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We all know that Richard Ph.D. Garfield has always been very kind when it comes to sign your cards. If you are lucky enough to meet him once, he’ll be always up for some signing and, if you are brave enough, maybe some alterations.

What happens when one of the biggest collectors meets Mr. Garfield? In the following video, Daniel Chang asks Richard for some signatures and… check it by yourself!

Yeah, you better safe than sorry! Good job Daniel!

PS: 9.5 Lotuses are tooooo much for my eyes!

XMTG, the web comic that comes every Monday and Thursday at the Mana Nation, shows how the Reserved list decission was taken.

So true!

Sorry for the offtopic here but, today while searching for some images I managed to find this awesome Pentavus illustration ala M.C. Escher style, and couldn’t resist sharing it.

I’m a huge huge fan of M.C. Escher since my early days at the Architecture University. I’ve always reproduced his impossible illusions myself in order to find out the geometry of his art. Mixing Magic: The Gathering with M.C. Escher in one image really made my day!

Whoever did it, coz I haven’t found out yet, deserves my special mention for his/her excellent photoshop skills!

This is the original art from M.C. Escher’s “Reptiles” illustration:

I wonder why he deleted the book at the top right corner though…

I know this issue of the price of some Legacy staples has been discussed enough over The Source and other forums on the net. So, I’m not gonna give you my opinion here but instead I’ll show the latest vignette from Pro MTG Online, the ultimate self-aware Magic strategy web comic, that updates itself.

I just love what the Good Gamery guys can do!

Once you reach a certain age, the concept of winning might be different than it was 10-15 years ago. I’m 100% sure I’m gonna win GP Madrid, in many different levels. Let’s have a look at what winning would be depending on your age.

When I was 16-19 year old, my “win” concept was:

• Reaching day 2 at the GP main event.
• Playing a metagame deck (rogue style)
• Get those white borders dual lands I’m missing to complete a certain deck.
• Get my junky commons signed by the artists attending.
• Eating my mum’s sandwhich, who made it with tones of love in order to wish me luck
• Saturday’s night party takes place at the hotel, with cheap vodka and a nameless “cola”. Your hangover is the only thing you will remember from that night.
• Travelling for 100€ including bus and hotel/hostel.

When I was 20-25 year old, my “win” concept was:

• Winning a GPT in order to start with some byes and increase the chances of making day 2 and fight for the money.
• Playing the best deck of the moment. You copy/paste from pro’s on the internet and no longer from ink-printed magazines.
• Get those FBB dual lands I’m missing to complete a certain deck.
• Get your playable rares and playmat signed by the artists attending. I would buy something from them to seem nicer.
• Finding a good Kebab/McDonnalds/Burger King nearby to eat.
• Saturday’s night party takes place at cheap bars and later at the wrong disco. The ugly girls at the disco is all you will remember from that night.
• Travelling with your friends by car, find a nice 2 star hotel and share 2 rooms.

When you are my age, soon 30, teh win concept is:

• Finding the Side Events board to see when the Vintage events are starting.
• Real men play combo, and you love it.
• Get those beta duals and foil jap fetches from your usual dealers.
• Queueing less than 3 hours and getting all your beta/foil japanese playable cards signed and altered. You also want the artists alter your playmat. Instead of buying their art like younger noobs do, you give them a 50€ bill straight away so you don’t have to worry about that piece of paper all day.
• Finding a Michelin graded restaurant in the area to enjoy a good meal. If you are doing well at the main event, who cares? You drop and go score a good meal.
• Saturday’s night party takes place at the most glamorous places. First a good cocktail in some chick lounge and then some champagne at the best club in town. You’ll remember hardly anything, but then your friends will find out you did crazy stuff! No hangover, indeed.
• Travelling by car/bus or cheap train ain’t an option. You want to be there fast and comfortable, and that’s why you go by plain or high-speed train. You want the hotel to be at least 3 stars and  no longer share beds.

No matter how old you are, remember:

I don’t know if you guys noticed that we are running a Team Pataners Store (you can find it at the upper menu tabs). Right now we can only offer few designs, and we hope to be adding more really soon.

If there’s a T-Shirt I would wear while playing at GP Madrid would definitely be this “REAL MEN PLAY COMBO” one.

You can buy it at the price of $15.99 (11.65€). Visit our store, click, choose size and you are good to go!

Last Sunday I went to play this GPT for Madrid with my (not so) budget Affinity deck. From the decklist I ran, there’s one card I’m really satisfied with: Perish.

I’m not sure whether or not is the right time to include Perish maindeck. With the uprising hype of Bant decks packing Natural Order / Progenitus, Tarmogoyf, Noble Hierarch, Qasali Pridemage, etc… I believe it’s the time to step forward and be ahead of the metagame.

If you hate Tarmagoyf as much as I do and would love to annihilate them all, Grand Prix Madrid would be the perfect scenario. Some random numbers I can come up with from my metagame predictions:

• GP Madrid attendance (based on nothing xD) = 2000 players
• Average of decks running x4 Tarmogoyf = 70% (Healthy format my ass!)

With those two numbers, you can come up with one idea: THERE’S GONNA BE A LOT OF GOYFS! exactly:

70% of 2000 players = 1400 times 4 = 5600 Tarmogoyf all together in less than 10000 m2.

Now imagine just casting a RL® Perish! OMG, you would make Legacy a healthy format in a matter of seconds!

Last Sunday I had the chance of making 2×1’s and 3×1’s thanks to Perish. Man, that retaliation feeling you got once you see your opponent (with tears in his eyes) placing those hordes of green creatures (I miss you Grizzly Bears!) in his graveyard is just PRICELESS!!!!!

I think I’m gonna My friend Jorge (aka the_juzam_dijnn) has created a Facebook group (join here) named:

I love the smell of Perish in the morning.

Just sayin’, if you don’t play green but black, you’d better play Perish!

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)

If you are one of those geeks that love to have everything related to your hobbies, in this case Magic: The Gathering, I totally recommend you this gadget: The MTG Rubik’s Cube!

If you are interested on buying this badass gadget, you should check it out at Big Brother Comics – Sacramento (CA).

There’s even a video:

Ayer salía publicada la entrevista que, Camilo del blog Random South Player, me realizó hace unos días. Para quienes no conozcan RSP, decir que es la meca de la salsa magiquera (con nuestro permiso, obv xD), propiedad de unos sureños (.AND) y altamente recomendable para estar al día de todos los líos que suceden en el mundillo. Viene a ser como el “Qué me dices!” en formato blog y sobre Magic. Os dejo con el enlace para que podáis disfrutar de la entrevista:

Ratones Coloraos: el hombre del dia Jo….rdi Amat (alguien pensaba en Joel?)

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Desde que BiezCorp sacase el ya mítico y legendario vídeo sobre el TATATATATAAAARMOGOYF, hemos sido fieles a las andadas de este gallego y su trayectoria artística. Ahora nos sorprende no con una, sino dos nuevas bandas sonoras! Os dejo los vídeos y allá vosotros

LOL!

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Se que a muchos de vosotros os apasiona el poker y es por eso que me permito el lujo de compartir con vosotros el report que mi hermano, Xavi, aka ImPEACHment, se ha currado de su Top3 Split en el pasado torneo de poker celebrado en el Casino de Perelada.

Sin más dilación os dejo con el report:

Con JJ (como mejor mano en toda la noche y sin llevarla al show down, claro) se puede ganar un torneo de poker, os lo aseguro! Este martes (12) me desplacé hasta Peralada con Rodman (aka “MEGA RANGO” xD) para jugar el Petit Hold’em, torneo de 90+10€ de buy-in con ciegas de 25′ y, en este caso, un total de 30 jugadores (habitualmente oscila entre 25 y 50). Se trata de un torneo bastante peculiar en el que se mezclan franceses, catalanes, regulares y fishes (básicamente casi todos los perfiles menos…los pro’s).

Tras registrarnos (también otro amigo de Calella, Marc) y comprobar que habría 30 jugadores, tocaba empezar a jugar y estudiar la mesa (coincido con Marc, él asiento 2 y yo asiento 6). Un gordo enfadado, un francés tatuado, un joven nervioso y un abuelo…(siempre se agradece tener un abuelo en la mesa…te obliga a estar atento y constantemente te haces preguntas como…”sabrá jugar?”, “tendrá 200k en Stars y me la clavará cuando le resuba con mi AJs?”, “sabe que existe internet?”…y básicamente…”qué coño hace aquí un tío de 80 años que no parece estar disfrutando?”).

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Los chicos de Good Gamery son unos maestros en el humor magiquero y esta es otra prueba de lo que son capaces de hacer:

Continue reading the Facebook Feed on Good Gamery

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Perdonad por este “off topic” pero es que hoy a las 20:00 (Canal +) se juega el clásico de la Liga, y como sé que muchos de vosotros soys futboleros pues me gustaría hacer una encuesta para que podáis votar a vuestro equipo favorito:

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Como ya sabéis el Barça llega al Santiago Bernabeu con 4 puntos de ventaja sobre el Madrid. Este partido, puede definir claramente el rumbo de la liga, ya que después del clásico sólo quedarán 4 partidos más.

Mi apuesta es un 1-4. ¿Cuál es la vuestra?

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Àlex Flotats, aka Tamariz, nos ha enviado un set de cartas bastante divertido y espectacular (con temática de heroes y no tan heroes). Las cartas las ha ideado usando el programa Magic Set Editor y nos invita a crear nuestras propias cartas Desde aquí agradecemos a Àlex su colaboración y esperamos que os gusten sus creaciones:

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Vía @Copysix en Twitter.

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Un nuevo cómic sobre los caminantes de planos acaba de ver la luz. Personalmente me gustaba más el cómic sobre Tezzeret que este, pero estoy seguro de que habrá gente que prefiera a Elspeth.

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Surfeando por la web, me topé en Tipo1.it con algo curioso. Alguien se ha entretenido a hacer mosaicos de cartas a base de otras cartas usando algún software tipo el AndreaMosaic (100% gratuito) u otro.

Podéis ver la galería completa de mosaicos en este enlace, pero yo os dejo con las que más me han gustado:

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Sin Byes no hay GP- araiso

Visto en El Santuario – by Durnar.

Un seguidor de este blog, aka Lobo, nos ha mandado un link a una noticia bastante curiosa. Resulta que unos fans de Marvel y jugadores de Magic han creado un juego nuevo que mezcla estos dos mundos fantásticos: Marvel Magic (sitio web oficial)

Una de las cosas que me ha gustado de esta iniciativa es que las cartas (o sus personajes) tienen realmente superpoderes xDDD

El juego está creado con el Magic Workstation Software y es totalmente gratuito. Podéis descargaros la edición revisada y unas expansiones en http://www.drstrange.nl/marvelmagic/index.htm

Source: @Lobo, vía Zona Fandom, vía Diario de WKR

**Edit** Los links a la web oficial y la descarga no funcionan A ver si vuelven a ponerlos pronto.

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Y creo que me dejé el #211

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Ricard Tudurí, aka Mimosón o Team Pataners Pokemon Leader, se enfrenta con Zoo a Rodrigo Guerra con Dredge en las semifinales del pasado torneo de la LLBL (Liga Legacy Black Lotus):

GAME 1

GAME 2

*Videos recorded with Cycorder Application for iPhone

Mañana subo los vídeos de la final

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Source: Good Gamery

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Source: Good Gamery

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A partir de hoy iré publicando aquí los cómics que los chicos de Good Gamery publican de manera periódica en su blog. Las viñetas son anónimas y utilizan un estilo realmente cutre (dibujado con algo rollo “Paint” xD) pero tienen un humor bastante bueno en muchas ocasiones (ojo, no siempre xD).

Esta es la entrega número #208 del cómic, si queréis verlas todas podéis empezar desde la #1:

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