Template:Featarticle/September 2009

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Contents 1 September 1-13, 2009 1.1 Featured Article of the Week 1.2 Featured Article to Improve of the Week 2 September 13-27, 2009 2.1 Featured Article of the Week 2.2 Featured Article to Improve of the Week 3 September 28-30, 2009 3.1 Featured Article of the Week 3.2 Featured Article to Improve of the Week

[edit] September 1-13, 2009

[edit] Featured Article of the Week

The Alara block is the fifteenth and latest block consisting of the large expansion Shards of Alara () and two small expansions, Conflux () and Alara Reborn (). The block came out in 2008-2009.

Keywords introduced in this block: devour, exalted, unearth, cascade.

Keywords/ability words reused from the past: cycling, domain, typecycling.

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Duels of the Planeswalkers is a Magic game that came out June 17, 2009 for the Xbox.

It features a planeswalker called Nissa Revane from the upcoming Zendikar set as an adversary.

[edit] September 13-27, 2009

[edit] Featured Article of the Week

Planechase is a set of four "game packs", each consisting of ten oversized plane cards, a 60-card deck, a six-sided planar die and a strategy insert with multiplayer rules. The MSRP for an individual pack is $19.99. The set was released on September 4th, 2009, with release events held September 4-6.

The plane cards represent specific locations on planes in the Magic storyline, introducing "a groundbreaking new way to experience planeswalking". The theme decks are tournament legal and will each contain eight rares. Additionally, there will be a different preview card from the upcoming set Zendikar in each of the four decks.

Planechase introduces a new casual format named Planar Magic, which simulates traveling between different planes using the new plane cards. The set comes with a six-sided planar dice, that features the planeswalker symbol on one face, the chaos symbol on another and four blank faces.

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Masters Edition III is a online-only product for Magic Online, that was released September 7, 2009.

[edit] September 28-30, 2009

[edit] Featured Article of the Week

Duels of the Planeswalkers is a Magic game that came out June 17, 2009 for the Xbox 360 on Xbox Live Marketplace.

It features a planeswalker called Nissa Revane from the upcoming Zendikar set as an adversary.

Purchases of the game are given a code, which they can redeem for a promotional alternate art Garruk Wildspeaker.

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Rafiq is a Knight from Bant. As the son of a baker, he was born as a Mortar. He hailed from Eos.

Rafiq is also known as the Grand Champion of Sigils and Knight-Captain of the Reliquary.