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btw, that was teh best story ever. if i live for four more years, that might happen to me with a (female) dealer at my most recent event. now give me cards.
Someone traded an Beta Shivan Dragon for 12 Beta Forests. This was when Beta came out and there weren't much lands around where I live (europe).
Game Event with a super-casual 500-card 5-color Highlander Deck vs. a competitive W/G Beatdown deck. The Highlander Deck is at 5 live on it's turn 5 and has played an Abundance the previous turn. The G/W deck attacks for the win to see a Constant Mists by the 500card deck. Some questions later (do you have enchantment destruction? do you have direct damage? do you have graveyard recursion?) the G/W deck concedes to the approx. 200 lands that will be used fogging the attack The 500-card deck also ended one game turn 2...t1: swamp - ritual - crucible of worlds t2: strip mine (normally it just loses though)
Now a 100-card Highlander B/W Control Deck vs. a 250-card Highlander Battle of Wits Deck during a Highlander Tournament. The BoW deck ***'d the turn before and now plays an Academy Rector. The 100 card deck cycled a decree of Justice for some tokens EOT and now played a land to play faceless butcher on the rector and then follows up with an armageddon *ouch*. the attack bringing the BoW deck down to a measly 2 life. BoW draws and topdecks "The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale". All creatures die bringing back the Rector which then also dies to the tabernacle bringing out Battle of Wits for the game *ouch*
Great show guys. I have never played any online magic so I don't have a favorite moment. I do have a cool Shadowmoor combo though. Painter's Servant and Grindstone makes a six mana, colorless, infinite mill combo. Might be neat for Legacy. I pulled this off (with proxies) against some guy the other day and the look on his face was priceless. He had a weird name that sort of rhymed with "I'll sock yo mama" and he was apparently a big time politician. Anyway good show and keep it up.
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“One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike – and yet it is the most precious thing we have.” - Albert Einstein
The title of the article is attempted irony, apparently to trick people into listening to the stream.
Save yourself the trouble- Eventide is black-bordered.
You're likely right, but we haven't actually SEEN an Eventide card yet. And isn't life just enhanced by the remote possibility of some white-bordered Eventide foils?
p.s. Yes, the title was completely made up. And yes, magic is still a game.
my magic online experances consist of Here which has been nothing but gold, tho sadly i have still not made myself a deck to use the card i got from the comment contest. other then that i use to read the articals on magicthegathering.com, i also did some beta stuff with mtgo v3. also i read a few groups on livejournal, but i have not really read much in that area recently. other then that i spend most of my online magic time looking through magics card data base and the spoilers here. as for funny things I find it quite funny that i have never had much fun playing in tournaments but have always found that a good relaxed even semi-causal group is more fun mostly because you end up with stuff like 3-way 3 headed ogre and 4-way generals. but thats just my prefered way to play.
My goodness, I thought it would be a fun little in-joke, but I was wrong. I updated the front page to be a more "politically correct" title.
I liked it Tom. It was pretty funny. The guys complaining are probably like the guy you played in the last round at the prerelease.
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EDH Generals: Scion of the Ur-Dragon; Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker; Stonebrow, Krosan Hero; Azami, Lady of Scrolls; Razia, Boros Archangel; Shirei, Shizo's Caretaker; Verdeloth the Ancient; Karn, Silver Golem; Crovax, Ascendant Hero; Reaper King; Oona, Queen of the Fae
“One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike – and yet it is the most precious thing we have.” - Albert Einstein
I pulled this off (with proxies) against some guy the other day and the look on his face was priceless. He had a weird name that sort of rhymed with "I'll sock yo mama" and he was apparently a big time politician. Anyway good show and keep it up.
So wait, you milled obama ftw?:rofl:
btw, my best magic online was not in MTGO, but in the FORBIDDEN program. my opponent donated a 0/0 NOOB token to me and disconnected. of course, the noob died instantly, just the way it should always be.
I think one of my favorite online magic moments must have been when a friend of mine and his clanmate got bored, and decided it would be fun to set up and infinate faceless butcher loop in the casual room on modo. The server crashed shortly thereafter, and to this day I attribute the crash singlehandedly to their antics.
My favourite mtgo moment was when i was in round 2 of a 8man lor block constructed
I was playing Faeries against Manniquin
Game 1 i lost fast
Game 2 he lost fast
during these games, he took ages to make moves
in Game3 he had 5mins left in time, i palced beats fast and put him in low life with him ahving only a mulldrifter. He goes end of turn manniquin a mulldrifter, his turn final revels +2/+0 with me on 7... ohh.. im about to rightclick concede then it said i WON!.. haha the timer ran out and he was very pissed at me..
Great show guys! I've been listening since Episode 80ish and you guys just keep getting better (when you're all there lol).
My favorite moment on MODO was when I was playing against a friend during Mirrodin/Kamigawa standard. He is playing KCI and gets off the combo, sacrificing his Incubator and getting a lot of tokens. He sacrifices them all to the Ironworks and starts maticulously adding the roughly 80 mana to the X in his Fireball, which I know he has in hand. I know he's going to be a jerk and overkill with Fireball, so I let him keep going. When he is just about to add the last mana, I concede the game, stopping him from actually casting the Fireball. He freaks out and lets loose the profanity, saying that he was going to screenshot it and everything.
My favorite online magic moment was on magic workstation when it was me vs a friend and i was at 5 he was at 3 he had an army of blockers and me no way to get through. So i was about to say scoop but we played it out and i top decked a lightning helix to finish him.
Hey guys, thanks for a top cast, and great to have you all back I'd be interested to hear next week how Tom's EDH adventures are travelling, and what Gavin and Derek are anticipating for Shadowmoor standard? I'm going to spend the next week or so immersed in GTA 4 so I'll have to get all my magic news on next week's cast Before I have the obligatory bash at the comment contest, I'd like to give my hearty thanks to Default User for his kind contributions to Tom's supply of prizes!
My favourite online magic experience? Hmm, that's a hard one. I'm not much of a fan of MTGO as I resent paying for digital copies of the cards I already paid once for, it's slow, and the interface is pretty stinky. I haven't tried version 3 yet, maybe it's a lot better? My favourite online magic experience would have to be being involved in the global community of magic players; reading, writing, discussing and indeed listening to good players and deckbuilders, not to mention great writers. This is a wonderful hobby we all enjoy, but the main reason I get such enjoyment out of it is discussing it with both friends and strangers, on the internet and face to face. Okay, okay, thats a pretty corny answer, but MTGO is seriously rubbish.
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I imagine Maro has a huge ancient book in his office titled "Tempo Defined" and inside it is hollowed out and there is a bottle of whiskey
At Tom's request, I've changed the podcast's title so no one else gets upset after spending lots of bandwidth to listen to the 'cast about Eventide being "white bordered."
"Sufficiently advanced experience is indistinguishable from clairvoyance." -Carsten
"Ah those eyes, those horrible creepy eyes!" -Chaosof99
DCI Level 3 Judge & TO "I do not consider myself a hero. I know only what the Vec teach:
justice must always be served and corruption must always be opposed."
Go read! I am one of the three authors of Cranial Insertion.
But seriously, if you can't remember "Woapalanne", just call me Eli.
Good podcast guys, its pretty rare to see all 3 of you in the same episode.
My favorite online moment would be when I was playing against a deck on MWS using my UB dimir mill deck. I had no idea what my opponent had so I thought 'oh well I'll just mill him and it will be over soon'. So the game started, and right away I had a strong mill hand and cast glimpse the unthinkable on turn 2. There was a brief moment of silence, then a text message came up on the chat window...."Wow thank you so much!". For a moment, I wondered what he meant, then he milled ten... Among them were a golgari grave-troll, stinkweed imp and bridge from below and I knew that I had probably just lost the game. I had played against a lot of dredge decks at my FNM so I knew the moment the third narcomoeba hit the field that I was done. I wish I could have seen the other guy's face when I played glimpse, I'm sure it was funny.
At Tom's request, I've changed the podcast's title so no one else gets upset after spending lots of bandwidth to listen to the 'cast about Eventide being "white bordered."
I'd like to say I find these complaints ludicrous and I hope MTGCast 103 is subtitled "Want free Tarmogoyfs? We show you how..." The white-bordered eventide title was an obvious joke, and in any case twenty megabytes is a trivial download.
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I imagine Maro has a huge ancient book in his office titled "Tempo Defined" and inside it is hollowed out and there is a bottle of whiskey
My favorite online moment is not really a moment but a series of games that I set up with a friend. To truly understand the story it takes a little bit of setup, but I think that's ok, so here we go. Me and my friends started playing magic way back in revised. A lot of my friends have come and given up the game but me and one of my close friends kept at it the whole time. However he really dislikes playing duels so we'd often stay up all night playing long tournaments where we'd play 2 on 2 games with each of us playing one deck on each team. And to cut you off at the pass, yes we are giantic nerds. Anyways, after I graduated from University I moved to Japan but he stayed in America. However thanks to the beauty of MWS we were able to get back into playing our casual tournaments. However it gets better. We decided that to make it more interesting we'd make our own kind of vanguard cards, based off all sorts of stuff (mostly wicked copyright enfringement). We had cards for a number of greek gods, but also for Audrey II (from little shop of horrors), Mario, a number of other famous characters and some ideas totally of are own. It was a great way to get to play some casual magic, as opposed to the almost entirely tournament focuesed scene here in Japan and keep in touch with a friend back. Alas I haven't been able to do it recently, but it is definitely my best online magic experience.
Thank you very much guys!
It does seem to me that you guys are having trouble with my screen-name.
You should give everyone a grammar-lesson on how to pronounce NDZooNDZoo on your next MTGCAST.
It is the African name for a unicorn, but the pronunciation is weird. You pronounce it like zoo-zoo, but you start the Z with a hard D-sound, like the –ds sound of 'lands'.
And a NDZooDZoo actually looks a lot like this:
I never played magic online, and I never had a good experience wit Magic Workstation either. I live in South Africa and last year I was testing an Extended Zoo deck for a PTQ. This one guy joined the game with a tagline like:
“Professionals only, no n00bs”. [SARCASM]So obviously this guy would know his stuff, playing only professional players, right? [/SARCASM]
So this is the first time I play the deck, that being the reason for the testing, and I play fairly well. Turn three domain with Steam Vents, Temple Garden and Godless Shrine. Turn 5 I knock him down to 5 and I play Tribal Flames.
He’s like: “Ok, for zero”.
I do a double take: “No dude, 5, I’ve got domain”.
He becomes upset, starts cursing:”**** idiot, you have no basic lands”.
I try to keep calm an reply: “Dude, read the card. It says basic land TYPES”, to which he replies: “You **** noob, learn to play magic!!!”
Then he disconnects.
How is that cool? It put me off the idea of playing the deck at the PTQ and my buddy played it, placing in the top 8. That was my less than peachy online magic moment, which actually influenced my real-life decision to not play the deck. But in anycase, thanks for the Maze of Ith guys, it would be like getting rewards when that comes in the mail.
Regards,
NDZooDZoo
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There's no penalty for failing to sacrifice a Homonculus.
My goodness, I thought it would be a fun little in-joke, but I was wrong. I updated the front page to be a more "politically correct" title.
I was about to ask about where the rumor came from, and why it wasn't mentioned in it. The newer title is better.
I don't have online gaming stories, because my house's internet connection is lame, and I've never been able to play anything online decently (that's why I still play MtG, because I can't play WoW yet).
I have no Online experiences to relate, as I've never played with MWS, Magic Online, or any other program like it. Magic for me has always been about face-to-face interaction and cardboard, and it's likely to stay that way. If I invest my time (and money) in a video game, it has to be more interesting than digital cardboard.
Otherwise, though, good show. Glad to hear y'all in the same cast again.
For next episode, I want free Tarmogoyfs, show me how...
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Save yourself the trouble- Eventide is black-bordered.
Replies:
"Mythic rarity doesn't make another 'Goyf priced card inevitable any more than printing more cards makes another 'Goyf inevitable." -UrzasSedatives
"Seriously, $80 cards? There's no conceivable way. If even one mythic card hit that price point, everyone and their mother would start buying boxes of Alara to "flip" him." -Charlequin
Being listened to would've beat saying I TOLD YOU SO 3 years later.
btw, that was teh best story ever. if i live for four more years, that might happen to me with a (female) dealer at my most recent event. now give me cards.
-J
Someone traded an Beta Shivan Dragon for 12 Beta Forests. This was when Beta came out and there weren't much lands around where I live (europe).
Game Event with a super-casual 500-card 5-color Highlander Deck vs. a competitive W/G Beatdown deck. The Highlander Deck is at 5 live on it's turn 5 and has played an Abundance the previous turn. The G/W deck attacks for the win to see a Constant Mists by the 500card deck. Some questions later (do you have enchantment destruction? do you have direct damage? do you have graveyard recursion?) the G/W deck concedes to the approx. 200 lands that will be used fogging the attack The 500-card deck also ended one game turn 2...t1: swamp - ritual - crucible of worlds t2: strip mine (normally it just loses though)
Now a 100-card Highlander B/W Control Deck vs. a 250-card Highlander Battle of Wits Deck during a Highlander Tournament. The BoW deck ***'d the turn before and now plays an Academy Rector. The 100 card deck cycled a decree of Justice for some tokens EOT and now played a land to play faceless butcher on the rector and then follows up with an armageddon *ouch*. the attack bringing the BoW deck down to a measly 2 life. BoW draws and topdecks "The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale". All creatures die bringing back the Rector which then also dies to the tabernacle bringing out Battle of Wits for the game *ouch*
“One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike – and yet it is the most precious thing we have.” - Albert Einstein
You're likely right, but we haven't actually SEEN an Eventide card yet. And isn't life just enhanced by the remote possibility of some white-bordered Eventide foils?
p.s. Yes, the title was completely made up. And yes, magic is still a game.
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Thanks so much, saved me the time
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I liked it Tom. It was pretty funny. The guys complaining are probably like the guy you played in the last round at the prerelease.
“One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike – and yet it is the most precious thing we have.” - Albert Einstein
So wait, you milled obama ftw?:rofl:
btw, my best magic online was not in MTGO, but in the FORBIDDEN program. my opponent donated a 0/0 NOOB token to me and disconnected. of course, the noob died instantly, just the way it should always be.
(i roll alot....)
-J
I was playing Faeries against Manniquin
Game 1 i lost fast
Game 2 he lost fast
during these games, he took ages to make moves
in Game3 he had 5mins left in time, i palced beats fast and put him in low life with him ahving only a mulldrifter. He goes end of turn manniquin a mulldrifter, his turn final revels +2/+0 with me on 7... ohh.. im about to rightclick concede then it said i WON!.. haha the timer ran out and he was very pissed at me..
My favorite moment on MODO was when I was playing against a friend during Mirrodin/Kamigawa standard. He is playing KCI and gets off the combo, sacrificing his Incubator and getting a lot of tokens. He sacrifices them all to the Ironworks and starts maticulously adding the roughly 80 mana to the X in his Fireball, which I know he has in hand. I know he's going to be a jerk and overkill with Fireball, so I let him keep going. When he is just about to add the last mana, I concede the game, stopping him from actually casting the Fireball. He freaks out and lets loose the profanity, saying that he was going to screenshot it and everything.
I have a lot of nothing to say.
Pretty much exactly like that. Well, without the pirate hat.
My favourite online magic experience? Hmm, that's a hard one. I'm not much of a fan of MTGO as I resent paying for digital copies of the cards I already paid once for, it's slow, and the interface is pretty stinky. I haven't tried version 3 yet, maybe it's a lot better? My favourite online magic experience would have to be being involved in the global community of magic players; reading, writing, discussing and indeed listening to good players and deckbuilders, not to mention great writers. This is a wonderful hobby we all enjoy, but the main reason I get such enjoyment out of it is discussing it with both friends and strangers, on the internet and face to face. Okay, okay, thats a pretty corny answer, but MTGO is seriously rubbish.
"Sufficiently advanced experience is indistinguishable from clairvoyance." -Carsten
"Ah those eyes, those horrible creepy eyes!" -Chaosof99
DCI Level 3 Judge & TO
"I do not consider myself a hero. I know only what the Vec teach:
justice must always be served and corruption must always be opposed."
Go read! I am one of the three authors of Cranial Insertion.
But seriously, if you can't remember "Woapalanne", just call me Eli.
My favorite online moment would be when I was playing against a deck on MWS using my UB dimir mill deck. I had no idea what my opponent had so I thought 'oh well I'll just mill him and it will be over soon'. So the game started, and right away I had a strong mill hand and cast glimpse the unthinkable on turn 2. There was a brief moment of silence, then a text message came up on the chat window...."Wow thank you so much!". For a moment, I wondered what he meant, then he milled ten... Among them were a golgari grave-troll, stinkweed imp and bridge from below and I knew that I had probably just lost the game. I had played against a lot of dredge decks at my FNM so I knew the moment the third narcomoeba hit the field that I was done. I wish I could have seen the other guy's face when I played glimpse, I'm sure it was funny.
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I'd like to say I find these complaints ludicrous and I hope MTGCast 103 is subtitled "Want free Tarmogoyfs? We show you how..." The white-bordered eventide title was an obvious joke, and in any case twenty megabytes is a trivial download.
It does seem to me that you guys are having trouble with my screen-name.
You should give everyone a grammar-lesson on how to pronounce NDZooNDZoo on your next MTGCAST.
It is the African name for a unicorn, but the pronunciation is weird. You pronounce it like zoo-zoo, but you start the Z with a hard D-sound, like the –ds sound of 'lands'.
And a NDZooDZoo actually looks a lot like this:
I never played magic online, and I never had a good experience wit Magic Workstation either. I live in South Africa and last year I was testing an Extended Zoo deck for a PTQ. This one guy joined the game with a tagline like:
“Professionals only, no n00bs”.
[SARCASM]So obviously this guy would know his stuff, playing only professional players, right? [/SARCASM]
So this is the first time I play the deck, that being the reason for the testing, and I play fairly well. Turn three domain with Steam Vents, Temple Garden and Godless Shrine. Turn 5 I knock him down to 5 and I play Tribal Flames.
He’s like: “Ok, for zero”.
I do a double take: “No dude, 5, I’ve got domain”.
He becomes upset, starts cursing:”**** idiot, you have no basic lands”.
I try to keep calm an reply: “Dude, read the card. It says basic land TYPES”, to which he replies: “You **** noob, learn to play magic!!!”
Then he disconnects.
How is that cool? It put me off the idea of playing the deck at the PTQ and my buddy played it, placing in the top 8. That was my less than peachy online magic moment, which actually influenced my real-life decision to not play the deck. But in anycase, thanks for the Maze of Ith guys, it would be like getting rewards when that comes in the mail.
Regards,
NDZooDZoo
There's no penalty for failing to sacrifice a Homonculus.
I don't have online gaming stories, because my house's internet connection is lame, and I've never been able to play anything online decently (that's why I still play MtG, because I can't play WoW yet).
Mi blog: http://japoniano.blogspot.com/
Otherwise, though, good show. Glad to hear y'all in the same cast again.
For next episode, I want free Tarmogoyfs, show me how...
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