Liverpool's opener came via a free-kick from the England midfielder Steven Gerrard which AC Milan's Dario Simic sliced into his own net.

BBC: Owen fighting fit

Dimir is much more subtle than Boros, Gruul, or Simic, but stabilization and multiple connects with an encoded spell can usher in disaster.

FORBES: Gatecrash: Evaluating Dimir

When dealing with Simic science, one never knows whether the next experiment will turn out to be a shark frog or crocodile ooze.

FORBES: Gatecrash Preview: Unexpected Results

There are a variety of exceptional tools to draw upon in the unguilded green and blue sections that can enhance a Simic deck as well.

FORBES: Gatecrash: Evaluating Simic

There are repeated hauntings and strange shadowings in Mr Simic's poems.

ECONOMIST: New verse

The Simic Fluxmage is a blue uncommon that showcases the new signature Simic mechanic and was apparently pulled out of a Return to Ravnica booster pack.

FORBES: Gatecrash Simic Mechanic Revealed

Even small creatures featuring evolve can become quite dangerous after a few other larger creatures hit the board, so 2U is an acceptable price for our freshly spoiled Simic Merfolk.

FORBES: Gatecrash Simic Mechanic Revealed

The evolve mechanic allows Simic creatures to grow from reasonable beginnings to dangerous threats over the course of a game, and has ways to place and use counters as combat tricks or as fuel to draw cards.

FORBES: Gatecrash: Evaluating Simic

Charles Bukowski, who died in 1994, shares with Mr Simic a quality which is highly characteristic of American verse from Walt Whitman on a casualness of address, some feeling that the person speaking to us is the not-so-perfect human being next door.

ECONOMIST: New verse