Devon O'Donnell returns to help us break down the results of this weekend's NRG Chicago Modern and Pioneer trials. Then chat about d00mwake's own upcoming Pure Modern tournament and what to play in a tournament without Modern Horizon cards. 

The Break Down: NRG Mundelein: More Trials Than Salem

The Dive Down: Elevator Constellation Triggers

The Dive Down, cont: The Purest of Modern Tournaments


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Timestamps:


4:40 - Housekeeping
6:40 - The Break Down: Shane & Devon talk NRG Mundelein
10:01 - The 2023 NRG Series structure
13:35 - The Modern 10k metagame
36:53 - The Modern top 8
45:13 - The Pioneer 5k metagame
55:19 - The Pioneer top 8
57:30 - The NRG leaderboard
59:38 - The Dive Down: Stan & Devon talk Pure Modern
1:14:44 - What's good in Pure Modern?
1:49:30 - Wrapping up


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Episode 216: Rhinos Overrun NRG & Pure Modern Preview, ft. d00mwake

The Dive Down is a Magic: The Gathering podcast focused on the latest decks, trends, and strategies for the casual spikes in Modern, Pioneer, Explorer, and more! 
Each week your hosts Dave, Shane, and Stanislav discuss the latest innovations, competitive events, and level-up topics for paper and online players.
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Welcome to the new Horizon of Modern. That long awaited day is finally here — Horizons 3 has launched and is in the hands of anyone who wants to: 1) use a Bird Wizard to draw their whole deck, 2) Break a line with a bowl of spaghet monsters, 3) Pay life to draw cards, then DIE, and 4) explore an potentially incredible new format.

This week Dave and Devon talk through early impressions of decks we're seeing, things we've tested, early results from an MH3-inclusive 5k in Las Vegas and more. Tune in for the Nadu, stay for the Unstable Amulet. It's another week on The Dive Down!

• Nadu

• Eldrazi

• And All the Rest of the Cards


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Timestamps:

3:20 — Heavy Play Means Business

7:40 — Housekeeping

9:30 — The only place we can start: Nadu

27:15 — Big Eldrazi (Tron)

33:40 — Lil 'Drazi (Aggro)

42:00 — Affinity

43:55 — Ruby Storm

52:05 — Energy Decks (Boros, R Prowess, 4c Control)

56:40 — Mono Black Griefs, Scam (Necrodominance and more)

1:07:02 — Buried Alive/Phoenix

1:09:38 — Stuff We Haven't Seen (Flare of Cultivation, Shifting Woodlands)

1:13:03 — What We've Excited for Next

1:16:01 — What About Old Modern?

1:17:19 — Outro

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Episode 279: MH3: New Decks, First Impressions

It took another couple hours but we finally made it through the complete MH3 spoiler (even after skipping a ton of limited fodder). We wrap up our set review with the gold cards along with the new to Modern reprints, and cap it off with some of our favorite cards in the set and a few called shots about cards to watch.


We at least mention every card by name so YOU KNOW if we don't think a card is good enough to see play.
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Timestamps:

4:26 - Heavy Play: likely better than Dark Knight Rises

5:36 - This week's episode/housekeeping

9:29 - Multicolored

35:12 - Artifacts

46:50 - Lands

1:04:25 - Dual-Faced cards

1:28:26 - Reprints

1:57:18 - Our MH3 awards

2:10:12 - Our final takes on MH3

2:20:55 - Wrapping up

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Episode 278: MH3 Full Set Review, Part 2: The Rest of the Cards

It's finally here! The Modern Horizons 3 spoiler is complete — and wow do we have a lot to talk about. Join us this week as Dave, Devon, and Shane talk through every card * in the set from Colorless and WUBRG. We debate which new Eldrazi titan is best, how much energy you need to feel paid off, some pet cards that we wish we good, and more! Lots more because we're talking about every card *. 


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Timestamps:

3:17 - Heavy Play is nothing to be apprehensive about

5:01 - This week's show/housekeeping

9:08 - The Dive Down: It's Modern Horizons 3 set review time!

10:10 - Colorless

23:29 - White

45:30 - Blue

1:10:05 - Black

1:32:42 - Red

1:50:53 - Green

2:07:05 - Wrapping up

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Episode 277: MH3 Full Set Review, Part 1: Colorless & WUBRG

The time has finally come for the sea change that is Modern Horizons 3. We dissect the first batch of official spoilers from Tuesday, and revisit some of our most embarrassing evaluations from MH2 spoiler season all those moons ago. 

We chat about Phlage, the Eldrazi Titans, the Flares and Medallions, new toys for Storm, and lots more!

The Dive Down: The MH3 Spoiler Season We Always Wanted

The Wind Down: The MH2 Spoiler Season We Hoped to Forget


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Timestamps:

7:10 - Heavy Play can hold MH3 cards

9:08 - Housekeeping/this week's episode

12:37 - The Dive Down begins: MH3 spoilers begin!

15:26 - Stan's Polygon spoiler: Phlage, Titan of Fire's Fury

24:17 - Amped Raptor

28:00 - Devourer of Destiny

30:51 - Ulamog the Defiler

35:49 - Breaker of Creation

36:39 - Ugin's Labyrinth

39:52 - Thief of Existence

41:51 - Basking Broodscale

44:36 - Kozilek, the Broken Reality

49:00 - Flare of Fortitude (and other Flares)

54:09 - Flare of Duplication

55:11 - The Medallions

59:16 - Ral, Monsoon Mage

1:03:07 - Tamiyo, Inquisitive Student

1:05:06 - Harbinger of the Seas

1:09:58 - Orim's Chant

1:11:19 - Powerbalance

1:12:54 - Double-faced lands

1:14:54 - Eladamri, Korvecdal

1:19:01 - Our worst takes from the MH2 spoiler season

1:30:13 - Wrapping up

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Episode 276: These MH3 Spoilers Are Making Me Thirsty

On this week's show, the four amigos break down the results of the Modern Open at NRG Indianapolis, the last big paper Modern tournament before MH3 changes everything (presumably). Plus, D00mwake joins the dark side and started playing Phoenix. And Stan tries some new cards in Ensoul, plus a bunch of OJT drafts. 

The Break Down: The Motor City is a Real Zoo Meta

The Dive Down: Be the Bad Guy, Play Phoenix

The Dive Down cont.: Stan Likes OTJ


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Timestamps:

6:56 - Heavy Play is our favorite co-host

8:25 - Goodbye, Tanner!

12:23 - This week's show/housekeeping

17:15 - NRG Indy's Modern $10K

46:15 - Cool decks grab bag - d00m on Izzet Phoenix

56:36 - Stan played some new cards in Ensoul

1:08:20 - Talking about Freestrider Lookout

1:13:45 - Stan loves OTJ draft

1:25:40 - Wrapping up

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Episode 216: Rhinos Overrun NRG & Pure Modern Preview, ft. d00mwake

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