Troll & Toad CCG Tournaments

If you live in Southeastern Kentucky or you’re visiting the area I have exciting news for Yu-Gi-Oh and Magic players! We will be hosting Yu-Gi-Oh! and Magic tournaments every Friday and Saturday at our store located in Barbourville Kentucky across the street from Subway.

Schedule:

• Friday – Friday Night Magic – 7 PM – Standard Format – $5 Entry Fee
• Saturday – Yu-Gi-Oh! – 12 PM – Standard Format – $5 Entry Fee

Location:

222 Knox Street

Barbourville, Ky 40906

Tournaments will be held every weekend!

Zendikar (Update)

Hello Internet,

I just wanted to let you know that I have updated the Zendikar picture gallery to contain all of the  cards for the new set including lands not accounted for amongst the 249 set cards.

Feel free to link to the gallery from your own site since the images have been swiped from WoTC.

Take a look at the Zendikar Images!

Planechase: Pictures of the Deck Pack & Information

Planechase releases on Sept. 4th!  According to the back of the box it is a:

groundbreaking new way to experience planeswalking. Through this innovative new kind of card, two or more players can battle each other across a variety of diverse worlds, each with its own unique effect on the game. These thrilling new conditions add a whole new layer of chaos, meaning the only thing you can count on is unpredictability.

Basically, your all-new Planes cards have special abilities that modify the game & each of the 4 deck packs come with 10 different planes cards. If you play with multiple people with multiple Planechase decks the game will be extra wild.

If you’ve played MTGO anytime recently many of the newly created casual games are in the Planeswalker format.

Planechase is partitioned into 4 theme decks; Elemental Thunder, Metallic Dreams, Strike Force & Zombie Empire.  I personally like Zombie Empire the best but that is solely because I’m a fan of black.

Each plane deck pack comes with the following:

• 10 all-new plane cards
• a ready to play 60 card deck (all black bordered)
• a six sided planar die
• and a learn to play strategy guide

Deck lists for all of the new Planechase deck packs can be found on Wizard’s product information page for the game, here (opens in a new window).

Additionally, each deck will be composed of 8 cards culminated various sets throughout Magic’s storied history.

Since I work in the industry all of the awesome new Magic the Gathering products end up on my desk, so I take pictures of them. Here are various out of focus pictures for you to hate:

You can buy all of the Planechase (opens in a new window) decks on our retail site

From the Vault: Exiled Pictures

The new From the Vault: Exiled box set came across my desk today and it looks awesome! I have some pictures of the box set for you to feast your eyes upon.

Also, I would like to mention if you already have a From the Vault: Exiled (opens in a new window) box set we will buy it from you for $105, simply e-mail our buyer via (shockingly) buyer@trollandtoad.com.

I created a few images of each side of the box except for the 3 that didn’t have anything of interest.

Now, for the good stuff; the pictures!

Interview with Aaron Forsythe: The Man Behind M10

Over at the popular nerdtastic site called Robot Viking they posted an interview with the leader designer for Magic 2010.  If you want a little more backstory behind the development of the newest and most unique Magic the Gathering set to date take a look at their post titled, Aaron Forsythe Talks About the Awesomeness of Magic 2010.

Here is a snippet from the interview:

RV: Rules changes aside, how is M10 going to change the game, strictly in terms of the cards themselves?

AF: There are a number of powerful cards in the set that will affect all kinds of formats, but I don’t think that’s what you’re asking. I hope that M10 is successful, and that success will lead us to trying more “resonant” card design practices in all sets, not just Core Sets.

RV: This is something that’s been bugging me for years – why haven’t we seen a Magic set based on one of the D&D campaign worlds yet? Is there any chance of this happening?

AF: It gets talked about all the time here, but a product like that wouldn’t bring new people to Wizards’ games; it would just take people that are already playing our stuff and have them spend their money differently. There just isn’t that much upside for us from a business perspective, as cool as it sounds.

PR: wait… I: wait… L: wait… LD: wait… I: wait… wait… Rank: wait… Traffic: wait… Price: wait… C: wait…

Zendikar: Pictures & Information

Zendikar has finally released and to help out those improving or building a deck is a complete Zendikar picture gallery showing off high-resolution pictures of the entire set.

Enjoy

If you would like to order Zendikar booster boxes or Zendikar singles (opens in a new window) you can do so on our retail site.

Magic 2010: Pictures of the Complete Set

You are in the right place if you’re looking for pictures of the entire M10 set.

Well, I suppose I’ll be retroactive and post the pictures of Magic 2010.

These pictures were culminated from Wizards official website spoilers so all rights and credits go to them. The images are 394×550 at 300 DPI.

Download the Magic 2010 Image Pack

If you prefer to view the images in a gallery format, here you go:

Magic 2010: Top 10 Cards

Here is my top 10 list of the best Magic the Gathering cards in the new Magic 2010 core set. The list is ordered from least awesome to most spectacular. There are at least a dozen more cards that I felt like could be on the list but this is what I ended up with. Feel free to comment with your top 10 or an addendum to my list.

Now for the list…

10.) Rootbound Crag

9.) Sunpetal Grove

8.) Darksteel Colossus (potentially off the list very soon)

7.) Pithing Needle

6.) Great Sable Stag

5.) Jace Beleren

4.) Honor of the Pure

3.) Ajani Goldmane

2.) Garruk Wildspeaker

1.) Baneslayer Angel

Magic 2010: Card List

For some reason I have been getting visitors from Google looking for the complete list of cards from the Magic 2010 Magic the Gathering expansion… If you would like to see the list with pictures we have all of the Magic 2010 singles (opens in a new window) on our retail site.  However, if you just want an easy to view list of all of the cards in the set here is the complete list of Magic 2010:

Acidic Slime Acolyte of Xathrid Act of Treason Air Elemental Ajani Goldmane Alluring Siren Angel’s Feather Angel’s Mercy Ant Queen Armored Ascension Assassinate Avatar Token Awakener Druid Ball Lightning Baneslayer Angel Beast Token Berserkers of Blood Ridge Birds of Paradise Black Knight Blinding Mage Bog Wraith Bogardan Hellkite Borderland Ranger Bountiful Harvest Bramble Creeper Burning Inquiry Burst of Speed Cancel Canyon Minotaur Capricious Efreet Captain of the Watch Celestial Purge Cemetery Reaper Centaur Courser Chandra Nalaar Child of Knight Clone Coat of Arms Consume Spirit Convincing Mirage Coral Merfolk Craw Wurm Cudgel Troll Darksteel Colossus Deadly Recluse Deathmark Demon’s Horn Diabolic Tutor Disentomb Disorient Divination Divine Verdict Djinn of Wishes Doom Blade Dragon Whelp Dragon’s Claw Dragonskull Summit Dread Warlock Drowned Catacomb Drudge Skeletons Duress Earthquake Elite Vanguard Elvish Archdruid Elvish Piper Elvish Visionary Emerald Oryx Enormous Baloth Entangling Vines Essence Scatter Excommunicate Fabricate Fiery Hellhound Fireball Firebreathing Flashfreeze Fog Forest – 246 Forest – 247 Forest – 248 Forest – 249 Gargoyle Castle Gargoyle Token Garruk Wildspeaker Giant Growth Giant Spider Glacial Fortress Glorious Charge Goblin Artillery

Goblin Chieftain Goblin Piker Goblin Token Gorgon Flail Gravedigger Great Sable Stag Griffin Sentinel Guardian Seraph Harm’s Way Haunting Echoes Hive Mind Holy Strength Honor of the Pure Horned Turtle Howl of the Night Pack Howling Banshee Howling Mine Hypnotic Specter Ice Cage Ignite Disorder Illusionary Servant Indestructibility Inferno Elemental Insect Token Island – 234 Island – 235 Island – 236 Island – 237 Jace Beleren Jackal Familiar Jump Kalonian Behemoth Kelinore Bat Kindled Fury Kraken’s Eye Lava Axe Levitation Lifelink Lightning Bolt Lightning Elemental Lightwielder Paladin Liliana Vess Llanowar Elves Looming Shade Lurking Predators M10 Complete Set with Mythics! Magebane Armor Magma Phoenix Manabarbs Master of the Wild Hunt Megrim Merfolk Looter Merfolk Sovereign Mesa Enchantress Might of Oaks Mind Control Mind Rot Mind Shatter Mind Spring Mirror of Fate Mist Leopard Mold Adder Mountain – 242 Mountain – 243 Mountain – 244 Mountain – 245 Naturalize Nature’s Spiral Negate Nightmare Oakenform Open the Vaults Ornithopter Overrun Pacifism Palace Guard Panic Attack Phantom Warrior Pithing Needle Plains – 230 Plains – 231 Plains – 232 Plains – 233 Planar Cleansing Platinum Angel Polymorph Ponder Prized Unicorn Prodigal Pyromancer

Rootbound Crag Royal Assassin Runeclaw Bears Safe Passage Sage Owl Sanguine Bond Seismic Strike Serpent of the Endless Sea Serra Angel Shatter Shivan Dragon Siege Mastodon Siege-Gang Commander Sign in Blood Silence Silvercoat Lion Sleep Snapping Drake Soldier Token Solemn Offering Soul Bleed Soul Warden Sparkmage Apprentice Spellbook Sphinx Ambassador Stampeding Rhino Stone Giant Stormfront Pegasus Sunpetal Grove Swamp – 238 Swamp – 239 Swamp – 240 Swamp – 241 Telepathy Tempest of Light Tendrils of Corruption Terramorphic Expanse Time Warp Tome Scour Traumatize Trumpet Blast Twincast Undead Slayer Underworld Dreams Unholy Strength Unsummon Vampire Aristocrat Vampire Nocturnus Veteran Armorsmith Veteran Swordsmith Viashino Spearhunter Wall of Bone Wall of Faith Wall of Fire Wall of Frost Warp World Warpath Ghoul Weakness Whispersilk Cloak White Knight Wind Drake Windstorm Wolf Token Wurm’s Tooth Xathrid Demon Yawning Fissure Zephyr Sprite Zombie Goliath Zombie Token Protean Hydra Pyroclasm Raging Goblin Rampant Growth Razorfoot Griffin Regenerate Relentless Rats Rhox Pikemaster Righteousness Rise from the Grave Rod of Ruin

You can look through the pictures and prices of all of the M10 cards on our main site for Magic the Gathering.

Magic 2010

Magic 2010 is less than a month away from release now and it is seemingly going to be one of the biggest sets in recent years.

Magic 2010 changes the way Magic The Gathering core sets are scheduled to be released.  Instead of every few years now a new core set will come out every year.  Also, the naming convention has changed from Editions to Years.  For example now instead of 11th edition Magic The Gathering it is going to be Magic The Gathering 2010, 2011, etc.

Additionally, instead of reintegrating Magic The Gathering cards from previous sets throughout the history of M:TG the new core sets will be approx. 50% new cards if the Magic 2010 set is any indicator.

Why the big change? Well according to a post on the official Magic the Gathering website entitled Recapturing the Magic with Magic 2010, Aaron Forsythe says that it is to take M:TG back to it’s roots and make it easier for potential new players to get into the game.

The release date for Magic 2010 is July 17th, 2009. I know avid Magic The Gathering players can’t wait to see the types of cards that Wizards of the Coast has in store for a core set.