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Monday Night Magic #121: Tasty Textless Tidbits

Posted on 16 September 2008 by Tommy

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This Week in Magic
Right off with Shards of Alara (ALA), we have the official MTG 9/15 preview of Mycoloth. Gavin and Tom discuss the mana-fixing for ALA, some of the rumored “charms” and more on the unofficial spoiler. Also, some ALA cards were spotted on eBay (pictures here) and have spurned discussion of the 4 mythic rares shown in the pic.

Big news of the day is a hot news tip on the upcoming Magic Player Rewards full-art textless promos: Unmake, Flame Javelin and Cryptic Command. They look absolutely amazing. We also have a scan of the November FNM promo, Isochron Scepter!

And GP Rimini was this weekend and the last major block constructed tourney. Congrats to Emanuele Giusti for winning with Kithkin!

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The winner this week of the DCI Foil Powder Keg is … kcolloran!

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: Thoughts on the Alara keyword abilities and your favorite shard!
Prize of the week: Full-art textless Tidings!

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1 Comments For This Post

  1. CopySix Says:
    September 18th, 2008 at 4:32 pm

    Tom / Gavin,
    Another good show. Solid summary of the Player Rewards program - this has been getting some attention now with the very cool textless cards coming out.
    I am rather pumped about upcomming release. Although not decided yet, I am leaning toward the Bant shard. The ‘exalted’ keyword ability interests me. There also appears to be a good number of solid mono-white creature cards spoiled so far as well.
    My hang-up - the tri-colored thing which may slow down play a bit - not that I’m an adrenaline junky or anything.
    Also - How the hell does someone get a hold of product before the pre-release ?! - and how do I get hooked up - I could be an eBay star !

    ~ Brian (aka CopySix)

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