Posts Tagged ‘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!

With the upcoming eternal event of the year, Legacy Grand Prix Madrid, many players are seeking the best deck to play at it. In the following article I’d like to analyze some possibilities for those of you who like to play combo decks.
First of all, we must understand what kind of tournament a Grand Prix is. A GP isn’t at all like any other eternal tournaments. Ok, there’s some big events around the world that gather from 100 to 400 players. That’s big, but nothing compared to what predictions for GP Madrid attendance. Spain is, with no doubts, the country that has the biggest tradition on eternal formats, both Legacy and Vintage. Spain hosts the biggest weekly/monthly leagues, so we can expect GP Madrid to be a tournament with an attendance between 1000 and 2000 players. I believe the attendance will actually be closer to 2K than 1K.

So, we better forget of playing 5, 6 or 7 rounds + top8, and start thinking of a 2 day event with a total of 15-16 rounds followed by a top8.

Knowing this, my question is very clear. Is ANT the best combo deck to play?

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