Psst! Don't play this one too loud because it may disrupt your speculation! In this episode, Billy tries a new format, the "pigpile," and commits his schedule before doing effective sound checks. Fortunately, he's carried in the safe, mature arms of Ian Adams, Javi Lugo, and Brian Selden. We enjoy a pleasant evening's chitchat regarding PM's hottest new archetypes centered on Quiet Speculation. (For the record: Ian invented this deck and if you suggest otherwise, I WILL cry.)Ian's list: https://mtgtop8.com/event?e=71452&d=741554&f=PREMJavi's list: https://mtgtop8.com/event?e=68297&d=716756&f=PREMour shit: https://linktr.ee/duresscrew
Actual LCPM26 content inside! This is a timely republication of our stream from 21 Aug, where Nick and Jay give a presentation about LCPM26, to include actual dates and when signups open. They also field questions and solicit live community feedback about what LC should be and could be.PLEASE give your feedback about LCPM27 here: https://forms.gle/bmzyXAKasm2u65R76our shit: https://linktr.ee/duresscrewPLEASE DON"T - whatever you do - leave us a shitty voicemail with lots of potty language. Not that we could stop you, so we're trusting you. So please don't - it would be horrible and we'd be powerless to stop you and really hate it:: https://www.speakpipe.com/duresscrew
Lacking functional peers, Jay rallies the troops and leads the show tonight. In this episode, he asks the gang about their trip to the Sacred Torch Showdown and himself about his bad choice of friends. After a moment of appreciation for our handsome OST hosts, we chat results: Brad gets 2nd on Oath Spec, Nick and Jay do mid-but-positive, and Billy memes himself directly into a sewerpipe where he belongs.Brad's list: https://mtgtop8.com/event?e=71540&d=742270&f=PREMOur shit: https://linktr.ee/duresscrewleave us a shitty voicemail: https://www.speakpipe.com/DuressCrew
WE’RE BAAAAAAAAACK! You couldn’t get rid of us! Wake up honey, the Hardcast Season 2 Premiere just dropped! Join the ever-precise Shane and the temporarily-Canadian Billy for an interview with the recently-victorious Aaron Lane, who mashed 107 other, lesser wizards into tiny pieces at the DxC Summer 2025 Regional.Find his brilliantly off-meta GB Madness list here: https://www.mtgtop8.com/event?e=71249&f=PREMSoutheast US wizards, remember to sign up for the Peach Ball on Aug 30!
Whew! That was a tough one. The gang gets together and goes over what a wonderful weekend LC was, how it went from our side, and the the future of Hardcast.our shit: https://linktr.ee/duresscrew
Here it is folks! Join us for a chat with Premodern Lobstercon 2025 champion, the Atog Lord himself, provider of hummus and slayer of foes . . . Dr. Rich Shay! Brad and Billy sit down and talk with him about his migration into throwback formats, when to audible, and his experience winning the largest premodern tournament ever battled!Enchantress by Rich: https://mtgtop8.com/event?e=68297&f=PREMour shit: https://linktr.ee/duresscrew
Just what the title says ;)LC Top 64: https://mtgtop8.com/event?e=68297&f=PREMour shit: https://linktr.ee/duresscrew
Ben, Brad, Billy, Nick, and Jay thee Stream God have a round table and give a guide on how to have fun at LC with the various games and activities. Brad (mostly) keeps a handle on the show notes, Nick offers useful and pertinent information, Ben pipes in with his measured takes, Jay explains the nuances of stream wizardry, and Billy cries a bunch. There's a lot of actually useful information peppered in here, none of which is structured in a listenable or practical way.the stream is gonna fuckin' rip: https://www.twitch.tv/duresscrewour shit: https://linktr.ee/duresscrewtalk shit in our voicemailbox: https://www.speakpipe.com/DuressCrew
The only thing Brad and Billy know about About Face is about how pretty our faces are. Luckily for you, dear listener, Travis Schneider has come to indoctrinate us into the Tribe. Hailing from Atlanta, Travis has seen success with a deck he calls the cousin of Flippi. Sit for a spell, let us pour you a glass of sweet tea, and enjoy.check out Shared Discovery:https://open.spotify.com/show/5iAQ17ETQOk4uJ04uFLFQgour shit:https://linktr.ee/duresscrewleave us a shitty voicemail:https://www.speakpipe.com/DuressCrewNeed a place to stay for Lobstercon?https://www.marriott.com/event-reservations/reservation-link.mi?id=1733931656182&key=GRP&guestreslink2=true&app=resvlink
Filler episode because we're stressed out planning LC? Not a chance! Brad and Billy share the various goings-on in our community. We indulge each other with some chatter about Survival Terrageddon and Tribe Madness, go over Billy's field trip to the Sacred Torch meetup, and give a store-by-store guide on where to play PM in New England. After listener comments, we close out on the subject of Studio Ghibli.BOOK LODGING FOR LC HERE:https://www.marriott.com/event-reservations/reservation-link.mi?id=1733931656182&key=GRP&guestreslink2=true&app=resvlinkTalk shit in our voice mailbox: https://www.speakpipe.com/DuressCrew
Somebody forgot to tell the Red Line Treefolk that Red was dead and Black was bad, so Ian committed a major faux pas and won our tournament with RB Goblins. Brad and Billy have a pleasant chitchat with Ian about PM vibes, crushing cleverboys with an aggro deck, and being good stewards of your local scene. TREEFOLK RISE UP!RB Goblins: https://www.mtgtop8.com/event?e=65567&f=PREMOur shit: https://linktr.ee/duresscrewLeave us a shitty voicemail: https://www.speakpipe.com/DuressCrew
Jay McCowan leads conspicuous underperformers Billy and Brad on a self-help journey to calibrate our behaviors with our competitive or social goals in mind. Using his experiences from the decidedly un-chill RCQ mosh pit, Jay has a message for the salties, the sweaties, and the stinkers on how to stay chill, or how to recognize when you don't deserve to.our shit: https://linktr.ee/duresscrewtalk shit in our voicemail: https://www.speakpipe.com/duresscrew
In a stunning display of journalistic improvisation, Brad and Billy provide our dear listeners with the hard-hitting content they've come to expect from an institution as august and lauded as Duress Crew. In this case, we have a good 0ld fashioned shoot the shit about ban philosophy, listener comments, context on the current state of the PDAP, and speculator bullshit. After a mouth-watering duressipe, Brad yanks Billy away from the Edenic temptation of a survival terrageddon deck tech.Talk shit in our voice mailbox: https://www.speakpipe.com/duresscrewour shit: https://linktr.ee/duresscrew
Take a seat, gang, this one's a doozy. Part 1 of this episode features DxC's B-Team of Ben, Brad, and Billy going through every Terrageddon list we can find and doing a mini deck tech on every persuasion available.Part 2 is a symphony of diplomacy, where the three of us build and agree upon a list to take to Rochester Winter Ball. All three of us play the same 75 to varying success.Part 3 is a carcast with our two top finishers, Brad (T4) and Nick Pynn (T8 on UNought) chatting with Billy the Undeserving.4c TG List: https://moxfield.com/decks/MAwax2Pmk0uJ2QW7HUzlGwOur shit: https://linktr.ee/duresscrew
Have you ever wondered how stunningly right DxC has been about everything? And so often? We'll let you in on a little secret: in addition to measuring dicks, we also measure metagames. We're proud to announce that DxC has been busy curating the Premodern Data Analysis Project, a new data publication for the community to complain to each other about. Join Nick, Jay, and Brendan the New Guy while they explain computers to Billy and how they count such big numbers so quickly. Check it out at data.duresscrew.com!
A continuation of Episode 7, we complete the cliffhanger and suss out a potential list for a hypothetical NEPM T32. We also chat about meta shares of the top decks and do props and slops for the year.
Well, glad that's finally over. Brad, Ben, Jay, and Billy finally ran out of things to talk about, so we scraped the bottom of the barrel and asked Nick onto the show. We go over the various things we ruined over the course of the year, the birth of the DxC seasonals, the perverse origins of Hardcast, and our campaign to get Red Elemental Blast banned.our shit: https://linktr.ee/duresscrew
Sleeper hit Dan Hall shows up for his first episode! With Billy, we pull Leaving a Legacy host Jerry Mee out of retirement. We chat about Premodern first impressions, building a local scene outside of WotC support, consumer fatigue, and his gramps destroying target artifact or land. It can't be regenerated.our shit: https://linktr.ee/duresscrew
Finally! Back to our regularly scheduled programming. Nick Balzano recently won the DxC Fall event, rocking the socks off of 70 other players to win the damn thing with a deck that'll remind you to pack your crypts next time. Brad and Billy join him to talk about the Dredge Meta Effect, some bullshit LDV math that nobody understands, New England hardcore bands, and turn zero-ing PM final boss Rich Shay.Nick's Deck: https://mtgtop8.com/event?e=61454&f=PREMour shit: https://linktr.ee/duresscrew
(probably) Our final mini update from Pittsburgh, Jay drives the ship while a bunch of us are cuddled up on the no-pull-out couch. Brad gets his dev dreams countered, a bad man steals Billy's figure skating trading cards, and the gang drills darts in a punk bar that Mike found.