MTG Salvation

And Dalpers now wins biggest @$$hole of the comments board. Yay. Yes a must on Tom's large list of things to do. Change the title scroll so people can skip listening because they believe a person will not attempt to get better. I mean heck why not require all first time magic players to where a cone shaped hat that says "NOOB" so those of us who are just to good to waste our times with the likes of the little nooblets can just skip them by rather than beat them a few games and try to help them understand why they lost.
*breathes in.....breathes out.....*

Ok so maybe now I win biggest @$$hole of the comments but ya know you get an itch about some things and ya just run with it.

So here is a solemn promise from me that I will listen next week or whenever the next time Jack in on the cast to see the improvements he has made and congratulate him on those improvements or let him know that even though he tried he might want to try again which ever happens, I will be listening.

Ok first up I wanna do the deck. Since this is my second time using the "deck" feature lets see if it works.


I have actually run this deck with my friends in our Chaos Multiplayer games. Doesn't really win lol, but when it does it is really fun. You can do some pretty cool stuff.

Conflux looks great so far. Maybe not the most killer tourney set but I think some of the things we are gonna see is gonna be off the wall. I can't wait for Nicol Bolas, I will be going to the Pre-Release for the sole purpose of getting a Nicol Bolas. What I am thinking is that Nicol Bolas may be the Pre-Release card. It has been spoiled for so long and I am sure that Magic has known about it, with all the hype going around about Nicol Bolas I wouldn't be surprised to seem them do that just to up the amount of attendance at the PR. More Plansewalkers equals More Good. I am a huge fan of Planeswalkers, I mean HUGE. Why do you think the title of this post is "Must Win non card Magic Memoribilla :)" I collect non card Magic stuff and love Plansewalkers so of course I had to dust off the keyboard and at least try to win this one.

Most people have had thier deck for this standard season and uses one or two the entire time, just tweaking it over time. Mine has been the Plansewalker deck. Tweaking it, Tuning it, and Adjusting it to the max. It has become to the bane of the table so I don't get to play it much but it is so much fun.

On the note of Kamigawa they actually passed out tons of Saviors as door prizes for our States in Nov. lol.

Have you guys seen the "BETA" Draft they will be having at PT Kyoto? You will have 8 chances to get in through qualifiers at the PT. If you win one then you get to participate in the BETA draft. In the BETA draft you get 1 pack of BETA 1 pack of Itialian Reinasance (i think) and 2 packs of Portal 3 Kingdoms to draft with, each player gets to keep 1 card from a pack they opened and the winner gets the rest. Here is the link to the events for PT Kyoto and the BETA draft is near the bottom.

http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtgcom/protour/kyoto09-public

You should definatly send the cards to the military, that is freaking awesome. This could be the "1st Military Magic Drive" It could be done again, or you could even do something else each time.

Numlock is AutoRun on WoW. Oh and I don't play either just know a lot of people who do, gotta get that clear.

I wanted to let you guys know that I love the cast, gratz to Jack for getting on the cast after all your hard "work".

Cya Laterz

Ahh the last part of my voicemail got cut off. This is allen with the planes walker deck, the question I had at the end of the vmail was what sideboard or mainboard tech would you use against those token decks I was having problems with. Thanks.

So Ward of Bones eh??? Lets see what I can come up with in T2.
Also this is the first time I have tried the deck tags so lets hope this works out good


Well this is pretty close to the deck I actually played but slightly different. Why use the same deck, well two reasons.

Reason A: I am now obsessed with this deck because I find it very interesting as it is not only competitive but fun to play and interactive when playing it.

Reason B: We actually considered putting Ward of Bones in the deck at one points since it runs so few creatures. I tend to attack for the win with Treetop Village or an already persisted Finks using Elspeth and Garruk's Pump abilities.

Our playtesting showed that it was just to slow at 6 mana to come down at the right time. But sometimes it had a massive effect on the game.

Oh and one huge downside, lets say you have one critter and your opp has none cause you ***'ed the last turn. If he playes Demigod of Revenge as his one creature that is very very bad news (number one reason we ened up cutting it for condemn)

also if someone could tell me how to fix the deck edit so it looks right that would be awesome

Just wanted to add something. The new art for O-Ring and Cancel are fantastic, now O-Ring won't be the center of all those Kithkin Hemaroid jokes lolz. Foil version must be sexy

Great show guys. Sadly I have no sexy pictures but I have a great PR story.

Featuring BLIGHTNING.

At the beginning of our PR only one other guy beside me was playing blightning even though it was an amazing card. The first time I cast blightning I had to call it out in a loud and very purposeful way, which was echoed by the store owner. As the day goes more people chime in when a blightning is cast and on the last round of the first tourney everybody that could play the card was playing it and even quietly speaking the name caused echoes of blightning to be called out. The second tourney I was in will actually be recorded on my DCI as the "BLIGHTNING" tourney. Without being there the story is not as good since you can't hear us say it but the amazing viral style was overwhelming. I actually won a DCI Island because of this since the store owner thought it would be cool to give out a few cards just when "the next person successfully cast, announced, and paid for the spell specifically announcing the spell in a loud and purposeful way." It was very cool.

That is crazy...you can't ax D. Low...he is freaking awesome and I like what I am starting to see with him in his current position. I still think that overall Magic has become stronger as a game, although I don't like all the changes, I am not immediatly taken aback by any single change they have made, but firing Devin is a bad move by Hasbro.

Wow so glad mine wasn't taken, when I saw this week's comment contest I could only hope I wasn't to late and someone hadn't nabbed the most of all ultimate flavor texts eeeeeeeeeeeevvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrr.
Pardon my happiness, my playgroup is full of blissful ignorance when it comes to flavor text but every once in a while one of us notices one here and there, counterspell cards are usually good and one or two of us might notice that one. Ahh but one card managed to catch about 90% of the groups eye all around the same time.

Hex

"When killing five just isn't enough"

That tottally can't be beaten.

Okie dokey not on to other stuff. Tom I will send you a TXT file of the blowfly deck I was working on when you challenged us to break blowfly. I was in the middle of alot of other stuff and wanted to make ya a list and just didn't get there and by the time I had it was very close to EVE coming out and I figured I would just wait, so I have been working on post EVE version, maybe ya will like it.

Oh I so want to be a Team Owner/Coach in the DFL. Pep talk are known to include such sentences as.
"Ok guys we are doing really well, now what we plan to do here is carry around portable air pumps so when the ball delfates we can completely stop.....wait a minute."
"Our goal in the second half is not to lose."
"3 times...seriously?......no really you are serious?"
Great Cast guys

Seems kinda cool, me thinks the crusher decks would eat this up.

Great show guys.

I like the Sapling a lot. It does cost alot but I think you can still use it in sealed and draft a lot. Mainly because even at the worst you will not loose more than 1 life, which I will take a critter for 1 life. Morselhoarder would be more but still only 2 life and you could flip up something for a few life. A lot of the times in sealed or draft you will probally not lose/gain anything. As for constructed I don't really like it, but fun in casual or multiplayer.

Awww the new Dominus of Will card is kind of lackluster. I was hoping for something better out of U/R. It can have an impact on the game but in the world of CIP abilities what good would it do. I guess it is ok as a 4/4 Flyer for 5 but seems like one of the lesser demigods...oh well I still hold out for the U/R liege maybe it will make up for it.

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is it just me or will flame jab give faeries hell?

Didn't think about that until after the podcast.

It will be problem for sure derek but Scion still shuts it down. And do you really want to miss tempo of a land drop against the Fae since that seems to be about all that works is keeping tempo up on them. I think that at first you are right but they will learn to play around flame jab.

Retrace is gonna be awesome, can anyone say karoo lands FTW. I already have an AeonAssualt Deck that runs Aeon chornicler and Seismic Assualt so some of the retrace should slide nicely into that deck.

As for my favortie card so far in the spoiler....I have to go with Balefire Liege. Helix on a stick is awesome. It doesn't really make me go hmmm so much as *Drool* but there are just so many good cards.

Hey Tom when eventide comes out your Blowfly deck gets alot better, with Necroskitter and Pyrric Revival.

Also the B/G demigod seems awesome as well.

Well guys keep up the good work.

OMG so many good cards, Necroskitter seems freaking nuts.
Retrace is going to be nice, I can see whole decks tooling with this alot. I think this set will have a pretty serious impact.

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Well, only the 42nd 42 of course. (God I hate that thing)

Derek: 26
Tom: 32
Gavin: can't legally drink, so who cares.

Great show guys! I have even talked my wife into listening in although she usually is only half paying attention. So you have at least 1/2 a female listener out there. I do like the shows more when you are all together. The chemistry is great and Gavin seems really uncomfortable with the more "adult" themed humor.

Yeah it seems like no matter how grown up some people like to think they are (not talking about you gavin) you hit a 17 yr old boy with a dirty ole man joke and they still blush

I like Tom's Guess for plural LoA, Lords of Atlanti, just sounds like a cool clan/group name.
"We are the Lords of Atlanti, fear us." lol

First Post FTW

I think I will get a Jace VS Chandra deck, I didn't get the EVG one but I really liked the artwork on Jace, I have been looking for cool stuff with him just cause I have always considered myself a blue mage in the game. Should be very cool.

UR pre-con looks cool. Oh and I think that elf looking picture you guys were looking at is UG maybe although it could be BW very easy I am leaning towards UG.

Tough luck at Regionals Gavin, cool deck though. And don't forget YAY imps.
Tom you gonna keep doing TWT that is awesome.

Tom is 32 and Derek is 24.