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From: "matt shields" <no...@aol.com>

Newsgroups: rec.games.deckmaster

Subject: Re: Any word on Fallen Empires?

Date: Wed, 16 Nov 1994 07:17:14 GMT

Organization: Akron Legionnaires, Akron, OH

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In article <6wW...@abc.com>, Mark Rosewater (work e-Mail)

<mr...@abc.com> writes:

>In the end, can someone reply when they find out _anything_

>about Fallen Empires? Curious minds must know!

>:)

>

>--MaRo





OH SNAP!!! my modem just crashed and i lost the ENTIRE POST

that i had written!! and this is on my dad's new QUADRA

630!!! this is my 2nd try, hope all you guys appreciate

it!!!1! ;P

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OK, I just got back from my friend Bill's house after

coming home from the release party at the store. i have to

get up for school again in 4 hours so i should be sleeping

now but i drank at least _6_ CANS OF JOLT so y'all get

to

read the 411 on the NEW MAGIC THE GATHERING SET instead!!

YEAH

!!!! ;P





so first of all everybody had the set name wrong...it's not

Fallen Empires but "SCRYINGS"!! this alone made everyone at

the store crazy with excitement! in the end there weren't

enough boxes so the 4 of us only got 1 BOOSTER PACK. that's

right: O-N-E. there's supposed to be another shipment

tomorrow (

today?!?!) so i'll be going back again after

school to check (if i can hitch a ride from my mom or

anyone else! ;`P ). anyway we opened our pack and decided

to just split up the cards to use in our decks!

1st things 1st, the wrappers are blue and red, but it's a

light greenish blue so it actually looks pretty cool... not

like cleveland indians colors or whatever. (although i

guess we were actually playing pretty good before the

strike so maybe that wouldnt be a bad thing anyway!! ;`P)

when we opened the pack the first thing we saw was a new

_RED_ Sorcery card that deals 5 damage for 1 Red mana -

BOOYAH!!! ;P but you also have to destroy one of your

goblins and if you don't use goblins in your deck then you

can't really use this card. so that makes it fair i guess

but still obviously really good though possibly not better

than Fireball since that goes for X.

the WEIRDEST card i think we got was this Green Sorcery. i

forget what it was called but you can put in play on your

side ANY creature in your deck as long as it was Green.

BUT!!! you have to destroy one of your own Green creatures

to do it! we thought it would be pretty good but then Jim

only used it to kill his Wall of Ice and get his Giant

Spider. but i did hear that in another game he got his

FORCE OF NATURE with it which i guess is pretty good IF YOU

CAN PAY THE UPKEEP OF COURSE!!! i imagine though that this

card will only cost $1 at the good stores.





another card Jim got was probably the BEST CARD IN THE

WHOLE PACK!! yeah it was only a Summon Wizard 1/1 for one

Blue and one colorless mana (i know bad) but the tap

ability was actually "sacrifice 2 of your own lands to draw

3 cards" but then you also had to discard one of the cards

you just drew. Jim used this against me twice in one game

and kept losing extra land he didn't need to get more

creatures EVEN AFTER I MINDTWISTED HIS WHOLE HAND!!!! ;P i

don't remember if he won that one in the end but it was

nevertheless better than any of the other cards he played.





my favorite card that i played from the pack was Pacifism,

which makes it so a creature can't attack or block but it

can still tap for mana and etc. (so _DON'T_ cast this on

their Birds of Paradise: PSYCH!!!) and the controller

doesn't gain life as like with swords to plowshares. i cast

this on Bill's Rock Hydra 2 games in a row!! ;P the first

time he thought it was pretty cool but the 2nd time Bill

really wanted to attack with his Hyrdra (which actually had

8 HEADS!!) and he (Bill) got kind of upset.





another card i had was pretty good because it could work in

one of 3 ways - you could use it to make them choose any

card to discard from their hand or make any creature +2/-1

until end of the turn or to give the creature Swampwalk

until end of the turn. but you couldn't do all of them,

only choose one for 1 Black mana and the card is called

Funeral Charm, and it's a black Instant.





i also had a new Summon called Tar Pit Warrior, a 3/4 for 3

total mana (one Black) that dies if you or your opponent

plays any affects on it. so while it would be good to be

able to put Unholy Strength on it i was still able to

attack with it really well. it can also defeat a Hill Giant

which is important.

my last card that i got to keep from the pack was the Ashen

Ghoul which is a 3/1 creature that gets to attack the first

turn that it comes into play on your side. but it also can

return from your graveyard like Nether Shadow if it dies

and three more of your creatures die after it. this only

uses 1 mana and otherwise it costs 4. pretty good i'd say!!

i only got to play Sean in one game but he had a red card

that was probably the worst creature from the pack as it

destroys nonbasic lands but none of us play those. it's

also a Dwarf so it can't detsroy itself to fuel the Goblin

Grenade which was the first card we opened. Sean played his

red and white deck and it isn't a Power Surge deck per say

but he did cast his Power Surge that game and it nearly

killed us both.

Sean also had a white 2/1 called the Order of Leitbur which

he didn't use against me but discarded it when he had no

Plain and i cast my Funeral Charm so that i wouldn't take

more damage from the Power Surge. anyway this is a 2/1

Summon Cleric that can boost +1/+0 for two White mana or

First Strike for one White mana but in both cases only for

that turn. you can give +1/+0 for as much double White mana

as you pay because it doesn't tap the creature, which also

has PROTECTION FROM BLACK like regular White Knights! the

game i did see him actually use it in, he had several good

creatures out and Jim mostly had his Walls out so yeah i

guess you could say it was pretty good!

!!1! ;`P

one card that we opened but i don't think anyone was able

to draw it may have been the best card in the pack, (other

than the Soldevi Sage that Jim took before), but either way

it's a 7/6 green creature with no other ability. but i do

say it _MAY_ be the best card due to being bigger than a

Craw Wurm or EVEN A MAHAMOTI DJINN, which is probably the

card i lose to the most when i have to play against blue

other than Control Magic which i hate.





and speaking of blue cards, i know that Sean did take a new

Interrupt called Memory Lapse which is like a Counterspell

but for one Blue mana and one colorless mana and instead of

discarding the spell then goes to the top of the library of

the opponent who tried to cast it. which i guess is pretty

good because then that person has to cast it again but if

you countered a good spell they can just play it against

you a 2nd time if you still can't deal with it. i didn't

get to see Sean cast this spell either, so maybe it's not

really so great.

Bill got a really good card and hear me out on this because

i know Walls are bad if they don't have Flying like Wall of

Swords or Regeneration like Wall of Bones and sometimes

Wall of Brambles. this card was only 0/3 but was actually

REALLY GOOD!! because it costs only one Green mana to cast

it's similar to Wall of Wood: however you can sacrifice it

to gain 2 _RED_ mana into your mana pool at any time and

Bill's deck already being both green and red this was just

a solid fit.

other than those above, there were a few other cards. one

was the Goblin Vandal, which is a 1/1 Summon Goblin that

can destroy an Artifact when it attacks (if not blocked).

there was also the Casting of Bones which is a black

Enchant Creature that gives you 3 cards when it dies, but

like with the Soldevi Sage you do have to choose and

discard one of the cards you just drew. so NOT QUITE

ANCESTRAL RECALL but not really too far off!! then finally

there was the Sea Sprite, a 1/1 Blue Flying craeture

(Fairy) that also has protection from Red, which is pretty

reasonable for only two mana overall: one Blue and one

colorless.





i didn't see anyone play these first two cards however the

Goblin Vandal got drawn as his ante card vs. my Sengir

Vampire. the Sea Sprite did get played by Jim however

because it died quickly (i think maybe because of my

Pestilence _EVIL GRIN_) we didn't get to see what it could

really do.

OK, now that i think i've told you about all the cards in

our pack, the last game we played with the SCRYINGS cards

was 3 players after Sean left and Jim hid a Chaos Orb that

he bought for his brother Bill in his deck so Bill would be

surprised. as soon as he dropped it we realized that we had

to spread out our cards in case Jim had a Regrowth later

(which he did!!!). this was a gnarly threeperson game even

though we didn't really draw the Scryings cards, because

Jim got to use the Chaos Orb twice and destroyed Bill's

Elvish Archers but then he missed on Bill's Black Vise the

second time which is what eventually basically killed him

in the end (the Vice).

finally Jim did give the Chaos Orb to his brother Bill to

keep which is pretty awesome of him because it probably

cost him more than $5. although i think that Bill did pay

him back for it in the end. so now all 4 of us have a Chaos

Orb!!!1!





OK, i hope everyone enjoyed my post about SCRYINGS!!! :) :)

:) seeya!!!!





~~legionnaire matt

p.s. if our booster pack gives any idea, the WotC card

designers for SCRYINGS (NOT Fallen Empires!!) ;P did an

AMAZING JOB!!! we can't wait to play more with all these

amazing cards!!!1!

p.p.s. i do remember now that the name of that crazy green

Sorcery card was called Natural Order!!





--

"no time to search the world around

cause you know where i'll be found

when i come around" --green day





Reasons why AKRON LEGIONNAIRE is the BEST card in Magic

the Gathering:

1. 8/4!!!!!!!

2. as good as any LEGEND but not a legend card itself so

you can still play 4!!

3. its drawback doesn't matter when its the only creature

in your deck (and you can even still play ARTIFACT

Creautres!!!)