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In this week's episode, Billy talks with Danielle Slupesky, the End-of-Life Coach and Death Doula, and Matt Hazard, the always entertainer co-host. Before you listen to this episode, I want to give you a heads-up that it will be a heavy episode. We will be talking about death from a professional and personal perspective. So, take time to sit with any emotions you will be having while listening to this episode. Please do what you need to do to take care of yourself. We celebrate the life of Matt's father, Dan Clement Hazard, and journey with him throughout this experience. We will also hear and experience how a professional death doula cares for the dying and the family members. Billy, Matt, and Danielle discuss:–The beautiful life of Dan Clement Hazard–Dan's last few moments on Earth–How Danielle became an End-of-Life Coach aka Death Doula–The similarities between birth and death–How Danielle assists the dying and the families in the processWant more from Danielle Slupesky?Check her LinkedIn and web Conscious CrossroadsIf you liked this episode, check out this episode as well:Episode 41--The Midlife Male with Greg ScheinmanAll of our episodes are available at www.mindfulmidlifecrisis.comJoin us for Meditate & Mingle!Interested in working with Billy or learning more about mindfulness?  Set up an Exploration Call! Get a free week of BetterHelp using Billy's referral code!Thank you for listening to The Mindful Midlife Crisis! We hope you enjoy this week's episode! If this episode resonates with you, please share it with your family and friends.Questions? Comments? Suggestions? Topics? Email Billy at mindfulmidlifecrisis@gmail.com.  Follow us!  Instagram:  @mindful_midlife_crisisTwitter:  @mindfulmidlife Facebook: The Mindful Midlife Crisis PodcastLinkedIn: Billy LahrPlease leave us a 5-Star Review!  Doing so helps other people looking for a podcast like ours find it!We hope you enjoy this week's episode! If you're really feeling gracious, you can make a donation to https://www.buymeacoffee.com/MMCpodcast.   Your donations will be used to cover all of our production costs. Thank you so much!  Support the show

That's right, ladies and gentlemen...I'm back! And this time I brought with me my best good friend, the always entertaining Matt Hazard! I can't even begin to explain how awesome it feels to be back. I'm beyond grateful to have this opportunity to help the listeners of this show navigate the complexities and possibilities of life's second half (and even help you with your travel plans)!Tune in each week as I share how practicing intentional and mindful living over the last ten years has helped me navigate the trials, tribulations, and successes of my own midlife crisis. Being more intentional and mindful has helped me process my ruminating thoughts, anxiety, and stress in a much healthier way by reducing my emotional reactivity and impulsive behavior, which in turn has helped me improve my relationships and communication with others as well as be more consistent, disciplined, patient, and productive in meeting my goals.If you liked this episode, check out these episodes as well:Episode 9--Billy & Brian Discuss the Emotionally Mature Male Brain (Part 3 of The Male Brain by Louann Brizendine)Episode 78--Billy Recaps Season 6 with His Best Good Pal Matt Hazard of The Brute Squad!Episode 79--Morning Routines for a Successful 2023Episode 87--How Renting a Scooter (Almost) Gave Me an Anxiety AttackLinks mentioned in this episode:Check out Luvo Calming Guided Meditation on Google Play and App Storehttps://ezvasectomy.com/Gen X Jukebox - https://www.instagram.com/genxjukebox/All of our episodes are available at www.mindfulmidlifecrisis.comJoin us for Meditate & Mingle!Interested in working with Billy or learning more about mindfulness?  Set up an Exploration Call! Get a free week of BetterHelp using Billy's referral code!Thank you for listening to The Mindful Midlife Crisis!We hope you enjoy this week's episode!If this episode resonates with you, please share it with your family and friends.Questions? Comments? Suggestions? Topics? Email Billy at mindfulmidlifecrisis@gmail.com.  Follow us!  Instagram:  @mindful_midlife_crisisTwitter:  @mindfulmidlife Facebook: The Mindful Midlife Crisis PodcastLinkedIn: Billy LahrPlease leave us a 5-Star Review!  Doing so helps other people looking for a podcast like ours find it!We hope you enjoy this week's episode! If you're really feeling gracious, you can make a donation to https://www.buymeacoffee.com/MMCpodcast.   Your donations will be used to cover all of our production costs. Thank you so much!  Support the show

In this week's episode, Billy wraps up Season 6 of The Mindful Midlife Crisis with his good friend, the sex dynamo, Matt Hazard. They go through all the episodes from Season 6 and reflect on the lessons learned, questions asked, and a whole lot of vulnerable revelations that you definitely don't want to miss. If this is the first episode you're listening to, please stop and go back to the previous episodes linked below—then come back for some laughs. Check out these episodes from Season 6:–Episode 66--"No More Men Talking Mental Health on Podcasts": An Open Letter to Chelsea Fagan of The Financial Diet–Episode 67--The Complete Man with Purdeep Sangha–Episode 68--Men Talking Mindfulness with Retired Navy SEAL Commander Jon Macaskill–Episode 69--Live Better, Die Slower with Eric Romanak–Episode 70--“Joy Is Doubled When Shared; Sorrow Is Halved When Shared”: Mourning the Lives Lost in Itaewon–Episode 71--Navigating Trauma Through Resilience with Dr. Shree Walker–Episode 72--Acts of Service As Self-Care with Dr. Lina Haji–Episode 73--Giving Sunshine: A Widower's Journey to Love and Happiness with Jason Clawson–Episode 74--Too Foreign for Here, Too Foreign for Home: A Korean Adoptee Meets Her Birth Family with Brook Mallak–Episode 75--How to Live with More Joy in Your Life–Episode 76--How to Beautifully Co-Parent with Your Ex with Anna Skender–Episode 77--Midlife Sexual Healing with Sex Therapist Cathy SaputoAll of our episodes are available at www.mindfulmidlifecrisis.comGet a free week of BetterHelp using Billy's referral codeThank you for listening to The Mindful Midlife Crisis!We hope you enjoy this week's episode!If this episode resonates with you, please share it with your family and friends.Sign up for our newsletter!  We send out new guided meditations each Sunday!  Questions? Comments? Suggestions? Topics? Email Billy at mindfulmidlifecrisis@gmail.com.  Follow us!  Instagram:  @mindful_midlife_crisisTwitter:  @mindfulmidlife Facebook: The Mindful Midlife Crisis PodcastLinkedIn: Billy LahrPlease leave us a 5-Star Review!  Doing so helps other people looking for a podcast like ours find it!We hope you enjoy this week's episode! If you're really feeling gracious, you can make a donation to https://www.buymeacoffee.com/MMCpodcast.   Your donations will be used to cover all of our production costs. Thank you so much! Support the show

So lifelike. Games we played this week include: Stories of Blossom (9:10) Scorn (12:30) Cryohazard (28:50) Alice is Missing (32:45) A Plague Tale: Requiem (38:35) Vampire Survivors (46:45) Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard (52:35) --- News things talked about in this episode: Bayonetta performer Helena Taylor raises controversy over voice actor pay (1:01:40) https://www.theguardian.com/games/2022/oct/18/an-insult-video-game-voice-actors-speak-out-to-demand-fair-pay https://www.eurogamer.net/bayonetta-3-voice-actress-jennifer-hale-asks-fans-to-be-kinder-following-abuse Streamer Adriana Chechik breaks back jumping into foam pit at TwitchCon (1:07:45) https://www.eurogamer.net/streamer-who-broke-back-at-twitchcon-out-of-hospital-following-second-surgery Netflix considering expansion into game streaming (1:13:30) https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/18/netflix-to-expand-into-cloud-gaming-opens-new-studio-in-southern-california/ Activision only requiring phone verification for PC players of Call of Duty (1:15:25) https://www.callofduty.com/blog/2022/10/call-of-duty-modern-warfare-II-warzone-ricochet-anti-cheat-open-beta-recap Diablo quality assurance testers will have unionization vote (1:16:30) https://kotaku.com/blizzard-albany-qa-testers-diablo-iv-union-activision-1849674924 Nintendo settles with former QA worker, must post notification of worker rights in office (1:17:40) https://www.tweaktown.com/news/88846/microsoft-reveals-how-much-money-game-pass-actually-makes/index.html Apex Legends introduces trans woman, Catalyst, as latest character addition (1:19:35) https://www.gamesradar.com/new-apex-legends-character-catalyst-is-an-out-and-proud-transgender-woman/ Pilot for Kingdom Hearts animated series leaked by director following heart attack (1:20:45) https://www.vg247.com/kingdom-hearts-tv-pilot-shared-online Nintendo putting the squeeze on boobs in the eShop (1:21:05) https://www.vg247.com/nintendo-is-cracking-down-on-risque-content-on-the-eshop --- Buy official Jimquisition merchandise from the Jimporium at thejimporium.com Find Laura at LauraKBuzz on Twitter, Twitch, YouTube, and Patreon. All her content goes on LauraKBuzz.com, and you can catch Access-Ability on YouTube every Friday. Follow Conrad at ConradZimmerman on Twitter and check out his Patreon (patreon.com/fistshark). You can also peruse his anti-capitalist propaganda at pinfultruth.com.

This week's episode is the finale of the summer sessions, so we brought along our best good pal, the always entertaining Matt Hazard!  The guys discuss:--Matt's bourbon-fueled trip to Louisville, KY--the change in Billy's voice  --the challenges of living life without any direction--the need to stop investing so much time and energy with people who don't reciprocate the same energy back to you--why seafood is terrible (or delicious?)  and how 90s music is (or isn't?) the best music of all timeThe summer sessions have ended, but we've got more to come!Check out these previous episodes:--Summer Sessions 3-Billy's Minnesota Nice Experience at the Cayuna Gnome Home in the Small Town of Crosby--Summer Sessions 6-Soul Walkers: Billy Finds Clarity and Meaning in Seoul with Iggy LeeThank you to Hoffman Plumbing and Indoor Heating!  Visit them at http://www.saukcentreplumber.com!  Check out Iggy Lee's YouTube Channe or follow him on Instagram at @iggylee21!Visiting Seoul?  Connect with the SeoulShare Community!Thank you for listening to the Mindful Midlife Crisis!We hope you enjoy this week's episode!If this episode resonates with you, please share it with your friends and family.All of our episodes are available at www.mindfulmidlifecrisis.comDon't forget to sign up for our newsletter as well!  We send out weekly meditations!Questions? Comments? Suggestions? Topics you want us to cover?Email:  mindfulmidlifecrisis@gmail.comInstagram:  @mindful_midlife_crisisTwitter:  @mindfulmidlife"Like" and "Follow" us on Facebook: The Mindful Midlife Crisis PodcastPlease leave us a 5-Star Review!  Doing so helps other people looking for a podcast like ours find it!We hope you enjoy this week's episode!  If this episode resonates with you, please share it with your friends and family.  If you're really feeling gracious, you can make a donation to https://www.buymeacoffee.com/MMCpodcast.   Your donations will be used to cover all of our production costs.Support the show

In today's episode, Billy and Brian reflect on the amazing insights shared by our Season 5 guests with their best good pal, the always entertaining Matt Hazard! Thank you for listening to the Mindful Midlife Crisis!Questions? Comments? Suggestions? Topics you want us to cover?Email:  mindfulmidlifecrisis@gmail.comInstagram:  @mindful_midlife_crisisTwitter:  @mindfulmidlife"Like" and "Follow" us on Facebook: The Mindful Midlife Crisis PodcastPlease leave us a 5-Star Review!  Doing so helps other people looking for a podcast like ours find it!We hope you enjoy this week's episode!  If this episode resonates with you, please share it with your friends and family.  If you're really feeling gracious, you can make a donation to https://www.buymeacoffee.com/MMCpodcast. Your donations will be used to cover all of our production costs.Support the show

In today's episode, Billy and Brian reflect on the amazing insights shared by our Season 4 guests with their best good pal, the always entertaining Matt Hazard!  Matt Hazard also shares which episodes belong in his Mindful Midlife Crisis "starter kit":  --Episode 19--Compassionate Communication for Deeper, More Meaningful Relationships with Dr. Yvette Erasmus--Episode 6, Part 1–Putting in WURK with Personal Trainers Maurice Buchanan and Daleco James of WURK Gym--Episode 6, Part 2–Putting in WURK with Personal Trainers Maurice Buchanan and Daleco James of WURK Gym--Episode 10--Top 20 Strategies for a Happier Life with Tom Cody--Episode 22--Normalizing and Prioritizing Mental Health Conversations with Our Children with Tandra Rutledge from the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention--Episode 33--How Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity Make Us an All-Around Better Society with Global Inclusion and Diversity Business Leader Ericka Jones--Episode 39--Billy Shares the Lessons He Learned during His Trip to Portugal, Spain, and DakarThank you for listening to the Mindful Midlife Crisis!Questions? Comments? Suggestions? Topics you want us to cover?Email:  mindfulmidlifecrisis@gmail.comInstagram:  @mindful_midlife_crisisTwitter:  @mindfulmidlife"Like" and "Follow" us on Facebook: The Mindful Midlife Crisis PodcastPlease leave us a 5-Star Review!  Doing so helps other people looking for a podcast like ours find it!We hope you enjoy this week's episode!  If this episode resonates with you, please share it with your friends and family.  If you're really feeling gracious, you can make a donation to https://www.buymeacoffee.com/MMCpodcast. Your donations will be used to cover all of our production costs.Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/MMCpodcast)

In today's episode, Billy and Brian reflect on the amazing insights shared by our Season 3 guests with their best good pal, the always entertaining Matt Hazard!  The guys: --discuss why Matt Hazard found this season to be "pretty, pretty woo woo" at times--try to make sense of why those messages landed differently when it came from a different person--reflect on how those messages landing differently ties into bias--process their own privilege as straight, white, American males --get emotional talking about lost loved onesWe made it another season, and we've got more to come!Thank you for listening to the Mindful Midlife Crisis!Questions? Comments? Suggestions? Topics you want us to cover?Email:  mindfulmidlifecrisis@gmail.comInstagram:  @mindful_midlife_crisisTwitter:  @mindfulmidlife"Like" and "Follow" us on Facebook: The Mindful Midlife Crisis PodcastPlease leave us a 5-Star Review!  Doing so helps other people looking for a podcast like ours find it!We hope you enjoy this week's episode!  If this episode resonates with you, please share it with your friends and family.  If you're really feeling gracious, you can make a donation to https://www.buymeacoffee.com/MMCpodcast. Your donations will be used to cover all of our production costs.If we have money left over after covering our fees, we will make a donation to the Livin Foundation, which is a non-profit organization whose mission is to promote a positive outlook on life, reduce the stigma associated with depression/mental illness, and ultimately prevent suicide through various activities, events, & outreach.Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/MMCpodcast)

In today's episode, Billy and Brian talk to their best good pal, the always entertaining Matt Hazard!  Matt shares what has resonated the most with him throughout Season 2 of The Mindful Midlife Crisis, including: our guests expertise and vulnerability, how this season of episodes has challenged him to be a better father and husband, and how amazing Dr. Yvette Erasmus is.  We made it another season, and we've got more to come! Thank you for listening to the Mindful Midlife Crisis!Questions? Comments? Suggestions? Topics you want us to cover?Email:  mindfulmidlifecrisis@gmail.comInstagram:  @mindful_midlife_crisisTwitter:  @mindfulmidlifeWe hope you enjoy this week's episode!  If this episode resonates with you, please share it with your friends and family.  If you're really feeling gracious, you can make a donation to https://www.buymeacoffee.com/MMCpodcast. Your donations will be used to cover all of our production costs.If we have money left over after covering our fees, we will make a donation to the Livin Foundation, which is a non-profit organization whose mission is to promote a positive outlook on life, reduce the stigma associated with depression/mental illness, and ultimately prevent suicide through various activities, events, & outreach.Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/MMCpodcast)

In today's episode, Billy and Brian talk to their best good pal, the always entertaining Matt Hazard!  Matt shares what has resonated the most with him throughout Season 1 of The Mindful Midlife Crisis, including: his objection to the male brain research, Tom Cody's love for the Indigo Girls, and Billy and Brian's THICK Minnesoooooota accents.  Stick around until the end for a short snippet of his beautiful  singing voice! We made it an entire season, and we've got more to come!  Thank you for listening to the Mindful Midlife Crisis!Questions? Comments? Suggestions? Topics you want us to cover?Email:  mindfulmidlifecrisis@gmail.comInstagram:  @mindful_midlife_crisisTwitter:  @mindfulmidlifeWe hope you enjoy this week's episode!  If this episode resonates with you, please share it with your friends and family.  If you're really feeling gracious, you can make a donation to https://www.buymeacoffee.com/MMCpodcast. Your donations will be used to cover all of our production costs.If we have money left over after covering our fees, we will make a donation to the Livin Foundation, which is a non-profit organization whose mission is to promote a positive outlook on life, reduce the stigma associated with depression/mental illness, and ultimately prevent suicide through various activities, events, & outreach.

This episode was originally released May 27th, 2019.For episode 40, Geoff Moes (@ThallidTosser on Twitter), Nat Moes (@GrandpaBelcher), and Josh Chapple (@joshchapple) are pleased to show off Collector Ouphe, a free preview card from Modern Horizons, provided by Wizards of the Coast!01:25 – Oof17:59 – The Real Collection Was the Friends We Made Along the WayTotal runtime: 25:22 Null Rodney I’m sure most of you are here looking for the free Modern Horizons preview card, so we’ll get right to it. It’s a Null Rod on legs! At long last! This card was at the top of my list from the very beginning of exploratory design, and it went through everything almost unchanged mechanically. In my head I named it “Null Rodney.” Null Rod has long been a staple of Vintage aggro-control decks because it helps prey on artifact-based manabases as Wasteland and Strip Mine take apart dual lands. It slows down explosive starts and combo finishes, allowing the control deck enough time to block paths to victory and win with creatures. That was one of Null Rod’s big weaknesses, in fact; it didn’t apply pressure to the opponent by itself. Without threatening creatures bearing down, opponents could find answers or additional threats and break out of their prison to win. Collector Ouphe has the same crippling potential as Null Rod but brings its own threat. As formats get older and smaller, and artifacts get more powerful, Collector Ouphe has increasing utility. In Modern it shuts down Affinity (the deck, not the ability), Aether Vial, and much of the Tron decks’ ability to fix colors and tutor for lands. In Legacy it starts hitting fast mana (Mox Diamond, Chrome Mox, Lotus Petal, and Lion’s Eye Diamond), artifact decks with Grim Monolith, and powerful equipment, like Batterskull and Umezawa’s Jitte. And in Vintage, Workshop Aggro runs Walking Ballista and Arcbound Ravager, in addition to all the decks using Moxes, Black Lotus, Sol Ring, and Mana Crypt as a big chunk of their mana base. Oh, and Time Vault is still an OK card, I think. Anyway, we’re primarily a Vintage podcast, so we’ll go deeper into Vintage applications. Obviously not every deck is interested in this effect, but there are probably a few. Stony Silence is one of the most important cards in Survival decks for buying time against Workshops and Paradoxical Outcome, and Collector Ouphe is a Stony Silence that can be tutored for (or discarded to) Survival of the Fittest. Maybe there’s some risk in making creature removal even better against this creature-heavy strategy, but all kinds of removal were good against this deck that has a key land, a key enchantment, big artifact creatures, lots of other creatures, and a relevant graveyard. Ouphe Survival, borrowed from David Lance Business (38)4 Bazaar of Baghdad4 Survival of the Fittest1 Ancestral Recall1 Time Walk1 Thorn of Amethyst4 Basking Rootwalla4 Vengevine4 Hollow One3 Collector Ouphe3 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben1 Hooting Mandrills1 Manglehorn1 Spell Queller1 Squee, Goblin Nabob1 Wonder4 Noble HierarchMana Sources (22)2 Elvish Spirit Guide1 Black Lotus1 Mox Emerald1 Mox Jet1 Mox Pearl1 Mox Ruby1 Mox Sapphire2 Verdant Catacombs2 Windswept Heath2 Wooded Foothills2 Misty Rainforest3 Savannah2 Tropical Island1 Forest | Sideboard (15)1 Chalice of the Void4 Containment Priest1 Energy Flux1 Fairgrounds Warden1 Force of Vigor2 Grafdigger’s Cage1 Kataki, War’s Wage1 Collector Ouphe2 Squee, Goblin Nabob1 Stony Silence BUG Control (which we’ve never talked about on this show before) is already looking to deny resources to the opponent with creatures like Leovold, Emissary of Trest, stopping card-draw, and Ramunap Excavator and Wasteland hitting important lands. Like Excavator, the Ouphe is another artifact that’s been given a body and a purpose – preventing the opponent from having nice things. And thanks to Deathrite Shaman, BUG Control can skip running a lot of the artifacts that would make the Ouphe a double-edged sword. BUG Collector Business (38)4 Force of Will2 Mental Misstep1 Thoughtseize1 Abrupt Decay1 Assassin's Trophy1 Ponder1 Brainstorm1 Ancestral Recall1 Time Walk2 Painful Truths2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor1 Treasure Cruise1 Dig Through Time1 Demonic Tutor4 Deathrite Shaman3 Snapcaster Mage3 Collector Ouphe2 Baleful Strix3 Leovold, Emissary of Trest1 Rumanap Excavator1 Tasigur, the Golden Fang1 Gurmag AnglerMana Sources (22)1 Black Lotus1 Mox Emerald1 Mox Jet1 Mox Sapphire4 Verdant Catacombs1 Misty Rainforest1 Polluted Delta3 Underground Sea2 Tropical Island1 Bayou1 Swamp1 Strip Mine4 Wasteland | Sideboard (15)4 Grafdigger's Cage2 Yixlid Jailer1 Forest2 Nature's Claim1 Force of Vigor1 Pithing Needle1 Toxic Deluge1 Flusterstorm1 Engineered Explosives1 Infernal Reckoning Another strategy, which hasn’t been around recently but could show up again, would be something like Christmas Beats. In Magic, red and green both hate Vintage staples blue and artifacts, so this deck focuses on those in an aggro-control shell. Christmas Beats foregoes playing most artifacts in favor of Elvish and Simian Spirit Guides, so it can disrupt mana with four Collector Ouphes and an additional Null Rod for moral support. There are lots of creature options beyond that: Magus of the Moon, Tin Street Hooligan, Scavenging Ooze, Tarmogoyf, Harsh Mentor, Vexing Shusher, Goblin Cratermaker. And for spells you get Pyroblast, Lightning Bolt, Ancient Grudge, the new Force of Vigor from Modern Horizons – whatever you think will make a difference in the expected metagame. Santa’s Ouphe Business (32)4 Deathrite Shaman4 Collector Ouphe4 Tin Street Hooligan4 Tarmogoyf4 Magus of the Moon1 Chalice of the Void1 Null Rod1 Blood Moon1 Force of Vigor4 Pyroblast4 Lightning BoltMana Sources (28)4 Elvish Spirit Guide4 Simian Spirit Guide1 Lotus Petal4 Verdant Catacombs1 Wooded Foothills3 Taiga3 Snow-Covered Forest2 Snow-Covered Mountain1 Snow-Covered Swamp1 Strip Mine4 Wasteland | Sideboard (15)3 Pithing Needle1 Thorn of Amethyst4 Leyline of the Void3 Ancient Grudge2 Red Elemental Blast2 Mindbreak Trap There’s a lot of opportunity for Collector Ouphe to succeed in Modern and eternal formats. Artifacts continue getting stronger and allowing opponents to carry out nefarious, broken schemes. Ouphe says no! How Many Team Serious Members Does It Take? Because podcasts are a tricky way to reveal a free Wizards preview card, we decided we’d try something different, and perhaps unique. The Serious Vintage podcast looks at the Vintage format through the lens of community, rather than competition. We have fun playing Magic, but it’s also an excuse to hang out with people we enjoy. And it’s one of the reasons we always end our shows with discussions of food and drink, because the post-tournament meal is just as important as the event itself. Sometimes more so. So thanks to everyone who helped us preview our card (in order of the word they read): Steve McGrew, Jake Hilty, Jon Hammack, JR Goldman, Guhstin Dewey, Paul Blakeley, Ryan Seeley, Nam Q. Tran, Duane Haddix, Rajah James, Anthony “Twaun” Michaels, Jimmy McCarthy, Andy “Brass Man” Probasco, Sam Krohlow, Frank Singel, Josh McCurley, Phil Thorson, Jerry Yang, Eric Caffrey, Mark Trogdon, Gilberto Rivera, Kevin Nelson, Justin Waller, Rick Gideon, David Lance, Kyle Lennox, Charles Rolko, Kevin Poenisch, Matt Hazard, Erik Butler, Joe Dyer, and Ben Perry. Lots of people had fun with it, none more than Brass Man, who provided the stinger for this episode. Thanks also to Geoff Moes, who, when I said I wanted to have him splice 40 or so contextless words of a card together into a coherent whole, didn’t blink an eye. It was just that normal twitch thing he gets when I tell him I have an idea. And thanks to Josh Chapple, who, since it was snowing in Colorado when we recorded, went up the road to podcast from the parking lot of his local bar, Snowpack Taproom, to get a working internet signal. He recommends Snowpack as having a strong selection of rotating local kegs, good food, and powerful internet. The next Team Serious Invitational he hosts in Colorado will definitely take a trip there. Finally, thanks to Jaco for hosting our show at Eternal Central. He loves formats with old Magic cards and has put together quite a home for them. We exist in large part because of his help. My job is easy; I just write words. Upcoming Events We close this episode with a couple of upcoming Vintage events, a section that we used to do and would like to do more regularly. If you have a Vintage (or Middle School or Old School) event that you want us to hype, let us know! If it’s reasonable to put on our next episode, we will. First up, an event I found on The Mana Drain. The Lone Star Lhurgoyfs group is hosting a Vintage event Saturday, June 8 in Houston, Texas. They have a nice writeup, it’s at a bar, and they’re going to raffle off some pretty awesome looking Eldrazi proxies. Check that out if you’re near Houston. In Warren, Ohio, there are two Vintage Eternal Weekend Trials, on Friday, June 14 and Sunday, June 16 at Bottom Dollar Trading. Those events should just be crawling with Team Serious members, so it should be a lot of fun. And Josh is looking forward to the TinFinVitational events in Denver, being run the same weekend as that city’s Magic Fest at the Whittier Pub. There’s a Vintage event on Friday, July 19, and a Legacy event on Sunday, July 21. Take a look if you’ll be playing in GP Denver, and say hey to Josh. Questions for Discussion So! What do you think of Collector Ouphe? Did you know how to pronounce “ouphe” before we did? Did you see Filip Burburan’s great art? The Ouphe is stealing the power from an Aether Vial! Are there other Easter eggs in the art? What other Modern Horizons cards are you excited about? Do you have a local Vintage or other event coming up that you want us to give a shoutout to? Let us know! Conclusion Thanks for listening! If you found this show because of our free Wizards preview card for Modern Horizons, welcome. We hope you enjoyed your time here. We’ll look forward to any questions or comments here or The Mana Drain or on Twitter. You can also email us at seriousvintagepodcast@gmail.com.

This episode was originally released March 15th, 2019.For episode 38, Geoff Moes (@ThallidTosser on Twitter), Nat Moes (@GrandpaBelcher), and Josh Chapple (@joshchapple) talk with Matt Hazard (@winedope) about the most recent invitational Vintage tournament he held at his house, and how you can host similar local events.00:30 – Matt Hazard, Magic Man01:00 – Just Because We Haven’t Adequately Tested London Mulligan Doesn’t Mean We Can’t Share Extremely Uninformed Opinions About It08:20 – The Return of the Hazardvitational and How to Host Your OwnTotal runtime: 40:43 Baselessly Speculating About London Vintage (and Magic in general) has been in a bit of a snit recently as players discuss the implications of the London mulligan, which will be tested at the upcoming Mythic Championship II. If the test goes well, the new rules would replace the current Vancouver mulligan rules. In brief, the London mulligan has players continue to draw seven cards for each mulligan and then put a card on the bottom of the library for each time they’ve mulliganed. So if you mulligan twice, you’ll draw seven cards, pick your five favorite, and put two cards on the bottom of your library. We’ve tested with this a few times in Middle School and Vintage pickup games, and it hasn’t made a huge amount of difference in most games. Where you’re keeping seven or six cards, for example, it’s equivalent to the current, or nearly so. At more than four mulligans (keeping three cards or fewer), you’re still so far behind on materiel that your chances are vastly depleted, even if you keep a solid looking trio or pair of cards. So the real test seems to be in keeping four or five cards, where you might have a powerful way to recover—Ancestral Recall, or Workshop-Trinisphere for example. Regardless, even with this potentially strengthened mulligan rule, we don’t think you want to mulligan. Cards are just too powerful a resource. So we don’t think this will be too-too upsetting for Eternal formats. In reality it will just make players feel better when they have to mulligan a long way down. But! In any case, it would be a shame if Mishra’s Workshop or Bazaar of Baghdad to be restricted based on a mulligan rule change, since they’ve been vibrant parts of the metagame for so long. How to Run a Magic Tournament at Your House A couple weeks ago 29 players showed up at the home of Matt Hazard in Columbus, hungry for the competition of a Vintage tournament and the fun of a casual environment. For an average suburban house, that’s a lot of people, particularly if you need them to have enough room between them to comfortably play a game of Magic. Matt and his wife, Trece, have hosted a similar event for four years in a row now, growing in scale each year. The first few years they had three dogs and two cats, and now they have a young kid to contend with among all the hubbub. And they do a great job! This is one of the Ohio Vintage community’s favorite tournaments. There are so many things to take into account if you want to host a similar event, but it can be done. Aspects include: seating, tournament organization, food and drinks, and prizes. Butts in ChairsThe first thing Matt suggested was making sure you have enough places to put the games. His dining-room table only seats six, so with 23 more players to fit, we were spread out at the kitchen island (4), another table in the dining room (6), the living room (4), and the basement (8), including games on an ottoman and some borrowed folding tables. Knowing how many players you’ll be serving gives you a sense of scope for the event. Be realistic about how many you can host, and be firm in capping the event if necessary. It will be more than uncomfortable to cram players in where there’s not actually enough room for them. Names in SpreadsheetsThen you need to put all those players into some sort of tournament organizer software. Wizards Event Reporter is the “official” software but shouldn’t technically be used for events with playtest cards. Plus everyone in WER needs a DCI number. We are more likely to use MtG Arena (not the online MTG game), which is free and uses the same algorithm to calculate player rankings. It requires only a Google ID to login, and the only difficulty is that it’s hard to re-pair if something gets off mid-round. You can print off pairings, or put them on a big TV, or just shout them out. For smaller events, a little yelling never hurt anyone. I’ll also recommend knowing and making clear how many rounds will be played and how a winner will be determined, so there’s no confusion toward the end. Typically you play N Swiss rounds for P players, where 2N – P isn’t negative. So 3 rounds for 8 players, 4 rounds for 8 to 16, 5 rounds for 16 to 32, and 6 rounds for wow, you have a lot of friends. There are plenty of options to determine a winner: Swiss and elimination rounds (usually top-eight for more than 16 players), Swiss+1, or – as Josh suggested for small events – round robin. BeveragesThe Hazardvitational and other events at peoples’ houses (like TSI Steveland, which we talked about recently) have asked players to bring their own drinks. It helps make sure everyone has something they like and takes a lot of burden off the hosts for supplying. Team Serious tends to go through a lot of Jägermeister, Malört, and Hamm’s because we hate ourselves. This year we even imported the “Dressed Hamm’s” from Chicago, which is better than it sounds, really. Food Breaks Are NiceOur home-based events have also typically included a break in the middle of the event for food. The Hazard’s had everyone throw money in a bowl for a big pizza order from Columbus-area favorite Donato’s, ending up with 15 large pizzas in all (almost half a pizza per person). Geoff’s invitationals have ordered in subs or burritos from Jimmy John’s or Chipotle. Coordinating a big grill-fest of burgers and hotdogs has worked as well too at events, in part because someone who’s not playing can serve as grillmaster. Regardless, food helps ground everyone and is another event people can socialize around. Prizes Are Nice TooAnd of course there are prizes to think of. Some Team Serious Invitational series have traditional prize structures that ask for entry fees and then condense those to pay out to the top four or eight players. This can be tricky since the prizes have to be bought in advance with a prospective amount of money based on the number of confirmed players. Often players or teammates are interested in selling cards to this venture, but you have to hope that the right mix of cards comes available at the same time as the money or risk over- or under-spending for prizes. The Hazardvitational bypasses this hangup by skipping the entry fee and asking players to donate prizes, suggesting a value of $20 or more. Cards are frequent additions to the pool, and we’ve had things like Dual Lands, Jaces, Commander decks, complete sets, and various user-created packages. Jake Hilty put a complete Middle School deck in the pool for this event, which was awesome. We’ve also had non-Magic prizes like alcohol (including Josh Chapple’s prize of bitters and a cocktail recipe book) and even a Sawzall, which went highly in the structure. Recent additions to the prize pool have been “mystery box” prizes, which are pretty much what they sound like. The sky’s the limit, and part of the prize is the fun of opening an unknown quantity. Ben Perry consistently outdoes himself in this category, as this year’s “Do Not Open” box included a choice of keeping a Tundra or one of two further mystery packages. The chosen prizes were intended to be given to other players of the winner’s choice and turned out to be more Middle School cards. In the end there are lots of ways to put a home tournament together. These are just basic ideas, and you can feel free to modify as necessary. In Case You Want to StreamI also didn’t get a chance to mention this in the podcast, but I devised a much-improved streaming rig for holding a camera above a game of Magic. Instead of using two vertical posts with a crossbar, I got a boom stand with a single counterweighted arm, like this. What an improvement! The stand can be put to either side of the table, or even behind one of the players, and is so much stabler than the previous crossbar. I was able to glue the camera to a section of dowel and use the protective cap as a method of attachment to the end of the boom, so the camera screws on and off and angles can be adjusted. I didn’t have sand to weigh the bag, so obviously I used basic lands. I’m really pleased with this new setup and am looking forward to using it in the future. Working With Land Grant In the last episode we talked about an upcoming (now past) Old School event run alongside Magic Fest Cleveland, hosted by the Cleveland Rocs at BottleHouse Brewery and Mead Hall. The event ran smoothly, everyone had a great time, and the event organizers were able to donate more than $1,700 to Providence House, a Cleveland-area family crisis center. This episode we talk about contacting Land Grant Brewing to help us make a more fun event by providing fine liquid refreshment to players. Josh Chapple operates under a policy of “Don’t ask, don’t get,” so he asked and we got. In this case we told them that Land Grant is actually a Magic card, and they asked for one for their trophy case. A fair exchange, for sure. There’s a lot of power in the Magic community, even among smaller groups like local Vintage or Old School scenes. Charity events are wonderful opportunities to combine the people-power and (let’s be honest) money inherent in these groups and put them to good use. It’s an attempt to make a difference where it’s needed. So many Magic events are inward looking, with players essentially giving back to themselves. Charity events are outward looking, good for everyone involved. Following the Hazardvitational, we contacted Land Grant again to set up what I hope will be a longer-term relationship, presenting the opportunity to do a similar charity event to the Cleveland Rocs partnership with BottleHouse. Magic players get a place to play and a chance to help out their community, and a local business gets a similar chance to give back, some promotion, and a captive audience of consumers for an afternoon. Land Grant was excited about the option, even offering to donate 20% of their day’s profits to the charity as well. Sounds pretty win-win-win! I’m really excited about this, hoping we can match the Rocs’ results. Right now we’re looking at an event on May 18, with more details to come. Look forward to it! So What Happened at the Hazardvitational? Jaco won the Hazardvitational playing four-color Paradoxical Outcome, beating David Lance on Survival. Other Top 8 decks were Ravager Shops, Paradoxical Oath, Humans, Grixis Xerox, and Griselbrand Oath. You can see these lists as well as plenty of photos from the event on The Mana Drain. Enjoy, they’re fun! Matt Hazard, our gracious host, played a mono-red aggro control deck with lots of Blood Moon effects and Null Rods. The idea is very much to hinder your opponent’s mana, empty your hand, and attack with aggressive creatures like Lupine Prototype and Bloodrage Brawler. Not one to shy away from interesting cards, he also included a maindeck Hellspark Elemental and a sideboard Pardic Miner, which gets talked about in the audio. I’ll let you look them up. Josh Chapple played his usual: BUG Control. It’s a typical looking list, one that you hope is metagamed properly for the event you’re playing. That’s difficult at a lot of Team Serious events where you might face Matt Hazard Mono-Red or a deck that includes a bunch of cards with “Predator” in the name so it can coordinate with the player’s donated prize. Anyway, when the right answers for your opponent’s strategy find their way to you in time, your game will go well. Otherwise, it’s a fun battle. I played Turn-One Tendrils (a.k.a. SX or Meandeck Tendrils), a deck that’s more of a thought experiment than an actual competitive deck. There has been much written about the archetype, but it doesn’t show up because it’s weak against so many kinds of disruption and is tricky to play well, let alone perfectly. I had fun and had a lot of time to eat and talk to people and hang out between rounds. I died once to Spoils of the Vault. Questions for Discussion What’s the best prize you’ve ever won playing Magic: The Gathering? Would you rather have a known prize or a mystery box? Would you have guessed 30 people would each eat an average of half a pizza? “Dressed Hamm’s” or “Spiced Hamm’s”? Have you tried one? They’re better than you thought, right? Did you have to look up Pardic Miner? Concluding Remarks Thanks for listening! We definitely believe that friendship and fun are the primary reasons to play Vintage, so we’re glad to make friends with our fans. If you want any advice about hosting a tournament in your own private space, invitational or otherwise, please feel free to reach out. We’ll look forward to any questions or comments here or The Mana Drain or on Twitter. You can also email us at seriousvintagepodcast@gmail.com.

This episode was originally released March 15th, 2019.For episode 38, Geoff Moes (@ThallidTosser on Twitter), Nat Moes (@GrandpaBelcher), and Josh Chapple (@joshchapple) talk with Matt Hazard (@winedope) about the most recent invitational Vintage tournament he held at his house, and how you can host similar local events.00:30 – Matt Hazard, Magic Man01:00 – Just Because We Haven’t Adequately Tested London Mulligan Doesn’t Mean We Can’t Share Extremely Uninformed Opinions About It08:20 – The Return of the Hazardvitational and How to Host Your OwnTotal runtime: 40:43 Baselessly Speculating About London Vintage (and Magic in general) has been in a bit of a snit recently as players discuss the implications of the London mulligan, which will be tested at the upcoming Mythic Championship II. If the test goes well, the new rules would replace the current Vancouver mulligan rules. In brief, the London mulligan has players continue to draw seven cards for each mulligan and then put a card on the bottom of the library for each time they’ve mulliganed. So if you mulligan twice, you’ll draw seven cards, pick your five favorite, and put two cards on the bottom of your library. We’ve tested with this a few times in Middle School and Vintage pickup games, and it hasn’t made a huge amount of difference in most games. Where you’re keeping seven or six cards, for example, it’s equivalent to the current, or nearly so. At more than four mulligans (keeping three cards or fewer), you’re still so far behind on materiel that your chances are vastly depleted, even if you keep a solid looking trio or pair of cards. So the real test seems to be in keeping four or five cards, where you might have a powerful way to recover—Ancestral Recall, or Workshop-Trinisphere for example. Regardless, even with this potentially strengthened mulligan rule, we don’t think you want to mulligan. Cards are just too powerful a resource. So we don’t think this will be too-too upsetting for Eternal formats. In reality it will just make players feel better when they have to mulligan a long way down. But! In any case, it would be a shame if Mishra’s Workshop or Bazaar of Baghdad to be restricted based on a mulligan rule change, since they’ve been vibrant parts of the metagame for so long. How to Run a Magic Tournament at Your House A couple weeks ago 29 players showed up at the home of Matt Hazard in Columbus, hungry for the competition of a Vintage tournament and the fun of a casual environment. For an average suburban house, that’s a lot of people, particularly if you need them to have enough room between them to comfortably play a game of Magic. Matt and his wife, Trece, have hosted a similar event for four years in a row now, growing in scale each year. The first few years they had three dogs and two cats, and now they have a young kid to contend with among all the hubbub. And they do a great job! This is one of the Ohio Vintage community’s favorite tournaments. There are so many things to take into account if you want to host a similar event, but it can be done. Aspects include: seating, tournament organization, food and drinks, and prizes. Butts in ChairsThe first thing Matt suggested was making sure you have enough places to put the games. His dining-room table only seats six, so with 23 more players to fit, we were spread out at the kitchen island (4), another table in the dining room (6), the living room (4), and the basement (8), including games on an ottoman and some borrowed folding tables. Knowing how many players you’ll be serving gives you a sense of scope for the event. Be realistic about how many you can host, and be firm in capping the event if necessary. It will be more than uncomfortable to cram players in where there’s not actually enough room for them. Names in SpreadsheetsThen you need to put all those players into some sort of tournament organizer software. Wizards Event Reporter is the “official” software but shouldn’t technically be used for events with playtest cards. Plus everyone in WER needs a DCI number. We are more likely to use MtG Arena (not the online MTG game), which is free and uses the same algorithm to calculate player rankings. It requires only a Google ID to login, and the only difficulty is that it’s hard to re-pair if something gets off mid-round. You can print off pairings, or put them on a big TV, or just shout them out. For smaller events, a little yelling never hurt anyone. I’ll also recommend knowing and making clear how many rounds will be played and how a winner will be determined, so there’s no confusion toward the end. Typically you play N Swiss rounds for P players, where 2N – P isn’t negative. So 3 rounds for 8 players, 4 rounds for 8 to 16, 5 rounds for 16 to 32, and 6 rounds for wow, you have a lot of friends. There are plenty of options to determine a winner: Swiss and elimination rounds (usually top-eight for more than 16 players), Swiss+1, or – as Josh suggested for small events – round robin. BeveragesThe Hazardvitational and other events at peoples’ houses (like TSI Steveland, which we talked about recently) have asked players to bring their own drinks. It helps make sure everyone has something they like and takes a lot of burden off the hosts for supplying. Team Serious tends to go through a lot of Jägermeister, Malört, and Hamm’s because we hate ourselves. This year we even imported the “Dressed Hamm’s” from Chicago, which is better than it sounds, really. Food Breaks Are NiceOur home-based events have also typically included a break in the middle of the event for food. The Hazard’s had everyone throw money in a bowl for a big pizza order from Columbus-area favorite Donato’s, ending up with 15 large pizzas in all (almost half a pizza per person). Geoff’s invitationals have ordered in subs or burritos from Jimmy John’s or Chipotle. Coordinating a big grill-fest of burgers and hotdogs has worked as well too at events, in part because someone who’s not playing can serve as grillmaster. Regardless, food helps ground everyone and is another event people can socialize around. Prizes Are Nice TooAnd of course there are prizes to think of. Some Team Serious Invitational series have traditional prize structures that ask for entry fees and then condense those to pay out to the top four or eight players. This can be tricky since the prizes have to be bought in advance with a prospective amount of money based on the number of confirmed players. Often players or teammates are interested in selling cards to this venture, but you have to hope that the right mix of cards comes available at the same time as the money or risk over- or under-spending for prizes. The Hazardvitational bypasses this hangup by skipping the entry fee and asking players to donate prizes, suggesting a value of $20 or more. Cards are frequent additions to the pool, and we’ve had things like Dual Lands, Jaces, Commander decks, complete sets, and various user-created packages. Jake Hilty put a complete Middle School deck in the pool for this event, which was awesome. We’ve also had non-Magic prizes like alcohol (including Josh Chapple’s prize of bitters and a cocktail recipe book) and even a Sawzall, which went highly in the structure. Recent additions to the prize pool have been “mystery box” prizes, which are pretty much what they sound like. The sky’s the limit, and part of the prize is the fun of opening an unknown quantity. Ben Perry consistently outdoes himself in this category, as this year’s “Do Not Open” box included a choice of keeping a Tundra or one of two further mystery packages. The chosen prizes were intended to be given to other players of the winner’s choice and turned out to be more Middle School cards. In the end there are lots of ways to put a home tournament together. These are just basic ideas, and you can feel free to modify as necessary. In Case You Want to StreamI also didn’t get a chance to mention this in the podcast, but I devised a much-improved streaming rig for holding a camera above a game of Magic. Instead of using two vertical posts with a crossbar, I got a boom stand with a single counterweighted arm, like this. What an improvement! The stand can be put to either side of the table, or even behind one of the players, and is so much stabler than the previous crossbar. I was able to glue the camera to a section of dowel and use the protective cap as a method of attachment to the end of the boom, so the camera screws on and off and angles can be adjusted. I didn’t have sand to weigh the bag, so obviously I used basic lands. I’m really pleased with this new setup and am looking forward to using it in the future. Working With Land Grant In the last episode we talked about an upcoming (now past) Old School event run alongside Magic Fest Cleveland, hosted by the Cleveland Rocs at BottleHouse Brewery and Mead Hall. The event ran smoothly, everyone had a great time, and the event organizers were able to donate more than $1,700 to Providence House, a Cleveland-area family crisis center. This episode we talk about contacting Land Grant Brewing to help us make a more fun event by providing fine liquid refreshment to players. Josh Chapple operates under a policy of “Don’t ask, don’t get,” so he asked and we got. In this case we told them that Land Grant is actually a Magic card, and they asked for one for their trophy case. A fair exchange, for sure. There’s a lot of power in the Magic community, even among smaller groups like local Vintage or Old School scenes. Charity events are wonderful opportunities to combine the people-power and (let’s be honest) money inherent in these groups and put them to good use. It’s an attempt to make a difference where it’s needed. So many Magic events are inward looking, with players essentially giving back to themselves. Charity events are outward looking, good for everyone involved. Following the Hazardvitational, we contacted Land Grant again to set up what I hope will be a longer-term relationship, presenting the opportunity to do a similar charity event to the Cleveland Rocs partnership with BottleHouse. Magic players get a place to play and a chance to help out their community, and a local business gets a similar chance to give back, some promotion, and a captive audience of consumers for an afternoon. Land Grant was excited about the option, even offering to donate 20% of their day’s profits to the charity as well. Sounds pretty win-win-win! I’m really excited about this, hoping we can match the Rocs’ results. Right now we’re looking at an event on May 18, with more details to come. Look forward to it! So What Happened at the Hazardvitational? Jaco won the Hazardvitational playing four-color Paradoxical Outcome, beating David Lance on Survival. Other Top 8 decks were Ravager Shops, Paradoxical Oath, Humans, Grixis Xerox, and Griselbrand Oath. You can see these lists as well as plenty of photos from the event on The Mana Drain. Enjoy, they’re fun! Matt Hazard, our gracious host, played a mono-red aggro control deck with lots of Blood Moon effects and Null Rods. The idea is very much to hinder your opponent’s mana, empty your hand, and attack with aggressive creatures like Lupine Prototype and Bloodrage Brawler. Not one to shy away from interesting cards, he also included a maindeck Hellspark Elemental and a sideboard Pardic Miner, which gets talked about in the audio. I’ll let you look them up. Josh Chapple played his usual: BUG Control. It’s a typical looking list, one that you hope is metagamed properly for the event you’re playing. That’s difficult at a lot of Team Serious events where you might face Matt Hazard Mono-Red or a deck that includes a bunch of cards with “Predator” in the name so it can coordinate with the player’s donated prize. Anyway, when the right answers for your opponent’s strategy find their way to you in time, your game will go well. Otherwise, it’s a fun battle. I played Turn-One Tendrils (a.k.a. SX or Meandeck Tendrils), a deck that’s more of a thought experiment than an actual competitive deck. There has been much written about the archetype, but it doesn’t show up because it’s weak against so many kinds of disruption and is tricky to play well, let alone perfectly. I had fun and had a lot of time to eat and talk to people and hang out between rounds. I died once to Spoils of the Vault. Questions for Discussion What’s the best prize you’ve ever won playing Magic: The Gathering? Would you rather have a known prize or a mystery box? Would you have guessed 30 people would each eat an average of half a pizza? “Dressed Hamm’s” or “Spiced Hamm’s”? Have you tried one? They’re better than you thought, right? Did you have to look up Pardic Miner? Concluding Remarks Thanks for listening! We definitely believe that friendship and fun are the primary reasons to play Vintage, so we’re glad to make friends with our fans. If you want any advice about hosting a tournament in your own private space, invitational or otherwise, please feel free to reach out. We’ll look forward to any questions or comments here or The Mana Drain or on Twitter. You can also email us at seriousvintagepodcast@gmail.com.

This episode was originally released May 27th, 2019.For episode 40, Geoff Moes (@ThallidTosser on Twitter), Nat Moes (@GrandpaBelcher), and Josh Chapple (@joshchapple) are pleased to show off Collector Ouphe, a free preview card from Modern Horizons, provided by Wizards of the Coast!01:25 – Oof17:59 – The Real Collection Was the Friends We Made Along the WayTotal runtime: 25:22 Null Rodney I’m sure most of you are here looking for the free Modern Horizons preview card, so we’ll get right to it. It’s a Null Rod on legs! At long last! This card was at the top of my list from the very beginning of exploratory design, and it went through everything almost unchanged mechanically. In my head I named it “Null Rodney.” Null Rod has long been a staple of Vintage aggro-control decks because it helps prey on artifact-based manabases as Wasteland and Strip Mine take apart dual lands. It slows down explosive starts and combo finishes, allowing the control deck enough time to block paths to victory and win with creatures. That was one of Null Rod’s big weaknesses, in fact; it didn’t apply pressure to the opponent by itself. Without threatening creatures bearing down, opponents could find answers or additional threats and break out of their prison to win. Collector Ouphe has the same crippling potential as Null Rod but brings its own threat. As formats get older and smaller, and artifacts get more powerful, Collector Ouphe has increasing utility. In Modern it shuts down Affinity (the deck, not the ability), Aether Vial, and much of the Tron decks’ ability to fix colors and tutor for lands. In Legacy it starts hitting fast mana (Mox Diamond, Chrome Mox, Lotus Petal, and Lion’s Eye Diamond), artifact decks with Grim Monolith, and powerful equipment, like Batterskull and Umezawa’s Jitte. And in Vintage, Workshop Aggro runs Walking Ballista and Arcbound Ravager, in addition to all the decks using Moxes, Black Lotus, Sol Ring, and Mana Crypt as a big chunk of their mana base. Oh, and Time Vault is still an OK card, I think. Anyway, we’re primarily a Vintage podcast, so we’ll go deeper into Vintage applications. Obviously not every deck is interested in this effect, but there are probably a few. Stony Silence is one of the most important cards in Survival decks for buying time against Workshops and Paradoxical Outcome, and Collector Ouphe is a Stony Silence that can be tutored for (or discarded to) Survival of the Fittest. Maybe there’s some risk in making creature removal even better against this creature-heavy strategy, but all kinds of removal were good against this deck that has a key land, a key enchantment, big artifact creatures, lots of other creatures, and a relevant graveyard. Ouphe Survival, borrowed from David Lance Business (38)4 Bazaar of Baghdad4 Survival of the Fittest1 Ancestral Recall1 Time Walk1 Thorn of Amethyst4 Basking Rootwalla4 Vengevine4 Hollow One3 Collector Ouphe3 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben1 Hooting Mandrills1 Manglehorn1 Spell Queller1 Squee, Goblin Nabob1 Wonder4 Noble HierarchMana Sources (22)2 Elvish Spirit Guide1 Black Lotus1 Mox Emerald1 Mox Jet1 Mox Pearl1 Mox Ruby1 Mox Sapphire2 Verdant Catacombs2 Windswept Heath2 Wooded Foothills2 Misty Rainforest3 Savannah2 Tropical Island1 Forest | Sideboard (15)1 Chalice of the Void4 Containment Priest1 Energy Flux1 Fairgrounds Warden1 Force of Vigor2 Grafdigger’s Cage1 Kataki, War’s Wage1 Collector Ouphe2 Squee, Goblin Nabob1 Stony Silence BUG Control (which we’ve never talked about on this show before) is already looking to deny resources to the opponent with creatures like Leovold, Emissary of Trest, stopping card-draw, and Ramunap Excavator and Wasteland hitting important lands. Like Excavator, the Ouphe is another artifact that’s been given a body and a purpose – preventing the opponent from having nice things. And thanks to Deathrite Shaman, BUG Control can skip running a lot of the artifacts that would make the Ouphe a double-edged sword. BUG Collector Business (38)4 Force of Will2 Mental Misstep1 Thoughtseize1 Abrupt Decay1 Assassin's Trophy1 Ponder1 Brainstorm1 Ancestral Recall1 Time Walk2 Painful Truths2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor1 Treasure Cruise1 Dig Through Time1 Demonic Tutor4 Deathrite Shaman3 Snapcaster Mage3 Collector Ouphe2 Baleful Strix3 Leovold, Emissary of Trest1 Rumanap Excavator1 Tasigur, the Golden Fang1 Gurmag AnglerMana Sources (22)1 Black Lotus1 Mox Emerald1 Mox Jet1 Mox Sapphire4 Verdant Catacombs1 Misty Rainforest1 Polluted Delta3 Underground Sea2 Tropical Island1 Bayou1 Swamp1 Strip Mine4 Wasteland | Sideboard (15)4 Grafdigger's Cage2 Yixlid Jailer1 Forest2 Nature's Claim1 Force of Vigor1 Pithing Needle1 Toxic Deluge1 Flusterstorm1 Engineered Explosives1 Infernal Reckoning Another strategy, which hasn’t been around recently but could show up again, would be something like Christmas Beats. In Magic, red and green both hate Vintage staples blue and artifacts, so this deck focuses on those in an aggro-control shell. Christmas Beats foregoes playing most artifacts in favor of Elvish and Simian Spirit Guides, so it can disrupt mana with four Collector Ouphes and an additional Null Rod for moral support. There are lots of creature options beyond that: Magus of the Moon, Tin Street Hooligan, Scavenging Ooze, Tarmogoyf, Harsh Mentor, Vexing Shusher, Goblin Cratermaker. And for spells you get Pyroblast, Lightning Bolt, Ancient Grudge, the new Force of Vigor from Modern Horizons – whatever you think will make a difference in the expected metagame. Santa’s Ouphe Business (32)4 Deathrite Shaman4 Collector Ouphe4 Tin Street Hooligan4 Tarmogoyf4 Magus of the Moon1 Chalice of the Void1 Null Rod1 Blood Moon1 Force of Vigor4 Pyroblast4 Lightning BoltMana Sources (28)4 Elvish Spirit Guide4 Simian Spirit Guide1 Lotus Petal4 Verdant Catacombs1 Wooded Foothills3 Taiga3 Snow-Covered Forest2 Snow-Covered Mountain1 Snow-Covered Swamp1 Strip Mine4 Wasteland | Sideboard (15)3 Pithing Needle1 Thorn of Amethyst4 Leyline of the Void3 Ancient Grudge2 Red Elemental Blast2 Mindbreak Trap There’s a lot of opportunity for Collector Ouphe to succeed in Modern and eternal formats. Artifacts continue getting stronger and allowing opponents to carry out nefarious, broken schemes. Ouphe says no! How Many Team Serious Members Does It Take? Because podcasts are a tricky way to reveal a free Wizards preview card, we decided we’d try something different, and perhaps unique. The Serious Vintage podcast looks at the Vintage format through the lens of community, rather than competition. We have fun playing Magic, but it’s also an excuse to hang out with people we enjoy. And it’s one of the reasons we always end our shows with discussions of food and drink, because the post-tournament meal is just as important as the event itself. Sometimes more so. So thanks to everyone who helped us preview our card (in order of the word they read): Steve McGrew, Jake Hilty, Jon Hammack, JR Goldman, Guhstin Dewey, Paul Blakeley, Ryan Seeley, Nam Q. Tran, Duane Haddix, Rajah James, Anthony “Twaun” Michaels, Jimmy McCarthy, Andy “Brass Man” Probasco, Sam Krohlow, Frank Singel, Josh McCurley, Phil Thorson, Jerry Yang, Eric Caffrey, Mark Trogdon, Gilberto Rivera, Kevin Nelson, Justin Waller, Rick Gideon, David Lance, Kyle Lennox, Charles Rolko, Kevin Poenisch, Matt Hazard, Erik Butler, Joe Dyer, and Ben Perry. Lots of people had fun with it, none more than Brass Man, who provided the stinger for this episode. Thanks also to Geoff Moes, who, when I said I wanted to have him splice 40 or so contextless words of a card together into a coherent whole, didn’t blink an eye. It was just that normal twitch thing he gets when I tell him I have an idea. And thanks to Josh Chapple, who, since it was snowing in Colorado when we recorded, went up the road to podcast from the parking lot of his local bar, Snowpack Taproom, to get a working internet signal. He recommends Snowpack as having a strong selection of rotating local kegs, good food, and powerful internet. The next Team Serious Invitational he hosts in Colorado will definitely take a trip there. Finally, thanks to Jaco for hosting our show at Eternal Central. He loves formats with old Magic cards and has put together quite a home for them. We exist in large part because of his help. My job is easy; I just write words. Upcoming Events We close this episode with a couple of upcoming Vintage events, a section that we used to do and would like to do more regularly. If you have a Vintage (or Middle School or Old School) event that you want us to hype, let us know! If it’s reasonable to put on our next episode, we will. First up, an event I found on The Mana Drain. The Lone Star Lhurgoyfs group is hosting a Vintage event Saturday, June 8 in Houston, Texas. They have a nice writeup, it’s at a bar, and they’re going to raffle off some pretty awesome looking Eldrazi proxies. Check that out if you’re near Houston. In Warren, Ohio, there are two Vintage Eternal Weekend Trials, on Friday, June 14 and Sunday, June 16 at Bottom Dollar Trading. Those events should just be crawling with Team Serious members, so it should be a lot of fun. And Josh is looking forward to the TinFinVitational events in Denver, being run the same weekend as that city’s Magic Fest at the Whittier Pub. There’s a Vintage event on Friday, July 19, and a Legacy event on Sunday, July 21. Take a look if you’ll be playing in GP Denver, and say hey to Josh. Questions for Discussion So! What do you think of Collector Ouphe? Did you know how to pronounce “ouphe” before we did? Did you see Filip Burburan’s great art? The Ouphe is stealing the power from an Aether Vial! Are there other Easter eggs in the art? What other Modern Horizons cards are you excited about? Do you have a local Vintage or other event coming up that you want us to give a shoutout to? Let us know! Conclusion Thanks for listening! If you found this show because of our free Wizards preview card for Modern Horizons, welcome. We hope you enjoyed your time here. We’ll look forward to any questions or comments here or The Mana Drain or on Twitter. You can also email us at seriousvintagepodcast@gmail.com.

Oh boy, it's video game time! Dave has never played this before and Matt thinks that this parody of the history of video games is pretty good. Will Dave agree or will it be time for him to put down the controller for good? Listen and find out! Like what you hear? Keep the conversation going over on Twitter @AnyonePodcast. Not into Twitter? We're on Facebook too! Just search for "Anyone For Seconds Podcast". We also stream on Twitch! Watch us at twitch.tv/anyonepodcast. All clips are used under fair use. Theme tune composed and played by Dave.

EMAIL US YOUR VERY OWN PICKS!!! at mediaboyspod@gmail.com In M.B. #3, The M.B. talk THREE! Uhhh can I get a "we love the rule of threes" in dah M.B. Chat!? The Boys talk a wacky farce, a game that literally eats lead (like a hot dog), and an album that has a nice title but angry lyrics!? Can I get a "Now that's ironic!" in dah damn M.B. chat also!? There's no real chat but uh feel free to make friends with others in the comments. Also, feel free to ignore the bad sound quality and the fact that Chris sounds like he's SCREAMING!!! TY!

Lock and load for some nostalgic action! This week, Josh and Tom examine a gaming icon that never was, Matt Hazard! How does this 2009 game industry parody hold up? Is Will Arnett this generation's greatest voice actor? Find out all this and more as we discuss EAT LEAD: THE RETURN OF MATT HAZARD!Intro: Mewmore // Clock Town (The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask Remix) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qciJqqPDey4 Outro: Mewmore // Zelda Main Theme (The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Remix) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJU__j8mwc

This week, you can hear Chump Slap, Poppascotch, and Dr. Syintist as they discuss the Xbox360/PS3 undisputed action game classic and videogame industry critique Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard!

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Act 2 of Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard.

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Act 1 of Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard.

For episode 38, Geoff Moes (@ThallidTosser on Twitter), Nat Moes (@GrandpaBelcher), and Josh Chapple (@joshchapple) talk with Matt Hazard (@winedope) about the most recent invitational Vintage tournament he held at his house, and how you can host similar local events. 00:30 – Matt Hazard, Magic Man 01:00 – Just Because We Haven’t Adequately Tested London […]

« Humour je précise » disait un comique il y a quelques décennies sur fond critique. Le comique est devenu un peu réac entre temps et vous avez découvert Je Game Moi Non Plus depuis. Et on s'est dit notre nouveau numéro, qu'est-ce que l'humour vient faire dans les jeux vidéo et même peut-on rire avec les jeux vidéo ! Oui le joueur ou la joueuse alertes nous citerons de suite bien des exemples allant de l'humour le plus raffiné (auto)référentiel d'un Matt Hazard, des répliques de jeu vidéo empruntant à de l'humour Monthy Python ou encore du « pipi-caca » exquis comme Concker's Bad Fur Day. Mais on vous répondra troll : oui mais où est le jeu dans tout ça ? C'est ce qu'on a essayé de se demander avec Antoine (pas le chanteur), Mehdi (donc) et Olivier (qui ne produit aucune huile). Tout ça aidé par pas mal d'exemples de jeux et d'auteur en plus de notre humour à toute épreuve.:p Retrouvez-nous sur Twitter : Mehdi : @D_Mehdi Antoine : @antoineherren Olivier : @JGMNP_Olivier Générique de l’émission : Lukhash – Beginning of Anxiety. Illustration : LucasArts © Tous droits réservés.   

This week we take a retrospective look into Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard. We discuss the game’s plot, characters, gameplay, and why we think this game is a forgotten gem. Intro Provided by Mewmore / 'Home' (Remix) from Undertale https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2AY2qVajek Outro Provided by Mewmore - Hopes and Dreams (Remix) from Undertale www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXIKbGxFT9o

Let's cast out 2016 and make room for whatever it is that's coming next. Join us as we look deep, deep into the future and... actually never mind that, Nick's just fired up Diablo 1 and managed to connect to the late '90s version of Battle.net. See you all next year! Discussed: Diablo, Diablo 2, Diablo 3, Dark Souls, Dark Souls 3, Time Commanders, Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard

As seasoned video gamers, we know a little about what makes a cool game. We strive to talk about only the coolest games every week. Like Boxboxboy. That's cool. Inside? (That's a game.) Also cool. The Return of Matt Hazard? Sorry. That's not a cool game. Episode Timeline 00:50 - Intro 02:05 - Viewer Mail 16:10 - Undertale 33:40 - Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard 48:08 - Inside 60:55 - Boxboxboy 68:25 - Steamworld Heist 73:55 - Outro  

... is that any Virtual Console discussion is too much After a heavy round of news, Nintendo Free Radio is back on the air and ready to pour hot gaming knowledge into your brains. A somewhat abbreviated New Business features Donald tackling two major 2011 games that could not be more different from each other - From Software's vicious RPG/masochism simulator Dark Souls (now without online trolls) and one of the original 3DS killer apps, Super Mario 3D Land. After that, it's a tag team match as Stephen and Austen form a parejas incredible to deal with the explorative platforming action of Guacamelee, both PS3 and Vita versions. Austen wraps with a game that attempts to do to the gaming industry what Airplane! did for disaster movies - does Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard reach its lofty goal, or do we have a Seltzer/Friedberg film on the horizon? In Whatcha Watchin', the theme this week is superheroes, as Austen and Stephen explore Batman: The Brave and the Bold and Ultimate Spider-Man, while Donald investigates the financial troubles of the Fantastic Four in Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgandy. Look for cameos from the Lannisters, Transformers Prime and Swamp Loggers as well. The Feature Discussion originally was going to be a recap of the April 17 Nintendo Direct, but one announcement sent the segment spiraling into discussion of the merits of Earthbound and a look at the status of the WiiU after its fifth NPDs (note: This show was recorded before the Nintendo financials and announcement of their non-traditional E3 presentation). We bring it home with Mushrooms ranging from concerts to the end of droughts to the end of an American institution. We still want to hear from you - who's going to be proven totally wrong about Earthbound? Send your predictions and anything else you want us to tackle to nintendofreeradio@gmail.com or even leave them in the comments here. Until next time, say... FUZZY PICKLES!! This podcast was edited by Stephen Shook. All music use is covered under fair use provisions.

InFamous 2, Halo Reach, Eat Lead: the Return of Matt Hazard, Real Racing 2 HD and Solar 2.News - Cloth map for Skyrim, Team Fortress 2 going free to play, possible PS3 price drop, Halo Anniversary to have Kinect support, Mortal Kombat DLC pass, possible PS Vita delays, possible 360 micro transactions, FIFA 12 and Battlefield 3 release dates, New Vegas DLC and LA Noir confirmed for PC. Retail roundup, Twitter section and sexy quiz.

What’s up humans! We areeeee back. After a brief hiatus, we have reemerged, now wielding double the sexy and six times the sloppy media talk. On this episode we talk about traversing Limbo, entering people’s dreams and the addiction known as achievements. Please do leave us feedback and send us some questions for the mailbag (I like answering questions ) You can do this at hobbiesforzombies@gmail.comGames:Assassin’s Creed: BloodlinesSonic 3D BlastEat Lead: The Return of Matt HazardLimboDeadliest WarriorDragon Age: Origins (update)Just Cause 2DeathSpank Reading:Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Life (Volume 1)Scott Pilgrim’s Final Hour (Volume 6)Arthas: Rise of the Lich King Watching:Inception – SPOILERS from 1Hour 26 Mins 28 Secs to 1Hour 32 Mins 41 Sec News:Halo PC owners to get special flairDecide Carmine’s Fate with your walletStreet Fighter X Tekken and Tekken X Street FighterDicaprio runs away from Mel GibsonZack Snyder directs something original not about owls with sucker punchAmerican McGee’s Alice: Madness Returns TrailerYogi Bear Live Action MovieAvengers Cast Revealed and Ed Norton gets replaced with Mark Ruffalo DC Universe Online TrailerGuillermo Del Toro does a haunted mansion movie, Eddie Murphy weeps for himSmallville finally fucking EndsGoon Film TrailerCole’s Facelift gets toned downBungie reveals Forge World gigantic new map Case Zero hits the mark at 5 bucksMailbag! Thanks for listening!Download Link

It was April First in our heads at CC Gaming in Kennesaw, GA, so it was time to break out some special games. Superman 64 and ET 2600 started off the night, until Derrick Hopkins of Dead Pixel Live started chastising us for daring to call any game crap, as some of our live audience started pulling out GOOD 2600 games and calling them crap. Then we pull out some stinkers from the Xbox 360 - Bullet Witch and Eat Lead. This is a partial recording as the processor was still overheating at the time.

It was April First in our heads at CC Gaming in Kennesaw, GA, so it was time to break out some special games. Superman 64 and ET 2600 started off the night, until Derrick Hopkins of Dead Pixel Live started chastising us for daring to call any game crap, as some of our live audience started pulling out GOOD 2600 games and calling them crap. Then we pull out some stinkers from the Xbox 360 - Bullet Witch and Eat Lead. This is a partial recording as the processor was still overheating at the time.

Heavy Rain, the completion of Matt Hazard, Bioshock, Left4Dead 2 and Music Catch 2. News discussion - Xbox Live closing for original Xbox, Just Cause 2 demo due, Sonic 4 announced, possible FFXIIII on Xbox 360, PSP Go re launch and could Star Trek Online come to home consoles. The retail round-up - DLC, sexy quiz and Tweeting action.  

Matt Hazard, Darksiders, Demons Souls, Modnation Racers, MAG and the completion of InFamous.News discussion - Apple iPad, Pokemon reboot, GTA4 epidoes coming to PS3 and PC, next Borderlands DLC, Telltale games coming to Mac, Bayonetta updated on PS3, Battlfield Bad Company 2 beta, further Xbox Game Room details and Splosion Man deal of the week.The retail round-up - DLC, sexy quiz and Tweeting action

Get into the swing of things as the crew brings to light information about The Magic Obelisk, Trauma Team, Matt Hazard: Blood Bath and Beyond, and Army of Two: The 40th Day. In the news, the crew wraps up talks about CES 2010, Netflix on the Wii, Zelda on the Wii not coming this year, Batman: Arkham Asylum: Game of the Year Edition, delays galore, the woes of Dragon Age: Origins DLC, the impending influence of motion controls with Microsoft and Sony. Plus more!

Hosts: Michael "Boston" Hannon and Brad Fellers Co-Host: John "Knobs" Knoblach Running Time: 1:45:02 Music: Kingdom Hearts (PS2) This week's episode is our longest yet, since we couldn't stop having fun and arguing about scurvy. Between all of that we find some time to talk about Left 4 Dead, Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard, Silent Hill: Homecoming, Crackdown, Ninja Gaiden: Dragon Sword, Red Faction: Guerrilla, Clive Barker's Jericho, Castle Crashers, Forza 2, Rainbow Six Vegas 2, The Maw, Orange Box, Kingdom Hearts, Dawn of War II, Plants vs. Zombies, Fallout 3: Broken Steel, Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter, and Dragon Quest 5. 3DRealms closes up shop ;_; Pokemon silver and gold remakesannounced Don't forget to join the forums!

Episode #002: Tips for Trivial Pursuit, Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard, Burnout Paradise (including the Cops and Robbers pack), and Cuboid. Josh and Ali also discuss Playfire and X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Contact the hosts at www.bagofmadbastards.com or send email to josh@bagofmadbastards.com or ali@bagofmadbastards.com, get Twitter updates via wireless phone at www.twitter.com/BOMBJosh or www.twitter.com/BOMBAli.

The Crew has several games to discuss this week, including Resident Evil 5, Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, Crystal Defenders, Resistance: Retribution, Eat lead: The Return of Matt Hazard, and Ninja Blade! They also take a closer look at the recently released map pack for Call of Duty: World at War and announce a Podcast contest! Can you get all the hidden words in order to win the new Call of Duty map pack? In the news, the crew discusses the Don control mode in The Godfather II, the announcement of Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2, The House of the Dead: Overkill making a new world record, and David Jaffe calling Metal Gear Solid "Ham-fisted." This and so much more awaits for you in this download!