Last week, we had a pretty disappointing showing in form of “Levelers’ Scorn”, a Blue-Black deck loosely themed around the Level Up mechanic that allows you to pump senseless amounts of mana into creatures to make them a little better and overall still underwhelming. Imagine my joy when I saw that this weeks’ entry was called “Levelers’ Glory”, meaning that I have yet more of the dreaded leveler creatures to go over. This time, the deckbuilders decided that White-Blue is the way to go, but since I don’t have much hope for the mechanic to begin with I can only expect the worst going over this package. Let us see whether I can still be pleasantly surprised by the cardboard at hand.

Another Wednesday, another Intro Pack. Currently, I am in the middle of Rise of the Eldrazi, with the last two entries being pretty solid decks in their own right with a Red-Green Aggro deck that ramps to bring out big Eldrazi beaters, while the other deck was Black-Red and really took more of a numbers’ approach to Aggro, using the 0/1 Eldrazi Spawns for more than just mana generation. Well, today we actually take a step away from Eldrazis and instead work with a Blue-Black deck that wants to use creatures with Level Up to get impressive creatures onto the field. Whether it is successful in doing so remains to be seen; in the article down below.

Intro Pack number two from Rise of the Eldrazi is what we are going to look at today, and I can tell you right now that the deckbuilding team at WotC really fell in love with Eldrazi, since this is the second deck that makes use of them thematically; and I can only guess that there are more to come. Well, today’s entry is “Invading Spawn”, a Black-Red deck that brings the creepy crawlers in form of Eldrazi Spawns into play as a major focus. Let’s not waste any time and get to look at what the deckbuilders were cooking here.