The Magic Show #116 - Shards of FAIL

Hello everybody and welcome to another edition of the Magic Show. After suffering through this past weekends prerelease festivities, something must be said. And if Im the guy who has to say it, so be it. Ill also cover the leak of the complete Conflux card list, and feature a special visit from Patrick Chapin and Friends. Lets go!

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How do you feel? Good or bad, I want to know. Leave a comment, reply in the forums, or, better yet, why not tell Wizards of the Coast directly by dialing this number: 1-800-324-6496 or go to http://wizards.custhelp.com for Wizards of the Coast customer service. Let them hear your story. Good or bad, let your voice be heard.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• MTG
• Magic
• the
• Gathering
• StarCityGames
• Online
• Shard
• of
• Alara
• Prerelease
• Conflux
• Leak
• Patrick
• Chapin
• Gabriel
• Nassif

[jaffar616]

Your vids must be the only ones on youtube that keep me entertained for more than 5 minutes =)

[bobudess]

getting product isn't getting paid,

it is getting 'compensated' as you cant get paid with something that isn't money.

[Thyeggman]

I followed you until less prerelease events.... You've got to be kidding!! There are many burgeoning young players who can't drive that far AND won't go there because they don't know the player base. I used to go to a shop until the player base became unappealing. I wouldn't go to prereleases now BUT because wizards expanded the prerelease eligibility I can now go to a cheap ($15!!!) prerelease at a non-retail loaction. And that includes ridiculous prize support. "Specialness" nothing.

[Utubesuxmycock]

fucking funny episode

[redeyedgamer]

Judgian Negator FTW!!!! That totally made me laugh. "It exists to piss off" lol

[drakewraith]

Hey I used to go to my local shop for pre-release drafts the turn out would be 10-20 people but we always adhered to the new & current rule set because we live nowhere near large scale release events.

what I'm getting at is that no one goes to release events due to the travel distance & none of like to do sealed drafts because we are smart.

PEACE:^)

[shooksonv2]

i disagree my friend invited me 2 our first pre release at a small local card shop. since then collectively have probably spent over $800 on cards

[pyroticmaniac]

shards owned and still owns.

[jedi1josh]

I don't want Magic to be difficult, I want it to be fun. Shards of Alara has taken the fun out of Magic.

[jedi1josh]

I prefer to play game where mana fixing isn't even a issue. If you need green mana play forests. If you need black play swamps. Non basic lands should almost always produce colorless or a mono colored mana. Once you get into lands that created all kinds of mana you create gold spells, those lands become more valuable than land ought to be. In every format type Shards of Alara has grossly inflated the value of land to a point where they are difficult to obtain.

[jedi1josh]

The reason is because people take them right away even before they take the rare. However the larger issue is with constructed. Those who can afford to purchase 4 Reflecting pools are at a greater advantage of those who cannot. You need Mana to win games! The simple fact is that a card like Reflecting pool is a necessity in playing Shards. Shards made the term "Mana fixing" popular again.