After a short but spirited discussion, we have to take our leave of you.  But don’t worry, we filled up more time!  We’ve included the recording of the radio commentary for The Running Games that first aired on The Ocho Radio.  Even if you already know which guild managed to navigate the Implicit Maze and win the whole shebang, you should still listen in for our crack observations and general hilarity.

Slivers in M14: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10152787820210307.1073741829.201120755306&type=1

Doug Beyer’s Sliver blog: http://dougbeyermtg.tumblr.com/post/49835902311/slivers-evolved

Rules update: http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/feature/244f&page=3

Dragon’s Maze Event Deck: http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/arcana/1227

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It’s prerelease time as Chewie, Mike, and Brian head over to Top Deck Games in Kernersville NC to take on the ten guilds of Ravnica!  Brian’s law-school buddy John was there too (as he tends to be when there’s a prerelease), as was our old pal Robert Waycaster.  We’ve got the handy-dandy ditital recorder and we’re recording what happens just after it happens so you can get the full story without the passage of time to blur anything.  Follow the dorks (the ones that survive, anyway) as they run through each round.  Sometimes you’ll hear from opponents, bystanders, store owners, crazy people, and assorted dorks too, which only makes things that much more fun!  There’s really not much else to tell here, so we hope you enjoy!

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Bill Bloodworth (@SqueeGoblnNabob) joins us again this week, this time in lieu of our usual green man, Dirk.  The new baby caught up with him and he wasn’t able to join us.  The first part of the show is a look at the entire set of…oh wait, no.  It’s the Banned & Restricted list update, followed by a look at the the full Dragon’s… Nope, not yet, then it’s the Commander Banned list update.  Sigh.  After that, we move right into the Maze…oh.  The maze of grief that the passing of Quinton Hoover left us in.  That’s really a shame, because his art really helped shape the early look of the game.

But then, after all that and probably some other stuff, we move right into the Dragon’s Maze.  The full set is now available, so we’re gonna run through the high points.  It turns out the high points are damn near every card we didn’t mention yet…sorry about that.  This episode runs a little longer than we meant it to.

B&R list update: http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/feature/244b2
Commander Banned list update: http://www.mtgcommander.net/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=15735
Quinton Hoover’s Magic art: http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Search/Default.aspx?output=spoiler&method=visual&action=advanced&artist=+[%22quinton+hoover%22]
Dragon’s Maze Card Image Gallery: http://www.wizards.com/magic/tcg/article.aspx?x=mtg/tcg/dragonsmaze/cig#

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Seriously, bugger off.  Your girlfriend’s calling you.  Hahaha, just kidding, of course you don’t have a girlfriend.  Your mom’s calling you.  And your mom’s on Facebook.  HA!

Yeah, that was mean.  Sorry about that, I’m sure you have a girlfriend.  Or maybe you don’t.  It doesn’t matter either way.  Half of the hosts on this show are single.  No shame!

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We start this episode off with what Brian assures us is quite possibly the most offensive Magic Mad Lib ever.  Sounds awesome!  We go from there to a brief discussion of a recent Standard tournament where a Turbo Fog deck got played!  Also, I point out how Sexy Jake Humphries made the top 8 of a Star City Open.  Aw yeah.

From there on, it’s the handful of Dragon’s Maze previews that had been revealed at this point.  So I guess you could say we go pretty in-depth on them.  I guess.

Also, there’s a small life lesson at the end that everyone should take to heart. Just sayin’.

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But he joins us this week to tell us all about Command Tower, how it came about, what you can expect, and assorted other things.  Really, Stybs just talks on and on about whatever we throw in his direction for a good long time, and it was really awesome.  You can REALLY feel how much he loves Commander as a format.  He even brought a tear to my eye at one point.  That could have been my roommate’s cooking though…

After we had drained Stybs dry of his soul…I mean information…we still had PLENTY of news to talk about.  Rather than list it all here and then list it all again down there…we’re just gonna put it down there.  Go look at all the nifty stuff we hit on!

News!
Duels 2014 – http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/arcana/1195
Leaked Cheevos – http://devinwatson.com/SteamSchema/213850.html
Duel Decks: Heroes vs. Monsters – http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/arcana/1202
Theros – http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/arcana/1196
Ruric Thar & Maze’s End – http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/arcana/1197

The episode of Card Advantage w/ Mike – http://www.mtgcast.com/mtgcast-podcast-shows/active-podcast-shows/card-advantage/card-advantage-23-whos-got-the-fever

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It’s guest stars galore on this one!  At various points throughout the episode we had Cluze from Card Advantage (@lacluyze), Bryan Prillaman (@BryanPrillaman) from JudgeCast (and Avant-Card Show of course) and we even managed to dig up our old buddy Eric of Many Names (@EricMTGCast)!  We even had Adam Styborski (@the_stybs) on, by virtue of a few off-the-cuff bumpers he recorded for us at GP Charlotte!  We discuss everything from Prillaman’s torried relationship with Claire (nonexistant) to what’s REALLY under Mike’s beard!  Due to the completely bizarre nature of this show, there’s not really a main topic exactly, just a bunch of dorks having fun talking about whatever there is to talk about!  We hope you guys enjoy!

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Of course, that’s not all we’re up to.  Oh no.  Brian rambles on about Modern just a bit before we get going (weird I know).  We talk for a couple more minutes about the newest You Make the Card vote (at the time it was a runoff between land and enchantment).

At the end, we have another amazing rush of gratitude for a listener who, for reasons that continue to baffle us, sent us some stuff.  And I’m talking good stuff too.  Like damn.  Check out the altered Nether Shadow that he sent to Chewie and tell us that’s not awesome:

Yeah, totally badassed.  Thanks for everything Lou!

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So with those two things, this episode is just some news and nonsense. We talk about the Introduction to Grand Prix video that the Walk the Planes guys did.  Well, Chewie talked about it.  You should totally go watch it, it’s awesome.  Then we hit the Sorin vs. Tibalt decklists and You Make the Card 4, along with a quick jaunt down memory lane for the last three YMTC cards.

And of course there’s discussion of addictions (Chewie’s playing Skyrim now), pregnancies (Dirk’s wife is SOOOO pregnant), and assorted other nonsense.  Of course, what strange episode would be complete without a look a little too deeply into Chewie’s personal life?  By the way, the Old Man is awesome.  Like damn.

Intro to GPs vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiakR7NgtF0
Sorin vs. Tibalt: http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/feature/237b
You Make the Card 4: http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/feature/238

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But then we get into Dirk’s episode topic!  Each dork get a planeswalker created for them by the other three dorks!  We take personality, play style, and whatever else we can think of into account when doing this.  Then we look at the ‘walker from a flavor perspective, trying to figure out who their planeswalker allies and enemies would be, and figure out what planes they might want to frequent.  It’s a lot of fun and actually, we ended up with some pretty good ones.   Check them out, keeping in mind that all costs and loyalties and whatnot are being left up to the developers to iron out:

Chewie
+1: Search your library for a card with the same name as target creature and put it into your graveyard.
-X: Creatures get -x/-x until end of turn.
-?: Exile all permanent cards from all graveyards. Destroy all other permanents, they can’t be regenerated. Return all cards exiled this way to the battlefield under their owners’ control.

Brian
+1: Each player draws two cards, then discards one card at random.
-?: Each player puts the cards in his or her hand on the bottom of his or her library in any order, then draws that many cards.
-?: You get an emblem with “If a player would draw a card, that player exiles the top card of an opponent’s library face down instead” and “Each player may look at and play cards he or she exiled with this emblem.”

Mike
Spells you cast that share a card type with a card exiled with Mike cost 2 less to cast.

+1: Exile the top card of your library.
-2: Exile target permanent an opponent controls.
-?: Choose an exiled card and put it on the bottom of its owner’s library. If you do, Mike deals damage to target creature or player equal to that card’s converted mana cost.

Dirk
+1: Until your next turn, whenever a source an opponent controls deals damage to Dirk, put that many 1/1 green Elf creature tokens onto the battlefield.
0: Choose one: – Creatures you control gain trample until end of turn; or creatures you control gain Vigilance until end of turn; or creatures you control gain lifelink until end of turn.
-?: For each nonlegendary creature you control, put a token that’s a copy of that creature onto the battlefield.

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