[Everyday Eternal Episode 19] : A Noble Undertaking - Carsten Kotter, Greg Mitchell

[sdematt]

Greeting's all!



http://www.eternalcentral.com/everyd...e-undertaking/

This time on Everyday Eternal, we interview Greg Mitchell, the winner of SCG Seattle and Carsten Kotter of StarCityGames fame! We talk about Greg's SCG tournament report, Bahra's Noble Fish deck, the American vs. European metagame prior to Bazaar of Moxen, Plays of the Week, and Underplayed Cards for this Week!

0:01:04 Greg’s SCG Seattle Report
0:22:00 Bahra’s Noble Fish Deck
0:32:30 American vs European Metagame
0:41:30 Plays of the Week
0:56:45 Cards to consider playing
1: 11 :29 Outro

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-Matt

[nevilshute]

Great show (again). Awesome to have Carsten on which is something I've been hoping for for a while :) More of that please! Looking forward to learning more about the banned-card thing. The scoundrel in me is ready to brew with my 4 Mind's Desire ;)

Regards,

Martin

[KobeBryan]

Thanks matt, I listened to the noble fish portion only. I believe you are right about the lack of mothers in the MD...it needs to be increased just for protection and for free hits

looter is only good when you have lots of cards in your hands and doesn't really do much when you only have 1-2 cards. That number can certainly drop

[Zllig]

It's a shame that you guys hadn't seen Caleb Durward's banned series where he's playing with a banned card to show that it might not need to be banned anymore. Otherwise, great podcast as always. Was great to have Carsten on this time.

[sdematt]

It's a shame that you guys hadn't seen Caleb Durward's banned series where he's playing with a banned card to show that it might not need to be banned anymore. Otherwise, great podcast as always. Was great to have Carsten on this time.

http://www.mtgthesource.com/forums/s...e-The-B-R-List

You mean my 4-year old Source post? And Carsten's article that he wrote a year or two ago? ;)

-Matt

[HSCK]

I actually really liked the idea of MD Meddling Mages for Noble Fish.

[twndomn]

You guys are taking stuff out of context. When your deck has 3 Snapcasters and plenty of removals, why not SB in More removals to abuse Snapcasters? Counterbalance is good against RUG because it can counter Bolts with consistency, but BUG has no such thing. BUG's win condition is solely creature Beatdown with occasional Liliana ultimates. Hence, since we have to take out something, taking out Abrupt Decay/Golgari Charm targets does make sense.

Now, if you don't run 3 Snapcasters like Ein, then..., does it make sense to go with that SB plan? You might want to take the opposite approach, which is to overload enchantments with all the CB and RiP to overwhelm enchantment hate.

Therefore, it's really built dependent. Can't really just make an assessment like the one you guys did in the podcast.

[ESG]

Good guests, good topics, great show. Welcome back, nedleeds. Also, I share your love of land destruction.

[Stoyrm]

As always, good topics and good amount of humour. Carsten's microphone and sound was a bit annoying, but what can you do?

[Einherjer]

Even though I disagree with what you say about Miracles - great and enjoyable episode once again :)

Greetings

[nedleeds]

Thanks Sam for editing this one in between magic events and trips to the massage parlor!

[Higgs]

I loved this episode, you should have nedleeds on board more often. And having more than an article on the "Battle of Banned" could also be interesting. With decklist competition type of thing there'd be endless discussion but maybe a Source tournament on Cockatrice? Pick 1 card to unban except P9 (and ante cards), build your beast of a deck and battle it out with the other Sources..

[Megadeus]

I loved this episode, you should have nedleeds on board more often. And having more than an article on the "Battle of Banned" could also be interesting. With decklist competition type of thing there'd be endless discussion but maybe a Source tournament on Cockatrice? Pick 1 card to unban except P9 (and ante cards), build your beast of a deck and battle it out with the other Sources..

While this would be fun, it wouldnt provide any real evidence of cards being unbannable. You need to test your banned card decks vs current legacy decks to get a real gauge on whether or not a card is truly overpowered.

[Higgs]

Sure, it wouldn't. It would be fun and would probably only give food for thought.

[Megadeus]

Sure, it wouldn't. It would be fun and would probably only give food for thought.

I think the whole point of testing banned cards (the realistic ones anyway) is to see if they are truly still overpowered.

[Higgs]

Well I think having an event to battle out broken decks with banned cards would draw out more lists then a list-based competition on the forum. If you absolutely want to take away something from the whole thing you can then take a look at the lists people came up with and test them against your gauntlet. I guess it depends on what your goal is with this.

[Quasim0ff]

I think the whole point of testing banned cards (the realistic ones anyway) is to see if they are truly still overpowered.

Most of the cards, being considered safe for unbanning, isn't banned, simply because of being overpowered. They are banned, due to being oppressive.

[Megadeus]

When Brainstorm is making up an average of like 85% of the Top 8's, it is difficult for me to think of anything like mind twist being "oppressive".

[afb0032]

Great show, always nice to have nedleeds commentary. Highlight of the podcast for me was when Carsten said "God man, you're so bad, how did you do that?" because I think every storm player has had that thought at some point.

[Megadeus]

Great show, always nice to have nedleeds commentary. Highlight of the podcast for me was when Carsten said "God man, you're so bad, how did you do that?" because I think every storm player has had that thought at some point.

Very true. Hence why I don't play storm anymore lol