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Monday Night Magic #126: Grand Prix Jamboree and Voice Mail Marathon

Posted on 20 October 2008 by Tommy

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This Week in Magic
We had two major tournaments this weekend, Grand Prix Paris and Grand Prix Kansas City. We give you a run down of the winners and some general strategy for Shards of Alara sealed deck. Gavin talks a bit more about the rapidly approaching Pro Tour Berlin and his preparation. We are exceptionally excited for the upcoming Jace vs Chandra Duel Decks with alternate art Counterspell, Fact or Fiction, Incinerate, Seal of Fire and of course, the two planeswalkers. It is available November 7th.

User Corner
We have a bunch of emails to Gavin and Tom this week.

MTGCast News
We have new episodes of Planeswalk with the Proffessors, The Magic Sock, The Magic School Bus, Deck Builders Video and Radio and Tribal Time with Tom. Tom is going to Worlds and wants to know if listeners want any sort of get together. All of the old episodes are back online, our apologies for the downtime.

Emails, Comments and COMMENT CONTEST!
The winner this week of 6 packs of Shards of Alara is … The Game! Send Tom (pitimp) a private message on the forum to claim your prize.

This is a new weekly contest where I announce a question on the podcast, you post a response (or story) on the MTGSalvation or Star City Games 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: Custom Conflux cards, Deflating Football league logo and new MTGCast logo!
Prize of the week: 3 packs of Shards of Alara!
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So why wait? Call in with any questions, news items, hints, tricks, combos, or anything! Here is the link to Chris from Kentucky’s eBay auction.

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3 Comments For This Post

  1. K-Staks Says:
    October 20th, 2008 at 11:53 pm

    I like the show, but it sounded like gavin was eating dinner. I heard plates and the smacking, it didn’t help with the quality. Other than that, I still like the show.

  2. D-Town Says:
    October 23rd, 2008 at 4:30 am

    Haha, I agree with K-Staks. That was hella funny though, I love it when podcasts do stuff like that though. It just shows that they are human. This is a sick show guys, keep it up.

  3. Dave Says:
    October 30th, 2008 at 3:05 am

    I just started listening to this. I’m enjoying it. I was especially interested in the discussion of the future of the core sets… so much so I felt compelled to blog some commentary: http://blog.daveastels.com/2008/10/29/mtg-core-sets/

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