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Pitch Cards

Posted on 10 June 2006 by Dominic Hodgson

–Introduction to episode 17: Pitch Cards
–This episode is an experiment in which I use the audio+ feature in Castblaster. Basically, as I talk about various pitch cards, I’m able to show the card images so that listeners can see the cards that I’m talking about. How to see those pictures? Easy! Visit www.winpodder.com, download the Winpodder software (it’s free), install it and then download this episode and listen to it on your computer. To enlarge the pictures that you see (the first one comes in about 1:30 mins. into the show), double click on the image. To reduce the image’s size, double click on the large image. Or, as I did, listen to the images full screen and they’ll automatically cycle through as you’re listening to the episode.
–Music by Brother Love (”Push”)from the Podsafe Music Network.

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    Sealed Deck
    • 2+ players
    • Each player needs 1 Tournament pack and 3 booster packs
    • Players simply open their tournament packs and the cards from three additional booster packs and build a deck from the cards they opened. Guidelines require a minimum deck size of 40 cards and allow players to add as many basic lands (Plains, Islands, Swamps, Mountains, and Forests) to their card pools as they like.

    Booster Draft
    • 4-8 players
    • Each player needs 3 booster packs
    • At the start of a Booster Draft, each player opens a booster pack and picks the card he or she wants from it. (You can't see the cards that the other players draft.) Then each player passes the rest of the pack to his or her left. You pick up the pack that was passed to you, select a card, and pass the rest to your left. This process continues until all the cards have been drafted. Next, each player opens a second pack, but this time, you pass the pack to your right. After all those cards are drafted, you open the third pack and pass to the left again.
      Once all the packs have been drafted, players build decks from the cards they selected, adding as many basic lands (Plains, Islands, Swamps, Mountains, and Forests) to their decks as they like. Each deck must have at least 40 cards.
    Tribal Wars
    • One-third of every deck must be of a single creature type (e.g. "Merfolk" or "Beast")
    • Each deck must contain at least 60 cards, and players may build decks using Standard, Extended, Legacy, or Vintage deckbuilding rules.
    • You can use creatures of other creature types, but they do not count towards the "1/3 of single creature type" rule.

    Singleton
    • aka "Highlander"
    • No two cards in a player's deck can share a name unless they're basic lands (Plains, Islands, Swamps, Mountains, and Forests). Players can use Standard, Extended, Legacy, or Vintage deckbuilding rules.