Monday Night Magic #157 – Hrbek the Planeswalker
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This Week in Magic
Mea Culpa from Tom, thank for the correction regarding the Warp World deck from the Indianapolis PTQ was in the top 8, but did not win the PTQ. The winners of the Agents of Artifice fan art competition have been announced and you see the winners here. Grand Prix Seattle was this past weekend and the winner was Yann Massicard playing Doran, Faeries was popular and we have a ton of MTGCast hosts in the running including Stan Bessey of Deck Builders placing 14th, Gavin in 73rd and Conley 187th. We also had Nick Bonham, Pedro Rodriguez, Bryan Greer and Shannon Ericson also doing well! Here is the general info for GP Seattle and here are the top 8 decklists. We have officially seen the M10 release and prerelease promos (Queen of Ants and Vampire Nocturnus) and confirm the use of the term “battlefield” for being in play. There is a great debate article on fivewithflores.com discussing some topics brought up in the latest The Magic Show regarding table shuffling and deck randomization. Randy Buehler posts on his blog some info on the block constructed metagame for PT Honolulu and a round-by-round coverage of his monthly MTGO championship. PT Honolulu is this weekend and wish good luck to Gavin and Conley! We also hear from Kenneth Nagle’s twitter that he will be previewing an M10 card at PT Honolulu.
What Have We Been Playing?
Gavin and Conley have been playing some Standard and likely turning their sights towards draft and block constructed. :^) Tom playing some more limited EDH and dreaming of busting out some Vanguard.
Listener Emails
Tons of great emails this week. Kudos to MacDaddy for his Hrbek the Planeswalker submission.
MTGCast News
A huge thank you from Tom to Marshall of MagicLifeCounters.com for sending him a custom Pit Imp and Unearth life counters. Tom is also happy to announce our next big give-away and contest!
The contest: Write flavor text for the card Sorrow’s Path
Prizes: 12 prize packs of 3 Alara Reborn booster packs
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“Hey why do you get the small one?”
For the contest
“Mother always said the path to Hell is paved with good intentions. She was wrong, it was paved with stones made from my enemies. – Haron the Disobedient”
My submission…
The sorrow takes hold,
the sorrow drains,
the sorrow devours,
and only sorrow remains.
“Sorrow’s Path was lined with the bones of those who had fallen to the futility of trying to cross through it, and yet, due to the monsters in the surrounding hills, it was the only ‘safe’ route through the mountains.” – History of Terisiare
“But the floating lights were but a ruse; when we realized where the path we followed had lead us, it was a shock to us all.” – Vervamon the Elder
“No one said that this should be a fair battle”
why do you get the small one?
For the contest
For the comment contest;
For the small price of his lifeforce the mage assured his allies’ victory.
For the contest.
He failed to answer me those questions three.
C O N L E Y !
C O N L E Y !
C O N L E Y !
Copy & paste this to make Conley Pro Tour Champion, I guarantee it works!
I can’t believe Conley’s in the top 8! That’s awesome!!
me niether!!!!!! 1!1111111! go conley!! when are teh pairings gonna be up?
For the contest:
“Sometimes victory comes at a price. Often that price is painful.”
For the Sorrow’s Path Contest:
And travellers now within that valley,
Through the red-litten windows, see
Vast forms that move fantastically
To a discordant melody;
While, like a rapid ghastly river,
Through the pale door,
A hideous throng rush out forever,
And laugh –but smile no more.
—Edgar Allan Poe, “In the Greenest of the Valleys”
Please include this citation along with my previous contest entry:
Edgar Allan Poe, “In the Greenest of the Valleys”
For the contest
“The Wizard was never one to forget that he had the power to make his enemies walk sorrow’s path” Human Wizard
“I pitty the man that tries to use me.” appa reab pit imp master
My submission:
“Across the abyss
The weary traveler struggles on
Casting his eyes upon the ground
Thou hast become the path and the way
That leads to destruction”
-Vervamon the Elder
As we’d say in Australia:
Conley, Conley, Connley! Oi,Oi,Oi!
Yeah totally stoked he just beat Kibler!
I thought long and hard about what kind of flavor sorrow’s path brought to me, and I thought of a lone fighter weeping for the pointlessness of war. Since the path of sorrow was the road that few people tread, I thought of “the road not taken” by Robert Frost. Sure, flavor text is no literary masterpiece, but i ran with it. Sure this flavor text would require slightly different art….
My submission:
Two paths diverged on the battlefield
and charging from both, a frenzied horde
and be one fighter, behind my shield
and knowing my attackers would not yield
My sorrow and pain became my sword
Noooo Conley is out
Nooo! Conley lost! I thought he had it locked up…
My submissions are both related.
“Before you may enter this path by me, you’ll have to answer these questions three.” – Nicol “Sorrow” Bolas
“What is your favorite color?” – Old Man Sorrow
“Blue, no Yellow! AAAHHHH!!!” – Sir Mudboots, Goblin Knight
“Don’t a trade need to parts to exist?” – Liliana Vess
“Yes: the losing one, and myself” – Yawgmoth
Nicely done, Conley! Now come play with us at GP São Paulo
Thomaz Alexandre in Brasil
Good Job COnely
I was there watching him make his first Top 8
He did extremely well in the draft portion and for his first PT he performed amazingly. Only due to the bad luck as far as mulligans did he lose to Hebsky. However he is still a Pro to me so congratulations Conely WOods
flavor text for Sorrow’s Path,
“Awkward”
Well he is a pro fullstop, lol, pro points and monies make him one.
But you are right, bad mull game5 a bit of an anticlimax to their match.
Also, Hebsky did seem to draw the bant charm whenever he needed it.
I also wasn’t sure why he kept looting with the obelisk vs Zac hill also.
“No Running!” — Sign posted outside of Sorrow’s Path
get it? Don’t run this card, duh.
or how about,
“In Bryn Argol, only the swans dare waddle along Sorrow’s Path.”
“You take the ugly one.”
“YOU take the ugly one!”
“I’LL take the ugly one!”
“Which one’s the ugly one?”
The path of thorns will guide thee through thy quest,
to find the sorrow that entails eternal rest.
Has both path and sorrow within + it’s kind of sad and downhartening like playing the actual card.
Here is my idea for SP flavor text:
“So, the Sorrow’s Path wasn’t that bad. That bridge was a little narrow, but still even if I fell off I don’t think I would die. What was with that weird guy turning that other guy to stone? Man, I bet turning to stone sucks way more than blocking a creature other than the one you originally wanted to. Hey, did you know that a small dragon lives somewhere near here? Don’t worry about him though, we don’t have flying and I’m pretty sure he does, so we wouldn’t be forced to block him anyway. Oh here come some guys with spears let’s tell them not to worry too much about the Sorrow’s Path.”
-Fingor in his third conversation with Turgin
from the Fingornomicon
He told his master that didn’t want to work with dragons. The master gave him a lesson that would refresh his memory why he’s the slave, not the trainer.
- Lesson taught by Uncle Istavan
“Fool me once, shame on you.
Fool me twice, shame on me.” – Hrbek the Planeswalker
“Switch Bitch!”
“Sometimes there is land that is just not worth fighting for.”
This land was created in The Dark. Unfortunately it did not stay there.
“Sometimes, there is land which is not worth fighting for.”
“The high wizard’s battle honors were soon forgotten after what became known as the cotton candy incident.”
“if only I had made a left!”
- wanderer’s last words
for contest
“maybe I shouldn’t go this way?”
Norin the Wary