After a spirited debate about the merits of Lizards and lizards, we dive into a ban announcement and explanation that will go down in Magic history. A light touch in Pioneer and Legacy leaves us wanting more - bans and/or answers - while Michael Majors' confessional about Nadu prompts many more questions. 

00:00 NRG Madison + Lizards
14:46 New B&R timing
37:26 Legacy (+ Vintage)
1:00:22 Pioneer
1:26:05 Modern + the Nadu debacle 

Aug 26 B&R

Majors on Nadu

WeeklyMTG stream 

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After SCG Baltimore left Ari with a bad case of bird flu and permanent psychic damage, he's back to squawk about how this stacks up against the most miserable formats, tournaments, and decks of all. For someone with over a decade at the top of competitive play it's not easy to make their WOAT rankings - but which villains have earned that dubious honour?

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Jason Ye (JasonILTG on Twitter) is sliming over competitive Magic at an alarming rate, winning the WOE Limited $100k in Vegas, almost Top 8ing the last Pro Tour, and actually Top 8ing in Seattle alongside podcast idol cftsoc with the delightful Slogurk deck that they created and pioneered together. Jason oozes forth on improvement in Limited, innovation in Constructed (ft. Slogurk's origin story), and processing this sudden but sustained success at high-level play.

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Sanctum of All Pod

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Dom returns from two NRG tournament wins.... and about that many Pro Tour match wins. With lands-deck-master prowess, he breaks down what lead to his Amulet and Lands builds and the Team Sanctum of All Slogurk deck that put its designers cftsoc and Jason Ye into the Top 8 of Pro Tour Outlaws of Thunder Junction.

Autum's Post-PT Retrospective

Classic killgoldfish on the artistry of Time Spiral

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Charity Legacy $7k with Jarvis and Ari on commentary, 5/11/2024 in Maryland

Jarvis Yu joins Ari this week for his typical role as pre-PT correspondent, but this time from the competitor field! Listen to where testing for Pro Tour Outlaws of Thunder Junction took Jarvis for Standard, and tune into the Pro Tour coverage to root on Jarvis and Dom in Seattle.

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Charity Legacy $7k with Jarvis and Ari on commentary, 5/11/2024 in Maryland

Dom and Ari take a minute before the big Standard Pro Tour showdown (yeeehaw) to look at the current state of Modern and Pioneer. Has either format broken out of the stranglehold of Scion of Draco or Arclight Phoenix? Is Wild Nacatl headed for another ban? Is Niv Mizzet good or is claudioh just winning again? And most importantly, Dom's pre-PT vibes immaculate or in shambles?

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After a whirlwind, whistlestop tour of Thunder Junction and Big Score (featuring Bloomburrow and obliquely Modern Horizons 3 but absolutely NOT Assassin's Creed - yet) we are just about caught up on spoiler season and soon you can be too!

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When I see new cards, I think "yes". We manage to extend this thought for two hours, after a quick look at the Organized Play announcement and rant about the bizarrely concealed Arena Championships coming soon (?) to a Twitch channel (?) near you. 

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This Monday's B&R update took a big swing at some weird aliens while ignoring the elephant in the room. We're back for some characteristically peaceful statements about the bans we did and didn't see and where Modern and Pioneer stand as they come back into the spotlight.

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Your hosts and many friends of the show spent a long weekend in Chicago winning and losing (and drawing... repeatedly...) with a lot on the line. Dom is finally back in Canada and on the air with war stories and hot takes before the axe understandably falls - a Pro Tour, a Standard not-a-GP, a MagicCon, and all the ear-splitting hooting and hollering around them. 

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cftsoc's truly splendid reclamation 

 
The semi-regular Pro Tour predictions episode with Jarvis Yu returns to stakes some claims about Pioneer, Draft, and even a bit of Standard for the $75k Open at Magic Con Chicago. Join him and Ari as they prove themselves right (or wrong) about a wide spread of topics, even if they refuse to weigh in on the great pizza debate.

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Ari has restored his appreciation for Yawgmoth in Modern, and Jarvis Yu steps into the pod to discuss why the deck he is likely playing at the upcoming Regional Championship has gone from a solid combo deck with flaws to one of the undeniable best decks in the format.

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After a hot and humid preview season we're back to break down a full set of freaky lil' guys with some accidental preview season speedruns for other sets along the way and a whirlwind tour of the week's Magic discourse for good measure.

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Nobody knows what the hell to do with most of the cards in Murders at Karlov Manor so we put our most dogged detectives on the case and let them yap for hours about the bizarre combo decks coming to a Twitch stream near you - plus, a look at the results from the first weekend of Modern RCs and the format's relative stability heading into Denver and Ottawa.  

2:20:30 RC Ghent + Modern Update

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Standard season is full swing (allegedly but also actually?!) and there's somehow less Standard content than ever. We take a look at why that information isn't cascading any more and try to plug that gap ourselves with a tour of everything from Domain to the black midrange decks (in all the colours of the rainbow) and, inevitably, the Overslime itself. 

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Information Cascades (Chapin)

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Domain guide by Sean Goddard/Beekeeper

Slogurk guide by Jason Ye ($, free over time)

A long and busy year for Magic is over and a new one is already underway so we thought we'd take stock before another wave of discourse overwhelms us all. We take a look at the cards and sets of 2023, the hits and misses, and the return of the Pro Tour (and the elephants holding it up).

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Dom and Ari were reunited in paper (...in the flesh? in person?) at Eternal Weekend along with hundreds of thrill-seeking gamers keen to enjoy the Cadillac of Magic. After reeling from his swift 0-3 (which was somehow not the most tragic exit from the tournament) and dabbling in Legacy, Dom found an even more fake format he can win in - does Santa have a Premodern episode in the pipeline?! Ari actually won a lot of matches, as he is wont to do, and gives a former EW Legacy Champion and epternal Legacy boomer's take on its current state. Plus Pioneer is stuck in a loop (or is it?) and the first big Modern not-a-GP post-ban is won by... Scam. Obviously. 

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The prophecy has been fulfilled and bans are in. We're back for a not-so-rapid reaction to the changes, their explanations, and where Pioneer and Modern go from here.

16:38 Pioneer

41:38 Modern  

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After flopping hard at yet another PT, Dom is off the train (and off it) which leaves him more time for creating #content!! We discuss the Nadu debacle, the strange state of Constructed and Organized Play, the hits and misses of MH3, and pay tribute to the best to ever do it. 

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Dom is in Amsterdam to defend his place on the Pro Tour, and Jarvis Yu is back on the podcast to defend his title as Pro Tour prediction champion. Will Ari and Jarvis's Draft and Modern opinions line up with the Pro Tour consensus, or will this be a battle of who can be barely less wrong than the other?

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If you want to know how to 6-0 Draft at the PT, hear from someone who has done just that (as part of a striking ~Top 16 -> Top 16 -> Top 8 run in the last year of Pro Tours). If you want to know how to be a beekeeper... check out a beekeeping podcast, but stick around here to hear another British accent and take in the wisdom of Sean Goddard.

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After thoughtfully inspecting the big picture, it's time to dive in and get our grubby claws on Modern Horizons 3 cards. Come learn about the white lotus, forms of Amulet perversion you didn't know were possible, and the Nadus and don'ts of MH3 Modern. 

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Modern Horizons 3 is officially here and it's time to give the takestakes that we can mock our past selves for during MH4 preview season. We put off talking about actual new Magic cards with an impressive resolve but still manage to give our takes on the set as a whole, the Modern Horizons project, and where our creative energy/Energy is aimed first.

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Magic writing was a lost art before some of the game's best players were even born so Dom invited one of its all-time greats, Jeff Cunningham, to reminisce about the craft of the tournament report, the tournaments and characters that gave rise to them, and his place in that lore.

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Further reading:

The Grind / Part 2

Invitational 2006 Report

Lands and Spells

The End of the Magic: The Gathering Pro Tour

God of Magic - An Interview with Richard Garfield

Long Road Up / Part 2 (Gary Wise)

After everything that even looked like a sticker was unceremoniously booted from competitive Magic, we turn our attention to the MH3 cards that officially and allegedly exist. Hear how well Orim's Chant has aged in the last 20 years, how scary these new eldritch horrors really are, and why Dom is excited for a long lick of the Psychic Frog.

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