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Best Nintendo Switch Gifts to Give this Holiday
If you’ve got a Nintendo fan on your list this year, we’ve rounded up a number of great gifts that are great for all ages. Continue reading
Aussie Deals: Up to 90% Off AAA Ultimate, Deluxe, Definitive and Complete Editions!
If you’re the type who likes to get everything in one fell swoop, now’s your time to shine. A whole bunch of “best version” editions are going for cheap. Get amongst it. Continue reading
See a Powerful New Zombie Enchantment For Magic: The Gathering’s Crimson Vow Set
The next Magic: The Gathering set, Crimson Vow, is launching on MTG Arena on November 11 in the U.S. (Nov 12 in ANZ), with the physical edition available in game stores globally on November 19 (with prerelease on Nov 12). It takes players back to the gothic horror-infused setting of Innistrad. Where the last set, Midnight Hunt – which also took place on this plane – was themed around Werewolves, and introduced a cool day/night system, Crimson Vow has Vampires as its central focus, including a number of cards inspired by the one and only Dracula.
Of course, that’s all well and good, but classic horror is more than just Werewolves and Vampires, and today we have a new card to reveal that will help elevate one of the other monstrous creature types that was present in Midnight Hunt and is now being expanded upon for Crimson Vow – Zombies. That card is Necroduality:
Anyone who has dabbled with the many variations of Dimir (blue/black) Zombies decks (such as this one) over the last couple of months would know that Zombies already have the potential to really snowball, and this enchantment represents a great way to double down on that, or to help swing the board back later in a game.
“Necroduality is one of my favorite types of cards in Magic,” Product Architect Mike Turian told me. “A card that you pick up and once you read it, the card makes you go back and reevaluate a whole class of cards to find the perfect ones to best take advantage of. In this case, with Necroduality creating a copy of each nontoken Zombie that enters the battlefield under your control, this changes the impact of every Zombie creature, reanimation spell, and cards that alter creature types in Magic. That is a lot of awesome cards to combo Necroduality with! Crimson Vow has a nice number of Zombie creatures that immediately get better. When you consider that many of the Zombies have Exploit and other powerful sacrifice effects, Necroduality will provide good fodder of creatures and powerful combos! I don’t want to spoil all of the fun our players are going to have but I bet they will be starting their own zombie apocalypse in no time!”
I also asked Mike about how the team approached the task of following on from Midnight Hunt while also standing apart. “Midnight Hunt was such a great set and our players loved coming back to Innistrad,” he said. “We knew that the fan favorite plane of Innistrad was going to be a hit once again so with Crimson Vow, we were looking to bring in pieces of Midnight Hunt while also innovating and making Crimson Vow its own set. The switch of focus from Werewolves towards Vampires is one way that we were able to both continue what was awesome about Midnight Hunt while giving Crimson Vow space.
“Another way we set the sets apart is by introducing some new gameplay mechanics that weren’t available in Midnight Hunt. For instance, Cleave opens up brand new space in how you think about casting a spell. The introduction of Blood tokens for Vampires to feast upon let us have Vampires do something completely new and different as well!” You can read all about those new mechanics here. And you can see the cards that have been revealed so far here.
Crimson Vow is shaping up to be a fun return visit to Innistrad, so be sure to see what this Vampire-filled collection of cards have to offer on the official website.
Cam Shea has worked at IGN since the before times, has played more Breath of the Wild than just about any other game and writes about CCGs regularly. He’s not really on Twitter.
Daily Deals: A Spooky Day Of Horror Related Sales
Trick or Treat! You’ve come to the right place if you’re looking for some deals. Want to hear a frightening tale? Head over to Amazon where you can snatch up tons of great books for less than $5 per title. While they might be too big to carry in a bag, LG has their best 4K TVs still discounted, and nothing says STARS like the Resident Evil 3 Board Game which is up for preorder, and launches in just a few weeks.
Daily Deals for October 31st, 2021
Free Resident Evil Village with the Purchase of any Audeze Gaming Headset
For a limited time, purchase an Audeze Penrose, Mobius, or LCD-GX gaming headphone from Audeze and you’ll receive a receive a free Steam code for Resident Evil Village. This deal is available to North America
customers only, and while supplies last on a first come basis.
2021 LG C1 4K OLED TV Price Drop
Now with 6 Months of Free HBO Max
Today the 48″, 50″ and 65″ variants of the LG 4K OLED TV have dropped back down to the lowest price we’ve ever seen. The LG C1 OLED TV improves upon last year’s highly-rated CX model with an upgraded A9 Gen 4 processor that delivers slightly better image quality, better 4K scaling, and improved audio handling as well as a new webOS smart TV redesign. The C1 OLED TV also looks good when paired to a gaming PC with an RTX 30 series video card because it has HDMI 2.1 inputs that support 4K at 120Hz and G-SYNC. It’s easily one of the best (if not the best) TVs on the market right now. For a limited time, you also get 6 free months of HBO Max, so you can catch up on blockbuster movies like Dune, Godzilla vs Kong, Space Jam: A New Legacy, The Suicide Squad, and more, as well as upcoming movies like The Matrix Resurrections.
Preorder the Nerf LMTD Halo Needler
The Halo Needler is part of the new Nerf LMTD premium line of nerf guns, and Hasbro certainly did a phenomenal job recreating the look and feel of this iconic gun. It features light-up flexible needles and accents, a 10-dart rotating drum (darts included), and a display mode complete with display stand for showing off your Covenant weaponry, and a came card with in-game Halo Infinite content.
The 31 Best Modern Horror Movies
In celebration of Halloween, IGN has picked the 31 best modern horror movies to help you have the best and spookiest holiday. Continue reading
