Archive for the ‘Pimp’ Category

This Saturday I’m going to play the LCV (Catalan Vintage League), finally! The guys from Igualada have prepared an excellent tournament with an awesome prize support, so I couldn’t fail to their effort. I hope the turnout of the tournament goes as they expected!

I expect a metagame with tones of Golem MUDS and Fish (Noble and UW), some Tezzeret decks (Dark Tezz, MUC, URB, etc…), some Storm Combo (Nauseam and DT), some rogue decks and few Dredge players.

For that, and with the precious help from Jason, I’ve build up this deck:

TP Chewer attack! v1.0, 13th March 2010. By Jordi Amat

Main deck:

2 Flooded Strand
3 Polluted Delta
4 Volcanic Island
2 Underground Sea
3 Island
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Pearl
1 Black Lotus
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mana Vault
1 Sol Ring

(24 producers)

1 Inkwell Leviathan
2 Sower of Temptation
3 Ingot Chewer

(6 creatures)

4 Force of Will
4 Mana Drain
3 Spell Pierce
1 Tinker
1 Voltaic Key
1 Time Vault
2 Sensei’s Divining Top
1 Tezzeret the Seeker
1 Thirst for Knowledge
1 Brainstorm
1 Ponder
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Time Walk
1 Hurkyl’s Recall
1 Fact or Fiction
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Yawgmoth’s will
1 Fire/Ice
1 Lighting Bolt

(30 Business spells)

Sideboard:

3 Ravenous Trap
1 Extirpate
1 Tormod’s Crypt
1 Greater Gargadon
1 Claws of Gix
2 Duress
1 Razormane Masticore
1 Sundering Titan
2 Rack and Ruin
1 Hurkyl’s Recall
1 Trickbind

A visual view of the deck:

(sorry for the bad quality… iPhone camera ain’t the best to do this type of pics and I was too lazy to scan the deck)

The deck is designed to have good match ups against Noble and MUD. According to Jason, Ingot Chewer is the best main deck answer against MUD while it works also great against many other decks like fish, dredge, or even at the mirror. The fish match we got it well covered maindeck also, as we are playing 2 Sower of Temptation, 1 Lighting Bolt, Fire/Ice and Tinker + Inkwell Leviathan.

The rest of the deck is designed to be solid. No Library of Alexandria to avoid suspicious hands and to be able to have a first turn Spell Pierce or a turn 2 Mana Drain. The 4 Volcanic Island allow me to play without having to worry for the red sources against MUD or Fish. I can easily lose one or two volcanics and the deck will still be able to cast Ingot Chewer, Lighting Bolt, etc…

Anyways, I’m not going to unveil all the secrets and reasons behind the card choices now. If the deck turns out to be competitive, I might write a longer article about it. So far, I’ll be testing it today and playing it tomorrow.

If you want to follow my performance at LCV tomorrow, you can follow me at Twitter (@piZZero). And on Monday I’ll hopefully have the report of the tournament finished. So, stay tunned!

Ron Spencer has always delighted us with his excellent Yawgmoth’s Will alterations, but he does other cool stuff worth watching and commenting. One of the most amazing things I’ve seen from Ron Spencer are his playsets of altered swamps. What makes these swamps special is that they usually connect one to each other to create a combined alteration. Last year (2009) he commissioned one playset to Dan (owner of the store Hobby Town USA, in Lincoln – NE) which is simply spectacular!

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This other alteration (whose owner I don’t know), isn’t as spectacular as the first one but it’s definitely very cool looking and well executed. No matter how you connect the swamps, they always connect between them!

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Maybe I should get a swamp altered, or two, or three, or four! (on the floor!)

On the weekend of Grand Prix Madrid (epic report) I was told that Dan Frazier was coming to Spain. Where? – I asked!

I found the answer to that question in a matter of minutes! A guy around there was handling these fliers:

The card reads:

Freak Games I – 10th & 11th of April

Saturday: 600+€ Standard tournament. Entrance fee: 12€

Sunday: 1000+€ Legacy tournament. Entrance fee: 15€

Guest artist: Dan Frazier (all moxen). He’ll be attending on Saturday afternoon to draw and sign your decks. And we weill have exclusive products on sale!

Both events will take place in Freakland Games (shop)

C/Sevilla 12, Zaragoza (Spain)

Phone: +34 976373571 or +34 699193636

For more information, please send us a mail to: tgplace@aol.com or info@freaklandgames.com

This is just great news! I will finally get my Mox Ruby & Mox Jet signed, and i’ll have them all double signed! Hopefully I can get him to alter them as well. Will see!

When one of my regular dealers mentioned that he would have the chance of getting some cards signed by Anthony Francisco, I told him if he had 2 Tezzeret the Seeker and an Inkwell Leviathan in stock. How could I doubt about him!

These two are going straight to my Vintage deck!

I might be selling my second Tezzeret The Seeker foil japanese signed.

Chapter 3: The rise of the golems.

So it’s finally Sunday, our last day in Madrid, and we are heading again to the GP with brand new objectives. I still need to visit Mark Poole to get some stuff signed & altered, and I’m planning on conquering the Vintage side event that starts at 9 am.

So, before we move with the Vintage tournament, let’s get in the mood:

IF you are a STAXX (my ass) player please click play on the following youtube video. If you aren’t, move on to the next one!

So if you ain’t listening the previous video, then you deserve some real good shit! How about one of the coolest Justice videos?

The deck I’m playing at the tournament is a mix between the list JACO passed me the night before and the cards I brought to Madrid. There’s a thing I loved about his list: 3 main deck “fuck-your-golem” Ingot Chewer. He also had a couple of the new Jace there, but I wasn’t gonna pay the 240€ (120€/each) that the Asian_foil_cards were asking for. So in the end, this is what I played:

TP Golem my ass! by Jordi Amat

4 Force of Will
3 Mana Drain
3 Spell Pierce
2 Duress
3 Ingot Chewer
3 Repeal
1 Lighting Bolt
1 Fire/Ice
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
1 Brainstorm
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Fact or Fiction
1 Tinker
1 Sundering Titan
1 Gorilla Shaman
1 Sower of Temptation
1 Tezzeret the Seeker
1 Yawmoght’s Will
1 Time Vault
1 Voltaic Key
2 Sensei’s Divining Top
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mana Crypt
1 Sol Ring
3 Polluted Delta
2 Flooded Strand
3 Volcanic Island
3 Underground Sea
2 Island
1 Snow-Covered Island
1 Swamp
1 Tolarian Academy

Sideboard:
3 Ravenous Trap
1 Extirpate
1 Darkblast
1 Sphinx of the Steel Wind
2 Pyroblast
1 Red Elemental Blast
1 Duress
1 Sower of Temptation
1 Greater Gargadon
1 Claws of Gix
2 Hurkyl’s Recall

I’m not 100% satisfied with the decklist tho. I’ll scan my new version of the deck and post it tomorrow or the day past. So, let’s move on with the rounds!

Round 1: Roger Subirana with UW Fish

Meh! First round and I get paired with a well known player from the LCV. I know him a bit and I know he’s playing UW fish usually.

I start controlling the first game thanks to my Lighting Bolt, that killed his Ninja of the deep hours. Later on, my Gorilla Shaman manages to eat a Null Rod and my Sower of Temptation controls another Ninja. Despite all the advantage I manage to obtain, i get totally mana flooded and I can’t get to stop his Jötun Grunt. He finds a Swords to Plowshares that exiles my Sower and returns his Ninja, and it’s GG.

Game 2 I open with Polluted and pass turn. He goes for Tundra + Sage of Epytir, and I get it REB’ed. It’s super important to stop 1st turn Sage if you don’t want him to go 2nd turn Ninja. I had Mana Drain up for turn 2 but he finds Wasteland for my Volcanic. Then I’m there with 1 Island, 2 Off Color Moxen and Sensei’s Divining Top. He plays Kataki, the war’s edge and his first Meddling Mage, naming Tinker. I find Sower of Temptation with my Top, and play it protected. With it, I control his Meddling Mage, but again, he has Swords to Plowshares. He’s beating my ass hard and I can’t find any answers on time.

0-2 | 0 points | 0 wins 2 losses

Round 2: Guillem Ragull with Drain Tendrils (?)

Meh! (again). Second round and I get paired with my ex-team mate Guillem. Guillem is right now one of the strongest players from the LCV. He’s playtesting a lot more than me and he knows the business quite well.

I have a strong control hand with Spell Pierce, Duress, Mana Drain, Ingot Chewer, 2 lands and Fact or Fiction. He opens the game with Tolarian Academy + Mox Emerald. I think for a while to see what my 1st movement should be. I decide that the best opening would be Fetchland for Underground Sea + Duress. He plays only 1 Brainstorm to avoid my play. But there he goes, he plays Brainstorm in response and hides Mana Drain + Gifts Ungiven (correct me if I’m wrong). I take Vampiric Tutor from his hand. Next turn he plays land and passes.

Obviously my Duress opening was the wrong choice. I should have played Ingot Chewer to his mox. Then on turn 2, he would have had 1 land, and his play would have been Vampiric, which would have got with Spell Pierce. Anyways, let’s keep moving.

I Try to play Ingot Chewer to his Mox and he casts Mana Drain I play Spell Pierce but he plays Force of Will. He draws his Gifts Unviven and with 5 mana he finds enough business spells to leave me out of the game.

Game 2 I mulligan to 6 and he mulligans to 5. There’s some Duress played by each of us. In the end, I manage to play an eot Fact or Fiction followed by a Tezzeret with protection.

Game 3 is kind of raw He mulligans to 5 again, plays Underground and pass turn. I begin with Land + Mox Sapphire + Sensei’s Divining Top with Spell Pierce in hand. He plays Island and pass turn. I find another Mox with Sensei’s Divining Top and on my turn I play another land + another Mox and cast Tinker, he tries to Mana Drain, but I Spell Pierce it. Sundering Titan hits the board and he scoops.

2-1 | 3 points | 2 wins 3 losses

Round 3: Bagus Bender with Bomberman

Bagus isn’t exactly what I’d call a “fast” player. He took his time on every single play of this round. To that let’s add the fact that he plays with Sensei’s Divining Top and we got the right formula to tie the round.

Game 1 I’m in control of the game, even though he’s got a Trinket Mage that is beating me down badly. I manage to kill his Trinket Mage when I’m down to 4 with my Lighting Bolt. He’s got Sensei’s Divining Top and Black Lotus in play. It shouldn’t take him long before he finds Auriok Salvagers. On my last chance to win the game, I cast Fact or Fiction that brings me Mystical and Vampiric Tutor. Both tutors works for me, as I’m killing him via Yawgmoth’s will the next turn. Well, there wasn’t any “next turn” for me as he finds the Auriok and goes off.

Game 2 is getting long and complicated. He’s played 2 Pithing Needle naming Time Vault and Voltaic Key (name Tezzeret next time… plzkkthx!). He’s beating me again with a Trinket Mage. When I’m down to 4 (again) they call “Time’s up” so I have to work some Magic! I dunno how I did it exactly but I remember being able to play Tezzeret, untap 2 artifacts and play Time Walk after a Yawgmoth’s Will. Then I attacked and GG.

1-1 | 4 points | 3 wins 4 losses

Round 4: Magin Calvo with Welder Staxx.

I can’t believe how I lost game 1. I opened with Island and pass turn. He went Workshop + Sphere of Resistance which I got with Spell Pierce. I play fetchland and pass turn with Mana Drain, Spell Pierce and Brainstorm. He plays a 2nd Workshop and starts with another Sphere of Resistance. I cast another Spell Pierce to which he attempts to pay the 2 extra with his other Workshop. I tell him that’s not possible. Anyways, he does nothing else, so I cast Brainstorm but I find no third land A third land would have been lovely as I got 1 Ingot Chewer in hand and the Mana Drain! On his third turn the fest starts to go on. Smokestack + Tangle Wire. I got the Smokestack with the Mana Drain. I can’t kill the Tangle with my Chewer coz I know there’s no land coming due to Brainstorm. So I have to get tapped and pass turn. He topdecks Strip Mine and I scoop

Game 2 I first turn kill him with Tolarian, Sol Ring, 2 Moxen, Voltaic Key and Tezzeret!

Game 3 is what I call “HELL”. He opens with Mountain + Goblin Welder. Then another Goblin Welder, and then ANOTHER Goblin Welder. I get to counter 1 Sphere of Resistance with Spell Pierce and manage to counter 2 more artifacts he plays. So, all he can do is beat me with his 3 welders… LAME! When he finally manages to resolve his artifacts, I start to get trapped due to his Tangle Wire and Smokestack. I cast Ingot Chewer targeting his Smokestack and he doesn’t put Sphere of resistance in response with Goblin Welder. Chewer resolves I pass turn and then he tries to rectify the play. I say “Dude, no”. Then on his upkeep he forgets to remove a counter from Tangle Wire and to tap anything. He draws a card and plays Mox Emerald. Then I call the judge because everything that happened in few secs there. I was hoping the judge would call that as a game loss due to him having extra information from the draw, being able to change what he tapped out of Tangle Wire. It was probably my only chance of winning there but the judge just went back few steps and he actually changed what he tapped with Tangle Wire. I call the judge again telling him that that wasn’t what he initially tapped after I told him that he missed his upkeep phase. The judge was again very permissive and he just got a warning. Anyways, I found Tinker out of nowhere and plays it for Sphinx of the Steel Wind. They call “Time’s up” and we ain’t given extra time for what happened before, so my Sphinx if missing a turn to just finish the game. LAME!

1-1 | 5 points | 4 wins 5 losses

Round 5: Michael Twoun with Aggro MUD.

On game 1 I have 2 Ingot Chewer in hand and 2 fetchlands. Open with first turn fetchland + Mox and he goes with Workshop + Mox + Golem. No problem! I go fetchland again, then crack for Volcanic and cast Chewer to his Golem. He’s so surprised of my main deck Chewer that he asks the judge if I’m really playing those maindeck. The judge actually performs a deckcheck on me and he finds out I’m right. He gives Michael a warning (only?) we keep going. No extra time given neither, even after being deckcheck! I manage to resolve my other Ingot Chewer kill a Karn, Silver Golem and my Chewer kills him.

Before starting game 2, I know I need to slow down a bit because there’s not a lot of time left. But, I can’t compete at all when he opens with first turn Golem again! I Force of Will his Golem, then I play Island, Mox Emerald and Sensei’s Divining Top. He plays a second Golem, I look with Top and there’s nothing worth in there. I play my second land with Mana Drain and Gifts Ungiven in hand. He plays nothing else in the game and swings me 4 times with the Golem for the Win. The last time he attacked we were already on the extra turns

1-1 | 6 points | 5 wins 6 losses

After round 5 I lost my interest on keep playing due to judges and my deck being unable to finish games fast.

I took some pictures of the vintage tournament. Here there’s the slideshow:

After the Vintage tournament there was still lot to do! I needed to get some cards re-signed and altered and I had to close the deal with Angelo for the Yawgmoth’s Will. We sit down with Menor and Angelo in a table and meanwhile I start a “Play Vintage with ante” event. I get only one victim whose promo Umezawa’s Jitte ended up in my binder Some pics of the games with ante:

So, I finally close the deal with Angelo. And get my brand new Yawgmoth’s Will altered by Ron Spencer and Terese Nielsen.

Now some pimp we had around with Angelo

This “Will” will have a new owner pretty soon, right Miguel?

This Gorilla was once mine, but was included in the trade for the Yawgmoth’s Will.

I also have one of those Islands, but mine is double signed

My Islands! I got the altered one from Antonio, and then I got them re-signed ^^

Best Island EVER! Property of Comeback.

Now that I mention Francesco, aka Comeback, when he showed me his Ancestral Recall altered by Mark Poole, I felt the need to rush back to see Mr. Mark Poole and get my cards altered the same way! I didn’t have much time left as we were soon heading back home. 20€ were needed to convince a friendly guy in the queue to accept my Library + Ancestral. I also gave him 50€ extra (just in case) to give to Mr. Poole to get my alterations done. This is the result!

In the end the 50€ weren’t needed as he made it with markers instead of paint (as he originally did with Francesco’s Ancestral). I have to admit, it’s the best alteration idea I’ve seen on any Ancestral or Library of Alexandria. There’s LOTS of Ancestrals altered after GP Madrid, but like this, there’s only 2: Francesco’s and mine.

So, it’s about time to finish this EPIC report of this EPIC weekend in Madrid. I’m not gonna end it with the typical PROS and CONS because I’m so freaking satisfied with everything that I’ve done. Of course I could have done better in the tournaments, but in the end, Magic is just a game folks!

Part I of the GP Madrid Epic Report can be found here.
Part II of the GP Madrid Epic Report can be found here.

I was going to post this card within the third chapter of The GP Madrid epic report! (Part I + Part II) but I believe this deserves its own post.

I’m very, very, very proud to show you my ultimate acquisition (thanks to Angelo) at the Grand Prix Madrid 2010: A Yawgmoth’s Will altered by Ron Spencer & Terese Nielsen.

Terese Nielsen drew the C3PO and Ron Spencer did the remaining. C3PO is actually painted with Gold Leaf which the scanner can’t really get the shine of it.

This is my second alteration featuring both of them. The previous one was the one I got from eBay: Willfull Fiction.

Next step? Getting a playset of Force of Will altered by them!

And no, it’s not a paradise island in Hawaii! Raphy from Paris (France) showed us in the SCG boards his awesome Island.

It’s a Guru Island that’s been sun color faded for a long time (probably a year or so), signed and altered by Terese Nielsen.

I love how Terese Nielsen altered it! It’s a very simple but well integrated drawing, that fits perfectly with the guru island theme.

The only thing I’m missing to Raphy’s Island, to make it a perfect 10, would be the missprint logo, like in this other one:

Terese Nielsen is back for all of you Avatar fans! This time, she’s released an alteration on an Eternal Witness featuring NEYTIRI from Avatar.

Click on the image to go to the eBay auction!

Did you missed her last Avatar alteration on a Force of Will? Don’t worry, you can see it here!

JACO asked me if I could repost the video we recorded 2 years ago at GP Madrid. In the video, mr. Tedin draws JACO’s playmat, what I believe, is the best art he did in the whole weekend; a Drain-hearted Necropotence. I hope you guys enjoy the video again!

There’s levels and levels among this “pimp” movement. Luckily for me, i’m not a big fan of white borders, aka Summer, aka Edgar. But, there’s other people like magic61983 who love the white sh*t.

The news now come from this italian collector named Morgan who recently showed us this Summer Edition Sol Ring altered by Mark Tedin with a Juzam Djinn on it.

This is real pimp sh*t we are talking about here! There’s LOTS of $$$$$$$$ in this Sol Ring, and i really mean LOOOOOTS.

The italian “king” of pimp, Antonio Duranti aka Akenathon, is the owner of this beatiful Legacy Zoo deck.

Beta lands, Arabian Apes, Signed bolts, Legend’s Chain Lightings, etc… This deck has plenty of “old school” cards mixed with the latest coolest cards; Tarmogoyfs, Fetchlands, etc…

Good job Antonio!

Terese Nielsen is back altering mtg cards! After this little break of hers, she’s released this excellent Avatar alteration to eBay. If you are willing to start a playset of Terese Nielsen atered Force of Will, like mine, this is the perfect time to begin!

Click on the image to go to the eBay auction!

You can also find an eBay add on the right sidebar with this auction box. There you can follow its progress, bid, etc…

Good luck folks!

Having a playset of one card signed by the artist is cool, very cool. Having a playset of one card with 4 different pictures from 4 different artists is plain AWESOME.

Try beating this playset of Hymn to Tourach!

When it comes to pimp, Filippo Lietti (aka TroppoRicco) is such an endless source of great stuff.

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!

I’ve always focused on gathering cards to play combo decks. My only problem is that I like to play with “pimp” cards only. That makes my playable card pool much smaller than average.

Few months ago, I thought it would be a good idea to build up another Legacy deck. Something different! The chosen deck was the so-called “budget” Affinity deck. Well, not so budget for me LOL.

The deck still needs some tunning, but so far is looking as intended xD

TP Affinity 2K10 by piZZero
As a not-so-budget deck to play in Legacy

Sideboard:

Gotta admit that those Perish Japanese Signed ain’t mine. My friend Arnau lend them to me so I could use them at this weekend’s GPT. I know they were originally from JACO and I hope they end up being mine.

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.

• Magic: The Gathering card art by Mark Poole

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.

• Magic: The Gathering card art by Steve Argyle
• Official web site of Steve Argyle

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!

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!

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?

A recent rumor has been launched to the net today. According to the official Facebook group from 2010 Grand Prix Madrid event, Mark Poole will be attending the GP!

True? I can’t tell you anything coz it hasn’t been said anything yet on the official site from the GP.

This, if true, is GREAT news! I can’t really believe it! I’ll keep you updated as soon as there’s more news!

Continuing a bit in the line of the last post, today I got surprised by one SCG user named magic61983 who showed his AWESOME collection of summer cards. Can’t really describe my face after watching so many summer cards together. Well, maybe this video describes it better:

So check this out!!!11!1111oneneneleven

That Tundra is too mint!

You can check all the images in a bigger resolution in his own post at SCG.

My italian friend Antonio Duranti, aka Akenathon, is probably one of the best pimpers I know around in the eternal scene. He’s well known for his collection of alterations from Terese Nielse and Ron Spencer, along with many other insane cards. Recently, Antonio has achieved a goal that makes me super jealous. We are talking about his complete set of 40 beta dual lands in a NM/M condition. I have no words to describe how wonderfull and complicated is to gather this set.

I really hope he meets Jesper Myrfors some day at some event, or (if he has nuts enough) send him the Tropical Island, Tundra, bayou and Scrubland.

Congratulations Antonio!

You can start your own collection by having a look at eBay:

Thanks to TroppoRicco I managed to get my playset of Foil Japanese Chrome Mox signed by both Donato Giancola and Richard Garfield. Very unique playset!

I promise I’ll scann my ANT deck tomorrow when I get some free time!

And don’t forget to check for more pimp stuff at www.mtg-pimp.com

As seen on the italian website Tipo1.it:

He accepts comissions. If you want to contact him (Tino_Vintage) you should register at Tipo1.it and send him a private message. Cost of the playmats is 70€ ($100 US)

Actualmente en eBay podéis encontrar 2 cartas alteradas por Terese Nielsen y Ron Spencer respectivamente. La alteración de Terese Nielsen no es nueva, sino del 2006, pero el propietario de ella ha decidido venderse toda su colección incluyendo este Force of Will con Han Solo dibujado en él:

Por su lado, Ron Spencer, decidido a seguir produciendo alteraciones para los freaks como yo, nos regala con otra joyita:

Tengo que reconocer que esta última alteración me parece poco legal ya que se asemeja demasiado a la Necropotence y podría causar confusión en las mesas. De todos modos, la alteración está excelente, como siempre.

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