Podcasts about lantern control

In this episode I highlight one of my favorite decks, Lantern Control. Nan Twitter @TheRealNanMan https://www.youtube.com/NanMan https://Twitch.tv/TheRealNanMan Another way to support the show is with Patreon https://www.patreon.com/TheRealNanMan You can also check out VODs of the episode over on https://www.youtube.com/ModernMagicMondays --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nanman/support

Modern breakdown of Lantern control vs. Spirits. Special announcements. My thoughts on the BNR Announcement coming out of Tuesday and the shout out section. Segment I - Lantern Control Breakdown We take a look at the deck, the purpose of the deck and how to attack the deck. Segment II - WotC B&R Announcement My thoughts of the B&R and which cards might get banned. Segment III - Shout Out Section! Looking for the best of the best, the cream of the crop, the crème de la crème Announcement - MTG Ectoplasm IRL staring on February 1st. Every Tuesday night @8pm. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mtgectoplasm/support

On this week's episode we attempt something ambitious - looking at every deck in the most recent Modern deck dump that features MH2 cards. And that's almost all of them! Join us as we talk about the latest decks, trends, and dare we say it, strategies in Modern. Housekeeping: A Heartfelt Thanks The Break Down: 99 Decks The Break Down, pt2: The Bell Returns Become a citizen of The Dive Down Nation!: http://www.patreon.com/thedivedown Get 15% off your first 3 months of ManaTraders! https://www.manatraders.com/?medium=thedivedown and use code "thedivedown2021" Timestamps: 6:58 - Housekeeping 10:15 - Some high-level Deck Dump stats 11:52 - The most seen MH2 cards so far 20:08 - The most seen old cards 21:35 - Some more deck dump stats 23:42 - The deck dump begins: Mono-black Food, Living End, Lantern Control, Azorious Affinity, Obosh Red 32:17 - Orzhov Stoneblade Blink, Living End variants, Azorious Stoneblade, G Hardened Scales, Golgari Elves 42:51 - Boros Burn, Azorious Blink, Izzet Delver, Golgari Elves, Elementals, Azorious Control 51:33 - Urza Affinity Food, Azorius Affinity and Urza's Saga talk 1:02:04 - Grixis Delirium, Jund, Orzhov Stoneblade Blink 1:11:49 - Orzhov Reanimator, Domain Zoo, Boros Taxes 1:17:41 - The Bell Returns! Abzan Blink, Merfolk, Esper Stoneblade, W Taxes, Jeskai Delver, Azorius Urza Control, Selesnya Enchantress, G Tron, Glimpse of Tomorrow, Orzhov Stoneblade 1:27:08 - Temur Cascade, Gruul Scales, Boros Prowess, Orzhov Stoneblade Control, Yawgmoth, Golgari Food, the Rock, Arclight Phoenix, Orzhov Shadowblade, Gruul Ponza, Blue Moon 1:37:00 - Amulet Titan, Rakdos Shadow, Rakdos Skelemental, Mardu Reanimator Electrodominance stuff, Hammertime, Sultai Urza Artifact stuff, Grixis Shadow, Golgari Food, Humans 1:45:07 - Izzet Delver, Foodvine, Crabvine, Jund Shadow, 4C Cascade Nahiri Control, Red Prowess, Azorius Affinityblade, Orzhov Reanimator, Titania Titan 1:50:35 - Fast takeaways and closing out Links from this week's episode: June 11th Modern League Deck Dump: https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/mtgo-standings/modern-league-2021-06-11 Our opening music is Nowhere - You Never Knew, and our closing music is Space Blood - Goro? Is That Your Christian Name? Watch us stream our episodes every Sunday night at 8pm Central: https://www.twitch.tv/thedivedown_shane email us: thedivedown@gmail.com (mailto:thedivedown@gmail.com) twitter: https://twitter.com/thedivedown

This episode was originally released October 29th, 2018.For episode 33, Geoff Moes (@ThallidTosser on Twitter), Nat Moes (@GrandpaBelcher), and Josh Chapple (@joshchapple) talk with Josh McCurley (@infant_no_1) about Eternal Weekend and the food of Pittsburgh. Here’s the timestamped table of contents for your listening ease and enjoyment:00:24 – Slinging Cards with Josh McCurley03:26 – “Josh, What’s the Vintage Metagame?”42:21 – Eating Out Pittsburgh53:03 – OutroFull runtime – 54:16 Enter the Forest Bear Josh McCurley visits from Texas, where he’s a Magic judge and Eternal formats aficionado. Online he streams Vintage on MTGO regularly and has even dabbled in Arena recently, all with a penchant for the Portal card Forest Bear. Despite focusing mainly on Mishra’s Workshop-based strategies himself, Josh keeps a close eye on other archetypes and is willing to experiment with radical lists he concocts or that his viewers send him. Plus, he has to recognize how other strategies are doing if he wants to beat them, right? So we brought him in as an expert. As further evidence of his expertise, Josh and Nat once played a casual Vintage game of Lantern Control versus Jester’s Scepter Uba Mask and—thanks to Ensnaring Bridge, Uba Mask, and some other dumb artifacts—finished as an actual, no-winner draw. Reminded of this, Josh said, “We are so good at Vintage.” Predictions on Eternal Weekend Note: Since our knowledge of Eternal Weekend was admittedly muddled, you should visit Card Titan for all the details. Vintage right now is a battle between five top decks: Ravager Workshops, Paradoxical Outcome Storm, Jeskai Control (or some flavor of blue-based control), Dredge, and Oath. None of the decks can beat all of the others, so there’s a tug-of-war at the metagame level as players try to pick which deck they feel will be best equipped to beat most of their opponents and then tune to make their poor matchups slightly better. For example, if you think there’s going to be a large number of Workshop decks, you would play PO Storm to beat them and then work to combat Jeskai’s draw engine and countermagic so you don’t lose too many points there. But then if you think there’s going to be a lot of PO Storm, you play Jeskai and try to adjust to beat Workshops in the sideboard. And then Oath or Dredge show up, being all weird, and just decimate an unprepared field. Good luck! Defending Champion: Workshop AggroAndy Markiton won last year’s North America Vintage Champs with Ravager MUD, and the strategy hasn’t changed drastically since then. The prison builds of years past have been replaced by a kind of aggressive tempo deck. Instead of slowing an opponent down with lots of Sphere of Resistance effects, Workshop players speed themselves up with Foundry Inspector and have a kind-of combo win with Arcbound Ravager and Walking Ballista. It’s similar to other formats’ Affinity lists; they may not hinder an opponent’s plan at all, except for putting them on an exceptionally fast clock. Expect to face it multiple times and be prepared to do better than one-for-one artifact and creature removal if you want to win. The Newcomer: Paradoxical OutcomeWhen Paradoxical Outcome debuted in Kaladesh, every Vintage player looked at it and said, “Oh, yeah, that card’s absurd.” It finally hit its stride as a combo engine and has a few different looks as players decide which colors they like and which win conditions they want to use—usually some mix of Tendrils of Agony, Monastery Mentor, Time Vault, and Blightsteel Colossus. These lists can range from very aggressive storm-focused strategies (almost like Pitch Long or TPS) to those that are happy to build more slowly to the win (similar to old Gifts Ungiven lists in pace). Outcome preys on Workshop decks because it has a lot of free mana and a generally faster clock, but it can struggle against counterspells if it can’t resolve its bombs. The Comeback Kid: SurvivalSurvival of the Fittest has been around for a long time and is good enough to be banned in Legacy. But it made a startling resurgence in Vintage when it took first at Asia Vintage Champs. This is thanks to the printing of Hollow One, which gives it a beefy aggro plan to go along with its toolbox of searchable answers to other strategies. It’s a novel look for a Vintage deck—lots of green, not a lot of blue or artifacts—and players may lose percentages just because they won’t know how to play against it. Of course, players who pick up the deck might suffer from unfamiliarity as well. Answering creatures is good, but Survival relies on its namesake enchantment and Bazaar of Baghdad to find and make threats, so stopping activated abilities is also strong. The Contender: Jeskai ControlWe lumped most of the blue-based control decks together even though they encompass a wide variety of colors and flavors. Most players agree that restricted blue cards, Preordains, and Force of Wills make a powerful broth and are then happy to add their favorite flavor of win condition, everything from Monastery Mentor, to Tinker, to Jace, the Mind Sculptor. These decks like to draw and filter cards and tend to win the game, really, by having better natural access to efficient answers and threats. That is: it’s difficult to focus on one particular card to stop because all the cards do the same thing. Workshop decks tend to do well against Jeskai Control because artifacts like Sphere of Resistance and Phyrexian Revoker can hinder the blue deck’s ability to effectively keep its hand full. The Fading Star: Oath of DruidsIs Oath a fading star? It hasn’t been popular or done particularly well recently, but it seems like it could be a dark horse in the current metagame. Oath can do well against creature-based strategies like Mishra’s Workshop and Survival decks, especially if it can remove or ignore their answers, typically Grafdigger’s Cage or Containment Priest. And Oath can easily play Preordain and restricted blue cards, so it can potentially keep up with Jeskai Control lists as it looks to resolve its one important spell. Griselbrand is a powerful demon companion, and there are any number of other useful, powerful creatures would make potential inclusions, but no one seems to have devised a list that wins consistently. Between commonly played hate (since Grafdigger’s Cage pulls double duty against Oath and Dredge) and a heavy reliance on one idea, Oath struggles. The Underground: DredgeWhen Dredge was totally a graveyard-based deck, it seemed to gain strength when opponents had become complacent, forgotten about it, and shaved graveyard hate from their sideboards. Now, again because of Hollow One, it has a solid backup plan that might not need to touch the graveyard at all. It’s consistent metagame terror, particularly in the hands of a knowledgeable pilot, and it will win a lot of games against prepared and unprepared opponents alike. To beat Dredge, apply a lot of varied graveyard answers (different types and costs of permanents and spells), and don’t forget about Hollow One. Void Winnower beats all of these decks. Eternal Weekend Dining in Pittsburgh We had a few food recommendations for Pittsburgh. Primanti Brothers is kind of a Steel City tradition. They make big sandwiches that frequently include the french fries in the sandwich (a concession to steel workers who needed to eat their lunch in a hurry). Hopefully your waiter sticks around. The Original Hotdog Shop, better known as “The O,” is kind of a Magic: The Gathering tradition, as it was the frequent meeting spot of Team CMU, one of the early premier Pro Tour teams, which was based in Pittsburgh. You can get giant fries, burgers, hotdogs, and beer in this casual, college atmosphere. Open late. Last year’s hits for Team Serious were Emporio and Starlite Lounge, each of which specializes in its own brand of comfort food. Emporio calls itself “A Meatball Joint” and lets you choose your meatball, sauce, and method of conveyance (pasta, bun, or fries). This was literally all I heard about after Eternal Weekend last year. Starlite Lounge appeared on Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives and serves three kinds of pierogis, as well as other home-cooked Polish diner food. Nearby the convention center, Josh recommended Condado for their tacos and margaritas. They do a good job offering creative combination tacos, as well as letting you build your own. You’ll have to challenge yourself to see if you can acquire margaritas on the run between rounds. This year Team Serious members Jerry Yang and Rajah James had some recommendations of places they’ve been and places they were looking to try. In no particular order:● Robert Wholey & Co. for seafood and fish sandwiches.● Gaucho Parrilla Argentina for fresh South American food.● Ephasus Mediterranean for pizza with a Turkish twist.● Nicky’s Thai Kitchen for Thai food voted best in Pittsburgh.● Yuva Indian Kitchen for Indian food, including lots of vegetarian options.● Lulu’s Noodles for various Asian noodle dishes, including pho, pad thai, and ramen.● Bangal Kabab House for Indian tandoori dishes and kebabs. If you find anything you like, be sure to let us know for future years! Questions for Discussion What scares you most about the current Vintage metagame? What scares you most about a seafood buffet in Pittsburgh? Conclusion Thanks for listening! We hope our view of the Vintage metagame was helpful and insightful, or at least entertaining. Have fun in Pittsburgh. We’ll look forward to any questions or comments here or The Mana Drain or on Twitter. You can also email us at seriousvintagepodcast@gmail.com.

This episode was originally released October 29th, 2018.For episode 33, Geoff Moes (@ThallidTosser on Twitter), Nat Moes (@GrandpaBelcher), and Josh Chapple (@joshchapple) talk with Josh McCurley (@infant_no_1) about Eternal Weekend and the food of Pittsburgh. Here’s the timestamped table of contents for your listening ease and enjoyment:00:24 – Slinging Cards with Josh McCurley03:26 – “Josh, What’s the Vintage Metagame?”42:21 – Eating Out Pittsburgh53:03 – OutroFull runtime – 54:16 Enter the Forest Bear Josh McCurley visits from Texas, where he’s a Magic judge and Eternal formats aficionado. Online he streams Vintage on MTGO regularly and has even dabbled in Arena recently, all with a penchant for the Portal card Forest Bear. Despite focusing mainly on Mishra’s Workshop-based strategies himself, Josh keeps a close eye on other archetypes and is willing to experiment with radical lists he concocts or that his viewers send him. Plus, he has to recognize how other strategies are doing if he wants to beat them, right? So we brought him in as an expert. As further evidence of his expertise, Josh and Nat once played a casual Vintage game of Lantern Control versus Jester’s Scepter Uba Mask and—thanks to Ensnaring Bridge, Uba Mask, and some other dumb artifacts—finished as an actual, no-winner draw. Reminded of this, Josh said, “We are so good at Vintage.” Predictions on Eternal Weekend Note: Since our knowledge of Eternal Weekend was admittedly muddled, you should visit Card Titan for all the details. Vintage right now is a battle between five top decks: Ravager Workshops, Paradoxical Outcome Storm, Jeskai Control (or some flavor of blue-based control), Dredge, and Oath. None of the decks can beat all of the others, so there’s a tug-of-war at the metagame level as players try to pick which deck they feel will be best equipped to beat most of their opponents and then tune to make their poor matchups slightly better. For example, if you think there’s going to be a large number of Workshop decks, you would play PO Storm to beat them and then work to combat Jeskai’s draw engine and countermagic so you don’t lose too many points there. But then if you think there’s going to be a lot of PO Storm, you play Jeskai and try to adjust to beat Workshops in the sideboard. And then Oath or Dredge show up, being all weird, and just decimate an unprepared field. Good luck! Defending Champion: Workshop AggroAndy Markiton won last year’s North America Vintage Champs with Ravager MUD, and the strategy hasn’t changed drastically since then. The prison builds of years past have been replaced by a kind of aggressive tempo deck. Instead of slowing an opponent down with lots of Sphere of Resistance effects, Workshop players speed themselves up with Foundry Inspector and have a kind-of combo win with Arcbound Ravager and Walking Ballista. It’s similar to other formats’ Affinity lists; they may not hinder an opponent’s plan at all, except for putting them on an exceptionally fast clock. Expect to face it multiple times and be prepared to do better than one-for-one artifact and creature removal if you want to win. The Newcomer: Paradoxical OutcomeWhen Paradoxical Outcome debuted in Kaladesh, every Vintage player looked at it and said, “Oh, yeah, that card’s absurd.” It finally hit its stride as a combo engine and has a few different looks as players decide which colors they like and which win conditions they want to use—usually some mix of Tendrils of Agony, Monastery Mentor, Time Vault, and Blightsteel Colossus. These lists can range from very aggressive storm-focused strategies (almost like Pitch Long or TPS) to those that are happy to build more slowly to the win (similar to old Gifts Ungiven lists in pace). Outcome preys on Workshop decks because it has a lot of free mana and a generally faster clock, but it can struggle against counterspells if it can’t resolve its bombs. The Comeback Kid: SurvivalSurvival of the Fittest has been around for a long time and is good enough to be banned in Legacy. But it made a startling resurgence in Vintage when it took first at Asia Vintage Champs. This is thanks to the printing of Hollow One, which gives it a beefy aggro plan to go along with its toolbox of searchable answers to other strategies. It’s a novel look for a Vintage deck—lots of green, not a lot of blue or artifacts—and players may lose percentages just because they won’t know how to play against it. Of course, players who pick up the deck might suffer from unfamiliarity as well. Answering creatures is good, but Survival relies on its namesake enchantment and Bazaar of Baghdad to find and make threats, so stopping activated abilities is also strong. The Contender: Jeskai ControlWe lumped most of the blue-based control decks together even though they encompass a wide variety of colors and flavors. Most players agree that restricted blue cards, Preordains, and Force of Wills make a powerful broth and are then happy to add their favorite flavor of win condition, everything from Monastery Mentor, to Tinker, to Jace, the Mind Sculptor. These decks like to draw and filter cards and tend to win the game, really, by having better natural access to efficient answers and threats. That is: it’s difficult to focus on one particular card to stop because all the cards do the same thing. Workshop decks tend to do well against Jeskai Control because artifacts like Sphere of Resistance and Phyrexian Revoker can hinder the blue deck’s ability to effectively keep its hand full. The Fading Star: Oath of DruidsIs Oath a fading star? It hasn’t been popular or done particularly well recently, but it seems like it could be a dark horse in the current metagame. Oath can do well against creature-based strategies like Mishra’s Workshop and Survival decks, especially if it can remove or ignore their answers, typically Grafdigger’s Cage or Containment Priest. And Oath can easily play Preordain and restricted blue cards, so it can potentially keep up with Jeskai Control lists as it looks to resolve its one important spell. Griselbrand is a powerful demon companion, and there are any number of other useful, powerful creatures would make potential inclusions, but no one seems to have devised a list that wins consistently. Between commonly played hate (since Grafdigger’s Cage pulls double duty against Oath and Dredge) and a heavy reliance on one idea, Oath struggles. The Underground: DredgeWhen Dredge was totally a graveyard-based deck, it seemed to gain strength when opponents had become complacent, forgotten about it, and shaved graveyard hate from their sideboards. Now, again because of Hollow One, it has a solid backup plan that might not need to touch the graveyard at all. It’s consistent metagame terror, particularly in the hands of a knowledgeable pilot, and it will win a lot of games against prepared and unprepared opponents alike. To beat Dredge, apply a lot of varied graveyard answers (different types and costs of permanents and spells), and don’t forget about Hollow One. Void Winnower beats all of these decks. Eternal Weekend Dining in Pittsburgh We had a few food recommendations for Pittsburgh. Primanti Brothers is kind of a Steel City tradition. They make big sandwiches that frequently include the french fries in the sandwich (a concession to steel workers who needed to eat their lunch in a hurry). Hopefully your waiter sticks around. The Original Hotdog Shop, better known as “The O,” is kind of a Magic: The Gathering tradition, as it was the frequent meeting spot of Team CMU, one of the early premier Pro Tour teams, which was based in Pittsburgh. You can get giant fries, burgers, hotdogs, and beer in this casual, college atmosphere. Open late. Last year’s hits for Team Serious were Emporio and Starlite Lounge, each of which specializes in its own brand of comfort food. Emporio calls itself “A Meatball Joint” and lets you choose your meatball, sauce, and method of conveyance (pasta, bun, or fries). This was literally all I heard about after Eternal Weekend last year. Starlite Lounge appeared on Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives and serves three kinds of pierogis, as well as other home-cooked Polish diner food. Nearby the convention center, Josh recommended Condado for their tacos and margaritas. They do a good job offering creative combination tacos, as well as letting you build your own. You’ll have to challenge yourself to see if you can acquire margaritas on the run between rounds. This year Team Serious members Jerry Yang and Rajah James had some recommendations of places they’ve been and places they were looking to try. In no particular order:● Robert Wholey & Co. for seafood and fish sandwiches.● Gaucho Parrilla Argentina for fresh South American food.● Ephasus Mediterranean for pizza with a Turkish twist.● Nicky’s Thai Kitchen for Thai food voted best in Pittsburgh.● Yuva Indian Kitchen for Indian food, including lots of vegetarian options.● Lulu’s Noodles for various Asian noodle dishes, including pho, pad thai, and ramen.● Bangal Kabab House for Indian tandoori dishes and kebabs. If you find anything you like, be sure to let us know for future years! Questions for Discussion What scares you most about the current Vintage metagame? What scares you most about a seafood buffet in Pittsburgh? Conclusion Thanks for listening! We hope our view of the Vintage metagame was helpful and insightful, or at least entertaining. Have fun in Pittsburgh. We’ll look forward to any questions or comments here or The Mana Drain or on Twitter. You can also email us at seriousvintagepodcast@gmail.com.

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Luis Salvatto is currently tied in the Player of Year race (with Seth Manfield) and is the Pro Tour Rivals of Ixalan champion. He has 7 Grand Prix top 8s which include 2 wins and was also the Sunday Super Series champion in 2014. Luis lives in Argentina. Click to Tweet: I got a ton of value from Luis Salvatto when he shared his story on #MTGProTutor! Listen here: http://bit.ly/mtgprotutor-ep308 Luis is a past guest of the show and you can find his origin story in episode 119. World Travel Luis spent 50 days traveling around the world. He spent 7 weeks in 7 different places. His secret was to travel Light. He had a modern deck and some clothes. That's pretty much it. Pro Tour RIX Luis friend approached him and suggested he play Lantern Control. After asking other friends what they think he went for it. After a rocky start, Luis got his steam and went all the way to take the championship. Biggest Mistake Players Make Players don't play to win. They play to survive. Also, players don't bluff enough. Parting Guidance The best part of Magic is the people you play the game with. Surround yourself with good friends and soar. Connect With Luis Salvatto Twitter:@LuisSalvatto ‏ Check Out Magic Story Magic Story brings the lore of the Multiverse to life in an audio presentation never before heard in the Magic community. Listen to Episode 1 here or on www.magicthestory.com  

Jacob and Bryce may not play much Modern, but boy do they enjoy discussing it. Another discussion of various Modern archetypes, including: Lantern Control, Bogles, Hollow One, Infect, 5C Humans, Mardu Pyromancer, and Ponza!Enjoying Talking Atlas? Consider a small monthly contribution to support our content on our Patreon. Listen here! RSS FeedApple PodcastsGoogle PlayEngage us here!Twitter: @Walking_Atlas and @PhrawgerTumblr: WalkingAtlas and PhrawgerEmail: Email: info@opalnebula.comMagic: The Gathering is the intellectual property of Wizards of the Coast, a subsidiary of Hasbro, Inc. Misty Rainforest Zendikar Expedition art by the fantastic Ryan Yee. Unclaimed Territory art by Dimitar. Talking Atlas RSS

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We are back! This time with brand new statistics after our return to a Modern Pro Tour! Listen to @FarmofZurEnArrh and @TheRealNanMan from the @ModernMondays crew as they talk about all the sweet decks that came out of Pro Tour Rivals of Ixalan. As well as talking about the hot topics in the Modern Magic: The Gathering community, including the future of Lantern Control.

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Alex and Ben are back to discuss the Modern Pro Tour goodness from PT Rivals of Ixalan. Hang out while they break down each of the decks in the top 8 and ponder the potential future of Lantern Control! Bannings? No bannings? Find out inside!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this episode, Maria and Meghan welcome back Amateur Pro Greg (@Magic_Michelp) to the show to talk about his first Pro Tour experience at PT Rivals of Ixalan! Greg walks us through the trials of picking a deck, what it's like to open Tetzimoc (!!) in your first-ever Pro Tour draft, and his favorite things about Spain. PLUS: Insight on Lantern Control, 5-Color Humans, Hollow One, and other sweet Modern decks that grabbed the spotlight on Magic's biggest stage. Our hosts also chat about the upcoming Team Modern Super League (go Team MNVA!) , play "Guess that Flavor Text" as Meghan tries to stump our chumps, and MtA kicks off its February Patron Pledge Drive with the rallying call of 612-FOSSILZ! ...Seriously, call our number and leave a message. It'll be great! Beginner's Intro to Tron (article from JVL): http://beardeddragon.wpengine.com/tron-without-the-stigma/ Support the Patron Pledge Drive or update your pledge: http://www.patreon.com/mtacast Get your name on our new studio wall: http://www.paypal.me/mtacast Sub to our epic vids: http://www.youtube.com/mtacast The best place to buy cards: http://www.cardkingdom.com/mtacast Get great MtG gear: http://www.ultrapro.com Follow us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/mtacast Be our friend: http://www.facebook.com/mtacast Throw down with our playmats: http://www.magictheamateuring.com/shop Sub to our stream: http://www.twitch.tv/magictheamateuring

Seth and Richard discuss Pro Tour Rivals of Ixalan and Lantern Control!

Seth and Richard discuss Pro Tour Rivals of Ixalan and Lantern Control!

Seth and Richard discuss Pro Tour Rivals of Ixalan and Lantern Control!

Modern is weer terug op de Pro Tour! Maar is dat een goede zaak of niet? Arjan, Dave en Jeroen bespreken de haken en ogen. Ook gaan ze in op de geschiedenis en de huidige staat van het format en bespreken ze welke decks, Rivals of Ixalan-kaarten en spelers ze op de PT (van 2 tot 4 januari 2018) hopen te zien. (Een paar decks die aan bod komen: Lantern Control, Living End + As Foretold, Mardu Pyromancer en Hollow One.) Verder praten ze over hun tweede indrukken van Rivals of Ixalan en laten ze hun licht schijnen over de recente bans in Standard. Tijdschema Oproepje aan de luisteraars 0:00:48 Bans in Standard 0:01:47 Tweede indrukken van Rivals of Ixalan 0:10:30 Pro Tour Rivals of Ixalan: Modern 0:14:02 Wat is Modern eigenlijk? 0:14:23 Geschiedenis en staat van Modern 0:16:27 Welke decks verwachten we op de PT? 0:40:31 Welke RIX-kaarten verwachten we op de PT? 0:48:39 Welke spelers hopen we te zien op de PT? 1:01:12 Bonus 1:04:41 Links Melissa DeTora over 'block monsters': https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/play-design/block-monsters-and-how-we-avoid-them-2018-01-05 Wizards' Banned and Restricted Announcement van 15 januari 2018: https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/january-15-2018-banned-and-restricted-announcement-2018-01-15 Alles over Merfolk op Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/FishMTG/ Inside: http://www.playdead.com/games/inside/ Doki Doki Literature Club: https://ddlc.moe/ Wie is Van Rommelen: http://www.wieisvanrommelen.com/ Social Like Studio Magic op Facebook: @studiomagicnl Volg Studio Magic op Twitter: @studiomagicnl Credits Presentatie: Jeroen Koster, Dave Weijgertse en Arjan Ang Montage: Jeroen Koster Muziek: Surf Shimmy - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Piotr Glogowski is a Modern enthusiast, weird-deck lover, MTGO grinder, Twitch streamer and Silver level pro. He's made it to the top 8 of a Pro Tour and 2nd place at the World Magic Cup with his Polish teammates in 2017. He also has two Grand Prix top 8s, both in Modern, and played in the 2016 Magic Online Championship. Piotr lives in Poznań. Click to Tweet: I got a ton of value from Piotr Glogowski when he shared his story on #MTGProTutor! Listen here: http://bit.ly/mtgprotutor-ep261 First Set Return to Ravnica Favorite Set Khans of Tarkir Favorite Card Abzan Guide Summer Bloom Early Challenge Piotr realized that he wasn't good at Magic, he was only good with his specific deck. He struggled with Standard and Limited. To overcome this, he played with players who he knew were much better than him. Worst Magic Moment Piotr remembers a weekend when he tried to qualify for Pro Tour Kaladesh. He played a Paper Magic event on Saturday and Sunday and a Magic Online event at Midnight between the two. He had two nearer misses. Proudest Magic Moment Top 8 at Pro Tour Ixalan, 2nd Place at World Magic Cup 2017. Magic Milestones Pt Atlanta, because Piotr learned to learn. Also, preparing for the Magic Online Championship with Simon Nielsen. Advice for New Players Don't assume you know things. Listen to what others have to say. Parting Guidance If you want a broken deck in Modern, play Lantern Control. Connect With  Twitter:@kanister_mtg Check Out Magic Story Magic Story brings the lore of the Multiverse to life in an audio presentation never before heard in the Magic community. Listen to Episode 1 here or on www.magicthestory.com   Sponsors

Bryce takes you on another winding tour of Modern deck archetypes, featuring: Abzan Midrange, Titan Shift, Death's Shadow, Ad Nauseum, Elves, a look back at Birthing Pod, and Lantern Control.Enjoying Talking Atlas? Consider a small monthly donation to support our content on our Patreon. Listen here! RSS FeedApple PodcastsGoogle PlayEngage us here!Twitter: @Walking_Atlas and @PhrawgerTumblr: WalkingAtlas and PhrawgerEmail: the.atlas.walks@gmail.comMagic: The Gathering is the intellectual property of Wizards of the Coast, a subsidiary of Hasbro, Inc. Misty Rainforest Zendikar Expedition art by the fantastic Ryan Yee. Codex Shredder art by Jason Felix. Talking Atlas RSS

Today, we take the community suggested Modern deck Aura Hexproof, and our chosen decklist Lantern Control, and walkthrough what makes them tick! To suggest a deck you’re interested in, or answer the question of the week, just comment below. QOTW: What is your favorite blue card? Check us out! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/itresolves/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/itresloves Twitter: https://twitter.com/ResolvesMTG?lang=en Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/itresolvesmtg Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/it.resolves.mtg/ A special thank you to our sponsor, Grand Slam Cards and Comics! Website: https://grandslamsite.wordpress.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/grandslamrh Instagram Partners: https://www.instagram.com/puzzled_periwinkle/ https://www.twitch.tv/brew_city_mtg https://www.instagram.com/veesa_mtg https://www.instagram.com/djinkys_mtg_cards https://www.instagram.com/dr.snapcaster https://www.instagram.com/theplaneswalkermtg https://www.instagram.com/phyrexian_felix https://www.instagram.com/foilblacklotus https://www.instagram.com/mana.madness

Ben and Alex discuss the playability of the new dual-faced Planeswalkers from Magic: Origins in Modern. Then Zac Elsik, the pilot who took Lantern Control to 15th place at GP Charlotte, joins to discuss the ins and outs of the deck.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Frank and Ali discuss Ali's Grand Prix Charlotte experience, the Lantern Control deck from the event, the spoiled planeswalkers of Magic Origins, and supply some solid parenting advice. Lantern Control from Grand Prix Charlotte: http://magic.tcgplayer.com/db/deck.asp?deck_id=1241565 The Spoiled Magic Origins Planeswalkers: https://www.facebook.com/MTGatTCGplayer/posts/858246397591558 Be sure and follow Frank and Ali on Twitter at @FrankLepore and @AliEldrazi.