Premodcast

Hunts, hangovers, and suicide missions!

And we are back after an August hiatus. Bringing more of that Premodern audio content you crave! This time the gang talks about the players recently announced in the upcoming PSS4. No decklists yet to pore over but such big names we had plenty to go on, episode on the decklists to follow!

Jared and Mike return to discuss the 2nd episode of House of the Dragon. Dragons, marriages, politics, and crabs!

Hello everyone! And welcome to the first episode of Jared and Mike's spinoff Game of Thrones podcast focusing on the new show House of the Dragon. For Premodcast listeners, sorry but there is no Magic content, but for fans of A Song of Ice and Fire there is tremendous content. Enjoy!

We coming in hot with a fresh Premodcast drop! In between vacations we did an hour record to talk about how the meta is looking these days as well as a...let's say a look at the wild June monthly finals won by Rich Shay over Jens Jaeger on Turtle Splash. Then Mike and Andrew talk with Ken Meyer Jr. Apologies again for timeliness on this one, we recorded it back in early May but had some techn...

Guess who's back! After a bit of hiatus premodcast is right back at ya with more premodern content. We catch up a bit on the last few months since lobstercon and then do a Weatherlight top 5. Turns out it's a weird but weirdly good set!

Welcome back to all those who made it out to Lobstercon! Jared and DFB put on a fantastic weekend and now for your listening pleasure Jared and Andrew go over all the ins and outs and glorious details of Lobstercon 2022. Sidenote: Andrew's mic got damaged during the stream at lobstercon and doesn't sound great.

Today we are joined by Bryan Manolakos host of the immensely popular All Tings Considered podcast. An old school fixture but he also does episodes on Premodern if you haven't checked it out definitely do! We discuss the upcoming Lobstercon and to round out the Old School premodern crossovers, a top 5 on Old School cards we think could fit in Premodern.

We have another great guest episode! Brian Kowal and Michael James Heup join us to talk about the 47 person Premodern Open they ran in Madison at Brian's store Misty Mountain Games.

We have a get, Jeff Laubenstein famed Premodern era Magic artist joined Andrew and Mike to talk about his experiences making magic art, and to plug the upcoming Lobstercon where he'll be in attendance. The guys discuss the history of mulligans as well, and our takes on the different rules. (P.S. I later realized it was PeeWee Herman not Alan Cumming don't come after me!) 

Premodcast is back after a long January for a brand new episode. Fair chunk of general premodern talk plenty of events upcoming and ongoing. Then a top 5 of Mirage block's middle child....Visions.

Happy New Year everyone! We welcome Gabe Farkas to the pod after his second place finish in the November monthly to talk about, among other things, the many different quality black removal spells. Many of you know Gabe in the Premodern community for his encyclopedic knowledge of cards you've never heard of from the format, as well as his suite of brews some of which have become format staples...

The boys go over a few listener requests this week. Chiefly what the heck you're supposed to name with Cabal Therapy and Meddling Mage! But also some chat about how we store our cards and the usual fluff.

Premodcast welcomes Gerard Siatkowski to the pod for a diverse conversation covering many topics, in particular his fondness for Korean and other foreign premodern cards, hate for foils, and some of the off-the-wall decks he likes to sleeve up (with foreign cards of course). Somehow we didn't talk about turtles, hopefully you all come for the magic conversation instead.

We welcome back premodern great Flint Espil to the pod to chat about PSS3 which he hosts with Mike Heup. Also some talk about the upcoming Premodern gauntlet which Mike will be a part of, and a top 5 of Flint's favorite set...Mirage!

And we're back! All three premodcast hosts got to meet up for the first time together at Lobstercon, they chat all about it with a particular focus on Jared's premodern FNM which he won! As well as the premodern cube that was a joy through and through along with the rest of the weekend.

Welcome listeners new and old! Thanks to the Professor at Tolarian Community College we've seen some growth in the community so we decided to give a bit of a welcoming episode. We also have an exciting pack opening!

This episode is all about the banned list, no "counters, burns, and broken things", no judge's corner, no guest, no top 5. Just the guys chatting all about the cards on the banned list. Spoiler alert this isn't a discussion about what should change, instead an analysis of what's on it, why, and how the format remains healthy because of it.

Happy hot days of summer, the boys talk all about one of the best cards in Premodern...Survival of the Fittest. Having discussed Survival-Elves, and Full English Breakfast we decided to go over the many other Survival based strategies. And we round it out with a double judge's corner. Enjoy with a cold beverage!

We've got a great one here for fans of Skull Magic. Jared and Mike breakdown the Suicide Black decks they played in the most recent Monthly with all the choices involved in constructing this surprisingly varied deck. As well as an Apocalypse top 5 to commemorate the 20th anniversary.

And we're back! For this episode the guys talk about the growing pains due to the continued success and rise of the Premodern Webcam Monthly tournaments. We discuss ways to streamline things moving forward as the numbers burgeon. Then it's on to the 25th anniversary top 5 of Alliances the second set in the Ice Age block.

It's that time again (well maybe two months late but who's counting?) for the Premodcast Meta Analysis! After many tangents and a brief Ugnought deck tech the boys go over the Premodern meta according to TCdecks starting around the hour mark. Get your accountant visors, a paper calculator, and prepare to crunch some numbers.

We welcome current reigning Premodern champ Aaron Dicks fresh off back to back first places finishes in the Easter Championship and PSS2, as well as current top of the pack in the Spring Fling. Plenty to talk about with Aaron, so get your baubles and brews ready!

We welcome Anton Glans to the show to talk about the one-day Easter Tournament he hosted. It was a resounding success with some very cool innovations in the top 8 to talk about. As well as Anton's Magic story.

The boys welcome back Robin Lundh, whose recent second place finish in the Winter Blast makes him ideally suited to talk about Full English Breakfast. One of the pillars of the format and one of the most powerful grindiest combo decks around.