BSB Podcast! -Khans-cast Part 1 & Part 2

BSB Podcast! -Khans-cast Part 1 & Part 2

Welcome back everyone! Here we have Part 1 and 2 of our massive two part Khans of Tarkir Podcasts! Enjoy, and just in time for pre-release weekend. Enjoy your clan packs, and hopefully you win all your games. Well, because winning is fun, right? It was amazing having members from the BSB community join Pete and myself on the Podcasts. Big thanks to Jason, and Zach. Maybe you will be in the next one! Tune in!

**Note: I was not able to fully edit each of the Podcast Audio, sorry about that folks. Sometimes it's just too much for me, after all I'm not an audio guru!**



Part 1: Pete, Jason, and myself.





Part 2: Pete, Zach, and myself.

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Visions from Beyond- Khans Legends

Visions from Beyond! - Khans Legends

with Samuel Wells

**Samuel Wells, the writer who brought us the column "Metagame Check" is back from a break and brings us a new column. Visions from Beyond!**

Greetings readers! I am back from the dead. Before I get into any and all things magic, I would like to explain where I am and why I haven’t been writing as much. For the past three weeks and for the next several months, I have been in Vietnam studying abroad. I am finding this an amazing opportunity to study and grow as a human.

Unfortunately, this has prevented me from interacting with magic the same way that I was over this summer. I feel like I can not be an authoritative voice on the meta-game check. So for now I will be sidelining my usual article. I also am limited in the amount of play-testing that I am able to do. That being said, I will be continue to bring more decks to you in the future. In the mean time, I will be looking at magic in broader strokes and hopefully some new insight. Without further ado, let’s talk some magic.

I picked one remarkable time to leave. Since my last article there have been huge shake ups in magic. Tom Ross won the invitational, again. This is astounding and cements him near the top for current players. We will be getting a new standard format lasting 18 months and will be spanning 3 2-set blocks. This completely warps the standard environment. It prevents decks from dominating as long, it lets wizards more aggressively reprint reprint cards, and breathes new life into a format that seemed to be reaching a low point in the overall pacing of its metagame. Did I mention more aggressive reprints? Because wizards started out with some very aggressive reprints coming in Khans. The onslaught fetches are back with a vengeance. This isn't just for standard though, we will be seeing these fetches hit modern for the first time ever. This is huge! Are we going to see an esper or grixis deck take over as the control slot in modern or will UWR still be the control deck to beat. My mind is spinning with these reprints.

But I’m not bringing you another article covering these topics, because by now everyone and their mother has covered these topics. Instead, I’m going to be covering some cards near and dear to me because to some degree they were what brought me back into magic. I will be discussing the legends from Khans of Tarkir.

Lens of Clarity- Khans of Tarkir reactions

Lens of Clarity - Khans of Tarkir reactions

with Adriel Colon

Khans of Tarkir is going to be a a unique and game changing set. Lots of cards are coming in but more is going out on rotation. Get ready to have the format at first defined by what leaving us rather than what is coming in. I want to highlight a few cards that represent the upcoming Khans mechanics and what my impressions of these cards as well as the impact the mechanics will I fell will have on constructed play.

Delve is back. Making spells cheaper/ adding to their effect for the cost of exiling cards from your graveyard is good. My favorite delve card is Empty the Pits. Instant speed token creation is fantastic and with the ability to exile cards AND dump mana into the spell you can feasibly have 5 zombies hit the battlefield on endstep. I know the XXBBBB mana cost will scare people however there is actually a tremendous amount of enablers for this card. Satyr Wayfinder, Sylvan Caryatid , Temples, Mana Confluence, Fetches and EtB tapped dual color lands all make this possible however the card that most enables this is Urborg. Both yours and your opponents who play Urborg turn this spell active. Satyr Wayfinder is a huge fixer for this card as it both fills the graveyard and culls up Urborg or other swamps for you. The graveyard and cards that work off of it will be relevant in standard.  

Cards I most want to use with: Purphoros, God of the Forge and Empty the Pits.

BoltSnapBolt Podcast-PTM15, Generator brew, Financial Picks!

BoltSnapBolt Podcast!




BoltSnapBolt Podcast-PTM15, Generator brew, Financial Picks!

Another awesome podcast, so tune in and get our thoughts on the latest Pro Tour-M15. As well as another great brew from Pete Casella, which also saw some flare at SSG featuring Generator Servant. All that and more, so tune in! Gooooo!

-with you always Pete Casella and myself Chaz Volpe

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M15 Impressions with the BSB Group

First Impressions of M15 with BSB members

With the BSB group:

M15 is fully spoiled!

Hey everyone! Chaz here, though the narrative of this particular update is not from solely myself, but with the rest of the group here at BSB. I posed the question on Facebook as follows:

So, there is the premise of what members had to respond with. To give you all an idea of what's been going on in our group in regards to M15, hopefully their ideas will help you all to forming your own conclusions. There has been some varying ideas, though there has also been a shared mentality to specific cards as well.

So here are the responses in order in which they were given: