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Jake can literally barely talk but its ok cause legacy and modern both have like 4 decks in the top 8s. The brutal reign of blue red in every format continues. Timestamps Legacy - 21:36 Modern - 47:10 Legacy Challenge - https://www.mtggoldfish.com/tournament/legacy-challenge-12453830#paper Modern Challenge - https://www.mtggoldfish.com/tournament/modern-challenge-12453828#paper Contact us or check...

Matt and Jake bring on Derric from the Family Gathering podcast to celebrate their 1 year anniversary and have a chat about starting a podcast, surprises, and future plans. Here's to many more years!

Matt and Jake invite Jameson on to get a third point of view on legacy and modern. This episode was definitely a little more free form as the 3 hosts really got into the metas. Timestamps Legacy - 21:00 Modern - 1:25:00 Legacy Showcase - https://www.mtggoldfish.com/tournament/legacy-challenge-12450470#paper Legacy NRG 5K - https://www.mtggoldfish.com/tournament/nrg-series-5-000-trial-chicagoland-l...

Stickers? Stickers!? Legacy Challenge - https://www.mtggoldfish.com/tournament/legacy-challenge-12446450#paper Modern Challenge - https://www.mtggoldfish.com/tournament/modern-challenge-12446449#paper MTG Goldfish article on Unfintiy Stickers - https://www.mtggoldfish.com/articles/unfinity-spoilers-july-24-sticker-sheets-for-eternal-formats Contact us or check out our social media! Website - Ancho...

That Sunday Legacy challenge did impress in the top 8 with a freaking dredge deck! And Modern was fine if you like Hammertime or Izzet Murktide, less great if not. Thanks to our Patron Monowolf we get to dig into a General Ferrous EDH deck and have some really good discussion on mid to high tier edh deck design focusing on maximizing synergy and value. Legacy 5K- https://www.mtggoldfish.com/tourna...

The wonderful world of SCG has gifted us some 5K top 8s to discuss. Sadly we didn't get as much data as a challenge but we always enjoy getting to see the results from high stakes events. We wrap up by discussing the ramifications of TCGPlayer buying Channel Fireball and giving our thoughts on double master 2022. Legacy 5K-   https://mtgmelee.com/Tournament/View/10157 Modern 5K - https://mtgm...

Matt and Jake spend a decent chunk of time in today’s episode chatting, but still go in deep on some cool legacy and modern decks before poking fun at WOTC for their recent ban in their format full of fake cards. Legacy Challenge - https://www.mtggoldfish.com/tournament/legacy-challenge-12437646#paper Modern Challenge - www.mtggoldfish.com/tournament/modern-super-qualifier-12437630#paper Alchemy B...

Matt and Jake have been CLEANING UP lately. Jake made it to the top 4 and split at his Modern 1K and Matt is currently undefeated at monday night pioneer! Legacy top 8 had some interesting decks but the meta was still almost 30% delver. Modern also didn’t have too much brand new in it but is still showing some churn. Legacy Challenge - https://www.mtggoldfish.com/tournament/legacy-challenge-124340...

I’m going to level with you, both legacy and modern challenges looked pretty bad this week. We saw a lot of top 8s with 3 of a single deck in them. It was noticeable seeing phoenix in legacy though. To wrap things up our newest patron asked us to take a look at his new pauper brew and we have suggestions. Legacy Challenge - www.mtggoldfish.com/tournament/legacy-challenge-12429717#paper Modern Chal...

Let’s dig into this awesome looking legacy top 8 for sunday! Don’t mind that Saturday was a delver dumpster fire. Modern looks like alot of the same, sticking with its mostly healthy, if not a little stale, meta. Legacy Challenge - https://www.mtggoldfish.com/tournament/legacy-challenge-12426398#paper Modern Challenge - https://www.mtggoldfish.com/tournament/modern-challenge-12426397#paper Contact...

So we got an unjustified ban in Pioneer, Wotc announced they have no intention of making ANY ban in Legacy, AND delver was 27 to 38 percent of the challenge top 32s this weekend?! What is going on! The only good that happened was the Dallas Dreamhack Modern 10k had some pretty cool lists in the top 8 including jund and mill. Legacy Challenge - https://www.mtggoldfish.com/tournament/legacy-challeng...

MORE GOOD LEGACY! The good times keep rolling in the world of Legacy. Modern Even has hammertime back. All in all it was a really good weekend from the Legacy and Modern Metas. Sadly it’s been a bit quiet from a news perspective. Legacy Challenge - https://www.mtggoldfish.com/tournament/legacy-challenge-12422670#paper Modern Challenge - https://www.mtggoldfish.com/tournament/modern-challenge-12422...

Wow legacy is looking good for the second week in a row. It’s getting more and more fun to discuss these diverse and somewhat different top eights. Let’s hope it keeps going. Modern is going pretty good, and it was a really good weekend for Titan decks between Saturday, Sunday and paper 5k. Lastly Matt and Jake go off on a new dragon turtle spoiler that is just bad card design. Legacy Challenge -...

If we just ignore the 3 delver decks there is some really cool stuff in legacy for the showcase including legit goblins and slivers! Even modern saw a few tier 2 or 3 decks show up in the top 8. Lastly it looks like Matt may have found his pioneer deck in a gruul dreadhorde arcanist list that was love at first sight. Legacy Showcase - www.mtggoldfish.com/tournament/legacy-challenge-12418720#paper...

If we just look at the Sunday challenge legacy isn’t too bad. It looks like if you just pack your chalice of the voids then delver will sit the fuck down. Burn is back in modern and held it’s own with the rest of the meta. To wrap up Matt and Jake weigh in on the ban discussion in regards to pioneer as there has been alot of chatter in the magic world about what bans pioneer “needs”. Legacy Challe...

Hey look, Legacy is back to 30% delver! At least the top 8 isn’t too bad. Modern has not seen much movement. Pioneer does a good job showing us that pretty much every color has a viable mono color deck. Legacy Challenge - www.mtggoldfish.com/tournament/legacy-challenge-12414725#paper Modern Challenge - https://www.mtggoldfish.com/tournament/modern-challenge-12414723#paper Pioneer Challenge - https...

Well Legacy had a good weekend so it’s clear the scourge of delver is finally defeated! Or like we have always said you can’t make judgments based off of one tournament. That being said neither Jake or Matt will look a gift horse in the mouth and have a great time going into a really spicy top 8. Modern appears to be more of the same, and while that is neither good or bad, it is modern. To wrap up...

Back by popular and immediate demand, Matt and Jake talk about legacy! Including a spoiler that is pretty exciting and of course, no one else is. This time a friendly wager breaks out between the hosts to see if Jake can call another spoiler win. Oh, the legacy top 8 was really cool, but the meta is a lot of the same. Modern looks alot like it has in the past several weeks and it is really startin...

Matt and Jake take one last look at legacy… for a little while. Since the legacy format is just terrible, has been for months, and wotc shows no interest in fixing it we are going to step away for a bit. So with the Announcement of the Pro tour being pioneer and the hosts love for EDH we will be diversifying our content while occasionally checking in on legacy. The hosts did look at the Modern 30k...

Wow that legacy showcase is about as bad as it gets… but even though there are only 4 unique decks in the top 8 the guys soldier on. Modern is not as stale, but it is also a pretty ugly looking top 8. The thing is… no one cares cause its all about pioneer now that we had the announcement of the Pro Tour returning and the first pro tour being limited and pioneer. So now that WOTC has literally forc...

Who says that just because the metagame summary is trash 2 friends can’t have fun talking about some cool decks? The legacy metagame looks like alot of the same, but the top 8 was fun. Modern super qualifiers bring a regular distribution of expected decks and we have an announcement coming out about competitive play so Matt and Jake speculate what it might contain. Legacy Challenge - https://www.m...

A shorter episode this week going over the SCG CON INDY metas that actually really closely resembled the online metas. Here’s hoping we get some interesting discussion topics for next week because it has been quiet. Legacy Challenge - https://www.mtggoldfish.com/tournament/scg-con-indianapolis-legacy-5k#paper Modern Super Qualifier - https://www.mtggoldfish.com/tournament/scg-con-indianapolis-mode...

Legacy looks pretty good this week as far as deck diversity, as long as you don't mind 69% of decks having force of will. The Modern Super Qualifier looks almost exactly like  what modern has looked like despite the Lurrus ban, which isn't a bad thing cause Modern still looks pretty diverse. To wrap things up Matt and Jake dig through a new Modern brew submitted by a twitter follower focusing...

Matt and Jake are back and ready to talk about the surprise Lurrus ban! Legacy is degrading back to pre ban numbers and the modern meta from the weekend is literally useless so the hosts mostly talk about the ban and why it was probably the right card to ban, just done poorly. Legacy Challenge - https://www.mtggoldfish.com/tournament/legacy-challenge-12394202#paper Modern Challenge - https://www.m...

Today is another long one, but there's a good reason! Special guest and SCG Philly Modern semi-finalist Jordan Berenhaus stops by to give us a rundown of his tourney and run to the top with Boros Burn. The Legacy challenge meta looks pretty good, and the top 8’s look AMAZING. Modern looks good with the only real thing to note being the absence of Grixis shadow. Make sure to check out Jordan and th...