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Monday Night Magic #75: Assault, Fraud, Bribery and More!

Posted on 16 October 2007 by Tommy

MTGCast Episode 75 - Assault, Fraud, Bribery and More!
“You read it somewhere else, but you heard it here first!”

This Week in Magic
It’s always slow after a set release, but we dug up some news. Remi Fortier wins PTQ Valencia (deck lists) at the ripe age of 16, congrats! Brian Millar in the latest “House of Cards” article shows some of the cool interactions between the Shapeshifter instants (Nameless Inversion, Crib Swap) with Haakon, Stromgald Scourge and his ability to use Knight cards from the graveyard. The FNM promo for December is Force Spike (scan of ad). Gleemax Alpha is live and we are … not impressed. We also revisit our favorite “Suspended DCI Members” page on the Wizards site and find a few gems like “Bribery”, “Assault”, and “failure to fulfill Country Coordinator responsibilities”!

MTGCast News
Dom says thank you to this week’s donators. Tom also gives a preliminary thank you to the PR firm for Wizards who just might send him a Fruitcake Elemental.

Comment Contest!
The winner this week for the signed Ichorid is … laddymacbucko! 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: Post your multiplayer story with Lorwyn cards!
Prize of the week: Unlimited Jade Statue!

Also, if there are 50+ comments in one week on an episode, Tom will give away his Fruitcake Elemental to a randomly-selected entry!

Contact Us!
Message via MSN to mtgcast@hotmail.com
Tom at pitimp@mtgcast.com
Dom at dom@mtgcast.com
Gavin at lesurgo@mtgcast.com

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

 
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3 Comments For This Post

  1. Carl Says:
    October 16th, 2007 at 10:54 am

    Good show guys as usual.

    You mentioned about building standard decks using lorwyn cards and if it’s creating any new archetypes.

    I’m currently building a UW faerie deck using the mistbind clique and momentary blink to attempt a soft lock on opponents turn 4 upkeep (if I’m on the play). The build is still in the early test stages and includes mana tithes, boomerangs & spell stutter faeries to gain early game tempo advantage before setting the lock up.

    It then kills the oppoenent with faerie beatdown :-)

    I don’t think it’s a new archetype but it’s certainly showing potential in early solo runs with proxies (I’m waiting for the actual cards to arrive to take the deck to a local FNM)

  2. Chewie! Says:
    October 17th, 2007 at 4:12 am

    Perhaps I’m just slow, but I can’t find the topic for this episode anywhere, whether I go to MTGSalvation and click forums or whether I click Forum up on the top right of this page. Anyone care to help a brother out? I’m new here :-p

  3. Tommy Says:
    October 17th, 2007 at 11:54 pm

    Hey Chewie!,

    I just created a thread on the MTGCast forums:
    http://www.mtgboard.com/showthread.php?t=312

    MTGSalvation appears to be having some server problems and is not loading at the moment. But, it should be back up soon and you just click on the “comments” link at the bottom of the article.

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