Seb and Åland are joined by the long time host of All Tings Considered, Mano, to talk sbout playing a bunch of fireballs and playing the next best thing to The Deck. What do you have to put into consideration building the optimal deck sans counterspells? How do you usually go about playing league or one day tournaments these days? Where are we in the meta today and what cards would you say are the most underplayed ones in old school? these and many other TINGS we go on about in this episode of Monster of the Week.

Bryan Manolakos, Counterless The Deck

Mikael Johansson, Trying To Be Mano

Seb, Åland and The Janitor talk about the meta in Noobcom II.

Seb and Åland have a chat with Anton Glans about the Premodern Easter Championship. They go through how the meta has changed and evolved over the last 4 years. This episode might feel a bit all over the place but do not miss out on all the really spicy decks that get mentioned. Hopefully it will get your brewing juices flowing.

On premodernmagic.com you can find some of the tournament reports through the years that we talk about. Here you can find Glans latest one from the 2021 Easter Championship in Premodern. And we have all the decklists that we talk about from this tournament here on the site.

“Hattpers” deck from an earlier Premodern Easter Championship discussed in the episode.

“Pefkens” deck from an earlier Easter Championship discussed in the episode. (We did not get the rest of the 8 sideboard cards from Pefken due to how “They were never used anyhow”)

Åland and Seb has Bonnie over to talk about Chains in old school magic. What even is Chains? And how do you play it?

Bonnie - Bat Chains

Bonnie - Creatureless Chains

Bonnie - Scryings Chains

On this episode of Monster of the Week we discuss the Lands deck in Premodern with Martin Berlin. We go through Martins developing of the deck and talk about sideboard options.

Seb, Åland and Jonas talk about playing Howling Mine in 93/94 Old School. They go through different archetypes that are enabled by the card and gives us some insight on the different archetypes and decks from the format.

Danny Friedman, Winner Lockdown Christmas Online Tournament

Bryan Manolakos, NEOS December, Top 8

2016 Eternal Weekend Old School event, 22nd place, Tim Winter

Rich Shay, Winter Derby 2019, top 16

Jeff Liu, Winter Derby 2021, 13th seed in playoffs

Link to Vaultatog deck tech on Youtube.

Seb and Åland have a chat with Michael James Heup about the deck archetype “The Rock” that he has been slinging in Premodern. We talk about what makes the deck so good and varied.

Sebs internet broke down towards the end so Åland stepped in. Decklist and more content from Michael can be found further down on the page.

Michael James Heup - The Rock

Michael James Heup - Beast Rock deck using Living Wish as discussed in the episode.

Be sure to check out Michaels Twitch channel on https://www.twitch.tv/cloudgoatranger and his Youtube Channel where the Premodern Showdown Series are hosted.

Assistant Director Seb and The Lone Gunman Åland have a chat with The Janitor Jonas about a bunch of Juzam decks.

Åland and Seb have a talk with Joel Larsson about his journey making the Goblin deck in Premodern. We go through the different variations of the deck and talk about the key cards. What should you think about playing this deck? What sideboard options are there?

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