Lords of Limited

Welcome to Lords of Limited , the podcast dedicated to getting you better at drafting in Magic: the Gathering. This week, we’ve got part two of the Wedding Paternity Chronicles. Today we have gathered some of our favorite Limited Podcasters to draft the top Limited Sets on Arena! 🎙️ What You’ll Get in This Episode: Limited Magic Hot Takes Ben Trying to Outsmart the Draft Future Collabs?! To suppor...

Welcome to Lords of Limited, the podcast dedicated to getting you better at drafting in Magic: the Gathering. This week, we’ve got part one of the Wedding Paternity Chronicles. While we are away we have lined up some truly amazing episodes for you all, starting off with a banger of an interview with one of the hardest working creators in Magic, Jim Davis!  🎙️ What You’ll Get in This Episode: Arena...

Welcome to Lords of Limited, the podcast dedicated to getting you better at drafting in Magic: the Gathering. This week, we’ve got the Marvel Super Heroes Early Access Update! We’ve got some big picture revisions after looking at how draft and gameplay unfolds in MSH. Ben's predictions for the colors and the archetypes end up being more accurate than excepted, stay tuned for more insightful tips!...

Welcome to Lords of Limited , the podcast dedicated to getting you better at drafting in Magic: the Gathering. This week, we’ve got the Marvel Super Heroes Crash Course to get you everything you need to know for your first limited event of the format! We’ve got big picture format truths, color and archetype identities, top commons and uncommons, as well as sleeper commons, and a live discovery tha...

Welcome to Lords of Limited , the podcast dedicated to getting you better at drafting in Magic: the Gathering. This week, we’re assembling the Avengers and diving into Marvel Superheroes Previews! We give an overview of the new mechanics, the archetype signposts, some higher powered commons and uncommons, and a slew of cards to review in our returning segment: Great or Garbage? Plus, we try to deb...

50 SOS Takes in 50 Minutes | Episode 481 Welcome to Lords of Limited, the podcast dedicated to getting you better at drafting in Magic: the Gathering. This week, we’re sending off Secrets of Strixhaven with 50 takes in 50 minutes. We’ve got our wrap-up thoughts on what worked (and what didn’t) in this Back to School set, the dominating macro-archetypes, tons of power rankings, Golden Egg and Imper...

Welcome to Lords of Limited , the podcast dedicated to getting you better at drafting in Magic: the Gathering. This week, we're tackling the difficult choices players are facing in the draft - what to do if you aren’t aggro or soup? Ben takes us through two different drafts where for the first several picks we are being asked what non rare cards will set us up for the best deck? 🎙️ What You’ll Get...

Welcome to Lords of Limited, the podcast dedicated to getting you better at drafting in Magic: the Gathering. This week, we’re putting the focus on ourselves as we look at two tricky draft logs with lots of decision points. We discuss the merits of each decision, note the points where the deck seems locked in, and weigh the options between greed and consistency at every turn! 🎙️ What You’ll Get in...

Welcome to Lords of Limited , the podcast dedicated to getting you better at drafting in Magic: the Gathering. This week, we’re looking at the other end of the SOS spectrum and what tools are available to combat the lategame Soup decks that seem to be at the top of the draft food chain. With the prevalence of lifegain and cheap removal, aggro in the classic sense doesn’t really cut it in this form...

Welcome to Lords of Limited , the podcast dedicated to getting you better at drafting in Magic: the Gathering. This week, we’re backseat drafting the pros after the Pro Tour this weekend in Las Vegas. We’ve got two HEAVY hitters to review this week with PT ECL Champion Christoffer Larsen and MTG’s wunderkind Nathan Steuer. Both of these drafts are fascinating, you won’t want to miss our deep dive...

Welcome to Lords of Limited , the podcast dedicated to getting you better at drafting in Magic: the Gathering. This week, we’re going DEEP on Secrets of Strixhaven limited after a week chock full of drafts. We reveal our updated Format Truths (for real this time), our overarching draft strategies unique to SOS, and then talk all about Soup in this format: what defines a deck as being Soup, how to...

Welcome to Lords of Limited , the podcast dedicated to getting you better at drafting in Magic: the Gathering. This week, we’ve got our updated thoughts on Secrets of Strixhaven after getting our hands on the cards through the Early Access Event on Arena! We share everything we learned about the drafts and gameplay of this new format, how the colleges and mechanics stacked up against each other, i...

Welcome to Lords of Limited, the podcast dedicated to getting you better at drafting in Magic: the Gathering. This week, we’ve got the Secrets of Strixhaven Crash Course! That means we’re coming to the episode with a review of the new mechanics and all 5 colleges, then dive into our 5 format truths! Afterwards we’re looking at the top uncommons for each color, notable commons, and sleeper cards to...

Welcome to Lords of Limited , the podcast dedicated to getting you better at drafting in Magic: the Gathering. This week, we’re taking a first look at Secrets of Stryxhaven previews! There’s lot of new mechanics to speculate on, 5 colleges to get familiar with (and maybe a secret sixth?!), and tons of cards to evaluate, debate, and get excited for! 🎙️ What You’ll Get in This Episode: SOS New Mecha...

Welcome to Lords of Limited , the podcast dedicated to getting you better at drafting in Magic: the Gathering. This week, we’ve got our first ever March Madness Bracket: MTG Edition! We’re looking at 4 distinct categories and taking a trip down memory lane as we reflect on the voting results and crown a winner from each region! 🎙️ What You’ll Get in This Episode: Build Around Region Bomb Rare Regi...

Welcome to Lords of Limited, the podcast dedicated to getting you better at drafting in Magic: the Gathering. This week, we are revisiting Lorwyn Eclipsed to close out the set with our classic 50 Takes in 50 Minutes, while some of our predictions came true…stay tuned to see where we made some egregious mistakes! 🎙️ What You’ll Get in This Episode: -March Madness Bracket Update -50 Takes in 50 Minu...

Welcome to Lords of Limited, the podcast dedicated to getting you better at drafting in Magic: the Gathering. This week, Ethan is recording live from his hotel room at the first ever Shoebox Tournament to give a rundown on his prep for and experience with Lorwyn Eclipsed Team Sealed. His two teammates Sam Pratt (samp) and Charlie Schaefer (StryxFamiliar) join him to discuss what to expect from a T...

Welcome to Lords of Limited , the podcast dedicated to getting you better at drafting in Magic: the Gathering. This week, we’re taking a trip down memory lane with the viral “9 Cards That Made Me” project. Then after a quick recap on our TMT pick-1 draft thoughts, we dive into a new episode series on Archetype Architecture and kick things off with Izzet. We look at what the archetype does historic...

Welcome to Lords of Limited , the podcast dedicated to getting you better at drafting in Magic: the Gathering. This week, we’re giving our first (and last) impressions of the new TMNT set. We recap our experience with the cards from Early Access and Ben’s at-home prerelease to give any updated context on our thoughts from the Crash Course. And after a couple draft log reviews, we look ahead to how...

Welcome to Lords of Limited, the podcast dedicated to getting you better at drafting in Magic: the Gathering. This week, holy smokes TMNT is already upon us! We are doing a shorter version of our classic Crash Course, since this is another Pick 2 Format, today is going to be more of an overview of the set so you know what to look out for during your prerelease. Look for our preferred archetypes an...

Welcome to Lords of Limited, the podcast dedicated to getting you better at drafting in Magic: the Gathering. This week we are lucky enough to do another Draft Review episode! This time it's the Spotlight Series in Toronto, Canada that look place last week. We follow Christian Calcano on his Day 2 drafts as he hopefully makes his way into the Top 8! 🎙️ What You’ll Get in This Episode: -Standard St...

Welcome to Lords of Limited, the podcast dedicated to getting you better at drafting in Magic: the Gathering. This week we’re doing a mid-to-late stage format check-in. Ethan kicks things off by reflecting on some pieces of content and how they relate to his experience of ECL. Then he outlines a newfound respect for “half-and-half” decks in the format before he and Ben dive into three tricky draft...

Welcome to Lords of Limited , the podcast dedicated to getting you better at drafting in Magic: the Gathering. It’s armchair draft time! This week, we’re reviewing the Lorwyn Eclipsed drafts from Magic’s toughest stage: the Pro Tour! We dive into both the day 1 and day 2 feature drafts, and discuss our thoughts on these player’s decisions and the different paths available to them. Plus, Ben gives...

Welcome to Lords of Limited, the podcast dedicated to getting you better at drafting in Magic: the Gathering. This week, we’ve got our week 1 info dump after jamming tons of drafts of Lorwyn Eclipsed. The limited community is all over the map on this format. Is it blisteringly fast or glacially slow? Is it full of unbeatable bombs, or does it reward great gameplay? Is at all elves and merfolk or a...

Welcome to Lords of Limited , the podcast dedicated to getting you better at drafting in Magic: the Gathering. This week, we’re updating our format thoughts after getting our hands on Lorwyn Eclipsed via the Early Access Event and pre-release weekend. We go over what stood out from a draft and gameplay perspective, how the archetypes and mechanics played out initially, and a whole host of movers u...