Panned and Restricted - Bannings, Patreon, Drama, and MTG Arena Economy!

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Airdate - 1/17/18

First Pick & Giveaway

Giveaway: Booster box of Rivals of Ixalan! - https://gleam.io/n4HJ2/win-a-booster-box-of-rivals-of-ixalan

First Pick - Standard Bannings: https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/january-15-2018-banned-and-restricted-announcement-2018-01-15

• Attune with Aether
• Rogue Refiner
• Ramunap Ruins
• Rampaging Ferocidon

A pack of Kaladesh can now contain up to three banned cards: Attune with Aether, Smuggler's Copter, and Aetherworks Marvel. The Kaladesh Nissa Planeswalker Deck is also no longer tournament legal.

There have been 9 cards banned in standard in just over 12 months.

For comparison, Urza standard, the most broken format of all time, only had 10. Affinity had 10 as well?

Important article in retrospect: https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/ld/developing-annihilation-2014-08-15

https://twitter.com/mtgaaron/status/953406955992768513

Gather the Townsfolk

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• Core Set 2019 bumped a week up - Now coming July 13th instead of July 20th 2018.
• https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/core-set-2019-release-date-changed-2018-01-15

• GDS3 Great Designer Search 3 BEGINS!
• https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/feature/great-designer-search-3-trials-begin-2018-01-16

• New "Convention" promo: https://i.imgur.com/vBEmAPO.jpg
• • "PAX South in San Antonio - Pastimes gave these out to all participants in the Rivals of Ixalan Prerelease. Graham and Cameron from LRR were participating and were super pleasant!"

Desperate Ravings

• MTG Arena Economy: https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/magic-digital/developing-mtg-arena-economy-2018-01-17
• Kotaku: https://kotaku.com/how-buying-cards-works-in-magic-the-gathering-arena-1822151318
• • "The key to building a successful Magic: The Gathering deck is, of course, buying as many card packs as possible and hoping for the best."
• Poison and Energy must now be tracked without dice at Competitive/Pro REL: https://blogs.magicjudges.org/telliott/2018/01/15/policy-changes-for-rivals-of-ixalan/

2 Types of currency: Gold and Gems

Gold - In-Game Earnable Currency

Gems - Need them sweet dollars

Gems-only content will be cosmetic only. No content that can't be obtained from playing long enough.

Six ways to get cards: Boosters, 'Keeper' Drafts, Match Wins, Weekly Win Bonuses, Wildcards, and the Vault

Wildcards will appear in place of a common, unc, or rare/mythic; they can be any card of that rarity you want them to be. The longer it has been since you opened one, the higher chance you have of doing so.

The Vault will increase when you open a 5th copy of something or open a booster. It will reward Wildcards, items, and tokens.

Same distribution as real Magic packs.

No new Modern format when Standard rotates. (YEAH, RIGHT.) But they are expecting to create events which will use those cards.

• MaRo and the Kamigawa Shade: http://markrosewater.tumblr.com/post/169801468758/tales-from-the-pit-1697

The Red Zone

YouTube raises subscriber, viewer threshold for partnership:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/01/youtube-raises-subscriber-view-threshold-for-partner-program-monetization/

Giveaway Time!

The Finisher

This week, we have a true marquee matchup in the Magic Bracket. More than 12 million votes have been cast since we first talked about the Magic Bracket on Magic Mics about a year ago, a single elimination popularity contest between every single Magic card printed before 2016. And finally in Batch 38 of Round 4,096, we really have a top flight fight: the famed Otarian barbarian Kamahl is facing off with his favored enemy: Pits. That's right, Kamahl, Pit Fighter finally gets a Pit to Fight in Creeping Tar Pit! It's perfectly poetic, and it got me thinking: when we finally get to post-2016 cards, what other thematic matchups would you like to see played out in the gladiatorial arena of the Magic Bracket?