MTGCast: Re-Recorded Again

As usual something goes wrong with MTGCast, this time we did the whole show with Gary from MTGVault.com and it turns out we didnt record it! So rather than not put out a show, Tom and I stayed up another couple of hours and here's what we came up with.

Online: http://www.mtgcast.com/podcast/mtgca...s-re-recorded/
On Your MP3 Player (to download, right click and "save as"): http://www.mtgcast.com/audio/22-1.mp3
iTunes: http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/M...amp;i=824815 9
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This Week in Magic
Grand Prix: Phoenix (Gavin’s there!!!)

• Pro-tour qualifier for PT Kobe
• Being held at Mesa Convention Center in Mesa, Arizona
• 1st day = Ravnica block sealed deck
• 2nd day = Coldsnap booster draft
• 1st day results:
  • Day 1 blog:
  • 3 players are 8-0 after day 1: Gadiel Szleifer, Carlos Romao, Sean Inoue
  • 5 of the Top 10 players are currently non-U.S. players!
• 2nd day results:
  • Day 2 blog:
  • Winner is Carlos Romao (defeats Sean Inoue in finals)
  • Wins $2,400
  • Sean Inoue = Captain Grumpy-guss?
• Basic info about Grand Prix Phoenix:
• Coverage and decklists

• Two cards revealed today!
• Time (Spiral) is On My Side
  • Proves I was right with my guess for the art of Wheel of Fate!
  • Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir
• Blast from the Past
  • Sedge Sliver
  • ( kinda like Sedge Troll perhaps? )
  • Orb of Insight: Sliver = 54, Slivers = 54
  • Art for the card "Urza’s
    Factory"

• Number of links under the “Return to Dominaria” panel on the left side
  • Dominaria in Ruins
    • Features a brief back story for the TS set and has, what I can only assume, is some card art from the set!
    • Art for Knights of the Holy Nimbus?
    • Art that looks JUST LIKE the old "Wheel of Fortune" card? (perhaps the “Wheel of Fate” mentioned in MaRo’s article last week)
  • Puzzle (whoop-de-doo) = lets you download the wallpaper
  • The Antiquities War
    • You can download scans of the original comics! Pretty cool.
    • Part 1 and
      Part 2

• Urza’s Factory
• Phthsis
• Pentarch Paladin
• Walk of Aeons
• Wipe Away
• Knights of Holy Nimbus

• Prize = $10 in store credit at MTGMintCard.com
• Couple of ideas:
• User-created shows
• (Tom’s idea) Most creative use / destruction of an Olivier Ruel PT player card

• Forum Thread
• Gravebound Mox
• Jib Jumper
• New mechanic: Vengeance
• Have listeners send in their own Pirate cards! Use the best card editor program (and open source):
  Magic Set Editor

• Deck Thread
• Tourney is on Sept 12th
• I am SO pumped for this deck. It will be a blast to play!

• Forum Thread
• Amazingly cool and will save me a bunch of time when looking up tribes for upcoming tournies

• We had our 1000th post – by TRB
• We had our 50th forum member join - josephwalter

• Dom:
  Walk of eons + Teferi, Mage of Zelfir + Crucible of Worlds
• Gary: Ornithopter + Arcum Dagsson + Lotus Bloom
• Tom: Necroplasm + Power Conduit