Top Level Podcast: Recent Episodes
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Time Warp was Banned in Historic Last Week … But we recorded this episode before that was announced. So opener is discussion on a now-defunct Jeskai Turns deck. Hopefully everything else on that topic (structure of the deck’s engine, other key cards) makes sense though! Speaking of which… Commence the Endgame is a key over-performer […]
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Shardless Agent Joins the Modern Format Shardless Agent looks to be one of the highest impact cards to be printed — or in this case reprinted — in Modern Horizons 2. This card is awesome in a number of ways. You can gang up with lots of Cascade action with cards like Bloodbraid Elf. This […]
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Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer from Modern Horizons Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer R Legendary Creature – Monkey Pirate Whenever Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer deals combat damage to a player, create a Treasure token and exile the top card of that player’s library. Until end of turn, you may cast that card. Dash 1R 2/1 So this card is probably […]
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Tainted Pact Rocks Historic… Wait a Second, New Headline So Tainted Pact was recently reprinted in Strixhaven. The good thing (if you can say that) is that it spawned a new archetype. By last weekend the most popular strategy in Historic was a mostly singletons deck playing two copies of Tainted Pact and two copies […]
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Clever Lumimancer W Creature – Human Wizard Magecraft – Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, Clever Lumimancer gets +2/+2 until end of turn. 0/1 So many turn-two kills with Clever Lumimancer in Modern… Start with a first-turn Clever Lumimancer. Play your second land and a Manamorphose (2), and another Manamorphose (4). […]
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Prosperous Innkeeper, Power Word Kill, the villainous Tiamat… There are so many new — even newer — cards for Standard, the format is about to burst! But first? What’s on the horizon for Modern? UU: Counter Target Spell Remember way back when, when we did an episode about how Silumgar’s Scorn was a messed up […]
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The Rate on Blade Historian Blade Historian (r/w)(r/w)(r/w)(r/w) Creature – Human Cleric Attacking creatures you control have double strike 2/3 This card is not out of the question when considered purely on rate. A 2/3 for four mana isn’t anything to write home about, but — even without wide-going teammates or buff spells — it […]
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Prismari Command 1UR Instant Choose two — Prismari Command deals 2 damage to any target Target player draws two cards, then discards two cards Target player creates a Treasure token Destroy target artifact The Command is already showing up in multiple kinds of decks. Welcome to Standard, Strixhaven! Whether a new addition to Temur Adventures […]
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Gnarled Professor from Strixhaven There was a time when Gnarled Professor would have been about the best creature there was. A 5/4 for 2GG mana is not too far off of the legendary Erhnam Djinn (4/5 for 3G)… And old Ernie had a disadvantage while Gnarled Professor has two clear advantages. It starts off with […]
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Expressive Iteration Will be Good in Vintage… … And great in Standard. It’ll be all over Historic, Modern, Legacy… So what’s so exciting about this card? Here’s the secret: Don’t play it on turn two (in non-Vintage). If you play it on turn three, you can exile a land card (and play it that turn). […]
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