Chris' Magic: The Gathering Card of the Day!

The Cards of the Day are....

A brief rundown of the set:

Tempest The Rath Cycle is the latest stand-alone expansion for Magic: The Gathering. It should be in stores on,around,or by Halloween. It plays exceptional in the sealed-deck environment, and will bring some new flavors to the constructed tourneys soon. In addition to new content, there are some interesting new creatures and ablities in Tempest as well. Tempest is also the first time that a deck expansion has come out that does not contain a rulebook. It instead comes with a full-color storybook that outlines the new creatures and abilities, and also chronocles the story behind The Rath Cycle. Let's take a look at some of the new additionals.

• Shadow: Ability
  Shadow takes combat to a new level. Almost like a landwalk ability; creatures that have shadow can only block or be blocked by other creature(s) with shadow.
• Buyback: Ability
  For a colorless extra charge, you can return a buyback spell to your hand. Essentially like a built-in Recall or Regrowth
• Licid: Creature
  These are neat little creatures that can be piggy-backed on to other creatures to give them special abilities. They're almost like Thrulls but they become enchantments when they are installed, and also can be removed to become creatures again.
• Sliver: Creature
  There's a Sliver for every color and an artifact Sliver too. The color Slivers, when brought into play, give any other Slivers in play special abilities.(First Strike and +1/+1 are two)
  

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  Now let's look at what you may encounter.
• Phyrexian Splicer
  Artifact 2
  2, T: Choose flying, first strike, trample, or shadow. Target creature with that ability loses it until end of turn. Another creature gains that ability until end of turn.
• Quickening Licid
  Summon Licid 1W 1/1
  1W,T: Quickening Licid loses this ability and becomes a creature enchatment that reads "Enchanted creature gains first strike" instaed of a creature. Move Quickening Licid onto target creature. You may pay W to end this effect.
• Mogg Fanatic
  Summon Goblin R 1/1
  Sacrafice Mogg Fanatic: Mogg Fanatic deals 1 damage to target creature or player
• Sadistic Glee
  Enchant Creature B
  Whenever any creatureis put into any graveyard from play, put +1/+1 counter on enchanted creature.
• Mongrel Pack
  Summon Hounds 3G 4/1
  If Mongrel Pack is put into any gravyard from play during combat,put four Hound tokens into play. Treak these tokens as 1/1 green creatures
• Thalakos Mistfolk
  Summon Illusion 2U 2/1
  Shadow
  U: Put Thalakos Mistfolk on top of owner's library.
• Soltari Guerrillas
  Summon Soldiers 2WR 3/2
  Shadow
  If Soltari Guerrillas assigns combat damage to any opponent, you may redirect that damage to target creature.