Archive | April, 2008

The Magic Sock #110: Week 1 Shadowmoor Previews

The Magic Sock #110: Week 1 Shadowmoor Previews

Total running time: 56 minute and 22 seconds. Show Notes: –Help me out. Subscribe to the show: http://feeds.feedburner.com/themagicsock –Partial Shadowmoor spoiler at MTGSalvation.com. –Official magicthegathering.com spoiler with great scans of the preview cards from Shadowmoor. –Question of the week: What do you think of Shadowmoor so far? (Good or bad?) Send me an e-mail with your feedback. –Lots of great feedback. [...more]

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How to listen / chat / talk LIVE for Ep 100 with Talkshoe - visual tutorial!

How to listen / chat / talk LIVE for Ep 100 with Talkshoe - visual tutorial!

How to listen, chat and talk LIVE on TalkShoe for ep 100 - visual tutorial! Part #1: http://www.screencast.com/t/JoZUIa9n Part #2: http://www.screencast.com/t/jyh8F0oB Cheers, Tom [...more]

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Planeswalk with the Proffessors #21: The Shadows Descending

Planeswalk with the Proffessors #21: The Shadows Descending

For those wondering “The Shadow’s Descending” comes from a Shakesperean play/book; “A midsummer’s night’s dream”, and…well…there’s a random fact for you, yup, that’s pretty random. Enjoy! Hello everybody and welcome to another episode of Planeswalking with the Proffessors! This week we get back to the slide-showing and back to reality with the now regularly featured [...] [...more]

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Monday Night Magic #99: We GW out for our own Shadowmoor preview card!

Monday Night Magic #99: We GW out for our own Shadowmoor preview card!

We are brought to you by MTGMintCard.com and TrollAndToad.com! This Week in Magic It’s all about Shadowmoor this week with tons of new cards in the unofficial Shadowmoor spoiler on MTGSalvation. All the hosts pick a few cards they particular like or are afraid to see in play. We also tip our hat to WoTC and their [...] [...more]

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The Magic Sock #109: Net Decks

The Magic Sock #109: Net Decks

Total running time: 58 minute and 49 seconds. Show Notes: –Help me out. Subscribe to the show: http://feeds.feedburner.com/themagicsock –Discussion of Net decks. What are the pros and cons? –Where to get good Net decks? Try: StarCityGames and Magicthegathering.com. –Question of the week: What do you think of Net decks? (Good or bad?) Send me an e-mail with your feedback. –Shadowmoor spoiler [...] [...more]

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Planeswalk with the Proffessors #20: Drafting to Perfection

Planeswalk with the Proffessors #20: Drafting to Perfection

Hello everybody and welcome to a better-late-then-never episode of Planeswalkin with the Proffessors. While all the fans out there have now missed an approximate 10 minutes of my ranting… poor them you’ll get to hear more now! To summarize Wednesdays episode that was not to be, I talked about Gary Gygax, how he affected Magic, [...] [...more]

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#59 - 2008 Apr 02 - Road Warrior Otwell #59 - The State of Standard

#59 - 2008 Apr 02 - Road Warrior Otwell #59 - The State of Standard

Kevin Moynihan, Mike Williams, and I discuss the current — S.T.A.T.E. of S.T.A.N.D.A.R.D…What are the best decks, and why. How this format reflects differently from past similiar formats. We also get into what makes a format interesting, and how the mana base can affect that. [...more]

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#6 - 2008 Apr 01 - The Magic School Bus #6 - James Cagle and Robert Schiermeyer

#6 - 2008 Apr 01 - The Magic School Bus #6 - James Cagle and Robert Schiermeyer

#6 - 2008 Apr 01 - The Magic School Bus #6 - James Cagle and Robert Schiermeyer This week on The Magic School Bus, Matt Reyolds returns as that annoying guest we can’t get rid of. We talk about a standard tournament from this weekend. We talk about elves in standard and how [...] [...more]

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Ah-Hoy! The Pirate Set - Episode 3

Ah-Hoy! The Pirate Set - Episode 3

Hello everybody out there on the interweb, and welcome to another episode of Planeswalkin with the Proffessors, and another episode of Ahoy. This month, March 2008 when we planeswalk, we’ll take a look at several different, new, dumbfounding yet believably reasonable rules for engineering Ahoy. When covering this topic we’ll take a look at some [...] [...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.