Dominaria's Judgment

Rhinos keeps on winning in Modern, and it's time to talk about why. Is it the latest lists of Rhinos that are so darn good, is the Modern metagame just favorable to Cascade decks, or are the best players just playing the same deck when they could win with a ham sandwich? It's probably not the last one, but you always have to check when Nathan Steuer is the person winning! Rhinos! 0:00Other Cascade Decks 46:30Results 57:00Nonsense! 1:06:30 Nonsense - Gnshhagghkkapphribbit Patreon / Twitter / Discord

 ...Dom had one of the most detailed deck guides of all time?! Today we talk about that labour of love, the weird incentives and economics behind longform content creation these days, and the questions Ari still had about Amulet after reading it (which sounded better than a 'why can't Ari win with Amulet?' episode).SCG Richmond 20k (can you guess who won yet?!) SCG Richmond 5k RCQNonsense - Gifts AmuletPatreon / Twitter / Discord

It's a brewmasters' paradise this week as Twitch sensation Evart Moughon (Aspiringspike) takes a break from cooking up some crazy new Modern deck to talk to us about how he does just that. We then take our usual trip through the results and nonsense of the week before arriving at the perfect synthesis of the two: that's right, Rei Zhang/cftsoc did it again! 00:00 Aspiringspike1:11:38 Results/Nonsense/Cftsoc Cftsoc's Blade of Shared Souls Combo Jason Ye/Sanctum of All's Combo Explanation/Origin Story Scammer Time Evart on Humans of Magic Patreon / Twitter / Discord

The battle(s) continues as we tilt our heads and absorb way too many words in an attempt to give you our preview punditry. Plus cruelty, creativity, and how rhinos became an endangered species in Europe. 00:00 - More previews 1:19:13 - Results + Nonsense Patreon / Twitter / Discord

March of the Machine previews have kicked off, and so have hot takes about card types no one has played with! Dom and Ari discuss a lot of things about Battles and even more about team-up Legends, new planeswalkers, and all the other March of the Machine cards that might have impacts across Standard, Pioneer, and Modern. 00:00 - Battles, Battles, more Battles 35:00 - Preview Cards that aren't Battles 1:25:30 - Brief LotR discussion 1:31:50 -  Modern (and other format) Results 1:47:15 - Nonsense of the Week Patreon / Twitter / Discord Nonsense of the Week: Goryo's Omnath  Crashing Kavus 

Many moons ago, 'midrange' was an insult you hurled at a deck that couldn't justify its existence - now, midrange is the default dominant strategy in sane formats. We take a deep dive on the theory and practice of midrange past and present and what it says about the state of the game. 1:27:27 Results/Nonsense Patreon / Twitter / Discord LSV on why midrange sucks (2009)

After two action-packed weekends of Standard RCs, the format has taken shape - with more corners and edges than seemed possible at first. We tell tall tales about the best and worst decks of the format and discuss just what the Grixis mirror-breaker might be.  Patreon / Twitter / Discord

Jarvis Yu joins the podcast this week to catch us up with all things Four-Color Midrange now that Elesh Norn has kicked the deck back into gear! Patreon / Twitter / Discord 2:10 - Legacy Bans 7:25 - 4C Deck Discussion 49:45 - 4C vs the Meta Overview 1:02:30 - Modern Results 1:07:20 - Nonsense of the Week : 23 Mana Value, 1 Ad Nauseum

Dom went to the dark side and Scammed all comers in this month's ManaTraders Series so this week we take a deep dive on a deck that went from gimmick to Modern mainstay over the past few months. Amid war stories from the weekend we go over how to choose your mark, how to fix the supposedly awful Murktide matchup, and why this isn't your boomer relative's midrange deck - or a midrange deck at all. Patreon / Twitter / Discord 00:00 Scam! 1:25:55 Results 

Pro Tour Phyrexia is in the books and we thought we should get the inside scoop from someone who was actually there riding the highs and lows (in equal measure to a perfectly even 8-8 record) - perennial PTQ champion Tommy Ashton.  Patreon / Twitter / Discord