I have never seen the jumbo puzzle erasers before. There are three characters, Swarm, Crusher, and Tree Rex! They are pretty cool, they are $2.98 each.
They also had the dog tags and trading cards. Ranging in price from $1.98 to $2.98 each!
They also had a great selection of the characters in stock. They had numerous giants and the single pack hot dog, chill, hex, and series 2 wrecking ball. I haven’t seen very much at the local Walmart stores lately, until today!

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Drawings by the great Drew Friedman.

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And then the set symbol, a combination of the previous two:

I think it looks pretty sharp ^^ (kinda literally, that point on top looks like it might hurt…) All in all, I’ll be very happy come May!

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No Jace, Vraska, or Angel of serenity yet, but it’s only a matter of time!

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My nephew turned 9. He loves hockey. He discovered hockey cards. He discovered his Uncle’s hockey card collection. He left home with a “starter” box of about 3,000 various junk wax cards and a hope from me he would actually enjoy them. And to my joy he did!

I’m trying not to push him to hard, but I make sure whenever I see him I have something to trade and he has gone to the Card store in his hometown with his dad. They live in a small town so it was a small shop. This past weekend I took him to my favorite card store in Toronto. He was blown away. I figured I would just take a quick visit and maybe check for a few cards for The White Whale and he wanted to go through EVERYTHING on my want list. I had to explain to him that we would be there all day so we settled for spending an hour or so poking through the packs and boxes. Looking at the displays. The look on his face was priceless.

I asked him what he wanted to collect. He said “Same as you Uncle Trevor” which I had to admit was pretty cool. So I bought him a few packs of 12-13 OPC Hockey.

Little bastard held me hostage for a Black Rainbow I needed!

I have trained him too well.

4 More Black Rainbows

And Stan Mikita (of Stan Mikita’s Donut Fame)

I am now addicted to Star Trek, I was a star wars kid growing up, obsessed with Star Wars lore and games and movies, but that has changed.

Star Trek is probably the most funny and addicting show I have ever watched. I can’t wait to watch more later tonight. 

On a side note, I feel like playing a Trading Card Game, but don’t know which one is good. I think I need to do more research…

“Boros Battalion” intro pack deck list
Creatures (25)
1  Armored Transport
1  Bomber Corps
1  Boros Elite
2  Canyon Minotaur
1  Court Street Denizen
2  Daring Skyjek
1  Ember Beast
1  Firefist Striker
1  Firemane Avenger
2  Fortress Cyclops
1  Foundry Champion
1  Ordruun Veteran
2  Skyknight Legionnaire
1  Sunhome Guildmage
2  Warclamp Mastiff
2  Warmind Infantry
3  Wojek Halberdiers
Other Spells (10)
1  Act of Treason
1  Aerial Maneuver
2  Arrows of Justice
2  Boros Keyrune
1  Mark for Death
1  Mugging
1  Righteous Charge
1  Shielded Passage
Land (25)
1  Boros Guildgate
12  Mountain
12  Plains

I used this deck personally, and I can’t emphasize enough the importance of Muster the Legions. It doesn’t come with the deck, but it makes 1 soldier each turn, for each turn it is out (1 soldier turn 1, 2 soldiers turn 2, etc.) This especially works with foundry champion, who deals damage based on how many creatures you control.

Spark Troopers, Wojek Halberdiers, Bomber Corps, and any other card with battalion on it is good for this deck, allowing them all to use their effects and leveling the opponents field.

Aurelia, the Warleader, and Aurelia’s Fury are both good cards for this deck, worthy mythic rares for their costs. Aurelia goes and gives you an extra attack phase for all of your creatures except her, and Aurelia’s Fury allows you to tap everything and get rid of your opponents spell casting ability, clearing the way for your troops.

Firemane Avenger is good, allowing you to deal 3 damage with battalion (3 Firemane Avengers would be fun >:D ).

All in all, a very nice deck, pretty decent straight out of the box….

Thank you for reading, and I hope you have a wonderful day!

During Stairs’ 1991 season in Harrisburg, he hit .333 with 78 RBIs, 13 HRs, and 23 SBs. For his efforts, he topped Jim Thome and Jeromy Burnitz to win the Eastern League MVP.

Stairs’ career came to an end when the Nationals released him in the middle of the 2011 season. He now coaches ice hockey in Bangor, Maine where his daughters attend high school. This past Wednesday Stairs celebrated his 45th birthday.

Creatures (20)
2  Balustrade Spy
1  Consuming Aberration
2  Deathcult Rogue
2  Dinrova Horror
1  Duskmantle Guildmage
3  Gutter Skulk
1  Incursion Specialist
1  Jace’s Phantasm
1  Mindeye Drake
1  Mortus Strider
1  Sage’s Row Denizen
1  Vedalken Entrancer
1  Welkin Tern
2  Wight of Precinct Six
Other Spells (14)
1  Coerced Confession
2  Death’s Approach
2  Dimir Keyrune
2  Grisly Spectacle
1  Last Thoughts
1  Midnight Recovery
1  Paranoid Delusions
1  Rise from the Grave
1  Shadow Slice
1  Totally Lost
1  Whispering Madness
Land (26)
1  Dimir Guildgate
12  Island
13  Swamp

Some of the major cards in this deck are:

Consuming Aberration - The star card of this deck, it allows you to discard cards off your opponents deck until he discards a land, every time you play a spell. He then gains power and toughness for every card in your oponnents graveyard, making him extremely powerful in a milling deck.

Wight of Precinct Six – Strong for the same reason Consuming Aberration is a good card, gains +1/+1 for every card in your opponents graveyard.

Whispering Madness – The other rare of the deck, allows you to have everyone discard their hands, and then everyone draws cards equal to the most discarded this way. So if you have no cards in your hand, and your opponent has 5, then he discards all 5, and then you both draw 5 cards. It also has cipher, making it reusable by dealing damage with the creature you equipped it to.

Dimir Keyrune - My favorite keyrune in the new block, it has 2/2 and unblockable, making it great for later in the game when your enemy is stronger creature wise and you can’t tough him. Also helps you ramp up mana faster as an artifact.

Grisly Spectacle – Destroy a non-artifact creature, and then have your opponent discard cards equal to the creatures power. A case of “The bigger they are, the harder they fall”. Plus, isn’t it just so much fun to blow up the enemy with their own card?

A few good cards to put in are Lazav, Dimir Mastermind, to help take advantage of the creatures you’re milling, and Mind Grind, Allowing you to pay 2 mana +X, and have your opponent discard cards until he has discarded X lands.

All in all, I got this recently and it is way easier to play with right off the bat than the Golgari deck was (not to say the scavenge mechanic is no fun). A great deck over all.

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The BBHOF was fantastic though. Seeing as it was off season it was very quiet. I would expect the place and town to be rammed full on a nice summer day or during inudction weekend. Outside the hall pretty much every store on the main street is some type of memorabilia shop. Not surprisingly, there wasn’t much Hockey stuff.

The HOF is well set up, has a ton of excellent exhibits and kept too 40-somethings entertained for 4 hours. Of course for me one the best parts was the Card display.

As a novice baseball collector it was great to see the history of the cards spread out. I spent a ton of time, just looking at each year so I could get a feel for the progression of design, style and stars.

Now I know many people are out there who want to go or dream of going so I don’t want to post too many pictures or give away details other than to say definitely worth it if you get a chance to go.

The storyline of Guardians of the Galaxy revolves around U.S. pilot Peter Quill (Chris Pratt), who ends up in outer space, in the middle of an intergalactic conflict where he then goes on the run with the titular galactic freedom fighters.

The Guardians of the Galaxy are galactic freedom fighters who oppose the evil Badoon race – a reptilian-like alien species. The latter occupy the earth of the 31st century. In the original Marvel comics the Guardians team up with Captain America and Thor, who have traveled in time to stage a rebellion against the Badoon.

The cards show us Iron Man in a space suit version of Tony Stark’s armor.  Could this mean The Armored Avenger will make an appearance in the movie or is this card only tied into the comic book?  (My guess…don’t hold your breath.) Only time will tell but in the mean time speculation is all we have until more members are cast and plot lines are revealed.

F.Y.I. rumor has it that Adrianne Palicki of “G.I. Joe: Retaliation” is in the running to play the part of Gamora.  What are your thoughts on that?

Guardians of the Galaxy will be directed by James Gunn and currently stars Chris Pratt as U.S. pilot Peter Quill, AKA Star-Lord.  The movie is expected to be released on August 1, 2014.

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The competition between card corporations to generate quality sports cards has been fierce. In 2005, the long-standing sports card producer Fleer went bankrupt and was purchased out by Upper Deck.

Pretty much, true to the Evolve mechanic of the Simic, the strongest creature you have makes this creature its equal, plus one, and allows you to draw that many cards. So if your strongest creature has 6/6, then Zegana is a 7/7 and allows you to draw 7 cards. Great for the end game 6 mana cost, pretty much a large creature and a huge draw card rolled into one. (Kinda like how all of the Simic creatures are multiple creatures, rolled into one…. almost made a pun there.)

A good card for any Green and Blue deck, it doesn’t improve all that much in a Simic deck, but is the perfect topper for an already high-powered Evolving field. My favorite of the two Simic Mythic rares.

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Aoife’s Kiss

The Speculative Fiction Foundation

P.O. Box 782

Cedar Rapids, IA 52406-0782

Dear Mr. Campbell,

Amongst the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii and a variety of PC games a more traditional game still manages to flourish: Magic: The Gathering. This is a card game that immerses its players into the fantasy world where they are Planeswalkers, who control powerful sorceries and enchantments, in a battle to see who will be left the winner.

This twenty year old trading card game, that utilizes its players’ skill in strategy, imagination and logic, is still played by a large number of people, even though, video games are consistently taking over the gaming world. The creators at Wizards of the Coast are still producing newer versions of the cards and people are still buying them.

Curiosity as to why Magic is still so popular and access to an interview with, Mike Gillis, one of the employees at Wizards of the Coast, have caused me to research the topic further. I propose writing a non-fiction short-story on Magic players. I plan to immerse myself in the culture and gain the answers to why this game continues to keep players interest. This will fit well among the fantasy stories, poems and articles about science fiction, fantasy, swords and sorceries that make up the essence of Aofie’s Kiss.

This piece will run in the normal 4,000 word limit for non-fiction pieces with pictures of the playing cards I have encountered along the way.

Thank you for your consideration of this non-fiction short story. I hope to hear from you soon.

Sincerely,

Jorie Rao

Raoj12@students.rowan.edu

This might ring a bell as it’s an updated version of The Sudden Realisation that started off my little trading card series. I wanted to fiddle around with it to bring the format and style more in line with the other cards I’ve drawn.

Appropriately enough, I was planning on colouring him tonight and then I suddenly realised what the time was (which is pretty much what prompted the original drawing in the first place).

Selected by Montreal in the first round of the 1998 amateur draft, Brad Wilkerson would go on to have a solid eight-year Major League career for the Expos/ Nationals, Rangers, Mariners, and Blue Jays. After a breakout campaign in 2002, Wilkerson finished second in National League Rookie of the Year voting to Colorado’s Jason Jennings.

The Owensboro, Kentucky native struggled in his first professional season in 1999 as a member of the Senators. In 138 games, Wilkerson collected only 99 hits on his way to an average of .235 while striking out 100 times. Wilkerson found himself back in Harrisburg to begin the 2000 season and the difference was night and day. He excelled, hitting .336 with 36 doubles (one off the single-season team record) in only 66 games before earning a promotion to Triple-A Ottawa.

Wilkerson was inducted into the Collegiate Baseball Hall of Fame as a member of the 2012 class for his distinguished career at the University of Florida.

Ah, the happy days of Roger Clemens, before his career took a downturn, before he left the Red Sox and found an allegedly steroid-fueled pitching rejuvenation in Toronto, and before he joined the Yankees and became the mound-dwelling lightning rod of baseball’s inflated numbers era. Yes, in 1992 he was still a figure viable enough for a baseball card chase set and “superhero” puffery. (In some ways, this part of Clemens’ career was much like David Hasselhoff’s pre-burger ”One to Grow On” era.) This was when all he had was a heater, when he had yet to add an on-field temper to his arsenal, one that fueled bat-throwing incidents and inspired potential targets to take karate lessons to protect themselves from the Rocket’s wrath.

Fleer baseball cards. 1992. BE THERE (OR ELSE).

This card deals 2 damage and heals you 2 hp when it enters the field. It also will disappear for your opponents turn, then reappear, dealing another 2 damage and gaining you another 2 hp. And finally, with the haste it gains after you do this once, it can attack before disappearing once more, which is pretty nice with its 5/5, and the fact that (unless I’m mistaken) you can exile it from your graveyard and return it to the battlefield just like normal. So only exiling instant kill cards can remove Obzedat, making it definitely worthy of its Mythic Rarity.

All in all, one of my favorite non-planeswalker mythics of this set for its adaptability and almost invincibility. A very nice card….

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