Archive | March, 2008

Monday Night Magic #98: We UB Shadowmoor!

Monday Night Magic #98: We UB Shadowmoor!

We are brought to you by MTGMintCard.com and TrollAndToad.com! This Week in Magic We have four new Shadowmoor cards from Game Japan. The official Shadowmoor previews start up tomorrow on magicthegathering.com. The PTQ season has finished up and we have an update on the MTG Rubik’s cube, it was a distributor promo, not an official WoTC [...] [...more]

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The Magic Sock #108 - Top Five Cards That Wizards Should Reprint

The Magic Sock #108 - Top Five Cards That Wizards Should Reprint

Total running time: 52 minute and 52 seconds. Show Notes: –Help me out. Subscribe to the show: http://feeds.feedburner.com/themagicsock –Top five cards that I would like to see reprinted: Armageddon, Balance, Black Vise, Counterspell, Regrowth –Five cards that I would like to see removed from the next Core set: Wrath of God , Birds of Paradise, Boomerang, Giant Growth, Pyroclasm –Roreca’s [...] [...more]

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#5 - 2008 Mar 25 - The Magic School Bus #5 - James Cagle and Robert Schiermeyer - Draft Recap

#5 - 2008 Mar 25 - The Magic School Bus #5 - James Cagle and Robert Schiermeyer - Draft Recap

#5 - 2008 Mar 25 - The Magic School Bus #5 - James Cagle and Robert Schiermeyer - This week on The Magic School Bus, Matt Reynolds joins us again (we can not seem to get rid of him). We cover the city champs event from last weekend. We break down the Reveillark [...] [...more]

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#58 - 2008 Feb 23 - Road Warrior Otwell #58 - PTQ New Mexico Part 2 of 2 - Extended Format - The Post-Game discussion about the Golden Tird

#58 - 2008 Feb 23 - Road Warrior Otwell #58 - PTQ New Mexico Part 2 of 2 - Extended Format - The Post-Game discussion about the Golden Tird

So, what happens when you have 2+ hours of material pending editing that you can’t use in the end, due to due to audio quality? Well, you’ll get to hear about it, and Paul’s Golden Tird… Visit the Official MTGCast Network Facebook Group: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=8125010411 If you have any feedback, please send it too: otwellc@gmail.com [...more]

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The Magic Sock #107 - Rainbow Alliances Format

The Magic Sock #107 - Rainbow Alliances Format

Total running time: 33 minute and 20 seconds. Show Notes: –Help me out. Subscribe to the show: http://feeds.feedburner.com/themagicsock –Shadowmoor Art: All the cool artwork. –Kulrath Knight: Shadowmoor art. –Promo art of all the Shadowmoor packaging. –Lots of great feedback. –Send me an e-mail and I’ll forward you the Shadowmoor chain letter I received from Wizard of the Coast’s PR company. –Music by the [...] [...more]

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Monday Night Magic #97: The Orb That Makes You Go “Hmmm”!

Monday Night Magic #97: The Orb That Makes You Go “Hmmm”!

We are brought to you by MTGMintCard.com and TrollAndToad.com! This Week in Magic 2HG Champs promos have been spotted (and unconfirmed). A bizarre MTG mana symbol Rubik’s cube has been see as a City Champs prize! Shadowmoor Shakedown The Orb of Insight is back and those nutters at MTGS have compiled a bunch of info for us (*cough* [...] [...more]

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MTGCast Special - The Down Low with Devin Low!

MTGCast Special - The Down Low with Devin Low!

“You read it somewhere else, but you heard it here first!” We are brought to you by MTGMintCard.com and TrollAndToad.com! The Interview! Run Time: ~25 minutes Devin Low, Head Developer of Magic, was kind enough to sit down and answer some questions about development, Shadowmoor, Magic writing and more! We get some pretty juicy nuggets about Shadowmoor, and hear [...] [...more]

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#57 - 2008 Feb 23 - Road Warrior Otwell #57 - PTQ New Mexico Part 1 of 2 - Extended Format - Pre-Game

#57 - 2008 Feb 23 - Road Warrior Otwell #57 - PTQ New Mexico Part 1 of 2 - Extended Format - Pre-Game

PTQ: New Mexico — Part 1 of 2 Approximately 25-30 people from Colorado made the trek south to “Rainy New Mexico”, in search of that elusive PTQ Slot for PT:Hollywood. In my car, we had Bruce Nix, Shea Hart, Paul Bradford, Dan Southard, and myself on route. This adventure starts the very same day [...] [...more]

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Planeswalk with the Proffessors #19: Grand Prix Philadelphia

Planeswalk with the Proffessors #19: Grand Prix Philadelphia

At Grand Prix Philly the proffessors interviewed the pros, including Louis Scott Vargas, Adam Yurchik, and Patrick Chapin, and some other great undiscovered players. We get the great new scenes, and even the finals of the Grand Prix! [...more]

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Monday Night Magic #96: Coming Soon, The Down Low with Devin Low!

Monday Night Magic #96: Coming Soon, The Down Low with Devin Low!

MTGCast Episode 96 - Coming Soon, The Down Low with Devin Low! “You read it somewhere else, but you heard it here first!” We are brought to you by MTGMintCard.com and TrollAndToad.com! This Week in Magic UltraPro has announced (and we have seen) some new Planeswalker-themed and Shadowmoor-themed playmats, deck boxes, and folders. A new flier for the [...] [...more]

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    Sealed Deck
    • 2+ players
    • Each player needs 1 Tournament pack and 3 booster packs
    • Players simply open their tournament packs and the cards from three additional booster packs and build a deck from the cards they opened. Guidelines require a minimum deck size of 40 cards and allow players to add as many basic lands (Plains, Islands, Swamps, Mountains, and Forests) to their card pools as they like.

    Booster Draft
    • 4-8 players
    • Each player needs 3 booster packs
    • At the start of a Booster Draft, each player opens a booster pack and picks the card he or she wants from it. (You can't see the cards that the other players draft.) Then each player passes the rest of the pack to his or her left. You pick up the pack that was passed to you, select a card, and pass the rest to your left. This process continues until all the cards have been drafted. Next, each player opens a second pack, but this time, you pass the pack to your right. After all those cards are drafted, you open the third pack and pass to the left again.
      Once all the packs have been drafted, players build decks from the cards they selected, adding as many basic lands (Plains, Islands, Swamps, Mountains, and Forests) to their decks as they like. Each deck must have at least 40 cards.
    Tribal Wars
    • One-third of every deck must be of a single creature type (e.g. "Merfolk" or "Beast")
    • Each deck must contain at least 60 cards, and players may build decks using Standard, Extended, Legacy, or Vintage deckbuilding rules.
    • You can use creatures of other creature types, but they do not count towards the "1/3 of single creature type" rule.

    Singleton
    • aka "Highlander"
    • No two cards in a player's deck can share a name unless they're basic lands (Plains, Islands, Swamps, Mountains, and Forests). Players can use Standard, Extended, Legacy, or Vintage deckbuilding rules.