On this episode, the Billy Judges Gruff cover the top decks from GP Portland and any interesting rules interactions that can occur with those top decks.
Note: This episode was recorded before the announcement of the M14 rules changes, but we do look a little bit like psychics during portions of the episode.
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On this episode, we cover the (thankfully few) changes to the IPG, JAR, and MTR that came in the last round of updates. We also discuss our prerelease experiences and get caught up on e-mails!
Links from the show:
All documents – thedci.com/docs
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In this JudgeCast SPECIAL (Meaning it’s a bonus episode), we cover the FAQ for Dragon’s Maze. We also go in-depth on split cards as they can be a bit of a tricky widget.
Jess couldn’t make this episode so we have very special guest L2 Adam Hubble on to bring some much-needed British/Mississippi class to the show. Maybe now we can finally win a Grammy.
Links from the show:
FAQ: http://www.wizards.com/magic/magazine/article.aspx?x=mtg/faq/dgm&dcmp=ilc-mtgrss#86140
All other documents: thedci.org/docs
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On this episode the JudgeBros have special guest L1 Mark Bush on to discuss everything you need to know to be head judge of your first competitive level event. We cover everything from announcements, to talking to the tournament organizer, to what to do when the event is wrapped up. We could never impart everything you learn through experience in one show but we sure gave it our best shot!
(Midway through the episode Skype decided it didn’t want the quality of Jess/Bryan to be good anymore. Sorry about that, it’s still plenty listenable, just not the high quality we usually like).
Infinite links from the show:
IPG Flash Cards – http://www.bluewizard.net/flashcards.html
Decklists – judgecast.com/docs
Wizard’s Event Reporter – http://www.wizards.com/WPN/Events/Tools.aspx
Guide to WER – http://www.wizards.com/dci/downloads/wer_guide_%20V2_7may11.pdf
IRC – http://chat.magicjudges.org/ (After joining, type /join #mtgjudge to join the #mtgjudge chatroom. For the IRC-savvy, we are on EFNET)
Sean Catanese’s Judgebreaker deck – http://deckbox.org/sets/
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The boys are back in town with the second part of their two-part series on layers! This time, they cover the more complicated aspects of layers including dependencies and what happens when you remove an ability after it’s already done its thing.
Will you learn a lot from this episode? It depends! (An ol’ layer joke for you)
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Copy the URL to this one down! Try to control your excitement! Text all of your friends who are rules-loving types and tell them to listen to our very special episode on layers (Or, “Interaction of Continuous Effects”). Never heard of layers? Color us impressed! Part of the greatness of layers is their ability to reach intuitive results without the players needing to think about them. It’s a powerful tool, and it’s tough sometimes to even see where the layers are working.
As is characteristic of all our episodes, we set out to educate you, the listener, on all the basics of layers. Is there anything you’d like us to modify about this episode? Did we say something counter to what you’d expect? This episode is all about the basics (What someone going for L1 would need to know) and next episode we switch it up with the advanced stuff.
Have something you want to hear on the next episode? E-mail us at judgecast@gmail.com.
Links from the show:
Our episode on copy effects: http://www.mtgcast.com/mtgcast-podcast-shows/active-podcast-shows/judgecast/judgecast-53-do-you-copy
Our episode on resources (Ignore mentions of lapsing abilities): http://www.mtgcast.com/mtgcast-podcast-shows/active-podcast-shows/judgecast/judgecast-37-unlimited-resources
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GP Charlotte was the largest Magic event to date (And much bigger than estimated), which had some unique judging challenges. We have L2 Matt Williams (lovingly referred to as Billy Willy) on to discuss being at the GP with a focus on being the Public Events lead for an event with so very many people. We also talk paper cutters for much longer than rational people should.
As always, we read e-mails from listeners like you! This week had some real doozies, including a rant and proclamation by CJ about Hive Mind and/or Knowledge Pool.
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This is a good one! We have Level Emeritus…Emeritused…the former L5 Sheldon Menery on to talk about whatever we want! We discuss cats, the history of the judge program, being an L5, naming beasts, and anything else that comes to mind. We also ask questions from our readers!
This episode is one of our favorites and is extremely full of fun and wisdom, so please give it a listen.
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Get ready for judging and playing Gatecrash with this episode of JudgeCast! We cover all of the new mechanics and a lot of the cards that may be interesting rules-wise during the prerelease!
We also answer all our Gatecrash-related mails. Other mails, your day will come! Aren’t you interested to hear how Phasing and Cipher interact?
Click Here for the full Gatecrash FAQ
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In this episode, CJ, Jess, and Bryan discuss the steps and phases of a turn. Is it worth it? Let me work it. I put my thing down, flip it and reverse it. Or something like that. I’m not up on all the hippity-hop you kids listen to these days. Jess announces his bid for the Presidency, based on a platform we can all get behind, and CJ discusses a situation of great “gravity.”
And of course we answer questions from listeners like you!
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