Categorized | Monday Night Magic

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

Posted on 28 July 2008 by Tommy

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 Chicago next weekend. Blowfly Infestation gets an entire Building on a Budget article on MTG.com, but sadly Tom was not consulted on this king of all cards. Gavin wins his release event and tells us more about the craziness of Eventide limited, including the fun of SHM / SHM / EVE drafts and the non-fun of EVE / EVE / EVE drafts.

MTGCast News
A bunch of new episodes up on the MTGCast network with new videocasts from Deck Builders, Proffessors and audio casts from Road Warrior Otwell and The Magic School Bus! Tom puts us his “Moldy Artifacts” deck for listeners to critique and is his longest running deck after being built just after Legends came out 13 years ago (to abuse the uber-powerful Floral Spuzzem).

Emails, Comments and COMMENT CONTEST!
The winner this week of the AUTOGRAPHED Blowfly Infestation is … spacemarinebob!

This is a new weekly contest where I announce a question on the podcast, you post a response (or story) on the MTGSalvation forum for replies to the episode and you can win a card hand-selected from Tom’s large collection (and winner is announced on the next week’s show).

This week’s question is: The most bad-apples flavor text of all time!
(Check out Extinction for an example)
Prize of the week: Two packs of Shadowmoor and one pack of Eventide!

Leave a voice mail on our new phone line - 469-277-2278
So why wait? Call in with any questions, news items, hints, tricks, combos, or anything! Here is a link to the Top 8 decks for the PTQ in Denver for one of the listener calls.

Subscribe to the MTGCast Monday Night Magic RSS feed!
RSS feed for Monday Night Magic
RSS feed for all shows on the MTGCast network

Contact Us!
Call us and leave a voice message at 469-277-2278, that’s 469-277-CAST!
Join the MTGCast Facebook Group - Discussion, Photos, Videos and More!
Tom at pitimp@mtgcast.com
Derek at derek@mtgcast.com
Gavin at lesurgo@mtgcast.com

Tom & Derek & Gavin - Your Monday Night Magic news team!

 
icon for podpress  Standard Podcast [61:49m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

4 Comments For This Post

  1. Thomas Says:
    July 28th, 2008 at 7:30 pm

    Bad Ass flavor text? That’s easy…

    “He wanders the land in search of Good Ass.”

    Name: Bad Ass
    Set & Rarity: Unhinged common
    Printings: Unhinged
    Cost: 2BB
    Card Type: Creature - Donkey Zombie
    P/T: 3.5/1
    Rules Text (Oracle): , Growl: Regenerate Bad Ass.
    Flavor Text
    (Unhinged): 1B, He wanders the land in search of Good Ass.
    Number: 49
    Artist Credit: Thomas M. Baxa
    Format Legality: Legal In Un- Sets

    http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=74350

    It’s hard to beat Un-sets for flavor text. :)

    “Now for a squirt of lemon juice.” - Stop That

    “WARNING: THE DOMINARIAN SURGEON GENERAL HAS FOUND THAT SAVAGE BEATINGS CAN LEAD TO CHUMP BLOCKS, LIFE REDUCTION, AND EVEN GAME LOSS.” - Graphic Violence

    “And their bleating was like a wet salmon slapped upon the land—slap! slap! slap!” - Flock of Rabid Sheep [sounds Lovecraftian, had to include that one]

    “Word to me.” - Mother of Goons

    “In the future, she may be a distinguished leader, a great scholar, or a decorated hero. These days all she does is pee the bed.” - Little Girl

    This might be my favorite though, it’s truly vicious…

    “Mon.–Fri. 9:00 A.M.–8:00 P.M. Pacific (206) 624-0933″ - The Ultimate Nightmare of Wizards of the Coast® Customer Service

  2. Trevor Says:
    July 29th, 2008 at 4:35 am

    How about Tauren Mauler in the new rock deck you guys spoke of? It’s not played much but might be at least test worth and would work better then Bitterblossoms in this particular deck (plus it can be brought back as you guys said).

    Congrats on your FNM win Derek! :P

  3. FearsEdge Says:
    July 30th, 2008 at 11:02 am

    “I am the banisher, the ill will that snuffs the final candle.” —Seal inscription
    Seal of Doom

    “I will flay the skin from your flesh and the flesh from your bones and scrape your bones dry. And still you will not have suffered enough.” —Greven il-Vec, to Gerrard
    Hatred

    Most anything Volrath says, really.

    It is not that you will go mad. It is that you will beg for madness.” —Volrath
    Altar of dementia

    If I had to pick one, it would be Hatred.

  4. Thomas Painter Says:
    August 1st, 2008 at 7:27 pm

    The Ultimate Nightmare of Wizards of the Coast® Customer Service is a card. :)

Leave a Reply

Advertising information
    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.

Shows on the Network

Sponsors

Site Map