A great Worlds ends with a worthy and fervent champion (again) and a clean home run of a core set offers the most inviting experience for new players in years... only to be swept away in a tide of superheroes and hobbitses. How can a dopey newcomer like Dom prepare for Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, and Vintage all at once when he can't even te…

After lurching wildly between different extremes, has Pioneer been restored to its natural order (Enchanties black midrange is back on top?!) just before its untimely death? And with Eternal Weekend NA around only a few corners, what did Ari learn when he suited up alongside young GOAT Nathan Steuer to commentate the DMV Legacy League (if not how t…

Spooky spoiler season is over and we have some fun and cute and totally innocent toys to talk about - including some delightful, beautiful enchanties!! Patreon / Twitter / DiscordAv noreply@blogger.com (Dominaria's Judgment)

With Eternal Weekends just around the RC corner, Jarvis Yu renounces his Jarvis correspondent role for a more traditional Legacy gamer hat and chats post-Grief Legacy with Ari. Have the bans actually fixed a format, are other MH3 cards keeping up with Psychic Frog, or should we all just be playing Nadu in the place they still let the dirty bird fly…

After a spirited debate about the merits of Lizards and lizards, we dive into a ban announcement and explanation that will go down in Magic history. A light touch in Pioneer and Legacy leaves us wanting more - bans and/or answers - while Michael Majors' confessional about Nadu prompts many more questions. 00:00 NRG Madison + Lizards 14:46 New B&R t…

After SCG Baltimore left Ari with a bad case of bird flu and permanent psychic damage, he's back to squawk about how this stacks up against the most miserable formats, tournaments, and decks of all. For someone with over a decade at the top of competitive play it's not easy to make their WOAT rankings - but which villains have earned that dubious h…

After a hot and humid preview season we're back to break down a full set of freaky lil' guys with some accidental preview season speedruns for other sets along the way and a whirlwind tour of the week's Magic discourse for good measure. Patreon / Twitter / DiscordAv noreply@blogger.com (Dominaria's Judgment)

After flopping hard at yet another PT, Dom is off the train (and off it) which leaves him more time for creating #content!! We discuss the Nadu debacle, the strange state of Constructed and Organized Play, the hits and misses of MH3, and pay tribute to the best to ever do it. Patreon / Twitter / Discord…

Dom is in Amsterdam to defend his place on the Pro Tour, and Jarvis Yu is back on the podcast to defend his title as Pro Tour prediction champion. Will Ari and Jarvis's Draft and Modern opinions line up with the Pro Tour consensus, or will this be a battle of who can be barely less wrong than the other? Patreon / Twitter / Discord…

If you want to know how to 6-0 Draft at the PT, hear from someone who has done just that (as part of a striking ~Top 16 -> Top 16 -> Top 8 run in the last year of Pro Tours). If you want to know how to be a beekeeper... check out a beekeeping podcast, but stick around here to hear another British accent and take in the wisdom of Sean Goddard. Patre…

After thoughtfully inspecting the big picture, it's time to dive in and get our grubby claws on Modern Horizons 3 cards. Come learn about the white lotus, forms of Amulet perversion you didn't know were possible, and the Nadus and don'ts of MH3 Modern. Patreon / Twitter / DiscordAv noreply@blogger.com (Dominaria's Judgment)

Modern Horizons 3 is officially here and it's time to give the takestakes that we can mock our past selves for during MH4 preview season. We put off talking about actual new Magic cards with an impressive resolve but still manage to give our takes on the set as a whole, the Modern Horizons project, and where our creative energy/Energy is aimed firs…

After everything that even looked like a sticker was unceremoniously booted from competitive Magic, we turn our attention to the MH3 cards that officially and allegedly exist. Hear how well Orim's Chant has aged in the last 20 years, how scary these new eldritch horrors really are, and why Dom is excited for a long lick of the Psychic Frog. Patreon…

Jason Ye (JasonILTG on Twitter) is sliming over competitive Magic at an alarming rate, winning the WOE Limited $100k in Vegas, almost Top 8ing the last Pro Tour, and actually Top 8ing in Seattle alongside podcast idol cftsoc with the delightful Slogurk deck that they created and pioneered together. Jason oozes forth on improvement in Limited, innov…

Dom returns from two NRG tournament wins.... and about that many Pro Tour match wins. With lands-deck-master prowess, he breaks down what lead to his Amulet and Lands builds and the Team Sanctum of All Slogurk deck that put its designers cftsoc and Jason Ye into the Top 8 of Pro Tour Outlaws of Thunder Junction. Autum's Post-PT Retrospective Classi…

Jarvis Yu joins Ari this week for his typical role as pre-PT correspondent, but this time from the competitor field! Listen to where testing for Pro Tour Outlaws of Thunder Junction took Jarvis for Standard, and tune into the Pro Tour coverage to root on Jarvis and Dom in Seattle. Patreon / Twitter / Discord Dom on Patreon Charity Legacy $7k with J…

Dom and Ari take a minute before the big Standard Pro Tour showdown (yeeehaw) to look at the current state of Modern and Pioneer. Has either format broken out of the stranglehold of Scion of Draco or Arclight Phoenix? Is Wild Nacatl headed for another ban? Is Niv Mizzet good or is claudioh just winning again? And most importantly, Dom's pre-PT vibe…

When I see new cards, I think "yes". We manage to extend this thought for two hours, after a quick look at the Organized Play announcement and rant about the bizarrely concealed Arena Championships coming soon (?) to a Twitch channel (?) near you. Patreon / Twitter / Discord Dom on PatreonAv noreply@blogger.com (Dominaria's Judgment)

This Monday's B&R update took a big swing at some weird aliens while ignoring the elephant in the room. We're back for some characteristically peaceful statements about the bans we did and didn't see and where Modern and Pioneer stand as they come back into the spotlight. Patreon / Twitter / Discord Dom on Patreon…

Your hosts and many friends of the show spent a long weekend in Chicago winning and losing (and drawing... repeatedly...) with a lot on the line. Dom is finally back in Canada and on the air with war stories and hot takes before the axe understandably falls - a Pro Tour, a Standard not-a-GP, a MagicCon, and all the ear-splitting hooting and holleri…

The semi-regular Pro Tour predictions episode with Jarvis Yu returns to stakes some claims about Pioneer, Draft, and even a bit of Standard for the $75k Open at Magic Con Chicago. Join him and Ari as they prove themselves right (or wrong) about a wide spread of topics, even if they refuse to weigh in on the great pizza debate. Patreon / Twitter / D…

Ari has restored his appreciation for Yawgmoth in Modern, and Jarvis Yu steps into the pod to discuss why the deck he is likely playing at the upcoming Regional Championship has gone from a solid combo deck with flaws to one of the undeniable best decks in the format. Patreon / Twitter / Discord Dom's Patreon…

Nobody knows what the hell to do with most of the cards in Murders at Karlov Manor so we put our most dogged detectives on the case and let them yap for hours about the bizarre combo decks coming to a Twitch stream near you - plus, a look at the results from the first weekend of Modern RCs and the format's relative stability heading into Denver and…