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6,988What a week. Gatecrash arrives. Brian Kibler writes an article on why he and LSV may be quitting competitive Magic. Wizards announces five manager level programming jobs re MTGO. Redemption costs increased five-fold. Shocklands are coming back in Dragon's Maze. MTGO crashed last weekend. All that, plus another new trigger policy, and a full rundown of decks and price changes - and Pete spends a couple thousand words analyzing the redemption changes. Ready?
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5,950It's Friday. Gatecrash is out in the paper world. Online, we have BANNINGS, an update to the beta client, Cube, tons of price swings and more.
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5,960Gatecrash Prereleases begin tonight, in the paper world. The dates and details for the online prereleases have been announced, Cube is back, and Standard prices are crashing. In other news, we finally know why Wizards killed four-pack sealed.
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4,893It's Friday. Pete looks at news, trends, prices and cutting edge tech. Then he recounts the history of popular, keep-your-cards sealed events from Leagues to Four Pack sealed to the new on demand 6 pack sealed (which is identical to one that was offered, unsuccessfully, four years ago.
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11,238Pete gives a rundown of news, prices, trends, new decks, and then talks about five ways in which Magic the Gathering and Magic Online are different games. Not better, not worse - just different form each other.
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5,365Happy New Year, everyone! Not a ton of news this week, so I'll fill in with prices and deck tech. I'll also look at the likely impact of the change from 4 pack to phantom sealed on pack prices, and spend some time considering how Standard has changed since I played my first sanctioned tournament some 15 years ago.
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3,806Happy Holidays, everyone! It's a last roundup of news, events and prices for this year - some light reading for between rounds in your Cube drafts. Enjoy.
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5,365A ton of news this week. Force of Will will be the January MOCS promo. Wizards has radially restructured the MOCS season championships, the Magic Online Player reawrds program, eliminated 4 pack sealed, and added a bunch more prizes to online PTQs. The Powered Cube is live. Wizards has also revealed a lot of thier plans for MTGO going forward, and discussed the reasonas for a lot of the changes and design decisions in the new client.
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7,667This week Pete skims the news and digs into how the Power Nine could be released online. His plan *may* involve reprinting Force of Will, MED V, new packs that cannot be played in limited, exploding helicopters, a foil Jace the Mind Sculptors in the old card frame, white bordered power, dancing elephants, replacing all prize packs in all Eternal queues with something new, and Wizards possibly keeping the contents of packs secret until you open them. Curious?
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5,469It's Pearl Harbor Day in the US, and WotC has been dropping bombs: P9 online, event replay policy changed, next round of PTQs announced, MOCs LCQs and more. Pete also devotes a couple thousand words to describing the three main problems with Eternal formats, and how and why WotC will fix them. All that, plus prices, cutting edge tech and Bear Cubs.
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4,951Pete looks at the big news this week: Power Nine Online! That's in addition to news, cutting edge tech, prices and the usual stuff, so click now.
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4,096Pete provides the usually mix of news, happenings, tech, prices, trends and stuff you need to know. He also provides an update on the investment project, and opines on last weekend's ouotbreak of bigots and sexists in the Magic Twitterverse.
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5,589It's Friday. Time for news, a rant on Wizards and technology, prices, deck tech, and some durdling with various Standard decks. What could be better?
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4,308Pete has his usual round-up of news, prices, tech, an amazing Legacy sideboard list, and more - plus he has written a small book on the history of reprints, the reserve list, old formats, and how that all relates to Modern Masters.
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5,701We have a ton of News this week. Tarmogoyf is being reprinted. We had a Pro Tour, won by a cool new combo deck. Wizards folks will be gunslinging, the next Classic Invitational Qualifier is coming, prices are falling like rocks, and lots more.
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4,446It's Friday. Time for a ton of news, release events, price changes, an update on investment project, prices, Return to Ravnica's impact on every format in sight, and a Pro Tour. What more could you want?
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4,624Return to Ravnica has arrived, at least in the paper world. The rotation has a huge impact on Standard, and we are seeing the new decks from several paper events. We have also seen the new Legacy format now that RtR is legal - and it is pretty much the old one. Online, Prereleases begin today. Prices are moving, MTGO had an unscheduled downtime extension, and we have other news as well.
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4,411Return to Ravnica hits the paper world, Mirage and Cube hit the draft queues, and pre rotation sell-offs hit the price lists. Cutting edge tech is limited, since most formats are on the verge of big changes, but we find a few snippets. All that, plus an update on the investment test - after seven months of trading, I announce my profits to date.
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3,857We have a ton of news. Cube is back, and the prize payout is all new. Wizards has announced details of the Return to Ravnica online Prereleases, and those are unlike anything we have seen before. Mirage and Tempest block drafts are back. Prices are all over the board, and we are still finding tech decks. It's been a good week!
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4,791It's Friday. Time for news, prices, cutting edge tech and more. The Banned and Restricted list was updated yesterday. The changes were... interesting.
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4,145It's Friday - time to take a break from watching Return to Ravnica spoilers to see what else happened this week. We have news, prices, tech and more, so come on in.
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5,025Lots of news this week. The Return to Ravnica spoilers are continuing, the new PTQ season is starting, Wizards has made Standard Pauper a format, the new interface is in "wide beta" and more. We have lots of tech, and prices are moving, and we look at the prices of shocklands over time. Do you know that the price of a Hallowed Fountain 18 months ago was about $5.00? You do now.
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4,636It's Friday, and we have the usual roundup of news, prices, tech and more. This week, Pete also wades into the battle over which draft tournament type is best - and does so in defense of 4-3-2-2s. It may not be best, but it does not deserve the bashing it has received from another podcast...
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4,739All the regular stuff - prices, GenCon tech, tournaments, trends and more - plus Pete looks at streaming: what it is, who is doing it, and whether it violates the code of conduct.
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5,579In the paper world, it is GenCon! Online, we have events, prices crashing and even some actual news. And if that isn't enough, Pete talks about what will happen when Wizards brings the Power Nine to MTGO.
