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Everyone is talking about Commander this week! What an exciting time to be a part of the Commander community. It certainly seems that the preconstructed Commander decks have been a great success. Wizards of the Coast has tried to promote the “Summer of Multiplayer” for the past two years, and they finally knocked it out of the park.
Let’s tune in.
Format Staples
Format staples are my favorite shows and the shows I believe are the most important for someone interested in Magic: The Gathering and podcasts to be listening to week in and week out. You want these in your 75.
Running time 2 hours 52 minutes
- KYT, Frank, and Alex are joined by David Caplan, co-creator and pilot of the Canadian Threshold deck, which until the printing of Mental Misstep was a competitive deck in Legacy.
- The Five:
- How did you get into Legacy?
- David started out as a Vintage-only player until a friend of his convinced him to play Canadian Threshold, which David claims played a lot like a Vintage deck.
- What’s your favorite Magic card?
- What do you want to be known for in the Magic community?
- David would like to be known for his ability to play every format. He wants to be known as a good all-around player.
- If you got into a bar fight and could pick one member of the Magic Community to fight with you, who would it be?
- Chris Cavanaugh
- What’s the craziest thing you’ve ever done?
- In the last month (prior to recording the show), David moved to Ottawa and decided to focus on Limited by grinding MTGO queues for a month straight, culminating in a huge tournament win, which qualified him for the MTGO championship and for Worlds in San Francisco.
- David describes Canadian Threshold to the guys. He reviews the card choices and evolution of the deck.
- KYT and Alex also discuss some of the hilarity and fun they had at the Canadian Magic Tour: Ottawa.
- The guys spend a good bit of time discussing how to play with and how to play against the card Fact or Fiction, which is interesting. I know that I would have no idea how to play against that card correctly if I found myself faced with it.
- Frank wants to know what everyone thinks about the new cards available in the Commander decks for play in Legacy.
- Alex’s cards of note are Flusterstorm and Chaos Warp.
- David drops out of the show, and Jonathan joins in. The discussion moves on to the price of Commander singles, the price of the Commander decks, and the war that The Eh Team declared last week against brick-and-mortar stores.
- Bringing the show back to Legacy talk, Jonathan provides us with a walk-through of the very interesting-sounding Mana-less Dredge deck.
The Eh Team #40 – The Behoover
Running time 1 hour 48 minutes
- For Episode 40, KYT, Jesse, and Jay are joined by Don Wiggins, from the online store Don’s Magic and Sundry. The guys learn how Don started in his online business, how he prices cards, and how he made his way onto the Wizards Play Network. The Team shares what they’ve been working on lately: Jesse continues to brew his Aggro Pod deck, Jay’s Game Day with Croz Control, and after they all log their Banned & Restricted predictions, KYT describes his experience at the Canadian Magic Tour: Ottawa leg (spoiler alert: he came in 10th, and still had time to be a star commentator!)
- Don’s Altered Art Section
- The Road to WPN, Part 1
- A Case Against Speculation
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Horde of Notions #10 – Aquatic Ass-Whuppin
Running time 2 hours 24 minutes
- It’s Commander Summer and like Justin Timberlake we’re bringing Carlos back! Our first ever guest rejoins us to talk M12, Commander and the usual assortment of listener mail, nonsense and hilarity.
- Chris talks about his Standard Soul Blade deck and his EDH Proliferate deck.
- Jack has been playing with Kami of the Crescent Moon. Giggity.
- Noyan is playing Faeries in Legacy and is looking at Cunning Wish Tendrils.
- Adena is still playing with herself.
- Carlos has taken advantage of the unbanning to try out Worldgorger Dragon in EDH, and is working with 12post and Puresteel Paladin in Legacy.
- M12 Spoilers
- This week’s Do A Barrel Roll: Clarion Ultimatum
- Send us your ideas!
- Random Moment of Geekery:
- http://www.toplessrobot.com/2011/06/super_street_pokemon_2_hyper_edition.php Yes, this is as awesome as it sounds.
- http://encyclopediadramatica.ch/Sonmanic – Not safe for…well, anyone.
- TONY JAA
- The Guild Season 5
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Inside the Deck – Drafting Tips & Commander Previews
Running time 16 minutes
- Inside the Deck kicks off with a close look at the mechanics of drafting.
- Jack Grannan and Steve McCarthy walk us through the concept of evaluating commons by discussing a few from New Phyrexia.
- Jack and Steve also join the show to discuss the new Commander decks. Did you guys pick these up?
- Once again, the quality of Inside the Deck is really great! This episode was slightly less exciting than last week’s, which had great on-the-scene footage from the SCG Invitational, but was still solid.
The Magic Show #233 – Commander, M12 and the Sad State of Standard
Running time 13 minutes
- Evan Erwin kicks off The Magic Show with an announcement for SCG Mobile, Star City Games’ recent iPhone app (Android version to be released at a later date).
- Moving onto the new Commander decks being released by WotC, Evan reveals that preorder sales for these decks are reaching a level unseen since Zendikar (which had “Priceless Treasures” hidden in random packs, if you recall). I have to admit, that is incredibly impressive.
- Evan also makes the point that WotC would be foolish to miss out on the opportunity to line up another Commander product launch for summer 2012. I think that might be a little premature, as we don’t yet know how many Commander newbies are going to continue to play the format once the initial hype dies down, but he may very well be right. I’m thrilled about these decks. As a matter of fact, on my lunch break today, I went down to my LGS to pick up the five I preordered back in April at a seriously nice price.
- Magic 2012 is also put under the microscope (those parts that we’ve seen at this point anyway). Evan examines the new keywords and abilities we’ve been shown through official previews.
- Finally, Evan beats the drum once again calling for the death of Stoneforge Mystic. Now that we know that the DCI has banned both Stoneforge Mystic and Jace, the Mind Sculptor, I will take this opportunity to ask now: How do you guys feel about the latest Banned and Restricted list?
Monday Night Magic #264 – Tom’s Been Banned (and apparently the entire MTGCast Network as well)
Running time 1 hour
- We have the B squad hosts with Eric being joined by Adena, so we summoned the Djinn from his bottle.
- We discuss MTGO turning 9 years old and about the next Magic Cruise 4. Of course, we get to the big news of the day the announcement of the Standard bans and the explanation about them. We cannot skip the MTGO Pauper ban even though we are short on Knowledge of the format. Eric reviews GP Kansas City and LSV’s Top 8 draft. Lastly, we touch on the Community victory in the Erik Friborg’s Memorial MTGO Community Cup.
- What Have We Been Playing?
- Eric talks a bit about Commander.
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Untapped #14 – Old Arnold and Tyler Durden FTW
Running time 1 hour 34 minutes
- M12 New Planeswalkers - Garruk, Chandra and Jace 3.o
- New Commander Decks - Allocations and Awesomeness
- Bannings – Stoneforge is going down!
- Community Cup – WoTC Never had a chance.
- Top 3 Movies
- Shout Outs !
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Yo! MTG Taps! #69 – Casual Friday
Running time 1 hour 9 minutes
- With Joey absent because of SCG Open obligations, Bigheadjoe has Adam Styborski on the show to geek out about the new cards available only in the new Commander preconstructed decks.
- Tune in for sure to hear the guys brew some interesting card interactions for both Commander and Legacy formats.
The Sideboard
The Sideboard includes shows that may or may not record every week but are quality podcasts that you may be interested in. At a minimum, I will provide the show notes, but in the case of better-than-usual episodes will provide recap or commentary. You don’t run them in every deck, but they are often a great metagame call.
The Avant-Card Show #38 – Commander Decks and Lifegain in Multiplayer
Running time 2 hours 5 minutes
- Your hosts welcome Andrew back and discuss the ins and outs of lifegain in multiplayer—when to play it, and when it will put the heat on you. Also, we go over the list of new Commanders from the Commander decks! And Danica Patrick does her best Debbie impression.
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Running time 1 hour 5 minutes
- Another GP and another successful run by Team CFB with Paulo making the final 4 and Owen making another top 8 and now is level 6 for the season already.
- Another run of GP’s and Paulo wins and X-Owen makes top 8 and Nagoya with LSV making the top 8 then topping it off with winning GPKC.
- Talk about Nagoya and the whole experience
- Jace and Stoneforge banned!!! What does it really mean for not only Standard but for Magic?
- M:12 – Thoughts so far
- http://www.wizards.com/magic/tcg/article.aspx?x=mtg/tcg/magic2012/cig#
- Commander Cards, what do you like?
- Cube Question of the week: How many of phyrexian mana symbol cards should you add to your cube?
- FNM Deck of the week — WW / Affinity / Tempered Steel
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The Mana Pool #183 – Drowning in Previews
Running time 2 hours 40 minutes
- No really. They dropped a TON of stuff on us since our last recording. Apparently I was even allergic to some of it. Well, that or nerds, not sure which. But yeah, we're trying desperately to keep up, so much so that we enlisted the aid of the ever-awesome Eric of Many Names once again! He's going to help us out with the new M12 cards, the new Commander cards, and the other cards in the Commander decks. Mike also guides us through a relatively painless Rules Update. And of course, we knocked out a few of the many emails we've gotten since the last episode. And now, a lot of links to all this stuff:
- Eric on Twitter
- M12 previews
- Commander previews
- Commander decklists
- Rules update
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Mana Screwed #50 – Special: Banned/Restricted List Announcement
Running time 32 minutes
- Tangent, Jack, Charlotte, and Adena from Horde of Notions discuss the update to the Banned/Reserved list as of June 19, 2011!
MTGCast Interviews the Men of Magic, Presenting: #48 – Charlotte Sable
Running time 1 hour 13 minutes
- In this episode of the MTGCast Interviews the Men of Magic, Presenting series, the Host(s) interviews: Charlotte Sable
- This weeks Men of Magic interview is with Level 2 judge Charlotte Sable. Find out what it takes to be a judge. The challenges of moving up in the program. More thoughts on the newest adventure of Serra’s Angels podcast, and more!
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Pauper to the People #13 – Wing That Mutha!
Running time 1 hour 47 minutes
- When deck plans fall apart, the brave wing it. Listen to Tuna and Chris talk about revisions to the ban list in Standard and Pauper, revise the Pauper Player’s Toolkit, discuss Commander pre-cons, and have an earnest talk about the politics of kitchen table magic. Enjoy your ear candy. This is Pauper to the People.
- Thanks to our amazing community for the suggestions/revisions to the Toolkit. You are all the lone lighthouse that guides our derelict ship of a podcast to safe harbor. Then you kill the crew and burn the hull for warmth.
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Raiders of Teferi’s Puzzle Box #27 – Reconstructive Surgery to Make You Look Like John Goodman
Running time 1 hour 2 minutes
- Have you ever been in a crowded place where something stinks, and the whole time you’re paranoid it’s you?
- This time on Raiders we force ourselves to talk about the time we killed a homeless hitchhiker on the back from a p.t.q. Sure you’ve heard stories of flat tires and people oversleeping thier alarm, but when was the last time you heard a grown man cry in remorse on a podcast? That’s right you wont be getting this story on M.N.M. (although there is plenty of goodness on that cast).
- While listening to Scrubland on my ‘dre-beats’ headphones streaming from my ipad 2, I realized that life is rough. Think about it… there are people out there that only have the origanal ipad.
- I continue to work on my profesional puppetering with the hopes that someday I will brodcast each podcast on the mtgcast network via puppetry on you tube. Check it out.
- BTW we also talk about our real magic exploits grinding some ptq’s, and standard as we see it now and where it goes before somebody does something silly like…. oh i don’t know ban a plainswalker.
- Hope you enjoy this episode as much as Otwell has been taking down tourneys.
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Road Warrior Otwell #117 – OP Lays Down the Banhammer! Caw-Blade, Get Out of the Pool
Running time 11 minutes
- The 3 Branches of WotC — R&D, Organized Play, and Brand — had the fight of the year. It looks like OP won with a concession from Brand and R&D. It *HAD* to happen to make Magic viable again.
- http://wizards.com/magic/magazine/article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/feature/148
- http://wizards.com/magic/magazine/article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/feature/148a
- Banned from Standard:
- Jace, the Mind Sculptor & Stoneforge Mystic
- Announcement Date: June 20, 2011
- Effective Date: July 1, 2011
- Magic Online Effective Date: June 29, 2011
- Standard
- Jace, the Mind Sculptor is banned.
- Stoneforge Mystic is banned.
- Exception: The deck list for the “War of Attrition” Event Deck will be legal in Standard if kept completely intact. That deck, which went on sale on June 10, contains two copies of Stoneforge Mystic.
- On Magic Online, Jace, the Mind Sculptor and Stoneforge Mystic will both be banned in Standard as of the June 29, 2011 downtime. There will be no exceptions made for the Event Deck containing Stoneforge Mystic, as that deck will not be sold online.
- Scars of Mirrodin Block Constructed, Extended, Legacy, Vintage
- No changes
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Scrubland #44 – Give ’em the Ole One-Two Punch
Running time 1 hour 16 minutes
- Two, count em, TWO cards have been banned in STD, and the Scrubland really has some mixed feelings about it all. But never fear! Chris Otwell has flown himself across the country to help us sort through our emotions during this complicated time in our lives… or just drink some beers. We weren’t really sure to be honest. Join the Scrubland crew as we explore the reasons behind R&D’s actions in great detail, and ultimately give our opinions on just what brought us to this point. It’s another week of no holds barred discussion folks, WELCOME TO THE SCRUBLAND!
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In Development
Shows in development are newer podcasts. I will keep you guys up to date on new shows as they arrive on the scene, at a minimum providing show notes and possibly providing recap and analysis (I'm more likely to start writing about new shows once they've made it through five episodes and have begun to hit their stride). Consider these shows the cards you play with for the first time at the prerelease: You are excited to try them out but no one is sure how much play they will see.
RTFC Podcast #4 – Killing Time
Running time 55 minutes
- With no major updates or advances to any Format, Phil, Kirk and Tony discuss alternate card games, silly standard deck ideas, and generally waste an hour of your time.
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Mana Sculpting #9 – Banning, 2012 and Duels
Running time 1 hour 29 minutes
- In this episode Wally and Trevor discuss the awful terrible decision that WOTC made to ban Stoneforge Mystic and Jace, the Mind Sculptor. After we get over our pain (really still hasn’t happened) we go on to discuss some new decklists. Hint: play Exarch Twin… We wrap up by hitting up some early M2012 spoilers then discuss how awesome Duels of the Planeswalkers 2012 is and Trevor recounts how Koth Archenemy has been the hardest boss ever and how Karn cheats like a mother with his turn one Darksteel Colossus on the play!
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMt7sAsGmgU#t=3m50s
- Check out this link above to watch Aaron Forsythe talk himself in circles as he attempts to explain the idiotic banning of SFM and Jace TMS.
Show notes:
Running time 37 minutes
- This week on the Brainstorm we talk about the banning of JTMS and Stoneforge Mystic. We have our differences on the banning of these cards but it had to be done. We also talk about DOTP on the 360 and what we like about it but thanks to skype the show got cut short but Tyrone finshed the show…..good job Tyrone you can do something right.
- We are still looking for some comments, email, and any info you guys want to throw at us to put on the show so please hit us up on Facebook and Twitter.
- Coming in the following weeks Mtgbrainstorm will be holding a online contest so please check back in a few weeks and we will have all the information you need on these contests.
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Public Enemies #2 – Blind Rage!
Running time 56 minutes
- Note from last show: TheGoatnapper on twitter said the reason Survival was banned was because it was broken after mystical tutor was banned and vengevine was printed.
- Possible topics to discuss:
- Smi77y’s birthday!
- Blind guys / players with disabilities
- Commander (to douche or not to douche)?
- Will M12 suck ? (Titans reprinted for example)
- How bad will Jace take a price hit in October?
- Modern format: Thoughts/ideas and reasons why it is good or bad for the game?
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Runnin the Gauntlet #1 – The Alpha
Running time 1 hour 41 minutes
- In this episode, we start by going over the Commander decks and M12 spoilers, courtesy of mtgsalvation.com. Then we jump into the current FNM level Standard metagame and (even though we tried not to) ended up talking a lot about Jace, The Mind Sculptor (better than all) and Stoneforge Mystic. Then, we go over a little coverage from the MTGO Community Cup (go Community team!!!). From there we progress to talking about Modern and what we expect from the format if it gets the official nod from WotC. We finish up with a short Commander deck highlight with a Reaper King Deck piloted by a player at our local shop.
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Running time 1 hour 38 minutes
- Kevin Cron and Stephen Menendian bring us a podcast focused specifically on the Vintage or Type 1 format.
- After introductions, the show starts off with a discussion of power-level errata, which are errata changes to the Oracle text of cards. These changes are intended to restore the cards to their intended power level in the event that cards are overpowered as printed.
- Kevin and Stephen also discuss the new Commander product from WotC and the unprecedented policy of printing new Eternal-legal cards that are not available in a regularly scheduled set (which means they also cannot be acquired in booster packs).
- Cards printed only in the Commander precons that the guys feel could have an impact on the Vintage metagame are:
- The show wraps up with Kevin and Stephen considering the current Vintage metagame, with particular attention paid to Tezzeret-based artifact strategies.
The Scoop Phase #4 – When I Think of You, I Touch Mys-Elf
Running time 1 hour 16 minutes
- Welcome back for the fourth episode of The Scoop Phase! We’re gaining in popularity and hitting the main topics that the community wants to hear about. In this episode, Zac and Daedae cover SCG Denver and take a look at future Legacy Tournaments. Having troubles figuring out how to beat the best decks in the format? We go over some of the best hate cards that you should be running for the tier decks, including Hive Mind; which no one seems to know how to beat. We also discuss the upcoming Ban and Restricted List announcement and make predictions concerning Stoneforge Mystic’s future.
- Don’t forget to tune in for our BUDGET DECK OF THE WEEEEEEEEK….We covers the Elves! combo decks and why you should invest the $160 for it.
- Don’t forget about our contest, guys. When we hit 100 followers, Zac will post a tweet for all the subscribers to retweet. A winner will be chosen at random to receive one Badlands.
- Follow us at http://www.twitter.com/scoopphase! Don’t worry, here’s another chance to win!
- Design a t-shirt ready logo for The Scoop Phase and you will receive a Japanese Daze or Fireblast of your choice! Send all logos to thescoopphase@gmail.com.
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