Dominaria's Judgment: Recent Episodes
Dominaria's Judgment
A weekly Magic the Gathering podcast focused on the Modern format and competitive play, highlighting everything the format has to offer.
There are fifteen sets to cover and one intrepid host to cover them - a monologue on the hits and misses of the set, its implications for Magic, and the many weird little guys within
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With Ari attending to a baby sprite dragon and Dom left to judge on all his own, the streams crossed this week as former MTG Grindcast co-host Collins Mullen drops by to talk about requalifying for the PT at RC Minneapolis, Standard lessons for RC Hartford and beyond, and what preparing for tournaments looks/feels like as we all get older (and wiser?)
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No last hurrah would be complete without a timeless (...and somewhat overdue) theory article so here Ari shares what's on his mind as he gallops off into the sunset - the hard problems in Magic then, now, and in between
Sam Black on Playstyles
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Bans have struck and every format is about to be caught up in a dragon storm... or are they? We go over the changes coming everywhere - including the podcast itself!
00:00 Intro + Pauper
05:15 Legacy
27:55 Pioneer/Explorer
30:50 Modern
38:44 Standard + Tarkir
1:15:15 Special Announcement
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With Dom on the move this week, Jarvis Yu joins the podcast to yell at clouds during the quarterly pre-B&R announcement airing of grievances. One format is safe from our ire, the others.... who knows, and that's even ignoring that Underworld Breach is finally over.
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As Breach's reign of terror drags on, we look to a post-ban and post-Breach future and ask whether Modern is fixable as it becomes the focus for RCQ grinders everywhere. After that, we have an exciting first batch of Tarkir: Dragonstorm previews to sink our teeth into - but first, yet another slippery character finds himself in the eye of the storm...
00:00 Breach + post-ban Modern
33:30 Wily Goblins
40:45 Dragonstorm Previews
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There's a lot to catch up on this week - the Domain-ation of Standard at the PT, the sloppy and scandalous plays on- and off-camera, a smattering of previews from universes within and beyond, and a truly baroque Nonsense of the Year segment...
00:00 Standard
52:27 Limited
1:04:30 "Sloppiness"
1:14:36 Secret Lairs
1:25:15 Previews
Planes
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It's Pro Tour weekend and Dom is finally qualified for a Pro Tour pundit take-a-thon again! The volatile chimera of Dom, Ari, and Jarvis tries to glimpse the future without too much boomer reminiscing about the past...
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After a barnstorming weekend for Breach silenced our local haters and doubters, it was actually a common Amulet W as Primeval Titan enthusiast Pete Husisian and his intimidatingly large arms held a tragically mislabelled trophy. The champ joins us to talk through the tournament, the deck, and preparing for all the tougher challenges his sun run just qualified him for.
00:00 RC Portland/Chiba + Aetherdrift impact
57:55 Interview with Pete
Pete's Portland VOD Review
Keeping Bad Amulet Hands
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Dom's (so) back from Ottawa with a Pro Tour invite in tow and tales from the trenches of Ringless Modern. With the underworld officially breached and the weird space aliens in the ascendant, are the cute cats and dogs of Boros and Sewer the heroes now? And how has Amulet remained Tier 0 or 1 through formats will all of this nonsense?!
Then, we're one-and-done with Aetherdrift spoilers as Dom finally finds his nemesis...
00:00 Modern at/post RCs
1:14:05 Aetherdrift
RC report + post-RC list/guide on Dom's Patreon
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Modern RC season is in full swing and the underworld is open for business. We (Dom, his cat, and Ari) break down the hype around the latest and greatest Mox Opal deck, the curious case of the missing Faithless Lootings, and the deck Dom would play (if he wasn't locked on a deck that's hopefully remained Tier 0 or 1 through metas with Underworld Breach, Phlage, Abhorrent Oculus...). This is largely unedited to get this out before everyone hops on their planes and trains so excuse any issues with audio or take quality!
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There are weeks where decades happen, and last year had a lot of those. We revisit the sets, events, cards, and takes that defined the year - with a cheeky peek at 2025.
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Monday saw a much-needed hard reset in Modern and beyond, with many of its most notorious heroes and villains (?) set free. We do our best to break down this earthquake - with the help of some real-time nonsense of the day from the usual suspects.
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Ari came close to winning another Eternal Weekend, Dom smuggled the biggest and bestest bird into another deck/format with great results (including the impromptu return of Nonsense of the Week!), and Vexing Bauble joins the dark side. We also stand in solidarity with the brave vendors fighting off the hordes of greedy gamers trying to exploit their labour by buying sleeves from them.
cftsoc BUG Yorion Reanimator
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A great Worlds ends with a worthy and fervent champion (again) and a clean home run of a core set offers the most inviting experience for new players in years... only to be swept away in a tide of superheroes and hobbitses. How can a dopey newcomer like Dom prepare for Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, and Vintage all at once when he can't even tell what set a card is in?!
After lurching wildly between different extremes, has Pioneer been restored to its natural order (Enchanties black midrange is back on top?!) just before its untimely death? And with Eternal Weekend NA around only a few corners, what did Ari learn when he suited up alongside young GOAT Nathan Steuer to commentate the DMV Legacy League (if not how to pronounce Wojciechowski)?
DMV Legacy VOD
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Spooky spoiler season is over and we have some fun and cute and totally innocent toys to talk about - including some delightful, beautiful enchanties!!
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With Eternal Weekends just around the RC corner, Jarvis Yu renounces his Jarvis correspondent role for a more traditional Legacy gamer hat and chats post-Grief Legacy with Ari. Have the bans actually fixed a format, are other MH3 cards keeping up with Psychic Frog, or should we all just be playing Nadu in the place they still let the dirty bird fly free?
DMV Legacy League Invitational
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After a spirited debate about the merits of Lizards and lizards, we dive into a ban announcement and explanation that will go down in Magic history. A light touch in Pioneer and Legacy leaves us wanting more - bans and/or answers - while Michael Majors' confessional about Nadu prompts many more questions.
00:00 NRG Madison + Lizards
14:46 New B&R timing
37:26 Legacy (+ Vintage)
1:00:22 Pioneer
1:26:05 Modern + the Nadu debacle
Aug 26 B&R
Majors on Nadu
WeeklyMTG stream
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After SCG Baltimore left Ari with a bad case of bird flu and permanent psychic damage, he's back to squawk about how this stacks up against the most miserable formats, tournaments, and decks of all. For someone with over a decade at the top of competitive play it's not easy to make their WOAT rankings - but which villains have earned that dubious honour?
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After a hot and humid preview season we're back to break down a full set of freaky lil' guys with some accidental preview season speedruns for other sets along the way and a whirlwind tour of the week's Magic discourse for good measure.
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After flopping hard at yet another PT, Dom is off the train (and off it) which leaves him more time for creating #content!! We discuss the Nadu debacle, the strange state of Constructed and Organized Play, the hits and misses of MH3, and pay tribute to the best to ever do it.
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Dom is in Amsterdam to defend his place on the Pro Tour, and Jarvis Yu is back on the podcast to defend his title as Pro Tour prediction champion. Will Ari and Jarvis's Draft and Modern opinions line up with the Pro Tour consensus, or will this be a battle of who can be barely less wrong than the other?
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If you want to know how to 6-0 Draft at the PT, hear from someone who has done just that (as part of a striking ~Top 16 -> Top 16 -> Top 8 run in the last year of Pro Tours). If you want to know how to be a beekeeper... check out a beekeeping podcast, but stick around here to hear another British accent and take in the wisdom of Sean Goddard.
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After thoughtfully inspecting the big picture, it's time to dive in and get our grubby claws on Modern Horizons 3 cards. Come learn about the white lotus, forms of Amulet perversion you didn't know were possible, and the Nadus and don'ts of MH3 Modern.
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Modern Horizons 3 is officially here and it's time to give the takestakes that we can mock our past selves for during MH4 preview season. We put off talking about actual new Magic cards with an impressive resolve but still manage to give our takes on the set as a whole, the Modern Horizons project, and where our creative energy/Energy is aimed first.
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Magic writing was a lost art before some of the game's best players were even born so Dom invited one of its all-time greats, Jeff Cunningham, to reminisce about the craft of the tournament report, the tournaments and characters that gave rise to them, and his place in that lore.
Find the hosts: Dom / (Ari) / Jeff
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Further reading:
The Grind / Part 2
Invitational 2006 Report
Lands and Spells
The End of the Magic: The Gathering Pro Tour
God of Magic - An Interview with Richard Garfield
Long Road Up / Part 2 (Gary Wise)
After everything that even looked like a sticker was unceremoniously booted from competitive Magic, we turn our attention to the MH3 cards that officially and allegedly exist. Hear how well Orim's Chant has aged in the last 20 years, how scary these new eldritch horrors really are, and why Dom is excited for a long lick of the Psychic Frog.
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Jason Ye (JasonILTG on Twitter) is sliming over competitive Magic at an alarming rate, winning the WOE Limited $100k in Vegas, almost Top 8ing the last Pro Tour, and actually Top 8ing in Seattle alongside podcast idol cftsoc with the delightful Slogurk deck that they created and pioneered together. Jason oozes forth on improvement in Limited, innovation in Constructed (ft. Slogurk's origin story), and processing this sudden but sustained success at high-level play.
Jason's Site + Patreon
Sanctum of All Pod
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Dom returns from two NRG tournament wins.... and about that many Pro Tour match wins. With lands-deck-master prowess, he breaks down what lead to his Amulet and Lands builds and the Team Sanctum of All Slogurk deck that put its designers cftsoc and Jason Ye into the Top 8 of Pro Tour Outlaws of Thunder Junction.
Autum's Post-PT Retrospective
Classic killgoldfish on the artistry of Time Spiral
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Charity Legacy $7k with Jarvis and Ari on commentary, 5/11/2024 in Maryland
Jarvis Yu joins Ari this week for his typical role as pre-PT correspondent, but this time from the competitor field! Listen to where testing for Pro Tour Outlaws of Thunder Junction took Jarvis for Standard, and tune into the Pro Tour coverage to root on Jarvis and Dom in Seattle.
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Charity Legacy $7k with Jarvis and Ari on commentary, 5/11/2024 in Maryland
Dom and Ari take a minute before the big Standard Pro Tour showdown (yeeehaw) to look at the current state of Modern and Pioneer. Has either format broken out of the stranglehold of Scion of Draco or Arclight Phoenix? Is Wild Nacatl headed for another ban? Is Niv Mizzet good or is claudioh just winning again? And most importantly, Dom's pre-PT vibes immaculate or in shambles?
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After a whirlwind, whistlestop tour of Thunder Junction and Big Score (featuring Bloomburrow and obliquely Modern Horizons 3 but absolutely NOT Assassin's Creed - yet) we are just about caught up on spoiler season and soon you can be too!
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When I see new cards, I think "yes". We manage to extend this thought for two hours, after a quick look at the Organized Play announcement and rant about the bizarrely concealed Arena Championships coming soon (?) to a Twitch channel (?) near you.
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This Monday's B&R update took a big swing at some weird aliens while ignoring the elephant in the room. We're back for some characteristically peaceful statements about the bans we did and didn't see and where Modern and Pioneer stand as they come back into the spotlight.
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Your hosts and many friends of the show spent a long weekend in Chicago winning and losing (and drawing... repeatedly...) with a lot on the line. Dom is finally back in Canada and on the air with war stories and hot takes before the axe understandably falls - a Pro Tour, a Standard not-a-GP, a MagicCon, and all the ear-splitting hooting and hollering around them.
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cftsoc's truly splendid reclamation
The semi-regular Pro Tour predictions episode with Jarvis Yu returns to stakes some claims about Pioneer, Draft, and even a bit of Standard for the $75k Open at Magic Con Chicago. Join him and Ari as they prove themselves right (or wrong) about a wide spread of topics, even if they refuse to weigh in on the great pizza debate.
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Ari has restored his appreciation for Yawgmoth in Modern, and Jarvis Yu steps into the pod to discuss why the deck he is likely playing at the upcoming Regional Championship has gone from a solid combo deck with flaws to one of the undeniable best decks in the format.
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Nobody knows what the hell to do with most of the cards in Murders at Karlov Manor so we put our most dogged detectives on the case and let them yap for hours about the bizarre combo decks coming to a Twitch stream near you - plus, a look at the results from the first weekend of Modern RCs and the format's relative stability heading into Denver and Ottawa.
2:20:30 RC Ghent + Modern Update
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Standard season is full swing (allegedly but also actually?!) and there's somehow less Standard content than ever. We take a look at why that information isn't cascading any more and try to plug that gap ourselves with a tour of everything from Domain to the black midrange decks (in all the colours of the rainbow) and, inevitably, the Overslime itself.
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Information Cascades (Chapin)
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Domain guide by Sean Goddard/Beekeeper
Slogurk guide by Jason Ye ($, free over time)
A long and busy year for Magic is over and a new one is already underway so we thought we'd take stock before another wave of discourse overwhelms us all. We take a look at the cards and sets of 2023, the hits and misses, and the return of the Pro Tour (and the elephants holding it up).
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Dom and Ari were reunited in paper (...in the flesh? in person?) at Eternal Weekend along with hundreds of thrill-seeking gamers keen to enjoy the Cadillac of Magic. After reeling from his swift 0-3 (which was somehow not the most tragic exit from the tournament) and dabbling in Legacy, Dom found an even more fake format he can win in - does Santa have a Premodern episode in the pipeline?! Ari actually won a lot of matches, as he is wont to do, and gives a former EW Legacy Champion and epternal Legacy boomer's take on its current state. Plus Pioneer is stuck in a loop (or is it?) and the first big Modern not-a-GP post-ban is won by... Scam. Obviously.
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The prophecy has been fulfilled and bans are in. We're back for a not-so-rapid reaction to the changes, their explanations, and where Pioneer and Modern go from here.
16:38 Pioneer
41:38 Modern
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Last week we all made a horrifying discovery of something we already knew (Cascade is kinda messed up!) and watched Pioneer collapse on itself as a result. Since this recording Geological Appraiser has passed the test while any hosts foolish enough to register Quintorius got their ivory poached and bans are confirmed for Monday. Until then, we catch up on Vintage and Legacy ahead of Eternal Weekend NA in Pittsburgh, singing the praises of some decks and bombarding others with broadsides.
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After no changes, it's time to turn and face the strain. Ban talk is at a fever pitch, every MTGGoldfish screenshot of a Scam-infested Modern Challenge racks up hundreds of retweets and growls, and Grief has never been more aptly named. Elsewhere, the Beans talkers are obsessed with how to get an edge in the 4C mirror - the only thing that matters when everything else is too free for the Beans. Who needs to be taken down, how should they do it, and will we like what comes next?
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Dom made a pilgrimage to Madison, Wisconsin last month to defend the honour of King Charles or Cube trying. In this solo episode he gives a report from this four-day Cube extravaganza, the lessons for Cube designers and drafters, and reflects on why Magic and Cube are pretty cool if you think about it.
00:00 An ode to Magic, Cube, and CubeCon
33:12 Wisconsin vs England!
37:02 Companion Cube
Main Event Day 1
42:50 - Changeling Cube + breaking (down) new formats
58:45 - Artifact Cube + not hosing your own theme
1:03:25 - Creative Cube + the nature of synergy vs goodstuff
Main Event Day 2
1:18:10 - Buildaround Cube + interaction in a world of synergy
1:27:27 - Cascade Cube + the joy of the unknown
1:36:19 - Tiny Leaders + curves
1:42:43 - Interlude + Top 64 + Duplicate Team Sealed
1:46:25 - Vintage Cube but not as we know it
Deck Pics/Notes
Cube Lists
Written Report + General Cube Stuff
As Dom and Ari swap their absentee roles for a bit, Gavin "alfaphrog" Thompson steps in to chat about the world of competitive Magic Online cube. How different are the try hard queues from your normal Vintage cube leagues, and what can be learned about drafting and building cubes from the experience of aiming to win over drafting the coolest Storm deck?
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With Ari off scaling the beanstalks of the Mediterranean, noted JOTS (Jarvis of the show) Jarvis Yu steps in for a rapid reaction to Monday's announcements and non-announcements. The nature of Booster Draft may or may not be able to change forever while Modern is chugging along as our previous guests do everything in their power to show why this visit to Eldraine may cause lasting damage too.
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Simon Nielsen has always been a fan favourite but he's no underdog now - he's the 2023 Player of the Year in a season that also saw historic runs from several of his comrades on Team Handshake. He loves giving interviews and he was kind enough to give us one this week, taking Dom through his background as a rising star first in Denmark and then the European and global GP circuit to his domination of online OP and the Pro Tour after its return to paper.
Competitive Magic with the Karnies (+ Simon)
PT LOTR Draft Deep Dive Simon's YouTube channel Simon's coaching on Metafy Patreon / Twitter / Discord
Slow play is just one of many topics that consumed The Website this week so we went over Ari's article explaining how he avoided unintentional draws and all the awkwardness around them for years. What can designers, TOs, players, and judges do to address a problem that has plagued paper Magic since the beginning and is now a bigger problem than ever? We then turn to other timely and sobering threads: why coaching is/isn't a scam, and why all of competitive Magic is/isn't a scam, before raising a shared eyebrow at some of the early Pioneer RC results.
59:37 Discourse - Coaching
1:09:13 Discourse - Competitive Magic?!
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Dom couldn't repay the faith that Jarvis didn't put in him last week but he's back from the death pits of Vegas with war stories, hot takes on Wilds of Eldraine Standard and Draft, and an epic game of Where's Vuono?
Tracking Sheet of Predictions
Show Notes
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Dom big times his podcast obligations to go play in Worlds, which means its time for Jarvis and Ari to place their bets from the sidelines once again. With the huge prize of declaring a prediction winner at the next local Cube night on the line, Jarvis and Ari make their stances known about the formats and players we will see at Worlds this weekend. What set will dominate Standard, will someone get three draws yet again, and will Jarvis switch to believing in Dom or still declare Alex Hayne the Canadian favorite at another Pro Event??
Tracking Sheet of Predictions
Show Notes
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Instead of thinking about Worlds, we are - like everyone - thinking about thos Beans. Up the Beanstalk is all the rage in every format, including some unlikely and ambitious homes - we take a tour of those before tackling the Vintage Cube tier list discourse and all the other chatter from the Twitter sewers this week.
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This week Dom delays testing for his upcoming Tournament with a discussion of common playtesting pitfalls and the unique challenges of preparing for high-level Standard. Then, a seemingly pedestrian nonsense roundup is derailed by a thrilling discovery of a fresh matsugan decklist dump that we get to unpick live.
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After Dom got lost up the beanstalk last week we are back to break down the full Wilds of Eldraine spoiler as well as the wildest discourse and nonsense of the week - does 56 card Amulet winning back to back Challenges finally Silence the (non)believers?
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This week Team Handshake's mad scientist, generous ent, and takemaster extraordinaire Tristan Wylde-LaRue joins the show to talk through his creative process and his rapid rise from lapsed local grinder to a major force in professional Magic.
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(Un)ban season is upon us and some iconic blue cards are back on the menu. We break down the action and inaction across various formats, educate the young 'uns about just how good Preordain is, and give an homage to and history lesson for Mind's Desire, freed in Legacy after almost 20 years. Plus a look at the set announcements from the GenCon panel - just where does your immersion break?
00:00 Standard + Pioneer: no changes
10:20 Legacy: Mind's Desire unban
19:10 Modern: Preordain unban, no bans
1:02:00 GenCon panel: Set announcements
1:09:46 Mind's Desire happy hour
Show Notes
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Dom doesn't quite have a trophy to match Ari's but he returns from his business (+ pleasure!) trip to Barcelona with a Pro Tour Top 8 to his name after a truly bizarre weekend. He's (so) back to see how well Ari and Jarvis did predicting these results, deliver some sizzling takes on Modern and LOTR Draft, tell the barely believable stories of his miraculous Top 8 run, and explain the twists and turns of life as an 'Amulet pervert' (TM friend of the pod Tommy Ashton).
00:00 PT predictions update + Modern analysis
38:05 PT Limited rounds
1:12:10 PT Modern rounds + tournament report
1:57:40 Freestyle storytime/nonsense
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With Dom in Barcelona at the PT, Jarvis Yu joins the podcast to make predictions about that event. Will Orcish Bowmasters or The One Ring come out ahead? Will green succeed or fail in draft? Will Dom dominate the other Canadians in head-to-head results? Find out this weekend, but first listen in to see how right (or wrong) Jarvis can be about it!
0:00 - Constructed Predictions
25:00 - Limited Predictions
35:00 - Player Predictions
53:30 - Modern Results
1:03:00 - Nonsense (Flumpher Twin)
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The all-nonsense episode may have finally arrived - or this may just be a long overdue episode on the Cadillac of competitive Magic, if you ask the right people. After catching up on the nostalgic Team Trios event at SCG Cinci and online Modern developments ahead of the Pro Tour, Dom takes you on a tour of the format where you don't always die on Turn 1 - but you might wish you had. Show NotesPatreon / Twitter / Discord
With a big batch of Modern results in it's time to check in on the stars of the hour and have a honest conversation about the weak links holding them back from even greater success.
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We haven't done an episode on Legacy yet and the format is finally appealing enough to make us dive in again! With bans throwing the format wide open and a constant influx of new cards that you never knew existed, there's a lot to cover.1:32:35 Results + Nonsense
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Everyone has been tempted by The Ring this week after the most impressive debut for a card in recent memory. We cover The One Ring as a reminder of why card evaluation is humbling and challenging, cover a batch of Modern results full of Ringbearers, and ponder where Modern goes from here.
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With no obvious topic for the week, we thought we'd cover whatever you all wanted us to talk about with our occasional dive into the mailbag covering everything from progress and endurance as a player to Endurance as a Neoform win condition - followed by a delightful combo platter courtesy of Matt Nass and matsugan.
1:36:30 Matt Nass + matsugan
Amulet Lotus Belcher
matsugan's latest adventures
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Our plucky heroes go on an epic adventure this week as they explore the fiery depths of a set that may or may not be Modern Horizons 3 in all but name before confronting the demonic horror of the sticker mechanic.
00:00 LOTR
1:15:05 Discourse of the Week
1:33:29 Results + Nonsense (+ stickers!!)
Discourse: Is format diversity at odds with gameplay?
Nonsense: Stickers!!
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Hot off the heels of the actual 100th episode celebration spectacular, we have something to celebrate: Dom made Top 8 of his RC and is back on the Pro Tour! We go over a weekend of Pioneer results and developments, discuss handling tilt and staying cool under pressure, and reward Dom with perhaps the most nonsensical deck ever featured in this segment
00:00 Dom's RC, other RCs, and tournament psychology
1:07:58 Results
1:20:08 The most nonsensical deck of all time?!
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To celebrate our one hundredth episode we are bringing you a spectacularly normal episode on this week's bans, the last thirty years of bans, and the weird and wonderful saga of Time Vault.
00:00 Standard bans
24:25 Best + worst bans
1:14:40 The strange saga of Time Vault
1:27:28 Results + Nonsense
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After a breakdown of yet another crazy MOCS, we check in on Pioneer ahead of the rapidly approaching next round of Regional Championships and address the burning question of the hour - is WR Convoke literally Hogaak, or just metaphorically Hogaak?
00:00 MOCS Modern Recap
28:30 Pioneer - RB Mid
39:08 (Stock) Green
48:00 HOGAAK?! (+ Seedshark tangent)
1:07:18 Creativity
1:20:00 UW Control
1:28:40 Greasefang
1:33:55 Lotus
1:40:50 Everything else (Phoenix, RB Sac, Humans, Angels etc)
1:57:15 What is tricking Dom this time?!
1:59:30 Modern Results + official Yargle Bargle endorsement
2:11:36 Nonsense
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It turns out that both Standard and the ban list itself will be on a new schedule going forward so we drill down on the implications of all that and Dom gives a spirited defense of Sheoldred before we turn our attention to the curiosity that is March of the Machine: Aftermath.
00:00 Ban announcement announcement
24:50 Dom's ode to Sheoldred + more bans
48:42 Aftermath
1:33:30 Results/Nonsense
Ari on Standard bans that never were / what broke Standard
Yargle Bargle
Niv to Niv to Light
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Dom makes his not-so-triumphant return this week to talk about his entirely average but wholly demoralizing finish at Pro Tour March of the Machine. After a rare and lengthy Limited segment (!) and a look at current Standard, we dissect the announcement that Standard is moving to a three-year rotation schedule and ask if this is the reboot that paper Standard desperately needed.
16:23 Limited
1:03:19 Standard
1:24:45 Standard Rotation Changes
1:45:23 Results/Nonsense
1:59:00 Dom's existential crisis
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With Dom at the Pro Tour in Minneapolis, Jarvis Yu joins the podcast for some RCQ format grab bag. Where does Pioneer stand as the effects of the last Pro Tour and last sets trickle through, how do you approach March of the Machine Limited, and how does an entire Modern Challenge earn the Nonsense of the Week title?
00:00 - Pioneer Roundup
33:30 - March of the Machine Limited
54:30 - PT Standard Predictions
1:05:30 - Modern Results
1:18:30 - Nonsense of the Week - An Entire Modern Challenge
Nonsense - Gnshhagghkkapphribbit
...Dom had one of the most detailed deck guides of all time?! Today we talk about that labour of love, the weird incentives and economics behind longform content creation these days, and the questions Ari still had about Amulet after reading it (which sounded better than a 'why can't Ari win with Amulet?' episode).
SCG Richmond 20k (can you guess who won yet?!)SCG Richmond 5k RCQ
Nonsense - Gifts Amulet
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It's a brewmasters' paradise this week as Twitch sensation Evart Moughon (Aspiringspike) takes a break from cooking up some crazy new Modern deck to talk to us about how he does just that. We then take our usual trip through the results and nonsense of the week before arriving at the perfect synthesis of the two: that's right, Rei Zhang/cftsoc did it again!
00:00 Aspiringspike
1:11:38 Results/Nonsense/Cftsoc
Cftsoc's Blade of Shared Souls Combo
Jason Ye/Sanctum of All's Combo Explanation/Origin Story
Scammer Time
Evart on Humans of Magic
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The battle(s) continues as we tilt our heads and absorb way too many words in an attempt to give you our preview punditry. Plus cruelty, creativity, and how rhinos became an endangered species in Europe.
00:00 - More previews
1:19:13 - Results + Nonsense
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March of the Machine previews have kicked off, and so have hot takes about card types no one has played with! Dom and Ari discuss a lot of things about Battles and even more about team-up Legends, new planeswalkers, and all the other March of the Machine cards that might have impacts across Standard, Pioneer, and Modern.
00:00 - Battles, Battles, more Battles
35:00 - Preview Cards that aren't Battles
1:25:30 - Brief LotR discussion
1:31:50 - Modern (and other format) Results
1:47:15 - Nonsense of the Week
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Nonsense of the Week:
Goryo's Omnath
Crashing Kavus
Many moons ago, 'midrange' was an insult you hurled at a deck that couldn't justify its existence - now, midrange is the default dominant strategy in sane formats. We take a deep dive on the theory and practice of midrange past and present and what it says about the state of the game.
1:27:27 Results/Nonsense
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LSV on why midrange sucks (2009)
After two action-packed weekends of Standard RCs, the format has taken shape - with more corners and edges than seemed possible at first. We tell tall tales about the best and worst decks of the format and discuss just what the Grixis mirror-breaker might be.
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Jarvis Yu joins the podcast this week to catch us up with all things Four-Color Midrange now that Elesh Norn has kicked the deck back into gear!
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2:10 - Legacy Bans
7:25 - 4C Deck Discussion
49:45 - 4C vs the Meta Overview
1:02:30 - Modern Results
1:07:20 - Nonsense of the Week : 23 Mana Value, 1 Ad Nauseum
Dom went to the dark side and Scammed all comers in this month's ManaTraders Series so this week we take a deep dive on a deck that went from gimmick to Modern mainstay over the past few months. Amid war stories from the weekend we go over how to choose your mark, how to fix the supposedly awful Murktide matchup, and why this isn't your boomer relative's midrange deck - or a midrange deck at all.
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00:00 Scam!
1:25:55 Results
Pro Tour Phyrexia is in the books and we thought we should get the inside scoop from someone who was actually there riding the highs and lows (in equal measure to a perfectly even 8-8 record) - perennial PTQ champion Tommy Ashton.
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As this episode hits your feeds Pro Tour Phyrexia is underway and a whole new generation of players will be sinking or swimming at that level of play for the first time. Ari looks back at the highlights and lowlights of a decade on the Pro Tour from planes catching on fire to lifting the trophy and everything in between.
14:20 Pro Tours Past + Present
1:09:50 Results/Nonsense
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For our first foray into Limited we mark the first drafts at the Pro Tour since pre-pandemic - as a whole generation of players experiences high-level Limited for the first time, Ari draws on a decade of experience at the Pro Tour to tell Dom and everyone else about the crucial differences between that and the average draft on Arena or at your LGS.
00:00 Limited
1:18:15 Results
1:38:35 Nonsense
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It's the return of the Pro Tour and of Pioneer's place on it after three long years so we take a look at the format ahead of its biggest test yet - will Philadelphia become Phyrexia too or do we know what the top players are?
04:36 Final ONE previews
19:24 Pioneer
1:05:22 Fixed formats for RCQ seasons
1:21:45 MTGO results
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Dom is finally back from a trip to the oil fields to go over the Phyrexia: All Will Be One previews with a healthy dose of Amulet player copium. Plus Ari takes a bold stand on behalf of boomers and their cards with a spirited defense of Phyrexian Arena.
This week renowned math-e-magician and Grand Prix Champion Jarvis Yu joins the podcast to discuss a classic concept: how to get the most out of playing a small number of games of Magic. While technically a game of numbers, the two draw on a long history of more generalized Magic knowledge about how to get the most from every game they play.
Results: Showcase Challenge / Sunday Challenge (Modern) / Karsten Pioneer Breakdown Nonsense: Modern Mardu Midrange Master / BIG BUG (Modern) / Zombie Persist Combo (Modern) 00:00: Modern Results
20:10: Pioneer Prep and Choices
31:30: It's Not The Sample Size, It's How You Use It
40:35: Quickly Figuring Out How to Win and Not Lose
1:07:45: Nonsense of the Week
It was a long and eventful year for Magic and we try to do justice to as much of it as possible this episode - and, in case there wasn't enough to talk about, Dom went and won the ManaTraders Invitational to stave off accusations of being washed for at least a few more months and finish the year on a high note.
Results: Saturday Challenge / Sunday (Modern)
ManaTraders Invitational
Nonsense: Legacy Scam / Vintage Belcher
00:00 Modern
12:00 Companions discourse digression
20:25 ManaTraders Invitational winner bragging segment
36:41 2022 Review
1:26:55 Organized Play
1:38:38 2023 Goals
Ari had to learn what the initiative does this weekend and now you must too - before a catchup on Pioneer and Modern, the safe havens from Commander cards that aren't even that popular in Commander.
03:50 - Legacy (+ the Legacy vs Commander Holy War)
24:35 - Pioneer
34:00 - Modern
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They say the best way to improve at Magic is to talk to players better than you so this week we spoke to the best of them all, newly minted World Champion Nathan Steuer, about his journey from determined grinder to top of the world, finding a healthy place in his life for Magic, and how he helps himself and others to improve on and off the table.
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This week saw the biggest batch of relevant Pioneer results of all time - online, offline, and all across the world - including some truly unexpected breakout stars. We go over those, the format pillars, and everything in between ahead of the following rounds of RCs alongside the biggest and most successful nonsense segment of all time.
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Results - Showcase / Sunday (Modern)
Saturday / Sunday (Pioneer)
RC Atlanta / RC Sofia / RC Sao Paulo
Nonsense - UB Oracle / WG 80 Card Company / Ignus Combo / Storm Herald / WB Raja
At the eleventh hour before the first round of RCs in Atlanta and Sofia (and possibly elsewhere) we turn our attention to Pioneer again to answer the question - should you just play !stockgreen or are there some other/better choices?
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Results - Saturday / Sunday (Modern)
Saturday / Sunday (Pioneer)
SCG Philly 30k / 5k
Nonsense - Temur Box
09:45 Pioneer
It's the best time of the year, or at least since two months ago - it's another set release! With an artifact set promising to be full of happy little accidents, we speculate about their impact on Modern and Pioneer.
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Results - Saturday / Sunday (Modern)16:10 Why won't any of you play Standard?! 31:07 Brothers' War 1:52:55 Nonsense Nonsense - Orb Pondering / Creative Dredge / Spirit-Sister's Call (Pio)
This week we take a trip down memory lane to the second Modern Pro Tour - one that helped to shape the identity of the format and launch Ari's career in professional Magic - with special guest Eduardo Sajgalik, who somehow went from 2-3-1 on Day 1 to a Top 8 competitor where his run was infamously ended on camera.
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Results - Saturday / Sunday (Modern)
30:10 PT RTR - General
1:13:28 PT RTR - Eduardo
2:05:28 Nonsense
Nonsense - 72 Card Monte
PT Philadelphia Oral History
Today we touch on a little bit of everything from the regular tournaments last weekend to the biggest tournament of all this weekend and the current #discourse around open vs closed decklists.
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Results - Saturday / Sunday (Modern) / Pioneer 38:10 Pioneer 47:40 Open vs closed decklists 1:16:50 Worlds 1:40:40 Eternal Weekend 1:47:10 NonsenseNonsense - Legacy Naya Stompy / Vintage Clown Car Shops
With the Pioneer card pool locked in for this round of Regional Championships (until Americans have to scramble to find Brothers' War cards on Day 1), we take a look at where the format stands at the moment from the top dogs cementing their status to some intriguing churn taking place on the margins.
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Results - Showcase / Sunday (Modern) MOCS (Pioneer) Showcase / Sunday (Pioneer)Nonsense - Lutri Chord / Mono-R LD
Yorion flew too close to the sun and has finally been expelled from Modern. We take a tour of all the formats covered this announcement and the (in)action taken there and manage to find time to despair over the M30 'celebration'.
29:27 M30 money printer 44:04 Bans - Standard 52:20 Pioneer (+ Historic lmao) 1:00:27 Legacy 1:06:27 Modern + Companions 1:54:45 NonsensePatreon / Twitter / DiscordResults - Saturday / Sunday (Modern) SCG Dallas Nonsense - Yorhinos Creativity
Modern is getting very colourful as Leyline Binding - and some less celebrated Domain cards - make their presence known. We take a look at why seemingly every deck that can is picking up Binding and what conditions need to be in place to make that a wise choice.
44:30 Main segment
1:57:58 Nonsense
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(apologies for muffled audio this week)
There's a lot to catch up on this week with many Modern developments across various events but we find time to sit down with Bobby Fortanely for a deep dive on one of the most powerful and controversial decks in Pioneer.
41:39 Mono-Green Devotion
1:57:58 Nonsense
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It's a short (for us) episode this week as we take stock of the shifting scapes of Modern following another wave of interesting results and scams.
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Results (Modern): Saturday / Sunday
4 Seasons
Axion Now Giga Modern
Nonsense:
4c Artificer ComboMicromancer
It's all results all the time this week, as we have a curiously scheduled trio of big Modern tournaments on literally the last weekend before Dominaria United enters the fray as well as the first batch of results with the new cards. We take our usual tour of Modern - including Dom's colourful near-miss in the Modern Challenge - with stops in Pioneer, Standard, No Ban List Modern (!), and even... Commander?!
1:05:30 Pioneer
1:13:30 Standard (... and EDH)
1:33:40 NBLM
1:40:10 Nonsense
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Results (Modern): Saturday / Sunday SCGs Columbus: https://mtgmelee.com/Tournament/View/11110https://mtgmelee.com/Tournament/View/11111https://mtgmelee.com/Tournament/View/11112Kanister's No Ban List Modern Nonsense: Rainbow Kitten Surprise Saga War (another version)
With the whole set officially spoiled and our insatiable desire for new cards finally fulfilled, we give our thoughts on Dominaria United as a whole and its likely standouts for Modern and Pioneer.
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Results (Modern): Challenges - Saturday / SundayMTGO RCQ NRG St Louis Nonsense: Titan's Nest by cftsoc (Pio) YawgNota (Modern)6:50 Results 33:00 DMU General 45:50 Cards/rankingsPreviews (Modern, then Pio): Destroy Evil Meria Tribal lords Leyline Binding Inscribed Tablet (again!)Electrostatic Infantry Valiant Veteran Haughty Djinn The Elder Dragon War Jaya, Fiery Negotiator Serra Paragon Evolved Sleeper Defilers Impulse
This week we try to present a united front as we judge the official and not-so-official Dominaria previews available at the time of recording.
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Results (Modern): Challenges - Saturday / Sunday LMS Copenhagen SCG Balt Team / Modern 5k Previews (in order): Liliana of the Veil Temporary Lockdown Rundvelt Hordemaster Twinferno Haughty Djinn Inscribed Tablet Stenn Cut Down Karn's Sylex Resolute Reinforcements Llanowar Loamspeaker Astor, Bearer of Blades Plaza of Heroes Evolved Sleeper Serra Paragon Queen Allenal Painlands
The last SCG Baltimore was derailed by the pandemic - this one will hopefully go more smoothly and will test teams in Pioneer, Modern, and Legacy. We tackle all of those and celebrate mad genius cftsoc3's smart yet nonsensical Legacy Showcase win with a deckbuilding masterpiece.
Patreon / Twitter / DiscordTimestamps: 00:00 Results 15:10 Teams 20:00 Modern 27:30 Pioneer 1:28:20 Legacy 1:54:10 NonsenseResults (Modern): Challenges - Saturday / Sunday Nonsense: Possibility Storm (Pioneer) 4c Omnath Hammer (Modern) 5c Yorion Ephemerate by cftsoc (Legacy)
(apologies for some slight audio issues this episode)
The Modern Showcase [Tournament That Matters] took place last weekend and the results make for interesting viewing. We also take a chance to check in on some of the rising and falling stars of the format - which cards are still getting too much/little hype?Patreon / Twitter / DiscordTimestamps: 00:00 Results 38:45 Over/Underrated 1:35:00 NonsenseResults (Modern): Showcase Challenges - Saturday / Sunday Nonsense: 4c Carth Planeswalkers
This week we dive into the kaleidoscopic blur of Modern Four-Colour Fill-in-the-blank and uncover a family of decks with more deckbuilding decisions and tradeoffs than almost anything else in the format. Should you stick with stock Four-Colour or embrace Traverse the Ulvenwald, Risen Reef, or something else entirely? We do our best to answer that question and many others for now.
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Timestamps:
46:40 4c (stock) + Traverse
56:25 Ragavan
59:50 Understanding different variants + Risen Reef
1:12:24 Vivien
1:21:00 Glimpse (+ Yorion?)
1:33:50 Creativity
1:40:30 Bring to Light
1:46:00 Time Warp + other wildcards
2:00:50 Nonsense
Results (Modern):
Challenges (23/24 July) - Showcase / Sunday
Challenges (30/31 July) - Saturday / Sunday
F2F St John's
NRG Chicago
Nonsense:
4c Turns
4c Snakes!
This week Dom and Ari (and Taylor Swift, I guess) tackle a timeless question (just how am I meant to flip a bad matchup?) with some specific examples from Modern and beyond.
Timestamps:
19:05 Flipping Bad Matchups1:39:05 NonsensePatreon / Twitter / DiscordResults (Modern):Challenges - Saturday / SundayNonsense:BR Creativity (Pioneer)Puresight Merrow Hammer
Every Pioneer deck is in a quantum state - it's the hot new deck poised to take down your next tournament, and it also sucks! Today we investigate how both can be true - why do all the decks in the format feel so medium, and why is this perhaps the entire point of Pioneer?
Timestamps:
31:15 Pioneer1:43:00 NonsensePatreon / Twitter / DiscordResults (Modern):Challenges - Saturday / SundaySCG Syracuse 30k / 5k F2F Toronto Nonsense:Vesperlark Urza Agent of Transmogrify Visits Modern Grixis Vampires (Pioneer) Metalwork Colossus (Pioneer)
This week we're back to tackle one of the most eternally vexing topics in Magic: sideboarding. After a spirited defense of the much-maligned sideboard guide, we cover as much ground as we can to help with sideboarding at your next match of Modern in a league or in a Standard tournament ten years from now.
Timestamps:
39:40 Sideboarding
1:55:10 Nonsense
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Results:
Challenges (last week) - Saturday / Sunday
Challenges (this week) - Saturday / Sunday
Super RCQ
F2F Calgary
Nonsense:
Sacred Ground Cascade (illegal!)
Alchemy Ignus Combo
UB Faeries/Ninjas
Despite the Saturday Modern Challenge literally not existing this week, there was a lot of Magic to talk about - including the Magic Online Championship Series, the highlight of the Magic Online calendar. With winner Will Krueger and Stefan Schutz lighting up the tournament with a brilliant gamble, we take a look at how to prepare for tournaments ranging from the small and exclusive to large and open (...as long as they exist).
Timestamps:
23:40 MOCS leveling + general metagaming/preparation
1:26:25 Nonsense
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Results:
Challenges - Sunday (we don't talk about Saturday)
MOCS
Material:
Information Cascades by Patrick Chapin
Nonsense:
Matsugan Variety Hour Reboot
A glorious variety of combo decks have made their mark in Modern in recent weeks so we thought we'd check in on that entire macro-archetype again after almost a year.
Timestamps:
33:26 Combo
1:39:55 Nonsense
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Results:
Challenges - Showcase / Sunday
NRG Lansing
Nonsense:
Neoform (but with even more nonsense than usual)
Our planned Pioneer episode was thrown for a loop by some welcome but unexpected bans - now we're here ahead of schedule to pick up the pieces. Why did Winota and Expressive Iteration need to go and what underlying truths did Winota expose about the format?
Timestamps:
37:53 Pioneer!1:34:30 Standard + Evaluating Formats 1:41:40 NonsensePatreon / Twitter / DiscordB&R Announcement Results:Challenges - Saturday / SundayDreamhack Dallas Nonsense:AsmoVine AsmoGoryo (courtesy of Prison Mike)
It's been a whole year since Modern Horizons 2 hit the format and changed it forever. It can be tough to remember a time before Solitude and Ragavan and everything else but today we try to do just that - including some takes from the MH2 preview season that aged well and some that aged not so well...
Timestamps:
41:10 MH2 Anniversary Reflections
1:46:00 Nonsense
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Results:
Challenges - Saturday / Sunday
Nonsense:
Matsugan!
Dom was busy playing in the New Capenna Set Championship this weekend and had a front-row seat to the successes, failures, and (French) disconnections that defined the tournament. As this era of Organized Play comes to an end and a new one begins, we try to pair Dom's recent experience with (Pro Tour Champion!) Ari's decade of boomer Pro Tour experience to see what we can learn about preparing for high-level play in these confusing times. All this, of course, after a look at the latest Modern results on Magic Online!
Timestamps:27:20 What is this tournament and why is it crashing again? 42:25 Organized Play1:02:25 Pro Tour preparation and execution 1:50:32 Nonsense!Patreon / Twitter / DiscordResults:Challenges - Saturday / Sunday Nonsense:Jinnie Fay Tokens 8Ball Reanimator ft. Bob
You've heard the non-stop squawking about Ledger Shredder and we're back to add to that with both some abstract analysis of the card and a look at the various decks people are already cramming it into. Plus, two weeks of results including the first MTGO Showcase Challenge of this cycle - which other SNC cards are making a mark?
Timestamps:29:25 Ledger Shredder 1:26:25 NonsensePatreon / Twitter / DiscordResults:ShowcaseChallenges - Sunday previous / Saturday / Sunday Nonsense:Vesperlark Combo Song of Creation
This week marks a full year of the podcast and one of the most turbulent years in Modern's history. We take your questions on learning, content, Modern, and nostalgia among other things along with the usual dose of nonsense and an early look at Streets of New Capenna's impact on Modern.Timestamps:35:45 Mailbag1:43:04 NonsensePatreon / Twitter / DiscordResults:Challenges - Saturday / SundaySCG Pittsburgh 5ks - Friday / SundayNonsense:BR Vivien ComboRocco/AsmoLink
A sleeper agent in the original Modern Horizons, Yawgmoth has become the cornerstone of one of the most fun and unique decks in Modern - one that has put up such good results over the past few weeks that it deserved its own episode!
Timestamps:
25:15 Yawgmoth
1:45:30 Nonsense
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Results:
Saturday Challenge / Sunday
DemonicTutors Challenge win VOD
Nonsense:
CAL (Chalice Assault Loam aggro stuff)
5c Kiki/Resto BTL/Deadly Vanity
Enigmatic Incarnation Elementals
Streets won't be turning Modern on its head and our dreams of bonkers gold cards didn't materialize but there are still some curiosities in this set to chatter about after a year of set reviews.
Timestamps:40:23 SNC Previews1:56:26 NonsensePatreon / Twitter / Discord Results: Week 1 Challenges: Saturday / Sunday Week 2 Challenges: Saturday / Sunday SCG Dallas / Charming Rhinos Report Nonsense: Lotus Field Ponza / and again!
It's a deep grab bag this week: a ton of Modern online and offline, the return of official Organized Play in paper, and the first Shard-coloured spoilers in over a decade as we get ready for Streets of New Capenna. We ask which of these colour combinations have seen success in the past, what they need to see it again, and whether they can forge their own identity without being subsumed by the all-consuming Money Pile.
Timestamps:
43:00 OP
1:05:15 Shards/Streets
1:59:45 Nonsense
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Results: Monday Super PTQ / Friday Super PTQ / Saturday Challenge / Sunday Challenge / NRG Fort Wayne
Main: Return of the Pro Tour
Nonsense: Umori Sorcery / Gingerbread Gift / Yorion Amulet Eldrazi / Winota Saga
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Every format has a best deck and Modern has had some truly absurd ones across the years. Dom and Ari take a trip down memory lane to find the S Tier deck among all the S Tier decks, reliving turbulent times from Eldrazi Winter to Hot Gaak Summer in more than a decade of constant change.
Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro and Weekly Results
33:13 - Who is the brokenest of them all?
1:44:46 - Nonsense of the Week
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Results: Showcase Challenge / Sunday Challenge
Main: Valki Cascade
Nonsense: Bard Class
Lurrus of the Dream-Den is finally gone.... so what now? Dom and Ari discuss two weeks of Modern results free from the Cat Nightmare and where the format could go from here. Featuring two major paper events in the Hunter Burton Memorial Open and SCG Indy, yet another weekend of Magic Online dominance by Guillaume Wafo-Tapa, and some Death's Shadow players trying their hardest to not change decks.
Timestamps:
2:31 - Lurrus Ban
16:45 - Event Results Week (HBMO, SCG Indy, and MTGO)
1:26:00 - Dom Top 4s a Pioneer Event
1:34:00 - Nonsense of the Week
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Lurrus Ban Announcement
Hunter Burton Memorial Open Decklists
MTGO Super Qualifier Decklists
MTGO Challenge Decklists: Saturday / Sunday
SCG Indy Team Main Event / Modern 5K
Andrew Elenbogen's 4C Yorion SB guide
Nonsense of the Week: MHayashi / MHayashi again! / Mono B / Tameshi Combo