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Planeswalk with the Proffessors #31: Regionals 2008!

Posted on 15 June 2008 by Tommy

Hello everybody and welcome to another episode of Planeswalking with the Proffessors. This week we’re live at Edison “Noo Joosey” (as pronunciated by the cardproffessor and one of the people taking the interviews) and we’ll be covering, in this first part what people were playing, what the best card in standard is and why, what the best card no one’s playing is, the reason Mike Flores and Brian David Marshal (along with many others) refused to be put on camera, and more! (which is basically the chep way of saying, I’m running out of space to type this message in and can’t fit everything else that we did while there.)

In possibly my best effort yet I use new vinyette, dimensional, and pick-up style shooting, and, not only do we have 11 minutes of footage here, but you can expect episode 31b coming later this week to check out a finals match of Merfolk versus Rock and hear even more of my rambling to cover everything that’s occured this week…so let’s go! (No seriously you were reading that whole thing, cuz, if so you might as well go and just enjoy the video)

So what did you think of the Regionals footage? How’d you do? I’d love to hear all that and any other rambling on the subject you might want to mention.
As for news this week we’ve got to pick up the scraps about Regionals, the changes coming Shards of Alara, the return and significance of different types of fear in magic, and flavor involved in product coming soon, so -let’s draw!
To begin, for Regionals, despite the fact that the deck had an extremely good performance on Magic Workstation, I ended up going only 4-3 at Regionals.

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  1. Martin Peters Says:

    That Alex real name is Martin by the way.

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