Here are some of the highlights from Magic: The Gathering’s Panel at Comic-Con, mostly having to do with the highly anticipated Return to Ravnica.
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REVIEW: Magic 2013 Intro Pack: Path to Victory
Wizards of the Coast was kind enough to send Major Spoilers an intro pack for the upcoming Magic 2013 let’s crack it open.
FROM THE VAULT: Speed Grapher
Speed Grapher is an anime series, here is Netflix’s description of it:
A former war photographer meets a beautiful girl whose powers unlock a secret within him: Whenever he takes a picture of something, it explodes.
Initiate scathing review of what is clearly a ludicrous show in 3… 2… 1…
CASUAL 60: 4th of July (Featuring M13 Spoilers)
Two awesome days are approaching. One is the release of Magic: The Gathering 2013 on July 13 (spoilers are already out). the other is July 4th, Independence Day in the United States. This is a holiday that Americans celebrate, in true American fashion, by eating awesome food and blowing stuff up! What do the two of them have to do with each other? This:
GAMER’S CORNER: Player Character Motivations
I get frequent e-mail questions about gaming from our Critical Hit listeners. Often they ask me my opinion on a game setting or a particular power in 4th edition; but there is one question that I get more than any others, and it goes something like this:
Dearest Rodrigo,
HELP! I have an awesome campaign planned but ever since my players discovered that they can sell copper for 2 silver a pound they’ve decided that they are just going to become miners and settle in a sleepy mining town. How do I get them to pick up their swords and staves and head over to the bad guy’s teleporting, time-machine castle, which is also a werewolf factory?Sincerely,
Kevin Von Realperson
And I usually try to offer some advice. Although that is not what I will do today. This article is not about what Kevin should do. It’s about what Kevin should have done…
CASUAL 60: Goblin Entity
Here at Major Spoilers we strive to bring you the best in comics coverage and analysis. Also the best in random Magic: The Gathering Decks I come up with…
GOBLIN ATTACK!
FEATURE: Universe Expansion Dissonance
As Television viewers, comic book readers and video game players we are used to experiencing a final product. We all know that a telecomicgame can go through thousands of iterations before being released, but largely once you hold a piece of media in your hands you know that it has been finalized.
However, successful properties often continue to grow; spawning sequels, spin-offs and adaptations. When this happens the themes of the franchise may begin to shift, causing design elements to transform to match the expanding medium. At this stage the creators cannot go back to the drawing board, as the original work is already in the hands of the public. The creator has to choose which elements need to shift along with the expanding canon, and which elements should be kept. When the elements retained begin to clash with the rest of the universe it leads to a phenomenon I call Universe Expansion Dissonance.
CRITICAL HIT: Season 4 Primer (Part 3 of 3)
CRITICAL HIT: Season 4 Primer (Part 2 of 3)
Critical Hit Season 4 Premieres this saturday. Click here if you missed yesterday’s primer. Take the jump to see today’s primer
CASUAL 60: Angelgrave
Avacyn Restored is coming soon and it promises to have a lot of big scary angels. We’ve already seen one, so I thought I’d build a deck around her. Here’s a old school deck archetype with some new tech…
From the Vault: My Little Pony Friendship is Magic: The Friendship Express DVD
I’ve always had a complicated relationship with the My Little Pony franchise. I always really liked them aesthetically and spent a good deal of time trying to convince my sister to let me play with the ones she had. The ponies often became mounts for He-Man and Nien Nub, and my sister was OK with it as long as I was willing to let her play with Teela every once in a while.
But when it came to the animated shows I usually found them saccharine, trite and even disingenuous. Which was sad because I always liked the toy design. I wanted to like the show, but I just couldn’t.
FROM THE VAULT: Primeval Volume 3 on Blu-Ray
Yes, the BBCs time-traveling dinosaur show is back! Now with MORE TIME-TRAVELING DINOSAURS! But wait, what happened to all the characters who got stranded in the cretaceous last season? Could they have been eaten by… time traveling dinosaurs…?