Hello and welcome to my second blog in a mini five part blog series! In this second blog I will be telling you about 3 interesting things about Magic!
I will start by making a list of the things I’ll talk about. Since this is supposed to be shorter, lets just jump into right away now!
- Information about Magic Nicknames
- The Power Nine
- Commander
Now, Magic slang. This is very complicated as there are so much slang in Magic. There can even be slang upon slang. Newer players might get confused about slang that veteran players use without thinking. I don’t have enough time to delve into all of Magics slang but I will provide a link to a (mostly) full list of Magic slang. Nicknames. This isn’t a specific slang but some cards have Nicknames. Gray Merchant of Asphodel is often called Gary because his initials almost spell “Gary.” Sakura-Tribe Elder is better known as Steve. I don’t know why. Then there is Bob. The cards real name is Dark Confidant. The card is called Bob because the original art depicted pro player Bob Maher.
The Power Nine is the next category. There are (big surprise) nine Power Nine. The Power Nine are the most cards in Magic. Some of them cost up to $123500 Canadian dollars. AND that’s even without going into auctions where they are normally sold. Even though the are so expensive none of them are “win the game good.” They just help you get either more cards to play, mana acceleration, or both. They are the five Moxen, Timetwister, Ancestral Recall, Time Walk, and last and defiantly not last, the most powerful card in Magic: the Black Lotus!!!
The final thing I’ll talk about today is the most popular format in Magic: Commander (or EDH)! This is a format where you have a starting “Commander” that you can always cast. They are commonly Legendary Creatures. You also start with 40 life instead of twenty. Your deck is a 100 card singleton deck meaning you can’t have multiples of cards in it (beside Basic Lands and cards that specifically say you can) and there is a hundred cards in it including your commander. The world of commander is so complicated that I couldn’t even fit in in a normal sized blog without writing a novel, so I will instead give you some links. Official page for EDH. The wiki. Youtube guides: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gdozNO_jIs, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jO2fmsef0g, and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gk3EQdyGT4Y.
Stay tuned for the next Magic blog and see ya around and goodbye, Judah G!