The PreGame Effect

Ian and Dom bring you the 39th episode of the PreGame Effect Podcast. In this episode the hosts talk about returning to paper magic as well as some of the first spoilers from the next set based around Dungeons and Dragons.  Feel free to contact us via any of the twitter accounts below or email us at ThePreGameEffect@gmail.com . All Music is brought to you by Colin Casteele, a friend of the ca...

Ian, Dom, and Luke bring you the 38th episode of the PreGame Effect Podcast. In this episode the hosts talk about the first results with the new MH2 cards from online events and some other cards that were previewed.  Feel free to contact us via any of the twitter accounts below or email us at ThePreGameEffect@gmail.com . All Music is brought to you by Colin Casteele, a friend of the cast. Fin...

Ian, Dom, and Luke bring you the 37th episode of the PreGame Effect Podcast. In this episode the hosts talk about the recent changes to the Pro Magic world and start to see what cards will be released in MH2. Feel free to contact us via any of the twitter accounts below or email us at ThePreGameEffect@gmail.com . All Music is brought to you by Colin Casteele, a friend of the cast. Find us on Twitt...

Ian, Dom, and Luke bring you the 36th episode of the PreGame Effect Podcast. In this episode the hosts take on the concept of advantage and what it means in multiple facets of the game. We hope that this information is helpful for you as in person events begin to come back to stores near you (in the US). Feel free to contact us via any of the twitter accounts below or email us at ThePreGameEffect@...

Ian, Dom, Luke and Matt bring you the 35th episode of The PreGame Effect Podcast.  In this episode, the main topic of discussion is Strixhaven and card we find to be potential players in all of the different formats. Dom also brings us some of his frustration about actions that have been taken by WOTC. Thanks for taking the time to listen! Feel free to contact us via any of the twitter accoun...

Dom and Matt bring you the 34th episode of the PreGame Effect Podcast.  In this episode, we discuss some of the old bordered cards from the new Time Spiral and we touch on some of the new previews of Strixhaven.  Feel free to contact us via any of the twitter accounts below or email us at ThePreGameEffect@gmail.com . All Music is brought to you by Colin Casteele, a friend of the cast. Fi...

Ian, Dom, Luke and Matt bring you the 33rd episode of the PreGame Effect Podcast.  In this episode, Ian leads us through 5 things to think about related to sideboarding.  We hope you enjoy the discussion.  Topics Discussed by Time 20:53 - 75 does not equal 60+15 34:26 - Flexibility is Key 50:31 - Silver Bullets 1:02:25 - Cards In VS Cards Out 1:15:24 - Not Oversideboarding Feel free...

Ian, Dom, Luke and Matt bring you the 32nd episode of The PreGame Effect podcast. In this episode, we discuss the new decks that have reappeared due to the recent bannings and how many of the pre-2018 decks are coming back to the forefront again.  We also address the previews that have been released for Time Spiral Remastered and the few Strixhaven commands that have been shown. Feel free to...

Ian, Dom, Luke and Matt bring you the 31st episode of the PreGame Effect Podcast.  In this episode we review the most recent Banned and Restricted announcement that shook the MTG world on February 15th, 2021.  We address each of the formats that had bannings and unbannings as well as the rules change to Cascade.  Feel free to contact us via any of the twitter accounts below or email...

Ian, Dom, Luke and Matt bring you the 30th episode of the PreGame Effect Podcast.  In this episode Dom brings you some insight into one of his favorite archetypes that spans multiple formats, Enchantress.  We discuss how the deck has changed for him as well as what the deck looks like in each of the formats he has played it in.  Check out the link below for one of the versions of th...

Ian, Dom, Luke and Matt bring you the 29th episode of the PreGame Effect podcast! In this episode of the cast we bring you our review of our favorite picks from the soon to be released Kaldheim. All Music is brought to you by Colin Casteele, a friend of the cast. Find us on Twitter - @ThePGEPodcast Find us on IG - @ThePGEPodcast Dom - @Mull_to_Six Luke - @TheRandoMando83 Ian - @IanhoffMTG Matt - @...

Ian, Dom, Luke and Matt bring you the 28th episode of the PreGame Effect Podcast. In this episode Matt brings us his deck of the past to discuss, with Legacy Grixis Control. Matt's Grixis List can be found by clicking here . ____________________ All Music is brought to you by Colin Casteele, a friend of the cast. Find us on Twitter - @ThePGEPodcast Find us on IG - @ThePGEPodcast Dom - @Mull_to_Six...

Ian, Dom, Luke and Matt bring you the 27th episode of the PreGame Effect Podcast.  In this episode Luke brings to the table the tried and true deck archetype of Counter Burn.  We discuss some of his past versions of the deck and what he also has done more recently with this style of control deck.  We also bring to light that the concept of Counter Burn can also be used as a tempo st...

Ian, Dom, Luke and Matt bring you the 26th episode of the PreGame Effect Podcast.  This is the first episode in a 4 part series, where each of the hosts brings to the table a deck that we enjoyed playing in the past or currently play and have a desire to talk about. In the first part, Ian brings a past Abzan Deck that he enjoyed playing a few years ago (circa 2017-2018).  We will have ne...

Ian, Dom, Luke and Matt bring you the 25th episode of the PreGame Effect podcast. In this episode, we talk about what it is like when there is not much Magic to be played and when we get tired of playing. During the cast, we talk about other games aside from Magic that we have found enjoyable and how to use those to avoid getting burnt out. All Music is brought to you by Colin Casteele, a friend o...

Luke, Ian, Dom and Matt bring you the 24th episode of the PreGame Effect Podcast. First, thank you so much to everyone that has taken a listen to the cast thus far, during the end of this recording, Ian reminded us that we have officially been releasing the cast for one year now, which we feel is quite an accomplishment and most of us likely didn't think we would get to this point so thank you for...

Ian, Dom and Luke bring you the 23rd episode of the PreGame Effect where we are lucky enough to interview the new crowned winner of Eternal Weekend Mishra's Workshop, David Lance.  In this episode the crew talks with David about his experience during Eternal weekend, his deck choice and his thought about the format as well as Magic as a whole.  They finish up the cast talking Commander L...

Luke, Dom and Matt bring you the 22nd episode of the PreGame Effect. In this episode we discuss the banning that occurred on 10/12/20 involves standard, historic and brawl formats, as well as discuss Eternal Weekend events. All Music is brought to you by Colin Casteele, a friend of the cast. Dom's Legacy Camera match can be found here . If interested check out, ELD's Time Vault Games Facebook page...

Luke, Dom and Matt bring you the 21st episode of the PreGame Effect Podcast.  In this episode we discuss the banning of Uro in Standard and if it is enough to help the format, and we have a discussion regarding the emphasis of digital Magic and what that means for the future of the game.  All Music is brought to you by Colin Casteele, a friend of the cast. Find us on Twitter - @ThePGEPod...

Ian, Dom, Luke and Matt bring you the 20th episode of The PreGame Effect. In this episode we continue our discussion about Zendikar Rising previews now that the entire set is released, and decks that we have seen or played using the new cards. We hope you enjoy! All Music is brought to you by Colin Casteele, a friend of the cast. Find us on Twitter - @ThePGEPodcast Find us on IG - @ThePGEPodcast D...

Ian, Dom, Luke and Matt bring you the 19th episode of the PreGame Effect podcast where we take a look at the most recent previews for the newest set, Zendikar Rising, which is set to release on 9/25/20. Hope you enjoy! All Music is brought to you by Colin Casteele, a friend of the cast. Find us on Twitter - @ThePGEPodcast Find us on IG - @ThePGEPodcast Dom - @Mull_to_Six Luke - @Lukew_ThePGE Ian -...

Luke, Dom and Matt bring you an early episode 18 of The PreGame Effect Podcast where we discuss what we have been playing for the past couple weeks as well as the Historic Format.  We take some time to discuss the impending announcement from WOTC (and we guessed correctly) that is to effect the Historic Format.  We end this cast by discussing some of the recent top 8 deck lists a a few d...

Ian, Dom and Matt bring you an early episode 17 of The PreGame Effect Podcast where we discuss Ian's experience with GenCon Online and the newest Banned and Restricted announcement. We give each of our takes on it, the good and bad, as well as what it means for the future of the affected formats. Matt's ManaTraders Coupon Code for 20% off your first three months - spellslinger All Music is brought...

Matt and Dom briefly review the Wizards of the Coast Banned and Restricted announcement and invite you to listen to the full discussion with the entire crew that will be released earlier than normal, on Friday this week!  Music is brought to you by Colin Casteele, a friend of the cast. Find us on Twitter - @Thepgepodcast Find us on Instagram - @Thepgepodcast Ian's Twitter - @IanHoffMTG Luke's...

Ian, Luke, Dom and Matt bring you episode 16 of The PreGame Effect Podcast where we discuss some of the newest Wizards of the Coast Announcements including changes to in person events for the upcoming year, GenCon Online, and Pioneer Masters for Magic Online, as well as our thoughts on JumpStart and discussion related to Double Masters. GenCon Online Announcement - scroll down a bit to find it All...