Creatures

2 Child of night 3 Captivating vampire 4 Bloodline Keeper 2 Falkenrath Noble 2 Vampire Outcasts 2 Kalastria Highborn 4 Vampire Nighthawk 2 Malakir Bloodwitch 3 Feast of Blood 2 Blood Tribute 4 Bloodchief ascension 2 Patriarch’s Bidding 4 Mindcrank 4 Ankh of mishra 2 Sanguine bond 4 Elixir of Immortality 29 Swamp 2 Lake of the Dead

This deck gives you a lot of versatility.
Every single vampire gains you life somehow.

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Innistrad Design Team    – Mark Rosewater (lead)
Richard Garfield
Jenna Helland
Graeme Hopkins
Tom LaPille

Yeah, you read that right. Mr Richard Garfield himself is making a triumphant return to Magic the gathering. Here are the few of the spoilers that have come about already.
The second set will already be called Dark Ascension.

INNISTRAD:

• Innistrad consists of 264 cards, while the latest large sets (Shards of Alara, Zendikar and Scars of Mirrodin all had 249.
• This set has the most top-down design that has ever been.
• Classic horror is the theme, with a tribal component. There are many different horror tropes to be found.
• Innistrad features and Vampires, and Zombies, and Werewolves, and Humans, and Ghosts (Spirits).
• Werewolves are a key part of this set, and get their own subtype
• Black zombies are the normal kind that we usually see, blue zombies are Frankenstein-type creations of science.
• Humans will show up in all five colors but will be centered primarily in white, secondarily in green. Humans may be victims or slayers.
• Spirits will show up in all five colors but will be centered primarily in blue. Blue made a lot of sense as it played into many ghosts tropes: flying, unblockable, invisible (hexproof), etc.
• Other creature types include demons and birds, knights and shamans
• The set features graveyard and tribal mechanics
• Returning mechanic: Flashback
• There are two planeswalker cards in the set, one of which is a new Liliana, the other likely the new Garruk.

Skirsdag Cultist 2RR
Creature – Human Shaman (U)
, Sacrifice a creature: Skirsdag Cultist deals 2 damage to target creature or player.
2/2 “Within blood is life. Within life is fire. Within fire is the path to our master’s glory!”
Artist: Slawomir Maniak

Murder of Crows

3UUCreature – Bird (U)
Flying
Whenever another creature dies, you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card.
4/4
Even more than carrion, they crave the last words of the dying.
Artist: Drew Baker

Spectral Rider WW
Creature – Spirit Knight (U)
Intimidate
2/2
Never a word. Never a warning. Only the sound of hoofbeats along the crossways, and the screams of the avenged.
Artist: Igor Kieryluk

Wreath of Geists G
Enchantment – Aura (U)
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +X/+X, where X is the number of creature cards in your graveyard.
Before you travel the woods of Kessig, get permission from those who died trying.
Artist: Jason A. Engle

Moan of the Unhallowed 2BB
Sorcery (U)
Put two 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens onto the battlefield.
Flashback 5bb
For a ghoul, every village is a buffet and every disaster is a reunion.
Artist: Nils Hamm

Bloodgift Demon 2BB
Creature – Demon
Flying. At the beginning of your upkeep, target player draws a card and loses 1 life.
He relishes the devotion of his Skirsdag puppets and their belief that it will earn them immortality.Illus. Peter Mohrbacher   4/4

Innistrad.  As all of us D&D fans know, in Ravenloft, and considered to be one of the greatest bad guys of all time is – Strahd. Coindence?  Probably not. A tidied-up Liliana Vess and the threat that  ”Horror Lurks Within” will definitely very a mixture of gothic horror and evil incarnate. Either way, we are sure to be submerged in some serious evil.

The card was spoiled on G4TV’s Attack of the Show during their June 23rd broadcast.  More to come!

The new video for Duels of the Planeswalkers 2012 looks pretty awesome. Read more to watch.

So many questions so few answers. Check back as we get closer to July for the next core set.