I’m going to buck today’s trend of posts about people asking you for your hard-earned cash and give you some news that will effectively double your spending power! Wizards of the Coast has announced a pretty cool deal – this weekend only, if you buy $15 of WotC product at a participating store, you get to choose from one of four gifts (all of which retail for about $15 themselves):

• A Magic the Gathering half-deck (these are the cheapest item being given away, going for about $10 online)
• A D&D Miniatures Demonweb booster pack
• A Star Wars Miniatures Clone Wars Starter Set
• The Orc King by RA Salvatore in hardcover (this is the priciest item, retailing for about $28)

Now for the bad news – this offer is only available in the US, its territories and Canada.

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Chill, the generic horror roleplaying game from the early 1980s, is ready for release in a third edition. But OtherWorld Creations is seeking help in producing a full-color hardcover print edition. To raise money for the print run, the company is taking preorder commitments through the website Fundable. Patrons who pledge a minimum of $45 (a discount of at least $10 from the post-release price) will receive the game shipped to their location. Unfortunately, it’s not actually looking good for the project so far. With only 3 days left, OtherWorld is still $20,000 short. If have what it takes to join Societas Argenti Viae Eternitia (SAVE), now’s the time to speak up.

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Kiva is the first person to person micro-lending site which enables lending money to teeny businesses to help them get off the ground. They boast $35 million in completed loans, with a less than 2% default rate.

They just recently decided to dip their toe into allowing US citizens to ask for loans, given the current economic difficulties. One of the first on the list is Just Awesome, a new FLGS in San Fransisco, looking to raise $7,500 for advertising and inventory. Their pitch page is here.

You can donate as little as $25. One of their current donors is a guy named Arnold whose occupation is governor of California.

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If you saw Mickey Mouse as a wizard in Fantasia and thought to yourself, “Hey, I wonder what his combat stats are?”, you’re in luck.

Wizards of Mickey is a fantasy combat saga from Disney Italy. Mickey, Donald Duck, Goofy, Pluto, Minnie, and so on battle the forces of evil. And like every fantasy cartoon saga, it must have a CCG. Currently in Italian, but being translated to French.

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Wizards is making the biggest changes in ten years to the core rule system for Magic: the Gathering. The last major changes to the rules were for 6th edition. These new changes come into effect with their new core deck system, starting with Magic 2010.

A summary of the changes:

1. Minor change to the order of when players mulligan.
2. Terminology changes: “in play” is now “the battlefield”, “play” is now (back to) “cast”, “removed from the game” is now “in exile”. And “at the end of turn” is now “at the beginning of the end step”, which I’m still laughing about.
3. Goodbye mana burn. It’s gone. Mana pools empty at each step, and that’s it.
4. Tokens are now “owned” by the first person to control them, not the caster of the spell that brought them into play.
5. Damage no longer uses the stack and combat is changed. Most significantly, while declaring blockers, the attacker assigns the ordering of the blockers on his or her creatures. After assigning the order, players can cast spells. THEN damage is dealt, and the attacker must assign at least lethal damage to each blocker, in order, before moving on to the next one. Damage is resolved immediately.
   This is like automatic trample to each successive creature.
6. Deathtouch and lifelink are now state effects.

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