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Episode 216 – Commander Month: A Day at the Beach
But because it’s Commander Month, we’ve asked Beach to do an Out of the Deck Box for one of his decks, and he chose the one he’s named Progenitalia and Friends. Back in Episode 192 I pulled my Progenitalia deck Out of the Deck Box, and it was fascinating to see just how incredibly different Beach’s deck was from mine. That’s probably because he’s a better player than me, just so we’re clear. If you want to check out either of these decks, you’ll find a link on the next line down.
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Episode 215 – DKA Prerelease and Mailbag
But of course, prerelease episodes are more than just Sealed tourney reports. We also took the second half of the show to run through some of the listener mail that needs to be read on-air. Rules questions, prerelease stories, and general hilarity. Interspersed throughout the episode are rants and discussions of various things. These things include lame intro packs, a good game of EDH at Lucky’s, Chewie not playing Thalia, Columbia House and BMG, and this one highly obnoxious guy who seems to run through the whole account of the prerelease. We hope you enjoy!
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Episode 214 – Crisis II: Dork Harder (DKA Preview 3)
Of course, we’re gonna talk about the rest of the Dark Ascension spoiler now that it’s all been revealed. (Sorry I didn’t get this up before the Prerelease, but it’s not like we’re giving you any vital information, right?) But before that, we have to talk about what we think should go into a From the Vault: Casual. We kicked around a lot of ideas both good and bad. What would you put in there?
Of course, there’s plenty of discussion of the flavor of certain cards, Bryan being old, the price of chase rares, how a Justin Bieber shirt almost destroyed Bryan’s life, Edward G. Robinson, website development, Magic as Satan’s Game, and lots of other nonsense. And what episode would be complete without a little dig or two at Chris Lansdell? HOpe you guys enjoy all this random conversating as much as we did!
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Episode 213 – Rant Over (DKA Preview 2)
Interspersed throughout the card discussions are a variety of tangents. We’ll talk about expensive Magic merchandise, jerks on forums, jerks playing Commander, dragons on Innistrad, money gouging and crooks, the Magic Twitter community, and a certain professional player that I had to interact with later that night. He’s not a bad guy it turns out, I just severely disagree with one of his opinions. But still…screw him.
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Episode 212 – Dark Ascension Preview 1
But no matter how in-depth we get, two days of cards do not a full episode make! But we didn’t have time to go full-on into another topic, so a listener suggestion came to the rescue! The question was “what’s your favorite combo that you run in one of your decks?” So we all dug through our decks and came up with the combos we love. Except for Chewie, who brought every combo in his decks. Don’t worry, he shoots more for synergy in his decks, so he only has a few. It gives a little glance to the way the dorks build decks.
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