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Podcast: The A-B-Sieged of Mirrodin

bdm | 03:38PM on Fri Jan 28 2011

The A-B-Sieged of Mirrodin

A couple of days ago MIchael Flores and I sat down and the new Top8Magic.com offices and started talking about the cards in Mirrodin Besieged in anticipation of the coming Prerelease weekend. The podcast is largely traffic and jackhammer free but there is a section toward the end when we go and play in traffic. We wander through the at-the-time spoiled cards and talk about their impact on formats ranging from booster drafts to Standard and even a little Commander (although, to be fair,  that discussion included a lot of MIke saying “What is Commander?”)

Good luck to everyone playing in a Prerelease this weekend and choose your side wisely!

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Exclusive Mirrodin Besieged Preview Card: Treasure Mage

bdm | 01:39AM on Wed Jan 19 2011
“What is the opposite of a Trinket?” I asked Mike Flores as I opened the exclusive Top8Magic.com preview card from Mirrodin Besieged. “Would it be a Trunk-it?”

“I have no idea what you are talking about,” said Mike (aka @fivewithflores) who only responds to people by Twitter these days and had, predictably, not opened his email yet.

“I am looking at our preview card right now,” I said, doing my best to not sound too exasperated with Mike’s retreat from the non-Twitter portions of the communication. “It looks a little bit like a Trinket Mage but it gets bigger –”

“Bigger how?” said Mike, cutting me off. “It has a higher casting cost?”

“Nope. Same exact casting cost. It gets bigger — ” I tried explaining again.

“So you can pump its power?” said Mike, not waiting for me to finish. “Like water-breathing on a Viscerid Deepwalker?”

“Nope. Same exact stats in the lower right and nothing on the card lets you change them.”

“I don’t understand how it gets bigger then,” sighed Mike.

“I was trying to tell you, that it is like Trinket Mage but it gets bigger…stuff. Just open your email and you will see what I mean.”

I call him Trunk-it Mage but, officially, he is known as Treasure Mage. You can get a look at him below the fold. Read the rest of this entry »

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Podcast: Fulminating on Extended

bdm | 06:28PM on Tue Jan 4 2011

Fulminating on Extended

Happy New Year — or it would be if I was not so mad at one MichaelJ Flores. Steaming mad. Sooooooo mad.

OK, not actually mad but he did deprive me of getting banana pudding and that is hard to forgive. I spent the afternoon with Mike wandering around the Lower East Side, eating Berkshire Pork Belly, and talking about the fresh Extended season that lies ahead of us. Along the way we ended up at a desert place called Sugar Sweet Sunshine and he suggested that I get a Yum Yum Bar, insisting it was the best treat they made. I was skeptical but I got it. As we were leaving I saw a sign on the inside of the door that read: “Do You Dream of Pudding”, which is something I indeed do dream of.

As I read further they discussed their upcoming pudding tasting and, specifically, their banana pudding.

“Mike, did you know this place has banana pudding?”

I will leave the rest to the listener to discover for themselves but suffice it to say the Yum Yum Bar was not the correct play.

Not.

Even.

Close.

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