Grindcast 216: Post-Worlds breakdown
Yuta!!! One of the greatest tempo players of all time just took down worlds with a completely under-the-radar deck. Goldspan dragon is back, baby!
Oct 14, 2021•1 hr 22 min
MTG Grindcast
Since 2017 the MTG Grindcast has broadcast weekly, talking everything competitive Magic, from up-to-the-minute metagame updates to Magic news to tournament coverage. Hosted by Chris Castro-Rappl and Lee McLeod and home to a rotating cast of guests including Dom Harvey, Jarvis Yu, and Jesse Robkin, we're bringing you your weekly dose of competitive MTG.
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Grindcast 215: Worlds Preview Epiphiganza
How kind of WotC to "accidentally" leak the Worlds decks just in time for us to record! We've been putting standard through its paces and we're ready to give our takes on the decks our players brought to the table in this exciting three deck metagame, featuring monogreen, epiphany, and other. Thanks as always to Wave Sunray for our music
Oct 07, 2021•1 hr 13 min
Grindcast 214: Starting our (Spooky) Invi Prep
Get your scariest decks together, because the SCG Invi is on Halloween AND has a vaccine mandate. What a combo! We're going through our starting places in standard and modern, and how we're going to approach our prep for this big ol PAPER duel format tournament. Thanks as always to Wave Sunray for our music.
Sep 30, 2021•1 hr 14 min
Grindcast 213: It's midnight. Do you know where your werewolves are?
Midnight Hunt is heeeere! Eldraine is gone for good! We're talking standard, with a little sprinkling of draft because we can't help ourselves. But mostly standard! Thanks as always to Wave Sunray for our music!
Sep 24, 2021•1 hr 27 min
Grindcast 212: Midnight Hunt Constructed Set Review!
The Hunt is here! And Eldraine is gone! We go through our top 5s in each color from Magic's spookiest new set, celebrating how playable each card is in a world without Bonecrusher Giant or Emergent Ultimatum. Thanks as always to Wave Sunray for our music!
Sep 16, 2021•2 hr 10 min
Grindcast 211: Innistrad Insights
It's spoiler season! Again! Time to look at some werewolves and some vampires and some zombies gah Innistrad is back, baby! Thanks as always to Wave Sunray for our music.
Sep 10, 2021•1 hr 33 min
Grindcast 210: Getting Creative in Historic
This week we're checking in on Magic's online-est format to see how historic is starting to shape up with the new Jumpstart release. Is creativity too powerful for the format? Do tribal decks have a shot? All this and more (but the more is also magic the gathering related). Thanks as always to Wave Sunray for our music!
Sep 03, 2021•1 hr 23 min
Grindcast 209: Vintage and Vows (with Jarvis Yu!)
It's vintage this week, so we invited Jarvis over to give us an update on magic's goofiest format! But first we have to spend some time talking about the possibilities of Yakuza Moonfolk and whether WotC can pull of an anti-war story with The Brothers' War. Thanks as always to Wave Sunray for our music!
Aug 26, 2021•1 hr 52 min
Grindcast 208: The Potpourri Episode
There's nothing going on this week! So we've prepared a lovely mix of weekend modern anecdotes, cube thoughts, and listener questions! We'll be back with our hard hitting journalism next week, but for now just come vibe with us. Thanks as always to Wave Sunray for our music.
Aug 19, 2021•1 hr 28 min
Grindcast 207: Simultaneous Set Spoilers
How many sets can be spoiled at the same time? I think it's, like, a lot of sets. So many. And we're great at keeping track of them all! Thanks as always to Wave Sunray for our music!
Aug 13, 2021•1 hr 16 min
Grindcast 206: Modern and Historic (which is also modern)
Lee just top 8'd a paper modern tournament! And Jumpstart 2: Historic Boogaloo is going to make historic, uh, a lot like modern. So Lee will probably be great at that too! Thanks as always to Wave Sunray for our music.
Aug 05, 2021•1 hr 20 min
Grindcast 205: DIGITAL ONLY MAGIC CARDS
We're hearthstone now baby! Conjuring, seeking, perpetually weeping: it's time to complain. Ok, we're actually pretty ok with this stuff, except for the distribution model. But what's a description without a little drama? Thanks as always to Wave Sunray for our music.
Jul 29, 2021•1 hr 27 min
Grindcast 204: Manatraders Modern with Zach Allen!
Zach's here! And he's been back at it, testing a ton of paper modern so we thought we'd sit down with him ahead of this week's modern Manatraders tournament. This week we're talking through some of his favorite decks in the format, some unexplored strategies, and how to beat Hammertime! Thanks as always to Wave Sunray for our music.
Jul 23, 2021•1 hr 43 min
Grindcast 203: Forgotten Realms Set Review
We're back! And we're, uh, super excited about Dungeons and Dragons. Ok, that's not exactly true. But if you want to hear WHY we're not excited about Dungeons and Dragons, look no further than our constructed set review! Thanks as always to Wave Sunray for our music.
Jul 15, 2021•1 hr 57 min
Grindcast 202: How to Get (back) into Modern
This week! With paper magic finally returning we're looking at the format from a fresh perspective: how do you buy back into the format without throwing your money away? The format's been a minefield of bans and strategies that get left behind, so we want to help give you some confidence before you send in your order. Thanks as always to Wave Sunray for our music!
Jul 01, 2021•1 hr 43 min
Grindcast 201: Modern and Pauper with the Baron of Bacon
This week! We're joined by special guest Sean Hunter to chat about all the nonsense that MH2 has brought to Modern and to Pauper. We laugh, we tell jokes, we complain about Organized Play. It's fun! Thanks as always to Wave Sunray for our music.
Jun 24, 2021•1 hr 16 min
The Decks of Modern Horizons 2
We've got a couple weekends of challenges to talk about and while Modern isn't exactly settling down, we're getting an idea of what's good enough and what isn't. Maybe you aren't supposed to play Urza's Saga in UW control. But maybe if you play Brainstone... Thanks as always to Wave Sunray for our music
Jun 17, 2021•1 hr 31 min
Modern Horizons 2 Set Review!
Modern Horizons 2 is here! And we've got a full 3 hour episode talking about our top cards from the set, from free spells to lands that make free creatures to creatures that cast free spells. Don't miss this epic saga! Thanks as always to Wave Sunray for our music.
Jun 13, 2021•2 hr 56 min
More MH2 Previews!
We've got a persistent preview schedule going and we're back with even more pitch elementals and weird artifact things and suspend versions of old broken cards (and we will not be talking about Faithless Salvaging). Thanks as always to Wave Sunray for our music!
Jun 04, 2021•1 hr 47 min
Grindcast 197: Grieving for Modern Formats Past
It's Lee's favorite time of year: Modern Horizons spoiler season! We've got some bonkers stuff, some commander plants, and a wild and wacky future for modern. Thanks as always to Wave Sunray for our music!
May 27, 2021•1 hr 59 min
Grindcast 196: A Vision for Organized Play
OP is dead. Long live OP. With the axing of the MPL system, the possibilities for competitive Magic's future have opened up. Are we optimistic? No! Are we going to fantasize about the system we'd like to see? Yes! Thanks as always to Wave Sunray for our music.
May 20, 2021•1 hr 43 min
Grindcast Episode 195: So many previews
We've got preview cards for three different releases (ok Historic Anthology 97 doesn't really count but bear with us). From straight up Counterspell to the newest in busted artifact enablers there's something nutty for everyone here. Thanks as always to Wave Sunray for our music!
May 13, 2021•1 hr 31 min
Grindcast Ep. 194: Modern's Next Iteration
Ok, maybe that's a little optimistic. But we're taking a look at Modern today! Is Heliod still the best deck? Almost certainly yes. Is prowess still around. Also yes! But there's some fun details to catch up on, and even--gasp--an Orzhov deck or two! Thanks as always to Wave Sunray for our music.
May 06, 2021•1 hr 24 min
Rogues is the Best Deck in Every Format
Ok, we don't spend all that much time talking about Rogues in this episode but there's a good couple seconds where we can't for the life of us remember the name of Soaring Thought-Thief, so that's pretty good. Thanks as always to Wave Sunray for our music!
Apr 30, 2021•1 hr 29 min
Legacy and Historic Double Feature (with Jarvis!)
CCR has been playing a ton of historic and the format is great, so we spend the first half of the episode going on about torrential gearhulk and archon of emeria. But then our legacy correspondent Jarvis Yu stops by to give us the scoop on legacy before Manatraders this weekend! Thanks as always to Wave Sunray for our music.
Apr 22, 2021•1 hr 33 min
Boo OP Yay Historic (starring Arclight Phoenix)
It's an even split this time: 50% grumping about Magic Organized Play and 50% getting WICKED PUMPED for new Historic. We go over the archetypes we're excited for and the card choices we think will make the difference (especially in Phoenix!) Thanks as always to Wave Sunray for our music!
Apr 14, 2021•1 hr 54 min
Strixhaven Constructed Set Review
Oh, huh, there's an entire set of standard-legel cards connected to the Mystical Archive. I guess we should take a look at those!
Apr 09, 2021•2 hr 12 min
Mystical Archive Historic Set Review!
Is...is historic about to be fun? Who knows! But we're excited to try it. Before that, Lee and CCR share the benefits of their years of playing with janky cards through every format. We talk about what it'll take to make each of these cards good and try to figure out what they mean for the historic format. Thanks as always to Wave Sunray for our music.
Apr 01, 2021•2 hr 12 min
Kaldheim Set Championship with INickStrad!
Nick Price was kind enough to sit down with us and talk about his prep for the PT this weekend. Please don't cancel him for his love of Uro. Thanks as always to Wave Sunray for our music!
Mar 25, 2021•1 hr 15 min
Post-MOCS Musings and a Pioneer Preview
We're here and we're ready to yell about/thoughtfully analyze all of JMM's decisions that led him to a MOCS title this weekend. And then we dive into some pioneer lists and try to find out what's what in that format and, of course, go over the weirdest places we've ever played magic. Thanks as always to Wave Sunray for our music!
Mar 18, 2021•1 hr 33 min
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