How to draft Dragon's Maze?

The Dragon's Maze set features 166 cards. Prerelease events are going to start May, 9. The new set brings new cards and new loves. With DGM there is no different. Basing on acronym B.R.E.A.D which is very useful way to grade cards in limited I have selected commons and uncommons worth drafting in Gatecrash. I ignored rares and mythic cards, because these cards are quite easy to evaluate and to point out the best possible pick. Every letter from this acronym symbolize one group of cards. Therefore, B is for Bombs, R is for Removal, E is for Evasion, A is for Aggro, D is for Dregs. Here we go:

• White: Sunspire Gatekeepers
• Blue: Runner's Bane, Opal Lake Gatekeeper
• Black: Fatal Fumes, Ubul Sar Gatekeepers
• Red: Punish the Enemy, Rubblebelt Maaka, Weapon Surge
• Green: Battering Krasis
• Multicolor: Morgue Burst, Tithe Drinker, Viashino Firstblade, Zhur-Taa Druid, Beetleform Mage, Alive/Well, Ascended Lawmage, Blast of Genius, Blaze Commando, Carnage Gladiator, Far/Away, Fluxcharger, Gruul War Chant, Haunter of Nightveil, Korozda Gorgon, Krasis Incubation, Putrefy, Rot Farm Skeleton, Scab-Clan Giant, Species Gorger, Spike Jester, Toil/Trouble, Turn/Burn, Unflinching Courage, Warleader's Helix, Warped Physique, Woodlot Crawler

Remember that DGM is drafted with RTR and GTC. Here you may find list of good commons and uncommons from these sets. RTR GTC

Good luck!

Dragon's Maze - new mechanic

The new set - Dragon's Maze is on the way so it is good time to get familiar with new mechanic. The Dragon's Maze set features a new twist on split cards. Split card is a card with two different spells printed on the same card giving you the option to cast one spell or the other. With the Fuse mechanic, you don't have to pick just one. From now on, you have an option to cast both halves as a single spell by paying their combined cost.

Additionally, the mechanics from Return to Ravnica and Gatecrash will come back. As a reminder: in a slot of basic land in Dragon's Maze we may find the ShockLand. Next week I am going to tell you few words about drafting Dragon's Maze.

Unlimited free pricelists - avalaible now !

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- The current situation

Before today, one had to pay 0.200 tixs for each download of the pricelist. For example, if one has 3 bots and each bot updates the prices every 6 hours, the account globally downloads a total of 360 pricelists per month. At 0.2 tixs / download, it's 72 tixs / month, a lot of money. To prevent the expense one can adopt a number of strategies, for example reducing the numbers of download per day (1 per day instead of  4) or switch some bots from PRO to LITE.
In fact all the solutions are suboptimal, and I have to admit this has been a big problem so far.

- Unlimited pricelists
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The cost, valid till next Friday,  is 8 usd/month or 12 tixs/month: in the majority of the cases this is much less than the sum of the 0.2 downloads mentioned above.
*** UPDATE: Just a quick note, because I received many emails with the same question: the Unlimited Pricelist applies also to the automatic downloads from the bot. ***

- Benefits for the botter
The benefits for the botter are mainly economical - paying less for more pricelists. Having a bot always updated with the prices means a better market for the collection.
I won't talk more about this, I think every botter could explain the benefits better than me.
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- Benefits for mtgolibrary.com
Altough -economically speaking- the Unlimited Pricelists seems a non-sense for mtgolibrary.com, we don't think so. We discussed a lot before the launch, and the general feeling is that we can offer a better product and that having "bots more updated on the market" will benefit us indirectly (for examples with more trades, or more PRO licenses subscriptions).

- Single downloads
Of course the old 0.2 downloads still hold. We don't force you at this, just think to Unlimited Pricelists as a new tool strapped on your belt.

The Dragon's Maze

The Gatecrash prelease online didn't even start and WotC announced hot news about upcoming set - The Dragon's Maze. It is about no basic land in booster pack. What? Is it allegedly breaking news? Definitely, if I add that basic land slot will be replaced with either guildgates or dual lands. All ten guilds will be showing up in the Dragon's Maze. These nonbasic lands will be released with their Return to Ravnica or Gatecrash symbols. Additionally, The Dragon's Maze will feature first mythic land ever.

The Dragon's Maze will be drafted with Return to Ravnica and Gatecrash. It means that our chances of opening a dual land card are increasing. Every pack may bring us a dual card. As a result, the price of dual will be gradually lowering.

Tip: if you have Watery Grave, Stomping Ground, Breeding Pool, Sacred Foundry, Godless Shrine in stock get rid off it as soon as possible. Price of these cards will drastically plummet with Gatecrash prelease.