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Congratulations! Hosting a Magic: The Gathering® Prerelease event is the best way to get players excited about Journey into Nyx™ because this is the first opportunity players will have to play with it.
The Journey into Nyx Prerelease also presents players with a special opportunity to open a Prerelease Pack, which contains a specially-designed seeded booster pack. In addition, the Journey into Nyx Prerelease Pack includes a special Hero card, which will continue the players’ journey on the Hero’s Path. You can learn more about the Hero’s Path at MTGHerosPath.com.
Journey into Nyx Prerelease Pack Contents
Each Journey into Nyx Prerelease Pack contains items designed specifically for the chosen color. Journey into Nyx Prerelease Packs and prize support are shipped separately from your Prerelease Kit.
• 2 Journey into Nyx booster packs
• 1 Born of the Gods™ booster pack
• 2 Theros™ booster packs
• 1 seeded booster pack
• 1 promo card
• 1 Forge a Godslayer activity card
• 1 Spindown™ life counter
• 1 Hero’s Path Welcome Letter
• 1 Hero card
Prerelease Kit Materials
• 1 instruction sheet
• 1 score pad
• 10 DCI™ membership cards
• Forge a Godslayer component stickers
• Forge a Godslayer reward stickers
Do not distribute Journey into Nyx product or prizes until the day of your Prerelease tournament. You may not sell or distribute Journey into Nyx before May 2, 2014.
— April 26-27 —
Rival the Gods
Heroes’ Bane enters the battlefield with four +1/+1 counters on it.o2oGoG: Put X +1/+1 counters on Heroes’
Bane, where X is its power.Travelers’ tales claim that hydras bite off their own heads to make themselves deadlier.
0/0™ & © 2014 Wizards of the Coast *126/165 Prerelease
Volkan Baga
Creature — Hydra
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Constellation — Whenever Doomwake Giant or another enchantment enters the battlefield under your control, creatures your opponents control get -1/-1 until end of turn.Crippling fear precedes it. A foul stench
accompanies it. Death follows in its wake.
4/6™ & © 2014 Wizards of the Coast *66/165 Prerelease
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Enchantment Creature — Giant
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26–27 April 2014
FlyingWhen Spawn of Thraxes enters the battlefield, it deals damage to target creature or player equal to the number of Mountains you control.Sparks from Purphoros’s forge fill the belly
of every dragon.
5/5™ & © 2014 Wizards of the Coast *112/165 Prerelease
Jason Rainville
Creature — Dragon
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26–27 April 2014
When Scourge of Fleets enters the battlefield, return each creature your opponents control with toughness X or less to its owner’s hand, where X is the number of Islands you control.
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Adam Paquette
Creature — Kraken
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26–27 April 2014
Flying, lifelinkHeroic — Whenever you cast a spell that targets Dawnbringer Charioteers, put a +1/+1 counter on Dawnbringer Charioteers.“Nyx may belong to the gods, but the skies of Theros are ours.”
2/4™ & © 2014 Wizards of the Coast *6/165 Prerelease
Volkan Baga
Creature — Human Soldier
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— April 26-27 —
Rival the Gods
— April 26-27 —— April 26-27 —
Rival the Gods
There are five Journey into Nyx Prerelease Packs, one for each color. Each comes with a seeded booster pack that corresponds with that color. When registering for the Prerelease tournament, each player chooses a Prerelease Pack. The seeded booster pack will assist players in building a deck by providing a starting point in their chosen color. Each seeded booster pack contains a Journey into Nyx Prerelease promo card, which players may include in their tournament decks.
Journey into Nyx Prerelease Packs also include the seventh Hero card, which is used in the Hero’s Path. Hero cards are special cards that have a unique code on the back which
can be redeemed for a badge and achievement on PlaneswalkerPoints.com. Players should save their Hero cards to use against the “Defeat a God” Challenge Deck at Journey into Nyx Game Day.
Forge a Godslayer— Choosing a Journey into Nyx™ Prerelease Pack
Prerelease Pack Primary Color
Forged in Glory WhiteForged in Intellect Blue
Forged in Tyranny BlackForged in War Red
Forged in Pursuit Green
Completing the “Forge a Godslayer” Activity Card— Component Stickers and Reward Stickers
Players will receive a Forge a Godslayer activity card in their Journey into Nyx Prerelease Packs. The Forge a Godslayer activity card is how players earn their fully-powered seventh Hero card while playing Magic™.
Players will receive component stickers as they complete matches. Different combinations of component stickers will lead to a reward sticker, an ability that players will place on their Hero Equipment cards.
Whenever two players complete a match, the winner chooses one of the three types of component stickers. The other player chooses from among the remaining two types. The last component sticker is discarded. Each group of three stickers comes on perforated sheets, so
distributing them to each table between rounds will help your event run smoothly.
When a player completes the activity card, that player receives a reward sticker to place on his or her Hero Equipment card based on the component stickers that player has collected (while supplies last).
Equipped creature gets +2/+0 and has
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Hero Artifact — Equipment
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Hero Artifact — Equipment
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Hero Artifact — Equipment
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Hero Artifact — Equipment
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Hero Artifact — Equipment
Bow of the Hunter
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Equipped creature has double strike.
Whenever equipped creature deals
damage, untap two target lands.
Equipped creature has vigilance and
can block an additional creature each
combat.
Whenever equipped creature deals
damage, put a +1/+1 counter on it.
Whenever equipped creature deals
damage, scry 1.
Equipped creature has protection from
enchantments.
Whenever equipped creature deals
damage, put a 1/1 white Soldier creature
token onto the battlefield.
Prerelease Events
Stores may run up to three events at Core level, or six at Advanced level. Future Prerelease product allocations are based on participation in these main events. You may run your events as Sealed Deck or Two-Headed Giant Sealed Deck at any time on April 26–27, 2014. Prereleases do not have side events.
Each player receives one Journey into Nyx™ Prerelease Pack of his or her choice (while supplies last).
Players may use the promo cards included in their Prerelease Packs in their sealed decks.
Event Information
The minimum deck size for Sealed Deck is 40 cards. Please allow players time to construct a deck. Newer players may need more time than experienced players, so allow at least 30 minutes for deckbuilding.
Sealed Deck—Each player receives 1 Journey into Nyx Prerelease Pack to build a deck.
Two-Headed Giant Sealed Deck—Each team of two players receives 2 Journey into Nyx Prerelease Packs to build decks (players may use cards from either pack in their decks; the colors do not need to be the same).
The tournament should be run Swiss-style with players of the same record playing each other. A single-elimination cut is optional, but not recommended. Wizards Event Reporter will handle all of the details for you.
Entry Fee and Prizes
Entry fees may include cost of player product and any additional prize support you wish to offer.
• Decide and announce the prize payout before the tournament begins.
• All free product provided to you must be given out over the course of your Prerelease events. We recommend a prize pool that contains a minimum of 2 boosters per player. You may give out additional Journey Into Nyx booster packs as prizes while your supplies last.
• We encourage you to add on other non-Journey Into Nyx prize support at your own discretion.
Other than your Prerelease prizes, no Journey into Nyx product may be used or given away until the official release date: May 2, 2014.
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Open Dueling
Open Dueling is for newer players who may not be comfortable building a sealed deck. Open Dueling should be reported as casual play (player list only) in Wizards Event Reporter.
Open Dueling players each receive one Journey into Nyx™ Intro Pack.
Open Dueling players play against each other, as well as Prerelease tournament players who are between matches. All players should be encouraged to help teach Open Dueling participants how to play Magic™.
Use Wizards Event Reporter to Schedule and Report Your Events
Be sure to visit Wizards.com/WPN for the latest version of Wizards Event Reporter (WER) and the latest news on Wizards products and events. It’s your best resource for everything you need to run great events at your store.
Use WER to report all play, including casual events, at your store. Your customers will earn Planeswalker Points for playing at your location.
For questions or concerns, please contact our Customer Service team or the WPN Support Team at Wizards.com/CustomerService or 1-800-324-6496 (within the US and Canada) or 1-425-204-8069. In other countries, please refer to the Global Contact list here: Wizards.com/WPN/Support.aspx.
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