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Kaladesh
''Kaladesh'' is a ''Magic: The Gathering'' expansion block consisting of the sets ''Kaladesh'' and ''Aether Revolt''. The block debuted with the release of ''Kaladesh'' on September 30, 2016. The block is set on the plane of Kaladesh, the original home of planeswalker Chandra Nalaar, and features an emphasis on artifacts, their creators and the magical aether which powers them. Plot The block focuses on a Steampunk aesthetic, with the steam replaced by the powerful material aether. The Gatewatch go to Chandra Nalaar's home world, the titular plane of Kaladesh, where she finds her mother (presumed dead) and almost kills Tezzeret. Tezzeret later kidnaps Rashmi, winner of the famous Inventor's Fair, and begins a dastardly plot to control the ruling Consulate. With the Consulate imprisoning inventors and confiscating their devices following the Fair, tensions between the populace and the government reach a boiling point, as depicted in ''Aether Revolt''. Mechanics On August 25, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaladesh Emblem
''Kaladesh'' is a '' Magic: The Gathering'' expansion block consisting of the sets ''Kaladesh'' and ''Aether Revolt''. The block debuted with the release of ''Kaladesh'' on September 30, 2016. The block is set on the plane of Kaladesh, the original home of planeswalker Chandra Nalaar, and features an emphasis on artifacts, their creators and the magical aether which powers them. Plot The block focuses on a Steampunk aesthetic, with the steam replaced by the powerful material aether. The Gatewatch go to Chandra Nalaar's home world, the titular plane of Kaladesh, where she finds her mother (presumed dead) and almost kills Tezzeret. Tezzeret later kidnaps Rashmi, winner of the famous Inventor's Fair, and begins a dastardly plot to control the ruling Consulate. With the Consulate imprisoning inventors and confiscating their devices following the Fair, tensions between the populace and the government reach a boiling point, as depicted in ''Aether Revolt''. Mechanics On August 25 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magic: The Gathering Sets
The trading card game ''Magic: The Gathering'' has released a large number of sets since it was first published by Wizards of the Coast. After the 1993 release of ''Limited Edition (Magic: The Gathering), Limited Edition'', also known as Alpha and Beta, roughly 3-4 major sets have been released per year, in addition to various spin-off products. ''Magic'' has made three types of sets since Alpha and Beta: base/core sets, expansion sets, and compilation sets. Expansion sets are the most numerous and prevalent type of expansion; they primarily consist of new cards, with few or no reprints, and either explore a new setting, or advance the plot in an existing setting. Streets of New Capenna is the most recent expansion set as of April 2022. Base sets, later renamed core sets, are the successors to the original ''Limited Edition'' and are meant to provide a baseline ''Magic'' experience; they tended to consist either largely or entirely of reprints. Compilation sets also exist entir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shadows Over Innistrad
''Shadows over Innistrad'' is a '' Magic: The Gathering'' expansion block consisting of the sets ''Shadows over Innistrad'' and ''Eldritch Moon''. Mechanics ''Shadows over Innistrad'' has five main mechanics: * Madness: a returning mechanic from '' Torment'' that allows a player to cast a card for its madness cost instead of being discarded. This is shown on the card . * Delirium: counts the number of different card types in a player's graveyard. If that player has four or more card types among cards in their graveyard (e.g. creature, instant, sorcery, land), delirium will grant specific effects or bonuses, like the card . * Investigate: a keyword that creates a Clue artifact token that you may pay 2 generic mana and sacrifice to draw a card, as seen on cards like . * Transform: a returning mechanic from original ''Innistrad'', allowing the card to "transform" to its back side if certain conditions are met, such as the card . * Skulk: an evasion ability that appears on cre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amonkhet
''Amonkhet'' is a ''Magic: The Gathering'' expansion block consisting of the sets ''Amonkhet'' and ''Hour of Devastation''. ''Amonkhet'' was released on April 28, 2017, and ''Hour of Devastation'' was released on July 14, 2017. The eponymous new plane has an ancient Egyptian theme, and features concepts like Mummy, mummies and embalming. Plot The block's setting is inspired by ancient Egypt, with themes of social hierarchy and contrast between life and death. In ''Amonkhet'', Gatewatch set out to destroy the evil dragon planeswalker Nicol Bolas after learning of his dominion over the titular desert plane Amonkhet. In the desert, they find a city (Naktamun) teeming with food, water, and life, ruled by five gods, with Bolas seemingly absent altogether. The people of Naktamun train their entire lives to die in ritual combat, hoping to experience pure bliss in the afterlife when the God-Pharaoh (Bolas) returns to Amonkhet. In ''Hour of Devastation'', Bolas returns as prophesied, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Wyatt (game Designer)
James Wyatt () is a game designer and a former United Methodist minister. He works for Wizards of the Coast, where he has designed supplements and adventures for the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' (''D&D'') roleplaying game. He is the author of sci-fi and fantasy novels, including Forgotten Realms books, and the 4th edition ''Dungeon Master's Guide''. Biography Wyatt grew up in Ithaca, New York where he attended Ithaca High School, graduating in 1986.The Bulletin: Ithaca High School 20th Reunion 1986/2006 July 1, 2006. Pg. 29 Archive copy at . He had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Rosewater
Mark Rosewater (born May 25, 1967) is the head designer for '' Magic: The Gathering'', a position he has held since 2003. Biography Rosewater grew up in Pepper Pike, Ohio. In his youth, he worked as a professional magician. Rosewater has described his young self as a "social outcast" whose intelligence and small size led to bullying, and he never naturally lost his baby teeth, which had to be surgically removed. Despite these difficulties, he became a successful high school student at Orange High School with numerous scholarship offers. He attended Boston University, where he earned a Bachelor of Science in Communication. Career Television After graduating, Rosewater started his career in television as a runner. He then found work as a writer. Before 1994 he was on the writing staff of '' Roseanne''.Chalk, T. (2013) ''So Do Your Wear A Cape. The Unofficial Story of Magic: The Gathering'' He is credited for two Roseanne episodes: "Vegas, Vegas" and "Take My Bike, Please", ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
War Of The Spark
''War of the Spark'' is the 81st ''Magic: The Gathering'' expansion; while it is not part of a block, this set is functionally the third part of a Ravnica focused storyline set on the plane of Ravnica. It was released on May 3, 2019. It also became available in ''MTG Arena'' on April 25, 2019. Story The ''War of the Spark'' set features the culmination of Nicol Bolas' plan and the storyline focuses on the battle unfolding on Ravnica "between the evil Nicol Bolas, the youngest and most powerful of Magic’s seven Elder Dragons, and the Gatewatch, a loose alliance of Planeswalkers fighting on the side of good". Over the course of previous sets, Bolas has been enacting parts of his plan: during the Kaladesh block, "he stole a planar portal that would allow him to transport non-natural materials between worlds"; during the Amonkhet block, he "collected an army of zombified and embalmed warriors known as Eternals"; during the Ixalan block, "he collected the Immortal Sun, a powerful ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MTG Arena
''Magic: The Gathering Arena'' or MTG Arena is a free-to-play digital collectible card game developed and published by Wizards of the Coast (WotC). The game is a digital adaption based on the ''Magic: The Gathering'' (MTG) card game, allowing players to gain cards through booster packs, in-game achievements or microtransaction purchases, and build their own decks to challenge other players. The game was released in a beta state in November 2017, and was fully released for Microsoft Windows users in September 2019, and a macOS version on June 25, 2020. Mobile device versions were released in March 2021. Gameplay ''MTG Arena'' follows the same rules as the physical card game, in which players use decks of cards that include land cards that generate five separate colors of mana, and play cards that consume that mana to summon creatures, cast offensive and defensive spells, and/or activate effects and abilities. Players battle other players using a selected deck, with the goal of re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grimdark
Grimdark is a subgenre of speculative fiction with a tone, style, or setting that is particularly dystopian, amoral, and violent. The term is inspired by the tagline of the tabletop strategy game ''Warhammer 40,000'': "In the grim darkness of the far future there is only war." Definitions Several attempts to define the neologism "grimdark" have been made: * Adam Roberts (British writer), Adam Roberts described it as fiction "where nobody is honourable and Might is Right", and as "the standard way of referring to fantasies that turn their backs on the more uplifting, Pre-Raphaelite visions of idealized medievaliana, and instead stress how nasty, brutish, short and, er, dark life back then 'really' was". But he noted that grimdark has little to do with re-imagining an actual historic reality and more with conveying the sense that our own world is a "cynical, disillusioned, ultraviolent place". *Genevieve Valentine called grimdark a "shorthand for a subgenre of fantasy fiction ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ars Technica
''Ars Technica'' is a website covering news and opinions in technology, science, politics, and society, created by Ken Fisher and Jon Stokes in 1998. It publishes news, reviews, and guides on issues such as computer hardware and software, science, technology policy, and video games. ''Ars Technica'' was privately owned until May 2008, when it was sold to Condé Nast Digital, the online division of Condé Nast Publications. Condé Nast purchased the site, along with two others, for $25 million and added it to the company's ''Wired'' Digital group, which also includes '' Wired'' and, formerly, Reddit. The staff mostly works from home and has offices in Boston, Chicago, London, New York City, and San Francisco. The operations of ''Ars Technica'' are funded primarily by advertising, and it has offered a paid subscription service since 2001. History Ken Fisher, who serves as the website's current editor-in-chief, and Jon Stokes created ''Ars Technica'' in 1998. Its purpose w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Origins Award
The Origins Awards are American awards for outstanding work in the game industry. They are presented by the Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts and Design at the Origins Game Fair on an annual basis for the previous year, so (for example) the 1979 awards were given at the 1980 Origins. The Origins Award is commonly referred to as a Calliope, as the statuette is in the likeness of the muse of the same name. Academy members frequently shorten this name to "Callie". History Originally, the '' Charles S. Roberts Awards'' and the Origins Awards were one and the same. Starting with the 1987 awards, the Charles S. Roberts were given separately, and they moved away from Origins entirely in 2000, leaving the Origins Awards as a completely separate system. In 1978, the awards also hosted the 1977 '' H. G. Wells awards'' for role-playing games and miniature wargaming. Categories The Origins Awards were originally presented at the Origins Game Fair in five categories: ''Best Professiona ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
