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After Matt spent 3 days playing side events at GP Louisville the TriHards breakdown his adventures & find out why a Judge laughed at him!  Sean admits to a problem, the trio talk Masterworks, shorthanded drafts & whether a lack of trade-in bonus at Sean's LGS is a deal breaker.  Grab a drink & prepare to be mildly amused!  In the Elevator, 3 Minutes to Brew & a whiff of river...It can only be TriHards!

Team GP Results Louisville / Kyoto

Kaladesh Inventions Image Gallery

In the Elevator: Liliana, the Last Hope

3 Min to Brew: Geier Reach Sanitarium

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Seriously? First it was Pangolin, now Bomat? Come on WOTC!

Shawn and Justin join me tonight to dig into all the new Kaladesh spoilers, but first Shawn and I pat ourselves on the back for a fantastic PPTQ performance from last weekend.

Be sure to check out my tournament report and deck tech over on YouTube here!

On to the spoilers! Our final Planeswalker has been revealed and we dig a little deeper into how easy or difficult it is evaluating the set as a whole.

Finally, WOTC dropped a huge surprise on us this week with the revelation of the Masterpiece Collection!

Rarer than Mythic and 10 times as shiny, these Kaladesh Inventions are sure to delight all players, but are they good for Magic overall? We discuss.

Stay tuned for more next week!

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Hello all!  Please give welcome John Cummings, Slayer of BBD!!!

In this show we talk about our GP Louisville experience and all the good food!

Then we discuss the new masterpieces and how they are broken in limited.

Thank you all for joining us and let us know your thoughts!

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Chris, Rob, and Jerry are back as they discuss the upcoming changes to the Standard Meta as well as the impact Kaladesh will have on both Standard and Modern!

What a week for spoilers. We go over latest cards released from Kaladesh. Curtis talks Puca Trade. Cameron thinks about selling his entire card collection to resurrect the Apollo moon missions. Thank you for your honor.

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Music by Micah Jones

We're finally on Stitcher!

Alas, we are once again Cluzeless. Luckily, he did record a brief summary of the Magic at PAX with the Lady Cluze, since they were both there. Then Squee & I talk all about the Masterpieces and...that's about it really. Yay slow news week!

MNM Hosts This Week

Chewie Slate from Mana Pool Productions & TheManaPool on Youtube, @TheManaPool

Bill Bloodworth (Squee) from Enchant World, @SqueeGoblnNabob

 

This Week in Magic and other MTGCast News

– Introducing the Masterpiece Series

– Masterpiece Series: Kaladesh Inventions

– GP Kyoto coverage

– GP Louisville coverage

– RPTQ decklists for PT Kaladesh

– Kaladesh Card Image Gallery

– Sneak peek at a possible addition to the Gatewatch?

MTGO News

– MTGO Announcements

– Full Innistrad Sealed!

– Legacy Cube returns

– MTGO Event Calendar

– Year of Modern Flashback drafts

 

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Oliver Polak-Rottmann has 4 Grand Prix Top 8 including 1 Win, 1 Pro Tour Top 16, and is a 2-time National champion (2008, 2016). Oliver lives in Vienna, Austria.

Click to Tweet: I got a ton of value from Oliver Polak-Rottmann when he shared his story on #MTGProTutor! Listen here: http://bit.ly/mtgprotutor-ep130

First Set

4th Edition

Favorite Set

Coldsnap (Draft) / Champions of Kamigawa

Favorite Card

Island

Mana Drain

Master of Waves

Underplayed Standard Card

Woodland Bellower

Gilt-Leaf Winnower

What makes Magic: The Gathering fun for you?

Oliver has made great friends playing Magic.

How to have fun and be competitive

By understanding variance always happens it will even out the highs and lows

Early Challenge

Try to finish his black border dual land collection. Money was an issue. Through trading and drafting. Oli was able to get the money for the card.

Level Up Moment

The year Oli qualified for 3 of 7 Pro Tours is when he realized he had leveled up.

Worst Magic Moment

In the 2008 season, Oli skipped the Pro Tour because he only needed 1 point. He needed to make to 200 of 380 players, and he didn't make it. It felt terrible . Oli learned you have to take the game seriously but not let it consume you."If you're failing at Magic, you're not failing at life".

Proudest Magic Moment

Making Platinum at Pro Tour Eldritch Moon.

Best Format

Standard

Deepest Thing You've Learned About Yourself

Oli learned about the world by traveling with Magic.

Biggest Mistake Players Make

Players don't Sideboard correctly and they don't seek advice as much as they should. People feel they know it better.

Short comings

Make Pro Tour Top 8.

How to Effectively Prepare for a Big Event

Booked a house two weeks before the Pro Tour with his team to practice. Know the balance you need. Playing a lot of games (10-15) per match up helps Oli get a feel and collect data.

Conversation 5 Years Ago

"Pick up Power cards and dual lands."

Improvement Suggestions

Enjoy the game, Make friends.

Magic Resource

CFB 

Hareruya

Connect With Oliver Polak-Rottmann

Twitter: @polakrottmann

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

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I’m talking with Brian Braun-Duin, the winner of the 2016 Magic World Championships.

Brian shares with us his story, starting from the beginning.

How he went from broke, sleeping on the couch, to grinding tournaments, writing for SCG, playing in his first Pro Tours, joining teams, leaving teams, getting fired, getting hired, all the way to locking up Grand Prix Master to earn his fabled World Championship invite.

If you’ve been in the MTG community for basically the last week, you know that Brian goes on to win the World Championships, and the cool $70,000 dollar prize.

We also talk about what’s coming up next for him, as you heard in the preview, Brian’s hopeful and excited for the road ahead.

He’s no stranger to hard work and he credits some influential Magic players in Roanoke Virginia that have contributed to his success.

You don’t want to miss my interview with Brian Braun-Duin, all on the next episode of Kitchen Table Magic.

- Sam

Links:

Holler at the champ on Twitter @BraunDuinIt

Brian on Facebook

BBD's articles on Channel Fireball

Hey guys and gals,

Welcome to the 100th Episode.

In all sincerity we would like to thank everyone for there support in the cast along the way. This is especially true for all who have helped in gathering commons for the charity drives, where we have been able to assist in supporting MTGCast, The Wounded Warrior Project and The St. Jude Children's Hospital.

Along the way we have hoped that we have been able to brighten up your Monday mornings.

To contribute to the ongoing charity drives or just to interact, feel free to find us by any means listed below and we will see you there.

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Opening Song Linkin Park - Paper Cut

This week is a light week, we have a special guest Nick who's first time it was coming to the Game shop we go to.  We talk a few spoilers for Kaladesh and touch on how Max and Nick got into Magic: The Gathering, and thats the episode for the most part.

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@Forevrundead - Max