First Pick & Giveaway:
GIVEAWAY - Win a Playset of Majestic Myriarch
https://gleam.io/F2OHS/win-a-playset-of-majestic-myriarch
Exclusive Preview - Majestic Myriarch
Going Infinite:
Hall of Fame ballots are out.
https://twitter.com/misterorange/status/880167822831357952
Erin asks: ‘Do you think it’s appropriate for #WotCStaff to stump for nominees?’
Sene1’s thoughts: https://www.facebook.com/notes/sveinung-bj%C3%B8rnerud/2017-hall-of-fame-early-thoughts/10158878989960437/
Quote from LSV on FB:
The average Hall of Fame voting thread:
- "You should vote for [person not remotely close to being eligible]"
- "I know [person] is a cheater, but their results are great"
- "This person's results are clearly the best" (about someone with fewer results across the board than other candidates)
- "Based on these objective criteria, you have to vote for this person" (criteria chosen in reverse to justify voting for someone specific)
At the end of all this, everyone just votes for exactly who they wanted to initially, based on whatever they feel is relevant, and nobody changes their mind. At least Josh Utter-Leyton will get to enjoy a month of everyone talking about how great he is, because not voting for him is pretty hard to justify, regardless of the metrics you choose.
SethBurn’s MaRo/Long/Pikula opinion: https://sethburn.wordpress.com/2017/06/29/chris-pikula-vs-maro-the-soul-of-the-mtg-hall-of-fame/
Sam Stoddard’s thoughts on MTGHOF from 2011
http://www.starcitygames.com/magic/misc/22389_The_Hall_Of_Fame.html
Magic Hall of Fame should have a physical location! Travel around with Magic Art Show to GPs?
Gather the Townsfolk:
”Cassius Marsh Gets Wrecked at GP Vegas” article on Kotaku: http://compete.kotaku.com/cassius-marsh-competes-in-magic-tournament-gets-wrecke-1796367714
Official Seahawks take on Cassius in Vegas: http://www.seahawks.com/news/2017/06/22/seahawks-defensive-end-cassius-marsh-link-between-two-worlds-magic-gathering-grand
Splash Damage:
WotC makes a rainbow. People lose their minds:
https://twitter.com/OriginalOestrus/status/878350288293306368
The Finisher
https://www.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/6j6503/theory_the_m10_rule_changes_never_happened/
This week over on the MTG subreddit, user ScottRadish stumbled upon one of the greatest cover-ups in Magic history: The M10 rule changes never happened! The theory goes that Rise of the Eldrazi came out in 2009, as did several big rule changes that coincided with the arrival of our flying spaghetti overlords. Magic did away with mana burn, but not because it was an archaic stupid rule… but because Ulamog ate all the excess mana! 1-cost burn spells and mana dorks stopped seeing print, but not because Lightning Bolt and Elvish Mystic were too good… it’s because Kozilek was countering them all! The exile zone was introduced, but not because it sounds way cooler than “removed from game…” but because the Eldrazi can process things from there! And now, with the deaths of Kozilek and Ulamog at the hands of the Gatewatch last year, Llanowar Elves and mana burn were due to come back… which is why the Standard rotation cycle was reverted back to the old 2 year version! **Wake up people!** The M10 rule changes never actually came into effect! That means damage has been on the stack for the last seven years! The term “battlefield” was introduced then as well… so where have we been putting our 187 creatures since 2009? Dogs and cats living together! Mass Hysteria! ((breathe)) Now, clearly this is the best Magic conspiracy theory since Conspiracy, but we gotta sell more National Inquirers next week, so what is another tinfoil tricorn hat hypothesis you came up with?
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First Pick & Giveaway:
GIVEAWAY - 4x Scarab Heavy Metal Magic tokens
NEW SHOW STARTING TUESDAY - Magic Mics Top 10s
Exclusive Preview Next Week
Spoilers - http://mythicspoiler.com/newspoilers.html
Gather the Townsfolk:
Ixalan Foil Sheet Spoiling:
The Finisher
This past Monday, just after GP Vegas ended, the National Weather Service reported that Las Vegas, Nevada posted the highest ever recorded temperature of 117 degrees in Sin City. Since then, Phoenix, Palm Springs, and many others also reported record highs. Death Valley came within degrees of the hottest it has ever been anywhere in the United States. Burbank airport in southern California grounded regional aircraft because the air was too hot and thin to provide the lift needed to take off. #Science. Basically it’s the perfect metagame Deserts and Hour of Devastation. So based on the spoiler season and the summer season heating up, what do you expect the next official Hour of Devastation preview to be?
First Pick & Giveaway:
GIVEAWAY - Gift Certificates
Announcement Week!
#1 - Metamorphosis 2.0
http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/making-magic/metamorphosis-2-0-2017-06-12
New Worlds each plane; the death of small sets
The Core Set Returns! Core 2019 on its way in July
Less Gatewatch characters/planeswalkers in sets
“Play Design” team developed
http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/magic-digital/magic-digital-next-update-2017-06-13
Magic MMORPG coming from Cryptic Studios
Magic Duels is dead
http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/feature/june-13-2017-banned-and-restricted-announcement-2017-06-13
Aetherworks Marvel is banned in Standard
Looked at adding cards to Standard
http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/25th-anniversary-announcement-day-2017-06-14
Ixalan is coming - leaks suck
Rivals of Ixalan in January 2018
New “Art of Ixalan” book coming
April of 2018 - “Dominaria” coming! Richard Garfield on design team!
25th Anniversary Masters Set in March 2018
UNSTABLE - New Un-Set - December 8th, 2017
http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/organized-play/playing-pro-tour-2017-06-15
Pro Tours not necessarily 2 weeks after set release (starting with Ixalan)
TEAM PRO TOURS - for Pro Tour Core Set 2019
How should people qualify?
What format should the qualifiers / Pro Tour use?
Red Zone: Leaks - Good or Bad? Publish / Talk About or No?
Giveaway / Trivia Questions
$10 - What Was Our First Ever Preview Card?
$25 - Who Was The Only Guest EVER On The Show?
$50 - What Episode # are we filming today?
$100 - What Day Did The First Show Air?
First Pick & Giveaway:
GIVEAWAY - Nicol Bolas Archenemy set - https://gleam.io/a5WTR/win-a-copy-of-archenemy-nicol-bolas
Hour of Devastation Spoilers - Nicol Bolas, Samut, Bontu’s Last Reckoning
MTG Triple-A Video Game MMORPG!
Gather the Townsfolk:
MTGO 15th Anniversary:
Extra HOU cards - Basic Lands
http://markrosewater.tumblr.com/post/161531668138/will-next-mondays-article-solve-the-mystery-of
Seen in Archenemy:
Red Zone:
Commander vs 1 v 1 Commander
http://magic.tcgplayer.com/db/article.asp?ID=13987&writer=Bruce+Richard&articledate=6-6-2017
Desperate Ravings:
Magic Streamers to Watch, by Gaby Spartz:
http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/magic-digital/magic-streamers-watch-2017-06-06
The Finisher
Ladies and gentlemen, Magicians of all ages, next week is Grand Prix Las Vegas, and that means we are a short *nine days* from the first ever Magic Mics filmed in front of a live studio audience with all three of us sitting together in the same room, and of course later broadcast live-to-tape like Saturday Night Live does it. It is very exciting, but it’s also a lot of pressure, because you all expect the best from us. So in order to live up to the hype, what’s one thing we can do to make next week’s live show extra memorable?
First Pick & Giveaway:
GIVEAWAY - $50 CoolStuffInc.com Gift Certificate
https://gleam.io/JY1OG/win-a-free-50-gift-certificate-from-coolstuffinccom
GP Vegas Announcement - LIVE SHOW!
C17 Spoilers after last week
Gather the Townsfolk:
Announcing ‘Commander: Anthology:’ http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/feature/commander-anthology-2017-05-29
Changes to Magic Online PPTQs: http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/magic-online/magic-online-amonkhet-championship-event-details-2017-05-31
New cards warp easier?
https://www.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/6ehulg/amonkhet_print_quality_is_all_over_the_place/
https://www.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/6e4a9u/wotc_you_need_to_fix_this/
Desperate Ravings:
Pro Tour Special Invite Controversy: http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/organized-play/amaz-comes-kyoto-plus-video-through-june-2017-05-25
Amaz (Jason Chan) bio - http://wiki.teamliquid.net/hearthstone/Amaz his Twitch AmazHS has over 76m views, 806,000 followers, regularly gets 20,000 watching him at any one time.
GP Vegas Travel Guide, by Chris Higashi on NumotGaming
http://www.numotgaming.com/GP-Vegas.pdf
Going Infinite:
“Head to Head: Fun things wizards won’t let you have” https://twitter.com/CubeApril/status/869565612128907264
Follow along: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FwvbCqupOyW5bj5PkuuQlgQlmiXJBMrY12pMaecWfE8/edit?usp=sharing
Blast From The Past:
Worst GP Playmats
The Finisher
This June, we celebrate a few life milestones: Magic Mics turns 2 later this month, we’re going to have our first live studio audience episode at GP Vegas, my son Miles turned 6 today, and thousands of folks from all over the world graduate from high school, universities, and various community colleges (both Tolarian and otherwise). So as we don our mortarboards and sign our yearbooks, what would like your current senior quote to be?