Hello all and a great show. I'm still listening the later half of it, but it really is hard in an open office... Derrek's sound quality was slightly lower than the other people, but there was so much background noice, that it didn't matter that much.
This time you really asked a hard qustion, since I really love all the lands. I'm the guy that really got my kicks from playing four Library of Alexandias in Pauper magic, even when I had to borrow one. Too bad they changed the deck-construction rules for that. Generally all the older lands are very cool, even City of Shadows and some truly sucktacular ones like Sorrow's Path (the Plan 9 from Outer Space of Magic)
But the real winner must be the last card that I was missing from a completed set of Arabian Nights for a long time. The basic Mountain. I had nearly a full double set af AN and still nobody would even sell their lovely Mountains for me. After nearly half a year of begging, one of my friends finally broke down and traded one of his 17 mint AN Mountains for a pile of uncommons and several good rares. Nowadays I'm still 9 Mountains short of my aim of 21, that should be enough for almost any red deck. I also have over 60 Deserts with 58 being from AN. I just traded everybody for their Deserts around 2000, when nobody needed them.
I also have a collection with at least one english non-basic land ever printed, with most lands having a copy from all expansions they have been printed in. My only larger gap are Alpha and Beta duallands, with only Bayous and Scrublands from both sets. At least this collection has paid of in steadily increasing prices.
I really dig your show and I think you guys rock! I am a hardcore magic player that just came back into the game after a good seven yearsof absence. Honestly I am playing and researching magic for hours daily and I am enthralled by all the new facets that have been added to this timeless classic. I was really hoping to get into the pro circuit and maybe win some money to help with school. Hearing all this talk about minimizing the professional magic organization was getting to me but after heavy analysis of show #91 I 've come to a hopeful conclusion. Gavin mentioned that for the actual states tournament there was no real purpose for it in regards to the pro tour and that WOTC said that it would be replaced by something else. It seems logical that if you were going to try and cut costs for a particular company you would start with the most trivial. They may be honest in saying they will replace it with something but the actualization of that addition to the organized play is under construction. All things considered, it's reasonable to assume that a new "quasi" states/ pro tourney event will emerge(sooner rather than later), making professional play more pragmatic. I think it's important to try and remain objective when digesting information about Professional Magic in general.
Thank you for everything you do for the magic community. I just want you to know Magic will never die! Don't be scared just teach all the young ones you know!
also, that Reveillark deck you keep on mentioning, ure right in that its awesome.. but doing doing it a million times with mulldrifter or cloudskate would be BAD, because eventualy, ud mill yourself, or have to bounce your own permanents, the only time u would go "infinte" would be with aven riftwatcher to gain all that life, plus, u could also use merrow witsniper to mill FTW
Not really, You can chose to only bring back Body Double with Reveillark (The magic of "up to two creatures") for 999,980 of those millon times, then the final time bring back Body Double/Reveillark and a 2/2 flyer (or a Mirror Entity in case they try anything).
You smack for a couple of turns and thats it.
If they do try anything, activate Mirror Entity, bounce their new lands, and "refresh" your creatures of any targeted removal, and you still win.
My personal favorite for land absolutely has to be Undiscovered Paradise. Neat effect, any mana you want, good art, great name and I had mine signed...
--Jed
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L5R or MTG, if it's got Samurai, Knights or Soldiers, it's all good as far as I'm concerned.
Good show guys, glad to hear Derek's voice again after his week-long absence. Too bad the car didn't do so well. Reminds me of the days when street fighters smashed cars for epic bonus points.
Well my favourite land as of this moment has to be Quicksand. It's very flavourful as well as a pretty good utility land which can Strip Mine an animated and attacking Mutavault. I was playing an underpowered version of the Mono Black Rogue deck, with no Bitterblossoms, Earwig Squads, Oona's Prowlers or Mutavaults, against my friend's mono green warriors. He won the die roll and went first, getting a turn four AND five Chameleon Colossus which I have no way of permanently dealing with. As he swings in with his two massive Colossi (5/5s due to an Imperious Perfect) and pumps one for the win, I sacrifice my Quicksand in response to keep me in the game on one life. I then get a sick topdeck of Stinkdrinker Bandit and swing back with evasive dudes for lethal. He must have felt like he just walked out of a cinema after watching Street Fighter (starring Kylie Minogue as Cammy).
The worst movie I've watched the whole way through is Boa vs Python, the tale of a giant snake loose in a factory and the giant snake the government releases to battle with it. I cannot recommend it highly enough!
As far as land's goes, I'll have to go with Adventurers' Guildhouse, the land equivalent of a B-movie. No longer do your 3 colour underpowered vanilla legends have to do battle on their own, now they can team up into a larger underpowered vanilla legend!
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I imagine Maro has a huge ancient book in his office titled "Tempo Defined" and inside it is hollowed out and there is a bottle of whiskey
I just remembered Lake of The Dead. Its not my fav land but I just think it's cool. The artwork is lovely and its actually good, a rarity for old lands.
This time you really asked a hard qustion, since I really love all the lands. I'm the guy that really got my kicks from playing four Library of Alexandias in Pauper magic, even when I had to borrow one. Too bad they changed the deck-construction rules for that. Generally all the older lands are very cool, even City of Shadows and some truly sucktacular ones like Sorrow's Path (the Plan 9 from Outer Space of Magic)
But the real winner must be the last card that I was missing from a completed set of Arabian Nights for a long time. The basic Mountain. I had nearly a full double set af AN and still nobody would even sell their lovely Mountains for me. After nearly half a year of begging, one of my friends finally broke down and traded one of his 17 mint AN Mountains for a pile of uncommons and several good rares. Nowadays I'm still 9 Mountains short of my aim of 21, that should be enough for almost any red deck. I also have over 60 Deserts with 58 being from AN. I just traded everybody for their Deserts around 2000, when nobody needed them.
I also have a collection with at least one english non-basic land ever printed, with most lands having a copy from all expansions they have been printed in. My only larger gap are Alpha and Beta duallands, with only Bayous and Scrublands from both sets. At least this collection has paid of in steadily increasing prices.
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I really dig your show and I think you guys rock! I am a hardcore magic player that just came back into the game after a good seven yearsof absence. Honestly I am playing and researching magic for hours daily and I am enthralled by all the new facets that have been added to this timeless classic. I was really hoping to get into the pro circuit and maybe win some money to help with school. Hearing all this talk about minimizing the professional magic organization was getting to me but after heavy analysis of show #91 I 've come to a hopeful conclusion. Gavin mentioned that for the actual states tournament there was no real purpose for it in regards to the pro tour and that WOTC said that it would be replaced by something else. It seems logical that if you were going to try and cut costs for a particular company you would start with the most trivial. They may be honest in saying they will replace it with something but the actualization of that addition to the organized play is under construction. All things considered, it's reasonable to assume that a new "quasi" states/ pro tourney event will emerge(sooner rather than later), making professional play more pragmatic. I think it's important to try and remain objective when digesting information about Professional Magic in general.
Thank you for everything you do for the magic community. I just want you to know Magic will never die! Don't be scared just teach all the young ones you know!
Thanx Dragonewt,
Not really, You can chose to only bring back Body Double with Reveillark (The magic of "up to two creatures") for 999,980 of those millon times, then the final time bring back Body Double/Reveillark and a 2/2 flyer (or a Mirror Entity in case they try anything).
You smack for a couple of turns and thats it.
If they do try anything, activate Mirror Entity, bounce their new lands, and "refresh" your creatures of any targeted removal, and you still win.
It's pretty nifty, but it def has some weaknesses...
Not too many answers to Reveillark, other than graveyard hate.
--Jed
L5R or MTG, if it's got Samurai, Knights or Soldiers, it's all good as far as I'm concerned.
Well my favourite land as of this moment has to be Quicksand. It's very flavourful as well as a pretty good utility land which can Strip Mine an animated and attacking Mutavault. I was playing an underpowered version of the Mono Black Rogue deck, with no Bitterblossoms, Earwig Squads, Oona's Prowlers or Mutavaults, against my friend's mono green warriors. He won the die roll and went first, getting a turn four AND five Chameleon Colossus which I have no way of permanently dealing with. As he swings in with his two massive Colossi (5/5s due to an Imperious Perfect) and pumps one for the win, I sacrifice my Quicksand in response to keep me in the game on one life. I then get a sick topdeck of Stinkdrinker Bandit and swing back with evasive dudes for lethal. He must have felt like he just walked out of a cinema after watching Street Fighter (starring Kylie Minogue as Cammy).
As far as land's goes, I'll have to go with Adventurers' Guildhouse, the land equivalent of a B-movie. No longer do your 3 colour underpowered vanilla legends have to do battle on their own, now they can team up into a larger underpowered vanilla legend!