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Episode 224 – Plants and Other Things
We begin this episode with a discussion of Avacyn, the first reveal from Avacyn Restored, and boy is she something! From there we move into the double-faced tokens that were given away at FNM (sorry about the delay) and the fansite toolkit available from Wizards, featuring some nifty images for you to use whether you have a site or not. Also, a big shoutout to Jeffrey Lombaro, who is @MuttZippy on Twitter, for buying us all lunch the last time we all got together to play Magic! He’s a sweetheart of a guy and he’s doing giveaways and stuff on Twitter, so go follow him!
And since it’s Springtime, Brian thought we should talk about those things that make people absolutely miserable and unable to see or breathe, plants! Yes there are plenty of plants in Magic, we by the end of the show we’ll have talked about almost all of them! We even asked Twitter for some favorite plant creatures, which we promptly made fun of. Okay, not all of them, just the ones that deserved it. But if you’ve ever wanted to know about the Plant creature type in Magic, look no further! Be sure to pack Benadryl and some tissues!
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Episode 223 – Seismic Counter Bash Pro Head-to-Head Off-Road Haymaker Smackdown Gaiden 64 GotY Edition
For episode 223, the dorks gathered to discuss the Avacyn Restored trailer. After rambling on that for a while, we indulged the self-proclaimed Vorthos King and set some time aside to discuss the art and flavor of Venser vs Koth. We closed out the opener (does that even work?) with a Mad Lib about the new “Dark Romance” genre of teenage fiction.
Our main topic for the episode was the latest installment in our series “That’s How We’d Do It.” This time around, we tackled what we thought would be the best mechanics to bring back as the non-evergreen inclusion in Magic 2013. We touch on a number of recent and classic mechanics and try to decide how best to integrate the flavor and mechanics of the standard environment 2013 will be spending its otherwise lonely evenings with. We also talk about our candidates for who will replace the titans as the big mythic meanies of the new format.
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Episode 222 – There’s Bears Outside
Raisin' the roof at the Deep Forest Bear Rave ya'll!
For episode 222, we are joined by The Many-Named One himself, Eric! He’s here to pick up the slack for Brian, who had no power at home and thus couldn’t join us.
But because it’s episode 222, we just had to spend a ton of time on everyone’s favorite bears! You know, 2/2′s for 2! We’re talking about bears of all shapes and sizes. How the two-drop 2/2 impacts drafts and cubes, the original Alpha bears, the plethora of bears that are Knights. We even touch on bears that have made an impact on the tournament scene and just which ones we’ve enjoyed over the years.
After a while however, we ran out of gas on bears. And without Brian’s rambling, we sort of lost our focus. We talked a fair bit about video games. Chewie’s playing Castlevania: Symphony of the Night for the FIRST TIME so we had to spend some time there. Really now.
And what’s this talk of an Easter Egg on the site?
Eric’s custom RK Post playmats (for the kids!)
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Episode 221 – (Planes)Walk This Way
I don't sleep...I wait.
We begin the episode with a listener question (from Bacon!) about our favorite and least favorite cards. And because of how our answers played into each other, I thought that might be a good one to answer on the air. Yay Bacon!
That leads (almost) naturally into the rest of the show! We go from favorite cards to favorite planeswalkers, which leads us to nice roundtable discussion about the ‘walkers in general. Favorites, most powerful in multiplayer and not, how do you play them, when do you put them in a deck, how do you play against them, etc etc. All kinds of stuff came up, so hopefully you’ll find it either interesting or informative. If nothing else, you can laugh at how Brian’s long confusing question caused Mike to completely lose track of the conversation. That was pretty awesome.
Also, I’d like to apologize ahead of time for the nonsense you’ll find in the break music and the full nonsense at the end of the episode. Once the notion took hold in my brain, I just couldn’t resist. For the full list of songs used, check the forum post that goes with this episode, the link is right down there.
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Tagged casual magic, Magic the Gathering, MTG, podcast, The Mana Pool
Mr. Suitcase #36 – Drafting with Sam Black
How many is too many?
Chewie note: Eric wanted his GP Nashville episodes to go up as soon as possible, and Chris Otwell is unavailable to upload casts to the MTGCast Network until Sunday. So I offered to help a brother out and get his casts out there ASAP for everyone’s listening enjoyment. Keep an eye out, they’ll be going up as soon as I get them from him!
This episode starts with a conversation with Richard F. Castle, creator of Inside the Deck, a featured documentary-style video cast on Gathering Magic. We talk about his origin and what he does. Check out his blog at www.insidethedeck.com.
Next up is Evan Erwin (@misterorange on Twitter) of Star City Games. We talk about his expanding role in the SCG organization and he reveals that the life tracker in the Star City Mobile App will be getting an overhaul.
Then Sam Black (@SamuelHBlack on Twitter) takes some time to go over his 50 card draft deck with me (yes, you read that right). He answers the question “Can you draft too many Selhoff Occultist?” He certainly has an interesting view on the drafting format.
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Tagged draft, GP Nashville, GPNash, Magic the Gathering, Mr Suitcase, MTG