When you follow the link, you’ll be greeted with a brand new spoiler for Alara Reborn: Retaliator Griffin!
Here’s a picture
Retaliator Griffin
I was very excited to be given the opportunity to preview this card and would love to do it again *hint hint*.
Also, for anyone new to the site, you can add the twitters of both me and of PureMTGO as seen on the righthand side. My twitter account is runeliger and PureMTGO’s twitter account is puremtgodotcom.
This post is mostly about updates to what’s available on this blog, so if you’re not interested, then don’t mind this post.
First and foremost, you’ll notice that there are two twitter feeds on the right side of the blog now. The first one continues to be the twitter feed that I personally use (twitter username: runeliger). The second one however, is a twitter feed for the PureMTGO staff (twitter username: puremtgodotcom). I got an e-mail earlier today to twitter my magic happenings in that twitter when I can, so I guess I will. Anyway, both feeds are awesome and everyone should follow them!
The Anime/Manga list that I’m putting up (the first installment is going up as I type this up) looks to take a bit longer to compile than I originally anticipated. I’ve just read a lot more manga and watched a lot more anime than previously thought. I’m currently writing them down as I remember them in my moleskine, so progress is slow… but occuring!
That’s this update. Freed from the Real #10 is up on pureMTGO.com if you want to check it out, and there’s a special treat for all those listeners out there if they tune in on Friday… *hint hint*
Alright! So after a brief hiatus (caused by my debate schedule, the Superbowl, and the heavy snow that kept Erik off the internet), Freed from the Real, formerly known as PureMTGO Podcast has entered its 3rd (second published) edition and is currently featured on the website.
Moreover, I’ve finally installed stats! I’ve been meaning to track the stats of my website and so I finally got it installed yesterday, so now I can track what’s happening in terms of my site traffic. So far, since I installed it at 11PM yesterday, I’ve gotten 12 hits (and one google hit from facepalm. haha).
Lastly, I’ve been working on my programming projects! I thought I’d update everyone that as of right now, I’m still engaging in doing programming projects off of Craiglist, but I’ll also take requests directly to my e-mail. Contact me either via my e-mail or this blog if you require coding services. I can do most webcoding, but I’ll also come up with a more comprehensive list of coding I can do in the relative future.
As I speak, the opening draft videos for Rune Drafting #4 are going up. I hate waiting for uploads to finish, so I figured I will leave my desktop on over night as it uploads both parts of my draft onto youtube.
I just thought I’d update all of you on what’s happening at PureMTGO in terms of my tenure there and the future of the site in general.
Personally, I’ll be continuing to produce Rune’s Ramblings and Rune Drafting articles for the website, which will generally feature my general musings and ramblings about Magic, Rambling focusing on more of the constructed side of things, and drafting focusing on the limited side of things. A third project that is currently in the works is a PureMTGO podcast that I would be a mainstay host of. The podcast is going to be some good fun and I think it’ll definitely take off once we get the structure and hosts down (Joshua and Erik, if you’re reading this, you two better be there with me!!)
Alright, in terms of the website itself, I’ve been getting a fair amount of mail and PMs on MODO in regards to the site’s properties and structure. My fellow writer and friend jamuraa is working on the new website, and I’ve been assured that it’ll be done within a week or so. I can’t wait, it’s going to be smooth and stable and a lot of awesome.
So the future of PureMTGO is pretty bright, and all things considered, it seems that my stay with the website seems pretty concrete right now.
So right now, with applications pretty much finished (MIT chose a funny time to go down for maintenance -.-) , I’m back to working on my latest article about Pauper Magic.
To be honest, the Pauper Magic format, AKA PDC, is something that’s really cool to come about. Sure shuts up a lot of those naysayers who claimed Wizards would never support a format that costs at times nearly nothing. I guess they were wrong.
That said, of course, the format isn’t all that cheap either. Although it doesn’t compare to the 30+ tix Figure of Destinies in Standard, the 10+ tixs fetchlands (in multiples) in Extended (along with the tarmogoyfs and other necessary rares), and the 50+ tixs Force of Wills and ridiculous dual lands of classic, Pauper still carries some “expensive” cards. Notably Armadillo Cloak is 2.43 each on MTGOtraders, and Fireblasts are 1.94.
Again, nothing compared to how much my extended deck costs (in fact, can’t even play standard).
I have to wonder though. Given the fact that PDC 4 man queues pay the same payout as the Classic queues… and Pauper players feasibly can have decks that win that cost under the 3 tix entry versus Classic decks requiring 100s of tixs in order to be competitive…
Doesn’t anyone feel that PDC might be an impediment to the classic community? Just a thought. I recently stopped playing Classic (after I returned from my 4 month break) because of the increasingly high cost of entry of the format, and my inability to keep up. That said, I’ll probably barn a deck for this weekend’s special PE, should I be home.
Anyway, here’s a preview of my next article on PureMTGO about “the Pauper Burn Standard.” It’ll be under my Rune’s Ramblings article type. Look for it sometime in 2009 XD
