travis

As the name suggests, this block brought us back to Ravnica. The last time the story took place in there was back in October 2005. You can imagine our excitement.

I’m proud to say that currently I have 4 out of the 5 Planeswalker card featured in this block, with the last one making it’s appearance in the last set, to be out end of April.

There’s a red spell called ‘Shock‘ in the world of magic. This red spell be able to deal 2 damage to target creature or player.

The belows are called Dual Shocklands due to the fact that one has to pay 2 life to use  the land on the turn that it came out.

These lands actually cost $18 – $20 in the market. With the foiled version commanding @ around $30? (Yup, I have a foiled version of one of those! )

As usual, I’m also collecting the angels featured in this block =)

Jace, the Mind Sculptor from Worldwake of the Zendikar  block.

Planeswalker cards were introduced in the Lorwyn-Shadowmoor Block in 2007. That was also the time whereby we decided to call it quits. Mainly because we have other things to do and less time to meet up for Magic.

And trust me! Collecting Magic Cards takes up quite alot of time. The cards in the booster pack are randomly inserted! You have to discard the useless ones, and organize the good ones into the 5 different colors.

With each colors, comes Enchantment, Sorcery, Instant, Artifact, Land, and Creature which by the way, there are quite a number of creature type.

One will also have to think of ways to improve his deck. In short, its a time consuming hobby.

Ying Qi, Jason and Dick Sheng sold off their collection. I was unable to sell mine, or rather, D.S is too lazy to help me sell mine. Genki kept his collection of black cards. That was in 2007. We came out of retirement in 2011, I will touch on this in another entry =)

A new type of card rarity was added  in the  Lorwyn-Shadowmoor block. It’s called Mythic Rare which meant rarer than rare. There’s usually only 1? or maybe 2? in a box of 36 booster packet.

Planeswalker card added a new way of playing Magic. Usually they can fetch quite a good price. The above card cost $130 at one point.

3 more example of Planeswalker card!

Probably the oldest planeswalker in the world of Magic, Nicol Bolas!

For people who likes Elves, there’s an Elven Planeswalker – Nissa Revane!

This artwork kind of reminds me of my friend, Ming Yong. Haha Chandra Nalaar!

There are, of course other Planeswalker. I will post them next time =)

Odyssey came out after the events in Apocalypse. The story takes place in the same plane, just that it saw the introduction of new characters.

I didn’t get a lot of booster packs in this whole block as nothing really caught my eye! The only Angel card which I bought was from the last set Judgement.

Yup! Another masterpiece drawn by Matthew D.Wilson.