The five shards of Alara meet conflict in Conflux, where Bant Knights battle Naya Behemoths and displaced vampires add to the havoc. Conflux features 145 expansion cards and is available in intro and fat packs as well as boosters.
— In late summer 2009, three of 38 retailers named Magic as their best-selling card game. Fifteen of the top 25 card games at
Toy City in Keene, N.H., are Magic units, Owner Steve Levy told
TDmonthly in August 2009, at which time his store had sold 850 Conflux boosters for the year.
— Mike Lane, manager of Hobbytown in Cumming, Ga., told
TDmonthly in late summer 2009 that his store attracts up to 25 kids for Friday night Magic tournaments. He cited sales of about 50 packs of month of Magic: The Gathering cards.
