Ponder

Getting to Mythic Rank is every competitive Arena player's goal, and this week Jamie made the top 10! But how hard do you have to work to maintain it, and what happens if you can't? Jamie shares her experience with us. We also say good bay to some cards hit by the B&R and ponder the solitude of Arena.

This week we welcome a special guest who has built his brand up in a unique way. Keith (AdamAntMTG) joins us to talk about how his love of teaching others the game helped grow his stream to a surprising success. He gives us tips on how to engage directly with viewers to teach the game. We also ponder pop-tart improvements.

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Last weekend was the biggest Magic tournament that no one knew about. DreamHack was in Anaheim, had a ridiculous prize pool, but an extremely small attendance. If you blinked, you might have missed it. Speeding right along behind it is even more Secret Lairs. We ponder why they're coming so fast and what you might miss out on if you don't plan accordingly.

Sixteen players. Three days of Magic. A million dollars in prizes. Some quickly thrown in pineapples. The weekend was huge in the world of Magic, and we talk about what we liked and didn't, from the players, to coverage, and Arena tie-ins. We also ponder a design for PV's champion card.

Even though Jamie was trying to finish up her Arena Mythic rank, she still had time to catch some of the PT Phoenix limited play and gives us her professional opinions. And in case you haven't had enough yet, there's another Secret Lair release coming up. Is this too much yet? We finish up by pondering where we'd be right now without Magic.

We've got a whole lot to cover this week! There were not one but two Player Tours last weekend, and we go over the hot new Inverter deck that was all over the place. TJ gets hyped for the new Magic phone game, Manastrike, and we talk about the Magic Creator Program and what that could mean to content creators of all sizes. We also ponder lasagna.

Jamie is back from MagicFest New Jersey and we can't wait to hear about her experience. She not only tells about how the tournament went, but she confides in us with a couple of uncomfortable situations that happened while she was playing. We also get our first look at what the new "Un" product, Unsanctioned, will consist of and how it's different than the previous ones. Finally, we loudly argue about, er, we ponder the perfect nachos.

Jamie has been crushing sealed pools all week getting ready for MagicFest New Jersey, and she tells us what she's learned early about the format. It also seems that Legacy has disappeared from the 2020 schedule, but TJ has a reason why. Then we wrap it all up with pondering our own replacements.

We take advantage of our professional limited expertise, Jamie Topples, to look at the themes we can expect to see in Theros Beyond Deck limited decks and what we should expect in color sets and decks. Then, remember Modern? There were several bans this week and TJ gives us the whys and the impact. Finally, we all get to ponder having a Theros god for a roommate.

A special bonus, listen the the preshow for episode 90. These are normally a Patreon patron exclusive but everyone once and a while one escapes into the wild. Enjoy.