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collectible trading card game. The game plunges two

(and sometimes more) players into a duel, where
Editor-in-Chief land is tapped for its magical potential, and spells.
Behold creatures, legendary heroes and ancient relics
are used in battle. The players are dubbed
Planeswalkers, and the universe in which they
perform their duels is called Dominia.
. and the birth The five lands represented in the card deck produce
of Armada Comics! five different-colored mana, which is the power source
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Our goal in creating Armada is to produce the might wish to
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Armada is spearheaded by Jeff Gomez as Line Editor load up with
and Writer of the first two books. Without leff’s green spell cards.
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Editor, leof Vita. Gomez has put together some of the damage deck, and
best comic book collaborations you’ll ever see. use more of the
Charles Vess. Val Mayerik, Rafael Kayanan, Rodney cards representing
Ramos and lames Pascoe are just the beginning of red magic. Players
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All i ask is that you do a few things:
I. Read the comic book! The Armada team has
worked really hard to create an exciting story, set on
the pivotal nexus world of Dominaria. (Remember,
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So, to spice things up a bit, we're holding a contest!
Jeff Gomez and I will wade through the first wave of
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and Rafael Kayanan handles the . purposes. Perhaps there is more to come as the story
On behalf of the Armada team. l’d like to thank you
for picking up this book. i hope you enjoy it half
much as we’ve enjoyed creating it. And once again,
welcome to the world of Magic: The Gathering!
by Shawn P. Carnes
Hello pianeswalkers! My name is Shawn, and i am
one of the tried and tested rules gurus at Wizards of
the Coast, the makers of Magic: The Gathering. This
article and the ones in the months to come will give
you the play-by-play action you see in the comic as
well as my color commentary. Take it for what it’s
worth; I won’t hold the punches on this analysis.
Let's start off with and tackle
the very first battle. The action starts off fast,
doesn't it! The evil Planeswalker Ravidel establishes
himself early on as the heavy to contend with.
in his first (and last) battle with Lord Carthalion, the
raw aggressive power of all five colors of mana
harnessed together pits itself against the interesting
combination of White and Red. When i first read the
script, i could anticipate the battle falling quickly
in Ravidel’s favor. When you have access to all five
colors as well as artifacts, you have much quicker
response capability than just two colors, especially
ones as disioined as White and Red.
indeed, Ravidel (who seems to rely on Black to do
most of his dirty work) snuffs Carthalion's White
casting ability with a Sink Hole. This forces g
Carthalion to rely solely on Red, which, with its
direct damage dealing ability, is single-minded
at best. As a result, Ravidel can anticipate what's
coming. Carthalion retaliates quickly, launching
a Fireball towards Ravidel’s barge. Unfortunately for
him, Ravidel is prepared with a Blue Elemental Blast
to counter it. Next, Ravidel begins his attack.
having Orcs and Elves armed with Rocket Launchers
assault Carthalion’ssoldiers. Orcs and Elves working
together is unusual (though Red and Green working
together can be effective). but it seems to do the
L
trick. Carthalion’s forces fall by the wayside
as Ravidel solidifies his control.
Next comes an interesting exchange in the battle.
Carthalion breaks his current strategy of direct dam-
age in casting a spell on Ravidel's barge—Earthbind.
I got the feel of the Earthbind spell as the Barge
started to crash down upon the battlefield. This is
countered, however, by a well placed Disenchant
spell. With the Earthbind gone, Ravidel takes the
reigns of command yet again.
Along these same lines, I find it a little difficult
to understand Ravidel’s use of White mana. He seems
especially black, the antithesis of White. Disenchani
seems to be the only White spell he uses for this
progresses, eh?
Anyhow, Ravidel shuts down most of Carthalion’s
mana use with Volcanic Eruption. His back is against
the wall now, as his sources of mana are now
dwindling. Carthalion anticipates the worst, and
wisely prepares for a well placed Backdraft spell; he
may have a mountain or two to fall back on, yet.
Carthalion casts a Pyrotechnics spell, yet another
direct damage attempt against Ravidel. For the sake
of the story and for play this is good, even if his
chances of successfully getting the spell to work are
minimal. It might make Ravidel mad enough to act
before he thinks.
it iust so happens that is exactly what occurs.
Ravidel, through “toying” with Carthalion, casts
Siphon Soul. Draining the life-essence of Lord
Carthalion, as well as those of the Spellsquire, and
Jared; it locks his win in place as our hero falls.
Ravidel pays a price, however, as the spell
Backdrafts upon himself. and he takes half as much
damage from the spell as the good guys did. lie wins,
but it is at a considerable cost.
Okay now, let’s move on to the end of the story.
The section i want to mention isn't a battle. but it is
a fantastic spell exchange. it is over seven years later
and the only remnant of Jared’s father is the Red
Mana Battery that Jared now possesses. Over time,
the glow of stored mana has remained, though Jared
doesn’t quite understand the potential. Ravidel uses
some untra-cool Glasses of llrza to see what Jared
possesses. After understanding the consequences of
the unchecked Red Mana Battery, he calls forth an
Aerathi Berserker—a formidable foe-to smite Jared
and sieze the Battery. Ravidel sends him through a
rift to directly assault Jared.
Here’s where things get interesting. The Berserker
begins to rampage toward Jared and the Spellsquire.
The Squire casts Ashnod’s Transmogrant on the
Berserker, actually beefing it up by turning it’s skin
to a ceramic-like stone. Here's the trick though
 it’snow an artifact creature. and thusly affected by
spells that affect artifacts. lared. managing to tap into
the Red Mana Battery, casts Detonate. Not only does
the Berserker die. but Ravidel takes some serious
damage for controlling the Berserker. Jared.
however, suffers from mana burn for not controlling
the spell entirely—but he wins the exchange.
Overall, the battle at the beginning of the story
seemed pretty one sided, but Carthalion had some
moments. He did. at the end, expect defeat and
prepare to. at least, take Ravidel down a notch
or two. Such is the power of Red. You can dish out
damage until the cows come home. but you rarely
can prevent it to yourself unless it is a very specified
form of damag Carthalion's loss of his White
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capability early on hurt tremendously. for White’s
healing and protective ability when used with Red’s
direct damage is a single-tracked, but effective
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combination. If the shield is gone. the opponent will
fall all that much more quickly.
As for the finale—keep that exchange in mind if you
play Red. That’s some pretty sharp playing there if
you like Detonate. which not only eliminates any
artifact, but the controller of the artifact takes some
damage as well...ouch!
Kudos to the teamthat made the comic for a pretty good
and accurate first big battle. Nice touch with the finale;
watch for subtle playing hints like that in the future.
Fear not. I‘ll be here to keep my eye out for them as well.
Let’s hope the battles and exchanges in the future are as
good...and may you never run out of mana!
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would love to work. It's a place where aliens.
dinosaurs, vampires and gothic rock intermin-
gle. and all the root beer you could ever want is
on tap in the employee lunch room!
The people at Wizards of the Coast respond to
intelligence and passion. They listened to a lot
of pitches to do a Magic: The Gathering comic
book, but they chose Acclaim Comics because
they truly believed we had the passion to do
Magic right! It's my job to see to it that we do
just that so here's what you can expect:
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Coast’s official history and chronology.
2.Articles and previews in the back of each of our issues.
taking you behind the scenes at both Armada Comics and
Wizards of the Coast. You’ll learn about the making of each of
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5.More information about the world of Dominaria. the new Senior v.1).
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creatures that populate it.
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Marketing Director
Bozyan. and Rafael Soler for their hard work in
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