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This week on the Cardhoarder Podcast Conor, Nathaniel, and Dave critique the launch of the Magic Pro Tour Team Series.  Unfortunately the talk of Pro Tour Aether Revolt was a judge a call during round 8 of the tournament.  Will the shortcut rule be augmented in the future to clear up confusion?  Other topics include Dave's experience onsite at PTAER, PTAER team fantasy results, MTGO bug of the week, acquiring cards for week 1 on Magic Online, and a game inspired by Windmillionaire.

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Your Hosts: Conor O'Donnell, Nathaniel Buckley-Wright, and David Murphy

Conor's Twitter: @conorpodonnell | Twitch: conor_od

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David's Twitter: @DavidSea89 | Twitch: davesea

Rodrigo Togores has several good finishes at many Magic events, but most notably is the Champion of Grand Prix Prague 2016.

Click to Tweet: I got a ton of value from Rodrigo Togores when he shared his story on #MTGProTutor! Listen here: http://bit.ly/mtgprotutor-ep172

First Set

Mercadian Masques

Favorite Set

Urza's Saga

Favorite Card

Brainstorm

Tendrils of Agony

Early Challenge

Combat Math.

Breakthrough Moment

2015, Rodrigo won a Vintage tournament in Italy.

What have You Learned from Magic

Planning ahead and being prepared. By traveling a lot Rodrigo has gained skills that are useful all the time.

Worst Magic Moment

Rodrigo traveled to the U.S. to play in an SCG event. He lost his win-and-in to Jim Davis because he miscounted by one. Rodrigo learned to think twice when he plays. It's a skill worth having for any match up.

Proudest Magic Moment

Win GP Prague.

Advice for Beginner Legacy

Not every deck is super expensive. Legacy cards maintain their value so you can sell a deck and buy into another one fairly easily.

Biggest Mistake Players Make

Players give away free information. Always think if it matters to play this card now or later. If you can, play it later.

Tournament Tips

Drink a lot of water, go to the restroom between every round.

Improvement Suggestions

Don't pile shuffle!

Connect With Rodrigo Togores

Twitter:@TogoresTcg

Check Out Magic Story

Magic Story brings the lore of the Multiverse to life in an audio presentation never before heard in the Magic community.

Listen to Episode 1 here or on www.magicthestory.com

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This week Corey and Darrel talk about Standard after the Pro Tour, the state of magic online, and Esper Transcendent in Modern.

It's Pro Tour time! Since Cluze is off doing Science we've enlisted the aid of our favorite brewing author, Chris Lansdell! We'll tell you all about the Pro Tour's meta and why you might not want to expect much in five weeks when the banlist updates!

MNM Hosts This Week

Chewie Slate from Mana Pool Productions (Youtube, Twitch), @TheManaPool

Bill Bloodworth (Squee) from Enchant World, @SqueeGoblnNabob

Chris Lansdell, writer at StarCityGames, L2 Judge, @lansdellicious

 

This Week in Magic

– Pro Tour Aether Revolt coverage

– Pro Tour Meta Breakdown

– The PT DQ

– The PT combat shortcut thing

– Game Day is this weekend!

– R&D admits they missed the Crazy Cat Lady combo

– 2017 video coverage schedule

– Magic Digital Next info from Hasbro stockholder meeting

– Full transcript of the stockholder meeting

– Kaladesh Plane Shift for Dungeons & Dragons coming Feb 16

 

MTGO News

– MTGO Announcements...wait, there aren't any?

– State of Magic Digital

– Flashback Favorites and Throwback Standard Gauntlets

– MTGO Event Calendar

 

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This week we have local Lands aficionado Blake Sanford on to talk about his favorite deck! We break down the deck, card choices, lines of play, matchups, and more!

If you're a fan of real estate or 4th grade Geography, you don't want to miss this one either.

 

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Episode 101 of the Unspoken Realms podcast, featuring Breaking Points by Doug Beyer.

Breaking Points is seventh chapter in the Aether Revolt storyline.

To support Unspoken Realms, visit the Patreon page.

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A new podcast devoted to Magic: the Gathering related news, opinions, and insights, with a slight eternal-bent. This week, we discuss the evolution of Miracles in Legacy, and the future of legacy with the BUG menace that has reared its ugly head. Plus, our super secret tech of the week is a dive into Crucible of Worlds in RG Combo Lands with Peter. Lastly, hang around for our trivia question of the week where you could win a draft set of the most recent sets, Aether Revolt and Kaladesh! Links to content in the show are posted below.

Topher's Most Recent Abomination (Miracles list)

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“What are your lands doing for you?”

This is the the first and most important question you should ask yourself when you are crafting the lands section of your cube. In this episode the guys discuss lands that don’t fit into your main mana fixing cycles.

Ash Barrens is one of the more interesting recent additions to the line of basic fixing lands like evolving wilds and terramorphic expanse. Providing an untapped source, but also being able to fix, trigger cards like The Gitrog Monster, add to delirium and delve, and synergizing with Life from the Loam, it does a little of everything.

Why has Mirrorpool fallen out of favor? Presenting a number of onboard tricks, giving you powerful options in the late game, and creating huge value at low opportunity cost, this is a land you should give a chance!

Have you considered Cloudpost? In Josh’s tradition of the “draft-1-you-get-all-4” rule, this land could be a huge boon to eldrazi titan/big mana strategies.

Later in the episode the guys touch on how you should be prioritizing your lands during the draft. Should your first few picks be lands? How well do you know the cube you’re in? Mason discusses cube familiarity and it’s relation to drafting lands vs. spells. All this and more!

The QS Cast has returned: Chaz Volpe, and Tarkan Dospil continue on with where the cast left off and in this episode they discuss the following:

Morgan Wentworth, community force, and manager of Lodestone Games joins the panel! @MTGValkyrie @LodestoneCG

We discuss the player/manager duality through Morgan's perspective at an LGS.

How a group of players can be advantageous at running a store and deciding how to shape their inventory

SCG/Pro Tour Aether Revolt discussions

Interests

What we're acquiring

As always, please comment and leave questions for us to address on the next cast! We will be making QS Insider questions a priority, and we want to know what you want covered.

Enjoy! We’re glad to be back.

Find us on Twitter: @ChazVMTG  @the_tark @MTGValkyrie @LodestoneCG

Another week of Standard, and.......... Oh...... Yea..... So this is what happens when you ban cards from Standard.

Shawn, Justin and I are back at it to break down the only two decks that matter in Standard right now.

Hopefully the Pro Tour can shake things up, and what better way for the Pros to show us how good they than by joining together in 6 man teams to show us who's boss.

Finally we dig into the tips that will inevitably make you master drafter! Or at least pull you up from the 1-2 bracket.

Stay tuned for more next week!

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