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Clint Dempsey´s goal. Fastest goal so far in this World Cup.

2014-06-16T15:17:00.001-07:00

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Sami Khedira open goal miss vs Portugal

2014-06-16T10:47:00.003-07:00

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Mullers Hattrick goal vs Portugal

2014-06-16T10:47:00.001-07:00

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Messi goal against Bosnia and Herzegovina

2014-06-15T16:49:00.003-07:00

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Bosnia goal vs Argentina

2014-06-15T16:49:00.001-07:00

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Bosnia's early own goal vs. Argentina

2014-06-15T15:17:00.001-07:00

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Benzema's Second (or Third) Goal Courtesy of /u/FOOTBALL_GIF_MAESTRO

2014-06-15T14:17:00.001-07:00

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Benzema second goal vs honduras

2014-06-15T13:47:00.005-07:00

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First relevant use of goal line technology

2014-06-15T13:47:00.003-07:00

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Benzema Goal vs Hondoras (3-0)

2014-06-15T13:47:00.001-07:00

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Seferovic goal against Ecuador

2014-06-15T11:16:00.003-07:00

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Severovic's winning goal against Ecaudor.

2014-06-15T11:16:00.001-07:00

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Enner Valencia goal vs. Switzerland

2014-06-15T09:33:00.001-07:00

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The New York Red Bulls were just knocked out of America's domestic cup by cross-town rivals New York Cosmos - Here's Mads Stokkelien's winning goal

2014-06-14T21:15:00.001-07:00

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Resources: BR lands

2012-12-29T00:08:00.003-08:00

After UB lands, it's time for BR lands, lets follow the color order of Magic after all. Again, it's two allied color, that like chaos and doing pain. Red and Black in Magic are meant to be friends!

Biland
Badlands

Bounceland
Rakdos Carnarium

Depletion lands
Cinder Marsh
Lantern-Lit Graveyard
Lava Tubes

Fetchland
Rocky Tar Pit
Bloodstained Mire

Filterland
Graven Cairns
Shadowblood Ridge

Manland
Lavaclaw Reaches

Painland
Sulfurous Springs

Shockland
Blood Crypt

Storage land
Molten Slagheap

Tainted land
Tainted Peak

Tapland

Akoum Refuge<:a>

Blackcleave Cliffs

Dragonskull Summit
Rakdos Guildgate

Tresserhorn Sinks

Urborg Volcano

Resources: UB lands

2012-12-16T00:22:00.002-08:00

It's time now for a list of UB lands that will be useful for your UB commander deck. You have a lot of strong lands to choose from, many taplands variants, some are very powerful like the M10 lands and the Scars of Mirrodin land. With that, you'll be able to build a steady lands base.

Biland
Underground Sea

Bounceland
Dimir Aqueduct

Depletion lands
River Delta
Rootwater Depths
Waterveil Cavern

Fetchland
Bad River
Polluted Delta

Filter land
Darkwater Catacombs
Sunken Ruins

Future Sight land
River of Tears

Manland
Creeping Tar Pit

Pain land
Underground River

Shock land
Watery Grave

Storage land
Dreadship Reef

Tainted land
Tainted Island

Tap land
Darkslick Shores
Drowned Catacomb
Frost Marsh
Jwar Isle Refuge
Salt Marsh

Random card #9: Curse of the Pierced Heart

2012-12-07T23:26:00.000-08:00

Innistrad introduced a new subtype for enchantment: curse. They are auras that can enchant any player. Curse are in every color but not in green. It's weird that we have white curse, according to the story of Innistrad, white is the 'good' color. Why would white mage curse someone? Curse doesn't have any rules attached to it, but other cards can refer to it.

Curse had been in common to rare, so we have powerful quite to lame card.

This card is not too bad, but not too good either. This curse will slowly reduces life of a player and grinds his last life point. It reminds us of card like Wanderlust. You can't control when you want to use it, since it will trigger only during the player's upkeep.

So, infortunately, this card don't work with bloodthirst creature. It could have been more interesting if it triggers during your upkeep.

In Limited, it can help you win since games tend to last longer than in other formats. Other than that, this card isn't really playable.

Resources: WU lands

2012-12-01T01:44:00.001-08:00

A list of UW land that will be useful for your UW commander deck. You have a lot of strong lands to choose from, many taplands variants, some are very powerful like the M10 lands and the Scars of Mirrodin land. With that, you'll be able to build a steady lands base.

Biland
Tundra

Bounceland
Azorius Chancery

Depletion lands
Cloudcrest Lake
Land Cap
Thalakos Lowlands

Fetchland
Flood Plain
Flooded Strand

Filterland
Mystic Gate
Skycloud Expanse

Future Sight land
Nimbus Maze

Manland
Celestial Colonnade

Painland
Adarkar Wastes

Shockland
Hallowed Fountain

Storage land
Calciform Pools

Tapland
Azorius Guildgate
Boreal Shelf
Coastal Tower
Glacial Fortress
Seachrome Coast
Sejiri Refuge

Random card #8: Ravenous Rats

2012-11-24T00:39:00.000-08:00

This card was printed for the first time in Urza's Destiny. It's a small creature with a 'comes into play ability', something that was quite new at the time, because it was first introduced in Visions about one year before.

'Comes into play' abilities in term of design allows designer to create a lot of different creature and make the game simpler because after the first turn, this type of creatures are just 'vanilla' creature. It make them more appealing. Otherwise, will you play a 1/1 for 2 ?

It's an efficient card, you will be able to discard a card from your opponent most of the time since you can play it early. And it's a rat, you can play it in a tribal deck with rats. You can also play him with rats with the ninjitsu ability. And then play it again.

There are many ways to efficiently get him back into your hand. One of them is to play with Skull Collector from Saviors of Kamigawa. Get it back every upkeep and annoy your opponent! It won't cost you too much, just 2 mana per turn. This expansion featured a 'card in hand' matters theme, because in Kamigawa block, many abilities worked well with a lot of card in hand, or made you with cards in hand (ninjutsu, soulshift, splice into arcane...).

It looks like a 'staple card' of Magic, a card that had been reprinted many times, because it's a simple, clear card and with a good effect.

Resources: Red X spells and RG X spells

2012-11-16T23:35:00.001-08:00

Red is the king for X spells, since Alpha, there were Disintegrate, Fireball and Earthquake!

But Hydra creatures had been moved out of red to green. Most of its X spells is a way to deal damages, either by targeting creatures or player or by dealing damages to each of them!
So here is a list of spells with an X cost in their casting cost and/or their abilities.

You'll also find RG spells with an X cost. There are just two of them!

There's also a spell with a really weird cost that comes from Unglued.

Non creature spells

XR

Balduvian Rage
Banefire
Blaze
Demonfire
Detonate
Devil's Play
Disintegrate
Dwarven Catapult
Earthquake
Enrage
Fireball
Flaming Gambit
Ghitu Fire
Heat Ray
Illuminate
Kaervek's Torch
Lava Burst
Meltdown
Outmaneuver
Red Sun's Zenith
Rock Slide
Rolling Earthquake
Scorched Earth
Street Spasm
Timecrafting
Wave of Indifference

XRR

Blazing Shoal
Comet Storm
Fanning the Flames
Fault Line
Firecat Blitz
Magmaquake
Molten Disaster
Rolling Thunder
Starstorm
Tectonic Break
Titan's Revenge
Volcanic Geyser

XRRR
Unwilling Recruit

XYZRR
The Ultimate Nightmare of Wizards of the Coast(R) Customer Service

Creature spells

Balduvian Hydra
Lightning Serpent
Rock Hydra
Volcano Hellion

RG Spells
Apocalypse Hydra
Savage Twister

Resources: Green X spells

2012-11-10T04:25:00.001-08:00

This is a resource for green X spells that should be really helpful. These spells all have X somewhere, either in their casting cost or in their abilities.

Green X spells can be divided into many categories: non creature spells that feature many hurricane type spells (they help you deal X damages to each flying creature) or spells that let you create a creature token or spells that help you boost your creature and creatures with their size which depends of the amount of mana spent for X. Most of these creatures are of the type 'hydra'.

Non creature spells

G
Helix Pinnacle

X{Phi}G
Corrosive Gale

XG

Choking Vines
Enshrined Memories
Green Sun's Zenith
Hurricane
Mana Bloom
Molder
New Frontiers
Serene Sunset
Slime Molding
Stream of Life
Thrive
Tropical Storm
Untamed Might
Windstorm
Winter Blast
Wurmcalling

XGG

Borrowing the East Wind
Flock of Rabid Sheep
Nourishing Shoal
Squall Line
Strength of the Tajuru
Weird Harvest

X2G
Tribal Unity

XGGG
Chord of Calling
Genesis Wave

XXG
Gelatinous Genesis

Creature spells

G
Magus of the Candelabra

XG
Feral Hydra
Ivy Elemental

XGG
Primordial Hydra
Krakilin

3G
Fungal Behemoth

3GG
Silklash Spider

4GG
Verdeloth the Ancient

Random card #7: Court Homunculus

2012-10-31T08:17:00.001-07:00

Court Homunculus is a common card from Conflux, the second expansion of the Alara block. This plane is divided in 5 "shards" in the beginning. This creature is from the Esper Shard, composed of white, blue and black color. In this shard, each permanent is an artifact card. Esper permanents are colored artifact, something that was only seen before with Transguild Courier from Dissenssion and Sarcomite Myr from Future Sight.

Transguild Courier is special since it's in every color and Sarcomite Myr was a hint to colored artifact in the Future Sight expansion. It was aimed to show colored artifact that will appears in Scars of Mirrodin. But it was a perfect fit for Esper, so colored was not used in Scars of Mirrodin.

This is an solid, aggressive creature, a good 1 drop creature, since you only need one another artifact to boost him. That's something that could be easily done with Esper card, an equipment that cost 0 for example (Bonesaw), but also card from Mirrodin, like artifact land. Nevertheless, it's quite fragile so be sure to do a early great amount of damages with him.

The art was made by Matt Cavotta, there are two little cute homoculus standing above small pylones and their cloths and cape make them look like taller.

Random card #10: City of Solitude

2012-10-31T08:08:00.001-07:00

City of Solitude

This card was printed in Visions in a time where counterspells were dominant. At that time, creatures were not as strong as nowadays. Counter draw deck were possible at that time and it was a favorite style of play for a great portion of players. Like land destruction deck.

Green color is an blue ennemy color, it needed something good against its main force. For them, this card is a must-counter. Otherwise, plenty of counters will be useless and stay in their hands.

This is a really good sideboard card and a card you must have in your Commander deck if you have a pesky blue mage playing with you.

It's a double edge-sword, all players are affected by its effect, even you. Moreover played in multiple times, it won't help because it's an enchantment with an effect which doesn't stack. But at least if you put more than one in your deck, it will put pressure to your opponent who will have to counter each of it.

It's a versatile card, since any players won't also be able to play combat tricks during an opponent's turn.

Resources: White Blink spells

2012-10-30T03:47:00.000-07:00

Blink are called like this because of a great card in Time Spiral : Momentary Blink.

What is so great with this card ?
First, you can protect a creature from a spell that destroy it. Second, you can have an 'enter the battlefield effect' if you play it on a creature with one. Obviously, that's always useful.

Third, when this card was released, damages were put on the stack. So it means that you can deal damages and 'blink' your creature to save it. It was of course a huge combat trick.

For players, this kind of effect was then called 'blink' and in their mind it's a white or blue effect. But in fact, it was a effect that first appears in a white card in Urza's Destiny. Moreover it wasn't called 'blink' but 'flicker'. The idea behind this card, it's that white can let things be shaped anew, and start a new life.

Therefore, many cards allowed players to :
- blink a permanent you control
- blink any permanent
- blink many permanents

And we can distinguish two timings. In the first one, the permanent comes back in the battlefield right away, let's called it 'instant blink'.

In the second one, the permanents come back at the beginning of the next end phase. We can called it 'delayed blink'.

Blink cards had been a part of Magic for quite a long time now and also part of the white color. It was even really present in Avacyn Restored.

So let's start with a listing of white blink spells sorted by cost. These spells allows the player to 'blink' permanents.

1CC
Cloudshift
Planar Guide

2CC
Flicker
Liberate
Momentary Blink
Otherworldly Journey
Ruin Ghost

3CC
Astral Slide
Flickerwisp
Ghostway

4CC
Flickerform
Galepowder Mage
Glimmerpoint Stag
Restoration Angel

6CC
Sudden Disappearance

In another article, I'll publish blue, multicolor and artifact blink spells.

Resources: Blue, artifact and multicolor blink spells

2012-10-27T01:34:00.002-07:00

Non white blinks spells are not in a lot of number, but each of them are quite good.

Blue blink card

1CC

Nephalia Smuggler

3CC
Ghostly Flicker

6CC
Deadeye Navigator

multicolor blink spells

2CC
Mistmeadow Witch
Turn to Mist

4CC
Vanish into Memory

5CC

Venser, the Sojourner

Artifact blink spells

1CC
Voyager Staff

5CC
Conjurer's Closet