We're getting a feel for Explorer! With no decklists available on any corner of the internet whatsoever, it's a bit of a crapshoot. But CCR's been deep in the queues, here to bring you the best (and only?) Explorer content around.
The last set championship is in the books, #wotc is trending on twitter, and we have some bones to pick. From Arena's inability to rebuild matches to WotC's less-than-stellar fan content policies, if you want to be mad about something this is the episode for you! Thanks as always to Wave Sunray for our music!
We made Dom an offer he couldn't refuse, and he's joined us today to talk about his prep for the New Capenna Set Championship! Will historic ever get a new deck? Is three-color midrange the name of the game in standard? All your questions and more answered on this episode! Thanks as always to Wave Sunray for our music!
CCR has been in the draft trenches because it's competitive limited season, baby! We've got all the takes on this hyper-aggressive, not-really-three-color format, including his subversive Cake/Soufflé theory of limited. Come draft with us! Thanks as always to Wave Sunray for our music
New Capenna is here! Since we missed a week, we're going over the Arena OP announcements and then wading into the midrange swamp of standard. Thanks as always to Wave Sunray for our music.
The full set is here! We're counting down our favorite charms and ascendancies and pinstriped demons. Or counting up. Lists are weird! But we've got em. Thanks as always to Wave Sunray for our music!
Preview season, baby! We've got gangsters and limousines and prohibition and cool suits and maybe tommy guns? All kinds of stuff! And new cards to talk about! Thanks as always to Wave Sunray for our music.
The Pro Tour is back, baby! Paper play, draft rounds, Deadmau5--what more could we ask for? Jarvis joins us as we break down our responses to the new organized play pyramid scheme, our hopes for it and our concerns. Thanks as always to Wave Sunray for our music.
This week! We grabbed Jesse Robkin, (relatively) fresh off of her SCG Modern top 8 with Breach to talk to us about the deck. We go over matchups, sideboard choices, the history of the word "bear," all the important stuff! Thanks as always to Wave Sunray for our music
Are we going to criticize the Arena economy for the first 45 minutes of this episode? Yes. Are we going to immediately segue into talking about the new Alchemy cards for the second 45 minutes of this episode? Also yes! But on the bright side it's a 90 minute episode! Thanks as always to Wave Sunray for our music.
It's time to check in on modern! How are we doing without everyone's favorite cat nightmare? Was Death's Shadow perhaps too strong given that it still won the ptq after having its best card banned? Who can know! Thanks as always to Wave Sunray for our music.
The Neon Dynasty set championship is coming up, so we grabbed our friend IAmActuallyLvl1 to tell us everything he knows about Alchemy and Historic. Which is, admittedly, maybe not as much as he'd like to. But we also talk about transitioning to tournament prep on Arena, spend some time praising the Zoomers, and generally get hype for this weekend. Thanks as always to Wave Sunray for our music!
Somehow we've never had Dom as a guest before, but he's here to talk with us for two hours about the present and future of competitive MtG content and coverage. We work though some tough truths and also engage in an inappropriate amount of gallows humor. Thanks as always to Wave Sunray for our music!
Week one of new standard and we've got a little bit of everything peeking its head out, from old favorites like Izzet and sacrifice, to brand new enchantment theme decks and *gasp* two-color aggro. We break down this weekend's results and work through all the neat decks and developments. Thanks as always to Wave Sunray for our music.
The future is here! And in our dystopian timeline it's basically impossible to get decklists, so we've been in the trenches of watchin' streams to bring you all the NEW CARDS seeing play in various constructed formats. Are red cards back in standard? Is an Expressive Iteration deck...still really good? We don't really know! But we're doing our best. Thanks as always to Wave Sunray for our music.
It's time for top 5s! How many do-nothing little artifacts and enchantments can we fit on our lists? A whole hell of a lot! Get our takes while they're hot, and before they're proven wrong! Thanks as always to Wave Sunray for our music.
Preview season is here! We're going over new planeswalkers, rat ninjas, hoverbikes and more in Magic's cyberpunk set. Do we know what formats we're evaluating the cards for? No! Do we let that stop us? Also no! Thanks as always to Wave Sunray for our music.
Full disclosure: we don't really talk all that much about Ragavan himself. But we spend plenty of time on the Standard bans, goofy Alchemy buffs, and the Modern no-bans, so there's lots of fun to be had! Thanks as always to Wave Sunray for our music.
This week! We've brought in known Hammertime aficionado Will Krueger, aka Xwhale, to break down the deck and its place in the metagame. We talk about its matchups, different builds and card choices, and how to play with or against it. BONK Thanks as always to Wave Sunray for our music!
As the first episode in our Dexperts (Deckmasters? we're still workshopping the name) series, we pulled some strings and grabbed Connor Mullaly to break down the ins and outs of Pioneer Lotus Field, a powerful combo deck for magic's most recently un-abandoned format. Thanks as always to Wave Sunray for our music!
We're talking SCG, Huey's hiring, Kamigawa, and the resurgence of Pioneer as a format. Happy New Year! Thanks as always to Wave Sunray for our music.
It's a set review kind of thing! With VERY LITTLE complaining about Alchemy, we swear. It's mostly just jokes, and we think we're very funny. Thanks as always to Wave Sunray for our music.
Alchemy is here and it's...something. We're giving our takes on Magic's newest, digital-only format and, you know, kind of hoping we're wrong about it. But on the bright side CCR has cool gamer lighting in his office now! Thanks as always to Wave Sunray for our music!
Another fake PT, another format breakdown! Rumors of the demise of Alrund's epiphany seem to have been greatly exaggerated. With standard caught between the extremes of Izzet and Faceless Haven, can anything show up to split the difference? Plus we somehow manage to talk about historic, despite the complete lack of events and decklists. That's just our level of commitment to you. Thanks as always to Wave Sunray for our music!
All the standard tournaments got cancelled because Arena is not a functional piece of software, so that means one thing: time to talk about modern! From Amulet's renaissance to UW control splashing Wren and Six, to the upcoming rise of Blood Moon, we've got all your modern info right here!
We're only a week in, but standard is...pretty good! Epiphany is fading into the margins and we can do weird grindy stuff like generating one vampire token per turn or sacrificing our clerics to pyre of heroes. Is this the standard season that will get Lee to register a BW dual land? Find out here! Thanks as always to Wave Sunray for our music!
After a spookily short preview season we have the full spoiler for Crimson Vow, so you know what that means. Time for some top 5s! We're going over what we like in the set and crossing our fingers that we're not wildly wrong, lest we be held accountable and banned from creating magic the gathering content forevermore. Thanks as always to Wave Sunray for our music!
We're back from Roanoke! For some, this was a wildly successful invitational weekend. For others, this was a wildly successful CubeCon. But we're back with stories to tell and, more importantly, Innistrad Crimson Vow spoilers! Thanks as always to Wave Sunray for our music.
We're back, baby! This episode's out a day early because we're traveling to the SCG Invitational, and we're talking about our deck choices, final sideboard slots, and what we're looking forward to eating over the weekend. Thanks as always to Wave Sunray for our music!
CCR's been hard at work playing every version of Alrund's Epiphany there is, and he's here to share everything he's learned while prepping for the invi. From tips to keep from confusing your galvanic and expressive iterations to the role of Goldspan Dragon, we're going over every inch of this weird standard deck. Thanks as always to Wave Sunray for our music!
