Archive | June, 2008

The Magic Sock #122: Prerelease Changes

The Magic Sock #122: Prerelease Changes

Total running time: 50 minutes and 46 seconds. Show Notes: –Support The Magic Sock and make a donation! –Help me out. Subscribe to the show: http://feeds.feedburner.com/themagicsock –Opening music by Luma (”Wake Up”) available on Podshow.com. –Talk about the new prerelease changes. Prereleases will use Intro packs instead? –Blast from the past: Quick review of Fallen Empires Magic set release in November [...] [...more]

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Monday Night Magic #109: MTG Girl!

Monday Night Magic #109: MTG Girl!

We are brought to you by MTGMintCard.com and TrollAndToad.com! This Week in Magic Jelger Wiegersma wins GP Indianapolis and you can check out the Top 8 decklists (and note the Blowfly Infestation mentioned about 1/2 of the way down)! Some big changes to pre-releases were announced with them being held in small, more numerous locations. Eventide Roundup The [...] [...more]

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Deck Builders: Ep 23 - Block Gran Prix Trial Denver

Deck Builders: Ep 23 - Block Gran Prix Trial Denver

**CHECK OUT OUR EVENT COVERAGE AND NEW BLOG SPOT!!** http://mtgdeckbuilders.blogspot.com/ Today on Deck Builders we take a look at a new Block deck built by our own Pedro Rodriguez. We do a Deck Tech on the latest build and mention any changes we would have for any future builds. 3 plumeveil 4 firespout 3 austere command 2 oona, queen of the [...] [...more]

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Planeswalk with the Proffessors #32: Competing at Block 5

Planeswalk with the Proffessors #32: Competing at Block 5

Hello everybody and welcome to another episode of Planeswalking with the Proffessors. So it’s clear that Block season is now upon us, and it’s time to establish for the upcoming PTQs this summer what decks we’ve seen and what we can expect to see in the near future. As well as check out this we’ll [...] [...more]

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MTGCast Special - Elaine Chase and Shards of Alara Changes Interview

MTGCast Special - Elaine Chase and Shards of Alara Changes Interview

We are brought to you by MTGMintCard.com and TrollAndToad.com! The Interview! Run Time: ~38 minutes Elaine Chase, Senior Brand Manager for MTG, was nice enough to talk with me about all the hulabaloo regarding the Shards of Alara changes. We talk about some of the general changes with the game, new marketing campaigns, fat pack questions, intro pack [...] [...more]

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The Magic Sock #121: Those Summer Blues

The Magic Sock #121: Those Summer Blues

Total running time: 46 minutes and 13 seconds. Show Notes: –Support The Magic Sock and make a donation! –Help me out. Subscribe to the show: http://feeds.feedburner.com/themagicsock –Opening music by Luma (”Wake Up”) available on Podshow.com. –View an open pack of Eventide and see the artwork and casting cost of the cards. –Coming November 7th: Duel Deck (Jace vs. Chandra). Check it [...] [...more]

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Monday Night Magic #108: Rad Regionals and Bodacious Block Constructed

Monday Night Magic #108: Rad Regionals and Bodacious Block Constructed

We are brought to you by MTGMintCard.com and TrollAndToad.com! This Week in Magic WoTC announces an awesome new Duel Decks: Jace vs Chandra! The FNM magic promo for July is the luxurious Wall of Roots. Chris Otwell gives some mad props to MTGMintCard.com for a quick delivery of some cool simplified chinese cards. We [...] [...more]

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#63 - 2008 June 15 - Road Warrior Otwell #63 - Post-Regionals and Pre-Block Primer

#63 - 2008 June 15 - Road Warrior Otwell #63 - Post-Regionals and Pre-Block Primer

#63 - 2008 June 15 - Road Warrior Otwell #63 - Post-Regionals and Pre-Block Primer A brief recap of my Regionals decklist, and what I’m using as the starting point for my Block Constructed Gauntlet. [...more]

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Planeswalk with the Proffessors #31: Regionals 2008!

Planeswalk with the Proffessors #31: Regionals 2008!

Hello everybody and welcome to another episode of Planeswalking with the Proffessors. This week we’re live at Edison “Noo Joosey” (as pronunciated by the cardproffessor and one of the people taking the interviews) and we’ll be covering, in this first part what people were playing, what the best card in standard is and why, what [...] [...more]

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The Magic Sock #120 - Changes

The Magic Sock #120 - Changes

Total running time: 57 minutes and 58 seconds. Show Notes: –Help me out. Subscribe to the show: http://feeds.feedburner.com/themagicsock –Opening music by Luma (”Wake Up”) available on Podshow.com. –Talk through all the new changes coming to Magic: Less cards printed per year, Mythic Rares, no more theme decks and basic lands added to booster packs. –Discussion of the June 1st announcement [...] [...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.