I don’t know if Mike has actually mentioned this anywhere or not but both of us qualified for US Nationals this past weekend at the NYC Nats Qualifier run by Gray Matter Conventions. Top8Magic.com Mockvitational winner Christian Calcano also won a berth at the same event. All three of us were running very different decks with Mike running Grixis Hits, me running GerryT’s Naya Like-Saber, and Calcano running blue-white control. This set of podcasts include Mike and I talking during the early rounds of the tournament, a post-Top 8 migration to Shake Shack, and a post mortem by Mike and from Monday.

hNationals Q \’n Effin-A! Part Six

I don’t know if Mike has actually mentioned this anywhere or not but both of us qualified for US Nationals this past weekend at the NYC Nats Qualifier run by Gray Matter Conventions. Top8Magic.com Mockvitational winner Christian Calcano also won a berth at the same event. All three of us were running very different decks with Mike running Grixis Hits, me running GerryT’s Naya Like-Saber, and Calcano running blue-white control. This set of podcasts include Mike and I talking during the early rounds of the tournament, a post-Top 8 migration to Shake Shack, and a post mortem by Mike and from Monday.

I don’t know if Mike has actually mentioned this anywhere or not but both of us qualified for US Nationals this past weekend at the NYC Nats Qualifier run by Gray Matter Conventions. Top8Magic.com Mockvitational winner Christian Calcano also won a berth at the same event. All three of us were running very different decks with Mike running Grixis Hits, me running GerryT’s Naya Like-Saber, and Calcano running blue-white control. This set of podcasts include Mike and I talking during the early rounds of the tournament, a post-Top 8 migration to Shake Shack, and a post mortem by Mike and from Monday.

I don’t know if Mike has actually mentioned this anywhere or not but both of us qualified for US Nationals this past weekend at the NYC Nats Qualifier run by Gray Matter Conventions. Top8Magic.com Mockvitational winner Christian Calcano also won a berth at the same event. All three of us were running very different decks with Mike running Grixis Hits, me running GerryT’s Naya Like-Saber, and Calcano running blue-white control. This set of podcasts include Mike and I talking during the early rounds of the tournament, a post-Top 8 migration to Shake Shack, and a post mortem by Mike and from Monday.

Nationals Q \’n Effin-A! Part Three

Here is the deck Calcano played:

Good ol Blue White Control

1  Arid Mesa
4  Celestial Colonnade
4  Glacial Fortress
5  Island
7  Plains
1  Scalding Tarn
2  Sejiri Refuge
2  Tectonic Edge
4  Baneslayer Angel
4  Wall of Omens
2  Day of Judgment
1  Elspeth, Knight-Errant
3  Everflowing Chalice
1  Gideon Jura
3  Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1  Martial Coup
3  Mind Spring
2  Negate
3  Oblivion Ring
3  Path to Exile
4  Spreading Seas

Sideboard:

2  Cancel
2  Celestial Purge
2  Flashfreeze
4  Kor Firewalker
1  Kor Sanctifiers
2  Negate
1  Oblivion Ring
1  Path to Exile

I don’t know if Mike has actually mentioned this anywhere or not but both of us qualified for US Nationals this past weekend at the NYC Nats Qualifier run by Gray Matter Conventions. Top8Magic.com Mockvitational winner Christian Calcano also won a berth at the same event. All three of us were running very different decks with Mike running Grixis Hits, me running GerryT’s Naya Like-Saber, and Calcano running blue-white control. This set of podcasts include Mike and I talking during the early rounds of the tournament, a post-Top 8 migration to Shake Shack, and a post mortem by Mike and from Monday.

Nationals Q \’n Effin-A! Part Two

I don’t know if Mike has actually mentioned this anywhere or not but both of us qualified for US Nationals this past weekend at the NYC Nats Qualifier run by Gray Matter Conventions. Top8Magic.com Mockvitational winner Christian Calcano also won a berth at the same event. All three of us were running very different decks with Mike running Grixis Hits, me running GerryT’s Naya Like-Saber, and Calcano running blue-white control. This set of podcasts include Mike and I talking during the early rounds of the tournament, a post-Top 8 migration to Shake Shack, and a post mortem by Mike and from Monday.

Nationals Q \’n Effin-A! Part One

Here is the deck I played:

Naya Like-Saber

4 Noble Hierarch
3 Wild Nacatl
1 Birds of Paradise
1 Scute Mob
2 Lotus Cobra
2 Stoneforge Mystic
4 Cunning Sparkmage
4 Knight of the Reliquary
4 Bloodbraid Elf
4 Vengevine
3 Ranger of Eos
1 Basilisk Collar
1 Behemoth Sledge
2 Raging Ravine
2 Stirring Wildwood
2 Sunpetal Grove
3 Evolving Wilds
2 Mountain
2 Plains
5 Forest
3 Misty Rainforest
4 Arid Mesa
1 Sejiri Steppe

Sideboard:

3 Vapor Snare
2 Qasali Pridemage
3 Oblivion Ring
3 Pithing Needle
1 Island
1 Behemoth Sledge
2 Path to Exile

Mike Flores, myself and about two dozen other Magic players descended on a previously Magic friendly deli in midtown Manhattan this week to put the new Standard format through its paces. The goal was to run a four round Mock Standard tournament dubbed The Mother Lovin’ Cup (think Lord Stanley’s Cup or the World Cup) and inscribe/sharpie the winner’s name onto a foil Everflowing Chalice. We barely got through two rounds before we were politely — then much less politely — asked to leave. The group broke up and went its different ways but I found myself in a Penn Station coffee shop with Mike Flores, Lauren “Mulldrifting” Lee, Sean McKeown, Morgan Chang and a podcaster.

MisMocking Through Standard Part 4

We discussed the new format, the decks everyone played, and Mike and Lauren even battled for a few games with Mike’s All-American take on the popular blue-white control decks against Mulldrifting’s old-school Jund.

MisMocking Through Standard Part 3

Mike Flores, myself and about two dozen other Magic players descended on a previously Magic friendly deli in midtown Manhattan this week to put the new Standard format through its paces. The goal was to run a four round Mock Standard tournament dubbed The Mother Lovin’ Cup (think Lord Stanley’s Cup or the World Cup) and inscribe/sharpie the winner’s name onto a foil Everflowing Chalice. We barely got through two rounds before we were politely — then much less politely — asked to leave. The group broke up and went its different ways but I found myself in a Penn Station coffee shop with Mike Flores, Lauren “Mulldrifting” Lee, Sean McKeown, Morgan Chang and a podcaster.

We discussed the new format, the decks everyone played, and Mike and Lauren even battled for a few games with Mike’s All-American take on the popular blue-white control decks against Mulldrifting’s old-school Jund.