==ISLANDHOME #51==
February 18th 2009
==IN THIS ISSUE...==
Islandhome Online: Website next week! Eeee
Conflux Legends: A review of Conflux's EDH general material.
Epic Prerelease: A new game to check out this Sunday.
==THIS WEEK'S SCHEDULE==
Friday: FNM Booster Draft at Brothers Grim ($11 entry) @ 7 PM
Saturday: PTQ Honolulu in New Jersey
Saturday: Standard Constructed at FNC ($5 entry) @ 1 PM
==IN THIS ISSUE...==
Islandhome Online: Website next week! Eeee
Conflux Legends: A review of Conflux's EDH general material.
Epic Prerelease: A new game to check out this Sunday.
==THIS WEEK'S SCHEDULE==
Friday: FNM Booster Draft at Brothers Grim ($11 entry) @ 7 PM
Saturday: PTQ Honolulu in New Jersey
Saturday: Standard Constructed at FNC ($5 entry) @ 1 PM
==ISLANDHOME ONLINE==
Author: Brian Paskoff
Author: Brian Paskoff
Next week, for Islandhome's one-year anniversary, I'll be launching Islandhome's website! It'll be a great change from this email newsletter, and will include things like user-submitted articles, a message board for organizing events and talking about the Long Island metagame, and more! I'll send out a notice when it's up!
==CONFLUX LEGENDS==
Author: Brian Paskoff
Another set, another batch of cards to look through for your EDH decks! Now there's five legendary creatures in this small set, but do any of them make the cut as potential EDH generals? Let's see:
Child of Alara - If your general would be put into a graveyard from play, you may remove it from the game instead. It's one of the most commonly used rules in EDH, so common in fact that no one ever opts to put their general into their graveyard on purpose... unless it has a good enough effect like Child of Alara. The Kid can be RFG'd and plopped into your library, but if your opponents don't have that option, they'll have to kill him and have all their stuff wiped out as well. He's five colors, so a five-color reanimator deck would be a good home for him.
Gwafa Hazid, Profiteer - There are certain card names that catch my eye when I see them, and when Gwafa Hazid, Profiteer showed up on the list of card names accidentally leaked a few months ago, I knew he'd be blue-white, and I knew he'd be involved with drawing cards... I just didn't think he'd give them to your opponent. As a 2/2, he's just going to die turn after turn, and if his bribes worked even after he left play, he'd be better.
Malfegor - Bolas's kid is pretty good, if you can build around him. There's a lot of card drawing, madness effects, and graveyard recursion in black, so maybe you won't mind discarding all those cards to decimate everyone else's creatures. Plus he's a 6/6 dragon, and the son of an Elder Dragon.
Progenitus - Protection from everything, including being a good EDH general. Even in EDH, he's almost entirely uncastable, and that protection from everything doesn't stop mass removal, which will probably be online by the time you get the mana to play him.
Rakka Mar - Ms. Mar's a limited bomb, true, but she's got too many strikes against her for EDH general purposes: she's mono-red, she's a 2/2, and her ability isn't the stuff generals are made of. Putting a 3/1 into play isn't good enough on a weak 2/2 to justify limiting yourself to one color. If you're looking for good mono-red generals, there's Heartless Hidetsugu and Kiki-Jiki, the latter of which is worth the fragile 2/2 body.
Child of Alara - If your general would be put into a graveyard from play, you may remove it from the game instead. It's one of the most commonly used rules in EDH, so common in fact that no one ever opts to put their general into their graveyard on purpose... unless it has a good enough effect like Child of Alara. The Kid can be RFG'd and plopped into your library, but if your opponents don't have that option, they'll have to kill him and have all their stuff wiped out as well. He's five colors, so a five-color reanimator deck would be a good home for him.
Gwafa Hazid, Profiteer - There are certain card names that catch my eye when I see them, and when Gwafa Hazid, Profiteer showed up on the list of card names accidentally leaked a few months ago, I knew he'd be blue-white, and I knew he'd be involved with drawing cards... I just didn't think he'd give them to your opponent. As a 2/2, he's just going to die turn after turn, and if his bribes worked even after he left play, he'd be better.
Malfegor - Bolas's kid is pretty good, if you can build around him. There's a lot of card drawing, madness effects, and graveyard recursion in black, so maybe you won't mind discarding all those cards to decimate everyone else's creatures. Plus he's a 6/6 dragon, and the son of an Elder Dragon.
Progenitus - Protection from everything, including being a good EDH general. Even in EDH, he's almost entirely uncastable, and that protection from everything doesn't stop mass removal, which will probably be online by the time you get the mana to play him.
Rakka Mar - Ms. Mar's a limited bomb, true, but she's got too many strikes against her for EDH general purposes: she's mono-red, she's a 2/2, and her ability isn't the stuff generals are made of. Putting a 3/1 into play isn't good enough on a weak 2/2 to justify limiting yourself to one color. If you're looking for good mono-red generals, there's Heartless Hidetsugu and Kiki-Jiki, the latter of which is worth the fragile 2/2 body.
==EPIC PRERELEASE==
Author: Brian Paskoff
This Sunday at Brothers Grim, there's a prerelease for a new card game called Epic. It's made by some former high-level Magic players, and plays a lot like Type 4 Magic. Every spell is, well "epic"ally powerful, and everything costs either 1 or 0. I'll be there helping out and teaching people how to play, so come down if you want to try out a new game! Their website is epictcg.com, check it out!
==GUEST ARTICLES==
Author: Brian Paskoff
Author: Brian Paskoff
After a short break, Islandhome is once again accepting guest articles from our readers!
If you've got an article you'd like to submit, send it to IslandhomeMTG@gmail.com. Try to keep it a reasonable length - there's no word limit, but look at previous Islandhome articles for guidance - and avoid bad language and personal insults. Also try to maintain good grammar and spelling; doesn't have to be perfect, but you should see how long it takes me to spellcheck the Madonia Minute every week!
I can't promise every submission will make it into the next week's Islandhome, but I'll try to get as many in as I can, especially ones that are relevant to a previous/upcoming event.
==THE ISLANDHOME BLOG==
One of the things I wanted to do was have an archive of past issues online so I could refer people back to them as well as let new readers peruse old issues to see what all the fuss is about. So I've archived all the old issues on the blogosphere at islandhomemtg.blogspot.com. Go and relive all the past moments of glory!
January 3rd - April 19th: PTQ Season for PT Honolulu
==UPCOMING EVENTS==
January 3rd - April 19th: PTQ Season for PT Honolulu
The next PTQ season kicks off January 3rd, and the format is Extended!
Magic events will once again be held at I-Con, which is at Suffolk Community College's Brentwood campus this year. I'll have news about what tournaments are going to be run as we get closer to April, but just like last time there'll be cheap drafts and constructed events all weekend long!
PTQs in our area this season:
February 21st - Edison, NJ
March 14th - Philadelphia, PA
April 4th - Iselin, NJ
No details for New York PTQs are available yet.
April 3rd - April 5th: I-Con 28February 21st - Edison, NJ
March 14th - Philadelphia, PA
April 4th - Iselin, NJ
No details for New York PTQs are available yet.
Magic events will once again be held at I-Con, which is at Suffolk Community College's Brentwood campus this year. I'll have news about what tournaments are going to be run as we get closer to April, but just like last time there'll be cheap drafts and constructed events all weekend long!
==STORE LOCATIONS & CONTACT INFO==
Brothers Grim
1244 Middle Country Rd.
Selden, NY 11784
Phone: 631-698-2805
Website: www.brgrim.com
Friendly Neighborhood Comics
19 Udall Rd.
West Islip, NY 11795
Phone: 631-470-7984
Brothers Grim
1244 Middle Country Rd.
Selden, NY 11784
Phone: 631-698-2805
Website: www.brgrim.com
Friendly Neighborhood Comics
19 Udall Rd.
West Islip, NY 11795
Phone: 631-470-7984
==FIN==
See everyone this weekend!
-Brian Paskoff
L1 NY
L1 NY
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