Of all things Geek. I am…
Released in June of 1998, Exodus was the end of the Tempest Block, also known as The Rath Cycle. It continued the new standard for 143 card small expansion sets laid out by Stronghold and it was a great end to the Rath Cycle by many measures.
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Germany stands atop the game of football (or futbol or even soccer, depending on your country of origin) as the 2014 World Cup Champions. This isn’t a shock as they’ve been here before – three times, in fact – making this their fourth World Cup.
This makes them a powerhouse in their sport, but it was how they managed to get to World Cup Championship No. 4 that makes this impressive.
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Released in March of 1998, Stronghold was many things; the beginning of the standard for 143 card small expansion sets, down from the old standard of Weatherlight and Visions of 167 cards and it was the first expansion and second set of Tempest: The Rath Cycle.
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This past weekend, I had the privilege of attending The Great Allentown Comic Con Summer Show at Merchants Square Mall. As usual, it was filled with vendors of comic books and other pop culture paraphernalia, artists and other vendors, as well as, my fellow attendees, those in cosplay and those who just showed up with their geek on their sleeve.
I have said before and I’ll say it again, The Great Allentown Comic Con is getting too big for itself. This is not a complaint, more of an observation, and a good problem for the organizers to have at that.
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Tempest was released in October of 1997 and it changed the game, or at least deck building and strategy in innumerable ways. It was the first set of the Rath Block, the name given to the Tempest block. Shadow and Buyback were two new rules added to the landscape of Magic: The Gathering from the set, while Phasing and Flanking were not present having, as it seemed, been contained to just the Mirage block.
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