Skullcraic

On this, our 100th episode, we have a very special guest: Lucas Esper Berthoud; MPL member and Pro Tour Aether Revolt winner. We interview Lucas on everything from his PT testing process and the current state of competitive Magic to Blizzard's censorship of its players' political opinions. We also dive into the Standard metagame and get Lucas' thoughts ahead of this weekend's Mythic Championship and potential bans in Standard. We round out with a Tournament Report from Ciaran after a big MTGO win for him. You'll want to stay tuned after the outro music for a special edition of Extra Turns with an extremely unfair quiz concocted by Al.

This week, we dive further into the absolute nonsense that is the week one(!) of this Standard format, with some promising decks from the SCG event, and David finally got to play a prerelease after more than a year!

This week we're coming in extremely hot with analysis of the brand new standard format and the very first published lists from the Fandom tournaments last week. We also give our limited experiences of Eldraine limited (hah!), including a tournament report from Al from his very successful prerelease.

This week on Skullcraic we have a little bit of Modern talk but the main event involves us going through a whole pile of new Standard brews that we've brought to the table. We hope some of our brews inspire you to make your own!

This week we continue with our evaluation of the previewed cards from Throne of Eldraine, and there's an update to how Historic is being handled on MTG Arena! Al gives us a tournament report from his Modern MCQ, as well as the spicy secret tips that will make you a GOD of chaos draft!

This week we've got a whole heap of Throne of Eldraine previews, as well as the announcement of the lineup of sets for the next year! We also get a little tournament prep report from our reporter in the field, Alan!

This week we have a whole pile of exciting news as there are multiple shakeups across multiple formats in the Banned and Restricted Announcement. We then go on to discuss the results of those bans (and unbans) in this week's SCG tournament. Plus, we got some new info on how Historic is going to work on Arena after rotation this Autumn.

This week, we talk about the continued dominance of Hogaak in Modern after winning GPVegas, with the full expectation that it will be banned the day after we record! We also get a report from David's Arena MCQ experience and we cover some minor news about MTG apps and the Hall of Fame.

This week we're running through the absolutely massive and quite comprehensive changes to Organized Play that have just been announced by Wizards, as well the multitude of reactions to the announcement. We also discuss what we've been playing in Standard recently as David prepares for the Arena MCQ.

A slightly late episode this week as we experienced our first-ever lost recording! But we went and re-recorded the podcast for you fine folks anyway, with Alan and Ciaran giving a full rundown of their European Modern Series Qualifiers last weekend and a discussion of what we've been having success with in Standard over the past week.