It's here! Simultaneously late (for a set review) and early (in the week!) we're going over all our spookiest favorite cards from the new set. Don't miss out! Thanks as always to Wave Sunray for our music! If you’d like to support the podcast, check out our patreon at patreon.com/mtggrindcast. Subscribers get swag and bonus content! And whether you subscribe or not, you’re invited to join our discord, where we’re building a community of friendly people all looking to improve at the game we love. Check it out here: https://discord.gg/Uq8x2RHYRU

The RC's coming, and CCR's playing Enchanties! Get the inside scoop on the deck and all the weird places Pioneer has gone over the past week. Thanks as always to Wave Sunray for our music! If you’d like to support the podcast, check out our patreon at patreon.com/mtggrindcast. Subscribers get swag and bonus content! And whether you subscribe or not, you’re invited to join our discord, where we’re building a community of friendly people all looking to improve at the game we love. Check it out here: https://discord.gg/Uq8x2RHYRU

You otter listen to this one Thanks as always to Wave Sunray for our music! If you’d like to support the podcast, check out our patreon at patreon.com/mtggrindcast. Subscribers get swag and bonus content! And whether you subscribe or not, you’re invited to join our discord, where we’re building a community of friendly people all looking to improve at the game we love. Check it out here: https://discord.gg/Uq8x2RHYRU

Our good friend Alan took down a local RCQ with, you guessed it, Underworld Breach! We're chatting with him about the different builds of the deck, their places in the meta, and tips and tricks you can use to grind(ing station) through your own tournaments! Thanks as always to Wave Sunray for our music!

The bird serpent is banned and, though we spend a fair bit of time this episode working through pioneer results, we spare a few words to remember he who will not really be missed, as well as a few other words for the companion mechanic as a whole. Thanks as always to Wave Sunray for our music!

With RCQ season 1 all wrapped up, we're here with our thoughts--the good, the bad, and what we'd like to see in the future from paper organized play. And yes, we do talk about thousand dollar booster packs. Thanks as always to Wave Sunray for our music!

RCQ Season 2 is just about to kick off! And if you're hopping on the grind we're here to help you get started. Whether you're playing sealed, standard, pioneer, or modern, we share how we prepare for weekend tournaments where, if you ain't first, you're last. Thanks as always to Wave Sunray for our music!

It's our quarterly limited episode! CCR's been drafting too much DMU, so we've got plenty to talk about, even if all the decks are kind of the same. But sometimes you're five color spells, and other times you're five color creatures, and every once in a while you get to attack! Thanks as always to Wave Sunray for our music

Rakdos is still here, and it's better than ever! We're going through the latest pioneer results and lists and talking about how we're approaching the format to start preparing for the upcoming Regional Championship. Thanks as always to Wave Sunray for our music!

It's here! Our lengthy breakdown of all our favorite cards in the set for constructed, early enough that you can listen on your drive to work this morning! Don't forget to wish Lee a happy birthday! Thanks as always to Wave Sunray for our music

Collins is back! (temporarily) Fresh off of an RCQ win of his own, he's here to talk Rhinos, Lutri, and some Dominaria United spoilers. Come hang out! Thanks as always to Wave Sunray for our music.

Previews are here! After the longest drought on record it's raining planeswalkers, painlands, and, uh, something else that starts with P. And we're here for it all! Come check it out with us. Thanks as always to Wave Sunray for our music.

We're qualified for the Regional Championship! And even with two set releases between now and then it's never too early to get to work. But you gotta be smart about it, and this week we go over what we can do to start building the baseline knowledge to be ready when the tournament comes around. Thanks as always to Wave Sunray for our music!

Standard is rotating, everyone take cover! Will Domain survive the loss of triomes? Is there any way to make Aftermath Analyst work? Can you Relic without Gurk? All this and more! Thanks as always to Wave Sunray for our music! If you’d like to support the podcast, check out our patreon at patreon.com/mtggrindcast. Subscribers get swag and bonus content! And whether you subscribe or not, you’re invited to join our discord, where we’re building a community of friendly people all looking to improve at the game we love. Check it out here: https://discord.gg/Uq8x2RHYRU

CCR did it! He brought Living End to a first place finish at a local RCQ, and this week we're talking about the tournament, tournament organization generally, Magic30, and a million other things. Join us for a victory lap and a bunch of chill hangs. Thanks as always to Wave Sunray for our music!

Jarvis just took down an RCQ with 4c Delirium, and he's here to talk about his build, attacking the Modern format, and playing to the clock. We also fit in some old man reminiscing! Thanks as always to Wave Sunray for our music.

Our friend Nick just won an RCQ with modern's hottest new deck, and he's here to talk about maximizing your Archons, playing Wrenn and Six in a (gasp) 60 card deck, and the pleasures of a Dwarven Mine manabase. Thanks as always to Wave Sunray for our music!

It's an all modern episode! We're coming off a weekend of playing and commentating modern tournaments and have plenty of thoughts to share on cascade decks, the power of ledger shredder, the shifting value of sideboard staples and more! Thanks as always to Wave Sunray for our music!

Ok, it's not an entirely Ledger Shredder-based show. But we do sing the praises of the bird who churns, along with its best friend Treasure Cruise, which took CCR to exactly one fewer match win than he was hoping for this weekend. Thanks as always to Wave Sunray for our music!

It's episode 250! And we're not doing anything special, don't worry. We haven't checked in on pioneer since the ban, and with a couple local RCQs coming up this seemed like the right time to take a look at Magic's only delve-based format. Thanks as always to Wave Sunray for our music.

It's almost time to start qualifying for Regionals! And we're a bit confused about how to go about doing that. From the Wizards Event Locator to our European friends' woes, we've got some bones to pick! Thanks as always to Wave Sunray for our music.

It's MOCS time again! And Will Krueger was kind enough to join the cast to go over prepping modern and vintage cube (!!) for the highest stakes 8-man of the year. Come hang out! Thanks as always to Wave Sunray for our music.

"The Modern metagame continues to show great playstyle diversity, with aggro, tempo, combo, control, and ramp all represented in the ten most played decks." So why don't I feel like playing modern? This week we're exploring the current format and why it's just...not all that fun, especially at the competitive level. Thanks as always to Wave Sunray for our music!

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.

More Bloomburrow cards! A lot of them are bats! Boy is it a shame the Orzhov creature land sucks so much! Thanks as always to Wave Sunray for our music! If you’d like to support the podcast, check out our patreon at patreon.com/mtggrindcast. Subscribers get swag and bonus content! And whether you subscribe or not, you’re invited to join our discord, where we’re building a community of friendly people all looking to improve at the game we love. Check it out here: https://discord.gg/Uq8x2RHYRU

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.

It turns out Bloomburrow is the next set after all! This episode has it all: Mouse Knights, Frogs eloping, hot takes on decklists. Grab some dandelion cordial and come hang out! Thanks as always to Wave Sunray for our music! If you’d like to support the podcast, check out our patreon at patreon.com/mtggrindcast. Subscribers get swag and bonus content! And whether you subscribe or not, you’re invited to join our discord, where we’re building a community of friendly people all looking to improve at the game we love. Check it out here: https://discord.gg/Uq8x2RHYRU

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.

Pro Tour MH3: Complete. Nadu: unbeatable. Probably. We're talking about our expectations for modern over the next few weeks, along with plenty of discussion of the newly-announced MTG Foundations and what that means for standard. Thanks as always to Wave Sunray for our music! If you’d like to support the podcast, check out our patreon at patreon.com/mtggrindcast. Subscribers get swag and bonus content! And whether you subscribe or not, you’re invited to join our discord, where we’re building a community of friendly people all looking to improve at the game we love. Check it out here: https://discord.gg/Uq8x2RHYRU

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!