Arena Craft Podcast

This week, we bring you an interview with a guy who's no stranger to Mythic #1 – Aaron Gertler. He jumped into the spotlight earlier this year by spending 4 days at #1 on the Arena ranked ladder playing an innovative brew, Simic Mass Manipulation. This deck used ramp to get mid-to-late-game value out of casting big X spells like Entrancing Melody and Mass Manipulation. It was perhaps the first major archetype to feature Mass Manipulation in the maindeck, and turned askew the concept of what a successful deck on the ladder could be.

Now Aaron is back at #1, but this time he's been playing Temur Clover (Adventures), a deck featuring Lucky Clover, Escape To The Wilds, and a full compliment of Adventure creatures. We discuss how Aaron discovered the deck, the process he went through to tweak it to his own ends, and some of the strategies for playing this powerful deck against various metagame staples. Tune in to hear thoughts on current Standard, a rumination on what's good in the metagame right now, and to hear how to attack from a different angle with Temur Clover!

Click here for a current Temur Clover decklist

Click here to read Aaron's article on the deck on Reddit

Click here for one of Aaron's Simic Manipulation posts on Reddit

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This show features the track 'Real Virtuality' from Eero Johannes released on the Sound Pellegrino label and is used with permission.

Title says it all – today, I'm exploring assertions people have made around banning Smuggler's Copter in the Pioneer format. Join me as I examine how the card is currently seeing play, explore some of the most common answers, and dig into some numbers gathered from the community.

Reddit thread / Strawpoll

u/lvlIOcpu's Reddit post re: common Pioneer removal

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This show features the track 'Real Virtuality' from Eero Johannes released on the Sound Pellegrino label and is used with permission. 

Welcome to Arena Craft, a podcast devoted to Magic: The Gathering on Arena and in paper. We'll be covering Magic Arena and all formats legal on the platform. In addition, we'll be covering Pioneer, and Historic when it becomes more of a presence. Thanks so much for listening to this first episode, and I look forward to sharing more content with you!

Find Arena Craft on:

1. Discord
2. Twitter
3. Twitch
4. YouTube
5. Facebook
6. Email Us

This show features the track 'Real Virtuality' from Eero Johannes released on the Sound Pellegrino label and is used with permission.