Archive for February, 2010
Confirmed artists for GP Madrid 2010
Wotc has finally released the list of artists who will be attending at Grand Prix Madrid 2010. Big thumbs up for bringing Mark Poole, and totally dissapointed with this other guy Steve Argyle.
Here you have their profiles:
Artist Information
Mark Poole
Mark Poole is one of those artists that needs little introduction. He is one of the original illustrators for the Magic: The Gathering Alpha set. He painted 26 Alpha cards and over a hundred Magic: The Gathering cards over the years.
His work includes Ancestral Recall, Birds of Paradise, Counterspell, Balance, Fastbond, Tropical Island, Crusade, Jump, King Suleiman, and many more.
Steve Argyle
Steve Argyle has done some impressive artwork since he started working as a Magic: The Gathering artist a good year ago. He painted Chandra Ablaze for Zendikar and Liliana on Snuff Out from the Duel Decks: Garruk vs. Liliana. Other cards from his hand include Celestial Mantle, Slave of Bolas, Mayeal’s Aria, Naya Battlemage, and Child of Alara.
For Worldwake , Steve produced Admonition Angel and Everfowing Chalice. Steve’s website contains an excellent overview of his sketches and paintings with comments from the artist himself.
TP Goes Mobile!
In order to provide our readers with the best possible reading experience, we’ve just released the mobile version of Team Pataners. Many users might check his favs with his or her iPhone / Nexus One / Nokia on a daily routine, and this is the main reason we think this is a big step forward towards communication. TP Mobile is optimized to work under any platform that uses 3G technology. All you need to do is to type in your mobile browser the same address http://www.team-pataners.com
The interface is simple and very intuitive and still, you won’t miss any of the important features that are needed in a blog like this. You can easily follow what news got new comments, check the archives, etc…
Hope you guys enjoy your new Team Pataners mobile experience!
[Video]: GPT @Ripollet (Barcelona).
Enric Luzán (aka ercoman) not only is a future rock star, but he’s also the guy who’s releasing most amount of Legacy videos lately. He’s editing the videos, cutting them, etc… to make the watch more entertaining and easy to follow. All I gotta say is: THANK YOU!
I’ll be bringing, from now on, all his videos starting from last weekend’s Legacy GPT in Ripollet (Barcelona). You can watch the past videos at ercoman’s YouTube channel and leave comments, suggestions, etc… in there. I’ll be adding (later) a RSS link and a little banner to his channel so you can follow him and never lose the track of what’s going on in Legacy.
Top 8 GPT Madrid – Ripollet – Joan Rubiés vs. Mario Fortes G1
Top 8 GPT Madrid – Ripollet – Joan Rubiés vs. Mario Fortes G2
Top 4 GPT Madrid – Ripollet – David García vs. Adrià Moreno G1
Top 4 GPT Madrid – Ripollet – David García vs. Adrià Moreno G2
WotC entrance door mat
Tired of your boring IKEA door mat at your home entrance? Well, Filippo Lietti, aka TroppoRicco suggests you should get one like this then:
He found it in some shop in London while on vacation. Good one Filippo!
Ask the Guru is back!
Ask da Guru was one of the most funniest productions from Team Pataners back in the good old days. It is now the right time to release the so-expected season 2 of this awesome series! This time, it’s obviously with english subtittles. So, ladies and Gentlemen, hope you enjoy the first chapter:
Ask the guru s02e01 – I told you not to touch it!
Stay tunned and don’t miss next chapter of Ask the guru!
PS: You don’t wanna miss s01e03 – Playing Flash is not a crime! (espanish subtitles)
The day I met mr. Iggy Pop
Well, not really, but this is the story on how I got the pimpest playset of Ill-Gotten Gains ever.
It’s well known my passion for combo decks in Legacy. Most of my success in this format is thanks to the well known Iggy Pop and my iPop Negation decks. The Iggy Pop deck takes this name from the card Ill-Gotten Gains. In the process of pimping my deck to the maximum, I managed to get a playset of Japanese Ill-Gotten Gains, but that wasn’t enough for me. I tried contacting Greg Staples to get’em signed, but I got no luck with him. So, what could I do about it?
An idea landed my head: Contacting the singer Iggy Pop to get my playset of Ill-Gotten Gains signed.
Mr. Iggy Pop
First thing I made was to search on the net how to contact him. It wasn’t easy at all. After joining several fan clubs (like a teenager would do with Britney Spears), I managed to get in touch with the leader of the official Iggy Pop fan club. Several mails were required in order to finally get the contact mail of mr. Mark Walters (manager of Iggy Pop). First of all, let me thank you Monica for making this step possible!
I sent a first mail to Mark Walters explaining a bit what my intentions were: “Sending some staples for mr. Iggy Pop to sign, and then he should send them back”. Never got a mail back from Mark for like a month or so, but I insisted and sent some more, and finally I got his answer. He was a bit curious about my mail, and wanted to know a bit more on what those staples were. Then I mailed him back and explained him a bit about MTG, and about this deck that carries Iggy Pop’s name. Also told him what it means to me to have those cards signed.
I got another mail from him saying the address I should send them to, and that he’ll do his best to get my cards signed. I bet he thinks I’m crazy!
As I got no news on whether or not he managed to send the cards back, I sent a final mail which never got answered.
I almost lost all hope on getting my cards back, I even bought a new playset of Japanese Ill-Gotten Gains to play with. BUT, for my surprise, when the postman came today, I recieved a letter from Mark Walters!
I opened and this is what I found inside:
This is probably my biggest achievement when it comes to this “pimp” trend that we’ve created. Getting cards signed at events or sending cards to artists was easy compared to all the time and hope invested on getting this cards signed.
What’s next? Getting them signed by Greg Stapples! Impossible is nothing!
Keep it real pimp, babes!
Pimp my deck! ANT reloaded
I’m very glad to show you my latest Legacy deck: ANT Reloaded. This is the deck I’ll be, most likely, playing at Grand Prix Madrid. You can read about this deck in my previous article: Is ANT the best combo deck to play at GP Madrid?
