Magic is having great changes in the way it’s present to gamers and to me these are obvious changes.

- Less cards printed per year.

Yup, it wasn’t just you that thought magic had more cards than you could get your hands on, everybody was getting this problem. Also maybe this will finally cut some of the crap rares :p

- Intro packs will now be like theme decks.

Wizards realized that almost nobody starts paying magic with the core set, so now the introduction products are theme decks, which can demonstrate a block’s mechanics and give a helping hand to new players.

- Boosters will lose a common and have a land card added.

Just like in the core sets now there’s a land in every booster. They say it’s for the sake of new players having access to land. It seems like it’s just experienced players who will hve excess land, because if I was a new player I’d buy a deck if I really couldn’t catch basic land from garbage bins everywhere (clean garbage bins mind you :p)

- Mythic rares

This was an obvious addition with the shrinking of sets, to ensure rare chases. It’s been happening in all other CCGs so I guess it’s no big news. Mythic rares will be twice as hard to get as rares

And here’s a preview of a mythic rare:

Check out Rosewater’s full article.

Win a Mutant Chronicles Starter Kit on the BGG contest (whoa, lots of those lately).

If you don’t know the answers, remember Wikipedia and Google are your friends.

Good luck and happy hunting.

Twilight Creations has announced two new games:

Reiner Knizia’s Cthulhu Rising and Bump in the Night.

While Bump in the Night will put up to 6 players on the shoes of various monsters terrorizing kids in a haunted mansion (Run Scooby Run!), what Mr. Knizia’s Chulhu Rising will be is anyone’s guess (I bet it will be about Cthulhu though :p). Cthulhu Rising is scheduled for September while Bump in the Night is scheduled for the month after.

Coming out in June 19th is Mayfair’s Horus. A tile playing game that will decide which player will be the favored Pharaoh of Horus (yeah it’s kinda like meeples go to Egypt, only not quite :p). For ages 10+, 2 to 4 players.

Fantasy Flight published the first article of what seem to be a series of articles for beginners in miniature painting.

I’m sure every Descent owner has thinked once or twice about painting his miniatures, and many did paint them, but others cried for their lack of skill.

Maybe these are the articles which will make me finally gain some courage to paint my beloved miniatures!