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Podcast: Top8StreetFighter?

bdm | 07:48PM on Wed Nov 9 2011

Top8StreetFighter?

It has been a long time but Mike and I finally sat down and caught up on some of the latest Organized Play changes with more than a smattering of Mike’s recent obsession with Street Fighter. The exact topic of the podcast is a little tough to pin down since we had not done a ‘cast in quite some time and had plenty of stuff to talk about. There should be a little something for everyone but, alas no jackhammers. We made up for it with a special underground excursion toward the end of the podcast.

We probably won’t get another chance to update before I get back from Worlds so good luck to everyone in San Diego and San Francisco and have a great Thanksgiving!

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Podcast: Come on Innistrad Part 5

bdm | 03:27PM on Fri Sep 23 2011

Come on Innistrad Part 5

After a long break — and an apocryphal ‘cast that never materialized — Michael J Flores and I settled in for a long podcasting session to discuss just about every card in Innistrad. And when I say “settled in” I actually mean it since we opted to podcast from the uneven floors of the Top8Magic offices rather than the windy, jackhammer laden streets of Manhattan. Everybody loves Liliana and Snapcast Mage but what are some of the hidden Constructed gems of Innistrad? The podcast is broken up into five sections going in WUBRG order — with lands, multicolors, and artifacts randomly tacked onto the red section — and we did our best to sort it all out.

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Podcast: Come on Innistrad Part 4

bdm | 03:19PM on Fri Sep 23 2011

Come on Innistrad Part 4

After a long break — and an apocryphal ‘cast that never materialized — Michael J Flores and I settled in for a long podcasting session to discuss just about every card in Innistrad. And when I say “settled in” I actually mean it since we opted to podcast from the uneven floors of the Top8Magic offices rather than the windy, jackhammer laden streets of Manhattan. Everybody loves Liliana and Snapcast Mage but what are some of the hidden Constructed gems of Innistrad? The podcast is broken up into five sections going in WUBRG order — with lands, multicolors, and artifacts randomly tacked onto the red section — and we did our best to sort it all out.

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Podcast: Come on Innistrad Part 3

bdm | 03:13PM on Fri Sep 23 2011

Come on Innistrad Part 3

After a long break — and an apocryphal ‘cast that never materialized — Michael J Flores and I settled in for a long podcasting session to discuss just about every card in Innistrad. And when I say “settled in” I actually mean it since we opted to podcast from the uneven floors of the Top8Magic offices rather than the windy, jackhammer laden streets of Manhattan. Everybody loves Liliana and Snapcast Mage but what are some of the hidden Constructed gems of Innistrad? The podcast is broken up into five sections going in WUBRG order — with lands, multicolors, and artifacts randomly tacked onto the red section — and we did our best to sort it all out.

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Podcast: Come on Innistrad Part 2

bdm | 03:08PM on Fri Sep 23 2011

Come on Innistrad Part 2

After a long break — and an apocryphal ‘cast that never materialized — Michael J Flores and I settled in for a long podcasting session to discuss just about every card in Innistrad. And when I say “settled in” I actually mean it since we opted to podcast from the uneven floors of the Top8Magic offices rather than the windy, jackhammer laden streets of Manhattan. Everybody loves Liliana and Snapcast Mage but what are some of the hidden Constructed gems of Innistrad? The podcast is broken up into five sections going in WUBRG order — with lands, multicolors, and artifacts randomly tacked onto the red section — and we did our best to sort it all out.

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Podcast: Come on Innistrad Part 1

bdm | 03:01PM on Fri Sep 23 2011

Come on Innistrad Part 1

After a long break — and an apocryphal ‘cast that never materialized — Michael J Flores and I settled in for a long podcasting session to discuss just about every card in Innistrad. And when I say “settled in” I actually mean it since we opted to podcast from the uneven floors of the Top8Magic offices rather than the windy, jackhammer laden streets of Manhattan. Everybody loves Liliana and Snapcast Mage but what are some of the hidden Constructed gems of Innistrad? The podcast is broken up into five sections going in WUBRG order — with lands, multicolors, and artifacts randomly tacked onto the red section — and we did our best to sort it all out.

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Holding a Grudge(match)

bdm | 02:03PM on Thu Sep 15 2011
Overheard today on Twitter:

“Would playing on a team with @fivewithflores count as ‘playing for charity’? Discuss.” - @Jonnymagic00 aka Jon Finkel

“yeah me Phil and Lachmann are a team, going all 3 days.” - @OsypL aka Osyp Lebedowicz

“wish there were events like this out in San Diego!” - @bmkibler aka Brian Kibler

What event could pique the interest of the likes of Jon Finkel, Osyp Lebedowicz, and Brian Kibler? None other than the return of the The Grudge Match, reborn as MTGGrudgeMatch.com, taking place in Philadelphia during the release weekend for Innistrad. It is a 32-person $10,000 tournament with entries being funneled into it from two events. The first is a Friday Night Innistrad Sealed Deck event that costs a preposterously low $20 and will send 8 players into the big Sunday Standard event. The remaining 24 spots will be decided on Saturday in a FREE Standard tournament.


Pretty sick, right? You have two shots to qualify and one is cheap and the other is free! Not only that but you can earn byes into the Standard portion on Saturday with a strong finish on Friday. The Top 16 players from the Sealed event will all get one-round byes the next day. You may be wondering what the Top 8 players who have already qualified for the event would want with the bye but there is a very good reason for playing both days.

Players can be sponsored to compete in the two events as three-person teams for $100 and the Top 4 teams at the end of the Sealed and Standard portions on Friday and Saturday will advance to a 3-person team event taking place after the Top 8 of the $10,000 event. The winning team will win $1,000 and the sponsor will an additional $1,000. And if you don’t have a store to sponsor you can sponsor your own team — which is what Finkel and Lebedowicz were referring to in their tweets. Additionally there is another $1,000 if the winner of the main event is a member of a sponsored team. There is up to $3,000 on the line for members of teams on the weekend.
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Podcast: Not so Quickcast

bdm | 08:42PM on Tue Aug 2 2011

Quickcast

I have had this podcast stranded since before leaving for San Diego Comic Con. This was Michael J Flores and I grabbing a quick half and hour before my trip to discuss the Hall of Fame ballots and various eligible candidates. Sorry for the delay.

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Podcast: FFfreaKShow with Brad Nelson

bdm | 05:26PM on Mon Jul 18 2011

FFfreaKShow

Brad Nelson and I have been trying to sit down for a podcast going back all the way to GP Providence but distractions in the form of drafts, drinks, and physical exhaustion conspired against us. Finally, with more than a little den-mothering from Lauren Lee, we sat down and chatted with the tape running. Brad is the midst of a promotional blitz for the forthcoming biography about him “Grinder: The Brad Nelson Story” by Rich Hagon and we talked about having a book written about you, having Rich live in North Dakota for a couple of weeks, and what the last two years of his life have been like as he rose from MTGO shark to Player of the Year.

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Podcast: Predisposal

bdm | 04:24PM on Tue Jul 12 2011

Predisposal

Michael Flores and I got together last night to drink some cold brewed coffee from Joe’s, talk about the ramifications of the changes to Organized Play for last weekend’s Magic 2012 Prerelease events, make some suggestions on how to handle Prereleases in the future, and do some brainstorming about potential Standard decks for the upcoming $75K tournament in Chicago.

We also spoke about Pascal Maynard’s winning decklist from the Canadian Magic Tour which is listed below:

ShiftBlade
Pascal Maynard — Winner
Canadian Magic Tour

4 Squadron Hawk
3 Emeria Angel
4 Preordain
4 Mana Leak
3 Spell Pierce
2 Sword of Feast and Famine
2 Gravitational Shift
2 Gideon Jura
2 Jace Beleren
2 Dismember
2 Into the Roil
2 Journey to Nowhere
1 Gitaxian Probe
1 Deprive
4 Seachrome Coast
4 Celestial Colonnade
4 Glacial Fortress
4 Inkmoth Nexus
4 Island
3 Plains
2 Arid Mesa
1 Scalding Tarn
Sideboard:
4 Flashfreeze
3 Day of Judgment
2 Celestial Purge
2 Spellskite
2 Mental Misstep
1 Dismember
1 Divine Offering

Mike also mentioned an old interview he did on SCG which is linked here.

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