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Welcome to Freed from the Real Episode 32 brought to you by www.mtgotraders.com and www.puremtgo.com.  You can find us each week at www.mtgcast.com, www.mymtgo.com, and www.puremtgo.com

Spoilers! 
Lots of insane things.  Lotus Cobro (I can call him co-bro, because we're tight like that -Erik).  Traps are going to be the 'Gotcha!' mechanic of Zendikar just like Bloodthirst, Ninjutsu and Morph will be increasing players' blood pressure across the globe this weekend as the Zendikar pre-releases kick off.

News!
Pro Tour San Diego has 16 MTGO PTQ's!!! Yes, 1/3rd of the PTQ's for some of the biggest Magic games of the year on MTGO!  A great breakdown of the PTQ's can be found on the Starkington Post  and the official WotC Versions.  These are huge and have created a ton of discussion with quite a few paper magic personalities upset by them.  You may not follow some of them but rest assured that they are very aware of these new events, and many are mighty angry that any joe blow can just log in and play on them regardless of where they are or their ability to commute to a physical location.  But make no mistakes, these are still going to be a long arduous day of playing MTGO.

Prices!
MED3 Drops.  Lots.  Hopefully you all sold high and bought low.  I hear that's the way to do things. Dark Depths becomes a two card combo with a two CMC card... in Zendikar and logically jumps up to 5 tickets overnight.    Knight of the Reliquary is still hanging out around 5 tickets as well.

Articles!
AJ's Pick- Fun, Spikes and the Death of Formats - Pete Jahn
Erik's Pick Masters' Edition 3 - Drafting for Win and Value - Marin Baraba

Contact us!
hamtastic@puremtgo.com
AJ_Impy@yahoo.com

15 Comments

Nice podcast by RagMan17 at Wed, 09/23/2009 - 13:58
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Love the podcast on Wed since the downtime is right when I want to play so this tides me over until mtgo is back up.

Maybe its been covered already but I just noticed a post from this morning on MTGO Forum Group that not only are they pulling support of Standard w/Vangard but also Kaleidoscope. Also theres going to be a forum vote to determine which format will fill the 4th weekend spot after Pauper, 100Single and STD Single.

RagMan

News to me, but frankly it by AJ_Impy at Wed, 09/23/2009 - 14:32
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News to me, but frankly it had it coming: There's no real prospect of Kscope evolving. I'm really not sure where to place my vote.

That's the obvious end. No by Lord Erman at Wed, 09/23/2009 - 14:57
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That's the obvious end. No new cards in M10, no new cards in ZEN. I mean how can a format survive without new cards? All the good decks have been built and all the possibilities have been explored.

So yes, RIP Kaleidoscope, it was a nice ride and it was nice knowing you.

Oh and I too think that moving the podcast to Wednesday is a wise choice. This downtime for example was less boring because at least I was listening to you guys.

LE

KSCOPE by rainin6 at Wed, 09/23/2009 - 17:43
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Yeah, I wrote a nice long post on the MTGO forums about how KSCOPE should be killed. Not enough player fan base - particularly when they just artificially created the format and forced players to adapt to it.

The thing is it seemed like by Paul Leicht at Wed, 09/23/2009 - 18:06
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The thing is it seemed like an advertisement to increase the popularity of the all gold set Alara Reborn which while smart seems rather cynical to remove support after that. I guess They couldn't manage another gold set so soon, so perhaps it will be a few years before another sees the light of day, and the interval won't be a good time for the format. I never got into KScope because it seemed so narrow (and required an expensive mana base to boot) but I understand some people really enjoyed it.

dunkle_stille says: by Anonymous at Wed, 09/23/2009 - 14:39
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Please WotC, fill the whole with a minimum 24 players classic premier event. The format needs something like that pretty much. Pretty, pretty much.

new format by ArchGenius at Wed, 09/23/2009 - 14:57
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I always have a couple of ideas for a new format.

First, I would be in favor of some type of peasant variant. Pauper has proved that formats with relatively low costs to construct decks can be popular, so why not Peasant. I realize that Peasant would be difficult to code because of the 5 uncommons rule or however many it was. Maybe Wizards could change the meaning of peasant or pick a similar name for a format where only commons and uncommons are legal. For example:

-Standard Peasant

-Classic Singleton Peasant

Or we could always go with a more cerebral choice. Like the Dakkon Blackblade Avatar format, aka Duelmasters variant. It plays like any normal format except "You may play any colored card from your hand as a copy of a basic land card chosen at random that can produce mana of 1 of the card's colors." No more players complaining about not drawing enough lands or too many lands. This should be easy to code since the Dakkon Blackblade avatar is already coded. Of course since Avatars are kind of going away, this new format would not be connected to the avatar in any way.

I'd still like to see Build by platipus10 at Wed, 09/23/2009 - 15:35
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I'd still like to see Build Your Own Standard, Build Your Own Block, or Block Wars offered. All of those have interesting deck building potential (maybe less so for block wars), but they always would be getting new decks and evolving. All of them also support classic set releases and allow under used cards to be played.

Caveat Emptor? ("Seize the by Paul Leicht at Wed, 09/23/2009 - 16:21
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Caveat Emptor? ("Seize the Day") did you mean something else?

*bangs head* sorry clearly by Paul Leicht at Wed, 09/23/2009 - 16:22
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*bangs head* sorry clearly that isn't seize the day (Carpe Diem) ...geh...nevermind I guess I failed to remember "Buyer Beware"

Certe. ;) by AJ_Impy at Thu, 09/24/2009 - 12:40
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Certe. ;)

can ppl.. by Anonymous at Wed, 09/23/2009 - 16:38
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can people in states like washington, for example(that are not eligable for prizes) qualify online? it's not a monetary prize so..
if not that seems pretty unfair to the players in those states.

I'd like to see extended by StealthBadger at Thu, 09/24/2009 - 11:52
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I'd like to see extended tribal at least promoted to the level where you could choose it as a game type. In fact, I'd like to see all of the varient game types be offered as standard, block, ext, leg, classic. Not for tournament play, but just to specify in the game type. I'm never sure why they don't just do this anyway, I mean, it can't involve much programming? It's surely just using .AND. between two format lists?

I concur by Scartore at Thu, 09/24/2009 - 18:46
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Especially since the classic card pool continues to get polluted with more and more bad idea broken cards from yesteryear. Extended imho is a nice simple solution for a lot of formats. I'd love to play ext 100c singleton (heck, my current 100c singleton deck is ext legal i think).

build your own standard by Anonymous at Thu, 09/24/2009 - 16:31
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I vote for build your own standard. I think this could be a format with a lot of different competitive decks...though WOTC will need to be active with the ban restricted list.