First Pick: New cards in Standard/Modern

1st big Standard event. Notables:

Pyromancer’s Goggles

Westvale Abbey

Drownyard Temple

Thing in the Ice

Thalia’s Lieutenant/Humans in General/White cards in General

Angel Wars - Round 12

Eldrazi Displacer

Fall of the Titans - playtesting for Avacyn’s Judgment

Tireless Tracker

Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim

Underwhelming effects of Vision and Sword on Modern, Gifts Tron, Scapeshift

New GY deck tools: Prized Amalgam, Insolent Neonate

Desperate Ravings - Enter The Battlefield

Enter The Battlefield premiers April 25 on Twitch:

http://magic.wizards.com/en/content/enter-the-battlefield

Narrated by Wil Wheaton; Netflix release; YouTube release

Owen’s Mom in trailer: “My son never loses.”

Gather the Townsfolk - The New New Order (MTGJudge)

Judge Program Overhaul:

http://blogs.magicjudges.org/blog/2016/04/11/the-new-new-world-order/

First major overhaul since New Order came into effect Sept. 2004

Important to note: there wasn’t WotC interference/input AFAIK here, purely MTGJudge driven

Splash Damage - New president of Hasbro, Leeds to Cocks (heh)

Greg Leeds resigns, Chris Cocks takes over:

http://newsroom.hasbro.com/mediakit/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=964479

http://seekingalpha.com/news/3172497-hasbro-charts-path-wizards-coast

Two new design jobs popped up on MTG/WotC:

https://www.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/4ekph6/hasbros_annual_report_new_digital_platform_for/

https://www.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/4ekph6/hasbros_annual_report_new_digital_platform_for/

Going Infinite

https://www.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/4ennvn/what_bad_magicrelated_decision_did_you_make_long/

The Finisher:

This weekend is the first StarCityGames Invitational of 2016 is happening in Columbus Ohio and as you know the winner of this weekend’s Invi gets their own token. So if you somehow won an Invitational, what kind of token would you be?

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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?