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Monday Night Magic #222 – Scatterturd

Pitimp — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:56:24 +0000

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This Week in Magic
Wow, Tom + Jack + Marcel equals a huge week of magic news and some buttery smooth manly voices.

We have a few new Scars of Mirrodin previews from the Duel Decks: Elspeth vs Tezzeret (which for unknown reasons, Jack doesn’t like) with Contagion Clasp and Kemba’s Skyguard. The Clasp also shows a new keyword, Proliferate, that seems to be quite awesome. We have some details about 2010 State and Provincial championships on October 9th. For unknown reasons, PC World attacks magic players by choosing the Magic World Championships in it’s top dorkiest tournaments and then shows a friggin’ Yu-gi-oh card (was changed at the time of this recording). The second Duels of the Planeswalker expansionpack is coming and will be available on Steam on September 1. We also delve into the newly announced “Event Decks” that will help you compete at your local FNM and will be available as of February 25th, 2010. A new “play or draw” rule will debut for the Top 8 at PT Amsterdam. GP Gothenburg was this past weekend, champion was Kenny Oberg and Conley Woods placed 9th! SCG Open was in Minneapolis the past weekend with Ken Adams winning the Legacy portion and Ian Ellis bringing home the Standard portion. The Great Designer Search 2 was officially announced to start on September 29th and also had avery cool fake logo for Homelands 2. Last, we have the link to the collection of Scars of Mirrodin art.

What Have We Been Playing?
Tom is busy revamping his BG Ooze tribal deck to use those full art Mitotic Slime‘s and will be abusing Death Cloud happily. Jack asks for some help with a Dragonstorm deck and Marcel is playing Terran with a splash of Protoss.

Listener Emails
Jack says a big thank you to all of the listeners that emailed him with encouragement. Marcel answers some emails after his fantastic solo show. Link to the epic Justin Beiber slowed 800%. Link to thecheesiest movies of all time. And yes, that’s the trailer for Ghost Shark 2: Urban Jaws.

MTGCast News
Make sure to check out Gavin and Mike Flores’ brain child at floresrewards.com. You can start the experiment of Saturday Night Magic at 7pm EST by starting at this blog.tv page for thedrownedgod.

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Monday Night Magic #221 – Poisonous Infection

otwellc — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 04:38:20 +0000

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This Week in Magic
An exciting week in Magic with 5 Nationals Events and a new keyword announced for Scars of Mirrodin –Infect – a lovely combination of something old and something new.

United States, Germany, and Great Britain give us National Champions Josh Utter-Leyton, Dennis Johannsen, and Joseph Jackson along with Chris Black and Lu Chao representing Ireland & China

Star City Game had a Standard and Legacy open in Denver, with 12-year old Zac Cole in the top 8!!!

Grab and Go event decks are announced by Wizards for players interested in breaking into FNM.

Conley and Gavin got covered on the mother site at the U.S. Nationals with the new Soul Sisters deck.

Marcel expresses his opinion on the new self-mill deck that had a Top 8 in the U.S. Nationals.

What Have We Been Playing?
Marcel played with Self-Mill &Soul Sisters along with two casual decks he created: a Mono White Artifact deck and a Blue-White Leyline of Anticipation deck.

Listener Emails
Lots of great emails, keep them coming!

Michael Radford live stream of Starcraft 2 tournament coverage

MTGCast News
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Road Warrior Otwell #110 – Christopher E Otwell – Josh Napper wins the Star City Games 5K Standard!

otwellc — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 06:02:03 +0000

Just got back from the fantasic event run in Denver by Star City Games as part of the Open Series. The winner of that event was long time Denver native Player, Josh Napper. In this, I give him a lot of quality time in a interview on the day following his historic win.

For additional coverage of this event, check out the official coverage webpage: http://www.starcitygames.com/php/news/article/19897.html

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Monday Night Magic #220 – Blind Ended What?

Pitimp — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 03:58:53 +0000

This Week in Magic
A bunch more info on the TCGPlayer.com Championship series. Updates on prize sharing in MTGO and what can happen if you don’t play by the rules. Memoricide confirmed in Scars of Mirrodin and hints of four cards with the rules text including “Opening Hand”. Some more info on the non-collectable TCG, Ascension: Chronicle of the Godslayer, developed by Rob Dougherty, Justin Gary, and Brian Kibler. Interesting online Rotisserie Draft where you can see pros and experts draft from every magic card ever made. Tom discovered a cool card database / card collection / deck building tool over at Deckbox.org, not to mention the ability to implement card image mouse-over for free on pretty much any site! Day 2 of Nationals in China delayed until August 16th in respect to the severe mudslides that have occurred. BlueGrass Magic announces the 2010 Kentucky Open $5k and also a $2.5k Extended tournament.

Don’t miss Conley at Nationals in Minneapolis, MN and Eric will be doing coverage of the SCG Open Series in Denver for GGSLive!

What Have We Been Playing?
Jack surprises Tom by discussing some non-DB EDH along with Vampire tribal EDH!

Listener Emails
Lots of great emails, keep them comin’!

MTGCast News
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Tom & Gavin & Jack & Eric & Conley & Steve & Marcel – Your Monday Night Magic news team!

Monday Night Magic #219 – Slobad Bonebad

Pitimp — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 06:15:50 +0000

This Week in Magic
Oh yeah, it’s Tom, Jack and Conley is back! Conley gives us the low down on the immense magic weekend at Gencon and this includes a Vintage Championship, Legacy Championship, Zendikar Block Championship, Sealed 2HG Championship and more. We also revisit the GP Columbus wagering discussion with Conley and turns out to be very enlightening with more of the background on the pro tour player side and perspective. Mirrodin Beseiged was announced officially (who doesn’t love the three letter code of MBS). FNM promo for September is Qasali Pridemage.

What Have We Been Playing?
Conley gives the low down on his various decks of GenCon. Tom asks for some help on a budget friendly Standard deck to try and win his full art Mitotic Slime AND has some new cards to think of for his Mathematician’s Wet Dream EDH deck in Trinisphere, Magus of the Tabernacle, Pendrell Mists, Peacekeeper.

Listener Emails
We run through a whole bunch this week!

MTGCast News
It’s time to announce of the “Create the next From the Vault set” contest!
Email Tom at pitimp@mtgcast.com with your mailing address if you are a winner.

Archenemy t-shirt + Dragon Archenemy deck:
absurdparadox with From the Vault: Epic Beards!
http://mtgcast.com/forum/viewtopic.p…&start=20#p971

M10 Intro deck:
Alexandrite with From the Vault: Invitational
http://mtgcast.com/forum/viewtopic.p…&start=30#p979

M11 intro deck:
LaserHosen with From the Vault: Really, Really Niche
http://mtgcast.com/forum/viewtopic.p…start=60#p1008

Rise of the Eldrazi Intro Deck:
themaninnavyblue19 with FTV: Legends of the Skyship Weatherlight
http://mtgcast.com/forum/viewtopic.p…454509a0a#p945

Lilliana’s paper DoTP deck:
sd61 with FTV: Sleepers – Trash to Treasure
http://mtgcast.com/forum/viewtopic.p…454509a0a#p946

3x Random pack from Alara Reborn / WWK / M10 / RoE / etc:

The Turquoise Mage with FTV: A token of my appreciation
http://mtgcast.com/forum/viewtopic.ph…tart=120#p1062

raijinnfury with From the Vault: Icons
http://mtgcast.com/forum/viewtopic.p…&start=10#p955

PoisonedFly with FTV: FTW
http://mtgcast.com/forum/viewtopic.p…&start=10#p960

thedean with From the Vault: Judge Headaches
http://mtgcast.com/forum/viewtopic.p…&start=20#p968

??? with From the Vault: “???? this ????, I’m gonna go play Yu-Gi-Oh!” / FtV:”Fts,IggpYGO”
http://mtgcast.com/forum/viewtopic.p…&start=30#p973

Chefy with From the Vault: Portal (and Starter)
http://mtgcast.com/forum/viewtopic.p…&start=50#p993

bnrichard with From the Vault: North Dakota!
http://mtgcast.com/forum/viewtopic.p…tart=100#p1050

SirJarlsburg with From the Vault: MTG Cast
http://mtgcast.com/forum/viewtopic.p…tart=120#p1066

Tom & Gavin & Jack & Eric & Conley & Steve & Marcel – Your Monday Night Magic news team!

Monday Night Magic #218 – Casual Casual Casual Fun

Pitimp — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 06:11:44 +0000

This Week in Magic
Wow, it is a fantastic (and mostly magic filled) episode with Tom, Jack and Marcel (starring his new headset).

Behold the amazing art on the M11 Game Day full art Mitotic Slime. Also, Heath from PureMTGO.com / MTGOTraders.com / CapeFearGames.com shares that you can now trade in paper MTG cards for digital MTGO cardswith a 20% bonus! TCGPlayer.com announces it’s Championship Series at Wizard World Comic Con’s with $10K events leading up to a $75K event at the Chicago Comic Con in 2011 for a whopping total of over $250K in prizes. A boatload of Nationals this weekend in Italy, Australia, France, Canada, Malaysia, Austria, Guatemala, Romania, Costa Rica and El Salvador. Congratulations to Tomoharu Saito for winning GP Columbus (Legacy). We also discuss the DQ of Drew Levin for “betting on himself” and also the “pieing” of Gerry Thompson by Patrick Chapin. G4 does a review of MTG Tactics with some nice screen shots and also some concerns.

What Have We Been Playing?
Marcel has been having fun with Sarkhan the Mad and Mitotic Slime, Jack has been playing some pauper All in Red and Tom is oh-so proud of his new UWB EDH deck titled “The Mathematician’s Wet Dream” and you can see the deck list here.

Listener Emails
We love ‘em! Link to the Cracked.com poster on SyFy Original Movies. Help Dan of CCGamers.org help a local fund raiser, Dance for Dakota. They are having a raffle for a MTG 15th Anniversary White Mana Life Counter(going for ~ $150!). To enter, send a $1 paypal donation to dalpers@hotmail.com. Winner will be announced on August 8th or 9th.

MTGCast News
The “Create the next From The Vault set” will finish up as of #219 when we pick the winners, so if you are going to enter, do it soon!

The contest is: Create the next From the Vault set! It just needs to be 15 cards and have some sort of theme, the rest is up to you.
How long: Will be open for the next 3 weeks
Where to enter: Just post your entry in this thread on the MTGCast.com forums.
What can I win? Archenemy t-shirt + Dragon Archenemy deck, M10 Intro deck, M11 intro deck, Rise of the Eldrazi Intro Deck, Lilliana’s paper DoTP deck, or three random packs of MTG cards x 3!

And a big thank-you to Chris Otwell for getting all of the MTGCast podcasts on iTunes and for all the work on the web site.

Tom & Gavin & Jack & Eric & Conley & Steve & Marcel – Your Monday Night Magic news team!

Monday Night Magic 217 – Better Late than Never

Pitimp — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 03:07:30 +0000

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This Week in Magic
Join Eric and Ben as we discus Cool multiplayer magic variants TweetMTG and a new variant on PlaneChase. We examine two MTGO events, M11 release events and Community Appreciation week. We examine the revealed text of Sword of Body and Mind. There is a brief discussion of Magic at Gencon and talk of 3 National Championships Australia, France and Canada. On top of that StarCityGames announces changes to its Open Series.

What Have We Been Playing?
Eric plays his son in sealed.

Listener Emails
We review Tom’s even though he is not here.

MTGCast News
New contest, oh yeah!

Tom & Gavin & Jack & Eric & Conley & Steve & Marcel – Your Monday Night Magic news team!

Monday Night Magic #216 – From the Vault: Gavin

Pitimp — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 06:26:01 +0000

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This Week in Magic
Join Tom, Jack and Gavin (yes, that Gavin!) for an unusually long podcast. We go over the official list of From the Vault: Relics and how it may be the most expensive FtV set to date. Tom salivates over the rules addition of Emblems (hoping for POISON!) to help clarify Elspeth’s final ability. Check out your local M11 Game Day to get a free promo Lilliana’s Specter or get Top 8 and score a full art promo Mitotic Slime! MTG appeared in an episode of Warehouse 13 and we also have the winners of the “Share Magic with Your Friends” contest that was linked to The Sorcerer’s Apprentice. If you have DoTP and a gold Xbox live membership, you can play against the writer’s of Robot Chicken on Friday, July 26th at 6pm EST. MTG will be a big presence at the upcoming Dragon*Con!

What Have We Been Playing?
Gavin goes over some Standard musings (*hint* Destructive Force *hint*), Jack playing some more Two Scoops and Tom is hip deep in his Rat Tribal EDH deck rocking Patron of the Nezumi.

Listener Emails
Link to the fancy cube hardwood case, and SHARKTOPUS!

MTGCast News
New contest, oh yeah!

Tom & Gavin & Jack & Eric & Conley & Steve & Marcel – Your Monday Night Magic news team!

Monday Night Magic #215 – Akroma, Angel of Passive Aggression

Pitimp — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 04:32:20 +0000

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This Week in Magic
Hoo yeah, it’s Tom, Jack, Eric and Marcel bringing you a bunch of M11 pre-release discussion. Check out the M11 visual spoiler, M11 instructional videos and the pack inserts give pretty strong evidence for the return of Poison in Scars of Mirrodin! Check out the special promotional Vengeful Archon poster at certain pre-releases. Magic is set up to make a big appearance in the upcoming Nicholas Cage opus, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice and is being combined with a official contest from WoTC via the “Share Magic with Your Friends” contest (read here for full details). August FNM promo is Krosan Grip (Split Second for the win!). Don’t miss the “weight loss MTG” comic from xMTG. Nice article on CF about increasing your magic effectiveness and tips from the pros. Kudos to WoTC for donating $22,000 to the Child’s Play organization and you can help by going to the M11 release events. M11 patch for MWS is out.

Do not miss the incredibly cool Zelda-theme 100 card magic expansion! Eric will also be doing live coverage for GGSLive at the Starcitygames.com Open in Denver.

What Have We Been Playing?
Eric, Jack and Marcel share their M11 pre-release events. Tom attempts to not die during the episode after two consecutive bachelor parties.

Listener Emails
We love ‘em. Some more dirty card art with Early Frost and Stonecloaker. Link to some top 8 deck lists for the new Extended on Magic-League.

And behold Akroma, Angel of Passive Aggression (kudos to A.J.)

MTGCast News
Boy, not a whole lot to say here this week.

Tom & Gavin & Jack & Eric & Conley & Steve & Marcel – Your Monday Night Magic news team!

Monday Night Magic #214 – Mellifluously Mystifying Maze

Pitimp — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 05:34:23 +0000

This Week in Magic
Tom and Eric have a blast for this episode with a slew of news. We go through some of the new M11 spoilers including some casual / EDH picks and a new favorite in Mystifying Maze. The art for the buy-a-box promoBirds of Paradise is fantastic. Tom and Eric also apologize for the “speculation” on Death Touch that was very poorly timed, here is the real word on how it works in M11. Updated terms for the MTGO Player Rewards Program. Foil MPR Lightning Bolts are in low supply and copies beyond the first are being replaced. Congratulations to Katsuhiro Mori for winning Japan Nationals. Jace vs Chandra Duel Deck is being re-released in a very limited run in a Manga alternate form in Japan, available on Dec 3rd. Packs will be updated in Deck Builders toolkit. Fantastic English coverage of the Czech and Slovak Nationals by Sean FitzGerald and you can read it and the top 8 decklists here! WorldWake soon to be finished printing. Ravnica Block sealed Tourney on July 17th on MTGO. StarCityGames.com Open Baltimore has been rescheduled to Nov 20 and 21 so as not to conflict with GP Nashville. GP information now available for Portland and Gothenburg.

What Have We Been Playing?
Tom runs through some colorless EDH lands for those artifact / colorless generals and Eric has an exciting draft game where he defeats an Eldrazi on board!

Listener Emails
So.. many.. good.. emails. Email us at pitimp@mtgcast.com or eric@mtgcast.com.
Dirty magic card art discussed: Elsewhere Flask, Ghost Town, Living Wall, Glory Seeker, Denizen of the Deep. Here is the new casually competitive blog, http://www.completelycasual.de.vu. Link to the YouTube video of the Two Handed Great Sword.

MTGCast News
Welcome back to Ron Vitale and the Magic Sock with his new episode #201! Don’t miss the big Esper Charm debate (that we review) on our M11 Exclusive Preview Podcast to hear both sides of the debate.

End of the show video game discussion includes Picross 3D and Xmen Legends for the PS2.

Tom & Gavin & Jack & Eric & Conley & Steve & Marcel – Your Monday Night Magic news team!

MTGCast Special – Exclusive M11 Preview!

Pitimp — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 04:22:42 +0000

Alternate title: “How I learned to relax and love Frost Titan”.

Join Tom, Conley, Eric, Jack and … GAVIN for our exclusive M11 preview podcast.

We discuss our favorite new M11 picks (Mitotic Slime, Primeval Titan, Demon at Death’s Gate, Conundrum Sphinx, Temple Bell, and more. We also review the big ‘ol Esper Charm conspiracy so that Tom knows what the hell is going on.

And say hello to our amazing exclusive M11 preview, Dark Tutelage!

You can email us at pitimp@mtgcast.com

Monday Night Magic #213 – Human Centipede (MTG Multiplayer Sequence)

Pitimp — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 03:06:23 +0000

This Week in Magic
This podcast was recorded on Sunday night to be able to get Eric on to share his SCG.com Open Series experience at St. Louis, so stay tuned next week for more about the amazing previews released on Monday.

Don’t miss Eric’s interviews with pretty much everyone you have ever heard of at the SCG Open Series in St. Louis!

Tom and Eric make some speculations about the changes to the reminder text for Deathtouch in M11 roughly 5 hours before the official page was put up, doh! More info on Sony’s turn-based MTG Tactics seen at E3. New deck coming in the Premium Deck Series line - Fire and Lightning. We review some M11 previews. Congratulations to David Gleicher for winning PTQ Chicago. National’s side events announced. July 4th Magic online special events. Due to water damage at the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center from during last month’s flooding in Tennessee, Grand Prix–Nashville has been pushed back one week to November 20-21, 2010.

What Have We Been Playing?
Tom talks about his oldest constantly evolving deck that is currently Gr Stax with cards like Umbilicus, Blood Clock, Possessed Portal, Smokestack, Wall of Blossoms, Wood Elves, Fists of Ironwood, Rancor,Galvanic Arc, Deranged Hermit and more!

Listener Emails
Email us at pitimp@mtgcast.com or eric@mtgcast.com

Link to read more about contributing to the next SyFy movie. Link to Starflight and Blasto. Play the flash Trebuchet game “Crush the Castle“.

Tom’s list of additional cards with suggestive art: Demigod of Revenge, Cauldron Haze, Auriok Steelshaper, Witch-maw Nephilim, Power Taint, Uktabi Orangutan, Uktabi Kong, Ekundu Cyclops, Spincrusher.

MTGCast News
Send Tom ideas on how to give away some prizes with an M10 Intro pack, Archenemy t-shirt, Archenemy RG deck and a few other prizes!

Tom & Gavin & Jack & Eric & Conley & Steve & Marcel – Your Monday Night Magic news team!

Monday Night Magic #212 – FNM Mammary Promo Conspiracy

Pitimp — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 02:59:03 +0000

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This Week in Magic
It’s a full show with Tom, Conley, Jack and Marcel for a bit. News of the week is the announcement of the changes to Extended, Conley and the team joins on what decks will be hot and some key cards to hold on to or pick up (*cough* Reflecting Pool, Faeries staples, Swans of Bryn Argoll). MTGCast is the first official sponsor of Kelly Reid’s Quiet Speculation road trip. New EDH bannings of Staff of Domination, Channel, Tolarian Academy as well as banning Rofellos, Llanowar Emissary as a general. Archenemy release was this weekend and we have another promotional Scheme card, Your Inescapable Doom! Sun Titan is the M11 pre-release promo and Ancient Hellkite is the release promo. Jeremey Lochridge Wins Standard Open in Seattle and Kyle Boddy Wins the Legacy Open portion. Joe Dubois wins the TCGPlayer 5K in Hartford.

What Have We Been Playing?
We change it up and talk about our favorite decks and cards (and what rules we fudged up) when we first started playing magic.

Listener Emails
Link to the better-than-baby-powder DZ-Nuts. Link to the cool new MTG blog, 60cards.com. Evidence supporting the odd “boob job” conspiracy for FNM cards. Link to the new Plane, Pitimp’s Lair.

MTGCast News
Congratulations to Yo MTG Taps! for a sponsorship with Star City Games!

Tom & Gavin & Jack & Eric & Conley & Steve & Marcel – Your Monday Night Magic news team!

Monday Night Magic #211 – A Big Bag of Fun (fixed)!

Pitimp — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 04:26:15 +0000

This Week in Magic
Congratulations to Gavin and the rest of community team for winning the MTGO Community Cup! We now have all four Archenemy decks including the scheme cards: Assemble the Doomsday Machine, Bring About the Undead Apocalypse, Trample Civilization Underfoot, Scorch the World with Dragonfire. We also have some text for the first two promotional Schemes, Plots that Span Centuries and Perhaps You’ve Met my Cohort. The M11 previews are in full swing and we discuss some personal picks, the new Planeswalker sub-theme and different cycles that appear to be in the set. WoTC announces Magic Community Labs, which is a community-led compilation of multiplayer formats, culminating in a new format to be played at a special event at Gen Con, the focus is currently on “Incarceration”. Japanís Naoki Nakada wins GP Manila and Tom was pumped to see a Emrakul Polymorph deck in the top 8. Matt Elias Wins SCG Philly Legacy Open playing “Miserable Zoo”. A new promotional Plane for Planechase (Tember City) has been rumoured to be coming out soon. ICv2 reports that Wizards of the Coast has successfully sued a tournament organizer for tournament fraud to the tune of $100,000. The organizer, Jonathan Clifton, was sued after generating hundreds of fake DCI events in order to receive, and sell, special promotional Magic cards. Article about physical fitness in gamers.

What Have We Been Playing?
Tom talks about his old favorite mono-blue Muse Vessel / Annex deck while Jack digs himself a hole with an Arcum Dagsson EDH deck.

Listener Emails
Email us at pitimp@mtgcast.com and jack@mtgcast.com

Lots of good feedback this week. Link to the Three Moon video, Tuscan Whole Milk on Amazon, loads of info on the amazing thing that is Talc, the suggestiveness of Weatherseed Totem. Link to the zip file of the 40 new Plane cards for Planechase.
B-movie recommedations of the week are: Pinata: Survival Island, Sleepaway Camp.

MTGCast News
Make sure to check out the latest Tribal Time with Tom – Bears Gone Wild with Rhox and Roll coming soon.
Tom needs your ideas for the next contest and also if you prefer packs or singles as prizes. And speaking of prizes…

Winners for the Gideon Jura x 2 and more giveaway!
Gideon Jura #1 – Dreadpirate777
Gideon Jura #2 – Watsider
Garruk Wildspeaker (DoTP Xbox foil promo) – theorigin
Day of Judgement – Blinky
Rampaging Baloths – Seasparrow
Warren Instigator – fissionessence
Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle – Artsywumpus
Godless Shrine – EvanC
Extractor Demon – Rosie O-Donnell prize goes to Cloglord

B-movie recommendation: Tiki (2006)
What does one get when you mix an androgenous “Boy George”-channeling female lead, unsettling nudity, lack of diversity and a small non-threatening wooden wall decoration? Apparently, you get funded by Image Entertainment to make a direct-to-video cultural abomination titled “Tiki”.
Synopsis:When Amy moves from her beloved Hawaiian Islands to study drama on the mainland, she has little cause to rejoice as a gang of vicious co-eds plots to make her life a living hell. Wih the aid of their boyfriends, the girls set Amy up as the target of a horrendous prank that results in the young girl falling victim to a brain seizure from which she may never recover. Seeking answers, her aunt Maelea arrives with a special Tiki doll — specially designed to kill! Through magic, she coaxes Amy’s subconscious spirit to enter the idol’s body and bring it to hideous life. Now the idol tracks down the students one by one to exact its grisly revenge in a relentless assault of Tiki terror!

Marcel at marcel@mtgcast.com

Tom & Gavin & Jack & Eric & Conley & Steve & Marcel – Your Monday Night Magic news team!

Monday Night Magic #210 – Baby Powder and Revenge Crabs

Pitimp — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 23:31:58 +0000

This Week in Magic
Tom, Conley and Jack start the show off with some surprisingly basic hygiene tips and Conley then discusses some recent blatanly-false Ulamog-fueled trolling and some feedback regarding his comments on The Magic Show. We run through the current M11 spoilers including the inclusion of Baneslayer Angel and personal favorite of Reassembling Skeleton. Promo parade includes the July FNM promo is Anathemancer, Foil Nissa Revane for ordering DoTP on Steam and the Archenemy Release Party scheme is Plots That Span Centuries. Brian Kibler wins GP Sendai, Max Williams wins SCG Philly Standard Open. You can also browse the deck lists for the DoTP live decks.

What Have We Been Playing?
Conley gives us some discussion of Block Constructed from his PT San Juan experience and also from GP DC. Tom is happy to see that Beastmaster Ascension is finally getting its due.

Listener Emails
Check out the new webcomic, DerpSandwich.com. Check out Nathan’s Stangg EDH deck. Potential new source for magic coverage at RPGZorg. Link to the amazing Three Wolf Moon t-shirt on Amazon. Link to the disturbing picture of a young Patrick Stewart with hair and muscles.

If you are brave, you can check out RevengeCrabs.com and DontEvenReply.com.

MTGCast News
The Gideon Jura x 2 give-away contest is now closed and the number and quality of entries was amazing. In response to this, Tom is rounding up 4-5 more prizes and will be giving the final winners on episode 211!

Send Tom a message on MTGO (username is gust0208) and the new MTGCast MTGO clan is “MTGCastClan”!

Tom & Gavin & Jack & Eric & Conley & Steve & Marcel – Your Monday Night Magic news team!

Monday Night Magic #209 – Mythification Justification and the Iron Sheik

Pitimp — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 04:07:57 +0000

This Week in Magic
It is a blast this week with Tom, Marcel and Chewie from The Mana Pool!

Pro Tour San Juan was 3 days of magic awesomeness this past weekend and congratulations to Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa for winning and also kudos to Brad Nelson representing North Dakota in the Top 8 (after winning GP DC!). Check out the official coverage, block constructed top deck lists, the story of Conley sharing a 9-0 deck with Eric Froehlich, video of Dan Alpers of ccgamers.org pimping an MTGCast shirt during his interview. We set our eyes on some new Scheme cards for Archenemy showing up at PT SJ along with some M11 previews and the full deck list for the Bring About the Undead Apocalypse Archenemy deck! We also get an official announcement of the new Duel Decks: Elspeth vs Tezzeret and the upcoming PC release of Duels of the Planeswalkers.

Check out the 2 year old smoking two packs of cigarettes per day AND behold the almighty Blobfish!

What Have We Been Playing?
Marcel runs through a couple of cool new creations and stay tuned for an update to this section in the future!

Listener Emails
Great as always! Human Centipede flash game, Stangg, Laptop Steering Wheel desk (click on Customer Images).
B-movie recommendations: Samurai Princess, Blood Sucking Freaks, Frogs, Southland Tales, Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon, Lesbian Vampire Killers.

MTGCast News
Prizes: Two winners will receive a minty Gideon Jura!
How to enter: Post a picture of your magic card collection or magic playing location / environment in this MTGCast forum thread.
Will be open until episode 210 when we announce the win-nahs!

Tom & Gavin & Jack & Eric & Conley & Steve & Marcel – Your Monday Night Magic news team!

Monday Night Magic #208 – Archenemy is the Arch Deluxe of Multiplayer Magic

Pitimp — Tue, 25 May 2010 03:12:15 +0000

“You read it somewhere else, but you heard it here first!”

This Week in Magic
It’s a solo show, watch out for Tom droning on and on.

It’s all about Archenemy this week as Tom runs through this pretty exciting new multiplayer format with players hatching schemes, them getting abandoned and just the awesomeness of battling as a team against a common enemy. Tom also diverts into a brief talk of old McDonald’s sandwiches like the Arch Deluxe. Interesting article on applying Mark Rosewater’s player psychometrics to the D&D world. Check out the Star City Games Gazette that made it’s debut at GP DC with brand new articles from their premium authors. Grand Prix Washington DC was this weekend with a record breaking 1931 players and congratulations to Brad Nelson for taking first with UW control, and don’t miss the Top 8 decklists! Wish Conley Woods good luck at Pro Tour San Juan and give him a $20 bill and see what happens. We have the booster box and pack images for M11. David Noonan reviews a cool new magic variant called “Frontier Magic” on the mothership site. Don’t miss the judges appreciation event to be held on MTGO called MOJO (Magic Online Judge Open)! Congratulations to Russell Tassicker for getting a top 8 at the Australian Nationals and his write up on Mananation.

What Have We Been Playing?
Tom continues to enjoy the UR Kiln Fiend deck that seems to be a solid Tier 2 choice for some standard FNM fun.

Listener Emails
It’s a marathon!

Link to the photos of the pinnochio frog that looks like the Noxious Toad and the Dendrelaphis Kopsteini that is a dead-ringer for a Lotus Cobra. Here is the photo of Eric the MTG matron. Link to the Amazon page for Mafia vs Ninja, link to comic set to the tune “On the Rise”, link to the Ian McKellen version of Yavimaya Elder. Picture of the sweet Shivan Dragon cake.

If you are brave, you can check out Tom’s movie podcast over at www.pgpfilmcast.com.

MTGCast News
We are happy to be back on over at TCG Player!

Prizes: Two winners will receive a minty Gideon Jura!
How to enter: Post a picture of your magic card collection or magic playing location / environment in this MTGCast forum thread.
Will be open until episode 210 when we announce the win-nahs!

Tom & Gavin & Jack & Eric & Conley & Steve & Marcel – Your Monday Night Magic news team!

Monday Night Magic #207 – ID’s, new sealed formats, and 2x Gideon Jura give-away!

Pitimp — Mon, 17 May 2010 23:37:27 +0000

This Week in Magic
Join a brodeo with Tom, Eric, Jack and Marcel!

Check out Ultra Pro’s upcoming Mox Deck Box & Deck Protectors Promotion. We talk a bit about Intentional Draws and how this differs between paper magic and MTGO and how it may be good/bad/ugly for everyone. The deck list for the Jace Duels of the Planewalkers paper deck is out and largely no one cared. A nice little blurb in the WoTC announcement of the 2010 Community Cup limited formats hints at a new sealed format! A new expansion for the XBLA Duels of the Planeswalkers is now available and Tom is curious if any participated in the “Frag Doll Friday” playing against members of the Frag Dolls gaming team. David Humpherys has joined the Wizards of the Coast R&D team as the new Development Manager for Magic. National Qualifiers in the USA BDM, Flores, Calcono qualify in NY. Chapin tweeted that Gavin qualified. Also Greg Marquis a former Wotc employee won the WA Qualifier. WoTC to again be an official sponsor of Gen Con! Dave Williams is officially skipping the World Series of Poker to attend Pro Tour San Juan. TCG Player announces details on Hartford 5K. Steven Menendian sorted through all of the deck lists from Grand Prix Madrid. Some interesting changes in the Wizards Play Network (WPN) on how it grants levels to stores and organizers. Check the current Player of the Year (POY) standings after PG Lyon.

What Have We Been Playing?
Marcel and Tom having fun playing UR Distortion Strike in the casual rooms on MTGO and Tom busting out some Beastmaster Ascension-fueled beat downs with Spawn tokens. Jack has been playing some Time Sieve or Open the Vaults in Standard to battle the Jund monster.

Listener Emails
We love them emails and email Tom at pitimp@mtgcast.com, Jack at jack@mtgcast.com, Eric at eric@mtgcast.com or Marcel at marcel@mtgcast.com.

Link to the Opposing Player blog, see below for a picture of Conley Wood’s extremely strong doppleganger, Brian Shaw from the World’s Strongest man competition. Link to io9 agreeing with Tom about the sexiness of Patrick Stewart. Here are the Snap-N-Store CCG boxes mentioned.

B-movie recommendations include: Modern Vampires, Mortal Kombat Annihilation, Meet the Feebles, Hell comes to Frogtown, Chopping Mall, Joe’s Apartment.

MTGCast News
*** NEW CONTEST ***
Prizes: Two winners will receive a minty Gideon Jura!
How to enter: Post a picture of your magic card collection or magic playing location / environment in this MTGCast forum thread.
Will be open for two weeks!

Tom and Jack discuss “Mongolian Death Worm”, “The Spirit”, “Dead Girl” and Eric’s surprise nomination of “Teen Witch”.

Tom & Gavin & Jack & Eric & Conley & Steve & Marcel – Your Monday Night Magic news team!

Monday Night Magic #206 – Happy Smother’s Day

Pitimp — Mon, 10 May 2010 23:07:32 +0000

This Week in Magic
Join Tom, Conley, and Eric for a truly epic and nearly 2 hour long episode!

The FNM May promo is Cloudpost and June is Elvish Visionary along with some hints about Ornithopter appearing in a future set (*cough* Scars of Mirrodin *cough*). Chandra DOTP decklist announced. Check out the SCG survey about their Open events and announces the winners of their LOLdrazi contest. Nice article on aggro drafting and cube design. A nice deck building application for Android devices is now available. Nice article on understanding UWR Planeswalker control (NOT SUPERPALS says Conley). Tattoo artist trades work for MTG cards. Staggershock and Deathless Angel are the Game Day promos. Sunmesa events announces promotion for Northern Californian players at Nationals. Peter Jahn and Bennie Smith with some great discussion on the Mythic conundrum. Link to the web-based life counter. Guide to writing better tournament reports on Mananation.

Link to the Bazaar of Moxen crazy tournament in France.

What Have We Been Playing?
Conley is preparing for GP DC and PT San Juan, Tom is dabbling with Eldrazi Spawn and Beastmaster Ascension.

Listener Emails
We love the emails, email Tom at pitimp@mtgcast.com, Conley at conley@mtgcast.com, and Eric at eric@mtgcast.com. Nice article on All-in red for standard by Silvestri on CF. Great article on making tickets on RoE for MTGO. Link to the full art Deathless Angel.

MTGCast News
Tom calls out for ideas from any software / web developer listeners on recommendations for web frameworks / technologies to look at for MTGCast.com V2.

Tom & Gavin & Jack & Eric & Conley & Steve & Marcel – Your Monday Night Magic news team!

Monday Night Magic #205 – Shake Weights and Water Weenies

Pitimp — Tue, 04 May 2010 03:52:13 +0000

This Week in Magic
Join Tom and Jack as they run through Eric’s laundry list of MTG news. We have the official announcements for the MTGO pre-release and release events for Rise of the Eldrazi. MTGFanatic.com announces they are looking for local tourney organizers to help set up events and continue providing more cash tournaments and more. John Avon and Aleksi Briclot will be the artists at PT San Juan. We have the decklist for the Garruk Duels of the Planeswalker paper magic deck, Teeth of the Predator. This is just bizarre, seen on thestarkingtonpost.com, we have the seeming promotional MTG video for FNM’s featuring muppet like character. Check out SCG’s give-away contest, Rise of the LOL-drazi! At the end of his article Max McCall makes some great points on Mythics that Arron Forsyth mentions in his twitter feed. Good news for all, the M11 intro packs will feature 60 card decks, amen. More on Mythics from Sam Stoddard of the In Contention podcast here on MTGcast. Here is the survey regarding the new National Qualifiers.

Congrats to David Mayer for besting 200 in the StarCityGames.com Legacy Open playing Ad Nauseam Tendrils. We also had the 2010 TCGplayer.com $5k Series – Boston Standard tourney with Josh Herr taking first with Jund and 2/3rd place going to UW control.

Listener Emails
We love them emails, keep them coming to pitimp@mtgcast.com and jack@mtgcast.com! Link to the interesting CCG teaching about antibiotics and infections.

B-movie recommendations include: Critters, Porky’s, Dance of the Dead, Hanger, Teeth, Monster Ark, 6-String Samurai, and Night of the Comet.

Compare the Shake Weight to the Water Weenie:

MTGCast News
Yo! MTG Taps! featured in the latest “Serious Fun” on the main WoTC site, awesome! Packs from the contest will be sent out this week, and send Tom ideas for the next contest.

B-movie recommendations from Tom and Jack: Basket Case, Slug Bait part 1-3 (or just Throbbing Gristle in general)

Tom & Gavin & Jack & Eric & Conley & Steve & Marcel – Your Monday Night Magic news team!

Monday Night Magic #204 – Tom’s Man Crush

Pitimp — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 04:58:09 +0000

Fixed audio being too quiet, darn you technology!

This Week in Magic
Tom, Conley, Marcel, and Eric (briefly) bring you the news this week. We start off with multiplayer format / stand-alone product with descriptions of all four decks. Congratulations to Dan Alpers of CCGamers.org for winning the My Magic contest for a trip to San Juan! Keep an eye out for the TCGPlayer $5K in Boston on May 1st. Hasbro lists Magic in their first quarter call as one of their top sellers. Magic the Gathering Schedule is up for Gencon (August 4th through 8th). The “King of Fatties”, Jamie Wakefield, is returning to magic with goal of winning the Pro Tour. The 2010 Community Cup invitations are up for the public and press members! Jonathan Medina will have a series of articles on ManaNation about trading up from a pack of RoE to a piece of power. Also, check out the transcript of the Rise of the Eldrazi developers chat on the mothership. Don’t miss out on a discussion of man crushes and how Tom took the question in different direction (Jude Law!).

What Have We Been Playing?
Conley discusses limited with draft and sealed and Marcel backs Tom up on the power UW Level Up and a few other archetypes to look out for.

Listener Emails
Email us at pitimp@mtgcast.com, conley@mtgcast.com, marcel@mtgcast.com.
We have literally OODLES of emails this week. Tom apologizes somewhat on his comments regarding Deathless Angel. More discussion on the reserved list and the potential for a “new extended” starting with Mercadian Masques block and the depiction of race in magic art. B-movie recommendations include: Troll 2, Yor: The Hunter of the Future, El Orfanato, anything made by Asylum, Feast!, Hard Candy. Link to review of Yor: The Hunter of the Future and the infographic about the physics of Mega Shark.

MTGCast News
Well, we finally announce the winners of the twelve prize packs that each have 3 boosters of RoE! If you win, just email Tom at pitimp@mtgcast.com your mailing address. Onto the winnahs!
- Nanarchy with Sean Connery as Urza
- Philip Heckman with Triple HHH as Sarkhan Vol
- pokerbob1 with Neil Patrick Harris (NPH!) as Jace Beleren
- Rellok with Kevin Bacon or Christopher Walken as Sorin Markov and Chuck Norris as Ajani Vengeant
- Queklain with Keanu Reeves as Jace Beleren
- Tosus with Michael Dorn (Worf) for Ajani Goldman, Samuel L. Jackson voicing a CGI Nicol Bolas, and Nathan Fillion as Urza
- Caudates with Carrot Top as Chandra Nalaar and Marlon Wayans as Sorin Markov and a number of “Blackula” references
- jonnyjonny with Helena Bonham Carter as Lilliana Vess
- greenmanaguy with Ron Pearlman as Ajani Goldmane and has a link to when Ron Pearlman played the Beast in the TV series of Beauty and the Beast!
- Biomechanika with Marlon Wayans as Sarkan Vol and a description of his planeswalker abilities and how it links to his movies
- culeryn with Dominic West playing Tezzeret and he does have a striking resemblance
- Etsap with Jeremy Irons as Nicol Bolas, Val Kilmer as Tezzeret, Charlize Theron as Elspeth

Tom & Gavin & Jack & Eric & Conley & Steve & Marcel – Your Monday Night Magic news team!

Monday Night Magic #203 – My Level Up brings all the boys to the yard

Pitimp — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 01:33:08 +0000

This Week in Magic
We survived the Rise of the Eldrazi pre-releases this weekend and join Tom and Jack as they go through their limited experiences and the big surprise power of blue and Level up in general. Check out the official RoE visual spoiler, FAQ, and primer videos. We have a new Standard legal infinite mana combo with Training Grounds + Filigree Sages + Khalni Gem. Check out the BGS-10 grade Beta Black Lotus currently on eBay for a cool $89,000. The magic artist Daarken (Sarkhan Vol, Bloodghast, etc) is offering a downloadable video course on fantasy art creation. We also discuss the rumors of a big change to the eternal formats to help make them more affordable in the general and open it up to PTQ’s and large tournaments, arguably the cut-off will be Mercadian Masques block (link to wikipedia on the various magic sets). We have the official announcement of the paper deck versions of the Duels of the Planeswalkers decks. Last but not least, we have the top 4 decklists from the Midwest Master Qualifiers Chicago standard tournament.

We also explore the art of the first ever obese angel in a Princess Leia outfit on Deathless Angel and the new white morphiling.

What Have We Been Playing?
Tom discovering the power of blue, flying and Level up in the RoE pre-release and Jack is enjoying being a butt-head with Runeflare Trap.

Listener Emails
Email us at pitimp@mtgcast.com or jack@mtgcast.com!
Tons of great emails this week, here we go! The MTG cake sighting on the official Yahoo Sports NBA coverage. B-movie recommendations: Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus, Clownhouse, Kung Pow, Creepshow, Repo Man, Robot Holocaust.

MTGCast News
Small update to the booster pack give-away, given that Rise of the Eldrazi is coming soon, the packs will be RoE and the winners will be next week!

Tom & Gavin & Jack & Eric & Conley & Steve & Marcel – Your Monday Night Magic news team!

Monday Night Magic #202 – Conley’s $20 Soft Serve Special

Pitimp — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 23:32:46 +0000

This Week in Magic
It is quite an epic show with Tom, Conley “Sassypants” Woods, Jack and special guest host, Marcel from Oakland! First, we give a huge congrats to Gavin for winning PTQ Seattle, woo hah! Wizards has filed a complaint in Washington against four Alabama residents for fabricating tournaments and results in effort to get free prizes and materials to be resold through Ebay.com.

We review the current Rise of the Eldrazi spoilers from the Standard constructed, limited, EDH and casual bend. Check out the unofficial spoiler on MTGSalvation.

Listener Emails
B-movie recommendations for the week: Birdemic, Mega Piranha. Tom corrects his complete bungling of creature auras on Gideon. Thanks to Brad to point out the rules interaction between Rebound and Retrace.

MTGCast News
The Worldwake booster pack give-away contest is closed, stay tuned next week for the winners! Tom explains why MTGCast will no longer be showing up on TCGPlayer. We also quickly digress into filth when Conley admits to what he would do for $20. And it is shocking.

B-movie pick of the week is: They Live (1988)

Tom & Gavin & Jack & Eric & Conley & Steve & Marcel – Your Monday Night Magic news team!

Monday Night Magic #201 – Sarkhan the Mad says “KALI MA”!

Pitimp — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 02:26:32 +0000

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This Week in Magic
Tom and Eric bring you a healthy and manly show and start off with a thorough run through of our favorite current Rise of the Eldrazi cards (check out the MTGSalvation unofficial spoiler). Can you answer Tom’s quiz of the three other magic cards with a converted mana cost of 15? Congratulations to Adam Yurchick for winning Grand Prix Houston and to Conley and Gavin for placing in the money. Don’t miss Conley’s featured match and deck tech on the official coverage page! Read about the potential changes or restructuring of Regionals to become “National Qualifiers”. We talk about the new WPN Championships and how this may or may not be cool. See the RoE token cards.

What Have We Been Playing?
Tom is back into MTGO to dabble in Standard and having fun with UG Polymorph and BR Ad Nauseam.

Listener Emails
Link to gamehearts.org, videoupdates.net. B-movie recommendations sent in is Krull, Shark Attack 3: Megalodon, Brain Damage, Ice Cream Man.

MTGCast News
This is last week to enter the WWK booster pack giveaway! Contest will close as of episode 202 and winners will be announced on episode 203.
Contest: For the upcoming Planeswalker movie, pick a planeswalker and which actor or actress you would like to play them and why!
Prizes: 12 prize packs, each pack with 3 WWK boosters
Where: Post in the comments section or in this MTGCast thread.

B-movie pick of the week is “The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension“, don’t miss this classic starring Peter Weller, Jeff Goldblum, John Lithgow and Christopher Lloyd!

Tom & Gavin & Jack & Eric & Conley & Steve – Your Monday Night Magic news team!

Monday Night Magic #200 – The Beefmaster LIVE!

Pitimp — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 23:42:09 +0000

This Week in Magic
Well, it’s the big episode 2-0-0, so we did a live episode via Talkshoe. This makes for a wild podcasting adventure, but also makes the audio quality not so hot, so bear with us, this only happens once a year or so. Onto the news!

The official WoTC “My Magic” contest ends next week. We have all of the hosts run through some Rise of the Eldrazi picks and Conley and Gavin both agree that Realms Uncharted looks to be the winner for constructed applications so far, Tom is obviously quite excited for Ooze Genesis, and ladies, make sure to check out the Beefmaster! The Pre-release promo will be Emrakul, the Aeons Torn, Release promo will be Lord of Shatterskull Pass and the Gameday promos include everyone receiving a Staggershock and the top 8′s getting a Deathless Angel. Don’t miss the second awesome “Booster Quest” with The Shaman’s Orb. We also run through the ever-growing cash tournament scene with the addition of events sponsored by MTGFanatic and SuperStars Game Center (of channelfireball.com). GP Brussels is the largest Standard tournament of all time and congratulations to Emanuele Giusti winning with Jund. We also had the SCG Open in Orlando and Minneapolis is getting Nationals on August 21st! We also talk about Brandon of the Huffingtonpost getting into magic with a goal of making the Pro Tour by 2012. Eric also fills us in on the info that Magic is selling amazingly well and is helping to keep Hasbro go-go-going.

Listener Emails / Callers / chat questions
Here is our listener B-movie recommendations: Naked Space, Hercules in New York, Ninja Terminator, Robo Vampire, Inbred Redneck, Redneck Zombies, Flight of the Living Dead, Fido, Chinese Super Ninjas, Blood-Sucking Freaks, Cannibal the Musical, Dog Soldiers. A Mass Effect movie is in the works. Thanks to the listeners who remembered Bill Cosby’s “Picture Pages“. Steve Wolf sends in a video of his barbershop quartet from PT San Diego with their “Ode to Jund“.

We have some great call-ins and chat questions including a great discussion of the possible use of “functional reprints” in the Reserved List update.

MTGCast News
Well, it was episode 200 which means that Tom and all of the co-hosts say a big thanks to the listeners and a huge thank you to Steve from Tom for the amazing full-art Experiment Kraj (scan!) by the amazing artists at CardKitty.com!

Contest: For the upcoming Planeswalker movie, pick a planeswalker and which actor or actress you would like to play them and why!
Prizes: 12 prize packs, each pack with 3 WWK boosters
Where: Post in the comments section or in this MTGCast thread.

B-horror movie pick of the week is: Dead Alive (by Peter Jackson!)

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Tom & Gavin & Jack & Eric & Conley & Steve – Your Monday Night Magic news team!

MTGCast Special – Rise of the Eldrazi Preview Card

Pitimp — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 05:01:55 +0000

Join Tom, Eric, Steve and Jack as we review our exclusive spoiler card, Enclave Cryptologist, and a slew of other RoE cards! We get all up in the Level Up, Rebound, Defender sub-theme and more!

Monday Night Magic #199 – Dromad Purebred Show

Pitimp — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 01:19:58 +0000

This Week in Magic
Conley is back baby and it gets dirty pretty quickly. The MTG community is an uproar over the Reserved list policy update and we give it a thorough beating along with the announcement of Legacy becoming a MTGO format. Scars of Mirrodin, first in the 3 set Scars of Mirrodin block, has been officially announced and coming at you on 10/1/10. A bunch of good Eldrazi tidbits on the “Gods and Monsters” article on the mother ship and we are awaiting the other two legendary Eldrazi creatures with baited breath and tentacles. Congratulations to Katsuhiro Mori for winning GP Yokohama with Thopter/Depths. Mananation has a news item from Cartamundi about a potential rise in magic card prices. WoTC gives us a new application and videos to introduce new players to the game. Master’s Edition III goes off sale March 22 at 9:00 AM PST / 17:00 UTC. Some changes for the Midwest Master Series and SCG Open’s. We have the announcement of a second expansion for the Duels of the Planeswalkers for the Xbox 360. Learn more about doing your own art alterations with Dave Lovelace on Mananation.

Listener Emails
So.. Many.. Good.. Emails.. Here are the movie links: Mikey, Battle Royale, Special Dead, Wild Zero (and drinking game), and The Stuff. WoTC forum topic on optional triggers. Link to the MTG MMO online petition.

MTGCast News
Monday Night Magic and a slew of other podcasts mentioned in Peter Jahn’s article on SCG and on a recent “Savor the Flavor” on the mothership.

We are having a LIVE EPISODE 200 on Sunday, March 28th at 8:30pm CST. It will hosted on TalkShoe and our profile page is http://www.talkshoe.com/tc/41574 to get a link and to read more on how to use the TalkShoe client to listen/chat live and even be a call-in on the show!

Tom & Gavin & Jack & Eric & Conley & Steve – Your Monday Night Magic news team!

Monday Night Magic #198 – GIRLS DON’T KNOW ‘BOUT MAH GOATS!

Pitimp — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:27:16 +0000

This Week in Magic
Hot news of the day is the 6 new pooled Rise of the Eldrazi spoilers giving us another huge Eldrazi and some new keywords, check out the MTGSalvation spoiler. Tom is also sad to see the passing of Corey Haim and recommends you check out License to Drive and Prayer of the Rollerboys for your Corey fix. Check out the WPN WWK “thank-you” playmats. Take a gander at the MTG Manga first posted a few weeks ago. Very cool April FNM foil promo of Bloodbraid Elf with new art. Woltereck and Bush Win the Indianapolis SCG Open, with record attendance for the Standard and Legacy portions (Standard Top deck lists, Legacy Top deck lists). Ding Leong Wins GP Kuala Lumpur (Standard with mono red) and a 8 year old makes Day 2 playing Jund! Check out a great article by Gavin on SCG looking at some of the “myths” surrounding the power of cards.

Listener Emails
We had some real awesome ones! Link to the article about Sorin. Rise of the Eldrazi booster pack images. Link 1, Link 2 and Link 3 about the almost-alternate card backs to Arabian Nights. Article on Affinity for Islands about the WWK playtest cards with card images. Link to the YouTube video of the intro for “Hawk the Slayer”.

MTGCast News
Kudos to all of our international listeners!

We are giving our WWK booster box give-away a revamp to make it easier to enter!
Contest: For the upcoming Planeswalker movie, pick a planeswalker and which actor or actress you would like to play them and why!
Prizes: 12 prize packs, each pack with 3 WWK boosters
Where: Post in the comments section or in this MTGCast thread.

Tom & Gavin & Jack & Eric & Conley & Steve – Your Monday Night Magic news team!

Monday Night Magic #197 – Marlon Wayans in a MTG movie? NOOOO!

Pitimp — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:35:19 +0000

This Week in Magic
Patrick Chapin is releasing Next Level Magic as a 420 page full color expanded paperback March 22nd on StarCityGames.com. Check out the Rise of the Eldrazi intro deck names / other tidbits plus pictures of the booster box / fat pack. March FNM foil promo is Ancient Ziggurat. We revisit the Deck Builder’s Toolkit, now with a packaging picture. Julian Booher wins the Minneapolis Midwest Masters tourney and check out the Top 8 deck lists (only 5 Jund!). WoTC and the DCI are planning to bring forward a 24/7 rules chat line (direct link to chat page) to get your rules question answered at any time (not working at the time of the podcast), but is definitely a bold move! Peter Jahn discusses what is Bribery Collusion and betting and how it affects Magic. Stephen Menendian talks about his trip to Wizards (premium article) and why they should remove the Reserved list right now! AJ Sacher (pronounced “Soccer”) is joining Star City Games in the free article area. MTG Movie? Yes says Hasbo CEO! Ideas to fix MTGO on Pure MTGO. Daily Mtg has a schedule of all events at Pax East.

What Have We Been Playing?
Steve busts some EDH out with crazy Djinn Illuminatus + Pact of the Titan + Altar of Dementia going into Warp World headaches and more!

Listener Emails
Article on the five story “waterfall” of primordial ooze. Zechariah R/W/B/u deck list. Arturo’s PT/GP Google Calendar and SCG Open Google Calendar.

MTGCast News
Read up on the very cool initiative headed by Dan Alpers of Central Corridor Gamers titled “Games for Troops” and kudos to ManaNation for being a part as well (PDF flyer).

Our NEW contest to give away another Worldwake booster box is to come up with which planeswalker (AND WHY!) should Marlon Wayans play in the upcoming MTG movie. Post your response in the comment section or this thread in the MTGCast forums.

Now, the contest winners! If you won, send Tom your name and mailing address to pitimp@mtgcast.com.

3x Worldwake booster winners on your favorite preview card!
Winner #1: wangweric excited for Bojuka Bog
Winner #2: hyperwater excited for Amulet of Vigor
Winner #3: Bog Frog excited for Calcite Snapper
Winner #4: Blunt World with Pilgrim’s Eye
Winner #5: cheverisi with Thallid
Winner #6: SengirLord with Anowon, the Ruin Sage
Winner #7: rootwallapunk with Time Stop
Winner #8: noodle with Cloudthresher
Winner #9: laflama with Gaea’s Cradle
Winner #10: Ophidian with Phage the Untouchable
Winner #11: Queklain with Progenitus
Winner #12: spic9h with Yet Another Aether Vortex

Winners of the Worldwake 4x common/uncommon playset courtsey of Jason Pizzino, ebay store name jacen_solo!
Winner #1: chfuji with The Indestructible Goblin of Impending Doom
Winner #2: Lorgalis with Egg-Thief Gang
Winner #3: comitz with Shiny Red Lever
Winner #4: Zaynew with Blood Soaked Shrine

Tom’s movie pick of the week – Demolition Man (1993) with Wesley Snipes and Sylveter Stallone!

Tom & Gavin & Jack & Eric & Conley & Steve – Your Monday Night Magic news team!

Monday Night Magic #196 – Kozilek, Bringer of Awesome

Pitimp — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 02:12:06 +0000

This Week in Magic
Let’s start with the coolest news in quite awhile, and this is our first view of a true Eldrazi, Kozilek, Butcher of Truth. Worldwake Gateway promos are Kor Firewalker and Leatherback Baloth. List of the winners of the side events at Pro Tour: San Diego (Conley and Zvi)! Check out the “My Magic” official contest to win a trip for two to Pro Tour San Juan! A slew of tournaments this past weekend: Congratulations to Andreas Muller for winning GP Madrid (biggest GP ever!), ChannelFireball $5k Standard tourney with Jund bringing down first place, Star City Games $10k with Jund winning the Standard portion and UG Fish winning the Legacy tournament (top 16 decklists). Wil Wheaton shares his love of Landbind Ritual. MTGO Academy gives us a primer to new users of the MTGO version 3 client and it’s many arcane mysteries. Here is David Williams video on the poker site and the link to the discussion of Evelyn Ng and her love of MTG. Great article on the tournament playability of different card alterations on MTG Salvation.

Listener Emails
Link to the list of suspended DCI memberships. Video of Steve Wolf and the Thundercats barbershop quartet at PT San Diego and here is the UGO article! Link to the flyer for the University of Minnesota MTG Club repack tournament.

MTGCast News
Tom was gone over the weekend and wants to give special love to all of the entries for the contest, so the winners will be announced next week. Thanks for the patience!

B-horror movie pick of the week is Ticks (1993) – also known as Infested, with Seth Green!

Tom & Gavin & Jack & Eric & Conley & Steve – Your Monday Night Magic news team!