Freshly Brewed: An MTG Podcast: Recent Episodes

Frank T. Lepore and Robert Castillo

A Magic: The Gathering podcast hosted by Pro Tour and Grand Prix Top 8 Competitor Frank Lepore and FNM Top 8 Competitor Robert Castillo. Each week we'll talk about the latest MTG news, updates, and our own deck ideas. When new sets are approaching, you can also expect lots of spoiler talk. Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/freshlybrewedmtg/support

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This week Rob and I try our hands at designed four separate custom Magic cards based on Marvel Comic characters: Spider-Man, Wolverine, Captain America, and Captain America's Shield. Be sure to find us on Twitter or Facebook and let us know what you think of the designs, if you like this exercise, and who you'd like to see us tackle next!


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Here we are...again, talking about three more Standard cards that have been banned. Get the low down on our thoughts about the latest rounds of Standard and Historic updates this week!


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This week we talk about the most recent Standard banning of Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath, and why it's kind of a joke. We also discuss how the Standard format has gotten itself into the mess it has in the past few years.


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Zendikar Rising previews are flooding out the gate. This week we talk about some of our favorites, and why we think this set has some of the best mechanics ever printed to mitigate variance.


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This week we discuss all things Historic, including the upcoming banning that has been announced for next week, a ton of brews we've been playing, and some of the cards that might not belong in the format.


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Wow. Another week, ANOTHER round of bannings. Will they ever stop? Four more cards banned in Standard bring the total up to a record breaking 10 cards. Let's discuss those, along with the bannings in Pioneer and Historic.


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This week we talk about lots of set-related things! We talk about the Set Boosters that are being released with Zendikar Rising, we talk about Double Masters, and we talk about some of our favorite cards and new art present in the set.


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With new bannings seemingly every week, this week we talk about the latest round of them that affected four formats: Historic, Pioneer, Modern, and Pauper. 


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This week we each pick five cards from M21 to answer five questions: 1) what card do we see as a possible organized play mistake, 2) what is a pet card of ours, 3) what card did we expect more from, 4) what card do we think will shine soon that hasn't yet, and 5) what card do we want to brew with next!


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This week Rob and I continue our M21 set review, including all the red, green, gold, and colorless cards in the set. Below is a list of the cards we're fond of,  that we believe will see some amount of play.

Red

Bolt Hound

Brash Taunter

Chandra, Heart of Fire

Chandra's Incinerator

Chandra's Pyreling

Conspicuous Snoop

Heartfire Immolator

Kinetic Auger

Scorching Dragonfire

Soul Sear

Terror of the Peaks

Thrill of Possibility

Transmogrify

Green

Azusa, Lost but Seeking

Elder Gargaroth

Fungal Rebirth

Garruk's Harbinger

Garruk's Uprising

Life Goes On

Llanowar Visionary

Primal Might

Quirion Dryad

Ranger's Guile

Return to Nature

Run Afoul

Scavenging Ooze

Thrashing Brontodon

Track Down

Gold

Conclave Mentor

Experimental Overload

Indulging Patrician

Niambi, Esteemed Speaker

Radha, Heart if Keld

Watcher of the Spheres

Colorless

Ugin, the Spirit Dragon

Solemn Simulacrum

Sparkhunter masticore

Land

Animal Sanctuary

Fabled Passage

Radiant Fountain

All Five Temples


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This week we  start our M21 set review, including all the white, blue, and black cards in the set. Below is a list of the cards we're fond of, that we believe will see some amount of play.

White

Angelic Ascension

Baneslayer Angel

Basri Ket

Basri's Lieutenant

Containment Priest

Faith's Fetters

Griffin Aerie

Nine Lives

Pack Leader

Revitalize

Runed Halo

Seasoned Hallowblade

Selfless Savior

Speaker of the Heavens

Vryn Wingmare

Blue

Barrin, Tolarian Archmage

Discontinuity

Enthralled Hold

Frantic Inventory

Ghostly Pilferer

Lofty Denial

Miscast

Opt

Rain of Revelation

Rewind

Riddleform

See the Truth

Stormwing Entity

Sublime Epiphany

Teferi, Master of Time

Teferi's Ageless Insight

Teferi's Tutelage

Unsubstantiate

Waker of Waves

Black

Archfiend's Vessel

Demonic Embrace

Duress

Eliminate

Grasp of Darkness

Grim Tutor

Hooded Blightfang

Kaervek, the Spiteful

Kitesail Freebooter

Liliana, Waker of the Dead

Liliana's Devotee

Massacre Wurm

Necromentia

Peer into the Abyss

Silversmote Ghoul

Village Rites

Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose

Witch's Cauldron


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This week we talk about what Jumpstart even is (we still may not know), along with what can possibly be done about a Standard format that never seems to improve.


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M21 previews have officially begun, and this week Rob and Frank go over some of their favorites. With brand new planeswalkers, spicy reprints, and format staples, inside you'll get both of their opinions on some of the hottest revealed cards.


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This week Rob and I resurrect the popular Freshly Brewed podcast to talk about companions, and bannings, and what has been going on in Standard. Did banning Fires of Invention and Agent of Treachery fix the format, or were they merely banned-aids?


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