We invite Mano onto the podcast in an attempt to distill the best of both of our podcasts to bring you the best meta super-podcast episode ever! Instead we avoid talking about magic for an hour and when we finally do, it's mostly in reference to a deck pic you can't see!
Mike and Lanny discuss their collective picks for the Premodern Super Gauntlet, a wild 64 deck single elimination bracket run by Mike Arnold! Check out Super Gauntlet Matches! https://www.youtube.com/@bladeofllanowar2662 Check out the Premodern Tier List: https://spikecolony.com/tierlist/ Check out the latest on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@lannynyny Support Spike Colony on Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/spikecolony
Rich Shay joins the podcast to go super deep on methodologies, theories, strategies, Replenish, Lobstercon, and how much we dislike The Rock. LOVE, SPIKE COLONY Check out the Premodern Tier List: https://spikecolony.com/tierlist/ Check out the latest on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@lannynyny Support Spike Colony on Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/spikecolony
This week's episode is all about the deck that took Lobstercon weekend by storm! Learn all about Dr. DR Surf and Surf from its architect himself, David Raczka! We also look into how decks can consider evolving to beat the deck! Check out the Premodern Tier List: https://spikecolony.com/tierlist/ Check out the latest on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@lannynyny Support Spike Colony on Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/spikecolony
The spikes get to chat with the man who spiked the hardest last weekend - repeat Lobstercon champion Brian Selden! Congrats to Brian on a well-earned win and HUGE thanks to DFB, Jared, and Duress Crew for putting on a superb Lobstercon weekend. Check out decklists from the event: https://www.tcdecks.net/deck.php?id=40553 Check out the Premodern Tier List: https://spikecolony.com/tierlist/ Check out the latest on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@lannynyny Support Spike Colony on Ko-Fi: https://k...
Structured episode! This week Mike and Lanny work through every deck on the metagame tier list and discuss each one's chances at NA/EU champs! Check out the Premodern Tier List: https://spikecolony.com/tierlist/ Check out the latest on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@lannynyny Support Spike Colony on Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/spikecolony
Mike and Lanny go deep on theory this week, thinking about the three gears and how to apply them everywhere. They also discuss the winning Ponza decklist from the Universal Premodern Champs last week. Check out the Premodern Tier List: https://spikecolony.com/tierlist/ Check out the latest on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@lannynyny Support Spike Colony on Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/spikecolony
I'm back after a lovely trip through Europe (shout out to the German listeners, I wish New York could be that clean!) MJF and Lanny catch up on the dramatic finale of the PSS, touch back on some burn/goblins findings, and talk through some new potential in old archetypes. LOVE SPIKE COLONY! Check out the latest on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@lannynyny Support Spike Colony on Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/spikecolony
I’m away in Europe for The Eras Tour, please enjoy this episode with the philosophers of fire returning to discuss more red deck wins. I haven’t listened but I’m sure it covers how burn beats goblins and sulfuric vortex is the best and lava dart is poo, because why would they think anything else! LOVE LANNY AND SPIKE COLONY AND AARON
Lan D Ho and SWB join the cast to talk over the most recent $1K 'Premodern and Chill' Tournament in NYC hosted at Endless Life Brewing. Everyone but Mike made top 4 and we dive deep into our deck choices and runs through the tournament. Catch PSS the action live Wednesdays at 7p EDT: https://www.twitch.tv/cloudgoatranger Check out the latest on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@lannynyny Support Spike Colony on Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/spikecolony
(update: I played rifter, it still sucks) We talk results from the largest Premodern tournament of all time! Also catch up on 2 weeks of PSS and get back into a little gobbo vs. burn. LOVE SPIKE COLONY Catch PSS the action live Wednesdays at 7p EDT: https://www.twitch.tv/cloudgoatranger Check out the latest on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@lannynyny Support Spike Colony on Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/spikecolony
Mike and Lanny try to talk as little as possible about contemporary magic and dive into Mono B Contamination, a deck that forces you to change how you think! Plus some super deep discussion on how to build an effective sideboard! LOVE, SPIKE COLONY Catch PSS the action live Wednesdays at 7p EDT: https://www.twitch.tv/cloudgoatranger Check out the latest on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@lannynyny Support Spike Colony on Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/spikecolony
The gang debriefs the opening week of PSS and chats deck selection and general Premodern pot pourri! Catch PSS the action live Wednesdays at 7p EDT: https://www.twitch.tv/cloudgoatranger Check out the latest on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@lannynyny Support Spike Colony on Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/spikecolony
Mike and Lanny talk about all the decks of the PSS6, a yearly webcam premodern series featuring 8 players each with 3 decks to choose from. The games are always great and the lineup is stacked with talent! Catch PSS the action live Wednesdays at 7p EDT: https://www.twitch.tv/cloudgoatranger Check out the latest on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@lannynyny Support Spike Colony on Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/spikecolony
Lan joins the cast once more to talk spice and everything nice! 0:00 Spice Tournament Banter 10:28 Stack Abuse, Jenn the Judge Call, Mike is humiliated in the town square 43:00 Back to Spice- Lan’s Pattern Rector Combo 52:51 Other spice deck highlights 1:03:24 Mike’s meetup ‘win’ with the Rock 1:22:36 Elves and Goblins 1:43:16 Metagame Talk 1:58:05 Tsabo’s Web 2:23:46 Wrap up ko-fi.com/spikecolony
Mike, Lanny and Lan run down Lan's Oath-Replenish deck and bounce around some observations on emerging trends in Premodern in an attempt to get a grasp on the metagame going into the most important NA tournament of the year, Lobstercon! Keep your eyes out as registration goes live around 10a ET on 4/28
Sam Black drops in on the pod to chat about his latest takes on Premodern and dives deep into his growing catalog of Old School brews! Check out Sam's Moxfield here https://www.moxfield.com/users/SamuelHBlack And Sam's everything else @SamuelHBlack online!
Mike and Lanny go super deep on Goblins vs. Burn after Mike's shocking choice to take the draw! This week ended up being a 2 part episode as the one and only Sam Black drops in mid-record, stay tuned!
What are show notes if all time circles back into itself and topics exist not in discrete units but rather an endless continuum of circular reasoning? Hour 1: Storm at Easter Champs 58:00 a few minutes on the other t8 decks before returning to storm, and then back to the other t8 decks for the next hour or so. Hour 3: Mostly random banter Win a Mox AND cash tourney at Fifth Hammer Brewing on 4/28 Endless Wurm at Endless Life on 5/4 Details at https://www.mtgnyc.com/calendar LOVE, SPIKE COLONY...
10:40 Agency detour 14:40 Marvel Snap detour 20:00 Premodern talk begins 28:30 Devourer 49:00 Tireless Tribe 52:00 Shazam vs. Superman / GAT 1:00:00 Mono B beatdown 1:16:00 What are we thinking of playing at the upcoming Bearded Dragon 1k 1:34:00 Goblins I lost my burn vs. GW oath match lol LOVE, SPIKE COLONY
Show Notes?!? 0:01:20 - Discussing Mike saying burn players are bad 0:30:00 - Premodern 0:35:35 - Tsabo’s web 0:49:40 - Mengu Elves, but then Mike talks a little contemporary magic 0:56:50 - ‘One card per turn’ talk 1:16:40 - Detour to talk about critical mass 1:22:00 - When has Ponza been good before? 1:26:00 - Agency LOVE, SPIKE COLONY
Bill joins us to discuss his championship run and the continued rise of the newest menace of Premodern. LOVE, SPIKE COLONY.
I had to run to cook dinner for the Mrs. So we recorded a quick one. So levels and background noise will be bad but sorry. I got 2nd with GAT, Mike got t4 with UW. LOVE SPIKE COLONY!
RG Terravore Oath Ponza takes down 2 mid-sized swiss tournaments on the same day. Mike and Lanny yell at each other for too long mostly about whether or not it beats burn. (Note from the editor: at the time of this recording and over the last month, we hadn't looked into much background on the RG deck and I just slapped on -pauloosh because it looked close enough to the GW deck. Turns out Billy, the recent winner at Worcester's monthly and oath-ponza brewer, came up with the first effective TvTy...
Mike pulls in another 4-0 this week at meet up and the pals discuss old decks, new decks and dive somewhat deep on what they hate about certain decks. Also some mild gearing up for the $1K coming in a couple weeks! LOVE, SPIKE COLONY
Lanny and Mike catch up after over a month of not podding together! We chat the tournament spree, new tech, and everything in between. This was recorded on 2/3 - congrats to Bryn for winning the 1K at SCG Con Hartford! We'll be back on the mostly weekly schedule now that I'm home. LOVE, SPIKE COLONY
The Premodern master of burn joins Michael J to talk about all the hot decks right now including burn and Aaron's spicy new old UB Psychanought. They also talk PSS4, Lobstercon '22, and other fun premodern memories! LOVE SPIKE COLONY! in fact, love spike colony so much that this week will be a double episode drop <3
Fpawlusz joins as our special guest host hot off his win at the first Magic Online Series Premodern Challenge w/ RG Oathpauloosh. I haven’t listened to this episode yet so complain to Mike about any of the content… I’m back in February, LOVE, SPIKE COLONY
BK joins Spike Colony once again! This time to fill in for Lanny as scheduling the past few weeks has been very difficult. Mike and BK discuss all the excitement following a triple header weekend of live mid-sized swiss Premodern tournaments across the country. There's also some good old reminiscin' and plenty of other off-topic banter you've repeatedly shared with me doesn't bother you at all, and in fact you want more of! LOVE, SPIKE COLONY
Mike and Lanny catch up on 3 weeks of missed action as they have spent more time in person than in podcast. More tier list debate as basic mountain strategies heat up after recent results from the Misty Mountain winter finals and another good showing for Mike with burn at locals. Mike attempts to prove overload is bad in the least effective way possible.
