Hey look, Legacy is back to 30% delver! At least the top 8 isn’t too bad. Modern has not seen much movement. Pioneer does a good job showing us that pretty much every color has a viable mono color deck. Legacy Challenge - www.mtggoldfish.com/tournament/legacy-challenge-12414725#paper Modern Challenge - https://www.mtggoldfish.com/tournament/modern-challenge-12414723#paper Pioneer Challenge - https://www.mtggoldfish.com/tournament/pioneer-challenge-12414724#paper Contact us or check out our socia...
May 05, 2022•1 hr 16 min•Season 1Ep. 37
Well Legacy had a good weekend so it’s clear the scourge of delver is finally defeated! Or like we have always said you can’t make judgments based off of one tournament. That being said neither Jake or Matt will look a gift horse in the mouth and have a great time going into a really spicy top 8. Modern appears to be more of the same, and while that is neither good or bad, it is modern. To wrap up this week Matt and Jake take their first look at the pioneer metagame and see what's going on in th...
Apr 28, 2022•1 hr 30 min
Back by popular and immediate demand, Matt and Jake talk about legacy! Including a spoiler that is pretty exciting and of course, no one else is. This time a friendly wager breaks out between the hosts to see if Jake can call another spoiler win. Oh, the legacy top 8 was really cool, but the meta is a lot of the same. Modern looks alot like it has in the past several weeks and it is really starting to feel that Lurrus leaving has hurt some decks much more than it hurt others. Legacy Challange - ...
Apr 21, 2022•1 hr 37 min
Matt and Jake take one last look at legacy… for a little while. Since the legacy format is just terrible, has been for months, and wotc shows no interest in fixing it we are going to step away for a bit. So with the Announcement of the Pro tour being pioneer and the hosts love for EDH we will be diversifying our content while occasionally checking in on legacy. The hosts did look at the Modern 30k from SCG Dallas with over 900 participants and feel confident saying that the Lurrus ban almost cer...
Apr 14, 2022•1 hr 27 min•Season 1Ep. 34
Wow that legacy showcase is about as bad as it gets… but even though there are only 4 unique decks in the top 8 the guys soldier on. Modern is not as stale, but it is also a pretty ugly looking top 8. The thing is… no one cares cause its all about pioneer now that we had the announcement of the Pro Tour returning and the first pro tour being limited and pioneer. So now that WOTC has literally forced you to care about pioneer, it's time to start looking into this mysterious and previously thought...
Apr 07, 2022•1 hr 28 min•Season 1Ep. 33
Who says that just because the metagame summary is trash 2 friends can’t have fun talking about some cool decks? The legacy metagame looks like alot of the same, but the top 8 was fun. Modern super qualifiers bring a regular distribution of expected decks and we have an announcement coming out about competitive play so Matt and Jake speculate what it might contain. Legacy Challenge - https://www.mtggoldfish.com/tournament/legacy-challenge-12401490#paper Modern Super Qualifier - https://www.mtggo...
Mar 31, 2022•1 hr 28 min•Season 1Ep. 32
A shorter episode this week going over the SCG CON INDY metas that actually really closely resembled the online metas. Here’s hoping we get some interesting discussion topics for next week because it has been quiet. Legacy Challenge - https://www.mtggoldfish.com/tournament/scg-con-indianapolis-legacy-5k#paper Modern Super Qualifier - https://www.mtggoldfish.com/tournament/scg-con-indianapolis-modern-5k#paper Extra Life Donation link https://www.extra-life.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donordrive.part...
Mar 24, 2022•54 min•Season 1Ep. 31
Legacy looks pretty good this week as far as deck diversity, as long as you don't mind 69% of decks having force of will. The Modern Super Qualifier looks almost exactly like what modern has looked like despite the Lurrus ban, which isn't a bad thing cause Modern still looks pretty diverse. To wrap things up Matt and Jake dig through a new Modern brew submitted by a twitter follower focusing on Tameshi, Reality Architect. Legacy Challenge - https://www.mtggoldfish.com/tournament/legacy-challenge...
Mar 17, 2022•1 hr 27 min
Matt and Jake are back and ready to talk about the surprise Lurrus ban! Legacy is degrading back to pre ban numbers and the modern meta from the weekend is literally useless so the hosts mostly talk about the ban and why it was probably the right card to ban, just done poorly. Legacy Challenge - https://www.mtggoldfish.com/tournament/legacy-challenge-12394202#paper Modern Challenge - https://www.mtggoldfish.com/tournament/modern-challenge-12394235#paper Contact us or check out our social media! ...
Mar 10, 2022•58 min
Today is another long one, but there's a good reason! Special guest and SCG Philly Modern semi-finalist Jordan Berenhaus stops by to give us a rundown of his tourney and run to the top with Boros Burn. The Legacy challenge meta looks pretty good, and the top 8’s look AMAZING. Modern looks good with the only real thing to note being the absence of Grixis shadow. Make sure to check out Jordan and the Legacy Pit and let em know we sent you! Legacy Challenge - https://www.mtggoldfish.com/tournament/...
Feb 24, 2022•2 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 28
There are some SCG CON result pages just dying to be talked about. Legacy looked like an awesome event and hopefully we can see it again in Indianapolis. Modern was full of great meta decks, but still super diverse. The hosts wrap up by giving some final thoughts on Kamigawa with the full release imminent. Contact us or check out our social media! Email - Cantripcartel@gmail.com Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/groups/295644032315064/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/CantripCartel Discord - disc...
Feb 17, 2022•1 hr 26 min•Season 1Ep. 27
We had another Legacy Super Qualifier and UR delver pulled out all the stops to put up almost 40 percent of the top 32! Modern has 2 somewhat unseen decks in the top 8 of it’s challenge and AspringSpike broke the modern season trophy record. Legacy Super Qualifier - https://www.mtggoldfish.com/tournament/legacy-super-qualifier-12383900#paper Modern Challenge - https://www.mtggoldfish.com/tournament/modern-challenge-12383935#paper Contact us or check out our social media! Email - Cantripcartel@gm...
Feb 10, 2022•1 hr 17 min•Season 1Ep. 26
Time to put away your steam vents? New Cantrip Cartel Ep. is out! Holy cow we went long this week! Shocking to almost nobody, legacy is still kind of a UR delver format. Derric came onto the cast to help analyze legacy (and tell Jake he’s wrong about equipment and sagas) because there was some shakeup in the format. Granted most of that shakeup was in the UR delver shell and some sideboard cards, but some things did change. The Modern challenge put up 13 unique decks in the top 32 on Sunday, tha...
Feb 03, 2022•2 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 25
Ragavan? More like Raga-Banned HA HA! But seriously, WOTC announced its multi format ban including Standard, Historic, and Legacy. Matt and Jake discuss the small change to legacy and the no-ban decision in Modern. Legacy Challenge - https://www.mtggoldfish.com/tournament/legacy-challenge-12377877#paper Modern Challenge - https://www.mtggoldfish.com/tournament/modern-challenge-12377876#paper Contact us or check out our social media! Email - Cantripcartel@gmail.com Facebook - https://www.facebook...
Jan 27, 2022•1 hr 13 min•Season 1Ep. 24
Matt and Jake take a look at the legacy super qualifier and can't agree if it's good enough or not, but it definitely looks different than usual. Don't worry, They can certainly agree that the Modern super qualifier looks pretty sweet. To wrap up the episode, the Cartel discusses the XBOX Blizzard purchase. Legacy Super Qualifier - https://www.mtggoldfish.com/tournament/legacy-super-qualifier-12375120#paper Modern Super Qualifier - https://www.mtggoldfish.com/tournament/modern-super-qualifier-12...
Jan 20, 2022•1 hr 23 min•Season 1Ep. 23
Dare we say it? Legacy on Sunday looks pretty awesome! Matt and Jake had a ton of fun talking about the decks in the top 8, and didn't have to say UR once! Modern even had its premier deck dethroned and the churn continues. To wrap it up WOTC gave us another banger of an announcement with the Pauper Format Panel. Let the good times roll! Legacy top 8 - https://www.mtggoldfish.com/tournament/legacy-challenge-12372532#paper Modern top 8 - https://www.mtggoldfish.com/tournament/modern-challenge-123...
Jan 13, 2022•1 hr 40 min•Season 1Ep. 22
From the far flung future in 2022, 2 nerds talk about an antique card game! Matt and Jake find some pretty cool decks in this week's legacy top 8 even though the meta is still not the greatest. Modern has a few real zingers in its top 8 as well, and it even looks like grixis shadow might be moving out, but only time will tell. After the meta recaps there's a lot of good news to cover this week. SCG has announced 3 HUGE SCGCON weekends, WOTC hired a new DIrector of Play Programs, and MTGO is unde...
Jan 06, 2022•1 hr 37 min•Season 1Ep. 21
As Matt and Jake say goodbye to 2021 the legacy meta goes out on a whimper, and modern goes out on a bit of a sigh. After meta recaps, the hosts take a look at what happened during the year of magic that literally spawned this show into existence. We take a quick look at some of the good things like retro frame cards, and some of the bad things like eternal format rotation. Regardless, We are ecstatic to wrap up the year with our fans and can't wait to do it all again next year! Contact us or ch...
Dec 30, 2021•1 hr 20 min•Season 1Ep. 20
As the year wraps up we have some pretty high stakes tournaments in both Legacy and Modern. Legacy had its MOCS and Modern had a Super qualifier and while Legacy looked just like Legacy normally looks Modern had a bit of an upset win with crashcade! To wrap things up Matt and Jake take a look at the precious few spoilers from Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty. Spoiler alert… the basic lands are top tier. Contact us or check out our social media! Email - Cantripcartel@gmail.com Facebook - https://www.facebo...
Dec 23, 2021•1 hr 33 min•Season 1Ep. 19
Holy cow Legacy challenge was terrible this weekend, but what do we even expect at this point? Since WOTC has not made any announcements about Legacy, we took a look at a potential new budding legacy-like format called MTG Heritage. It looks like a really interesting alternative for people that are tired of supplemental sets mucking up legacy. And of course modern looks good with maybe an extra dash of grixis. Contact us or check out our social media! Email - Cantripcartel@gmail.com Facebook - h...
Dec 16, 2021•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 18
This weekend we had a Legacy showcase to discuss with a pretty sweet looking top 10. Matt and Jake drool over modern like every week and then wrap up by giving our opinions on the Alchemy announcement. Honestly this was close to something that could work, but sadly still pretty far from what could be called a good implementation. Contact us or check out our social media! Email - Cantripcartel@gmail.com Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/groups/295644032315064/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/Cant...
Dec 09, 2021•1 hr 33 min•Season 1Ep. 17
Warning. This episode gets kind of explicit toward the end Matt and Jake run through the legacy and modern meta, contemplate the state of legacy, and give their thoughts on some of the decisions around secret lairs and the new Unfinity set. Spoiler alert: the vintage, legacy, and EDH communities got some frankly insulting news from Maro in regards to the legality of Unfinity. TLDR, Maro has announced that this un-set will not have silver borders and approx. half of the cards will be legal in leg...
Dec 02, 2021•1 hr 31 min•Season 1Ep. 16
Matt and Jake partner up with Derric from the family gathering podcast to tackle the Three legacy events of Eternal Weekend. Honestly the Friday event was what we all expected, but Saturday and Sunday did not look too bad. Tag along as the host pop into every deck they thought looked interesting, which was a lot of them, and wrap up by giving their opinions on the state of legacy and whether this event will warrant the ban the community desperately wants. Ill be straight with you, this episode w...
Nov 25, 2021•1 hr 34 min•Season 1Ep. 15
Both Modern and Legacy have their respectively largest tournaments of the year on the same weekend! Modern has the Channel Fireball paper event in Las vegas and Eternal weekend online for Legacy are both happening this weekend. While the legacy meta is still pretty… bad, there are definitely some really cool decks in the results from the sunday challenge. Modern also had some pretty cool lists show up including a double feature win by Goblin Charbelcher. To wrap up the episode Matt and Jake talk...
Nov 18, 2021•1 hr 36 min•Season 1Ep. 14
Matt and Jake welcome to the show the master of elves and safaris, Julian Knab from Everyday Eternal! This episode goes a little bit everywhere starting with Eternal Weekend, covering the state of legacy, and ending up with Indiana trivia. We had a BLAST with Julian and really appreciate him taking the time to bring some sense to Jake’s crackpot brews. Check out Julian! Twitter - https://twitter.com/itsJulian23?s=20 Twitch - https://www.twitch.tv/itsjulian Everyday Eternal - https://itsjulian.co...
Nov 11, 2021•1 hr 35 min•Season 1Ep. 13
Matt and Jake reintroduce themselves to any new listeners before checking out the state of legacy (18:30). Shockingly it's actually a pretty spicy looking challenge this week. The modern challenge (39:30) was looking pretty good, a vast improvement over last Sunday for sure. Lastly we got a fairly big announcement from WOTC (53:35) that every legacy player is going to want to hear. Timestamps: Legacy 18:30 Modern 39:30 Announcement 53:35 Tags: magic, magic the gathering, modern, legacy, mtg Than...
Nov 04, 2021•1 hr 14 min•Season 1Ep. 12
Holy cow that's an ugly Legacy PTQ. Even the Modern Sunday challenge doesn't look good on paper. At least WOTC is reprinting the Walking Dead cards. Stay till the end for tips on taking that pile of cards and turning it into a lightly tuned EDH deck. Thanks to Bensound.com for Music Files
Oct 28, 2021•1 hr 18 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Hosts speed through the legacy and modern metas to get to the real meat, the results of the Legacy 2k they went to! No spoilers here, matches were won, matches were lost, and fun was had. Be sure to check out the "Family Gathering" podcast for our "night before prep" discussion with Derric, a childhood friend of Matt's Thank to Bensound.com for music files
Oct 21, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Shockingly legacy STILL cant fire a Saturday challenge and modern is starting to hone down to the best decks, but it's still great. Matt and Jake are going to play some paper this Sunday and they run through their deck choices and some tips on preparing for a serious event.
Oct 14, 2021•59 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Matt and Jake bring your weekly dose of legacy and Modern meta before running through the leaked worlds meta. By the way, did you know Worlds was this weekend, because no one else did. The hosts wrap up by talking about what aspects they look for in meta with bannings in both Legacy and Standard possibly on the horizon. Thanks to bensound.com for music files Tags: magic, magic the gathering, modern, legacy, mtg
Oct 07, 2021•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 8
