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#49 - 2008 Jan 08 - Road Warrior Otwell - Extended The Format

Posted on 12 January 2008 by Christopher E. Otwell

Episode #49 - 2008 Jan 08 - Extended The Format

I finally spend some time digging into the Extended format, filling you in one some important information, and supply your with a direction that you can use to focus your playtesting with.

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  1. Squirrel_Token Says:
    January 19th, 2008 at 2:13 am

    Hey Otwell, I’ve been listening to all your podcasts the last couple weeks, and I find them very interesting and entertaining. Especially the recaps of your tournament games. My favorite feature of the podcast though, would have to be the deck discussion, when you take known decks and discuss them, reccomend cards and end up with a finished product. No matter what anyone says, keep that segment of your podcast alive, the more of that I have hear the better. Also, I had been working on a similar deck to your friend Bradford I beleive. Was he the one with extended wizards pet deck? I took a similar build to a ext tournament my local store put on and did very well with it, only losing to a guy who could consistently duress out my counters get tons of mana to be able to cast the deed without fail every game. Just wanted to let you know you’re doing a great job with the podcast, and love the improved sound quality! On a side note, you mentioned you were a Fahrenheit 451 clan member. Do you have to be a regular tourney player with a huge MTGO collection to be a member? I would like to be able to playtest occasionally with some of the members from time to time, and maybe talk about decks and whatnot. I don’t have tons of money invested in MTGO right now, but I think I have some pretty solid and novel deck ideas I would like to run by you. My MTGO name is Squirrel_Token, I’d love it if you hit me up to duel if you have a free minute sometime. That’s about it, good work on the Mannequin deck, I was glad it did so well and defined the format so much, glad you were able to affect the Pro Tour finally, it seems like you have definitly put the work in. Hopefully talk to you sometime soon, I’ll be listening!
    - Ben

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