Cantrip Cartel

There are some SCG CON result pages just dying to be talked about. Legacy looked like an awesome event and hopefully we can see it again in Indianapolis. Modern was full of great meta decks, but still super diverse. The  hosts wrap up by giving some final thoughts on Kamigawa with the full release imminent. Contact us or check out our social media! Email - Cantripcartel@gmail.com Facebook - h...

We had another Legacy Super Qualifier and UR delver pulled out all the stops to put up almost 40 percent of the top 32! Modern has 2 somewhat unseen decks in the top 8 of it’s challenge and AspringSpike broke the modern season trophy record. Legacy Super Qualifier - https://www.mtggoldfish.com/tournament/legacy-super-qualifier-12383900#paper Modern Challenge - https://www.mtggoldfish.com/tournamen...

Time to put away your steam vents? New Cantrip Cartel  Ep. is out! Holy cow we went long this week! Shocking to almost nobody, legacy is still kind of a UR delver format. Derric came onto the cast to help analyze legacy (and tell Jake he’s wrong about equipment and sagas) because there was some shakeup in the format. Granted most of that shakeup was in the UR delver shell and some sideboard c...

Ragavan? More like Raga-Banned HA HA! But seriously, WOTC announced its multi format ban including Standard, Historic, and Legacy. Matt and Jake discuss the small change to legacy and the no-ban decision in Modern. Legacy Challenge - https://www.mtggoldfish.com/tournament/legacy-challenge-12377877#paper Modern Challenge - https://www.mtggoldfish.com/tournament/modern-challenge-12377876#paper Conta...

Matt and Jake take a look at the legacy super qualifier and can't agree if it's good enough or not, but it definitely looks different than usual. Don't worry, They can certainly agree that the Modern super qualifier looks pretty sweet. To wrap up the episode, the Cartel discusses the XBOX Blizzard purchase. Legacy Super Qualifier - https://www.mtggoldfish.com/tournament/legacy-super-qualifier-1237...

Dare we say it? Legacy on Sunday looks pretty awesome! Matt and Jake had a ton of fun talking about the decks in the top 8, and didn't have to say UR once! Modern even had its premier deck dethroned and the churn continues. To wrap it up WOTC gave us another banger of an announcement with the Pauper Format Panel. Let the good times roll! Legacy top 8 - https://www.mtggoldfish.com/tournament/legacy...

From the far flung future in 2022, 2 nerds talk about an antique card game! Matt and Jake find some pretty cool decks in this week's legacy top 8 even though the meta is still not the greatest. Modern has a few real zingers in its top 8 as well, and it even looks like grixis shadow might be moving out, but only time will tell. After the meta recaps there's a lot of good news to cover this week. SC...

As Matt and Jake say goodbye to 2021 the legacy meta goes out on a whimper, and modern goes out on a bit of a sigh. After meta recaps, the hosts take a look at what happened during the year of magic that literally spawned this show into existence. We take a quick look at some of the good things like retro frame cards, and some of the bad things like eternal format rotation. Regardless, We are ecst...

As the year wraps up we have some pretty high stakes tournaments in both Legacy and Modern. Legacy had its MOCS and Modern had a Super qualifier and while Legacy looked just like Legacy normally looks Modern had a bit of an upset win with crashcade! To wrap things up Matt and Jake take a look at the precious few spoilers from Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty. Spoiler alert… the basic lands are top tier. Con...

Holy cow Legacy challenge was terrible this weekend, but what do we even expect at this point? Since WOTC has not made any announcements about Legacy, we took a look at a potential new budding legacy-like format called MTG Heritage. It looks like a really interesting alternative for people that are tired of supplemental sets mucking up legacy. And of course modern looks good with maybe an extra da...

This weekend we had a Legacy showcase to discuss with a pretty sweet looking top 10. Matt and Jake drool over modern like every week and then wrap up by giving our opinions on the Alchemy announcement. Honestly this was close to something that could work, but sadly still pretty far from what could be called a good implementation. Contact us or check out our social media! Email - Cantripcartel@gmai...

Warning. This episode gets kind of explicit toward the end Matt and Jake run through the legacy and modern meta, contemplate the state of legacy, and give their thoughts on some of the decisions around secret lairs and the new Unfinity set. Spoiler alert: the vintage, legacy, and EDH communities got some frankly insulting news from Maro in regards to the legality of Unfinity. TLDR, Maro has announ...

Matt and Jake partner up with Derric from the family gathering podcast to tackle the Three legacy events of Eternal Weekend. Honestly the Friday event was what we all expected, but Saturday and Sunday did not look too bad. Tag along as the host pop into every deck they thought looked interesting, which was a lot of them, and wrap up by giving their opinions on the state of legacy and whether this...

Both Modern and Legacy have their respectively largest tournaments of the year on the same weekend! Modern has the Channel Fireball paper event in Las vegas and Eternal weekend online for Legacy are both happening this weekend. While the legacy meta is still pretty… bad, there are definitely some really cool decks in the results from the sunday challenge. Modern also had some pretty cool lists sho...

Matt and Jake welcome to the show the master of elves and safaris, Julian Knab from Everyday Eternal! This episode goes a little bit everywhere starting with Eternal Weekend, covering the state of legacy, and ending up with Indiana trivia. We had a BLAST with Julian and really appreciate him taking the time to bring some sense to Jake’s crackpot brews. Check out Julian! Twitter - https://twitter.c...

Matt and Jake reintroduce themselves to any new listeners before checking out the state of legacy (18:30). Shockingly it's actually a pretty spicy looking challenge this week. The modern challenge (39:30) was looking pretty good, a vast improvement over last Sunday for sure. Lastly we got a fairly big announcement from WOTC (53:35) that every legacy player is going to want to hear. Timestamps: Leg...

Holy cow that's an ugly Legacy PTQ. Even the Modern Sunday challenge doesn't look good on paper. At least WOTC is reprinting the Walking Dead cards. Stay till the end for tips on taking that pile of cards and turning it into a lightly tuned EDH deck. Thanks to Bensound.com for Music Files

Hosts speed through the legacy and modern metas to get to the real meat, the results of the Legacy 2k they went to! No spoilers here, matches were won, matches were lost, and fun was had. Be sure to check out the "Family Gathering" podcast for our "night before prep" discussion with Derric, a childhood friend of Matt's Thank to Bensound.com for music files

Shockingly legacy STILL cant fire a Saturday challenge and modern is starting to hone down to the best decks, but it's still great. Matt and Jake are going to play some paper this Sunday and they run through their deck choices and some tips on preparing for a serious event. 

Matt and Jake bring your weekly dose of legacy and Modern meta before running through the leaked worlds meta. By the way, did you know Worlds was this weekend, because no one else did. The hosts wrap up by talking about what aspects they look for in meta with bannings in both Legacy and Standard possibly on the horizon.  Thanks to bensound.com for music files Tags: magic, magic the gathering, mode...

Matt and Jake run through the metas before having a sit down to discuss the state of legacy. In the event that cards get banned, and it appears we are moving toward that eventuality, the hosts give their top picks for what the problem cards are and it may not be as obvious as it appear. Thanks to bensound.com for music files  Tags: magic, magic the gathering, modern, legacy, mtg .

Like I'm 5 is a side series to help introduce people to new decks, new formats, or new strategies that might be very complicated. Matt and Jake try to break down these large and complicated topics into something more approachable. In this first episode Matt goes through his favorite deck that he has piloted for many years, Legacy Elves. 

Matt and Jake go deep into meta talk after w quiet week in magic and Jake forgets how much mana Goldspan dragon costs. The hosts wrap it up with a level up segment on using your removal to its utmost efficacy. 

Matt and Jake run though legacy and modern before letting it all out about the recent golos ban in EDH. 

Hosts Matt and Jake run through the legacy and Modern metas with mixed emotions before discussing some of the more promising looking spoilers from Midnight Hunt. The hosts wrap up by discussing the recent pauper bans.  Thanks to Bensound.com for music files