Happy Holidays, Here's Some News - Podcasting!

Happy Holidays all, hope you've been enjoying the break!

I will have a writer profile thingy availabel on TCGPlayer this Friday, but in the mean time, Calvin, Christian Renoe, and I had been recording podcasts, which we dubbed 'Off Color Cast'  I took over editing tonight, so hopefully I'll have episode 1 ready to go, with ep 2 shortly after! 

All the articles I had planned for the break turned into material for the show, hence the lack of anything, but to be fair, not too much EDH news has been going down.

I've reached out to a few people interested in writing about magic, so there may be some junior authors popping up on YCHt'N. 

Cheaterface - Alex Bertoncini

So, I figured I'll weigh in on the subject of Alex Bertoncini's recent suspension by the DCI for his rampant cheaterness.  I played the dude at the TCGPlayer 75K in the third round, at table 6 nonetheless!  We got a deck check (so I am quite sure there was no sideboard shennanigans!) so Alex and I actually got a lot of time to shoot the shit and talk magic, and suprisingly, EDH.  I played poorly because of the goofing off, and was soundly beaten.  Did I watch him Ponder?  No, and it is possible that the cards that punished my poor play were cheated into hand.  Eitherway, bravo.

 http://mixedknuts.wordpress.com/2011/12/12/unlocking-the-cheats-of-scg-player-of-the-year-alex-bertoncini/

Here Comes Godo Clause! is up at TCGPlayer.com

My newest article is up at TCGPlayer.com, this time a Godo list sent in by Marcus.  Enjoy!!!

http://magic.tcgplayer.com/db/article.asp?ID=10199

Glissa's Myr All Over the Mothership!

There's something, on the wing.  Some, thing!  It looks like, a metal gummy bear?

http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg%2Fdaily%2Fdeck%2F864

Another of my deck lists got posted on Wizards.com, this time the Standard Commander Glissa's Myrs list i posted last week.  Good times.

International Gaming - Germany and the Grand Prix over at Completely Casual

Good ol' Dominik has been working on this bad boy for a while, and it's an interesting departure from the normal discourse on EDH and Magic out there.  Dominik likes to talk about Magic in the outside world in general, but this one is more of a technical and functional accomplishment.  Very good stuff!

http://www.cafeschoenleben.de/wordpress/?p=1939

Maelstrom Wanderer - Planechase 2012 and EDH

Okay, so I know I am a little behind on this, but I want to bring it up anyways.  Wizards recently announced the second run of Planechase, scheduled for Summer of 2012.  What is interesting to me is the fact that it will include NEW cards for eternal formats.  They spoiled a single card, and there is no doubt that us Commander'ers are the target audience for the new cards.  Check out Maelstrom Wanderer, something only an EDH general could love.

http://www.wizards.com/magic/magazine/article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/arcana/848

Standard Commander 2 : Glissa's Myrs is up at TCGPlayer.com

I like building with goofy restrictions, and one of the more interesting to me is using the Standard pool only. 

http://magic.tcgplayer.com/db/article.asp?ID=10184