First Pick & Giveaway
Patreon Stream - Sunday, October 15th - 9PM ET
Giveaway - Legend of the Five Rings Core Set -
https://gleam.io/vZAMv/win-a-free-copy-of-legend-of-the-five-rings-the-card-game
World Championships - Congrats Huey Jensen!
Winning Deck: Temur Energy; Top 4 - Temur Energy, Ramunap Red, 2x U/B Control
Outstanding Cards - The Scarab God
Final Standings in Worlds Draft - Reuben 60, Evan 58, Erin 42 (Total combined match points)
Shiny / Glossy sleeve problem: https://www.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/74plfo/this_is_why_official_mtg_event_coverage_should/
Ixalan board game thing
An update to the Magic the Gathering logo:
https://www.hipstersofthecoast.com/2017/10/new-logo-new-brand-mtg/
Introducing Team Cardhoarder Brazil:
https://www.cardhoarder.com/content/introducing-team-cardhoarder-brazil-325
Gather the Townsfolk
Erin wins Vintage challenge and goes 3-0 on VSL
“Player or Planeswalker” errata / rules change coming soon; no more ‘redirecting’ damage: http://markrosewater.tumblr.com/post/166162774138/what-planeswalker-redirection-rule-change
MTG Arena stream details - thanks to Hipsters of the Coast
Desperate Ravings
Contract for first GP of 2018 is up. Judges are not pleased: https://amp.reddit.com/r/mtgjudge/comments/746uhx/first_2018_gp_up_hope_you_have_your_public/dnyg9e3/
Double-sided tokens are terrible
https://www.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/74rzqm/doublesided_tokens_feel_lazy_and_completely/
1v1 Commander Changes: Tutors, and Emrakul are out: http://wizardsmtgo.tumblr.com/post/166220048834/mtgo-commander-1v1-banned-announcement
Blast from the Past
1993 article about MTG: https://i.imgur.com/yhCs9Di.png
The Finisher
Last week, it was announced that on December 15th after 20 years AOL will be discontinuing America Online Instant Messenger service, better known as AIM. This is a huge blow to many who used the long-running instant messenger service that was core to many people’s first social experiences on the internet. So as we set our away messages and tag our availability statuses for the last time, how will you remember AIM?