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We have lots of Amonkhet to talk about! There's a lengthy discussion about why people do and don't like the Invocations (even though they're awesome), a teensy bit of Team Unified Modern, and plenty of talk about split cards old and new. We're not entirely sure why no one called in to our awesome call-in spectacular. I guess you guys just prefer Twitter to communicate with us, and we appreciate it!

MNM Hosts This Week

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

Bill Bloodworth (Squee) from Enchant World, @SqueeGoblnNabob

Aaron Lacluyze (Cluze, Dr. Science) from Random Discard, @lacluyze

 

This Week in Magic

– GP San Antonio coverage

– Amonkhet Invocations

– Zendikar Expeditions (for comparison)

– Kaladesh Inventions (for comparison)

– Amonkhet Mechanics

– Split card rules update

– First of the New Gods (not the Jack Kirby ones)

– Amonkhet Card Image Gallery

– That Momir Vig spark tweet

MTGO News

– MTGO Announcements

– The first Throwback Standard Gauntlet

– Flashback Favorites and Throwback Standard Gauntlets

– MTGO Event Calendar

 

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Alex Bianchi is a Silver-level pro from Buffalo, New York with 1 Grand Prix Top 8 and 1 win (GP Pittsburgh 2015). He is also the team captain of Team Dave & Adam's for the 2016-2017 Pro Tour Team Series, and writes articles for ManaDeprived.com.

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First Set

Mirrodin

Favorite Set

Ravnica City of Guilds

Favorite Card

Nahiri, The Harbinger

What makes Magic: The Gathering fun for you?

The game is challenging and the people are great.

Early Challenge

Deck selection. It took a while for Alex to realize he should play the best deck.

Worst Magic Moment

Needed 2 points to get the silver; got it, then needed one win to made top 8. He missed it three times in a row.

Proudest Magic Moment

Winning GP Pittsburgh. When he made Top 8, he qualified for his Pro Tour and went with two friends.

What Have You Learned From Magic

Networking and traveling.

Best Format

Death Shadow Jund

Magic Mentors

Kai Burnett taught Alex how to grind.

Deepest Thing You've Learned About Yourself

The social aspect of the game is more important.

Biggest Mistake Players Make

Focusing too much on specific formats. You need to be good at many formats.

How to Effectively Prepare for a Big Event

Alex plays a lot of MTGO competitive leagues.

Shortcomings As a Magic Player

Getting unintentional draws.

Tournament Day Tips

Rest between rounds, drink water.

Magic Resource

Twitch.TV, MTGCoverage.com, SCG, MTG Pulse

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Twitter:@Gemmanite

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What really causes the price of cards to rebound and sometimes even go beyond the starting price? This week, we examine the economics of reprints, again...

This week Jerry and Patrick discuss drafting Modern Masters 2017, the newly previewed Amonkhet Invocations, and their week in Legacy

 

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Sean and Owen have their first guest on the show! Greg Reynolds stops by and helps us break down some Amonkhet preview cards. We talk standard, EDH and legacy. We present a possible alternative land that can be printed to bypass the barrier to entry for legacy, and much ado about the new masterpieces coming our way!

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Here's how all the dorks did at GP Orlando! I know this episode is going up out of order, but it's time-sensitive since we just got back so just ignore the previous missing episodes.

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Well before absolutely anything else, we both feel the whole controversy about the invocations is dumb, if you don't want them please feel free to send them to us.

Also There is an issue with my audio in the beginning of the show and we fix it about half way through, sorry it was so quiet.

Lastly, My opinions on Announcement day being dumb and it failing this year are my own and not the Lair of Lore's over all, but if you want to get the full fury behind those opinions they will be in the extra bits.

Now then unto the topic at hand, our Shadowmoor planeshift. We did a run through of all the races from Shadowmoor we feel like deserve to be a playable character race in our hypothetical multiverse wide D&D game.As with Lorwynn we decided that the giants, treefolk, and Faeries were either to small, large, or significant to be player characters, However Shadowmoor brought out some new races. Namely the Duregar, the Hobgoblins, selkies, noggles, and pucas. We ended up deciding that the duregar and the hobgoblins were significant enough to warrant races but not the other two, sorry but donkey people are more of a gag than I would personally like to try DMing.

Otherwise we covered and included the remaining races from Lorwynn, the cinders, formerly flamekin, the elves, boggarts, kithkin, and the merrow.

ou can find everything else we do over at

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This week the guys start off discussing movies, videos games and Jennifer Aniston. Once they get to Magic they talk about Knife's Modern burn deck, their Conspiracy Cube, CFB taking over GP's, how the Gatewatch is played out and about how wonderful Magic Digital Next could be. Stick around until the end to find out why their episodes are always so delayed.

Hosts

Knifecity Alchemist

Samhain Crow

Hot Sauce

Twitter Handles

@knife_city

@tehHotSauce

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@iflandscouldkil

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Our very own website:

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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:

Kelly Reid re-joins the cast to discuss early news of Amonkhet. Kelly Reid is the CEO of Quiet Speculation/ION Scanner

Interests

We discuss how the AKH Invocations could leave extra growth room for AKH cards.

Looked at reactionary cards, and how we can traverse new Standard from early signs.

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 @kellyreid

Hey everyone! Big announcement!

I'm changing up the format of the podcast moving forward. Please listen for details.

Thanks!

Sam