacrifice Evolving Wilds: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle your library.
Swamp
({T}: Add {B}.)
Forest
({T}: Add {G}.)
Poslední červencový víkend se také konalo MKM Series, které tentokráte zavítalo k nám do Prahy. Díky špatné organizaci se čísla u maineventů zastavila na 297 u modernu a 295 u legacy (jinak by návštěvnost byla ještě vyšší).
Na modernu zvítězil Anders Thiesen s RG Scapeshiftem, kde trochu kontroverzně nehrál Hour of Promise. A legačku si letos už podruhé podmanil Johannes Gutbrot, který hrál zajímavou verzi Mentor Miraclů.
Našim hráčům se v domácím prostředí moc nedařilo, na modernu se dostali do cen dva hráči a na legacy tři...
You may pay 1 life and remove a blue card in your hand from the game instead of paying Force of Will's casting cost. Effects that prevent or redirect damage cannot be used to counter this loss of life. Counter target spell.
Monastery Mentor
Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, put a 1/1 white Monk creature token with prowess onto the battlefield.
Terminus
Put all creatures on the bottom of their owners' libraries. Miracle {W} (You may cast this card for its miracle cost when you draw it if it's the first card you drew this turn.)
Portent
Look at the top three cards of target player's library; then, either shuffle that library or put those three cards on top of the library in any order. Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.
Pyroblast
Counter target spell if it is blue or destroy target permanent if it is blue.
Snapcaster Mage
Flash When Snapcaster Mage enters the battlefield, target instant or sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback until end of turn. The flashback cost is equal to its mana cost. (You may cast that card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Engineered Explosives
Sunburst (This enters the battlefield with a charge counter on it for each color of mana spent to cast it.) {2}, Sacrifice Engineered Explosives: Destroy each nonland permanent with converted mana cost equal to the number of charge counters on Engineered Explosives.
Daze
You may return an island you control to its owner's hand instead of paying Daze's mana cost. Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1}.
Surgical Extraction
({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.) Choose target card in a graveyard other than a basic land card. Search its owner's graveyard, hand, and library for any number of cards with the same name as that card and exile them. Then that player shuffles his or her library.
Predict
Name a card, then put the top card of target player's library into his or her graveyard. If that card is the named card, you draw two cards. Otherwise, you draw a card.
Ponder
Vendilion Clique
Flash Flying When Vendilion Clique enters the battlefield, look at target player's hand. You may choose a nonland card from it. If you do, that player reveals the chosen card, puts it on the bottom of his or her library, then draws a card.
Flusterstorm
Counter target instant or sorcery spell unless its controller pays {1}. Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.)
Ethersworn Canonist
Each player who has played a nonartifact spell this turn can't play additional nonartifact spells.
Relic of Progenitus
{T}: Target player removes a card in his or her graveyard from the game. {1}, Remove Relic of Progenitus from the game: Remove all graveyards from the game. Draw a card.
Pyroclasm
Pyroclasm deals 2 damage to each creature.
Blood Moon
All non-basic lands are now basic mountains.
Volcanic Island
Counts as both islands and mountains and is affected by spells that affect either. Tap to add either {U} or {R} to your mana pool.
Counterspell
Counters target spell as it is being cast.
Tundra
Counts as both islands and plains and is affected by spells that affect either. Tap to add either {U} or {W} to your mana pool.
Swords to Plowshares
Target creature is removed from game entirely; return to owner's deck only when game is over. Creature's controller gains life points equal to creature's power.
Jace, the Mind Sculptor
+2: Look at the top card of target player's library. You may put that card on the bottom of that player's library. 0: Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order. -1: Return target creature to its owner's hand. -12: Exile all cards from target player's library, then that player shuffles his or her hand into his or her library.
Flooded Strand
Scalding Tarn
Arid Mesa
Brainstorm
Plains
({T}: Add {W}.)
Island
({T}: Add {U}.)
Mountain
({T}: Add {R}.)
Srpen
Začátek srpna patřil standardu, hrálo se na GP v Minneapolis (1 150 hráčů), kde díky Stevu Lockemu slavili comeback Monoblack Zombies.
Standard se hrál i ve třetí kvalifikaci na online mistrovství 2018, kde se v konkurenci 168 hráčů opět dařilo známým jménům. Zvítězil Immanuel Geschenson s RUG Energy a druhýl byl Guillaume Matignon s novinkou v podobě RG Rampy s Hour of Promise.
Enchant land
When Gift of Paradise enters the battlefield, you gain 3 life.
Enchanted land has "{T}: Add two mana of any one color."
Mountain
({T}: Add {R}.)
Forest
({T}: Add {G}.)
Další týden se hráči přeorientovali na modern, který se hrál v Birminghamu (1 743 hráčů), Sao Paulu (1 200 hráčů), což byla mimochodem první jihoamerická GP s video přenosem, nebo třeba v Richmondu v rámci SCG Open (454 hráčů).
Velmi netradiční finále jsme viděli v Birminghamu, ve kterém Loic de Briand s Boros Burnem, kde hrál místo Eidolonů Shrine of the Burning Rage, porazil GB Rock Steva Hatto.
V top64 bylo i několik našich hráčů - dvadvacátý Jaroslav Bouček, třiatřicátý Jakub Vojta a devětatřicátý Martin Jůza.
Sao Paolo opanoval Joao Lelis s Bant Company a v Richmondu jsme sledovali první velký triumf Gifts Stormu díky Kazu Negrimu.
Choose one — Boros Charm deals 4 damage to target player; or permanents you control are indestructible this turn; or target creature gains double strike until end of turn.
Skullcrack
Players can't gain life this turn. Damage can't be prevented this turn. Skullcrack deals 3 damage to target player.
Shattering Spree
Replicate {R} (When you play this spell, copy it for each time you paid its replicate cost. You may choose new targets for the copies.) Destroy target artifact.
Monastery Swiftspear
Haste Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
Lava Spike
Lava Spike deals 3 damage to target player.
Shrine of Burning Rage
At the beginning of your upkeep or whenever you cast a red spell, put a charge counter on Shrine of Burning Rage. {3}, {T}, Sacrifice Shrine of Burning Rage: Shrine of Burning Rage deals damage equal to the number of charge counters on it to target creature or player.
Lightning Helix
Lightning Helix deals 3 damage to target creature or player and you gain 3 life.
Rift Bolt
Rift Bolt deals 3 damage to target creature or player. Suspend 1—{R} (Rather than play this card from your hand, you may pay {R} and remove it from the game with a time counter on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, play it without paying its mana cost.)
Lightning Bolt
Lightning Bolt does 3 damage to one target.
Searing Blaze
Searing Blaze deals 1 damage to target player and 1 damage to target creature that player controls. Landfall — If you had a land enter the battlefield under your control this turn, Searing Blaze deals 3 damage to that player and 3 damage to that creature instead.
Goblin Guide
Haste Whenever Goblin Guide attacks, defending player reveals the top card of his or her library. If it's a land card, that player puts it into his or her hand.
Bloodstained Mire
Sacred Foundry
Wooded Foothills
Arid Mesa
Inspiring Vantage
Stomping Ground
({T}: Add {R} or {G}.)
As Stomping Ground enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.
+1: Each player discards a card. -2: Target player sacrifices a creature. -6: Separate all permanents target player controls into two piles. That player sacrifices all permanents in the pile of his or her choice.
Scavenging Ooze
{G}: Exile target card from a graveyard. If it was a creature card, put a +1/+1 counter on Scavenging Ooze and you gain 1 life.
Tarmogoyf
Tarmogoyf's power is equal to the number of card types among cards in all graveyards and its toughness is equal to that number plus 1.
Surgical Extraction
({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.) Choose target card in a graveyard other than a basic land card. Search its owner's graveyard, hand, and library for any number of cards with the same name as that card and exile them. Then that player shuffles his or her library.
Maelstrom Pulse
Destroy target nonland permanent and all other permanents with the same name as that permanent.
Go for the Throat
Destroy target nonartifact creature.
Dark Confidant
At the beginning of your upkeep, reveal the top card of your library and put that card into your hand. You lose life equal to its converted mana cost.
Abrupt Decay
Abrupt Decay can't be countered by spells or abilities. Destroy target nonland permanent with converted mana cost 3 or less.
Inquisition of Kozilek
Target player reveals his or her hand. You choose a nonland card from it with converted mana cost 3 or less. That player discards that card.
Kitchen Finks
When Kitchen Finks comes into play, you gain 2 life. Persist (When this creature is put into a graveyard from play, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to play under its owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on it.)
Thoughtseize
Target player reveals his or her hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player discards that card. You lose 2 life.
Look at the top six cards of your library. Put up to two creature cards with converted mana cost 3 or less from among them onto the battlefield. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
Gavony Township
{T}: Add {1} to your mana pool. {2}{G}{W}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.
Knight of the Reliquary
Knight of the Reliquary gets +1/+1 for each land card in your graveyard. {T}, Sacrifice a Forest or Plains: Search your library for a land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle your library.
Qasali Pridemage
Exalted (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) {1}, Sacrifice Qasali Pridemage: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.
Noble Hierarch
Exalted (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) {T}: Add {G}, {W}, or {U} to your mana pool.
Kitchen Finks
When Kitchen Finks comes into play, you gain 2 life. Persist (When this creature is put into a graveyard from play, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to play under its owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on it.)
Birds of Paradise
Flying {T}: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool. This ability is played as an interrupt.
Path to Exile
Exile target creature. Its controller may search his or her library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle his or her library.
Sejiri Steppe
Sejiri Steppe enters the battlefield tapped. When Sejiri Steppe enters the battlefield, target creature you control gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn. {T}: Add {W} to your mana pool.
Flooded Strand
Misty Rainforest
Temple Garden
Windswept Heath
Retreat to Coralhelm
Ghost Quarter
Tireless Tracker
Selfless Spirit
Spell Queller
Thalia, Heretic Cathar
Breeding Pool
({T}: Add {G} or {U}.)
As Breeding Pool enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.
Hallowed Fountain
({T}: Add {W} or {U}.)
As Hallowed Fountain enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.
Replicate {R} (When you play this spell, copy it for each time you paid its replicate cost. You may choose new targets for the copies.) Destroy target artifact.
Past in Flames
Each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback until end of turn. The flashback cost is equal to its mana cost. Flashback {4}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Pyretic Ritual
Add {R}{R}{R} to your mana pool.
Gifts Ungiven
Search your library for up to four cards with different names and reveal them. Target opponent chooses two of those cards. Put the chosen cards into your graveyard and the rest into your hand. Then shuffle your library.
Peer Through Depths
Look at the top five cards of your library. You may reveal an instant or sorcery card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
Desperate Ritual
Add {R}{R}{R} to your mana pool. Splice onto Arcane {1}{R} (As you cast an Arcane spell, you may reveal this card from your hand and pay its splice cost. If you do, add this card's effects to that spell.)
Apostle's Blessing
({W/P} can be paid with with either {W} or 2 life.) Target artifact or creature you control gains protection from artifacts or from the color of your choice until end of turn.
Serum Visions
Draw a card. Scry 2 (Look at the top two cards of your library. Put any number of them on the bottom of your library and the rest on top of it in any order.)
Dismember
({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.) Target creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn.
Remand
Counter target spell. If you do, return that spell card to its owner's hand. Draw a card.
Manamorphose
Add two mana in any combination of colors to your mana pool. Draw a card.
Sleight of Hand
Look at the top two cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the other on the bottom of your library.
Blood Moon
All non-basic lands are now basic mountains.
Empty the Warrens
Put two 1/1 red Goblin creature tokens into play. Storm (When you play this spell, copy it for each spell played before it this turn.)
Grapeshot
Grapeshot deals 1 damage to target creature or player. Storm (When you play this spell, copy it for each spell played before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.)
Lightning Bolt
Lightning Bolt does 3 damage to one target.
Flooded Strand
Scalding Tarn
Steam Vents
Dispel
Echoing Truth
Goblin Electromancer
Spirebluff Canal
Baral, Chief of Compliance
Island
({T}: Add {U}.)
Mountain
({T}: Add {R}.)
Poté se opět na scénu dostal standard, když GP v Denveru (1 188 hráčů) opanovala trojice Brad Nelson, Brian Braun-Duin a Corey Baumeister s identickou verzí RUG Energy (kterou designoval BBD). Ve finále porazil Brad Briana a Corey skončil čtvrtý...
Na závěr srpna se opět měnil formát, když se přešlo na limited. V Indianapolis (1 187 hráčů) zvítězil Andrew Cuneo a v Métách (1 483 hráčů) Francesco Hugony, když ve finále porazil Martina Jůzu, pro kterého to byla už třetí letošní porážka ve finále GP.
Dařilo se i Jaroslavu Boučkovi (jedenácté místo), Petru Sochůrkovi (čtyřiatřicáté místo) a Dominiku Proškovi (devětatřicáté místo).
Září
Začátkem záři se konala poslední dvojice standardových GP před rotací. A v obou destinacích zvítězily velmi překvapivé decky. V Turíně (926 hráčů) zvítězil Robin Dolar s UB Controlem a ve Washingtonu (1 566 hráčů) Matt Severa se speciální verzí Vehiclů, ve které byl playset Thought-Knot Seerů.
Historický milník se na GP povedl Corey Baumeisterovi, který se umístil v top8 ve třech standardových GP v řadě, pokaždé navíc s jiným deckem (tentokrát s White Eldrazi).
V Turíně byli dva naši hráči v top64. Pěkné třinácté místo obsadil Lukáš Blohon a dvaašedesátý byl Josef Živec.
Poslední dva týdny před rotací patřily národním mistrovstvím, mezi kterými bylo samozřejmě i to naše, které se hrálo na pražském Chodově. Zahrát si přišlo 173 hráčů a pro (svůj druhý) titul mistra si došel (shodou okolností přesně po deseti letech) Tomáš Langer, který všechny zaskočil s GW Rampou. Poraženým finalistou a třetím členem našeho týmu na WMC se stal Tomáš Jirkal.
Největší národní šampionát se konal v Japonsku, kam si přišlo zahrát 597 hráčů. Mistrem se tam stal Kenta Harane s Dark Temurem.
Enchant land
When Gift of Paradise enters the battlefield, you gain 3 life.
Enchanted land has "{T}: Add two mana of any one color."
Plains
({T}: Add {W}.)
Forest
({T}: Add {G}.)
Kromě národních mistrovství se hrálo například modernové SCG Open Louisville a MKM Series Hamburg.
Do Louisville přišlo 636 hráčů a zvítězil tam Harlan Firer s Jeskai Tempem. V Hamburgu byl největším turnajem modern se 378 hráči, kde byla vítězným deckem Affinita. Na legacy přišlo hráčů 298 a z vítězství se radoval Dennis Zens s OmniTellem.
Flash When Snapcaster Mage enters the battlefield, target instant or sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback until end of turn. The flashback cost is equal to its mana cost. (You may cast that card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Geist of Saint Traft
Hexproof (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.) Whenever Geist of Saint Traft attacks, put a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying onto the battlefield tapped and attacking. Exile that token at end of combat.
Sulfur Falls
Sulfur Falls enters the battlefield tapped unless you control an Island or a Mountain. {T}: Add {U} or {R} to your mana pool.
Disdainful Stroke
Counter target spell with converted mana cost 4 or greater.
Pia and Kiran Nalaar
When Pia and Kiran Nalaar enters the battlefield, put two 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature tokens with flying onto the battlefield. {2}{R}, Sacrifice an artifact: Pia and Kiran Nalaar deals 2 damage to target creature or player.
Logic Knot
Delve (You may exile any number of cards from your graveyard as you cast this spell. It costs {1} less to cast for each card exiled this way.) Counter target spell unless its controller pays {X}.
Spell Snare
Counter target spell with converted mana cost 2.
Engineered Explosives
Sunburst (This enters the battlefield with a charge counter on it for each color of mana spent to cast it.) {2}, Sacrifice Engineered Explosives: Destroy each nonland permanent with converted mana cost equal to the number of charge counters on Engineered Explosives.
Serum Visions
Draw a card. Scry 2 (Look at the top two cards of your library. Put any number of them on the bottom of your library and the rest on top of it in any order.)
Electrolyze
Electrolyze deals 2 damage divided as you choose among any number of target creatures and/or players. Draw a card.
Cryptic Command
Celestial Purge
Vendilion Clique
Flash Flying When Vendilion Clique enters the battlefield, look at target player's hand. You may choose a nonland card from it. If you do, that player reveals the chosen card, puts it on the bottom of his or her library, then draws a card.
Izzet Staticaster
Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) Haste {T}: Izzet Staticaster deals 1 damage to target creature and each other creature with the same name as that creature.
Supreme Verdict
Supreme Verdict can't be countered. Destroy all creatures.
Relic of Progenitus
{T}: Target player removes a card in his or her graveyard from the game. {1}, Remove Relic of Progenitus from the game: Remove all graveyards from the game. Draw a card.
Lightning Helix
Lightning Helix deals 3 damage to target creature or player and you gain 3 life.
Lightning Bolt
Lightning Bolt does 3 damage to one target.
Path to Exile
Exile target creature. Its controller may search his or her library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle his or her library.
Celestial Colonnade
Celestial Colonnade enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {W} or {U} to your mana pool. {3}{W}{U}: Until end of turn, Celestial Colonnade becomes a 4/4 white and blue Elemental creature with flying and vigilance. It's still a land.
Flooded Strand
Sacred Foundry
Scalding Tarn
Steam Vents
Dispel
Spell Queller
Hallowed Fountain
({T}: Add {W} or {U}.)
As Hallowed Fountain enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.
You may pay 1 life and remove a blue card in your hand from the game instead of paying Force of Will's casting cost. Effects that prevent or redirect damage cannot be used to counter this loss of life. Counter target spell.
Through the Breach
Put a creature card from your hand into play. That creature has haste. Sacrifice that creature at end of turn. Splice onto Arcane {2}{R}{R} (As you play an Arcane spell, you may reveal this card from your hand and pay its splice cost. If you do, add this card's effects to that spell.)
City of Traitors
If you play any land, sacrifice City of Traitors. {T}: Add two colorless mana to your mana pool.
Pyroblast
Counter target spell if it is blue or destroy target permanent if it is blue.
Omniscience
You may cast nonland cards from your hand without paying their mana costs.
Surgical Extraction
({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.) Choose target card in a graveyard other than a basic land card. Search its owner's graveyard, hand, and library for any number of cards with the same name as that card and exile them. Then that player shuffles his or her library.
Eladamri's Call
Search your library for a creature card, reveal that card, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library.
Cunning Wish
Choose an instant you own from outside the game, reveal that card, and put it into your hand. Remove Cunning Wish from the game.
Ponder
Flusterstorm
Counter target instant or sorcery spell unless its controller pays {1}. Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.)
Griselbrand
Flying, lifelink Pay 7 life: Draw seven cards.
Emrakul, the Aeons Torn
Emrakul, the Aeons Torn can't be countered. When you cast Emrakul, take an extra turn after this one. Flying, protection from colored spells, annihilator 6 When Emrakul is put into a graveyard from anywhere, its owner shuffles his or her graveyard into his or her library.
Intuition
Search your library for any three cards and reveal them to target opponent. He or she chooses one. Put that card into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. Shuffle your library afterwards.
Lotus Petal
Sacrifice Lotus Petal: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool. Play this ability as a mana source.
Blood Moon
All non-basic lands are now basic mountains.
Sudden Shock
Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't play spells or activated abilities that aren't mana abilities.) Sudden Shock deals 2 damage to target creature or player.
Volcanic Island
Counts as both islands and mountains and is affected by spells that affect either. Tap to add either {U} or {R} to your mana pool.
Defense Grid
During each player's turn, spells played by another player cost an additional {3}.
Show and Tell
Each player may choose an artifact, creature, enchantment, or land card in his or her hand and put that permanent into play.
Sneak Attack
{R}: Choose a creature card from your hand and put that creature into play. The creature is unaffected by summoning sickness. At end of turn, sacrifice the creature.
Misty Rainforest
Scalding Tarn
Brainstorm
Echoing Truth
Firemind's Foresight
Preordain
Kozilek's Return
Ancient Tomb
Spell Pierce
U
Grafdigger's Cage
Creature cards in graveyards and libraries can't enter the battlefield.
Players can't cast spells from graveyards or libraries.
Island
({T}: Add {U}.)
Mountain
({T}: Add {R}.)
Říjen
Na přelomu září a řijna se konaly první turnaje s Ixalanem. Nejzajímavější bylo dvojkové SCG Open Dallas, ale hrála se i dvojice týmových limited GP.
V Dallasu opět prokázal Andrew Jessup, že je mistrem pro první týden s novými kartami, když podobně jako u při releasu Kaladeshe nenašel přemožitele. Zajímavé je, že hrál poněkud nečekaný deck v podobě BUG Energy. V top8 se také objevil UW Control s Approachem, Ramunap Red, Dark Temur a Esper verze God-Pharaoh's Giftu.
Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a noncreature, nonland card from it. That player discards that card.
Island
({T}: Add {U}.)
Swamp
({T}: Add {B}.)
Forest
({T}: Add {G}.)
Týmové limited se hrálo v japonské Shizuoce (558 týmů) a v Providence (563 týmů). V Japonsku zvítězila trojice Michio Abe, Syo Hayakawa, a Kentarou Tachibana, která v top4 porazila dva super týmy s Jeremy Dezanim, Lee Shi Tianem, Yuuyou Watanabem, nebo Shotou Yasookem.
V Providence se konečně dočkal vítězství Martin Jůza, když hrál opět s Corey Burkhartem, ale Shuheie Nakamuru vyměnil za Andrew Baeckstroma.
I druhý český zástupce na GP, Lukáš Blohon, se dočkal skvělého výsledku. Spolu s Martinem Müllerem a Brianem Braun-Duinem skončil na osmém místě.
První opravdu prestižní standard s Ixalanem bylo MS jednotlivců v Bostonu, na kterém nechyběl Martin Jůza.
Ve standardové části turnaje se nikdo neodvážil experimentovat a mohli jsme tak vidět pouze tři decky - RUG/4C Energy, UB/Grixis Control a Ramunap Red.
Turnaj naprosto ovládnul William Jensen, který poprvé prohrál až ve dvanáctém kole a svoji nadvládu potvrdil i ve finálové top4, kde s RUG Energy porazil UB Control Kelvina Chew a ve finále si smlsnul na Javieru Dominguezovi s Ramunap Redem.
{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Field of Ruin: Destroy target nonbasic land an opponent controls. Each player searches their library for a basic land card, puts it onto the battlefield, then shuffles their library.
Essence Scatter
Counter target creature spell.
Evolving Wilds
{T}, Sacrifice Evolving Wilds: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle your library.
Island
({T}: Add {U}.)
Swamp
({T}: Add {B}.)
Součástí MS byl také týmový souboj o vítězství v týmové sérii na PT. Vítězi se staly japonské hvězdy z týmu Mushashi, které porazily tým Genesis, jehož členem byl i náš Lukáš Blohon.
Ve zbytku října se na GP hrálo pouze limited a jinak byly na programu hlavně eternal formáty - americký Eternal Weekend, dvě modernová a jedno legacy SCG Open. Proběhla také poslední vlna národních mistrovství, mezi kterými bylo mimo jiné americké, které s 599 hráči dokázalo překonat i to japonské.
Vítězem se stal Oliver Tomajko s UB Controlem, když ve finále porazil Gerryho Thompsona, jenž naopak od UB Controlu, který hrál na MS, přešel na RUG Energy.
Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a noncreature, nonland card from it. That player discards that card.
Field of Ruin
{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Field of Ruin: Destroy target nonbasic land an opponent controls. Each player searches their library for a basic land card, puts it onto the battlefield, then shuffles their library.
Essence Scatter
Counter target creature spell.
Evolving Wilds
{T}, Sacrifice Evolving Wilds: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle your library.
Island
({T}: Add {U}.)
Swamp
({T}: Add {B}.)
Limited se hrálo v Hong Kongu (727 hráčů), Liverpoolu (1 209 hráčů) a Pheonixu (1 114 hráčů). Všechny GP ovládli de facto neznámí hráči - Rei Sato, Marc Purvis a Sean Miller.
V Liverpoolu skončili tři naši hráči v top64. Jan Ksandr byl šestadvacátý, Zbyšek Panchartek jednatřicátý a Pavel Matoušek sedmačtyřicátý.
Ze zbylých turnajů byl nejzajímavější Eternal Weekend v Pittsburgu, na který si zašlo i několik českých hráčů, z nichž byl vidět zejména Ondřej Stráský, jenž dokázal na legačce uhrát top8 stylově s "Czech Pile".
Celkem se legacy zúčastnilo 711 hráčů a šampionem se stal Hans Goddick s BUG Delverem.
Vintage se mohla pochlubit rekordní účastní 427 hráčů. Zároveň šlo o první velký turnaj po změnách v banlistu, které měly za cíl oslabit dva dominantní decky, když byl omezen Monastery Mentor a Thorn of Amethyst (zároveň byla povolena Yawgmoth's Bargain).
Plán s oslabením Shopů se ale příliš nevydařil, jelikož celému turnaji naprosto dominovaly, když měly šest hráčů v top8 a zvítězil s nimi Andy Markiton. Krok s nimi dokázaly držet pouzy Oathy (ve verzi s Inferno Titanem), které zabraly dvě zbylá místa v top8.
You may pay 1 life and remove a blue card in your hand from the game instead of paying Force of Will's casting cost. Effects that prevent or redirect damage cannot be used to counter this loss of life. Counter target spell.
Toxic Deluge
As an additional cost to cast Toxic Deluge, pay X life. All creatures get -X/-X until end of turn.
Hymn to Tourach
Target player discards two cards at random.
Liliana of the Veil
+1: Each player discards a card. -2: Target player sacrifices a creature. -6: Separate all permanents target player controls into two piles. That player sacrifices all permanents in the pile of his or her choice.
Sower of Temptation
Flying When Sower of Temptation comes into play, gain control of target creature as long as Sower of Temptation remains in play.
Tombstalker
Flying Delve (You may exile any number of cards from your graveyard as you cast this spell. It costs {1} less to cast for each card exiled this way.)
Tarmogoyf
Tarmogoyf's power is equal to the number of card types among cards in all graveyards and its toughness is equal to that number plus 1.
Submerge
If an opponent controls a forest and you control an island, you may play Submerge without paying its mana cost. Put target creature on top of its owner's library.
Daze
You may return an island you control to its owner's hand instead of paying Daze's mana cost. Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1}.
Ponder
Vendilion Clique
Flash Flying When Vendilion Clique enters the battlefield, look at target player's hand. You may choose a nonland card from it. If you do, that player reveals the chosen card, puts it on the bottom of his or her library, then draws a card.
Sylvan Library
You may draw two extra cards during your draw phase. If you do so, put two of the cards drawn this turn back on top of your library (in any order) or pay 4 life per card not replaced. Effects that prevent or redirect damage cannot be used to counter this loss of life.
Abrupt Decay
Abrupt Decay can't be countered by spells or abilities. Destroy target nonland permanent with converted mana cost 3 or less.
Deathrite Shaman
{T}: Exile target land card from a graveyard. Add one mana of any color to your mana pool. {B}, {T}: Exile target instant or sorcery card from a graveyard. Each opponent loses 2 life. {G}, {T}: Exile target creature card from a graveyard. You gain 2 life.
Bayou
Counts as both swamp and forest and is affected by spells that affect either. Tap to add either {B} or {G} to your mana pool.
Underground Sea
Counts as both swamp and islands and is affected by spells that affect either. Tap to add either {B} or {U} to your mana pool.
Tropical Island
Counts as both forest and islands and is affected by spells that affect either. Tap to add either {G} or {U} to your mana pool.
Null Rod
Players cannot play any artifact abilities requiring an activation cost.
Jace, the Mind Sculptor
+2: Look at the top card of target player's library. You may put that card on the bottom of that player's library. 0: Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order. -1: Return target creature to its owner's hand. -12: Exile all cards from target player's library, then that player shuffles his or her hand into his or her library.
Tap to add 3 colorless mana to your mana pool. This mana may only be used to cast artifacts.
Sphere of Resistance
All spells cost an additional {1} to play.
Trinisphere
As long as Trinisphere is untapped, each spell that would cost less than three mana to cast costs three mana to cast. (Additional mana in the cost may be paid with any color of mana or colorless mana. For example, a spell that would cost {1}{B} to cast costs {2}{B} to cast instead.)
Thorn of Amethyst
Noncreature spells cost {1} more to play.
Hangarback Walker
Hangarback Walker enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it. When Hangarback Walker dies, put a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying onto the battlefield for each +1/+1 counter on Hangarback Walker.{1}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on Hangarback Walker.
Phyrexian Revoker
As Phyrexian Revoker enters the battlefield, name a nonland card. Activated abilities of sources with the chosen name can't be activated.
Arcbound Ravager
Sacrifice an artifact: Put a +1/+1 counter on Arcbound Ravager. Modular 1 (This enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it. When it dies, you may put its +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.)
Chalice of the Void
Chalice of the Void enters the battlefield with X charge counters on it. Whenever a player casts a spell with converted mana cost equal to the number of charge counters on Chalice of the Void, counter that spell.
Phyrexian Metamorph
({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.) You may have Phyrexian Metamorph enter the battlefield as a copy of any artifact or creature on the battlefield, except it's an artifact in addition to its other types.
Dismember
({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.) Target creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn.
Mana Crypt
At the beginning of your upkeep, flip a coin. If you lose the flip, Mana Crypt deals 3 damage to you. {T}: Add {2} to your mana pool.
Mishra's Factory
{T}: Add one colorless mana to your mana pool. {1}: Mishra's Factory becomes an Assembly Worker, a 2/2 artifact creature, until end of turn. Assembly Worker still counts as a land but cannot be tapped for mana the turn it comes into play. {T}: Target Assembly Worker gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
Precursor Golem
When Precursor Golem enters the battlefield, put two 3/3 colorless Golem artifact creature tokens onto the battlefield. Whenever a player casts an instant or sorcery spell that targets only a single Golem, that player copies that spell for each other Golem that spell could target. Each copy targets a different one of those Golems.
Ratchet Bomb
{T}: Put a charge counter on Ratchet Bomb. {T}, Sacrifice Ratchet Bomb: Destroy each nonland permanent with converted mana cost equal to the number of charge counters on Ratchet Bomb.
Tormod's Crypt
{T}, Sacrifice Tormod's Crypt: Remove target player's graveyard from the game.
Mox Emerald
Add 1 green mana to your mana pool. Tapping this artifact can be played as an interrupt.
Mox Sapphire
Add 1 blue mana to your mana pool. Tapping this artifact can be played as an interrupt.
Mox Jet
Add 1 black mana to your mana pool. Tapping this artifact can be played as an interrupt.
Mox Ruby
Add 1 red mana to your mana pool. Tapping this artifact can be played as an interrupt.
Mox Pearl
Add 1 white mana to your mana pool. Tapping this artifact can be played as an interrupt.
Black Lotus
Adds 3 mana of any single color of your choice to your mana pool, then is discarded. Tapping this artifact can be played as an interrupt.
Powder Keg
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a fuse counter on Powder Keg. {T}, Sacrifice Powder Keg: Destroy each artifact and creature with converted mana cost equal to the number of fuse counters on Powder Keg.
Tolarian Academy
{T}: Add {U} to your mana pool for each artifact you control.
Lodestone Golem
Nonartifact spells cost {1} more to cast.
Sol Ring
Ancient Tomb
Strip Mine
Wasteland
Chief of the Foundry
Foundry Inspector
Walking Ballista
Grafdigger's Cage
Creature cards in graveyards and libraries can't enter the battlefield.
Players can't cast spells from graveyards or libraries.
Steel Overseer
{T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on each artifact creature you control.
Z trojice SCG Open bylo nejzajímavější modernové v Cincinnati, kde mezi 773 hráči triumfoval Colins Mullen s vlastní verzí pětibarevných Humanů, která využívala nové karty z Ixalanu v podobě Unclaimed Territory a Kitesail Freebootera.
Ve zbylých Open triumfovali Paul Muller s Gifts Stormem (Charlotte, 537 hráčů) a Jon Goss se 4C Stonebladem (Washington, 535 hráčů).
When Vithian Renegades comes into play, destroy target artifact.
Cavern of Souls
As Cavern of Souls enters the battlefield, choose a creature type. {T}: Add {1} to your mana pool. {T}: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type, and that spell can't be countered.
Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
First strike Noncreature spells cost {1} more to cast.
Champion of the Parish
Whenever another Human enters the battlefield under your control, put a +1/+1 counter on Champion of the Parish.
Anafenza, the Foremost
Whenever Anafenza, the Foremost attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on another target tapped creature you control. If a creature card would be put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.
Mantis Rider
Flying, vigilance, haste
Xathrid Necromancer
Whenever Xathrid Necromancer or another Human creature you control dies, put a 2/2 black Zombie creature token onto the battlefield tapped.
Aether Vial
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a charge counter on ?ther Vial. {T}: You may put a creature card with converted mana cost equal to the number of charge counters on ?ther Vial from your hand onto the battlefield.
Mirran Crusader
Double strike, protection from black and from green
Meddling Mage
As Meddling Mage comes into play, name a nonland card. The named card can't be played.
Ancient Ziggurat
{T}: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool. Spend this mana only to cast creature spells.
Noble Hierarch
Exalted (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) {T}: Add {G}, {W}, or {U} to your mana pool.
Izzet Staticaster
Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) Haste {T}: Izzet Staticaster deals 1 damage to target creature and each other creature with the same name as that creature.
Ethersworn Canonist
Each player who has played a nonartifact spell this turn can't play additional nonartifact spells.
Fiend Hunter
When Fiend Hunter enters the battlefield, you may exile another target creature. When Fiend Hunter leaves the battlefield, return the exiled card to the battlefield under its owner's control.
Temple Garden
Windswept Heath
Reflector Mage
Horizon Canopy
Thalia's Lieutenant
Tireless Tracker
Thalia, Heretic Cathar
Kitesail Freebooter
1B
Unclaimed Territory
Hallowed Fountain
({T}: Add {W} or {U}.)
As Hallowed Fountain enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.
You may pay 1 life and remove a blue card in your hand from the game instead of paying Force of Will's casting cost. Effects that prevent or redirect damage cannot be used to counter this loss of life. Counter target spell.
True-Name Nemesis
As True-Name Nemesis enters the battlefield, choose a player. True-Name Nemesis has protection from the chosen player. (This creature can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, or enchanted by anything controlled by that player.)
Council's Judgment
Will of the council — Starting with you, each player votes for a nonland permanent you don't control. Exile each permanent with the most votes or tied for most votes.
Snapcaster Mage
Flash When Snapcaster Mage enters the battlefield, target instant or sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback until end of turn. The flashback cost is equal to its mana cost. (You may cast that card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Surgical Extraction
({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.) Choose target card in a graveyard other than a basic land card. Search its owner's graveyard, hand, and library for any number of cards with the same name as that card and exile them. Then that player shuffles his or her library.
Baleful Strix
Flying, deathtouch When Baleful Strix enters the battlefield, draw a card.
Meddling Mage
As Meddling Mage comes into play, name a nonland card. The named card can't be played.
Ponder
Umezawa's Jitte
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage, put two charge counters on Umezawa's Jitte. Remove a charge counter from Umezawa's Jitte: Choose one — Equipped creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn; or target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn; or you gain 2 life. Equip {2}
Sword of Fire and Ice
Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from red and from blue. Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, Sword of Fire and Ice deals 2 damage to target creature or player and you draw a card.
Flusterstorm
Counter target instant or sorcery spell unless its controller pays {1}. Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.)
Batterskull
Living weapon (When this Equipment enters the battlefield, put a 0/0 black Germ creature token onto the battlefield, then attach this to it.) Equipped creature gets +4/+4 and has vigilance and lifelink. {3}: Return Batterskull to its owner's hand. Equip {5}
Sylvan Library
You may draw two extra cards during your draw phase. If you do so, put two of the cards drawn this turn back on top of your library (in any order) or pay 4 life per card not replaced. Effects that prevent or redirect damage cannot be used to counter this loss of life.
Deathrite Shaman
{T}: Exile target land card from a graveyard. Add one mana of any color to your mana pool. {B}, {T}: Exile target instant or sorcery card from a graveyard. Each opponent loses 2 life. {G}, {T}: Exile target creature card from a graveyard. You gain 2 life.
Zealous Persecution
Until end of turn, creatures you control get +1/+1 and creatures your opponents control get -1/-1.
Thoughtseize
Target player reveals his or her hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player discards that card. You lose 2 life.
Underground Sea
Counts as both swamp and islands and is affected by spells that affect either. Tap to add either {B} or {U} to your mana pool.
Tropical Island
Counts as both forest and islands and is affected by spells that affect either. Tap to add either {G} or {U} to your mana pool.
Savannah
Counts as both plains and forest and is affected by spells that affect either. Tap to add either {W} or {G} to your mana pool.
Tundra
Counts as both islands and plains and is affected by spells that affect either. Tap to add either {U} or {W} to your mana pool.
Swords to Plowshares
Target creature is removed from game entirely; return to owner's deck only when game is over. Creature's controller gains life points equal to creature's power.
Scrubland
Counts as both plains and swamp and is affected by spells that affect either. Tap to add either {W} or {B} to your mana pool.
Jace, the Mind Sculptor
+2: Look at the top card of target player's library. You may put that card on the bottom of that player's library. 0: Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order. -1: Return target creature to its owner's hand. -12: Exile all cards from target player's library, then that player shuffles his or her hand into his or her library.
Stoneforge Mystic
When Stoneforge Mystic enters the battlefield, you may search your library for an Equipment card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle your library. {1}{W}, {T}: You may put an Equipment card from your hand onto the battlefield.
Flooded Strand
Misty Rainforest
Polluted Delta
Brainstorm
Wasteland
Island
({T}: Add {U}.)
Listopad
Nezvykle až měsíc po releasu nové sady se konal PT Ixalan (v Albuquerque), což bylo samozřejmě způsobeno konáním MS, které dostalo před PT přednost.
Všem bylo jasné, že s velkým náskokem je nejlepší deck RUG/4C Energy, kterému jakžtakž dokázal konkurovat pouze Ramunap Red.
Ze 453 hráčů hrálo 285 RUG/4C Energy a Ramunap Red, ale jako zázrakem jsme byli svědky velmi rozmanité top8, kde bylo sedm různých decků. A ještě zajímavější to bylo ve finále, kam se dostaly dva naprosto nečekané decky. Seth Manfield s BUG Energy dokázal porazit Pascala Maynardem s UW Giftem a po titulu mistra světa si připsal i titul PT šampiona.
Bohužel, z hlediska naší výpravy šlo o nejhorší PT za několik posledních let. Měli jsme tu pouze pět zástupců a nikdo z nich se nedostal do první stovky.
Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)
Draw a card.
Plains
({T}: Add {W}.)
Island
({T}: Add {U}.)
Svého vyvrcholení se dočkala MKM Series, která svůj program zakončila v Barceloně. Opět přišlo nejvíce hráčů na modern (167), kde si další výhru připsal Dennis Zens, tentokrát s pětibarevnou verzí Death's Shadow. Díky této výhře se stal i celkovým šampionem letošního ročníku MKM Series.
Legacy se zúčastnilo 157 hráčů a skvěle si v ní vedl Tomáš Már (jak jinak než s Czech Pile), který se probojoval do top8, kde ale nestačil na pozdějšího celkového vítěze, Maxmiliana Lorenze s Grixis Delverem. Tenhle výkon mu zajistil celkové třetí místo v konečném pořadí letošních MKM series.
Nevídaný majstrštyk se na turnaji podařil Rémy Lacombemu, který se do top8 dostal s Monowhite Stompy, ve kterém hrál kusy jako Aerial Responder, či Odric, Lunarch Marshal.
{T}, Sacrifice Mishra's Bauble: Look at the top card of target player's library. Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.
Temur Battle Rage
Target creature gains double strike until end of turn. (It deals both first-strike and regular combat damage.) Ferocious — That creature also gains trample until end of turn if you control a creature with power 4 or greater.
Liliana of the Veil
+1: Each player discards a card. -2: Target player sacrifices a creature. -6: Separate all permanents target player controls into two piles. That player sacrifices all permanents in the pile of his or her choice.
Disdainful Stroke
Counter target spell with converted mana cost 4 or greater.
Stubborn Denial
Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays {1}. Ferocious — If you control a creature with power 4 or greater, counter that spell instead.
Street Wraith
Swampwalk Cycling—Pay 2 life. (Pay 2 life, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Tarmogoyf
Tarmogoyf's power is equal to the number of card types among cards in all graveyards and its toughness is equal to that number plus 1.
Dismember
({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.) Target creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn.
Abrupt Decay
Abrupt Decay can't be countered by spells or abilities. Destroy target nonland permanent with converted mana cost 3 or less.
Izzet Staticaster
Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) Haste {T}: Izzet Staticaster deals 1 damage to target creature and each other creature with the same name as that creature.
Inquisition of Kozilek
Target player reveals his or her hand. You choose a nonland card from it with converted mana cost 3 or less. That player discards that card.
Nihil Spellbomb
{T}, Sacrifice Nihil Spellbomb: Exile all cards from target player's graveyard. When Nihil Spellbomb is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay {B}. If you do, draw a card.
Ranger of Eos
When Ranger of Eos comes into play, you may search your library for up to two creature cards with converted mana cost 1 or less, reveal them, and put them into your hand. If you do, shuffle your library.
Lingering Souls
Put two 1/1 white Spirit creature tokens with flying onto the battlefield. Flashback {1}{B} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Thoughtseize
Target player reveals his or her hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player discards that card. You lose 2 life.
Ancient Grudge
Destroy target artifact. Flashback {G} (You may play this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then remove it from the game.)
Death's Shadow
Death's Shadow gets -X/-X, where X is your life total.
Bloodstained Mire
Marsh Flats
Overgrown Tomb
Polluted Delta
Verdant Catacombs
Watery Grave
Kozilek's Return
Traverse the Ulvenwald
Collective Brutality
Liliana, the Last Hope
Fatal Push
Blood Crypt
({T}: Add {B} or {R}.)
As Blood Crypt enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.
Breeding Pool
({T}: Add {G} or {U}.)
As Breeding Pool enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.
Godless Shrine
({T}: Add {W} or {B}.)
As Godless Shrine enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.
First strike When Enlistment Officer comes into play, reveal the top four cards of your library. Put all Soldier cards revealed this way into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library.
Cavern of Souls
As Cavern of Souls enters the battlefield, choose a creature type. {T}: Add {1} to your mana pool. {T}: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type, and that spell can't be countered.
Brimaz, King of Oreskos
Vigilance Whenever Brimaz, King of Oreskos attacks, put a 1/1 white Cat Soldier creature token with vigilance onto the battlefield attacking. Whenever Brimaz blocks a creature, put a 1/1 white Cat Soldier creature token with vigilance onto the battlefield blocking that creature.
Containment Priest
Flash If a nontoken creature would enter the battlefield and it wasn't cast, exile it instead.
Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
First strike Noncreature spells cost {1} more to cast.
Thorn of Amethyst
Noncreature spells cost {1} more to play.
Leonin Relic-Warder
When Leonin Relic-Warder enters the battlefield, you may exile target artifact or enchantment. When Leonin Relic-Warder leaves the battlefield, return the exiled card to the battlefield under its owner's control.
Chalice of the Void
Chalice of the Void enters the battlefield with X charge counters on it. Whenever a player casts a spell with converted mana cost equal to the number of charge counters on Chalice of the Void, counter that spell.
Preeminent Captain
First strike Whenever Preeminent Captain attacks, you may put a Soldier creature card from your hand into play tapped and attacking.
Chrome Mox
Imprint — When Chrome Mox enters the battlefield, you may exile a nonartifact, nonland card from your hand. {T}: Add one mana of any of the exiled card's colors to your mana pool.
Karakas
{T}: Add {W} to your mana pool. {T}: Return target legendary creature to its owner's hand.
Suppression Field
Activated abilities cost {2} more to play unless they're mana abilities.
Rest in Peace
When Rest in Peace enters the battlefield, exile all cards from all graveyards. If a card or token would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.
Daru Warchief
Soldier spells you play cost {1} less to play. Soldiers you control get +1/+2.
Faerie Macabre
Flying Discard Faerie Macabre: Remove up to two target cards in graveyards from the game.
Ethersworn Canonist
Each player who has played a nonartifact spell this turn can't play additional nonartifact spells.
Armageddon
All lands in play are destroyed.
Worship
Damage that would reduce your life total to less than 1 instead reduces it to 1 if you control a creature.
Ancient Tomb
Odric, Lunarch Marshal
Thalia, Heretic Cathar
Aerial Responder
Cast Out
Sorcerous Spyglass
As Sorcerous Spyglass enters the battlefield, look at an opponent's hand, then choose any card name.
Activated abilities of sources with the chosen name can't be activated unless they're mana abilities.
Plains
({T}: Add {W}.)
Týden po PT jako vždy patřil standardu, který se hrál rovnou na třech GP, kde naprosto dominovaly energy decky. Ty zvítězily v Shanghai (714 hráčů, vítězem Song Huachao) a Varšavě (1 246 hráčů, vítězem Jean-Emmanuel Depraz).
Vyzrát na energy decky se podařilo pouze v Atlantě, kde ve finále porazil Alex Lloyd s Esper Approachem Bena Starka s inovativní verzí Ramunap Redu, která byla speciálně upravená právě proti RUG Energy.
Svou neuvěřitelnou sérii top8 tu protáhl Corey Baumeister, který s RUGem skončil na šestém místě.
Nejvíce našich hráčů bylo samozřejmě ve Varšavě, ale největšiho úspěchu jsme se dočkali v Atlantě, kde skončil sedmý Petr Sochůrek s Dark Temurem.
Ve Varšavě jsme ale měli hned čtveřici hráčů v top64 - Jaroslav Bouček (pětadvacátý), Jan Brožek (osmadvacátý), Martin Jůza (pětačtyřicátý) a Pavel Tvrzník (osmapadesátý).
Hrál se také poslední kvalifikační turnaj na online misrovství. Na programu byl standard, který hrálo 273 hráčů. Pokračovalo se v tradici úspěchu známých hráčů, když ve finále porazil Reid Duke Marciala Carvalha v mirroru RUGů. Příští online mistrovství tak bude mít velmi dobrou kvalitu.
O týden později bylo na programu poslední dvojkové GP roku, které se odehrálo v Portlandu, kam přišlo 1 688 hráčů. Opět triumfovalo RUG Energy, tentokráte pilotované Shaharem Shenharem.
Skončila tu spanilá jízda Coreyho Baumeistera, který sice s RUG Energy v první dni dosáhl perfektního skóre 9:0, ale nakonec skončil "až" ve čtvrté desítce.
Závěrem listopadu se hrálo další týmové limited, tentokráte v Lyonu, kde se sešlo 631 týmů. Na GP dominovali dánští hráči, kteří si to mezi sebou rozdali v ryze dánském finále. Zvítězila trojice Thomas Enevoldsen, Christoffer Larson a Michael Bonde.
Prosinec
To nejzajímavější se v prosinci odehrálo hned v první týdnu, kdy se konal World Magic Cup a SCG Invitational.
WMC bylo ve francouzském Nice, kde o titul soupeřilo třiasedmdesát týmů. Formátem byl unified standard, což v praxi znamenalo, že většina týmů vsadila na kombinaci UGx Energy, Ramunap Red a UW Control. Vsadil na ní i náš tým, kterému konzervativní volba vynesla konečné sedmnácté místo.
Šampiony se stali japonští hráči se silnou trojkou Yuuya Watanabe, Kenta Harane a Shota Yasooka, kteří vsadili na trojkombinaci Dark Temur, UW Gift a Ramunap Red.
SCG Invitational (288 hráčů) bylo mixem standardu a modernu, přičemž finálová top8 byla záležitostí standardu, což byla chyba, jelikož přes 80% hráčů ve druhém dni hrálo RUG/4C Energy, nebo Ramunap Red.
Ve finále jsme tak mohli sledoval velmi zábavný mirror, ve kterém Eli Kassis porazil Sama Blacka. Být finále modern, mohli jsme sledovat souboj Stormu s Lantern Controlem.
Konala se také pravidelná italské eternal akce, Nebraska's War, kde byla hlavní událostí legacy, které se zúčastnilo 292 hráčů. Vítězem se tu stal Pedro Sanchez, který hrál UWR Control vlastní konstrukce.
You may pay 1 life and remove a blue card in your hand from the game instead of paying Force of Will's casting cost. Effects that prevent or redirect damage cannot be used to counter this loss of life. Counter target spell.
From the Ashes
Destroy all nonbasic lands. For each land destroyed this way, its controller may search his or her library for a basic land card and put it onto the battlefield. Then each player who searched his or her library this way shuffles it.
Council's Judgment
Will of the council — Starting with you, each player votes for a nonland permanent you don't control. Exile each permanent with the most votes or tied for most votes.
Hydroblast
Counter target spell if it is red or destroy target permanent if it is red.
Pyroblast
Counter target spell if it is blue or destroy target permanent if it is blue.
Snapcaster Mage
Flash When Snapcaster Mage enters the battlefield, target instant or sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback until end of turn. The flashback cost is equal to its mana cost. (You may cast that card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Engineered Explosives
Sunburst (This enters the battlefield with a charge counter on it for each color of mana spent to cast it.) {2}, Sacrifice Engineered Explosives: Destroy each nonland permanent with converted mana cost equal to the number of charge counters on Engineered Explosives.
Surgical Extraction
({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.) Choose target card in a graveyard other than a basic land card. Search its owner's graveyard, hand, and library for any number of cards with the same name as that card and exile them. Then that player shuffles his or her library.
Ponder
Flusterstorm
Counter target instant or sorcery spell unless its controller pays {1}. Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.)
Karakas
{T}: Add {W} to your mana pool. {T}: Return target legendary creature to its owner's hand.
Rest in Peace
When Rest in Peace enters the battlefield, exile all cards from all graveyards. If a card or token would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.
Supreme Verdict
Supreme Verdict can't be countered. Destroy all creatures.
Elspeth, Knight-Errant
+1: Put a 1/1 white Soldier creature token into play. +1: Target creature gets +3/+3 and gains flying until end of turn. -8: For the rest of the game, artifacts, creatures, enchantments, and lands you control are indestructible.
Enlightened Tutor
Search your library for an artifact or enchantment card and reveal that card. Shuffle your library, then put the card on top of it.
Humility
Each creature loses all abilities and is a 1/1 creature.
Pyroclasm
Pyroclasm deals 2 damage to each creature.
Volcanic Island
Counts as both islands and mountains and is affected by spells that affect either. Tap to add either {U} or {R} to your mana pool.
Counterspell
Counters target spell as it is being cast.
Red Elemental Blast
Counters a blue spell being cast or destroys a blue card in play.
Tundra
Counts as both islands and plains and is affected by spells that affect either. Tap to add either {U} or {W} to your mana pool.
Swords to Plowshares
Target creature is removed from game entirely; return to owner's deck only when game is over. Creature's controller gains life points equal to creature's power.
Jace, the Mind Sculptor
+2: Look at the top card of target player's library. You may put that card on the bottom of that player's library. 0: Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order. -1: Return target creature to its owner's hand. -12: Exile all cards from target player's library, then that player shuffles his or her hand into his or her library.
Flooded Strand
Scalding Tarn
Arid Mesa
Gideon, Ally of Zendikar
Brainstorm
Mystic Gate
Gideon of the Trials
Spell Pierce
U
Leyline of Sanctity
If Leyline of Sanctity is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield.
You have hexproof. (You can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Plains
({T}: Add {W}.)
Island
({T}: Add {U}.)
Mountain
({T}: Add {R}.)
Další týden patřil modernu, když se hrálo týmové GP v Madridu a klasické GP v Oklahoma City.
Do Madriru se vydalo 625 týmů, z nichž se nejlépe dařilo domácí trojici Rodrigo Togores, Cristian Ortiz Ros a Adrian Ramiro Cano, kteří vsadili na kombinaci RG Scapeshift, Gifts Storm a Abzan Company.
V top24, která brala finanční prémii, byl jeden český hráč, kterým byl Ondřej Stráský, jenž spojil síly s Ivanem Flochem a Thomasem Hendriksem.
V Oklahoma City změřilo síly 1 415 hráčů a největší úspěch tu měly "big many decky" v podobě klasického Tronu a RG Scapeshiftu. Finále byl mirror RG Scapeshiftů, ve kterém zvítězil Larry Li.
When Witchbane Orb enters the battlefield, destroy all Curses attached to you. You have hexproof. (You can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control, including Aura spells.)
Obstinate Baloth
When Obstinate Baloth enters the battlefield, you gain 4 life. If a spell or ability an opponent controls causes you to discard Obstinate Baloth, put it onto the battlefield instead of putting it into your graveyard.
Reclamation Sage
When Reclamation Sage enters the battlefield, you may destroy target artifact or enchantment.
Summoner's Pact
Search your library for a green creature card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library. At the beginning of your next upkeep, pay {2}{G}{G}. If you don't, you lose the game.
Engineered Explosives
Sunburst (This enters the battlefield with a charge counter on it for each color of mana spent to cast it.) {2}, Sacrifice Engineered Explosives: Destroy each nonland permanent with converted mana cost equal to the number of charge counters on Engineered Explosives.
Scapeshift
Sacrifice any number of lands. Search your library for that many land cards, put them into play tapped, then shuffle your library.
Beast Within
Destroy target permanent. Its controller puts a 3/3 green Beast creature token onto the battlefield.
Primeval Titan
Trample Whenever Primeval Titan enters the battlefield or attacks, you may search your library for up to two land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle your library.
Farseek
Search your library for a Plains, Island, Swamp, or Mountain card and put it into play tapped. Then shuffle your library.
Prismatic Omen
Lands you control are every basic land type in addition to their other types.
Relic of Progenitus
{T}: Target player removes a card in his or her graveyard from the game. {1}, Remove Relic of Progenitus from the game: Remove all graveyards from the game. Draw a card.
Anger of the Gods
Anger of the Gods deals 3 damage to each creature. If a creature dealt damage this way would die this turn, exile it instead.
Ancient Grudge
Destroy target artifact. Flashback {G} (You may play this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then remove it from the game.)
Search for Tomorrow
Search your library for a basic land card and put it into play. Then shuffle your library. Suspend 2—{G} (Rather than play this card from your hand, you may pay {G} and remove it from the game with two time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, play it without paying its mana cost.)
Lightning Bolt
Lightning Bolt does 3 damage to one target.
Explore
You may play an additional land this turn. Draw a card.
Nature's Claim
Destroy target artifact or enchantment. Its controller gains 4 life.
Khalni Heart Expedition
Landfall — Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, you may put a quest counter on Khalni Heart Expedition. Remove three quest counters from Khalni Heart Expedition and sacrifice it: Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle your library.
Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle
Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle enters the battlefield tapped. Whenever a Mountain enters the battlefield under your control, if you control at least five other Mountains, you may have Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle deal 3 damage to target creature or player. {T}: Add {R} to your mana pool.
Windswept Heath
Wooded Foothills
Cinder Glade
Sakura-Tribe Elder
Tireless Tracker
Chandra, Torch of Defiance
Sheltered Thicket
Sweltering Suns
Stomping Ground
({T}: Add {R} or {G}.)
As Stomping Ground enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.
Mountain
({T}: Add {R}.)
Forest
({T}: Add {G}.)
Rok 2017 zakončila dvojice limited GP v Singapuru (574 hráčů) a New Jersey (1 135 hráčů). V obou turnajích zvítězili neznámí hráči - Lim Zhong Yi a Kale Thompson.
Wrap-up
V uplynulém roce zaznamenal český magic spoustu skvělých úspěchů. Mezi ty největší patří uvedení Martina Jůzy do Hall of Fame, dvojité zastoupení v top8 na PT Aether Revolt, tři vyhraná GP a tři další finálové účasti. Nezbývá než doufat, že příští rok bude stejně úspěšný.
Za celou redakci cmus.cz vám v něm přeji všechno nejlepší a hodně šťastných topdecků.
4 Noble Hierarch
1 Tarmogoyf
4 True-Name Nemesis
Instant & Sorceries
2 Ponder
2 Thoughtseize
4 Brainstorm
3 Daze
4 Force of Will
1 Murderous Cut
3 Abrupt Decay
Land
1 Island
2 Tropical Island
1 Bayou
3 Underground Sea
4 Misty Rainforest
4 Polluted Delta
2 Verdant Catacombs
3 Wasteland
Other
3 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
2 Leovold, Emissary of Trest
1 Umezawa's Jitte
1 Sylvan Library
4 Walking Ballista
4 Grim Flayer
4 Mindwrack Demon
2 Tireless Tracker
4 Winding Constrictor
3 Rishkar, Peema Renegade
Instant & Sorceries
2 Fatal Push
3 Felidar Guardian
Instant & Sorceries
4 Anticipate
3 Disallow
4 Glimmer of Genius
4 Harnessed Lightning
2 Immolating Glare
2 Negate
2 Fumigate
Land
4 Felidar Guardian
4 Servant of the Conduit
Instant & Sorceries
3 Harnessed Lightning
1 Plains
4 Aether Hub
3 Botanical Sanctum
4 Evolving Wilds
3 Golgari Thug
1 Haunted Dead
4 Insolent Neonate
4 Narcomoeba
4 Prized Amalgam
4 Stinkweed Imp
Instant & Sorceries
4 Cathartic Reunion
3 Conflagrate
4 Faithless Looting
2 Thalia, Heretic Cathar
4 Thraben Inspector
4 Toolcraft Exemplar
4 Walking Ballista
Land
4 Aether Hub
4 Walking Ballista
1 Eternal Scourge
Instant & Sorceries
4 Brainstorm
Land
Instant & Sorceries
4 Ancestral Vision
4 Serum Visions
2 Supreme Verdict
1 Blessed Alliance
3 Cryptic Command
2 Mana Leak
4 Path to Exile
2 Spell Snare
Land
2 Entreat the Angels
4 Force of Will
4 Swords to Plowshares
4 Terminus
Land
Instant & Sorceries
3 Spell Pierce
4 Force of Will
2 Gitaxian Probe
4 Show and Tell
Land
4 Dread Wanderer
4 Metallic Mimic
4 Relentless Dead
4 Lord of the Accursed
4 Diregraf Colossus
Instant & Sorceries
2 Fatal Push
Other
3 Liliana's Mastery
2 Westvale Abbey
22 Swamp
4 Spell Queller
6 Island
4 Archangel Avacyn
4 Stasis Snare
2 Cast Out
1 Westvale Abbey
10 Plains
Instant & Sorceries
4 Attune with Aether
3 Censor
3 Dissenter's Deliverance
4 Glimmer of Genius
4 Matter Reshaper
4 Reality Smasher
4 Thought-Knot Seer
Instant & Sorceries
2 Dismember
Land
2 Wastes
2 Cavern of Souls
4 Arcbound Ravager
4 Ornithopter
4 Vault Skirge
2 Master of Etherium
2 Etched Champion
Instant & Sorceries
4 Galvanic Blast
Land
4 Blinkmoth Nexus
3 Part the Waterveil
4 Serum Visions
3 Temporal Mastery
4 Time Warp
1 Censor
Land
1 Drowned Catacomb
4 Blade Splicer
4 Flickerwisp
4 Leonin Arbiter
2 Mirran Crusader
4 Restoration Angel
1 Serra Avenger
4 Thraben Inspector
4 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
4 Horizon Canopy
4 Tectonic Edge
1 Eiganjo Castle
Other
4 Aether Vial
1 Elder Deep-Fiend
4 Glint-Nest Crane
2 Herald of Anguish
Instant & Sorceries
3 Fatal Push
1 Battle at the Bridge
Land
2 Island
4 Cloudblazer
4 Port Town
3 Dusk//Dawn
3 Hazoret the Fervent
3 Kari Zev, Skyship Raider
4 Bomat Courier
4 Falkenrath Gorger
4 Earthshaker Khenra
Instant & Sorceries
4 Abrade
Land
2 Scavenger Grounds
4 Ramunap Ruins
4 Sunscorched Desert
Other
2 Chandra, Torch of Defiance
4 Village Messenger
14 Mountain
2 Counterspell
2 Scavenger Grounds
4 Monastery Swiftspear
Instant & Sorceries
4 Lava Spike
4 Rift Bolt
4 Boros Charm
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Lightning Helix
4 Searing Blaze
4 Skullcrack
4 Force of Will
4 Bomat Courier
Land
1 Scavenger Grounds
2 Essence Extraction
3 Disallow
7 Island
8 Swamp
1 Evolving Wilds
2 Search for Azcanta
2 Vendilion Clique
Instant & Sorceries
4 Abrupt Decay
3 Ponder
4 True-Name Nemesis
4 Sacred Cat
4 Angel of Invention
4 Champion of Wits
Instant & Sorceries
4 Chart a Course
4 Refurbish
4 Strategic Planning
2 Opt
3 Irrigated Farmland
7 Island
2 Cast Out
4 Enlistment Officer
4 Preeminent Captain
4 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
1 Odric, Lunarch Marshal
4 Aerial Responder
Land
2 Karakas
8 Plains
4 Suppression Field
1 Recruiter of the Guard
4 Palace Jailer
4 Chrome Mox
2 Fumigate
Land
1 Hazoret the Fervent
3 Soul-Scar Mage
3 Sunscorched Desert
4 Minister of Inquiries
2 Ipnu Rivulet
4 Sakura-Tribe Elder
Instant & Sorceries
3 Explore
3 Farseek
3 Lightning Bolt
4 Search for Tomorrow
2 Summoner's Pact
2 Sweltering Suns
Land
