First Pick:

Orlando Tragedy, community response

SCG, CoolStuff Inc. WotC responds to tragedy in Orlando: https://www.facebook.com/StarCityGames/posts/10153645888357918?pnref=story

http://www.coolstuffgames.com/orlandounited/

https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/13417418_10156943948340307_2347061472124889359_n.jpg?oh=f4476b54ac7d9cc5fba1793c9adfa348&oe=57D679DB

Gather the Townsfolk:

MTG Goldfish has Deck Search http://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck_searches/new

Craig Wescoe offering private coaching: https://www.facebook.com/craig.wescoe?fref=ts

Jeff Hoogland quits MTGO: http://www.jeffhoogland.com/2016/06/farewell-to-mtgo/

Desperate Ravings:

Access Magic: Eldritch Moon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQ-TQCKuPFA

#TeamNahiri v. #TeamSorin http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/magic-story/stone-and-blood-2016-06-15

The Red Zone:

Ban Miracles:

http://www.channelfireball.com/articles/ban-miracles/

Going Infinite

Sleep In Specials at Constructed GPs.

Just like Playmats before it.

Limited GPs still provide a service - prereg’ing your pool for you. This doesn’t fall from the sky. HOWEVER - You should still have the free option of showing up an hour before hand to register and build.

Professional Event Services hosted GP Columbus w free online deck reg - yet Sleep In Special still cost $20. This $20 is absurd.

Platinum Pros & Hall of Famers don’t have to pay for Sleep-In-Specials because WotC says so. Now it’s time for WotC, and the pro community, to help stand up for everyone else.

#FreeSiS

https://twitter.com/_DavidOchoa/status/740280665623531522 - Ochoa talking to PES

https://twitter.com/2Plowshares/status/741515761286402049 - Having to purchase due to flight

https://twitter.com/SamuelHBlack/status/741513853259939840 - as someone who gets it free, wotc needs to step in

https://twitter.com/TJCollectibles/status/741652732549947393 - weird reply by TJ Collectibles; condescending tone

The Finisher:

For those of you who regularly watch first person shooters you already know what the Counterstrike: Global Offensive ESL Cologne Major event was, but for those of you that don’t it was a major shooty-shooty-bang-bang tournament that happened last weekend in France. And it’s relevant for us robe-and-wizard-hat poker folks because instead of using double elimination or round robin play, it used Swiss with a cut to top 8,, which is the first time a major non-turn-based ESport used Swiss pairings. So now that CS:GO has started borrowing ideas from Magic, what tidbit would you like to see MTG borrow from the big boys in ESports?

First Pick:

http://magic.wizards.com/en/events/coverage/gpcos16

Seth Manfield = robot from the future

What’s the Play? http://www.channelfireball.com/articles/luis-scott-vargas/whats-the-play-the-looter-problem/

What’s the Play, part two?

http://www.channelfireball.com/articles/lsvs-play-the-looter-problem/

Gather the Townsfolk

Mono-Blue Prison: http://www.channelfireball.com/articles/mono-blue-prison-deck-guide/  

The Red Zone

Should Survival of the Fittest be unbanned in Legacy?

Blast from the Past

http://magic.wizards.com/node/1027736

Splash Damage

http://www.dicetowernews.com/court-rules-that-mechanics-in-a-game-are-unable-to-be-copyrighted/27325

The Finisher:

Six days ago, RoboRosewater created perhaps the greatest name of any Magic card ever created: Niv-Mizzet, Vampire Cops. With the Magic movie fast approaching, and the Magic Creative Universe needing more content, give me your pitch for the next episode of Niv-Mizzet, Vampire Cops.

First Pick:

https://twitter.com/HeleneBergeot/status/738142195836846080

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1vJCcTx5Kf8Q_JPdrpQG4tLqFAN621QzWCFq7rGsxbwk/pubhtml 2015 - 2016 Season

Fabrizio’s response to being DQ’ed at Manchester: https://www.facebook.com/FAB.FTW?fref=ts

Team EUreka responding to the initial DQ: https://twitter.com/JoelLarsson1991/status/737333439142236164/photo/1

Team EUreka kicking him off team: http://htl.li/OfzH300H0gK

Gather the Townsfolk

EMA full spoiler: http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/card-image-gallery/eternal-masters

The Red Zone

Legacy Gauntlet: http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/magic-digital/legacy-gauntlet-2016-06-01

“Dredge would not be good for the Legacy Gauntlet.” --Reuben

“Disrespectfully disagree.” --Erin and Evan

Going Infinite

https://twitter.com/misterorange/status/738080359464771584

The Finisher:

Yesterday, Warner Brothers issued a DCMA takedown of a few videos, including a few clips from the classic artificial intelligence film Blade Runner, from the streaming site Vimeo. The problem is one of the clips that they were asked to take down wasn’t from the movie at all; instead it was from a neural network encoding project that was attempting to reconstruct the movie from disassembled data. So in other words: Warner has just DCMA’d an artificial reconstruction of a film about AI being indistinguishable from humans, because it couldn’t distinguish between AI and humans. We all know the singularity is coming and it’s only a matter of time before RoboRosewater wins its first Pro Tour, so what do you expect to be the next step on the way towards our inevitable robot overlords?

Source: http://www.vox.com/2016/6/1/11787262/blade-runner-neural-network-encoding

First Pick:

Our EMA preview: Giant Solifuge!

• Cap’n Tickles!
• Originally spoiled as a 4/3 for Guildpact lol

EMA Previews Start

• Tutors, Mana Crypt, JTMS, Karakas, Baleful Strix & Shardless in packs (at rare)
• GB Elves (no other tribal archetypes in EMA), GW Enchantments, GR Fast Aggro, UB Reanimator, UG Madness

No Enemy Fetches

No Basalt Monolith

No Blightsteel Colossus

Gather the Townsfolk

Modern Weekend

• MtG Scorekeeper blog post about GP Charlotte behind the scenes:http://www.mtgscorekeeper.com/2016/05/gp-charlotte-2016-saturday.html

• Pete Hoefling’s official statement:https://www.facebook.com/pete.hoefling/posts/10154236896053384?pnref=story

• CFB’s impressive stream improvements
• Ad Naus, Fish, Robots, etc.

• 13 year old top 8s?! 8 year old girl, Dana:http://magic.wizards.com/en/events/coverage/gpla16/two-heads-are-better-2016-05-22 Jack played win in and in for Day 2. Cute kid on YouTube.

• Marshall’s camera stolen, Winona Nelson’s proofs stolen

The Red Zone

http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/double-faced-cards-procedure-professional-rel-drafts-2016-05-25

1-sentence summary: from now on, all Professional REL booster drafts with DFCs will follow the procedure used at Pro Tour Shadows over Innistrad of pre-sleeving the cards before the draft, during which drafters are not allowed to remove the cards from the sleeves.

Going Infinite

How Learning to Play Magic Changed My Life: http://uproxx.com/life/learn-to-play-magic-the-gathering/

Splash Damage

Awful Changes to Twitter: https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexkantrowitz/twitter-effectively-makes-tweets-longer-with-handful-of-new?bftw&utm_term=.ojPY3lgarp#.hqJKPx5MDp

1 Year Anniversary

The Finisher:

Today is the Mark Rosewater’s 49th birthday… but much more importantly, this show marks the the near 1-year anniversary of Magic Mics! That’s right, our premier episode premiered on May 28, 2015, and in it we: discussed spoilers for the next set, the differences between Magic and Hearthstone, an upcoming Masters set release, and Erin’s love of Dredge. So as you can see, we’ve changed a lot in the last 362 days! What do you anticipate the biggest change will be between now and our 2nd anniversary show?

First Pick:

PATREON MAGNETS AND STICKERS ARE HERE!

http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/announcement-day-2016-05-16

http://magic.wizards.com/en/content/kaladesh-information

http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/making-magic/ramp-approval-2016-05-16

http://magic.wizards.com/en/content/commander-2016-edition-information

http://magic.wizards.com/en/content/planechase-anthology-information

http://magic.wizards.com/en/content/duel-decks-nissa-vs-ob-nixilis-info

http://www.gatheringmagic.com/alexullman-news-051316-new-legacy-festival-coming-to-magic-online/

Releasing with Conspiracy—Take the Crown, Magic players will be able to pick up a new Draft Pack in North American mass-market stores. The Draft Pack features three Booster Packs of the new Magic multiplayer Draft set, Conspiracy—Take the Crown. Pick one up on your way to your Conspiracy draft and get ready to start plotting against your fellow drafters. Look for Draft Packs in mass-market stores starting August 26 with an MSRP of $11.99.

Desperate Ravings

MTGO Champs: Coverage, no-shows, etc.

11 Inexpensive Ways to Improve Magic Coverage

http://www.mtggoldfish.com/articles/11-inexpensive-ways-to-improve-magic-coverage

Gather the Townsfolk

‘Opponents are People, Too.’ https://asymphonyofsnores.wordpress.com/2016/05/17/opponents-are-people-too/

The Red Zone

SAFE WORD: BAEWATCH

Panel on women in Magic, hosted by Magic the Amateuring,, Morgan Wentworth, and April King

https://t.co/2o5FzinMu6

Confessions of a Twitch Moderator

http://www.gosugamers.net/hearthstone/features/4980-enough-is-enough-confessions-of-a-twitch-chat-moderator?utm_content=bufferb455a&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Splash Damage

http://www.dailydot.com/esports/poker-hearthstone-pros/

The Finisher:

Of all of the announcements made this week, we still do not have the Eldritch Moon set symbol, which is made weirder by the fact that we now have both Kaladesh and Aether Revolt’s set symbol. So what is your prediction for the set symbol for the next Magic expansion?

First Pick:

“Is Reddit more helpful or more harmful?”

https://www.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/4il9bw/bdm_and_randy_bhueler_have_to_go/

Desperate Ravings

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmaPfNHV8IY - Helene explains Platinum changes

“The way that people are looking at the Pro Club and the appearance fees is more like a status.”

https://www.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/4itqyz/helene_bergeot_explains_the_attempted_platinum/

Gather the Townsfolk

MTG on the British Isles is suffering

Update on Sabina Browne/RMC but also bad news for English MTG, by Joseph Dunlap

http://www.manaleak.com/mtguk/2016/05/is-the-future-of-magic-the-gathering-organised-play-in-jeopardy/

Scotland in a bad spot

https://www.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/4iox4e/local_magic_in_a_bad_spot/

Splash Damage

LoL scandal! Renegades, Impulse, Dragon Knights out, selling NA LCS & NACS spots

http://espn.go.com/esports/story/_/id/15494634/riot-games-kicks-renegades-team-impulse-team-dragon-knights-na-lcs-nacs

https://www.facebook.com/DOTesports/videos/553642611482076/

Hashtag Sponsorships in ESports

https://twitter.com/darrenrovell/status/730385726685257728

Going Infinite

Evan pontificates - “Magic Digital Next”

Friday the 13th FNM - no Triskadekaphobia promo

The Finisher:

Last weekend at Grand Prix New York, defending Magic World Champion and current leader for Player of the Year Seth Manfield added “Four-Time” Grand Prix champion to his list of accomplishments. One of the most entertaining matches of the tournament was the hashtag MTGDad mirror between Seth and then undefeated Mike Sigrist in round 12. So what other mirror matches would you most like to see in Magic’s future?

First Pick:

DQ’s at Milwaukee,

https://www.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/4hbwrp/why_was_charles_porges_dqd_from_scg_milwaukee/

https://twitter.com/misterorange/status/727589583312048129

“Salt your own fries” level

Desperate Ravings

Community Super League - http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/magic-digital/announcing-community-super-league-2016-04-20

Innistrad Complete Block Constructed

Vintage Super League -

Decklists - http://magic.wizards.com/en/MTGO/articles/archive/magic-online/vintage-super-league-season-5-decklists

11 archetypes!

Reid Duke Storm

Kai Budde Stax

Paul Rietzl White Weenie

Gather the Townsfolk

Puca Points Economy: https://pucatrade.com/blog/2016/PucaPoints

Magic Is a Team Sport: http://www.starcitygames.com/article/32850_Magic-Is-A-Team-Sport.html

The Red Zone

http://markrosewater.tumblr.com/post/143662137778/reprints-question-b-so-much-more-bs-mtg#notes

http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/making-magic/storm-scale-ravnica-and-return-ravnica-2016-05-02

Splash Damage

David Williams on MasterChef

The Finisher:

“The calligraphy of combat is written with the strokes of sudden blood.” That is the flavor text for Monastery Swiftspear, and this week it was one of a few dozen sentences chosen as some of the Worst Examples of Literature of 2016 in something called the Lyttle Lytton Contest. So my well-read and wordy co-hosts, what’s the worst flavor text you can make for an already existing card?

First Pick:

Platinum/HoF changes

Announced:

“The Dream”

Changes:

Platinum pros will receive an

*Patreon Subscriber Topic - International Magic impact

Article by Sperling:

Article by Kibler,

“Player’s Union”

Reverts:

“We also fully understand the

Desperate Ravings

There was also a PT…

100th Pro Tour - No fanfare at

#SCGINV: Humans, Bant

#PTSOI: Seasons Past, Steve

PT locations announcement: Back

GP Charlotte bathroom

Gather the Townsfolk

https://www.netflix.com/title/80104065

Judges vs. Wizards (lawsuit in

Helene article:

Official press release

Legal Solutions Blog:

It’s important to note for the

Throughout most of the history

The Red Zone

Ferrett:

Kibler - most

Splash Damage

D&D meets Magic for the

The Finisher:

Professional poker pro and Grand

First Pick: New

1st big Standard event.

Pyromancer’s Goggles

Westvale Abbey

Drownyard Temple

Thing in the Ice

Thalia’s Lieutenant/Humans in

Angel Wars - Round 12

Eldrazi Displacer

Fall of the Titans - playtesting

Tireless Tracker

Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim

Underwhelming effects of Vision

New GY deck tools: Prized

Desperate Ravings - Enter The Battlefield

Enter The Battlefield premiers

Narrated by Wil Wheaton; Netflix

Owen’s Mom in trailer: “My son

Gather the Townsfolk - The New New Order (MTGJudge)

Judge Program

First major overhaul since New

Important to note: there wasn’t

Splash Damage - New president of Hasbro, Leeds to Cocks

Greg Leeds resigns, Chris Cocks

Two new design jobs popped up on

Going Infinite

The Finisher:

Support the show! http://patreon.com/magicmics
Visit the website: http://magicmicspodcast.com
Check out the twitch channel: http://twitch.tv/magicmics
Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/magicmicscast
Like us on Facebook: http://facebook.com/magicmics
Want the 2hr+ Extended experience? Support us on Patreon!

Airdate - 4/6/16

First Pick:

B&R Update http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/banned-and-restricted-announcement-2016-04-04

Modern shakeup: Eye of Ugin banned, Ancestral Vision and Sword of the Meek unbanned

Vintage: Lodestone Golem restricted

Not a ton of the honest-to-goodness Vintage players are happy because it’s mostly due to VSL and internal testing.

Gather the Townsfolk - http://www.themeadery.org/b/cspranklerun/read/why-i-cosplay-from-magic-the-gathering/

MTGO Friendly/Competitive Leagues: http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/magic-digital/league-updates-2016-04-05

MTGO Pre-release updates: http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/magic-digital/magic-online-prereleases-reimagined-2016-03-29

MTGO Legacy Cube:
http://magic.wizards.com/en/MTGO/articles/archive/magic-online/legacy-cube-updates-2015-01-04

Desperate Ravings -

PucaTrade Controversy?
https://www.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/4cwgdz/when_this_post_is_12_hours_old_it_will_have_been/

Two-
https://www.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/4de75r/a_theory_on_those_doublesided_test_prints_that/

Splash Damage:

Twitter wins bid to livestream NFL games

The Finisher:

We are back to our regularly scheduled Magic Mics after last week’s break for my full set review with myself and Brad Nelson. But for the next time one of us needs to take a break , what’s another excuse we can use to take a week off?