Episode 4, all about Lorwyn Sealed deck. We look at Trick’s deck, what it brings to the table in the form of his card pool, and how exactly Trick did at best utilizing his cards.

In this episode:
- General Sealed Deck tips
- Lorwyn Sealed as a Whole
- Trick’s Lorwyn Deck
- Playing Sealed

Trick’s decklist

Sorry it’s late folks, and undecorated. I had a long weekend trying to finish a website for a client. Ugh. — Trick

Brian, Stephen and Patrick attempt to navigate the the topical seas while Crispy is away at Pirate Fest. Patrick navigates the uncharted waters of Craig’s List looking for booth babes, Brian and Stephen watch The Bionic Woman without resorting to piracy on the BT Seas, and giant blue whales wash up on our shores in an attempt to remind us about the exploding whales from Episode 5.

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Promos for PodCulture and The Babylon Podcast

This episode is all about the Lorwyn Pre-Release. Discussing the cards, the plays, and the expansion.

NEW: This week we debut the 480×360 WMV format for players seeking a larger version.

Inside this episode:
- Our thoughts on Lorwyn
- Lorwyn in Constructed
- Lorwyn in Drafting
- Lorwyn Plays

We’re seeing continually growing traffic and life is beginning to stir on our forums.

Next episode: Lorwyn Sealed

Brian’s back from hiatus, bring Stephen and Crispy back for a video game heavy episode of WhatTheCast. The Atari 2600 turns 30 right as Halo 3 hits the markets … so Brian and Stephen get all nostalgic about interactive fiction (the kids call them “text adventures“).

Do time-traveling Australian pirates listen to this podcast? Can youngsters like Crispy relate to the Atari 2600 and Zork era of gaming? Was E.T. the first attempt at Myst? Can text messaging be combined with text adventures? Can modern beverage tie-ins work with classic video games? And will Stephen’s kids think he’s crazy when he talks about video games in black and white? Listen to Episode 17 and find out!

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Promos: I Should Be Writing, Geologic Podcast

Right click and save the link for to download the Video mp4 format of the video!

Here’s our second episode. It had a bumpy start, towards the end of filming our video guy noticed a sudden missing level of noise, so we were concerned we’d shot the majority of the episode with noise issues which went unnoticed but everything seems to have come out fine. On top of that, the first attempt we made at editing it was a crash and burn scenario due to computer problems. But this is a fantastic episode and our production quality only gets better!

Topics in this episode:
- The Invitational
- More Lorwyn
- Cube Draft
- Grand Prix Denver
- Willy Edel

Please be patient! When downloading this episode, if you open to view it in the browser, it’s going to take a little while since it’s a 130 meg download.

Cube Draft links:
Brian David-Marshall’s article discussing the Invitational formats
Sam Gomersall - Gleaming the Cube
Evan Erwin - The Cube 2.0
Tom Lapille - The Cube FAQ

11:20am - The flash version is up and running. It’s still a bit small, I’m trying to find the magic settings to allow a bigger format but so far to achieve decent file sizes I have to downsize to 240×180 which is small. Next week we will have a .wmv format for the episode which will be decent size and a bit bigger for those who want it.

Yep after months of work and organizing, the show is up and running. The first episode is uploaded in iPod format and also as a flash file for online viewing.

Check it out: http://www.mananation.com

Hopefully my bandwidth holds out

It’s finally here. I’m unbelievably excited to be able to bring this to life and officially kick off the show. It’s a surprisingly big task to put together a weekly video show.

Inside this episode:
- Pro Tour 2008 - We make some predictions
- Lorwyn preview
- Master’s Edition - We did this segment on the fly and so it’s not properly introduced, but we decided to include it.
- Planeswalkers

Discuss the episode: here

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When Brian’s away, the podcasters will play … Stephen tries to keep Crispy and Patrick in line during another episode of WhatTheCast. In this episode, the cast discusses Patrick’s new vidcast, the recent passing of Robert Jordan, horrible adaptations of sci-fi books and how a man with no arms can get into a fist fight.

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