Fre 2/10: Zendikar

Vi har precis fått in det senaste setet med boosters och startset till Magic the Gathering. Battle for Zendikar heter det, och för tillbaka handlingen till planet Zendikar som först dök upp i i 2009 års set. Andres berättar mer:

Of more recent Magic The Gathering Sets, Zendikar holds a special place for me. Zendikar came out in 2009, and around that time I was one of those old guard players who were disgruntled at the new Magic 2010 rule changes feeling that the game was moving in a much more casual and user friendly direction, something in my youth I found revolting. My fear at the time was that Magic's metagame will become nothing by a Type 2 standard playpen for daycare children. Then i saw the cards for Zendikar, and I was a believer (to a certain degree, I still miss Mana Burn).

Zendikar had one of the best themes and stories since the Brother's War era, a theme of a plane where the foundation or reality was coming to a cataclysm. The mechanics brought out that theme perfectly, introducing one of the funnest mechanics I'd seen in a long time; Landfall. The presentation was above and beyond the normal Wizards of the cost was giving us for a while, I didn't know a single person playing at the time who wasn't hunting down those full art land cards by the hundreds.Finally, Zendikar proved that Magic's R&D knew what they were doing with the 2010 rules, by reshaping the metagame to be competitive, challenging, and more user friendly than the game had been in a very long time. Zendikar was amazing.

Andres