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Terravore decks won the Buckeye Brawl 2 and the Czech National Championship this month, and they were two very different decks. Most of the episode, though, is about deck selection, and whether you're better off on the strongest deck, the one you've played the most, or whatever beats the room you expect. Chris talks about going from Stasis to Stiflenought to Parallax Tide to Psychatog, and Sam explains why he'd rather master one good deck than chase the metagame. Neon Mushroom won Buckeye Bra...

Five summer Premodern events produced five different winning decks, from Dreadnought at the European Championship to mono-black at the South American Championship. CCL commissioner Hodge joins Neal and Chris to go through PEACE in Berkley, Michigan, the South American Championship in Argentina, Brazilian Nationals, the Peach Ball in Marietta, Georgia, and the European Championship in Poland, with top eight conversion rates for each. Mr Meseeks and Mike Atkinson of the Motor City Metalworkers,...

Three lists, five cards each, and not one card appeared on more than one of them. That left Neal, Chris, and Sam with fifteen cards and no way to merge them, so the order got decided offline and revealed one card at a time on tape. The disagreements start on the first card and do not really stop until the last one. The episode also recaps the August monthly at ELD, where the crew put three players in the top eight and took the title. The tournament half covers a Stiflenought top eight built f...

Claire Ackerman's Oath Ponza is a five color deck now, and this is the episode where she explains how it got there. The four color build made top four at LobsterCon 2026, and rather than sleeve it up again she rebuilt it, taking a top eight at NE Summer Regionals with the new list. Neal and Chris ask how a Legacy control player ended up on a green mana denial deck, and more usefully, how the choices actually got made: Wednesday night calls with her friend Joe, a maybe board of thirty to forty...

Ben Bauer won the Shoe City Showdown #4: Enchanted Summer with Elves, and the deck waiting for him in the finals was Replenish, the same matchup that ended his LobsterCon quarterfinal earlier this year. He goes through the full run with Neal, Chris, and Sam, from a round two loss to Red-Green Survival Madness to a finals rematch he did not expect to win. There is a fire alarm partway through the day. Anyone playing Elves, or building against it, gets the current thinking on the list straight ...