It’s been a while, but we’re back! Show 35 was recorded today and is now up for downloading! It’s another long show for us at almost 40 minutes, but then anything over 30 minutes feels long by our reckoning. It’s sort of like southerners thinking that anywhere north of Watford is “up north”.
This week we talk about M-Fest which happened last weekend. We were both there and had a mixed experience at the event. We also talk about the recently announced restructuring at Wizards of the Coast, the 2009 Pro Tour schedule which was revealed today, and the next preview card from Shards of Alara.
As mentioned in the show, there will be a WPN-sanctioned Legacy tournament happening next Wednesday, August 27th, in Richmond, South-West London (or Surrey, depending on who you ask) at the Old Ship pub. The tournament entry fee will be only £1 and it kicks off at 7pm, so come down if you can and play some Legacy! It’s a crazy format and lots of fun.
As always if you want to get in touch you can reach us on show@deckconstruct.com. The forums are also open as usual and our Web 2.0 empire is also still ticking along nicely across Facebook, YouTube and Vimeo.
It’s a long gap between shows 34 and 35, so I thought I’d do a little something to fill the void. This was actually put together in early June, but now seemed like the best time to release it. Similarly, I’m writing this in late July, because when this goes live on the site I’ll still be in southern Europe. It’s a timeshifted kinda thing.
This is a “sketch” called Thoughts in the Rain. The first time I heard Touch The Sky by iambic2, the words wrote themselves; I just had to record them. It’s an introspective journey through the thoughts of a Magic player after playing in yet another tournament.
Comments are welcome in the usual places, either at show@deckconstruct.com or in the forums.
Our video for the PTQ in Dundee earlier this year is available at last. Our apologies for it taking this long to hit the WWW, but it’s here. Even if the PT Hollywood season is now Magic history, this video does a pretty good job of documenting a small part of that history as played on a coastal town on the eastern edge of Scotland.
The video is available on YouTube (in 10 parts), via direct-download and on Vimeo as well.
Right-click and “Save Link As” (or your browser’s equivalent) to download:
As always, you’ll need Quicktime to watch the H.264 version, or Windows Media in some shape or form to view the WMV version. The H.264 version should also play sweetly on an iPhone, 3G or not (and please let us know if it doesn’t).
We hope you enjoy the video, and don’t forget to let us know what you think of it. Cheers!
Unfortunately we’ve hit a snag with the creation of Clash of the Combos, the video that accompanies show 34, and we’ll have to delay it for a few days. We’re anxious to get it up as soon as possible, and ask for your patience while we sort things out.
However, it’s not all bad news, because we’ve at last managed to edit together our coverage of the PTQ in Dundee that Dan and his friend Simon travelled to back in February. Of course, the PTQ season for Pro-Tour Hollywood is now long-gone, but all the same the video features some good games of Extended Magic. It’s currently being uploaded to YouTube, and downloadable versions as well as the Vimeo upload will be available shortly after.
It’s a beautiful day in London, and it’s time for DC show 34 to hit the net, which this week weighs a chunky 50 minutes.
This week we continue our Archetypes of Magic series with a look at combo. Firstly we try to define what combo actually is and talk about it for a bit, then we dive straight into Magic’s combo past with a look at some significant combo decks from days gone by. As promised, we’ve also shot an accompanying video, Clash of the Combos, for this show which will be available on Monday, July 28.
As mentioned in the show, we’ll be away until August 22nd when we’ll return with an M-Fest special. This is because I’m flying off to sunnier climes for a few weeks, and Dan is going to be busy with summer stuff, too.
As always we’d love to hear what you think about the show at show@deckconstruct.com. We’re also around on Facebook, YouTube, Vimeo and Twitter.
Woo yay it’s Friday and time for show 33 to hit the netwaves.
In this week’s show we talk about the Eventide pre-release in Richmond that we both went to, hosted as always by They Walk Among Us. We also talk about Standard post-Eventide, with a look at some cards from the set and also a brand new combo-based deck whose combo is made up of common and uncommon cards!
As always we really like receiving feedback, which can be sent to show@deckconstruct.com. We’re also on YouTube, Facebook, Vimeo and now Twitter as well. Our tweets will be about pretty much anything Magic-related (and some things that aren’t), including show updates.
It’s raining in London (fifteen miles east) and it’s time for show 32 to play.
In this show, we talk about more Eventide cards to look out for at the pre-release this weekend, including some fun stuff, some cards we think will be tourney staples and also a spicy combo at common rarity. First we talk about non-hybrid cards, then we go into hybrid cards.
As always, we’d love to hear from you at show@deckconstruct.com, and our slow, steady domination of the Web 2.0 world (or something) continues via Facebook, YouTube and Vimeo.
Show 31 is a bit late this week due to technical difficulties of a hosting nature, and we apologise for that. However, it’s all been sorted now. We’ve kept the date as July 4 for continuity purposes (and because it just looks better in a strange sort of way).
This week’s show is partly about the future (as seen from the present) as we look at Eventide. We talk about cards that could be future constructed staples, as well as cards that might not be, but caught our eye all the same. The Eventide segments are full of spoilers, so if you’re not partial to a few spoiled cards you might want to “look away now”.
We also talk about GP Buenos Aires which was a Standard GP that took place last weekend. It was a Summer Series GP, which meant extra pro points to the victor.
Your feedback is greatly appreciated at show@deckconstruct.com, and you can find us at Facebook, Vimeo and YouTube as well.
We’re currently having a problem with uploading files to Libsyn, our “podcast solutions provider” (or in Plain English the guys who host our MP3 files). Because of this, show 31 might be slightly late this week. We apologise, and ask you to bear with us until we sort it out. Thanks!
Update, June 6: Problem resolved! Show 31 will go up very soon.
Live from… OK, timeshifted from a rainy London, we present DC show 30! It’s another small milestone for the show.
This week, we talk about the Wizards Play Network, and what it means for people like us who actually want to run events through it. We also talk about last weekend’s Legacy tournament in Central London, and about a Legacy deck that caught our eye recently, although it does run a very expensive card.
As always, your feedback is much appreciated at show@deckconstruct.com, and we have our usual presences at YouTube, Vimeo and Facebook.
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