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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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Podcast: Freeking w/o Flores About New Phyrexia Part 2

bdm | 04:18PM on Thu May 5 2011

Freeking Without Flores Part 2

Limited Information author and Star City Games Content Manager Steve Sadin and I pick up where we left off — more or less — with Michael J Flores in talking about the individual cards from New Phyrexia. We look at different decks the cards might go in ranging from 40 card draft decks to 99 card Commander vessels. It is an exciting and deep set with cards that shake up just about every format. Hope you enjoy it!

PS If you are going to be at the Gray Matter Conventions Prerelease in New York City on Saturday, May 7th both Steve and I will be there.

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Podcast: Freeking w/o Flores About New Phyrexia Part 1

bdm | 04:15PM on Thu May 5 2011

Freeking Without Flores Part 1

Limited Information author and Star City Games Content Manager Steve Sadin and I pick up where we left off — more or less — with Michael J Flores in talking about the individual cards from New Phyrexia. We look at different decks the cards might go in ranging from 40 card draft decks to 99 card Commander vessels. It is an exciting and deep set with cards that shake up just about every format. Hope you enjoy it!

PS If you are going to be at the Gray Matter Conventions Prerelease in New York City on Saturday, May 7th both Steve and I will be there.

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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: Picking at Scars Part 4

bdm | 03:02PM on Mon Sep 13 2010

Picking at Scars Part 4

Mike Flores and I sat down to discuss our exclusive preview card, Painsmith, from the soon-to-be-released Scars of Mirrodin. We did manage to talk about this intriguing little two-drop but of course the conversation meandered and we covered a bunch of other cards that have been spoiled thus far. The topic of an old vs. young battle of the Pro Tour All Stars also came up and Koth the Hammer may have been mentioned once or twice in passing as well.

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Podcast: Picking at Scars Part 3

bdm | 03:00PM on Mon Sep 13 2010

Picking at Scars Part 3

Mike Flores and I sat down to discuss our exclusive preview card, Painsmith, from the soon-to-be-released Scars of Mirrodin. We did manage to talk about this intriguing little two-drop but of course the conversation meandered and we covered a bunch of other cards that have been spoiled thus far. The topic of an old vs. young battle of the Pro Tour All Stars also came up and Koth the Hammer may have been mentioned once or twice in passing as well.

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Podcast: Picking at Scars Part 2

bdm | 02:58PM on Mon Sep 13 2010

Picking at Scars Part 2

Mike Flores and I sat down to discuss our exclusive preview card, Painsmith, from the soon-to-be-released Scars of Mirrodin. We did manage to talk about this intriguing little two-drop but of course the conversation meandered and we covered a bunch of other cards that have been spoiled thus far. The topic of an old vs. young battle of the Pro Tour All Stars also came up and Koth the Hammer may have been mentioned once or twice in passing as well.

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Podcast: Picking at Scars Part 1

bdm | 02:56PM on Mon Sep 13 2010

Picking the Scars Part 1

Mike Flores and I sat down to discuss our exclusive preview card, Painsmith, from the soon-to-be-released Scars of Mirrodin. We did manage to talk about this intriguing little two-drop but of course the conversation meandered and we covered a bunch of other cards that have been spoiled thus far. The topic of an old vs. young battle of the Pro Tour All Stars also came up and Koth the Hammer may have been mentioned once or twice in passing as well.

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Scars of Mirrodin Exclusive Preview: Painsmith

bdm | 03:32PM on Fri Sep 10 2010
Bring the Pain!

Mike and I will have a four part podcast going up over the weekend where we discuss this card and a handful of the other cards that have been officially previewed thus far (*cough*Koth*cough*) but I wanted you to get a look at Painsmith in the meanwhile.

This is going to be a brutal card in Limited with any one-drop Infect creatures that might be lurking, unspoiled thus far, in the new set. With Infect the Painsmith will be crafting far more than two damage if the enhanced creature gets through. Keep in mind that dealing in poison counters is effectively dealing double damage to a player — this is not The Sliver Kids kind of poison counters. +2/+0 represents 20% of a players life total when dealt in poison and that is not even counting the base damage that the creature is doing — and it is not accounting for playing more than one artifact in a turn.

For Constructed… I am not so sure about this one although she can do some filthy stuff in a black-green deck that also has Carapace Forger and Ezuri’s Brigade — especially the latter. You can hold back your artifacts, play them out to turn on the Metalcraft of the Brigade and attack for 10 or even 12 points of tramply, deathtouchy goodness. If you can just find a way to bounce and replay your Memnites over and over again you can create a lethal attack out of nowhere but I will be content to use this guy as a Rancor-ish effect that keeps dealing and dealing as long as I can play artifacts.

Tune in over the weekend to get MichaelJ’s take on this card and a handful of the others.

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