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Welcome! This is a podcast dedicated to exploring Magic history through innovative Standard archetypes. Join hosts Jason and Coleman as they discuss all the different ways players have changed how we view deckbuilding in the modern era. Any comments are welcome, you can send them to either the show or the hosts individually through Twitter.

Definitely Not Thepths

Coleman still won't let me do Thepths, so instead you get to listen to us blather on about a Tier 2 deck that deserved better.  Vampires are here!
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Episode Sixty-Five: Event Decks

One of the most important things Wizards does to attract new people to Magic is the prevalence of pre constructed decks.  This idea has been around fo...
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Episode Sixty-Three: Naya Blitz

One of the oldest adages for deckbuilding is to split the types of spells into thirds - twenty creatures, twenty spells, and twenty lands.  What if yo...
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Episode Sixty-Three: Lands

We're joined by a special guest this episode - Melvin the Muppet from the Ponder Podcast!  He's here to talk about the most important cards in any Sta...
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Episode Sixty-Two: Tempered Steel

Stop us if you've heard this before.  Cheap artifact creatures benefiting from a powerful two mana artifact practically takes over a tournament, sendi...
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Episode Sixty-One: Q&A, Part Two

About six months ago, we took a break from our normal programming to refresh our brains by asking some questions about the other person's Magic career...
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Episode Sixty: Naya Lightsaber

What do you do against Jund?  That was the question on the mind of the players at Worlds 2009.  Play Mono Red and try to sneak under Sprouting Thrinax...
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Episode Fifty-Nine: Prism Ring

How can a card like Prism Ring possibly be good?  Life gain artifacts basically never are, especially post-new world order card design.  On first look...
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