Limited Resources

This week on Limited Resources episode #60, Ryan and Marshall are back in action and discuss a wide range of topics from Magic Online through the current state of Scars limited. Thanks for listening!

This week on Limited Resources, Ryan and Marshall welcome Usman Jamil as a guest on the show to talk about everything related to Cube Drafting!

This week on Limited Resources Ryan and Marshall give a report from the Seattle PTQ which happened this weekend, do a special surprise double Crack-a-Pack, and cover a variety of other random topics. Thanks for listening!

This week on Limited Resources Ryan and Marshall cover a range of topics culminating in a discussion about being ROTty and tilting and how you can improve in these areas. Thanks everyone for listening! Links from the show: 15 year old listener Jacob Wilson’s 10-0 Sealed Deck from Grand Prix Portland:http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/eventcoverage/gppor10/day2#2

This week on Limited Resources, Marshall and Ryan do a crack-a-pack, give some Coalition League information, and for our main topic cover the often overlooked but critical skill of card evaluation. Thanks for listening! Stuff we mentioned on the show: Coalition League 3 info: http://community.wizards.com/coalitionleague/blog/2010/10/04/season_three Our latest draft video on MTGOAcademy: http://www.mtgoacademy.com/limited-resources-a-very-infectious-plan/ Weird card from crack-a-pack: http://plixi.com/p/53530893 Latest build of the Grand Architect deck Marshall made: http://deckstats.net/deck-355444-b4cfe77d33d51549eda3508ea4fba5eb-en.html Mike Flores’ stuff: www.fivewithflores.com, http://twitter.com/#!/fivewithflores, Top Decks on Daily MTG on the mothership, and check out the top8magic podcasts right here on MTGCast.com as well!

This week on Limited Resources episode #55, Marshall and Ryan get caught up on a whole ton of stuff, do a crack-a-pack, and give some initial impressions of Scars of Mirrodin drafting. WPN Announcement: http://wizards.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wizards.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=2102 Coalition League III: http://community.wizards.com/coalitionleague/blog/2010/10/04/season_three Pack Order Announcement: http://www.wizards.com/magic/magazine/article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/feature/113a

This week on Limited Resources, we take a show to talk about the Great Designer Search 2 and congratulate our own designer Ryan on making it to the 3rd round!! Great job Ryan! Given the time crunch he is now under, we are cutting this week short of our normal content but should be back next week with our usual stuff. Thanks for listening! Links mentioned during the show: Ryan’s GDS2 wiki page: http://community.wizards.com/magicthegathering/wiki/Labs:Gds/gds2/godot Ryan’s GDS2 Essays: http://waitingforwfg.blogspot.com/2010/10/great-designer-search-2-essays.html Ryan’s GDS2 Quiz Answers: http://waitingforwfg.blogspot.com/2010/10/great-designer-search-2-quiz.html DO NOT COMMENT with specific suggestions for Ryan’s worlds or designs here. If you have thoughts to share on specifics of what he discussed on this podcast, post them as comments to his wiki page. Matthew “oraymw” Watkins’ GDS2 wiki: http://community.wizards.com/magicthegathering/wiki/Labs:Gds/gds2/Rhyfel

This week on Limited Resources Ryan and Marshall wrap up the full set review by finishing up the rares. Crack-a-Pack and a clan are also included for your listening enjoyment. Thanks for listening!

This week on Episode #52 of Limited Resources, Marshall and Ryan celebrate the first year of Limited Resources existence by talking about Scars of Mirrodin rares, have a special prize for the next Coalition League LR top finisher on modo, recap the prerelease shenanigans, and more! Thanks for listening for a whole year!!

Your Limited Resources hosts, Marshall and Ryan, introduce themselves and discuss a Zendikar draft. The main focus of this episode are just introductions and getting our podcast off the ground, but we also talk about some Green and Red cards in depth for Zendikar.

We actually ran out of space on the first one, so here is the final part of our Scars review extravaganza! Thanks for listening.

Are you ready for Scars? You will be after listening to our complete breakdown of every single common and uncommon in the whole set! This is part 1 of 2 for an in depth primer for those looking to get a head start on the competition with this exciting new set. Buckle up and hang on, and we hope you enjoy the ride.

This week on the 50th episode of Limited Resources, Ryan and Marshall give their tournament reports from GP Portland!

This week on Limited Resources, Ryan and Marshall recap a busy PAX weekend, do a clan update, crack-a-pack, and cover spoilers for Scars of Mirrodin! Thanks for listening!

This week on Limited Resources episode #48, Marshall and Ryan recap alternate forms of limited, talk about an interesting build Ryan had in a 4 pack sealed event, do a crack-a-pack, and foreshadow the coming weeks events and shows. Thanks for listening as always!

These week on Limited Resources episode #47 Marshall and Ryan do a Crack-a-Pack, talk about a sealed league, and for our main topic we cover alternate limited formats. Thanks for listening!

This week on Limited Resources Ryan and Marshall recap counterspells in limited, do Crack-a-Pack and take a deep dive into M11 sealed in preparation for various PTQ’s and ultimately the Portland GP!

This week on Limited Resources episode #45, Ryan and Marshall cover a range of topics: Counterspells in Limited, Cube Drafting, MTGO on a Mac, Draw or Play decisions, M11 sealed, Red and Black sweepers, and do a Crack-a-Pack! Thanks for listening!

This week on Limited Resources episode #44, Marshall and Ryan recap Splashing, give an Ollie update, do an M11 Crack-a-Pack, and at the behest of one of the true pillars of the Magic community, Mike Flores, dive deeper into the limited world that is M11!

This week on Limited Resources episode #43, Ryan and Marshall do a Crack-a-Pack, give a Limited Resources clan update, talk a little M11, announce a draft video we did, and talk about Splashing for our main topic. Thanks for listening! Here is the link to our draft video: http://www.mtgoacademy.com/limited-resources-a-pick-is-worth-a-thousand-words/

This week on Limited Resources episode #42, Ryan and Marshall discuss M11 as a limited core set, do some follow up on last show’s controversial topics, do an M11 crack-a-pack, and talk about the Rares of Rise for our main topic. Thanks for listening!

This week on Limited Resources episode #41, Ryan and Marshall do a follow up on the Esper Charm debacle, talk about Hornet Sting, and for our main topic we break down M11 limited by color as a primer for the upcoming release events. Here is the link Ryan mentioned about the Esper Charm ruling: http://strategy.channelfireball.com/featured-articles/the-riki-rules-%E2%80%93-charm-school/ Here is the link for the article Ryan mentioned about Harrow and intent of your actions: http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=judge/article/20041111b Here is the link for MaRo’s article regarding the color pie: http://www.wizards.com/magic/magazine/article.aspx?x=mtgcom/daily/mr261 Thanks for listening and Happy Pre/Releasing from the LR crew!

This week on Limited Resources episode #40, Ryan and Marshall talk about Esper Charm and angle shooting, M11, and recap the week off we both had.

This week on Limited Resources episode #39, Ryan and Marshall give a trip report from the SCG 5k in Seattle, a clan update, a virtual crack-a-pack, and have a Mulligan Battle. Here is the theoretical hand given for the mulligan decision: Forest, Forest, Mountain, Daggerback Basilisk, Might of the Masses, Ulamog’s Crusher, Snake Umbra.

This week on Limited Resources episode #38, Marshall and Ryan take a look at the new cards spoiled in M11. Here is the link to the “you make the play” that Ryan faced in game. Would you have won this game? http://yfrog.com/mku0sj Thanks for listening!

This week on Limited Resources, Ryan and Marshall do a mixed topic show with some tournament updates, MTGO thoughts, hard lessons learned in the draft queues, and a meta game recap of Rise limited. Thanks for listening!

This week on Limited Resources episode 36 Marshall and Ryan do crack-a-pack, recap last weeks topic, and for the main topic this week we take a deeper dive into MTGO, and how to use it. Here are Ryan’s reference notes mentioned in the show: A lot of detailed MTGO information covered in this episode! Here are the various paths and links mentioned in the show. All info is based on Windows XP. Draft file save location: C:\Documents and Settings\[USERNAME]\My Documents\Games\Magic The Gathering Online\Drafts Limited deck autosave: C:\Documents and Settings\[USERNAME]\Application Data\Wizards of the Coast\Magic Online\3.0\Decks\TournamentDecks Second client .exe: C:\Program Files\Wizards of the Coast\Magic Online\MTGO_NET Ryan’s Draft Spreadsheet: https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AjfzsMGl2p4VdGkyY0djRzR6dnFwSFB1eDdFaG5OM2c&hl=en (Note: not all of the formulas translated properly so I deleted them, but you can tally up the data to produce things like win % for each round, average packs won per draft, etc.) Other MTGO Links:Using symbols in chat: http://wizards.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wizards.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=460 General tech: http://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75846/19208610/v3_Feature_Tech Hotkey breakdown: http://wizards.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wizards.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=646 Thanks for listening!

This week on Limited Resources episode #35, Ryan and Marshall answer 2 listener questions, do Crack-a-Pack, and for the main topic, talk about sideboarding in limited. Thanks for listening!

This week on Limited Resources episode 34, Ryan and Marshall follow up last weeks topics, do a crack a pack, talk about removal in ROE limited, and give an Ollie update. Thanks for listening!

This week on Limited Resources #33, Ryan and Marshall talk about Levelers, Mythic Rares, Ryan does a crack-a-pack, and we discuss alternate archetypes in Rise of the Eldrazi limited. Thanks for listening!

This week on Limited Resources episode #32, Ryan and Marshall talk more Rise of the Eldrazi, do an extended Crack-a-pack, and have a discussion about potential issues with a format like Rise.

This week on Limited Resourced episode #31, Ryan and Marshall cover the sealed and draft tournaments they played over the weekend, do the first Rise crack-a-pack, and give impressions on the format and specific cards as well.

This week on Limited Resources, Ryan and Marshall prep our listeners for the upcoming release of Rise of the Eldrazi with a limited focused primer on all the uncommons and commons in the set. This is part one of a two part review.

This week on Limited Resources, Ryan and Marshall prep our listeners for the upcoming release of Rise of the Eldrazi with a limited focused primer on all the uncommons and commons in the set. This is part two of a two part review.

This week on Limited Resources Episode #28, Marshall and Ryan cover more Rise of the Eldrazi, and address a bunch of listener feedback and comments.

This week on Limited Resources episode 27, Marshall and Ryan read a lot of listener emails, don’t do crack a pack, and for the main topic cover Large Set evaluation.

This week on Limited Resources, Ryan and Marshall cover the current state of ZZW draft, and dive right into Rise of the Eldrazi!

This week on Limited Resources episode #25 Marshall and Ryan do a re-cap on the last show, and have a conversation with pro Magic player Patrick Chapin.

This week on Limited Resources episode #24, Ryan and Marshall answer a bunch of listener emails, get caught up and for the main topic cover Magic Online.

This week on Limited Resources, your host’s Marshall and Ryan answer some listener emails, do Crack a Pack, recap last episode, and switch the focus to gameplay for the main topic.

This week on Limited Resources Ryan and Marshall answer some listener questions, do Crack a Pack, and cover Limited Pointing, a technique the developers at WoTC use to gauge power level for cards in a limited environment.

This week on episode #21 of Limited Resources, Ryan and Marshall take a look back on Worldwake, answer a listener question, do a listener supplied crack-a-pack, and do our own crack-a-pack. Special thanks to our fans who voted us onto the list of best Magic podcasts which was put up on the mothership, magicthegathering.com! You guys are the best!

This week Marshall and Ryan give some early impressions of Worldwake and talk about the big pre-release weekend. Thanks for listening!

On this episode of Limited Resources, Marshall and Ryan complete the task of dissecting the commons and uncommons in Worldwake from a limited players standpoint.

In this special edition of Limited Resources, Ryan and Marshall dissect Worldwake in order to better prepare you for the brave new… world that is coming. This is in addition to the normal weekly show.

This week on LR, Marshall and Ryan discuss how to approach small sets in draft, answer some listener comments, do crack-a-pack, and go over the latest Worldwake spoilers!

This week on Limited Resources Ryan and Marshall talk about Worldwake spoilers, answer a listener question, and cover the rest of the rares in Zendikar.

This week on episode #15 of Limited Resources, Marshall and Ryan talk about rares, do crack-a-pack, and answer a listener question.

These week on Limited Resources #14, Ryan and Marshall do not one but TWO Crack-a-Packs, and talk about various gameplay and combat topics. Happy holidays and happy drafting everyone.

This week on Limited Resources show #12 Ryan and Marshall answer some listener questions, chat about new cards, do Crack a Pack, and cover Sealed for our main topic. Happy Holidays to all our listeners!