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Monday Night Magic #180 – Moonwalking Ewoks and Dessert Pizza Perfection

Tommy — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:44:59 +0000

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This Week in Magic
Check out the new Deck Builders Toolkit from WoTC to help new players get a basic collection along with some randomized elements. The name of the next large spring expansion has been revealed, Rise of the Eldrazi! Check out the playmats for the top 8 competitors at States. Congratulations to the Community for beating WoTC at their own game in the 2009 Magic Online Community Cup Challenge! Grand Prix Paris was the largest magic tournament ever and also the scene of Rob Alexander having his binder of artist proofs stolen. A bunch of new information about Duels of the Planeswalkers seen in a press release today.

What Have We Been Playing?
Grand Prix Minneapolis this weekend, Tom and Steve will be there!

Listener Emails
We love ‘em. Check out the Cattleman’s Steakhouse link, more information about the Hungry Bunny restaurant, the MTGO Tribal league at worldofkedoria.com and more information about the “new” Shandalar game.

MTGCast News
Make sure to email Tom if you are in Minneapolis this weekend for the grand prix. We need your ideas for content for the new video show, and we will give away a set of 4x commons / uncommons from Zendikar to a random entry thanks to Jason P at Team Proxy Games! New Tribal Time with Tom looking at a Warriors deck is up. And voicemails are back with our new number at 570-486-6637.

We are happy to announce our winners for the Zendikar Booster pack give-away! Winners, please email me your mailing address so I can send you your packs.
1) Queklain with Planar Pursuit
2) Richelieu with Base Camp
3) Tomstanderson with Kestrel of Harai
4) Toadisbest with Skillful Recruiter and Churning Landscape
5) Nanarchy with Ball of Death
6) aapicazo with Adventurer Delver
7) iPope with Adventurers’ Tavern
Sucros with Core of the Roil
9) James F with Megalithic Hedron
10) Kengy with Quickstep Trap
11) Dan with Together We Stand
12) Thomas with Shenanigans

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Monday Night Magic #179 – The Vermin of almost-Tampa

Tommy — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:34:21 +0000

This Week in Magic
Join Tom, Conley and Gavin for this week’s episode! Couple of new hot news items includes the announcement of the upcoming M:TG PC game, Tactics with a new online, 3D experience – watch the youtube video to get zero idea what the game is like. Congratulations to Taisuke Ishii for winning and defeating Masashi Oiso in the finals at Grand Prix Kitakyushu. Conley and Gavin then talk about GP Tampa (and the various vermin of the Tampa Days Inn). Check out the live coverage of magic events at Good Games Live (ggslive.com).

What Have We Been Playing?
Gavin and Conley getting in the GP frenzy and World’s in Rome! Tom is looking at Standard for GP Minneapolis on November 14-15 and send him an email if you are going to be there!

Listener Emails
So many good emails! Tom’s question of the week is “What is the oddest / dumbest / strangest magic-related bet or wager you have ever made”? Link to the “Priceless Treasure” YouTube video.

MTGCast News
Tom is excited for GP Minneapolis on November 14-15! The Zendikar booster box giveaway is officially closed and the winners will be announced next week. Our iPhone application is officially available and here is a link to the iTunes store for it ($1.99). Check out Russell T’s very nice blog, Gwafa’s Bazaar, focusing on the trading and financial side of magic.

And just to prove Conley wrong, link to the ND Tourism TV Ad youtube video. Please, please watch it.

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Tom & Gavin & Jack & Eric & Conley & Steve – Your Monday Night Magic news team!

MTGCast #178 – Allies and Ashnod’s Coupon (fixed!)

Tommy — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:58:08 +0000

This Week in Magic
GP Tampa was this past weekend and congratulations to Conley Woods (from here baby!) for his 2nd place finish and also congrats to Gaudenis Vidugiris for bringing down first place. Congratulations to Kasandra Bessey, another MTGCast alum, for winning first place in the PT Austin video contest! Bunch of new promos to discuss this week including the new WPN Vampire Nighthawk and Kor Duelist, Zendikar Game Day full art Emeria Angel and Nissa’s Chosen, and the coup de grace of the GP 2010 promo Umezawa’s Jitte. WoTC also has a job posting up on the Hasbro mother site looking for a new game designer, see if you have what it takes to apply!

What Have We Been Playing?
Steve talks about adding M10 and Zendikar to his limited EDH experiment!

Listener Emails
Lots of great emails and questions including what card do you wish had been printed in a different set (Tom voted for Zuran Orb to be in Zendikar and Steve opted for Crop Rotation to be Zendikar)

MTGCast News
Thank you to Jason P of Team Proxy Games for sending in TWO sets of Zendikar 4x commons and uncommons for our next give-away. Tom is looking to do more video content for MTGCast.com and needs your input, what would you like to see and do you like the idea of a short weekly video show going over news topics? Also, check out Tom’s latest “Tribal Time with Tom” looking a Cat deck and showing some of the new editing software and skills he is learning.

Tom & Gavin & Jack & Eric & Conley & Steve – Your Monday Night Magic news team!

Monday Night Magic #177 – World’s Largest Granny Panties

Tommy — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 05:08:33 +0000

This Week in Magic
Join Tom, Conley and Eric as we discuss the news this week. Conley gives us the full low-down on his experiences at PT Austin and also congratulations to Brian Kibler for being crowned champion. We have also spotted two new judge promos at PT Austin with Flooded Strands and Survival of the Fittest. Check out the MTGO Community Challenge Cup coming up soon. WoTC announces Duel Decks: Phyrexia vs the Coalition. We have the full deck lists for the Duel Decks: Garruk vs Lilliana. 5 cards have been spoiled from the upcoming Premium Deck Series: Slivers deck. The Starkington Post calls for your tourney reports! Oblivion Ring is the November FNM promo. Horizon Boughs is likely the Planechase promo for Zendikar Game Day. TCGPlayer announces it’s first $5k tournament to be held in Philadelphia on December 13th. Read a fascinating sneak peak on the next version of the MTGO client (browser based, cross-platform compatible, new UI) seen at PT Austin!

Listener Emails
Again, we love the emails, keep them coming! Cutethulhu YouTube video. Link to the Charcon website. Some fun images for the week:

MTGCast News
Zendikar booster pack give-away! We are giving away 12 prize packs each consisting of 3 Zendikar booster packs (all are first print run). The contest is to create your own plausible Land, Ally or Trap card that you would like to see printed. The contest will run for two weeks and you can post your entries in the comments or in this thread on the MTGCast forum for episode 177. We also appreciate all donations to help keep the network afloat and bringing a free outlet for podcasters, you can donate here if you are feeling especially generous on a given day.

Tom & Gavin & Jack & Eric & Conley & Steve – Your Monday Night Magic news team!

MTGCast Special – Zendikar, Magic, and Improving your play with Noah Weil

Tommy — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:51:42 +0000

Runtime: 1:11:33

Show notes:

Pro Tour Austin competitor and former R&D intern Noah Weil sits down with Gavin Verhey to talk about Magic in a rousing hour long interview. Topics discussed include Zendikar in both Limited and Constructed, Noah’s experiences in R&D, how to get better at competitive play, the recent rules changes to Magic, whether the Vivid Lands, Reflecting Pool, and Bitterblossom were too good, and much, much, more!

Monday Night Magic #176 – Cthulhu Larva

Tommy — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 05:02:11 +0000

This Week in Magic
Check out the official WoTC PT Austin video creation contest to win a Flip Mino. A method has been discussed to tell if Zendikar booster packs come from the first print run or not over in a MTGS thread. Discussion abounds regarding EDH being listed as an official side-event format for Worlds 2009 in Rome. Check out the Japanese DCI promo Shepard of the the Lost. Mark Rosewater has a great article on the design of Zendikar and some more info about “Convertible Turtle”! “Dark Ascension” is a new trademark / patent filed on September 29th, not much more is known at this time. New Jace planeswalker card to be in Worldwake. SCG Philadelphia $10K was this past weekend with Standard and Legacy tournaments with a top 8 Legacy place by a deck with Dark Depths and Vampire Hexmage along with Jund Aggro, also check out the top 16 decklists for the Standard portion. Bennie Hill has a great article on Zendikar in EDH to check out.

Listener Emails
Link to post on how to get MWS running on Mac OS X. Link to Erik W’s art portfolio. Jones Planeswalker soda order page to check out the multi-colored goodness. And a link to the “Cthulhu Larva” article and a picture of the ugly beast in it’s full glory:

MTGCast News
We are looking forward to the upcoming MTGCast iPhone application to allow for easy listening on the go. Check out the new “Limited Resources” podcast on the network, a fantastic show focusing on limited formats and the latest episode is all about drafting Zendikar. We are also excited to syndicate the “Three Donkeys” podcast from game designers Tyler Bielman, Skaff Elias and Richard Garfield!

Tom & Gavin & Jack & Eric & Conley & Steve – Your Monday Night Magic news team!

Monday Night Magic #175 – I’m all out of bubblegum

Tommy — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 05:10:47 +0000

MTGCast #175 – I’m all out of bubblegum
“You read it somewhere else, but you heard it here first!”

This Week in Magic
The All-foil booster for $11.99?!?
- Available January 8, 2010
- Each of these boosters contains fifteen foil, black-bordered cards from Shards of Alara, Conflux, and Alara Reborn.
From the Vault: Relics
TCGplayer.com is proud to present our Zendikar update to the drafting utility.
Free Zendikar Drafting! Get in there and draft away against our draft robots. As always, by the end of this first week the robots will be drafting at a FNM level and will improve steadily over the next few weeks.
Zendikar Game Day is 10/31!
Arron Forsyth twittered More unique individuals played in sanctioned MTG events in the past 365 days than in any such period EVER. Sick!
Magic rules update has been published. EDH is now acknowledged in the rules

Late breaking news from Chris from Kentucky. Priceless treasures may be Double rare slot instead of lands!

What Have We Been Playing?
Eric has been getting his Draft on.

Listener Emails
Kyle S writes in:
On the note of the reserve list: Feroz’s Ban was printed in 7th Ed while on the Reserved list and the list was updated before onslaught came out (about 1 year and a half later) for Clone when Feroz’s Ban was removed. The reserve list is mentioned by players but is hasn’t mattered in 12 years.

Also i think that this will bring up the price of power due to the new interest in Vintage.
Zachary C writes in:
Confirms that many of the “Priceless treasure” cards appear to have previously been in circulation. His local pre-release saw a Phyrexian Dreadnaught, minty fresh Badlands and a “jank Mirrodin rare”. He also agrees that the health of Magic seems very good and compares it to the influx of new players when Revised was on the streets. He would also like to see the promotions continue and an EDH promo!
Robert L writes in:
He would love to see a video podcast of Gavin and Conley playing some matches. He also defends the (horrific) Gatsby sandwich. He also helps Tom with his Dutch pronounciation: On the Dutch front, the name you were trying to pronounce had an “ij” in it, this set of letters is the “long y” sound (almost like a “y”). In Scrabble in Dutch the “ij” appears on one tile.
Jake H writes in:
Started out solely collecting MTG cards with no interest in playing until “Duels of the Planeswalkers” came out for the Xbox which led him to MTGO where he has been playing solidly for the past few months.
Dustin B writes in:
His local store received plenty of Zendikar stock and feels the “shortage” is simply the increased demand for this set for multiple reasons.
Quote from Dustin: “my blow dryer in the restaurant I work in has the bacon on it. I tried pointing this out a couple of times and my co workers just look at me like I’m crazy.”
Liam from Edmonton writes in:
He is excited for all of the new discussion and interest in eternal formats, but is tough since few players in his area play Vintage or Legacy.
Tom gives Kudos to Elie from Belgium for a fantastic “spoof” of the typical Monday Night Magic show notes!
PrsGirl wrote in and stated that she wants Jack to start a twitter. response: I’m looking into it!
Kyle F writes in:
Demands an apology for our attack on the noble beast, Pillarfield Ox. Here is his story:
The situation: it’s game three, round three in our local prerelease. I’ve just wrathed (ok, “judged”) the board, wiping 4 of my opponents creatures and a poor kor skyfisher. I then played a eternity vessel, putting on a healthy 16 charge counters on it. I have three lands in my hand and a pillarfield ox. My opponent has two ior ruin expeditions, and nothing else.
My cow hits the board and whittles my opponent to four life. My opponent then proceeds to topdeck every ally in his deck. I draw some lucky removal, and the occasional threat, but he’s got me against the wall. Luckily, I have two things going for me. One: I’m mana flooded. I’m able to make a land drop every turn I need two. Two: I have an ox. With a NET. On multiple occasions did my opponent have enough power to take me out. But he couldn’t. His army of adventurers, hardened by traveling the deadly perils of zendikar, attacking in coordinated barrages, were no match for my cow and his doubtlessly slobbery net. His murasa pyromancer never attacked, knowing fully well the doom he awaited were he to come face to face with my noble ox.
Certainly, my eternity vessel and knowing when to play lands were important to this victory. But when my opponent *ran out of cards in his library* (and no, I hadn’t cast a *single* mill effect), many, MANY turns later, I knew I owed my victory to that noble cow and his net.
I have a deckbox of retired cards that are special to me. My force of nature, that I recieved in a trade for a savanah. (I was ten.) My first fnm and magic game day prizes. My first cards (ornithopter and shatter, found on the road). That pillarfield ox has earned his place in that box, for decking an opponent in limited, in a deck with no decking cards whatsoever.
Curt S has a question:
What does it mean when I buy product from a company who has the “authorized Wizards reseller” brand? See to the right for the full story if you want to read it.
Ron W is looking to get some extended art cards and is wondering if they are okay to use in tournaments?
(link to official WoTC stance of altered cards, and they are usually fine unless the extended art leads to confusion by obscuring the card title / casting cost / text box. Final decision is up to the head judge of the given event. )
Matthew R is greatly enjoying playing EDH and is currently pimping out a Sharuum deck with Mishra’s Workshop, darksteel forge, mana crypt, umezawa’s jitte, marsh flats, maze of ith, scrubland, tundra, undergound sea. He has a few questions for the hosts and listeners:
1) do you guys play with or against proxies?
2) what is the best play/game/mistake have you guys made in EDH?
The Dood wonders if anyone else has heard of “uncommon heavy” packs of Zendikar with 8 uncommons?
Paul S. III had a great time at his Zendikar pre-release playing both days and some great pulls from his packs:
Sat = misty rainforest and marsh flats along with two Luminarch Ascension (one foil!) with a Obsidian Fireheart
Sun = Lotus Cobra a Obsidian Fireheart another Luminarch Ascension Sorin Markov and two World Queller’s (one foil again!)
Kenyon from Japan reports he was able to open a “priceless” Plateau in a pack while drafting this weekend!

MTGCast News
Mr. Suitcase Has a new episode out.
Welcome to the new podcast, Limited Resources, a podcast focused on draft and other limited formats! This week is Zendikar draft.
Tom is in Russia! He also remembers the days where MTGCast wished it could have daily content and now we are having 10-20+ episodes of content per week!

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MTGCast Special – “The Casual Planeswalker’s Ultimate Guide to Deck Building” Interview!

Tommy — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:17:32 +0000

Tom is excited to bring you an interview with Nick, author of the just-released digital book titled “The Casual Planeswalker’s Ultimate Guide to Deck Building“.

Deck building can be one of the most exciting and fun aspects to playing Magic: The Gathering, but many people are left spinning when it comes to the creation of new decks. There are so many questions that come up when deciding which cards to pick that many just step aside and avoid this exciting aspect of Magic altogether. We at The Casual Planeswalker have taken it upon ourselves to put all of the important deck building information into one easy to access book.

Learn more about the author, the process of creating a magic teaching book and more!

MTGCast listeners get 10% off if they enter the code “mtgcast” (no quotes) when ordering the book, it is available at http://casualplaneswalker.com!

Monday Night Magic #174 – Push Button, Receive Bacon

Tommy — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 05:11:28 +0000

This Week in Magic
The Zendikar pre-release has come on and gone this weekend so we have all 249 cards with some discussion of our sealed pools, draft and more. Also part of the hoopla was the absolute surprise from WoTC with the “Priceless Treasure” cards with a classic vintage card (think like Black Lotus or Mox Sapphire) replacing the land in packs (likely ~1 in 750 packs) and caused an amazing ripple of news over the weekend. Coming October 1st, WPN organizers will be able to play in a number of their own events. Ben Bleiweiss on SCG talks about the perceived shortages of Zendikar and that is most likely NOT intentional, simply a result of supply and demand (premium SCG article link). The full Oracle and Comprehensive Rules update for Zendikar will be delayed due to Mark Gottlieb battling the swine flu.

What Have We Been Playing?
Tom and Steve had a blast at the pre-release and Tom has fallen in love with Hedron Crab and are looking to get an apartment together. Tom also secretly desires to build a “Battle Cattle” deck with Pillarfield Ox! Eric sees a Tundra and two Force of Will’s opened at his event! Bennie Smith with another great article on EDH with Doran, the Siege Tower!

Listener Emails
So.. many.. great.. pre-release.. emails! We will be extending this to next episode as well so everyone gets a turn. Link to the picture of the lucky Mox Sapphire! And a peek at the unbelievable “Great Gatsby” sandwich.

MTGCast News
Tom and Steve had a fun interview with Lee Sharpe at the Minneapolis Zendikar pre-release. Check out the new podcasts on the network, Cards Ahoy and the Stanford game theory class centered around MTG! Congrats to the Mana Pool on episode #100. Another thank you to Magiclifecounters.com for sending some cool life counters to give away (like a Legends Great Wall and Antiquities Ornithopter)!

Here is Conley’s Kami of the Crescent Moon EDH deck list:

Deck
1 Guile 1 Forbid 1 Force of Will 1 Cryptic Command 1 Spelljack 1 Desertion 1 Counterspell 1 Thwart 1 Hinder 1 Foil 1 Rewind 1 Misdirection 1 Take Possesion 1 Mind Control 1 Persuasion 1 Control Magic 1 Vedalken Shackles 1 Dominate 1 Biting Tether 1 Dream Leash 1 Keiga, the Tide Star 1 Oblivion Stone 1 Nevinyrral’s Disk 1 Spin into Myth 1 Meishen the Mind Cage 1 Predator Flagship 1 Tinker 1 Mindslaver 1 Vesuvan Shapeshifter 1 Relearn 1 Archmage Ascension 1 Mystical Tutor 1 Future Sight 1 Gush 1 Fact or Fiction 1 Memory Jar 1 Magus of the Jar 1 Windfall 1 Prosperity 1 Skyscribing 1 Howling Mine 1 Font of Mythos 1 Jace Beleren 1 Lore Broker 1 Standstill 1 Vision Skeins 1 Jushi Apprentice 1 Ambassador Laquatus 1 Whetwheel 1 Traumatize 1 Tower of Murmurs 1 Telemin Performance 1 Wheel and Deal 1 Memory Erosion 1 Mesmeric Orb 1 Whetstone 1 Forced Fruition 1 Dreamborn Muse 1 Sol Ring 1 Thran Dynamo 1 Solemn Simulacrum 1 Darksteel Ingot 1 Mindstone 22 Island 1 Stripmine 1 Wasteland 1 Dust Bowl 1 Seat of the Synod 1 Darksteel Citadel 1 Lonely Sandbar 1 Saprazzan Cove 1 Temple of the False God 1 Reliquary Tower 1 Vesuva 1 Mikokoro, Center of the Sea 1 Academy Ruins 1 Miren the Moaning Well 1 Tolaria West

Deck

1 Guile
1 Forbid
1 Force of Will
1 Cryptic Command
1 Spelljack
1 Desertion
1 Counterspell
1 Thwart
1 Hinder
1 Foil
1 Rewind
1 Misdirection
1 Take Possesion
1 Mind Control
1 Persuasion
1 Control Magic
1 Vedalken Shackles
1 Dominate
1 Biting Tether
1 Dream Leash
1 Keiga, the Tide Star
1 Oblivion Stone
1 Nevinyrral’s Disk
1 Spin into Myth
1 Meishen the Mind Cage
1 Predator Flagship
1 Tinker
1 Mindslaver
1 Vesuvan Shapeshifter
1 Relearn
1 Archmage Ascension
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Future Sight
1 Gush
1 Fact or Fiction
1 Memory Jar
1 Magus of the Jar
1 Windfall
1 Prosperity
1 Skyscribing
1 Howling Mine
1 Font of Mythos
1 Jace Beleren
1 Lore Broker
1 Standstill
1 Vision Skeins
1 Jushi Apprentice
1 Ambassador Laquatus
1 Whetwheel
1 Traumatize
1 Tower of Murmurs
1 Telemin Performance
1 Wheel and Deal
1 Memory Erosion
1 Mesmeric Orb
1 Whetstone
1 Forced Fruition
1 Dreamborn Muse
1 Sol Ring
1 Thran Dynamo
1 Solemn Simulacrum
1 Darksteel Ingot
1 Mindstone
22 Island
1 Stripmine
1 Wasteland
1 Dust Bowl
1 Seat of the Synod
1 Darksteel Citadel
1 Lonely Sandbar
1 Saprazzan Cove
1 Temple of the False God
1 Reliquary Tower
1 Vesuva
1 Mikokoro, Center of the Sea
1 Academy Ruins
1 Miren the Moaning Well
1 Tolaria West

Tom & Gavin & Jack & Eric & Conley & Steve – Your Monday Night Magic news team!

MTGCast Special – Interview with Lee Sharpe

Tommy — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 04:03:11 +0000

Join Tom and Steve as they hunt down Lee Sharpe at the Minneapolis Zendikar pre-release!

We discuss his path to WoTC, work and future plans for MTGO, his work on templating (including the M10 changes), Zendikar highlights including the true power of Hedron Crab! And more, oh so much more.

Monday Night Magic #173 – Dirty, Dirty Twinkie

Tommy — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:53:15 +0000

This Week in Magic
Join Tom and Conley as they run through a bunch of Zendikar previews, including a pick or two that will likely see play in Vintage / Legacy, so Limited bombs, standard staples and more! Read along on the unofficial Zendikar Spoiler on MTGS. A number of pretty tasty promos this week with the MPR foil textless Lightning Bolt, Textless Cancel and Sign in Blood along with the Wal-Mart DCI Broodmate Dragon and October FNM promo of Browbeat. Debut of the MTGO PTQ’s for PT San Diego. Banned and Restricted list updated for Legacy with unbanning of Dream Halls, Metalworker and Entomb.

What Have We Been Playing?
More Planechase and EDH for Tom and some EDH + Extended Pro Tour testing for Conley.

Listener Emails
Lots of great feedback, magic re-branding stories and here is the link to Space: The Convergence!

MTGCast News
We are happy to announce we are working on releasing an iPhone app to let you listen easily on the go. Tom is planning to interview Lee Sharpe at his Zendikar Pre-release and wants to know if you have any questions. Also, keep an eye out for the old Magic School Bus episodes to be re-release every few days for the next couple of months.

Just in case you need some background reading on Little Debbie treats, Shafer / Sever Corn mazes or Madballs.

Tom & Gavin & Jack & Eric & Conley & Steve – Your Monday Night Magic news team!

Monday Night Magic #172 – Kanye West has Super Haste!

Tommy — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 04:34:33 +0000

This Week in Magic
Some more info regarding possible draft PTQ’s from Scott Marshall (Level 4 DCI Judge and New TO for Colorado). Check out the european Day of Judgement promo give-away for Zendikar. Aaron Forysthe has a bunch of great magic news on his twitter feed.

Tom, Gavin, Jack and Steve all chime in on some key Zendikar picks including some EDH and 2HG gems like Felidar Sovereign and interesting new Ally cards like Turntimber Ranger along with our speculation on the newly hinted uncommon cycle of allied-color dual lands.

What Have We Been Playing?
More Planechase and Gavin has a blast at the Brian Baker Memorial Tournament.

Listener Emails
Tons of great stories and feedback, keep them coming! Here is the link to the magic art that a listener thought looked an awful lot like Mark Rosewater. Check out Beanman1000’s WBR casual angel deck and give some constructive feedback.

MTGCast News
You heard right, the Magic School Bus is back! Check out their latest episode and be prepared. Congratulations to the Mana Pool on coming up on their 100th episode! Tom is also looking for your ideas for the next give-away contest idea for the Zendikar booster box.

Tom & Gavin & Jack & Eric & Conley & Steve – Your Monday Night Magic news team!

Monday Night Magic #171 – Better than $81 Under Your Mattress (fixed)

Tommy — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 05:49:24 +0000

This Week in Magic
Join Tom, Conley, Steve, Eric as we talk a whole lot about the current Zendikar previews (current spoiler on MTGS), including a passionate discussion of the awesomeness of Plated Geopede for Extended Zoo from Conley. The Orb of Insight for Zendikar is up and you can check out a bunch of compiled info in this thread. Celestine Reef will be the Zendikar pre-release Plane promo. Sign-up is open for the Magic Cruise 2010 setting sail on Feb 7-13, 2010. New DLC for Duels of the Planeswalker has been announced titled “Duel the Dragon”.

What Have We Been Playing?
Planechase, Planechase, Planechase!

Listener Emails
Lots of great feedback and cool idea on a new way to send cards to players in areas where it is hard to get magic cards.

MTGCast News
Check out the magic blogs from two of my co-habitants from the infamous cat-urine-soaked NYC hostel room from Worlds 2007! Otherworldly Journey and Affinity for Islands! Link to Tom’s “Intro to Podcasting 101″ video on YouTube.

Tom & Gavin & Jack & Eric & Conley & Steve – Your Monday Night Magic news team!

Exclusive Zendikar Preview – Mindbreak Trap

Tommy — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 04:15:11 +0000

Join Tom, Gavin, Eric and Steve as they discuss their exclusive Zendikar preview card, Mindbreak Trap!

Arguably our most powerful preview card ever, Mindbreak Trap is likely going to see play in most major constructed formats. It provides an answer to storm (yup, you can exile every single one of those copies) and is even playable in ANY color deck. Absolutely. Friggin’. Amazazing.

Interview with Jason Schneiderman from Inquest Magazine!

Tommy — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 01:48:07 +0000

Tom is incredibly excited to bring you an interview with Jason Schneiderman, a writer and editor of Inquest (Gamer) Magazine back in it’s hey-day.

Make sure to listen for the infamous story of the purple cards for the mysterious “6th color for MTG”, Eugene T. Dudley, Bottom 10, the “2-star” Necropotence review and so much more. You can read more about Inquest on it’s Wikipedia entry and a very, very cool image collection all to do with Inquest.

You can also check out the Dominion game by Fantasy Flight Games mentioned in the podcast.

You can email Tom at pitimp@mtgcast and Jason at jason@mtgcast.com

Monday Night Magic #170 – Deep-fried Zendikar on a Stick

Tommy — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 05:38:58 +0000

This Week in Magic
Interesting Twitter posts from Aaron Forsythe regarding a need for a “New Dojo”. Judge Peter Jahns lays out the logistics of a draft format PTQ at SCG. Bennie Smith gives us part two of his EDH primer on SCG. We have a bunch of Zendikar previews including Sorin and Valakut along with Mark Rosewater gives us a bunch of hints about Zendikar including some card titles. We also have a full visual spoiler for Planechase with all of the decks and Plane cards! The WoTC forums were down and are now reborn as the Wizards Community, so check out the MTGCast page! We also have a bunch of interesting new patent names from WoTC possibly hinting at a return of Mirrodin.

Listener Emails
Thank you for all of the emails!

MTGCast News
Gavin lets us know about a very cool upcoming tournament in Seattle to support a great cause. Tom also wants listeners to check out the MTGColorPie wordpress blog!

Check back on Friday, September 4th, for our exclusive Zendikar preview!

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Monday Night Magic #169 – When Hodags Attack!

Tommy — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 05:19:33 +0000

This Week in Magic
We have two entire Planechase decks officially previewed, Elemental Thunder and Metallic Dreams! We discuss a bunch of the Plane cards, along with two more spoiled at GenCon and found on Star City Games (Grixis, Pool of Becoming). We also have a name for an upcoming Duel Decks found on the U.S. patent office and will be titled “Duel Decks: Phyrexia vs the Coalition”. We also have the continued “slow roll” previewing of Sorin on the official wizards site, Vampire Nighthawk on ManaNation and Warren Instigator on The Magic Show. Other full Zendikar previews are the new Wrath of God with Day of Judgement and Rampaging Baloths. We had Grand Prix Bangkok this weekend with some definite controversy and a congratulations to the winner, Shingou Kurihara! MTGO updates include some Banned and Restricted list updates and also the very strange snafu surrounding the cancelled Magic Online Season 5 Championships! Mark Rosewater lets us in on some cool news about the third set in the Zendikar block, titled “Prosper”, which will be a large 229-card set and designed to fit the theme of Zendikar, but with unique mechanics and able to be drafted by itself. Bennie Smith has a great article in a series about introducing EDH! Steve also notes that Star City Games is offering $100 for From The Vault: Exiled.

Listener Emails
So many great emails this week. Here is a link to the Hodag on wikipedia, Cowchip festival, and wikipedia entry for Lord of Vermillion.

MTGCast News
Thank you to Bill B for a donation! Tom also asks if any who was involved with the old Inquest magazine is listening to send him an email!

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Monday Night Magic #168 – Battle Cattle: Siege of Milkwaukee

Tommy — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 04:48:38 +0000

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This Week in Magic
Masters Edition 3 spoiler is now out and interesting to see a large number of Portal: Three Kingdom cards with the ability of Horsemanship. Bill Starks has an interesting call to the grass roots MTG community to get Booster Draft as a PTQ format. We have our first four official Zendikar preview cards from Gen Con, including the return of Kicker and a new card sub-type, Trap! We have info about the Zendikar Game Day which gives us the name of the two promos, Nissa’s Chosen and Emeria Angel. The mysterious “You Decide!” poll on WoTC is revealed to be a cool ploy to reveal a new Sorin planeswalker card piece by piece for Zendikar. Nice large pics of the Zendikar booster packs, booster box and fat pack (looks like Chandra is back!). Check out the full sized pictures of all the new “Unhinged” style basic lands for Zendikar, they look amazing! And the September FNM promo is Watchwolf.

Listener Emails
Tons of great emails again this week! Links to BattleZone Games, the Central Corridor Gamers Non-profit Organization and Robert’s Casual MTG Blog!

MTGCast News
Tom is excited to explore some new advertising options for keeping MTGCast healthy long into the future. Cheers to our iPhone sponsor, Super Mastermind. Additional thanks to MTGO Traders and Card Hoarder for their continued support.

Just in case you need to read “moo”-re about Battle Cattle, here are a couple of links to the second edition and third edition.

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Monday Night Magic #167 – Planechase, ME3, FTV: Exiled and more!

Tommy — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 05:01:05 +0000

This Week in Magic
Abe Sargent on SCG has announced the new 5-Color rules for the popular alternate constructed format and has a new official page with rules and updated B&R list at www.5-color.com. We officially have the rules for the upcoming Planechase alternate multiplayer format from WoTC in an initial four game packs and it looks to be pretty awesome and let’s you simulate walking the planes in a multiplayer game with great sweeping effects and you get to see two of the Plane cards! We also have a sneak peak of the new basic land appearance (in boosters and fat packs) in Zendikar and definitely remind us of the old Unglued / Unhinged basic lands, and this is a good thing. Congratulations to the 2009 Pro Tour Hall of Fame inductees: Antoine Ruel, Kamiel Cornelissen, Frank Karsten. Wizards has also given us the content list of the upcoming From The Vault: Exiled (*hint* Berserk, Balance, Strip Mine, Necropotence, Goblin Lackey and more!). Previews for the upcoming Master’s Edition 3 have started (to release on September 7) and have included some absolute bombs like Mana Drain, Bazaar of Baghdad, Land Tax, enemy duals. Also on the MTGO front, we have a sneaky announcement on the Gleemax forums about some upcoming Exclusive Commander (i.e. EDH) Theme Decks and the first two will be titled “Deathdancer Xira” and “Enchantress Rubinia” and plan to come out in late August. You can see what cards will be in the decks by following this short trick for MTGO “To view the cards, in client simply change your preference on number owned from >0 to =0. Check the tab after M10 or also filter by set and choose the Theme Deck Set”. The generals will be Rubinia Soulsinger and Xira Arien with hot cards including Chain Lightning and All Hallow’s Eve.

Listener Emails
Thank you to everyone who wrote in this week, including the links for various organizations for donating cards and includes Child’s Play, Game Manufacturers Association and kudos to Central Corridor Games in Cedar Rapids, IA for their ongoing donation projects. Miles M also sends in a very nice hand-out / primer for introducing players to the Legacy Format.

MTGCast News
Oh yeah, we are announcing the winners of the “Create an Un-set Planeswalker” contest! You can view all the entries here in the MTGCast forum and below are the thirteen winners. If you are a winner, simply email Tom at pitimp@mtgcast.com with your mailing address.

The winners with card listed first and the creator in parentheses!
Rudy the Nudy (TheCassiusKid)
Goin’ Back (Oh_Snap!)
Greater Morphling Planeswalker (Dranoel)
Glok, Gambling Legend (Skittermask)
Personal Incarnation Planeswalker (binsman)
A New Challenger (Tosus)
Wrong Turn, Goblin Hitchhiker (Kurai_Seraphim)
Cheatyface, Master Grifter (Spoooon)
That Guy with the Suitcase (n00bdragon)
Ryan, Card Collector (Ledeberge)
Urza, Party Boy (Stuart)
Urzza, Plainswalker (Sucros)
Vorthos, Art Aficiondo (Avatar of Kokusho)
Bonus prize of three packs of Alara Reborn to adidaw52 for Kenneth “I Love The Fatties” Nagle

Mellowcow also wants to hear your stories on how you got into Magic “way back in the day”.

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Monday Night Magic #166 – Worldwake and M10 Shortages

Tommy — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 04:44:54 +0000

This Week in Magic
Worldwake has been confirmed as the name of the second set in the Zendikar block, 145 cards, comes out on 2/5/2010. We have an unofficial card image for Chandra Flamedancer that appears to be a new planeswalker card in Zendikar, seen on a Facebook page and looks pretty convincing. New WPN promos have been spotted with Mind Control and Rise from the Grave, the art on the new Mind Control is fantastic. Check out the new “Premium Deck Series: Slivers” coming out in November with a full 60-card all foil deck with 5 rares and one Mythic Rare (hopefully Sliver Queen!). Congratulations to Mark Purvis for being promoted to Brand Manager for magic, that means the associate Brand Manager position is open and you can apply online at Hasbro! See this month’s upper tier promos for the MTGO Magic Player Rewards program.

Listener Emails
We want to give an official shout-out to Sean O’Neill who is the original creator of the now-famous 99-card + Ashling the Pilgrim EDH deck and you can see him in this pic on thestarkingtonpost blog (the guy in the green shirt), truly a sweet deck.

MTGCast News
We are continuing the M10 booster pack give-away for one more week due to the fantastic response, so submit your new planeswalker card you would like to see in the next Un-set (think Unglued, Unhinged) and you can post it in the forum area on mtgcast.com for episode 165! The contest ends next week and we will be giving out 13 prize packs each with three boosters of M10!

Check out Jack’s new MTG blog where he explores off-beat Standard / Extended competitive decks, Cardboard Lovin’ Crazies. Also, test your knowledge of MNM with Mellowcow’s MNM Fact or Fiction quiz!

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Monday Night Magic #165 – Nationals and M10 Booster Box Giveaway!

Tommy — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 05:34:25 +0000

This Week in Magic
Check out the (unconfirmed) images of the Zendikar booster box and Intro packs. Thank you to WoTC and their PR firm for sending some free M10 product for the contest give-away. Check out the bizarre Ashling the Pilgrim EDH deck on the Daily Deck section of the WoTC site. Behold the most complicated combo I have ever seen involving the card, Great Wall. The FNM promo for August is Lightning Greaves. Check out the new art for the upcoming Duel Decks: Garruk vs Liliana. Gen Con is coming on August 14-17 with Vintage / Legacy / Shards block championships along with a very cool “life size” magic game with Wizards R&D staff. Gavin gives us a great run-down of the USA, French and Italian Nationals this past weekend and kudos to Conley Woods for designing a deck that had 2 spots in the top 8! Check out the new Premium Deck Series – Slivers!

Listener Emails
A ton of questions this week, awesome!

MTGCast News
We have our next big give-away contest!

Contest: Create a Planeswalker card to appear in the next Un-set
Prizes: 13 prize packs of three M10 boosters
Ends: In 2 weeks from today
Where to enter: On the forum area for this episode on the MTGCast forums
http://mtgcast.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=4

Question for the listeners, would you like to have more areas in the MTGCast forums, or do you have enough and we should just keep it for the show discussions? Kudos to all listeners for sending Tom a bunch of great news items this week. We also say hello to a new member of the network, Avant Card podcast and web comic!

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Monday Night Magic #164 – Beyond Hippodrome

Tommy — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 04:32:22 +0000

This Week in Magic
We have pictures of all four Planechase decks along with being able to see the names of each oversized Plane card, watch for them on 9/4/09 for MSRP of $19.99 and will also have release events. Australia, Japan and Spain had their Nationals this weekend and saw a lot of Elves, Faeries and 5-color Blood. For players wanting to practice some M10 drafting, you can check out the draft simulator at TCGPlayer and on the Wizards site. The Zendikar novel has been spotted, titled “Zendikar: In the Teeth of Akoum” to be released on 4/6/2010. Great article by Mark Rosewater introducing Flavor Week discussing his favorite “Un-” cards. Check out the latest podcast on Richard Garfield’s podcast, Gaming with Garfield, to hear his thoughts on the M10 rule changes and more magic thoughts!

What Have We Been Playing?
Steve and Tom talk more Limited EDH including a great game with a Sliver Legion and Riptide Replicator set to X=5.

Listener Emails
Bunch of great emails and reports on your M10 pre-releases and release tournaments!

MTGCast News
Not too much new, continuing to try and improve the web site to make it easier to use. Tom is close to picking the next big contest topic and check out this list of planeswalkers in the mean time.

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Monday Night Magic #163 – Convertible Turtle!

Tommy — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:19:56 +0000

This Week in Magic
Hello to my guest co-host this week, Steve (steve@mtgcast.com)! We talk about some M10 pre-releases, the cool special planeswalker Jones soda spotted at lucky pre-releases. The official M10 rules videos are up on YouTube and worth checking out. In Mark Gottleib’s article, we get hint of a new keyword, Intimidate. Zac Hill has joined WoTC as a new intern for the R&D department, congrats! Ben Bleiweis postulates in his latest article that “life totals matter” will be a key theme for Zendikar. Zvi Mowshowitz is releasing a book on Top 8 Magic titled “My Files – Volume 1″ and will be available for $29.99. Last and not least, Mark Rosewater has a fantastic article today on Blue in M10 with a few hints to keep hope for control and about Turtle cards.

What Have We Been Playing?
Steve talks about his pre-release and Tom is on the schedule for a Saturday release tournament.

Listener Emails
Tons of great questions this week.

MTGCast News
We sold our first ever MTGCast t-shirt! You can check them all out here (and I recommend the “Deflating Football League” shirt). Tom also asks for your ideas for future contests and also what you think of poker content on magic sites.

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Monday Night Magic #162 – This Ain’t Your Poppa’s Pauper Cube

Tommy — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 03:33:06 +0000

This Week in Magic
Join Tom and Conley this week, M10 pre-release tournaments are this weekend (July 11-12) with the Vampire Nocturnus as the pre-release promo along with some interesting alternate play options and two headed giant! Don’t miss the M10 booster box promotion (first 20 people to buy a booster box at participating locations) to score an alternate art foil Honor of the Pure. Also, there is the start of the Magic Online Player Rewards that started July 1st, open to players in the USA and of legal age (18-21 years old and depends on your state). MTG and Bragster.com odd promotional campaign, check it out and the odd dares. Ballots have been sent out the for 2009 inductees for the Pro Tour Hall of Fame.

What Have We Been Playing?
Tom has been enjoying some online multiplayer Duels of the Planeswalkers and Conley wins a Vintage tournament and is testing out a new casual format (psst, think Pauper Cube meets Chaos magic)!

Listener Emails
Tons of great emails including one for another new casual variant called “Skittles”.

MTGCast News
Let Tom know what you think of the new site re-design. Each show now has it’s own RSS feed that works in iTunes and you can find them on each show posting on MTGCast.com. Also, let Tom know by emailing or voting in the poll on how you listen to Monday Night Magic or other shows on the network.

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Monday Night Magic #161 – M10 Mopery

Tommy — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 04:37:54 +0000

“You read it somewhere else, but you heard it here first!”

This Week in Magic
Tom, Conley and Jack go through the slew of new cards on the M10 unofficial spoiler and Conley gives a great break down on the new card ratio being potentially misleading and some missed design facets. Check out the new judge promos for Nationals of Stifle and Windswept Heath. The next textless MPR promos will be Terminate and Negate. We also hear from Mark Rosewater’s twitter that Tiago Chan’s invitational card (Denying Channel) has been pushed back from Zendikar to the “Lights, Camera, Action” block.

Listener Emails
Tons of great emails, kudos to the listeners!

MTGCast News
Thank to Marshall of magiclifecounters.com for a sweet Sorrow’s Path life counter. Try and keep voicemails to 30 seconds or less so we can play all that we get! Tom asks the listeners for thoughts on the new look for MTGCast.com and also if you have any recommendations for Wordpress themes to let him know. We have a new article from Conley about M10 on the site, a new series of articles titled “Dear Blossom” from Shannon of the Deck Builders and new audio podcast titled “MTG Radio”. Also, the Deck Builders have a new website, www.themagicarena.com.

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MTGCast Special – M10 Exclusive Preview and Ecto Cooler!

Tommy — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 05:01:07 +0000

M10 Exclusive Preview!

Join Tom, Conley, Eric and Jack as we discuss our new exclusive M10 preview card, Kalonian Behemoth, and also discuss a bunch of the most recently revealed cards AND the new floor rules coming with M10 for tournaments.

Tom also convinces Conley that Ecto Cooler (link to commercial on YouTube) is the finest beverage ever created by mankind.

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Monday Night Magic #160 – Three Donkeys and some Magic Shoes

Tommy — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 04:45:43 +0000

This Week in Magic
It’s M10 spoiler season starting on the official WoTC site AND we will be getting our own M10 spoiler to release on Friday, June 26th! Tons of discussion regarding the official and unofficial M10 cards seen so far including the official Siege Gang Commander and the controversial Lightning Bolt. We have the complete deck lists for Duels of the Planeswalkers. Check out the fantastic article by Mark Rosewater about the removal of mana burn. It is time to vote for the Magic shoe competition over at Ryz and you can check out some Monday Night Magic listener entries here and here. Richard Garfield has a great new game design podcast for his design company, Three Donkeys, that you should check out. A new graphic anthology of the planeswalker web-comic titled “Path of the Planeswalker” is now available. Also, we discuss the new Patrick Chapin book, “Next Level Magic“, available as a PDF download. Lastly, we have the June 19th Banned and Restricted list update with some notable changes in Vintage.

What Have We Been Playing?
Jack is trying out some Jund Cascade Aggro and still enjoying Turbo Fog with some innovations of adding Spiteful Visions to make “Turbo Smog”. Tom is mastering the puzzles on Duels of the Planeswalkers and enjoying every minute of it.

Listener Emails
Tons of great questions about M10, morph with the combat damage changes, Foil Garruk redemption troubles and more. We also have a voicemail from Marcel!

MTGCast News
Thank you to Rob for sending some awesome foil DCI promos for a future giveaway. Kudos to all of our international listeners and Tom got to send some packs to Trinidad and Tobago! Also, keep rating / voting / subscribing to MTGCast on iTunes, it makes Tom happy.

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Monday Night Magic #159 – M10 Rules Rodeo!

Tommy — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 04:48:41 +0000

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This Week in Magic
We have Conley, Gavin and Eric joining Tom this week to discuss the bomb that landed on Wednesday with the rules changes that come with M10. Read the full article here and the main rule change people are discussing is a change to combat that combat damage does not use the stack. Obviously lots of controversy, but some good examples and discussion to be found here. You can also read thoughts from Zvi Mowshowitz on Top 8 Magic, Randy Buehler, Power 9 Pro. We have also seen the new M10 dual lands and a few new cards (yeah Acidic Slime!). The 7th year anniversary of MTGO runs from 6/17 – 7/15 with a bunch of special events. A review of the comments on Zendikar from Mark Rosewater (no pirates or dinosaurs). And the July FNM promo is Murderous Redcap.

Listener Emails
Tons of great emails this week and here are the links to the Pixel Magic podcasts on MTGCast, official Gleemax MTGO FAQ and the video MTGO tutorial on PureMTGO.

MTGCast News
We have the winners of the Sorrow’s Path comment contest, email pitimp@mtgcast with your mailing address if you are a winner!
(link to all comments)
Wolfgang
Stephen Rufer
MyNameIsFourteen
jACKie Chang
mimemachine (josh)
Tyler
Tokwana
http://mtgcast.com/?p=1768&cpage=2#comment-6590
Justanothernobody
Jason Van Cleave
Robert Lancaster
OrcishConscripts

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Monday Night Magic #158 – Conley top 4’s PT Honolulu, M10 talk and more!

Tommy — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 04:45:35 +0000

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This Week in Magic
PT Honolulu was this past weekend with Kazuya Mitamura crowned champion, but representing us all was Conley Woods who made the top 4 and brought home $13,000! We are also proud to hear that Duels of the Planeswalkers will be coming out the XBLA on June 17th for 800 MS points ($10). We have also confirmed that there will be 3 planeswalkers in Zendikar, one of which is a returning planeswalker, and one of the new is Nissa Revane. Also, another Duel Decks has been announced, Liliana vs Garruk! Some M10 reprints have been confirmed (Shivan Dragon, Nightmare, White Knight) along with the release of the intro pack images giving us a glimpse of a few new cards. Bunch of news about the Planechase release and it’s connection with Zendikar. We also talk about WoTC official contest to design art for an upcoming show with RYZ where you can win $1,000 and an uncut foil sheet, check out the current entries and enter here along with a useful template. You can also read another nice writeup of Gavin and Conley at GP Seattle.

What Have We Been Playing?
Eric has been enjoying some awesome 8 and 16 man cube drafting. Jack has been dabbling in some Arcanis the Omnipotent EDH and the Jund Cascade Aggro deck. Tom has been playing more limited EDH and finding ways to kill his new nemesis, Diviner’s Wand.

Listener Emails
Bunch of great emails about M10, zone name changes and an idea for a comment contest to make decks out of the 100 worst cards of all time.

MTGCast News
The Sorrow’s Path comment contest is closed as of 8pm CST on Tuesday evening, you can enter by then or read the entries on the episode 157 comment thread.

We are also happy to announce another give-away sponsored by Chris from Kentucky’s ebay MTG shop, Mr. Morbowski’s Cards.

Contest: Design a logo for the eBay MTG shop, Mr. Morbowski’s Cards
Starts: June 8th
Ends June 21st at midnight CST
Grand Prize: 4x common/uncommon playset for M10
Details:
- All logos should be in jpeg format
- Email them to morbowski@gmail.com
- Make the title of the email “Logo entry”
- Please include a daytime phone number and mailing address
Disclaimer: All submitted artwork will become the property of Mr. Morbowski’s Cards.

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Monday Night Magic #157 – Hrbek the Planeswalker

Tommy — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 04:51:55 +0000

This Week in Magic
Mea Culpa from Tom, thank for the correction regarding the Warp World deck from the Indianapolis PTQ was in the top 8, but did not win the PTQ. The winners of the Agents of Artifice fan art competition have been announced and you see the winners here. Grand Prix Seattle was this past weekend and the winner was Yann Massicard playing Doran, Faeries was popular and we have a ton of MTGCast hosts in the running including Stan Bessey of Deck Builders placing 14th, Gavin in 73rd and Conley 187th. We also had Nick Bonham, Pedro Rodriguez, Bryan Greer and Shannon Ericson also doing well! Here is the general info for GP Seattle and here are the top 8 decklists. We have officially seen the M10 release and prerelease promos (Queen of Ants and Vampire Nocturnus) and confirm the use of the term “battlefield” for being in play. There is a great debate article on fivewithflores.com discussing some topics brought up in the latest The Magic Show regarding table shuffling and deck randomization. Randy Buehler posts on his blog some info on the block constructed metagame for PT Honolulu and a round-by-round coverage of his monthly MTGO championship. PT Honolulu is this weekend and wish good luck to Gavin and Conley! We also hear from Kenneth Nagle’s twitter that he will be previewing an M10 card at PT Honolulu.

What Have We Been Playing?
Gavin and Conley have been playing some Standard and likely turning their sights towards draft and block constructed. :^) Tom playing some more limited EDH and dreaming of busting out some Vanguard.

Listener Emails
Tons of great emails this week. Kudos to MacDaddy for his Hrbek the Planeswalker submission.

MTGCast News
A huge thank you from Tom to Marshall of MagicLifeCounters.com for sending him a custom Pit Imp and Unearth life counters. Tom is also happy to announce our next big give-away and contest!

The contest: Write flavor text for the card Sorrow’s Path
Prizes: 12 prize packs of 3 Alara Reborn booster packs
How to enter: Write your entry in the comment section for this episode on MTGCast.com (direct link)

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Monday Night Magic #156 – Warp World for the PTQ Win?!?

Tommy — Tue, 26 May 2009 04:43:19 +0000

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This Week in Magic
Tom, Jack and Eric bring you a great show this week and start off with the revelation on Randy Buehler’s blog that Duels of the Planeswalker for the XBLA has passed Microsoft certification and should be coming soon. We also have an updated novel cover and sample chapter for the next Planeswalker magic novel titled The Purifying Fire. Some cool new WPN promos of Slave of Bolas and Marisi’s Twinclaws. The FNM promo for June is a cool “darker” art version of Mulldrifter. Eric scoops that we will be seeing more Duel Decks in the near future via Twitter with Elaine Chase.

We also discuss a bunch of Regionals decks including some cool innovations with Cascade + Swans of Bryn Argoll deck, Turbo Fog and my favorite, a zany Warp World deck that won the Illinois PTQ!

And wish good luck to Gavin and Conley in the upcoming Seattle PTQ and PT Honolulu!

What Have We Been Playing?
Jack talks about some great Reaper King EDH, Tom is trying to bust open Arsenal Thresher in Pauper and Eric talks about his inability to avoid 5-color in drafting.

Listener Emails
Tons of great emails this week! Email any thoughts or ideas to pitimp@mtgcast.com.

MTGCast News
Eric talks about his great interview with Patrick Chapin, Tom mentions to make sure and subscribe to us on the RSS feed or iTunes feed. Tom also lets slip about the next comment contest (come up with flavor text) and the prizes (an ENTIRE box of Alara Reborn boosters!).

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Monday Night Magic #155 – Llamas, Planechase and Regionals!

Tommy — Mon, 18 May 2009 21:45:40 +0000

This Week in Magic
Tom and Conley are here this week to bring you a whole bunch of news along with discussion of Standard, Regionals (including Turbo Fog with suprising showing of 5 color control in face of the BW / GW token surge) and more. First, we talk about the new Planechase (Vanguard 2.0) cards just announced. We also discuss the rumors started by this comment on the Daily MTG twitter feed regarding llamas and alpacas that may suggest an Incan theme for Zendikar along with the revelation by Mark Rosewater that we will have Planeswalkers in Zendikar. Check out the interview with Doug Beyer, author of “Alara Unbroken” on the Book Nook show on YouTube. Wizards announces the largest number of active DCI players ever at 138,500! We have a discussion on the Extended Hypergenesis Cascade deck and here is a nice review article with example decklists of the “haste” camp and “shroud” camp. We have another official preview of Duels of the Planeswalker on the WoTC YouTube page, but still no release time given. Check out a bunch of articles discussing more about the pros / cons of mid-range decks from Adrian Sullivan, Mike Flores and LSV. SpikeBoyM has another great Pauper article reviewing the latest Premier Event.

What Have We Been Playing?
Conley is preparing for PTQ Seattle and PT Honolulu with Standard, Block Constructed and lots of drafting. Tom is pumped after getting to play some limited EDH with his Teneb, the Harvester general along with some fun artifacts like Panoptic Mirror with Harmonize and Platinum Angel.

Listener Emails
Thank you to Filip and Wolfgang for some questions. Email pretty much anything to pitimp@mtgcast.com.

MTGCast News
We have the winners of the Comment Contest from episode 153! Blunt World wins 3 packs of Alara Reborn, Jon A.K.A. The Frex wins a Divine vs Demonic Duel Deck and TheAnimeGuy wins an Alara Reborn Intro pack! Email your ideas for a future contest that will give away Alara Reborn booster packs.

Make sure to watch the MTGCast site and iTunes feed for Eric’s (of this show and Mr. Suitcase) interview with Patrick Chapin on Wednesday!

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Monday Night Magic #154 – M10, new Duel Decks, and “Donking”!

Tommy — Tue, 12 May 2009 04:27:05 +0000

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Eric, Conley, Jack and Tom are here this week to bring you some great news. We have two new card arts for M10 to restart the rumor mill and we have an unofficial M10 spoiler on MTGSalvation. Randy Buehler has a new blog, The Thinking Game, discussing magic and non-magic gaming. Conley and Eric discuss Nationals 2009 and all of its details. Based off newly registered trade marks [link 1, link 2] from WoTC, we have tips on Duel Decks: Garruck vs Lilliana, Worldwake, From the Vault: Planeswalkers, Rise of the Eldrazi, Planechase. LSV discussed (or bashes) mid-range decks and our tourney players discuss this viewpoint. Still no Duels of the Planeswalkers, so sad.

What Have We Been Playing?
Jack is battling Boat Brew and Conley is working on Standard and Block Constructed. Tom is getting back to his limited EDH.

MTGCast News
Thank you to everyone who entered the Alara Reborn contest, we have closed it at a whopping 113 entries and will use this week to read them and give you the winners next week. Tom wants listeners to send him on what they would like to see for prizes in future contest give-aways (e.g. 4-6 weeks).

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Monday Night Magic #153 – Galapagos Giveaways!

Tommy — Tue, 05 May 2009 03:50:42 +0000

This Week in Magic
Conley Woods joins Tom this week for a great show! Some more in-depth discussion of Alara Reborn impact on Limited, Standard, Block Constructed. Conley gives some great insight and tips on the preparation for Pro Tour Honolulu. Tom discusses the lack of release announcement for Duels of the Planeswalkers. We also point out the upcoming Path of the Planeswalker graphic novel release in October. And we also talk about the unconfirmed WPN promo Marisi’s Twinclaws.

What Have We Been Playing?
Tom is starting to put together his limited EDH deck using Teneb, the Harvester as his general backed up by the awesome Platinum Angel. Here is the fantastic review article of top MTGO pauper decks by SpikeBoyM on Puremtgo.com. Conley talks about a weekend of intense Standard testing and prepping for the upcoming Standard GP Seattle and then Block / Limited Pro Tour Honolulu.

Listener Emails
Email Tom at pitimp@mtgcast.com and Conley at conley@mtgcast.com. Everyone answered the call for the emails this week and it rocked! We talk about Alara Reborn picks, fun pre-release stories and combos, Extended Cascade, how to sort these crazy mana costs and more.

MTGCast News
Conley tells a very cool story about the generosity of WoTC arranging plane travel to PT Honolulu. Tom gives a shout out to James for an awesome custom art package in the mail including a customized “Booze” token! Last, but not least, we have another giveaway! We are giving away three prize packages (3x Alara Reborn booster, Divine vs Demonic Duel Deck, Alara Reborn Intro pack) and all you need to do is post your favorite Alara Reborn card and why on the comment thread for ep 153 on mtgcast.com (direct link to article)!

Giveaway quick details:
What: Favorite Alara Reborn card and why
Prizes: 3x Alara Reborn booster, Divine vs Demonic Duel Deck, Alara Reborn Intro pack
Where: Post your story in the comment section for this episode on mtgast.com (direct link)

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Monday Night Magic #152 – Alara Reborn Roundup

Tommy — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 04:20:12 +0000

This Week in Magic
Gavin and Tom are here this week to bring you all you need to know about Alara Reborn after the pre-release tournaments this weekend. Gavin gives us some great tips on Limited (hint, Borderposts are good!), Block Constructed, Standard and even Extended (Cascade is REALLY good). Tom pipes in with some multiplayer and Pauper picks. Check out the full visual spoiler from Gatherer and the set is also live on magiccards.info as well. Gavin is a big fan of the Cascade mechanic and is truly the power-baby of Storm and Ripple and is especially excited at cascading from a Bloodbraid Elf into a Wooly Thoctar in the near future and also explains a few rules about Cascade.

For MTGO news, you can sign up for the Alara Reborn beta and Stronghold has been released! Watch for Tortured Existence decks Pauper players!

What Have We Been Playing?
Gavin is getting ready for Pro Tour Honolulu and Grand Prix’s by doing some Limited, Block Constructed and Standard testing. Tom is, as usual, playing some mad Pauper and starting on his limited EDH card pool. Along with a combo of the week of Uril, the Miststalker + Sovereigns of Lost Alara + Runes of the Deus.

Listener Emails
They are back! Thank you to everyone who emailed in and send any feedback, news, deck ideas, whatever you have to either Tom at pitimp@mtgcast.com or Gavin at lesurgo@mtgcast.com. We read over some listener Alara Reborn picks, thoughts on the Magic-league situation and opinions on the Chris Pikula / new Meddling Mage art controversy.

MTGCast News
We have a shiny new embeddable (is that a word?) flash player for the MTGCast network that anyone can use on their site or blog / facebook to help share the love.

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Monday Night Magic #151 – The Papabear Stands Alone!

Tommy — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 05:21:52 +0000

This Week in Magic
After the hub-bub of ep 150, we (I) are taking a relaxed week and Tom is running a solo show. Tomoharu Saito wins GP Kobe and is the last tournament to qualify for PT Honolulu and wins with is “Super Naya Zoo” deck. Time to get pumped for the Alara Reborn pre-releases this weekend! Find out the closest location and check out the foil promo Dragon Broodmother you get for attending. Tom briefly discusses a few cards from the unofficial spoiler, but make sure to listen next week where the a team of hosts will break down the entire set. Tom is also curious about fervor of the new art for Meddling Mage and the quotes from Chris Pikula being “totally disgusted”, especially given the art had already changed on the judge promo version? We also have the news of magic-league.com receiving a cease and desist letter from WoTC and the potential precedent it may have for other non-official magic media.

What Have You Been Playing?
Tom is still enjoying Pauper and playing around with the abuses of Martyr of Sands.

MTGCast News
Unbeknownst to Tom, MTGCast has risen to #7 in our iTunes category! Also, we are bringing back listener emails!!! So, please send some emails, especially picks for Alara Reborn to kick start this joyous occasion.

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Monday Night Magic #150 – Alara Reborn Mythic Madness!

Tommy — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 05:14:51 +0000

This Week in Magic
Well, we survived the craziness of another live episode and we had the whole crew: Tom, Gavin, Eric, Jack, and Conley! We discussed the newly spoiled, Sphinx of the Steel Wind (or Wool) and some other just announced cards on the unofficial spoiler. We also discuss the very very high likelihood of Meddling Mage showing up in Alara Reborn. The Orb of Insight for Alara Reborn is live and ready for your wily trickes (check out some compiled info here). Also, From the Vaults: Exiled will be a brick-and-mortar store exclusive.

LIVE questions and callers!
Conley Woods joins the magic men round table and a slew of live questions from our listeners.

MTGCast News
Tough to not know if by this point, but it was our live episode #150 and we announced the winners of the Divine vs Demonic give-away contest! Below is the list of the winners (name on the post in the Mtgcast.com comments) and simply email pitimp@mtgcast.com your name and mailing address and the cards will be on their way.

Divine vs Demonic winners (read all of the stories here!):
Dale Boyce, Mellowcow, Green Opal, Cole, Sam, Teflon Jeff, Ryan, Kurai Sepharim, Pete Lane and Jason Hemp.

We also will be having a special on Friday, April 17th with our own exclusive Alara reborn preview card!

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Monday Night Magic #149 – Divine Vs Demonic Giveaway Contest!

Tommy — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 04:32:26 +0000

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This Week in Magic
Kudos to WoTC for some pretty decent April Fool’s bits, including the most amazing draft viewer ever seen. It also confirmed that Terminate is Alara Reborn! We also discuss a few more cards spoiled via various magazines in the unofficial MTGS spoiler, including “Unscythe, Killer of Kings” (not an 80’s hair metal band). We also have the deck lists for the Alara Reborn intro packs and next week is the start of the official previews! Also, the very cool Divine vs Demonic duel decks come out on April 10th and we officially have the deck lists today via Mike Turian’s article! Check out the pics [1] [2] of the new DCI judge shirts. And we talk a bit about the DCI Reporter software and the rumor of a new in-house developed replacement coming soon.

What’ve You Been Playing?
Jack fills us in on the very cool Pauper league starting at his local store. Tom is still beating faces in Pauper on MTGO and still enjoying GB Dredge / Unearth with it’s unlikely hero, Golgari Brownscale.

MTGCast News
We are pumped to announce our official Divine vs Demonic giveaway contest! We will be giving away ten prize packs which each consist of a foil promo DvD Akroma, Angel of Wrath and Lord of the Pit (both signed by the artist)! You can enter and win by simple posting your favorite magic story about an Angel or Demon card in the comment section for this episode on mtgcast.com! We will announce the winners in episode 150. Here is a quick picture on how to subscribe to the comments for the contest.

And episode 150 is going to be a LIVE episode! You can chat with us and other listeners, listen live, be a live caller and overall add to the mayhem. The show will be hosted on TalkShoe and the date is set for Monday, April 13th at 9:30pm CST. Check out TalkShoe and this FAQ page on how to connect and join the par-tay. The show ID is 41574 and here is the direct link to our show page where you can join live on 4/13 @ 9:30pm CST!

I was also able to sit down for a great interview with Mike Turian about Divine vs Demonic and you can check it out here.

To review:
The prizes: TEN sets of foil DvD signed Akroma, Angel of Wrath and Lord of the Pit
The contest: Write you favorite magic story about an Angel or Demon card
Where to enter: On the comment section for this episode on mtgcast.com (direct link to comment section)

Ends: Next week and we will announce the winners on the LIVE episode 150!
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Monday Night Magic #148 – Zendikar and Hybrid Hijinks!

Tommy — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 04:23:27 +0000

This Week in Magic

Alara Reborn news is here and we have some doozies. First, we have some scans of the Alara Reborn booster packs and starts the rumor of a potential return of Coiling Oracle. And, we also have 10 cards in the unofficial spoiler on MTGSalvation including a little gem titled Marisi Twinclaw showing a new usage of hybrid mana and confirming hyrbid mana in the set. And check out a scan of our Rumbling Slum-worty Spellbreaker Behemoth!

Judges start salivating for this Maze of Ith judge promo spotted in the wild.

And there was that little announcement about Zendikar and the crazy rampant rumors regarding it being an Aztec, Mayan, dinosaurs, pirates, you name it set.

Eric also fills us in on some the updates on thestarkington post about the backpack thieving ring we discussed earlier that was uncovered at GP Chicago.

What We’ve Been Playing
Tom is on the Pauper train still, Eric talks about his PTQ and Gavin admits he finally did some Conflux drafting and played some MTGO.

MTGCast News
Tom is interviewing the very cool Mike Turian on April 1st and would love your input and suggestions for questions. We are also proud to announce our upcoming official Divine vs Demonic contest and giveaway! Full details to be announced on April 6th. Make sure to watch our twitter feed (twitter.com/mtgcast) for daily news updates and other breaking information, it can also be found on the main page of MTGCast.com. We promise no “I just brushed my teeth” updates.

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Monday Night Magic #147 – Papa Bear is Back!

Tommy — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 04:09:35 +0000

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This Week in Magic
We have scans of the Alara Reborn pre-release and release promos from a french advertisement poster. Pictures of the Alara Reborn Intro packs (english language) are also now out. Magic Online Customer Appreciation Week was announced today, check out the details and it runs from 3/23 to 3/30. Wizards has officially announced the next “From the Vault” set and is title Exiled. Exciting news is that it will feature cards that “were banned or restricted from the known realms of competition“, but will adhere to the reprint policy (sorry, no moxes). We also have the most recent update to the Banned and Restricted list with no changes to paper magic formats (official explanation), but it did sneakily announce a new MTGO format titled “Kaleidoscope” where all non-lands cards must be multicolored and will use the Extended card pool. Check out the new Demonic Tutor (with full card scan). Tomoharu Saito is crowned champion of GP Singapore with a revamped Naya Zoo deck!

What You Been Playing?
Tom talks about some MTGO Pauper play (make sure to check out pdcmagic.com and these great Pauper articles by SpikeBoyM). Also check out the blog to follow the Limited EDH experiment by my buddy, Steve. Jack fills us in on some constructed Standard play testing, including 5-color control and Faeries.

MTGCast News
We welcome our first product review of the Ultra-Pro Matte Non-glare Deck Protector Sleeves. Congrats to Conley Woods for his recent PTQ win! We need you, the listeners, to help us come up with ideas on how to do a kick apples episode 150, along with ideas for a new nick-name for Tom. Thank you to everyone who voted in the poll.

We also say congratulations to two MTGCast listeners turned new fathers, Beau from China and Luke from Ohio!

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Monday Night Magic #146 – Alara Reborn confirmed all Gold!

Tommy — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 04:17:20 +0000

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This Week in Magic
Alara Reborn is confirmed to be the first all Gold magic set. Magic Online 2009 Championship Series has been announced and seems to be a form of a pro tour for online players. Nationals locations and dates have been announced. In the United States Nationals are being held in KC on July 24-27 (watch out for those Yu-Gi-Oh players). Check out this DCI Foil Judge promo Dark Ritual. Images of Intro packs for Alara reborn are out and the creatures showing through the front are all 2 color creatures. Knight of New Alara is the release card for the release parties being held on April 30 through May 3. MTGO v3 with major issues over past week and weekend – significant in-game and trading lag, players were unable to join or start new games. Master’s Editon 2 leaves the online store on March 25th. There will be farewell events as well as a “farewell pack” where you get 10 ME2 boosters and a free ME1 booster! Congratulations to Lino Burgold the Grand Prix Hannover Champion! GP Hannover had to cancel cash prize payouts and switch to product. Magic Cruise #2 has been announced and will be Feb 7-13, 2010.

MTGCast News
Tom will be back for #147 after a short break. Look for interviews from Matt from Cardhoarder.com and Riki Hayashi on Mr. Suitcase this week. And follow Eric on twitter at http://twitter.com/thewachman

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Monday Night Magic #144 – M10, PT Kyoto and GP Chicago!

Tommy — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 10:23:42 +0000

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We have had a week to mull over the big announcement of “Magic 2010″ or “M10″ that is the major changes to core set with Tom, Gavin and Eric weighing in on the changes. Tom was also able to grab Aaron Forsythe for a 30 minute interview about M10! PT Kyoto was this weekend with Gabriel Nassif declared champion. And Tom and Gavin are both attending GP Chicago and flexing their Legacy muscles. We also discuss the changes to the Wizards Player support phone line hours, a new “viral” MTG ad, and we know of two more angels for the upcoming Duel Decks: Divine vs Demonic (April 10th) with Akroma, Angel of Wrath and Luminous Angel.

User Corner
A plethora of great emails this week, and here are all of the links mentioned in the discussions.
http://www.top8magic.com/
http://fivewithflores.com/
http://www.thestarkingtonpost.com/
6th Edition Videos [part 1 / part 2 / part 3]

MTGCast News
Tom and Gavin are going to GP Chicago and an enormous thank you from Tom to Hector to sending him an ENTIRE legacy deck to play! We are trying out Twitter as a way to keep listeners up to date and will use it for coverage while in Chicago, our twitter page is www.twitter.com/mtgcast. Congratulations to Gavin for being a new author for Star City Games with his “Flow of Ideas” articles. We review the MNM poll and the lowest rated segment was the deck challenge / comment contest. Also thank you to Wayne C. for sending in some awesome ooze tokens and a sexy FOIL Booster Tutor.

Emails, Comments and COMMENT CONTEST!
The winner this week of the deck challenge is … Robert Torkington!
The winner this week of the comment challenge is … Noman_peopled!

This is a new weekly contest where I announce a deck challenge and ask for feedback on the podcast, you post a response (or story) on the MTGSalvation, Star City Games or TCGplayer forums. Then, I will give out two prizes each week, one to a great deck and one to comments / suggestions!

This week’s deck challenge card is: Progenitus!
Prizes of the week: FOIL Unhinged Land and 2x Non-foil Unhinged Land!

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MTGCast Special – Aaron Forsythe interview about Magic 2010!

Tommy — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 19:41:59 +0000

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The Interview!
Length: 30:35

Magic players every where were stunned by the announcement of the major core set changes coming with the next core set “Magic 2010″ or “M10″.

Aaron Forsythe was nice enough to take some time and talk about the core set changes, why we should be excited and how this set is going to rock. Hard. Check out the initial announcement on the official Wizards of the Coast site and then take a listen!

Some new tidbits is that we can definitely expect to see some M10 limited GP’s, PTQ’s and eventually PT’s. It was mentioned potentially FIVE M10 limited GP’s later this year! We also confirmed that Unsummon will be in the set, cards going back as far as Alpha and for sure up through Time Spiral and Planar Chaos and pretty sure Gravedigger will be making an appearance as well. Given the new cards and overall revamp of the core set, expect M10 to have a full preview week and the promotion that we expect from expert expansion sets.

Aaron also made Tom’s day by letting him know to watch for an awesome new Ooze in the M10 set, yeah baby!

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Monday Night Magic #143 – MTGO, Pauper and Crazy Cougar!

Tommy — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 06:46:33 +0000

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We go into a more in-depth discussion of the Pauper format, especially for MTGO and some updates on MTGO version 3. Make sure to check out pdcmagic.com for great info regarding the Pauper format. MTGO Conflux release events start on 2/27 and run until 3/13.

If you need a break from testing, check out these old MTG TV ads and re-live the old days: video 1 | video 2 | video 3 | video 4.

Stay tuned next week for an in-depth discussion of the just announced “Magic 2010 or M10″ set!

User Corner
Bunch of great emails and questions this week! Favorite Planeswalker hair style, paper Magic Masters Edition set and more.
Here is the link to the MTGS thread on the “Skittles” Domain deck for Standard the Official Reprint Policy of WoTC.

MTGCast News
Keep an eye out for some upcoming Legacy-focused podcasts. Please take a second and vote in the poll on mtgcast.com for what segment of Monday Night Magic is your favorite. We are looking forward to getting some exclusive coverage of PT Kyoto. Tom gives a huge thank-you to David for sending him an Ooze token in the mail.

Emails, Comments and COMMENT CONTEST!
The winner this week of the deck challenge is … JqlGirl!
The winner this week of the comment challenge is … schrecklich!

This week’s deck challenge card is: Obelisk of Alara!
Prizes of the week: Naya Domain Intro pack and Two packs of Conflux!

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Monday Night Magic #142 – Conflux Cooldown

Tommy — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 01:21:55 +0000

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This Week in Magic
We are happy to see that a great resource for storing and sharing decklists is back, MTGVault.com. Duels of the Planeswalkers is hopefully coming out in the next few months and we have heard some rumors of a March release, but no specific release date to be found on the official site. We also have new info on the Wizards Play Network and the Conflux Gateway kits designed for new / small tourney organizers! Scans are now available for the FNM promos for April and May: April is Merrow Reejery and May is Wren’s Run Vanquisher. For large tournaments, GP Rotterdam is this weekend, PT Kyoto in the next couple weeks and GP Chicago in the second week of March. Gavin (and hopefully Tom) will be attending GP Chicago!

User Corner
The slate was wiped clean by the computer crash, but we have a few emails and invite everyone to keep emailing in!

MTGCast News
Keep an eye out for “The Mana Pool” to be joining the network, a podcast of four guys more focused on the casual magic scene. We are also pumped to announce we now have articles on MTGCast! Check out our first series, “Going Rogue” by Mike Kohler and let us know if you are interested in trying your hand at articles. Last and not least, a shout out to the Board Games Club in Rock Hill, SC and hope they enjoy the cards from our very generous listeners.

Emails, Comments and COMMENT CONTEST!
The winner this week of the deck challenge is … my tv has color (Pre-release Demigod of Revenge)!
The winner this week of the comment challenge is … CBG85 (Italian Legends Pendelhaven)!

This week’s deck challenge card is: Mark of Asylum!
Prizes of the week: $15 in store credit to either MTGmintcard.com, trollandtoad.com or cardhoarder.com x2!

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MTGCast #141 – Crazy for Conflux

Tommy — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 04:48:05 +0000

MTGCast #141 – Crazy for Conflux!
“You read it somewhere else, but you heard it here first!”

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This Week in Magic
Wizards announces six card booster packs, Remove Soul and Nameless Inversion are rumored as the next Magic Player Rewards mailings, and the new judge foil, Bloodstained Mire, has been put revealed!

User Corner
Nothing this week as we eagerly wait for Tom’s return

MTGCast News
Tom gets a hands-on review with Duels of the Planeswalkers!
We also thank everybody who donated cards for Robert of South Africa. We have a ton left and need your ideas on where else to donate them to.

Emails, Comments and COMMENT CONTEST!
The winner this week of the deck challenge is … arelas!
The winner this week of the comment challenge is … YoshiOfADown!

This week’s deck challenge card is: Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker!
Prizes of the week: A mystery card (It could be anything!)

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Computer Crash == no Monday Night Magic this week! :^(

Tommy — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 05:33:29 +0000

Hi everyone,

Eric, Jack and I had the show all recorded, and then while editing, my hard drive decided it wanted to imitate an etch-a-sketch and die in a spectacularly noisy fashion. We should be back for next week, but we are taking an involuntary break this week while things get repaired. Sorry for the inconvience.

MTGCast Special – Duels of the Planeswalkers Preview!

Tommy — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 02:53:54 +0000

MTGCast gets a dev kit Xbox 360 freshly loaded with a preview copy of Duels of the Planeswalkers for the Xbox 360 Live Arcade! Check out a quick run-through of the basic design, game play, and how it differs slightly from paper magic. No fears, most combat tricks are still available, but the main change is that no ability to respond to damage on the stack.

Check out the MTG podcast network at www.mtgcast.com for this video and more great content!

Monday Night Magic #140 – Conflux, Comments and Calls!

Tommy — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:45:59 +0000

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Conflux Scuttlebutt
‘Twas the week before pre-release and all through the ‘net, magic players were salivating with an entire spoiler at their behest. Yup, one week before pre-release and we have all 145 cards! Gavin and Tom both give their picks for limited, standard, extended and wild uneducated guesses at legacy.

This Week in Magic
We discuss an upcoming iPhone app tentatively called “MtgToGo”. We are also pumped to announce that Chris Otwell (of Road Warrior Otwell) got a Top 8 in the Denver PTQ with a version of RDK2K9. We also pay homage to Bill Starks and his awesome work on typing up all of the Day 2 decklists from GP:LA and a card breakdown. The official WoTC site has the GP:LA Top 8 deck lists.

Throughout the show, we also delve into the murky depths of Legacy and our plans to hopefully go check out Grand Prix Chicago. Check out and read, read, read about Legacy at the THE forums for Legacy at mtgthesource.com.

User Corner
We have a whole slew of questions including what card ability would we have and what is the most useless ability ever printed?

MTGCast News
Gavin and Tom hopefully plan to attend Grand Prix Chicago and the new site seems to be surviving so far.

Emails, Comments and COMMENT CONTEST!
The winner this week of the deck challenge is … Dark_drac0!
The winner this week of the comment challenge is … bataleur!

This week’s deck challenge card is: Master Transmuter (from Conflux)!
Prizes of the week: Lotus Petal and Unlimited Tunnel and Merfolk of the Pearl Trident!

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Monday Night Magic #139 – Gavin, Grand Prix LA and THE Progenitus!

Tommy — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 05:11:55 +0000

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Say hello to our guest co-host, Eric of “Mr. Suitcase”!

Conflux Scuttlebutt
Tom, Gavin and Eric go over some of their favorite cards to date. Tom loves him some Bloodhall Ooze and everyone agrees that Progenitus just rocks. Hard. Check out these and more on the MTGS unofficial Conflux Spoiler. And a link to card scans of Bloodhall Ooze and Nicol Bolas.

This Week in Magic
Congratulation to Gavin for his 13th place finish at Grand Prix LA, earning $500, pro points and an invite to PT Honolulu! He talks about his deck, some other key archetypes that made a showing and more. Also congrats to Conley Woods of The Magic School Bus for a day 2, #114 showing!

Rumors abound regarding a potential MTG MMO after it being mentioned as the third project of Turbine (D&D MMO, LoTR MMO) on a popular video MMO cast. Check out the discussion and link to the actual show. The official WoTC Conflux mini-site is now live. Get your MTG on your iGoogle with the new planeswalker themes. The Conflux novel is rumored to be coming with an alternate art Jace, to further cement him as the “poster boy” of magic. And the WoTC 10th Edition draft simulator is alive and well with new packs being added on Mondays.

User Corner
Listen next week for all of the emails!

MTGCast News
We have a new look to the website and the mtgcast email addresses are live again, so you can email Tom at pitimp@mtgcast.com or tom@mtgcast.com, Gavin can be reached at lesurgo@mtgcast.com or gavin@mtgcast.com.

Emails, Comments and COMMENT CONTEST!
The winner this week of the deck challenge is … pokerbob1!
The winner this week of the comment challenge is … ImAChampion!

This is a new weekly contest where I announce a deck challenge and ask for feedback on the podcast, you post a response (or story) on the MTGSalvation or Star City Games forums. Then, I will give out two prizes each week, one to a great deck and one to comments / suggestions!

This week’s deck challenge card is: Swirl the Mists!
Prizes of the week: Italian Black-bordered Bronze Tablet and an English Legends Syphon Soul!

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