It's Value Vintage time again, and Anthony's fully drank the kool-aid. We talk about his first steps into the format, and how sweet decks and deck building are. 

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Anthony is not impressed by anything that's happened in the last two weeks, and Darren very smartly pushed up his glasses before recording today's episode because he's very smart and knows money things. Basically what we're saying is that we could do a better job running Hasbro.

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Jesse is back with a vengeance as this time we talk about one of Magic's bigger blunders and what to do when you're just not feeling it anymore. 

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Darren and Anthony talk about a bad meta, a tier 0 nightmare, and things that would make magic boomers shed a tear. 

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This episode, Anthony and Darren talk about the secret number that makes WotC furious - the secondary market price of a card.

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Sorry we took another break right after taking a break, but the break we took before that was so good we wanted to do it again for a third time. Some day this show will get onto a regular schedule hopefully. Anyway, we talk about our Timeless tournament, Value Vintage, Modern bans I guess, and also the cards we think are cool from that Tarkir set that released last week.

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This week the crew talk about the two coolest ways to play magic, competitive pioneer and competitive modern. And after that it's on to cheating and why if you're going to do it, at least you should be good at it. Also he have a tournament! Sign up for it, or don't, i'm not your dad. 

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Today the gang talks about the pro tour that happened or something, I don't know, I didn't watch it. They also discuss some of their favorite magic accomplishments and how your story ain't over till its over. 

Here's anthony's decklist that he placed second with at an RCQ.

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MAX SPEED!!!
This time we picked some Aetherdrift spoilers that we thought were cool and talked about them. If you were looking for competitive advice on new cards, or accurate card evaluations that you can apply practically to your every day experience, you've come to the wrong place. 

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The regular crew returns to get a quick glance at Aetherdrift before becoming violently ill. Then after that they talk about their favorite Pro Tour Winning decks, which is much more enjoyable.

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In this special extra edition of the show, we are joined by Mitchell, an admin from the Value Vintage discord server, to talk about the best format that you're not playing yet, why you should, and what makes it so cool. 

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It's 2025; new year new me. We cover all the things we loved and not loved from 2024, look forward to some changes coming in the new year, and also talk about Standard a little bit.

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This is an uncensored episode. Sorry

Anthony is joined by Darren and Jesse to talk all about upcoming changes to standard again, more spoilers we haven't read and aren't excited for, and why wizards of the coast is among the worst companies on the S&P 500. 

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BANS! This episode, we talk about all of the changes that every format received on Monday and how we're all extremely excited for each of them.

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This episode, we continue to gush over foundations, cry over pioneer, ask a spike, and shill for an entire 5 minutes 32 seconds.

Darren's Deck List
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Anthony's Deck List
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Today, Anthony is joined by Jesse and Darren to talk about all the ways that the Magic you know and love is being ripped away from you. Also the next set is hype AF and we're all very excited to continue playing the game.

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Today we talk about the recently passed American RC, our thoughts on new duskmourn cards and their impacts, and how our Canadian friend should stick to playing good cards and good decks.

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Anthony is joined by Darren and Jesse for duskmourn previews. Everyone is very excited about it and we also think that every card you enjoy is both good and has great flavor.
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Ben and Darren join Anthony to cover the latest ban list update, wherein Grief and Nadu were banned in modern and Amalia and Sorin were banned in Pioneer.

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Jesse joins Anthony to talk about how bad Bloomburrow is and why you should feel bad for liking it.
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Anthony, Jesse, Darren and Ben talk Bloomburrow spoilers and Jesse learns what an otter is.

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The full podcast crew breaks down the Modern Pro Tour, Magic: Foundations (the new Core Sets) and Standard Rotation. 

This episode is dedicated to Kai Budde.

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The FULL CREW is joined by notable person-who-is-better-at-the-game-than-all-of-us-combined, Will Kowalczyk, to chat about how standard sucks, and what it takes to get to the pro tour. 

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This episode was recorded two weeks ago, so you get to hear us be wrong in real time.

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Anthony, Jesse, Darren and Ben talk about the impact MH3 is likely to have on Modern and Timeless, break down the Pioneer/Explorer metagame and start the conversation about the upcoming Standard rotation.

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Anthony, Jesse, Tyler and Big Oil/Big Pharma Lobbyist Ben discuss the first batch of Modern Horizons 3 spoilers, and we promise Ben will fix his microphone for the next episode.

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Anthony, Jesse and Darren discuss the Pro Tour, the future of Standard, and the Professional Fork Juggling World Championship.

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Jesse, Tyler, Ben and, briefly, Anthony, discuss Thunder Junction's impact on constructed formats, its Limited environment, the bonus sheet Timeless playables and the upcoming Magic: The Gathering Old Testament set currently in R&D.

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Darren, Jesse and Tyler review the Thunder Junction card spoilers that they think will see play in any constructed format. I had a really good April Fools' thing planned but I couldn't release the episode in time. 

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Violent Outburt was banned in Modern, the ban announcement read as though it were actually written by a human being and we learn with certainty that Jesse doesn't want to talk to you from across the table. 

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The crew recaps the Pioneer Pro Tour, the fall of Rakdos Midrange in favor of a spookier version of Rakdos, the success of Izzet Phoenix and the underwhelming performance of UW Control.

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Anthony, Jesse, Tyler, Darren (and rose-emoji, briefly) evaluate a curated bunch of Murders at Karlov Manor cards in the context of Pioneer, Explorer, Standard, Modern and Timeless.

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We just can't stop talking about Edge of Eternities. It might be the best set ever...? Well, top 5 at least. Oh and I guess here's the rest of our top 5 too just to prove it.

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Holy Moly, Edge of Eternities has these dried up prunes playing games again. What a shock! This week we talk about how good draft is, how it's nice to have a standard that sucks again, and a sick pioneer deck.

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We talk about cool cards coming out in the new set, and commander for some reason.

Darren got a new fidget toy, which is what all that weird sound is. Your speakers / headphones aren't broken. I couldn't edit it out in post so you're just gonna have to live with it. sorry not sorry. Also the episode is late because I hit a deer with my car. The deer's ok, the car is not, and I never have been. 

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Wizards banned seven cards from standard. [LAUGH TRACK]

*knock knock knock* Cori *knock knock knock* Cori  *knock knock knock* Cori [LAUGH TRACK]

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Darren shapeshifts into notable Wizards of the Coast employee Ian Duke, and Anthony takes his toy wheel out for a spin. Sorry the episode is late

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Darren top 8's a tournament, Jesse builds Esper Greasefang, and Anthony thinks that an old card is not iconic. 

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