Sunday, January 30, 2005

Revelations from Winter Fantasy

Thanks to Citizen Fry on the Wizards boards:

No exclusive promos at winter fantasy...sigh. However, they have a TON of Mina promo minis...as in, a CASE of them. That says "Mina promo" on the side. WOW. They're not just giving them away though...they are at the high end of what you can get out of league.

Revelation, the first: one of the WotC guys came right out and said "Mina is two sets away." That means, not DK, yes Angelfire.

Revelation the second: they had a huge, beautiful picture of a DK booster.
The big picture on the front was the Beholder; you could also see the side, that had pictures of three actual minis. One was the Bullywug thug we've already seen. Another was some sort of lizardfolk or saurian rogue (a Kenku). Last figure: big undead looking fellow all in black, with a huge scythe and several skulls hanging from his belt. When I looked at him, I thought "some sort of super-buff wraith". However, I overheard some other people speculating "Aspect of Nerull" and I see how they could say that. It didn't look exactly like the MHB representation, but with the big scythe...

I asked Ian Richards if he thought my Umber Hulks would be commandable any time soon. He laughed. HARD.

Citizen Fry has also posted a couple of tournament reports from Winter Fantasy.