Tag: magic draft

Draft with the Gnomes with the newest set of Magic the Gathering: Avatar: The Last Airbender!  This is the first opportunity to draft the latest set at Gnome Games Green Bay West.

Friday, November 14th at 6pm is the first chance to draft Spider Man! $40 entry gets each player 3 Play Booster packs to draft with. We’ll play 3 rounds after decks are constructed from cards drafted and the basic lands Gnome provides! Each round won, wins the match winner a play booster!

~ Join our event on the MTG Companion App with this code : RZD7QVM

For more info on Avatar, click here!  On Drafting, click here!

For our other Avatar events, keep an eye on our calendar!

Study up on some upcoming mechanics!

Firebending is a keyword that always includes a number. Whenever a creature you control with firebending attacks, you add that much red mana. You don’t lose this mana during that combat. Any of this mana you still have as combat ends will be lost. You won’t have it during your second main phase.

Airbend is a keyword action. To airbend a permanent or a spell, you exile it. As long as that card remains exiled, its owner may cast it by paying rather than paying its mana cost. This doesn’t change when that card can be cast. If you airbend a creature that an opponent owns during your turn (notably something Appa can’t do unless you control that creature, but other cards can), they’ll usually have to wait until their next turn to cast it again.

Waterbend is a cost and always includes an amount of mana that must be paid … somehow. More on that in a moment. Waterbend costs can appear as an additional cost to cast a spell, as part of an ability’s activation cost, or anywhere else you might be asked to pay mana.

To pay a waterbend cost, you can always just pay the requested mana. However, for each 1 mana in that cost, you can tap an untapped artifact or creature you control rather than pay that mana. If you choose to tap a creature to help pay a waterbend cost, it can be one that just came under your control that turn.

Earthbend is another keyword action that includes a number. When you earthbend, choose target land you control. As the earthbend ability resolves, that land becomes a 0/0 creature with haste that’s still a land. Then put +1/+1 counters on it equal to the earthbend number. Because the new creature land will have haste, you can feel free to earthbend lands that you just played. There is no summoning sickness in Ba Sing Se.

*pricing is subject to change up to 72 hours before the event

 

Draft with the Gnomes with the newest set of Magic the Gathering: Spider Man!  This is the first opportunity to draft the latest set at Gnome Games Green Bay West.

Friday, September 19th at 6pm is the first chance to draft Spider Man! $40 entry gets each player 3 Play Booster packs to draft with. We’ll play 3 rounds after decks are constructed from cards drafted and the basic lands Gnome provides! Each round won, wins the match winner a play booster!

~ Join our event on the MTG Companion App with this code : 56NV353

For more info on Spider Man, click here!  On Drafting, click here!

For our other Spider Man events, keep an eye on our calendar!

Meanwhile our studious heroes, here are some new keywords to brush up on:

Web-Slinging

• Web-slinging represents an alternative cost. If another effect allows you to play a card for a different alternative cost, including “without paying its mana cost,” you can’t also choose to pay its web-slinging cost. If any additional costs from other sources are applied, you must pay those.
• You must follow all normal timing rules when casting a spell with web-slinging. For creatures, that usually means you must cast it during a main phase of your turn while the stack is empty.
• The creature you return must be tapped at the time you pay costs, but doesn’t necessarily need to be tapped before you start casting the spell. For example, if you tap a creature with a mana ability to pay part of the spell’s web-slinging cost, you could also return that creature to your hand to pay the cost.
• If any permanent has an ability that triggers when the permanent you return leaves the battlefield, that ability will be put on the stack after you finish casting the spell, and it will resolve before that spell.

Mayhem

• Mayhem represents an alternative cost that can be paid to cast a spell from your graveyard if you discarded the card with mayhem that turn. You must pay any additional costs the spell has.
• You must follow all normal timing rules when casting a spell with mayhem. For example, you can’t cast a creature card with mayhem you couldn’t normally cast during an opponent’s turn, even if you discard that card during an opponent’s turn.