MTG Grindcast

MTG Grindcast

Leisure EN ↓ 398 episodes

Since 2017 the MTG Grindcast has broadcast weekly, talking everything competitive Magic, from up-to-the-minute metagame updates to Magic news to tournament coverage. Hosted by Chris Castro-Rappl and Lee McLeod and home to a rotating cast of guests including Dom Harvey, Jarvis Yu, and Jesse Robkin, we're bringing you your weekly dose of competitive MTG.

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MTG Grindcast

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Latest episode

Jul 3, 2025

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Episodes

Grindcast 395: We're not even here, we're not even here 03.07.2025

We had to come back for Lee's Edge of Eternities lore dump. And I guess there were some standard bans? 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...

Grindcast 394: The Hiatus Episode 18.06.2025

Still taking a break, don't be misled by us recording and editing and uploading a full episode! 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 lo...

Grindcast 393: The Ordeal of the Final Fantasy Episode 28.05.2025

CCR has...thoughts about the Final Fantasy set. 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 o...

Grindcast 392: Getting back to our Insidious Roots (with Jesse Piland!) 21.05.2025

Our friend Jesse qualified for the PT and he did it in style, smashing through Hartford with his beloved Roots deck. We're talking Roots, his run two weeks before with Monument, and a sprinkling of Final Fantasy in the mix. 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!...

Grindcast 391: Proficient with Prowess (with Jarvis Yu!) 14.05.2025

Get hype for the 20 minute cold open featuring us trying to remember which guy is from which final fantasy! 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 p...

Grindcast 390: How do you pronounce Mako? 07.05.2025

This week! We're breaking down standard LIVE as it develops at the height of RC season. Prowess put up a breach-like metagame share in Minneapolis but did not continue delivering breach-like numbers, so what should we play going forward? Find out on this episode! 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....

Grindcast 389: Standard is Bologna 01.05.2025

We've got our first RC results, so we're looking at how the stage is set for high level standard season! Newcomer Izzet Prowess is lighting the tables up, but does it have what it takes in the format for the long haul? 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 w...

Grindcast 388: Popes, Property, and Primeval Titan 23.04.2025

We kind of go all over the place on this one, but land squarely on amulet talk for a healthy portion. Will CCR finally learn how to cast Primeval Titan? Find out this 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...

Grindcast 387: Steel Cutter? I barely know her 16.04.2025

It's postban modern RCQ season! We're playing all sorts of bad decks this time around, from Hardened Broodscale to Coretapper Control. Well, Lee is playing those decks while CCR goes long on Prowess. Come check out the format with us! 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 bonu...

Grindcast 386: Bangeons and Dragons 01.04.2025

Ooooh they banned Underworld Breach and nothing else? Should we tell everyone? Should we throw a party? Should we invite Bella Hadid? And Dragonstorm spoilers! 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 dis...

Grindcast 385: DRAGONS. STORMS. KHANS. 26.03.2025

We're here, hanging out on Tarkir, bringing you the hottest spoilers while dodging dragonstorms and trying to make sure Sarkhan doesn't notice us. 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 w...

Grindcast 384: Sarkhan's Dumb Adventure 19.03.2025

Lee held CCR at gunpoint so it's a lore episode with some modern thrown in for good measure! Why can't Jace tell anyone what he's up to until he throws the multiverse into chaos? Why does Tarkir get restored offscreen? Why does Sarkhan get beaten not by a character but a random series of events? We don't answer any of those questions! But we sure do ask them. Thanks as always to Wave Sunray for ou...

Grindcast 283: You Mean to Tell Me a Tiddypills Won this Tournament? (With Jesse Robkin!) 13.03.2025

There was only one type of episode that made sense the week after Jesse won the RC with Breach! We got her on the cast to talk about the tournament, her 5-year arc as a Breach main, and what the future holds. And there are a lot of bits. 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 b...

Grindcast 382: Taking Stock of Modern 05.03.2025

RC Charlotte is almost here! We're talking all the recent developments in the format, including a 2U counterspell that has captured our imaginations. A perfect listen on your drive to the tournament! 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 subscrib...

Grindcast 381: The Perfectly Organized Pro Tour Aetherdrift Episode 26.02.2025

It's the week after the Pro Tour! We break down the winning, losing, and confusing strategies from this past weekend's big standard tournament. Is this town big enough for them all? 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 i...

Grindcast 380: Why do we have final fantasy previews already? 18.02.2025

Join two final fantasy experts as we mostly avoid talking about chocobos and delve into standard (upcoming pro tour!) and modern (almost time for our RC!) and don't even complain about how good breach is! 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 sub...

Grindcast 379: Is Breach Hogaak? (with Abe Stein!) 13.02.2025

This week! Abe Stein joins us off a top 64 finish in Portland with a deck that has risen to the top of the format, and we take his words and turn them into clickbait. Come for the hot takes on the modern format, stay for the thoughtful discussion of how to properly beat Breach. Thanks as always to Wave Sunray for our music! If you’d like to support the podcast, check out our patreon at patreon.com...

Grindcast 378: I'll race ya for it 04.02.2025

We're zooming around from card to card, trying not to just talk about which ones are good to put under an Agatha's Soul Cauldron (we also talk about what cards are good with Ketramose!) 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’...

Grindcast 377: Start your Engines and Cycle your Motorcycles 29.01.2025

We got modern results! And Lee played standard! And Aetherdrift spoilers! Kachow! 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 impro...

Boros Energy is Dead. Long live Boros Energy (with Bobinchese!) 22.01.2025

Our friend Nick has won the inaugural Atomic Empire modern invitational, and he did with with Boros Energy which remains...really, really good. We talk about the tournament, the breach matchup, and how modern is looking going forward from here! 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 swa...

Grindcast 375: What to play in Modern and Standard 15.01.2025

Lee's got a Modern invitational coming up! And he's...not playing breach! And we talk about standard! Let's gooooo 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 fri...

Grindcast 374: Very Dimir, Very Mindful (With Oaf McNamara!) 09.01.2025

Hot on the heels of his second place finish at Spotlight Foundations, our friend Scott is here to talk about his extremely sweet hybrid Dimir deck! We talk matchups, stories, and wax poetic about just how good Stormchaser's Talent is with This Town Ain't Big Enough. Thanks as always to Wave Sunray for our music! If you’d like to support the podcast, check out our patreon at patreon.com/mtggrindcas...

Grindcast 373: 2024, Truly One of the Years of All Time 01.01.2025

It's New Year's Eve! (as of recording) So we're breaking down this past year of sets: the hits, the misses, the cowboy hats and detective's phoenixes of it all. Sit back and unwind as we bring in the new year by reveling in the last 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 b...

Grindcast 372: They Unbanned Fun 18.12.2024

Can you imagine? A world without The One Ring, and one in which your (yes your!) favorite card was never banned from Modern? Well, my friend, that world is THIS world, and we're gonna talk about it. Together. 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...

Grindcast 371: What we talk about when we talk about banning The One Ring 11.12.2024

This week: Team Tournaments! Ban talk! Path of Exile! This episode has everything!

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