Going Mad – Oops We … fixed it?
About nineteen years ago Magic players learned a new word: Legend, and then they learned Legendary (for lands) … because in the beginning creatures weren’t creatures, they were summon spells. You summoned a Legend. In the dark times, in the long long ago, we didn’t know that Angus Mackenzie was a human cleric … hell back then, you were either Summon Cleric or Summon Human … not both. Also Humans weren’t a creature type.
In the old days, in the long long ago … when you summoned a Legendary creature, the previous incarnation died. Somewhere in my Magic hiatus they changed that rule to “both legends look each other in the eyes, hiss, and promptly explode.”
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Casual Confabulation – Loving THE HATE
“I’m gonna cast Mindslaver. I’m gonna pop it. I’m going to take control of your turn. Before the end of your turn, I’m going to activate Academy Ruins so that I can cast Mindslaver and do it again and again and again. This is a real fun game, don’t you think?”
Your response:
MW #44 PT Dragon’s Maze War Stories
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Jon Metzger joins us from Portland to talk about his pro tour experience.
Episode 44
22 May 2013
-Special Guest Jon Metzger Skypes in from Oregon to talk about Pro Tour Dragon’s Maze
-TCG Player Spring States
-PTQ in Indianapolis this weekend
-Dragon’s Maze Game Day
-Modern Masters and Magic 2014 Spoilers
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Going Mad – Lost in the Maze
So its officially the longest period of time between submitting articles, and I’ll be honest: I’m lost at the moment with regards to Magic. Between the prerelease, friends leaving the game, the overall lack of ideas regarding Dragon’s Maze, and my general indifference to constructed play … I’m just not real “excited” about Magic right now, so I had to sit down and “fake it until I make it” as they say.
The Prerelease was not my finest hour. I played in two events dropping at 2-2 the first day and sticking it out to go 2-3 on the second. What happened? Admittedly, I probably misconstructed at least one of my pools … but the Dragon’s Maze prerelease was a format that allowed you to be handed your own anus on a silver platter quite easily … a couple times it was kids that weren’t even born when I played in my first tournament:
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MW #43 Pro Tour and States prep.
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Congrats to Team Mythic member Jon Metzger for his 73rd place finish at GP Portland. We preview pro tour Dragon’s Maze, our staff picks for where our own Jon Metzger will finish. For those not going to the pro tour, we also have the TCGplayer Spring states events.
Episode 43
14 May 2013
-GP Portland (Modern)
-SCG Charlotte
-Spring States (Upcoming)
-Pro Tour (Upcoming)
-You Make the Card
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The Modern World – 73rd at GP Portland
It’s been a season of firsts for me since moving out to Portland. First PTQ top 8 and first PTQ win a couple of months ago, this weekend I made day two of a Grand Prix for the first time, and of course I’m flying down to San Diego Wednesday for my first Pro Tour. I’m obviously disappointed with my performance on day two, but it still feels good to make progress and check another box on the to-do list. As I sit here Sunday night typing this up, listening to the Portland rain fall outside my window, I’m mostly just exhausted from a long weekend, but I think overall I feel good about this as another stepping stone on the path forward.
With the PT coming up in a week, I’ve obviously been spending most of my time working on block and jamming drafts. Last Monday I noticed on Twitter that Sam Black and a few other members of Team Star City were arriving in Portland to test, so I pinged Sam on Twitter to invite him to our weekly draft at Lucky Lab Brew Pub. A few hours later, we had Sam, Pat Chapin, Zvi Mowshowitz, Jelger Wiegersma, and Brad Nelson crashing our draft, which was pretty fun. Wednesday night a couple of the guys from the draft team came over to jam some games of Modern and after 3 hours I threw in the towel and scrapped the Elves deck I’d been working on in my spare time since Beck//Call was spoiled. Not wanting to spend anymore time on Modern, I rebuilt my Zoo deck from the PTQ and prepared to battle with old faithful:
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MW #42 Magic2014, Return of the Slivers
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Slivers return for M2014 with a big change in the way they work.
Episode 42
8 May 2013
-Grand Prix Portalnd
-M14 Spoilers
-SCG Tournament
-Upcoming Events
-Shout Outs
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Jim Baker
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Mike Tabler
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Sun Lemunyon
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MW #41 Pre Release Aftermath
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Episode 41
30 April 2013
-Dragon’s Maze Prerelease Recap
-Premier Play Policy Changes
-Dragon’s Maze Release Weekend
-Upcoming Events
Contact the show at podcast@mythicmtg.comany feedback is always welcome.
Contact the Hosts!
Jim Baker
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Mike Tabler
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Sun Lemunyon
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Mark Cracco
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Going Mad – Dragon’s Maze Set Review Pt. 4
I truly am going mad … doing entire set reviews is like walking uphill both ways in a snow storm – on the plus side it forces me to slow down and consider each card individually – on the down side, it takes some of the Magic away from opening these cards in packs. That said … only 45 cards to go!
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Going Mad – Dragon’s Maze set review pt. 3
We’re short on room and tall on cards left to cover so let’s get right to it … as always, love to hear feedback, your opinions on cards, why I’m wrong, why Tabler is a savage, etc etc.
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