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Weekly Shonen Jump 55th anniversary appendix in Weekly Shonen Jump 2023 issue #33

1968 Weekly Shonen Jump Issue #1 Otoko Ippiki Gaki-Daisho by Hiroshi Motomiya 1969 Dr. Toilet by Kazuyoshi Torii 1970 The Gutsy Frog by Yasumi Yoshizawa 1971 Tezuka Manga Award 1st Edition Samurai Giants by Ikki Kajiwara & Ko Inoue Boy of the Wilderness Isamu by Soji Yamakawa & Noboru Kawasaki 1972 Astro Kyudan by Shiro Tōzaki & Norihiro Nakajima 1973 Play Ball by Akio Chiba Hochonin Ajihei by Jiro Gyu & Jo Big 1974 Akatsuka Manga Award 1st Edition 1975 The Circuit Wolf by Satoshi Ikezawa Doberman Deka by Buronson & Shinji Hiramatsu 1976 Toudai Icchokusen by Yoshinori Kobayashi Kochikame by Osamu Akimoto 1977 Ring ni Kakero by Masami Kurumada Susume!! Pirates by Hisashi Eguchi 1978 Cobra by Buichi Terasawa 1979 Kinnikuman by Yudetamago 1980 Dr. Slump by Akira Toriyama 1981 Captain Tsubasa by Yoichi Takahashi Cat's Eye by Tsukasa Hojo Stop!! Hibari-kun! by Hisashi Eguchi 1982 High School! Kimengumi by Motoei Shinzawa 1983 Fist of the North Star by Buronson & Tetsuo Hara Ginga -Nagareboshi Gin- by Yoshihiro Takahashi 1984 DRAGON BALL by Akira Toriyama 1985 City Hunter by Tsukasa Hojo Miraculous Tonchinkan by Koichi Endo Sakigake!! Otokojuku by Akira Miyashita 1986 Saint Seiya by Masami Kurumada 1987 JoJo's Bizarre Adventure by Hirohiko Araki The Burning Wild Man by Tadashi Sato 1988 Bastard!! by Kazushi Hagiwara Jungle King Tar-chan by Masaya Tokuhiro Rokudenashi BLUES by Masanori Morita Magical Taluluto by Tatsuya Egawa 1989 Weekly Shonen Jump reaches 5.000.000 copies in circulation Dragon Quest: The Great Adventure of Dai by Riku Sanjo & Koji Inada Video Girl Ai by Masakazu Katsura 1990 SLAM DUNK by Takehiko Inoue Chinyuki by Man Gataro Yu Yu Hakusho by Yoshihiro Togashi 1992 Hareluya II Boy by Haruto Umezawa 1993 Tottemo! Luckyman by Hiroshi Gamo Hell Teacher Nube by Makura Sho & Takeshi Okano 1994 Midori no Makibao by Tsunomaru Rurouni Kenshin by Nobuhiro Watsuki 1995 Weekly Shonen Jump reaches 6.530.000 copies in circulation Sexy Commando Gaiden: Sugoi yo!! Masaru-san by Kyosuke Usuta 1996 Hoshin Engi by Ryu Fujisaki Yu-Gi-Oh! by Kazuki Takahashi Kochikame 20th Anniversary & Chapter 1000 1997 I's by Masakazu Katsura Seikimatsu Leader den Takeshi! by Mitsutoshi Shimabukuro ONE PIECE by Eiichiro Oda 1998 Rookies by Masanori Morita Whistle! by Daisuke Higuchi HUNTERXHUNTER by Yoshihiro Togashi 1999 Hikaru no Go by Yumi Hotta & Takeshi Obata The Prince of Tennis by Takeshi Konomi NARUTO by Masashi Kishimoto 2000 JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean by Hirohiko Araki BLACK CAT by Kentaro Yabuki 2001 Bobobobo Bobobo by Yoshio Sawai BLEACH by Tite Kubo 2002 Strawberry 100% by Mizuki Kawashita Eyeshield 21 by Riichiro Inagaki & Yusuke Murata 2004 Death Note by Tsugumi Ohba & Takeshi Obata Gintama by Hideaki Sorachi Katekyo Hitman Reborn! by Akira Amano D.Gray-man by Katsura Hoshino Muhyo & Roji's Bureau of Supernatural Investigation by Yoshiyuki Nishi 2005 Neuro: Supernatural Detective by Yusei Matsui 2006 To Love Ru by Saki Hasemi & Kentaro Yabuki 2007 Sket Dance by Kenta Shinohara 2008 Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan by Hiroshi Shiibashi Toriko by Mitsutoshi Shimabukuro Bakuman. by Tsugumi Ohba & Takeshi Obata 2009 Kuroko's Basketball by Tadatoshi Fujimaki Beelzebub by Ryuhei Tamura Medaka Box by Nisio Isin & Akira Akatsuki 2010 ONE PIECE New World Begins 2011 Nisekoi by Naoshi Komi 2012 Haikyu!! by Haruichi Furudate The Disastrous Life of Saiki K. by Shuichi Aso Assassination Classroom by Yusei Matsui Food Wars: Shokugeki no Soma by Yuto Tsukuda & Shun Saeki 2013 World Trigger by Daisuke Ashihara Isobe Isobee Monogatari by Ryo Nakama 2014 Hinomaru Zumo by Kawada My Hero Academia by Kohei Horikoshi 2015 Black Clover by Yuki Tabata 2016 Yuuna and the Haunted Hot Springs by Tadahiro Miura Kimetsu no Yaiba by Koyoharu Gotouge BORUTO by Mikio Ikemoto & Ukyo Kodachi The Promised Neverland by Kaiu Shirai & Posuka Demizu Kochikame 40th Anniversary and Serialization End 2017 We Never Learn by Taishi Tsutsui Dr. STONE by Riichiro Inagaki & Boichi 2018 Jujutsu Kaisen by Akutami Gege

2019 Chainsaw Man by Tatsuki Fujimoto Mission: Yozakura Family by Hitsuji Gondaira 2020 Undead Unluck by Yoshifumi Tozuka MASHLE by Hajime Komoto Ayakashi Triangle by Kentaro Yabuki Me & Roboco by Shuhei Miyazaki BURN THE WITCH by Tite Kubo SAKAMOTO DAYS by Yuto Suzuki 2021 The Elusive Samurai by Yusei Matsui WITCH WATCH by Kenta Shinohara Blue Box by Kouji Miura 2022 Akane Banashi by Yuki Suenaga & Takamasa Moue

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Japanese horror films (recommendations)

Theres a few i want to share, some of these are popular with the horror community in general and some just within people who are interested in these themes!!

starting off with some well known:

Ring (1998; directed by Hideo Nakata)

Ju-On: The Grudge (2002; directed by Takashi Shimizu)

Perfect Blue (1997; directed by Satoshi Kon)

Godzilla (1954;directed by Honda Ishirō)

Ichi the Killer (2001; directed by Takashi Miike)

Audition (1999; directed by Takashi Miike)

House (1977; directed by Nobuhiko Ôbayashi)

A Page of Madness (1926; directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa)

Kuroneko (1968; directed by Kaneto Shindō)

Onibaba (1964; directed by Kaneto Shindo)

Horrors of Malformed Men (1969; directed by Teruo Ishii)

Kwaidan (1964; directed by Masaki Kobayashi)

Tokyo G0re Police (2008; directed by Yoshihiro Nishimura)

Gozu (2003; directed by Takashi Miike)

Three... Extremes (2004; directed by Fruit Chan, Takashi Miike, Park Chan Wook)

The Sinners of Hell (1960; directed by Nobuo Nakagawa)

Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989; directed by Shinya Tsukamoto)

slightly less known:

Meatball Machine (2005; directed by Yūdai Yamaguchi)

Girl Hell 1999 (directed by Daisuke Yamanouch)

Noriko's Dinner Table (2005; directed by Sion Sono)

Naked Bl00d (1996; directed by Hisayasu Satō)

Shogun's Sad1sm (1976; Yuji Makiguchi)

Vampire Clay (2017; directed by Sôichi Umezawa)

Marebito (2004; directed by Takashi Shimizu)

Cold Fish (2010; directed by Sion Sono)

Grotesque (2009; directed by Kōji Shiraishi)

Strange Circus (2005; directed by Sion Sono)

And my personal favorite 1991s 964 pinnochio !!

I tried not to put too much exploitati0n/ extreme horror on here. I based them on how much people on social media talk/have talked about them.

Also is it obvious i love Takashi Miike.

If you need any more Japanese or in general horror from other countries/places i got u!!

Enjoy :D

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Which character do you think has directly killed the most characters with Legendary Creature cards? (Inspired by the cause of death segment in your ongoing dead legends Twitter thread)

Most confirmed Legend kills is a tough number to hit, because do you count indirect kills? I also may have mislabeled a death or two to not make it easy to attribute it to a character. And what about assists? Now, my numbers aren't perfect because I don't have a good attribution system, but here are my thoughts.

Tetsuo Umezawa has the most direct kills. As in, he's personally killed five other Legends: Xira Arien, Boris Devilboon, Ramses Overdark, and Orca, as well as Nicol Bolas, even if Bolas got better.

Liliana Vess has personally killed Josu Vess, Kothophed, Belzenlok, and Griselbrand, and killed Razaketh in a team effort with the Gatewatch. She's up there too. There's probably more I missed.

Kaya is no slouch either, with four confirmed direct kills in Brago, Grandfather Karlov, the Obzedat (if we only count it as one), and Heliod.

Kamahl, Crovax, Halfdane, Liliana, the Scorpion God each have three solo kills

Nicol Bolas hasn't killed Legends directly very often. He killed Bontu directly, and through the Scorpion God, three of the other gods. He'd also twisted the original three Insect gods, although we never see those forms. And through minions he killed Jazal Goldmane and others, it'd be hard to get an exact figure. He's definitely responsible for the largest number of Legendary card deaths, even if he didn't directly kill them all.

Yawgmoth in his deathcloud form is confirmed to have killed Eladamri, Lin Sivvi, and Galina. He also indirectly killed Glacian and Rebbec with his bombs, but the bombing was at his order so I'm counting it. That's at least five, probably more (ESPECIALLY if you include Phyrexia and if we include Bolas minions, we kind of need to count it, right?).

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Tetsuo Umezawa

Artist: Julie Baroh TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link

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Nicol Bolas: I don’t know why they always go to Ajani like he’s the foremost expert on defeating me. I wasn’t even at my full power then.

Ugin: alright, shoot. Who is the foremost expert on defeating Nicol Bolas?

Bolas:

Bolas: sigh

Bolas: long ago in a distant land I, Nicol Bolas, the mind shattering master of darkness, unleashed an unspeakable evil. But a foolish samurai warrio

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Magic 20th, protagonists, 2013

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Tetsuko Umezawa, the Fugitive - VargasNi

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Easy Breezy Threezy: Three-color design winners! ~

Congratulations to @arixordragc​, @jund-berserker​ and @teaxch​ for winning this week’s contest!

@arixordragc​ — Oracle of Mistmire

I was thinking about this card and love it for a few reasons. For one, Sultai elves brings a sort of mystical quality that’s appropriately shrouded in secrecy and sabotage while remaining connected to the natural world. But for two, I initially passed over this card and was gonna do kind of a hand-wavy thing because the mechanics felt kind of individualized to the colors. 

And yet, I came back to the concept of “elegance” that I had touted earlier, and you know what? This card is elegant as anything, and makes me want to play it so, so badly. Five mana is a sweet spot for standard AND commander AND casual play. Ramping into this thing is monstrously powerful, but the three colors is a great restriction. Only being able to steal lands is perfectly fine when the punishing effect makes them consider the milling carefully. “[A]n additional land” being your opponents’ lands? It feels so good to just pluck something out of their graveyard, creeping up to a monstrosity. It’s not a win-condition, and it doesn’t have to be. Synergistic, flavorful, and absolutely streamlined. You know how to make this work.

@jund-berserker​ — Dire Negotiator

I think another judge pointed this one out, and I had been sleeping on this card a little. With their recommendation, I think that this was absolutely a good pick. This card exemplifies theft in a great way. The flavor text conveys what you need it to, even if I’d take a pen to it, because yeah, it’s a guy who’s being intimidating and thieving and stealing some creatures. They’re threatening and “negotiating.” It’s awesome!

Gameplay-wise, I would make this 2BRU and a 4/3 for a little more aggression, but the fact that those are the only real “nitpicks” shows how close we are. I like cards that make me want to tweak them into perfection. Sometimes. Not always. This is one of those good ones where the concept is solid enough for me to love it first and prod it later. I think people would love to make this card have menace or double strike or be unblockable to create some massively fun casual strategies. Marchesa, Thraximundar, Tetsuo Umezawa, etc. would have a great time in a creature-based combat deck with this. You know what else? I like that it’s “until it leaves the battlefield” because it feels volatile in the best RB sense. Once it’s one, you have no negotiator and nothing to keep the creatures. It’s neat!

@teaxch​ — The Keepers of the Vow

Wow. I was 100% not prepared for this card. I think the fact that the flavor has an unprecedentedly amazing presence with the mechanical interest of this card is... Man, I was really not prepared. Let’s break it down.

Uril set a kind of precedent for Naya Auras, but Red’s been aura/equipment ready for a little while now, especially with creatures you don’t control, Green’s got some enchantment synergy with things entering and spellcasting, and White’s been in the enchantment pie — and in combat control — for a good while. This card is fantastic if you have a playgroup with a lot of creature-based strategies. Or you can throw it on your own, beat face, and then on occasion Pacify something you don’t like. The Keepers are designed to cause chaos on the table and make people go through combat strategically.

But the flavor of the Keepers. Oh man. It’s an aura with an ability that doesn’t necessarily benefit the creature (well, +3/+3, but) and forces it to be beholden to the Vow, both a callback and a subtle, inference-laden word. With each enchantment (presumably also under the control of the Keepers), their influence grows, causing destruction until the battlefield is silent and only you remain. “It is your duty to destroy until you can only destroy yourself.” It’s creepy, mystical, inhuman, and viscerally well-done. I’ve made a whole weird story about it just from a single card, so either I’m a dork or you’ve done something good; my vote is for superposition.

Thank you all for your entries! This...was more popular than I expected, so I’m gonna start going through early. Runners-up and general commentary tomorrow.

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Hello. When, approximately, did Bolas discover the Elder spell? Before its defeat against Tetsuo Umezawa? Between the defeat and its return to Dominaria? Between its return and the Mending? Between the Mending and Alara's conflux? After Alara's conflux? If it's not known, what would make more sens for you? Thanks

It isn’t know but my headcanon is that he used it on the demonic leviathan. Note that we see Chromium using something that seems very much like the Elder Spell against Dakkon Blackblade.

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Tetsuo Umezawa

Artist: Julie Baroh TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link

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Nicol Bolas

Chaste ●◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌ Lustful Energetic ◌◌◌●◌◌◌◌◌◌ Lazy Forgiving ◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌● Vengeful Generous ◌◌◌◌◌◌●◌◌ Selfish Honest ◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌●◌ Deceitful Just ◌◌◌◌◌◌◌●◌ Arbitrary Merciful ◌◌◌◌◌●◌◌◌◌ Cruel Modest ◌◌◌◌◌◌◌●◌◌◌ Proud Pious ◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌●◌ Worldly Prudent ◌◌◌◌●◌◌◌◌◌ Reckless Temperate ◌◌◌◌◌◌●◌◌◌ Indulgent Trusting ◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌●◌◌ Suspicious Valorous ◌◌◌◌◌◌●◌◌◌ Cowardly

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Personality: Nicol Bolas is cruel, deceitful and amoral. He stands above morality and the petty concerns of lesser beings. A cruel entity, taking pleasure of the suffering of others, he does not care for the lives of souls of others. Even gods are naught but kindling to him. 

Powers: archmagi, artifice savant, master manipulator, grand general, planeswalker, maddening touch

Bio: Planeswalker. Elder Dragon. Tyrant of Worlds. Nicol Bolas is one of the oldest known beings in the Multiverse - he has lived for many millennia. His malevolence is matched only by his boundless intellect.Nicol Bolas has survived multiple wars, cataclysms, and rivalries: the dragon war that left only five of the elders alive, the destruction of his Madaran Empire on Dominaria at the hands of Tetsuo Umezawa, and epic duels with the planeswalkers Leshrac and Teferi.Before The Mending, planeswalkers were ageless shapeshifters whose power was limited only by their experience and knowledge. Bolas had that godlike power torn away from him, and he will go to any lengths to get it back. But it will take countless machinations and maneuverings, even for the oldest and most powerful planeswalker of all. For Nicol Bolas, all the power in the Multiverse is not enough.

The efforts and sacrifices of Teferi and his allies to repair the time rifts that swept over Dominaria gave rise to the Final Mending, a sweeping change that repaired the rifts and altered the metaphysics of the planeswalker spark itself. This change to the spark affected Nicol Bolas too. The change has begun to whittle away at the dragon’s vast knowledge, diminishing his capacity to maintain his immense share of the multiverse’s power, pulling him farther and farther away from his goal of godlike omnipotence. He is aware of this; he can feel his memory and strength beginning to crumble bit by bit. And he’s not happy about it.

Bolas left Dominaria as it crumbled in the time before The Mending, implying that it couldn’t be saved. "I have prepared a suitable place for myself in that eventuality,” he said before departing through the Talon Gates. Thereafter he hides out, observing the effects of the Mending throughout the multiverse, and watching the deterioration happening inside his very soul. For the first time in thousands of years, the clock has actually begun to tick for Nicol Bolas. Hence, his preferred strategy of attaining power - a protracted patience for accumulating knowledge and influence via cunning schemes that span millennia - may not work for much longer. He needed a plan, one that can help him recover his power, or at least stop it from ebbing steadily away - and soon.

He formed a plan to head off this brutal decay, and to not only restore his former glory, but to assume total, unmatched power in the multiverse. Befitting his mighty intellect, his plan has many moving parts, none of which would be obvious to the naked eye. Bolas decides that all he needs is an immense source of mana. To resist the force of the multiverse-wide Mending altering his spark, he’ll need the equivalent of the total potential of an entire world, harvested all at once.The ‘suitable place’ Bolas referred to is the five shards of Alara, which Bolas has been watching for decades. Long ago he began to recruit agents on the shards - individuals and even entire groups who would secretly do his bidding. These agents have subtly, secretly sown the seeds of dissent on each shard, creating chaos and conflict. Why? Only Nicol Bolas knows the truth: The shards of Alara are reconverging into a single plane. And when that reconvergence comes, Bolas wants all-out planar war for reasons unknown to any but himself.

The shard-planes of Alara caught Bolas’s attention soon after he departed Dominaria. Where other planeswalkers saw five separate worlds, Bolas saw a single opportunity. He perceived that the shards had not just originated from a single world, but were destined to come together once more—and soon. He set up a lair on Grixis, using that dark world as a center for his schemes, and over time secretly planeswalked to the other shards, setting up alliances to prepare for the coming Conflux.Over months and years, he recruited minions to do his bidding throughout the five shards. On Bant, he tempted the Order of the Skyward Eye and the conniving merchant Gwafa Hazid to spread xenophobia and disorder along the borderlands of Bant’s nations. On Esper, he infiltrated a group of mages called the Seekers of Carmot, leading them to warn Esperites about dwindling supplies of etherium, and creating a fervent demand for an otherworldly red stone called carmot. On Grixis he recruited the demon dragon abomination Malfegor to lead massive armies of the undead, getting the hordes ready to invade the other shards and cut chaotic swaths through any living resistance they find. On Jund he tempted the elementalist shaman Rakka Mar with promises of power, using her to whip up an itch for greater and greater “life hunts” among the warrior clans there. On Naya his influence has been perhaps the most subtle - even the planeswalker Ajani has had no inkling of the dragon’s presence.During the Conflux, mages all across Alara have realized the power unlocked when they fuse two or more colors of mana. Bant’s spellcasters have known for centuries that multicolor spells are potent, but now all Alarans have learned that a battle strategy gets even more powerful by focusing exclusively on these select, color-blended spells. Nicol Bolas knows this too. His sinister plans on Alara required this massive war, particularly the mage-battles that hurl spell energy to and fro. Bolas’s brutal cross-shard war has served as a crucible, burning away the scrawniest spells, forcing all of Alara to forge the deadliest magical arsenal possible, and to wield these multicolor weapons on the field of battle.

Luckily, he’s still a force to be reckoned with on any world. Mortal minds are just as malleable in his hands as they were when he was the god-emperor of Madara. He may not be omnipotent - but he’s plenty potent. But since he has to move more quickly now, his plans may be discovered. Will he be able to enact the early stages of his plan before the forces of Alara get the better of him, and before the attention of planeswalkers becomes too invasive?

The ancient dragon Planeswalker, Nicol Bolas, has never craved anything more than power, and his shrewdness for plotting is matched only by his aeon-spanning patience. Bolas has influenced several recent events around the Multiverse, including conspiring to have Chandra discover the dragon scroll and helping to trigger the release of the Eldrazi on Zendikar—to what end is not yet known. Bolas has appreciated the power of using Tezzeret and Sarkhan as agents in his interplanar schemes, and now seems bent on seeking further Planeswalker minions.

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Because I’m lazy, I took this from a wikia

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Round of 1024 - Batch 5

It’s time for the next batch!  Today we have some distantly related Umezawas, Polukranos, Niv-Mizzet, Doran, and more!

You can vote on all the matchups now here.

The full list of matchups for today:

Patron of the Moon vs Rayne, Academy Chancellor Karametra, God of Harvests vs Tajic, Blade of the Legion Tishana, Voice of Thunder vs Lu Bu, Master-at-Arms Rienne, Angel of Rebirth vs Rhonas the Indomitable

Tajic, Legion's Edge vs Rankle, Master of Pranks Sakashima the Impostor vs Sygg, River Guide Thalia, Heretic Cathar vs Intet, the Dreamer Halana, Kessig Ranger vs Tormod, the Desecrator

Polukranos, World Eater vs Omnath, Locus of Rage Liu Bei, Lord of Shu vs Sunastian Falconer Anthousa, Setessan Hero vs Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind Teysa, Orzhov Scion vs Gadwick, the Wizened

Doran, the Siege Tower vs Dragonlord Atarka Kalamax, the Stormsire vs Reki, the History of Kamigawa Veldrane of Sengir vs Uril, the Miststalker Phage the Untouchable vs Hivis of the Scale

Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy vs Surrak Dragonclaw Lathliss, Dragon Queen vs Alharu, Solemn Ritualist Baru, Fist of Krosa vs Ghost Council of Orzhova Odric, Lunarch Marshal vs Samut, Voice of Dissent

Grenzo, Havoc Raiser vs Zacama, Primal Calamity Kefnet the Mindful vs Vazal, the Compleat Rishkar, Peema Renegade vs Thalisse, Reverent Medium Tetsuo Umezawa vs Questing Beast

Halfdane vs Karrthus, Tyrant of Jund Lorthos, the Tidemaker vs Kaheera, the Orphanguard Pavel Maliki vs Ashling, the Extinguisher Radha, Heart of Keld vs Rosheen Meanderer

Toshiro Umezawa vs Bruvac the Grandiloquent Arashi, the Sky Asunder vs Thelon of Havenwood Irini Sengir vs Sliv-Mizzet, Hivemind Ich-Tekik, Salvage Splicer vs Linvala, Keeper of Silence

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