Archive | July, 2008

#70 - 2008 Jul 30 - Road Warrior Otwell #70 - PLAYTESTING ::: T-Minus 9 Days and Counting…

#70 - 2008 Jul 30 - Road Warrior Otwell #70 - PLAYTESTING ::: T-Minus 9 Days and Counting…

#70 - 2008 Jul 30 - Road Warrior Otwell #70 - PLAYTESTING ::: T-Minus 9 Days and Counting… GP:Denver is coming soon… T-Minus 9 Days and Counting. GP: Kobe is all but on top of us already. Time to go over some more recent Post-Eventide BLOCK Constructed Topics… Specifically — KELPIE-CONTROL Decks for [...] [...more]

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Monday Night Magic #114: Nationals and the Deflating Football League

Monday Night Magic #114: Nationals and the Deflating Football League

We are brought to you by MTGMintCard.com and TrollAndToad.com! This Week in Magic Grand Prix Madrid 2008 has crowned Lasse Norgaard as the winner of over 1500 players from all over Europe! Faeries continues its dominance of Block Constructed. Talk and rumors continue regarding the Patrick Chapin reality MTG television show with probable filming at Nationals in [...] [...more]

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#13 - 2008 Jul 27 - The Magic School Bus #13 - James Cagle and Robert Schiermeyer - MSB Episode 13 - Standard and Block Discussions

#13 - 2008 Jul 27 - The Magic School Bus #13 - James Cagle and Robert Schiermeyer - MSB Episode 13 - Standard and Block Discussions

#13 - 2008 Jul 27 - The Magic School Bus #13 - James Cagle and Robert Schiermeyer - MSB Episode 13 - Standard and Block Discussions This week on The Bus, Matt Reynolds returns to talk a little about type 2 and block and we catch up on all our listener emails. [...more]

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Deck Builders: Ep 24 - G/W/B Block Budget Dramatic Primus

Deck Builders: Ep 24 - G/W/B Block Budget Dramatic Primus

Today on Deck Builders we take a look at a new concept idea for a deck using Dramatic Entrance and Woodfall Primus 4x Woodfall Primus 4x Chameleon Colossus 4x Doran, the Siege Tower 4x Leaf Crowned Elder 4x CloudThresher 4x Devoted Druid 4x Far haven Elf Spells: 4x Dramatic Entrance 4x Makeshift Mannequin Land: 4x Murmuring Bosk 4x Reflecting Poll 4x G/B Filter Land 4x G/W Filter Land 8x Basic Land [...] [...more]

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Planeswalk with the Proffessors #37: Evenedtides

Planeswalk with the Proffessors #37: Evenedtides

Hello everybody and welcome to another episode of planeswalking with the proffessors! This week on our new better then evaar podcasts we present to you some new software upgrades, new eventide info, and chapin’s filming of his soon to be show on G4. Ow, and the “ADD TEXT” Page was intended (I do look this stuff [...] [...more]

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The Magic Sock #126: What about the Eventide Prerelease?

The Magic Sock #126: What about the Eventide Prerelease?

Total running time: 52 minutes and 27 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. – All about Eventide and my not attending the prerelease (but I did play a game of sealed). –Blast from the Past: Review of the Alliances set. –The [...] [...more]

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#69 - 2008 Jul 23 - Road Warrior Otwell #69 - The Tom Carmody Rule

#69 - 2008 Jul 23 - Road Warrior Otwell #69 - The Tom Carmody Rule

#69 - 2008 Jul 23 - Road Warrior Otwell #69 - The Tom Carmody Rule Information on the latest Magic Rules Change :: The Mulligan Rule…? Feel free to email me with comments at: otwellc@gmail.com [...more]

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#68 - 2008 Jul 21 - Road Warrior Otwell #68 - Email Time

#68 - 2008 Jul 21 - Road Warrior Otwell #68 - Email Time

#68 - 2008 Jul 21 - Road Warrior Otwell #68 - Email Time It’s time for me to open the email in-box and respond to the audience on a topic that they are interested in hearing my opinions on. Feel free to email me with comments at: otwellc@gmail.com [...more]

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#67 - 2008 Jul 19 - Road Warrior Otwell #67 - A Double Dipper with Block Constructed on Tap!

#67 - 2008 Jul 19 - Road Warrior Otwell #67 - A Double Dipper with Block Constructed on Tap!

#67 - 2008 Jul 19 - Road Warrior Otwell #67 - A Double Dipper with Block Constructed on Tap! This time we hit the road for the PTQ in Denver, on July 19th, and the GPT in Longmont on July 20th. Sometimes the coins will flip in your favor. Othertimes, they will not.Featuring: [...] [...more]

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Planeswalk with the Proffessors #36: The Eventide Prerelease

Planeswalk with the Proffessors #36: The Eventide Prerelease

Part A: Part B: In possibly the best episode (with the best intro) ever produced the proffessors take a trip to edison for the new set’s prerelease, for the third and last time and get interviews with lots of viewers of the show, some new players, some old, the tournament organizer, and an artist to boot! While [...] [...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.