The Dive Down

In a special patron-requested episode, our three friends provide a roadmap to improvement for key Magic skills and other useful habits. We also kick off the show with run downs and reactions to the latest Magic Arena announcements for Explorer and Pioneer. Huge thanks to Codi for supporting our show at the esteemed Double-Sided Diamond Dust Rare level, which has earned them the coveted opportunity to select an episode topic for the show. The Break Down: An Explorer Exposition Dump The Dive Down: Getting Better at Magic: Stan Proposes Practice The Dive Down, 2: Getting Better at Magic: Dave and Shane Reject Practice Check out our NEW SPONSOR, Barrister and Mann! https://www.barristerandmann.com/ Use code THEDIVEDOWN2022 for 15% off your first order of some incredible fragrances, soaps, beard oils, and more. Become a citizen of The Dive Down Nation!: http://www.patreon.com/thedivedown Get 15% off your first 2 months of ManaTraders! https://www.manatraders.com/?medium=thedivedown and use code "THEDIVEDOWN2022" Timestamps: 4:28 - Housekeeping 7:30 - The Break Down - Explorer! 18:16 - How are we feeling? 26:05 - The potential decks of Explorer 32:35 - What are we playing in Explorer? 34:40 - An artistic diversion 37:57 - The Dive Down - How to get better at Magic 39:39 - 1) Play more Magic 42:20 - 2) Play both sides of the battlefield 49:42 - 2a) Do the math 1:03:24 - 3) Identify the decks you excel at 1:10:38 - 4) Mulligan better 1:22:15 - 5) Treat your games as experiments 1:41:49 - 6) Get feedback on your play 1:48:00 - Some conclusions Links from this week's episode: The announcement of Explorer: https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/magic-digital/mtg-arena-state-game-streets-new-capenna-2022-04-21 PVDDR's Best plays in Magic history: https://pvddr.substack.com/p/the-best-plays-in-the-history-of?s=w Our opening music is Nowhere - You Never Knew, and our closing music is Space Blood - Goro? Is That Your Christian Name? Watch us stream our episodes every Sunday night at 8pm Central: https://www.twitch.tv/thedivedown_shane email us: [email protected] twitter: https://twitter.com/thedivedown Leave us an audio message: https://www.podinbox.com/thedivedown

The full set of New Capenna has been revealed, so on this week's show we complete our run through of all the cards in the set. We go through the families, argue about how good Luxior is going to be (or not be), try to avoid taking an endless detour as we speculate about Giada, and wonder if there's a shadow of a chance that Shadow of Mortality has what it takes. But before that, we spend some time looking through recent Pioneer results with a focus on Izzet Control. The Break Down: It's Back: Two Pioneer Challenges The Dive Down: Dave Proposes Cards The Dive Down, pt.2: Stan and Shane Reject Cards Check out our NEW SPONSOR, Barrister and Mann! https://www.barristerandmann.com/ Use code THEDIVEDOWN2022 for 15% off your first order of some incredible fragrances, soaps, beard oils, and more. Become a citizen of The Dive Down Nation!: http://www.patreon.com/thedivedown Get 15% off your first 2 months of ManaTraders! https://www.manatraders.com/?medium=thedivedown and use code "THEDIVEDOWN2022" Timestamps: 3:45 - Housekeeping 7:10 - The Break Down begins: Pioneer challenges are back! 10:16 - 4/16 Challenge metagame 10:40 - Izzet Control 18:05 - Mono-G Ramp 22:10 - 4/16 Top 8 and Mono-W Devotion 25:55 - Mono-U Spirits 28:22 - The 4/17 Challenge 34:26 - Some Pioneer thoughts 44:08 - A smelly interlude 47:21 - The Dive Down begins - more Capenna spoilers! 49:17 - Luxior, Giada's Gift 57:47 - Endless Detour 1:02:58 - Rocco, Cabaretti Caterer 1:07:12 - Void Rend 1:10:52 - Urabrask, Heretic Praetor 1:14:27 - Shadow of Mortality 1:20:56 - Patch Up 1:23:10 - An Offer You Can't Refuse 1:25:10 - Unlicensed Hearse 1:29:48 - Giada, Font of Hope 1:33:04 - Tenacious Underdog 1:35:34 - Titan of Industry 1:36:50 - Boon of Safety 1:38:50 - Against the Odds: Aven Heartstabber, Tainted Indulgence 1:42:53 - What cards we want to cast most? 1:46:34 - Closing out Links from this week's episode: 4/16 Pioneer Challenge: https://www.mtggoldfish.com/tournament/pioneer-challenge-12409669#paper 4/17 Pioneer Challenge: https://www.mtggoldfish.com/tournament/pioneer-challenge-12409673#paper Faithless Looting's Epic Luxior Thread: https://twitter.com/FaithlessMTG/status/1513621542097334277?s=20&t=O0MEhNqOBhkhOWCMN6D_xA Our opening music is Nowhere - You Never Knew, and our closing music is Space Blood - Goro? Is That Your Christian Name? Watch us stream our episodes every Sunday night at 8pm Central: https://www.twitch.tv/thedivedown_shane email us: [email protected] twitter: https://twitter.com/thedivedown Leave us an audio message: https://www.podinbox.com/thedivedown

The Dive Down visits sunny Texas for SCGCON Dallas! We chat about our very first free preview card from Streets of New Capenna, other highlights from the set so far, and our experiences playing paper Magic all weekend. The Break Down: Move Shane Get Out Da Way The Dive Down: Cards in Shards The Wind Down: The Fort Worth Main Street Arts Festival Check out our NEW SPONSOR, Barrister and Mann! https://www.barristerandmann.com/ Use code THEDIVEDOWN2022 for 15% off your first order of some incredible fragrances, soaps, beard oils, and more. Become a citizen of The Dive Down Nation!: http://www.patreon.com/thedivedown Get 15% off your first 2 months of ManaTraders! https://www.manatraders.com/?medium=thedivedown and use code "THEDIVEDOWN2022" Timestamps: 3:08 - Housekeeping 7:13 - Our preview card - Out of the Way! 16:07 - The first batch of New Capenna spoilers 16:42 - The common lands 18:31 - Sorry, weird audio glitch! An Offer You Can't Refuse 23:28 - Strangle 26:44 - Grisly Sigil 30:04 - Unlucky Witness 33:21 - A Little Chat 35:31 - Gala Greeters 39:39 - Make Disappear/Rob the Archives 42:54 - Brokers Charm 44:39 - Disciplined Duelist 47:15 - Devilish Valet 49:49 - Mage's Attendant 51:50 - Evolving Door 53:32 - Ob Nixilis, the Adversary 59:30 - Professional Face-Breaker 1:01:31 - Vivien on the Hunt 1:03:58 - Elspeth, Resplendent 1:06:39 - Cut Your Losses 1:08:14 - The Dive Down begins: Our SCGCon Dallas experiences 1:09:32 - Shane and Stan talk FAB, Pioneer, and Modern 1:28:41 - The Dive Down, cont: Dave talks Modern 1:35:22 - Shane and Stan talk Pioneer 1:41:15 - The Modern 30k Meta Links from this week's episode: Our Spoiler video: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/AymuqSbd80U Streets of New Capenna Spoilers: https://scryfall.com/sets/snc?as=grid&order=spoiled The Modern 30k: https://mtgmelee.com/Tournament/View/9196 Our opening music is Nowhere - You Never Knew, and our closing music is Space Blood - Goro? Is That Your Christian Name? Watch us stream our episodes every Sunday night at 8pm Central: https://www.twitch.tv/thedivedown_shane email us: [email protected] twitter: https://twitter.com/thedivedown Leave us an audio message: https://www.podinbox.com/thedivedown

The gang is reunited this week for an episode full of new cards, pivot tables, and tournament surprises. We start off with our initial reactions to the new charms spoiled from Streets of New Capenna, and imagine the impact of the complete triome cycle on our favorite formats. Then we go over the results of March's Modern metagame, the Manatraders Modern tournament, and the latest NRG results to analyze the growing and shrinking popularity of various decks in a post-Lurrus metagame. Finally, we wrap up with a Wind Down of our plans for SCG Con Dallas. Turns out... it's technically in Fort Worth! The Break Down: Greetings from New Capena The Dive Down: Greetings from Fort Wayne The Wind Down: Greetings from Dallas/Fort Worth Check out our NEW SPONSOR, Barrister and Mann! https://www.barristerandmann.com/ Use code THEDIVEDOWN2022 for 15% off your first order of some incredible fragrances, soaps, beard oils, and more. Become a citizen of The Dive Down Nation!: http://www.patreon.com/thedivedown Get 15% off your first 2 months of ManaTraders! https://www.manatraders.com/?medium=thedivedown and use code "THEDIVEDOWN2022" Timestamps: 4:59 - Housekeeping 8:50 - We're getting a preview card! 10:59 - Streets of New Capenna early spoilers - The Triomes 18:24 - The Charms - Obscura Charm 22:35 - Maestro's Charm 25:52 - Riveteers Charm 29:23 - Cabaretti Charm 33:03 - The Dive Down begins - March's metagame report 33:30 - The top decks 39:48 - The top cards 43:22 - The most winning decks 46:51 - The NRG Modern 20k 48:30 - The NRG meta 55:50 - The winrates 1:05:55 - The top 8 1:10:15 - The Manatraders Modern event swiss meta 1:14:20 - The best decks of Manatraders 1:17:20 - The top 8 1:23:05 - The Wind Down begins - SCGCon Dallas 1:28:57 - What we are playing in Dallas 1:39:55 - Closing out Links from this week's episode: Streets of New Capenna spoilers: https://scryfall.com/sets/snc?as=grid&order=spoiled The NRG tournament: https://mtgmelee.com/Tournament/View/8591 Our opening music is Nowhere - You Never Knew, and our closing music is Space Blood - Goro? Is That Your Christian Name? Watch us stream our episodes every Sunday night at 8pm Central: https://www.twitch.tv/thedivedown_shane email us: [email protected] twitter: https://twitter.com/thedivedown Leave us an audio message: https://www.podinbox.com/thedivedown

This week Dave got lost in a cave while vacationing, so Dom Harvey joins the show to react and contextualize Wizard's official announcement that the Pro Tour is back! We break down the new competitive organized play systems, how it fits into the casual spike lifestyle, and how it supports Magic's highest level players. We warm up with a break down of some wild weekend top 8s. The Dive Down: Enter the Pyramid The Dive Down, cont: The Road to Regionals The Dive Down, cont: The Life of a World Champion Check out our NEW SPONSOR, Barrister and Mann! https://www.barristerandmann.com/ Use code THEDIVEDOWN2022 for 15% off your first order of some incredible fragrances, soaps, beard oils, and more. Become a citizen of The Dive Down Nation!: http://www.patreon.com/thedivedown Get 15% off your first 2 months of ManaTraders! https://www.manatraders.com/?medium=thedivedown and use code "THEDIVEDOWN2022" Timestamps: 1:55 - Dom's Housekeeping 7:57 - Housekeeping 10:32 - The Break Down begins: The Super Qualifier 24:07 - The Showcase Challenge 40:53 - Cool Decks, Inc - Rakdos Midrange "Blink" 43:56 - The Dive Down begins: The Pro Tour is back! 51:29 - The World Championship 57:21 - Regional Championships and Qualifiers 1:17:41 - The Pro Tour itself 1:27:24 - How do we feel about this? 1:37:58 - What goals can people have now? 1:46:42 - What's missing? 1:50:22 - Find Dom online and closing out Links from this week's episode: Find Dom online: https://linktr.ee/domhrv The Return of the Pro Tour!: https://magic.gg/news/return-of-the-pro-tour-faq Our opening music is Nowhere - You Never Knew, and our closing music is Space Blood - Goro? Is That Your Christian Name? Watch us stream our episodes every Sunday night at 8pm Central: https://www.twitch.tv/thedivedown_shane email us: [email protected] twitter: https://twitter.com/thedivedown Leave us an audio message: https://www.podinbox.com/thedivedown

Dave and Stan meet Saffron Olive from MTG Goldfish, and talk about Seth's sleep schedule, his MTG origins, and how the deck names in MTG Goldfish get fixed. Check out our NEW SPONSOR, Barrister and Mann! https://www.barristerandmann.com/ Use code THEDIVEDOWN2022 for 15% off your first order of some incredible fragrances, soaps, beard oils, and more. Become a citizen of The Dive Down Nation!: http://www.patreon.com/thedivedown Get 15% off your first 2 months of ManaTraders! https://www.manatraders.com/?medium=thedivedown and use code "THEDIVEDOWN2022" Links from this week's episode: www.mtggoldfish.com https://twitter.com/saffronolive Our opening music is Nowhere - You Never Knew, and our closing music is Space Blood - Goro? Is That Your Christian Name? Watch us stream our episodes most Sunday nights at 8pm Central: https://www.twitch.tv/thedivedown_shane email us: [email protected] twitter: https://twitter.com/thedivedown Leave us an audio message: https://www.podinbox.com/thedivedown

This week, Shane's on vacation and Stan's late so Dave gets to do whatever he wants. And what he's decided is to check in with friend of the show and certified shadow scientist Michael Rapp about where everyone's avatar is headed these days. That's right, it's time for a deep dive on (mostly) Grixis Death's Shadow (along with a few other things). But first, we chat about Michael's recent trip to Indy and break down the Modern meta there. The Break Down: Shane’s Gone, Stan’s Late The Dive Down: Why Street Wraith is a Bad Card Now The Dive Down (pt.2): Shadow, Prepared Three Ways Check out our NEW SPONSOR, Barrister and Mann! https://www.barristerandmann.com/ Use code THEDIVEDOWN2022 for 15% off your first order of some incredible fragrances, soaps, beard oils, and more. Become a citizen of The Dive Down Nation!: http://www.patreon.com/thedivedown Get 15% off your first 2 months of ManaTraders! https://www.manatraders.com/?medium=thedivedown and use code "THEDIVEDOWN2022" Timestamps: 2:45 - Break Down Begins: Michael's Team at SCG Con Indianapolis 8:50 - Indianopolis Top 6 Begins 24:43 - The Indianapolis Modern Metagame 38:50 - How Michael's Team Prepared for Indy 44:19 - Dive Down Begins: Michael's Relationship with Death's Shadow 50:09 - The Lurrus Era of Shadow 56:27 - The First Weekend after Lurrus Was Banned 1:02:15 - The "Stock" Grixis Shadow Deck 1:15:3 - An Ode to Dress Down 1:20:00 - GDS, Still Hard to Play 1:25:35 - Murktide Shadow 1:33:27 - Mardu Shadow 1:37:39 - Jund Shadow 1:42:35 - Closing Out Links from this week's episode: Michael's Twitter: https://twitter.com/RappaciousOne Michael's recent article on the Card Kingdom Blog (includes write-ups and decklists): https://blog.cardkingdom.com/the-rumors-of-deaths-shadows-demise-have-been-greatly-exaggerated/ All Articles: https://blog.cardkingdom.com/author/mrapp2/ Discord server: https://discord.gg/wYCx6N4 Our opening music is Nowhere - You Never Knew, and our closing music is Space Blood - Goro? Is That Your Christian Name? Watch us stream our episodes every Sunday night at 8pm Central: https://www.twitch.tv/thedivedown_shane email us: [email protected] twitter: https://twitter.com/thedivedown Leave us an audio message: https://www.podinbox.com/thedivedown

We are back with the second installment of The People's Meta! With Lurrus gone, and the first big paper tournament happening in the Hunter Burton Memorial Open, there's no time like the present to take a look at what's happening in Modern. We categorize and talk about every deck in a recent 5-0 League dump and break down what's changing in the wide open world of Magic Online. We then take some time to look at the paper metagame of the HBMO, examine what's changing, and take a gander at what did well down in Texas. The Break Down: Dave Breaks Down The Break Down, pt.2: Dave Dissects a Dump The Break Down, pt.3: The 2022 HBMO Check out our NEW SPONSOR, Barrister and Mann! https://www.barristerandmann.com/ Use code THEDIVEDOWN2022 for 15% off your first order of some incredible fragrances, soaps, beard oils, and more. Become a citizen of The Dive Down Nation!: http://www.patreon.com/thedivedown Get 15% off your first 2 months of ManaTraders! https://www.manatraders.com/?medium=thedivedown and use code "THEDIVEDOWN2022" Timestamps: 7:10 - Housekeeping 12:00 - The Break Down - The Post-Lurrus meta 14:35 - Death's Shadow decks 26:58 - Murktide 28:54 - Hammertime 30:05 - Blink 37:34 - Amulet Titan 42:56 - RBx Midrange 52:32 - Burn/Prowess 56:23 - Control 1:00:10 - Cascade 1:01:04 - Creativity 1:03:10 - Dredge 1:06:05 - Hardened Scales 1:11:50 - Creature Combo decks 1:16:55 - Prowess 1:18:50 - Midrange 1:21:35 - Humans and others 1:25:13 - Tron and others 1:31:55 - Combo junk drawer 1:34:55 - Other oddities 1:38:15 - Mono-Red Stuff 1:42:15 - The Hunter Burton Memorial Open 1:43:45 - The HBMO meta 1:47:10 - The Day 2 meta 1:50:30 - The Top 8 1:54:03 - What did we learn? 1:59:49 - Closing out Links from this week's episode: The 3/11 Deck Dump: https://www.mtggoldfish.com/tournament/modern-league-2022-03-11#paper The Hunter Burton Memorial Open: https://hunterburtonmemorialopen.com/ Decklists and standings from HBMO: https://www.hbpairings.com/ Our opening music is Nowhere - You Never Knew, and our closing music is Space Blood - Goro? Is That Your Christian Name? Watch us stream our episodes every Sunday night at 8pm Central: https://www.twitch.tv/thedivedown_shane email us: [email protected] twitter: https://twitter.com/thedivedown Leave us an audio message: https://www.podinbox.com/thedivedown

Shane and Stan sit down with the newly crowned Neon Dynasty Set Champion, Eli Kassis! We talk about Eli's deck selection and preparation for the Set Championship, the role of a testing team, and more. Check out our NEW SPONSOR, Barrister and Mann! https://www.barristerandmann.com/ Use code THEDIVEDOWN2022 for 15% off your first order of some incredible fragrances, soaps, beard oils, and more. Become a citizen of The Dive Down Nation!: http://www.patreon.com/thedivedown Get 15% off your first 2 months of ManaTraders! https://www.manatraders.com/?medium=thedivedown and use code "THEDIVEDOWN2022" Links from this week's episode: https://twitter.com/Eli_Kassis Our opening music is Nowhere - You Never Knew, and our closing music is Space Blood - Goro? Is That Your Christian Name? Watch us stream our episodes every Sunday night at 8pm Central: https://www.twitch.tv/thedivedown_shane email us: [email protected] twitter: https://twitter.com/thedivedown Leave us an audio message: https://www.podinbox.com/thedivedown

Well they finally went and did it. Wizards of the Coast (kinda) surprised the entire Magic Non-Rotating Format World by sending everyone's favorite Nightmare Cat back to her den to think about what's she's done. In case that previous sentence isn't clear, I'm trying to say that they banned Lurrus of the Dream-Den in Modern and Pioneer. After (tearfully) throwing away an entire month of episodes we had planned out before this news, the three friends gather their composure and do what you pay (or don't pay) them to do — make predicitions about what will happen in Magic and just generally react to the news. Stan seems excited for Murktide. Dave seems excited for Obosh. Shane seems excited for things to stay mostly the same. The Break Down: What Happened The Dive Down: What We Think Will Happen The Wind Down: What We Hope Will Happen Check out our NEW SPONSOR, Barrister and Mann! https://www.barristerandmann.com/ Use code THEDIVEDOWN2022 for 15% off your first order of some incredible fragrances, soaps, beard oils, and more. Become a citizen of The Dive Down Nation!: http://www.patreon.com/thedivedown Get 15% off your first 2 months of ManaTraders! https://www.manatraders.com/?medium=thedivedown and use code "THEDIVEDOWN2022" Timestamps: 4:48 - Housekeeping 7:39 - The Break Down - Bye Bye Lurrus 8:43 - The rationales of the banning 22:10 - Did this go far enough? 31:24 - What's the impact of the Lurrus ban? 40:02 - Some hot takes 42:35 - A smelly diversion 45:50 - Stan's Monthly Meta Report 54:28 - The impact of losing Lurrus for the best decks 1:17:36 - The month-to-month change since Jan 1:19:58 - What the loss of Lurrus unlocks - Liliana(s) 1:25:56 - Seasoned Pyromancer 1:28:20 - Bedlam Reveler 1:30:09 - Lightning Skelemental 1:31:38 - Nettlecyst 1:32:40 - Asmo 1:33:43 - Plague Engineer 1:34:59 - Ranger-Captain of Eos 1:38:03 - Showdown of the Skalds 1:39:03 - Grist 1:39:41 - General Ferrous Rockerick 1:40:18 - What does Jund look like now? 1:43:14 - Dark Confidant 1:44:21 - Our final thoughts Links from this week's episode: The B&R: https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/march-7-2022-banned-and-restricted-announcement Our opening music is Nowhere - You Never Knew, and our closing music is Space Blood - Goro? Is That Your Christian Name? Watch us stream our episodes every Sunday night at 8pm Central: https://www.twitch.tv/thedivedown_shane email us: [email protected] twitter: https://twitter.com/thedivedown Leave us an audio message: https://www.podinbox.com/thedivedown

It's been a trying week. We needed a break. So this week, we're going to keep it positive by taking some time to discuss what we've been enjoying in Magic and beyond. It's a bit of a grab bag — we talk about the MOCS, Slogurk, Creativity, Oni-Cult, paper magic, hanging with Stan, hanging with Shane, and more. Stan gets a trophy. Dave loses creatively. Shane finds a deck he thinks is cool. We'll also be donating the proceeds of this week's episode to Trans Lifeline (https://translifeline.org/) and the UN Refugee Agency (https://www.unhcr.org/). The Break Down: Good Things in MOCS The Dive Down: Good Things in Modern The Dive Down, pt2: Good Things in Magic Check out our NEW SPONSOR, Barrister and Mann! https://www.barristerandmann.com/ Use code THEDIVEDOWN2022 for 15% off your first order of some incredible fragrances, soaps, beard oils, and more. Become a citizen of The Dive Down Nation!: http://www.patreon.com/thedivedown Get 15% off your first 2 months of ManaTraders! https://www.manatraders.com/?medium=thedivedown and use code "THEDIVEDOWN2022" Timestamps: 5:39 - Housekeeping 9:41 - The Break Down: The MOCS 15:29 - What makes GDS so good? 21:36 - The power of Lurrus 29:29 - Saturday's Modern Challenge 34:12 - The top 8 38:40 - The Super Qualifier top 8 42:40 - Are we banning Lurrus? 46:00 - A brief diversion 48:52 - The Dive Down begins - Stan likes Standard 54:10 - Dave plays Limited 1:00:31 - A mini deck tech on Aspiringspike's Rakdos Anvil in Modern 1:09:41 - Other Aspiringspike thoughts on Modern 1:11:20 - Stan 5-0's with Temur Slogurk 1:19:38 - Dave playing Indominatable Creativity 1:28:10 - Stan getting better at Magic 1:35:25 - Non-Magic things that bring us joy 1:43:40 - Closing out Links from this week's episode: The MOCS: https://magic.gg/events/2021-magic-online-champions-showcase-season-3 Saturday's Challenge: https://www.mtggoldfish.com/tournament/modern-challenge-12392345#paper The PTQ: https://www.mtggoldfish.com/tournament/modern-super-qualifier-12392317#paper Spike's Oni-Cult VOD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jlf1Ay6bWI&ab_channel=Aspiringspike Stan's Slogurk Deck: https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/4647667#paper Our opening music is Nowhere - You Never Knew, and our closing music is Space Blood - Goro? Is That Your Christian Name? Watch us stream our episodes every Sunday night at 8pm Central: https://www.twitch.tv/thedivedown_shane email us: [email protected] twitter: https://twitter.com/thedivedown Leave us an audio message: https://www.podinbox.com/thedivedown

Turns out that sleevin' neon is so fun we had to do it for a second week. So here it is — three or four or maybe more new decks that feature cards from Neon Dynasty including Modern Assault Loam with Boseiju (and Slogurk!), Modern Death & Taxes with Boseiju, Pioneer Auras with Light-Paws, and Pioneer Burn with Reinforced Ronin. But before we state them and rate them, we first go through last weekend's Modern Showcase Challenge and discover many shades of innovation in... red... and... white? Dave has boeuf sweats. Stan believes it's slime time now. Shane plays a deck he hates... again. The Break Down: A Spicy Showcase The Dive Down: Boseiju Loam, Boseiju Taxes, Light-Paws, Pio Burn, and Others The Wind Down: 5 Minutes about Shane and Flesh and Blood Check out our NEW SPONSOR, Barrister and Mann! https://www.barristerandmann.com/ Use code THEDIVEDOWN2022 for 15% off your first order of some incredible fragrances, soaps, beard oils, and more. Become a citizen of The Dive Down Nation!: http://www.patreon.com/thedivedown Get 15% off your first 2 months of ManaTraders! https://www.manatraders.com/?medium=thedivedown and use code "THEDIVEDOWN2022" Timestamps: 3:32 - Housekeeping 6:40 - The Break Down: Modern Challenge Funtime 21:03 - The top 8 31:10 - A small diversion 34:50 - The Dive Down begins: S/B/H, Cool Cards Ed. 36:45 - Stan on Slogurk Oozing time 51:10 - Stan on Liquimetal Ponza 54:13 - Shane on Selesnya Taxes ft. Yorion 1:11:51 - Dave on Light-Paws Auras 1:28:35 - Shane on Shrapnel Blast Burn 1:34:35 - Shane's Flesh and Blood ProQuest 1:41:25 - Closing out Links from this week's episode: Modern Showcase Challenge: https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/mtgo-standings/modern-showcase-challenge-2022-02-20 Temur Slogurk: Assault Loam: https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/4614095#paper Temur Liquidmetal Ponza: https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/4616201#paper Selesnya Taxes: https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/4621930#paper Light-Paws Auras: https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/4620131#paper and https://twitter.com/masoneclark/status/1493478580940156928?s=20&t=UEobUZhWlLmEQeVdwxQbZQ Ronin Burn: https://twitter.com/FelixSloo/status/1492313643962281989?t=blBSVeie85VXmdWpiRgErw&s=19 Our opening music is Nowhere - You Never Knew, and our closing music is Space Blood - Goro? Is That Your Christian Name? Watch us stream our episodes every Sunday night at 8pm Central: https://www.twitch.tv/thedivedown_shane email us: [email protected] twitter: https://twitter.com/thedivedown Leave us an audio message: https://www.podinbox.com/thedivedown

Turns out that Neon Dynasty may have had a little more impact on our formats than we originally anticipated. The reason why? Why, it's (mostly) thanks to Magic's favorite no-downside card type: Artifacts. Tune in as we try out builds of Urzaful/Urzaless Affinity and UW Hammer in Modern, Vehicle Tribal in Historic, and a whole new Ensoul Artifact build in Pioneer. But first, we take a look across 3 high level Modern MTGO events from the weekend. Dave asks for forgiveness. Shane withholds a harsh judgement. Stan gets chipped. The Break Down: Not many NEO cards in the Challenges The Dive Down: NEO cards in Leagues: Vehicles, Affinity, and Ensoul The Dive Down, cont: Stan's New Love: 4-0in' Prelims Check out our NEW SPONSOR, Barrister and Mann! https://www.barristerandmann.com/ Use code THEDIVEDOWN2022 for 15% off your first order of some incredible fragrances, soaps, beard oils, and more. Become a citizen of The Dive Down Nation!: http://www.patreon.com/thedivedown Get 15% off your first 2 months of ManaTraders! https://www.manatraders.com/?medium=thedivedown and use code "THEDIVEDOWN2022" Timestamps: 2:56 - Housekeeping 7:30 - The Break Down begins - Saturday's Challenge with NEW cards! 18:13 - The Sunday Challenge 25:25 - The Modern PTQ 30:25 - Some tournament takeaways 35:34 - A fun diversion 38:10 - The Dive Down begins - S/B/H Artifacts Ed. 40:20 - Shane with Historic Vehicles 57:02 - Dave on Modern Affinity 1:09:44 - Dave on Modern Vehicles 1:18:04 - Stan on Azorius Hammertime 1:31:34 - Stan on Ensoul Artifact 1:40:55 - Oni-Cult Anvil, briefly 1:43:15 - Closing out Links from this week's episode: Saturday's Challenge: https://www.mtggoldfish.com/tournament/modern-challenge-12387446#paper Sunday's Challenge: https://www.mtggoldfish.com/tournament/modern-challenge-12387452#paper Sunday's PTQ: https://www.mtggoldfish.com/tournament/modern-premier-12387425#paper Historic Vehicles: https://twitter.com/jaredfarris/status/1491972071404052481?s=20&t=ITEHIewCd0CHmRVSBee6Xg Spike's Consulate Dreadnaught Affinity: https://www.streamdecker.com/deck/ou3s6zIwy SpiderSpace Affinity: https://twitter.com/SpiderSpaceMTG/status/1492623539773394944?s=20&t=qGj6nPhmn6AhDrLdDAknNw Azorius Hammertime: https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/4613330#paper Pioneer Ensoul Artifact: https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/4614011#paper Our opening music is Nowhere - You Never Knew, and our closing music is Space Blood - Goro? Is That Your Christian Name? Watch us stream our episodes every Sunday night at 8pm Central: https://www.twitch.tv/thedivedown_shane email us: [email protected] twitter: https://twitter.com/thedivedown Leave us an audio message: https://www.podinbox.com/thedivedown

In the epic conclusion of our Neon Dynasty picks to click, we scan the complete set spoiler and shout out our favorite dragon, counterspell, samurai, and skyturtle. Before that, we kick off the show with break down of January's Modern MTGO metagame with another installment of the monthly report, and wrap up with a brief love letter to Legacy. The Break Down: Monthly Modern Metagame: January The Dive Down: Mode Cards Than You Could Ever Reconfigure The Wind Down: Stan's New Love: Legacy Check out our NEW SPONSOR, Barrister and Mann! https://www.barristerandmann.com/ Use code THEDIVEDOWN2022 for 15% off your first order of some incredible fragrances, soaps, beard oils, and more. Become a citizen of The Dive Down Nation!: http://www.patreon.com/thedivedown Get 15% off your first 2 months of ManaTraders! https://www.manatraders.com/?medium=thedivedown and use code "THEDIVEDOWN2022" Timestamps: 4:19 - Housekeeping 9:00 - The Break Down: The January Meta Breakdown 23:40 - The most popular cards of January 30:46 - The Dive Down: Neon Dynasty spoilers! 32:43 - Blade of the Oni 36:52 - Eater of Virtue 38:34 - Mnemonic Sphere 41:39 - March of Burgeoning Life 44:48 - Colossal Skyturtle/Mirrorshell Crab 46:41 - Otawara, Soaring City 49:21 - Atsushi, the Blazing Sky 52:45 - Mukotai Soulripper 54:44 - Invoke the Ancients 56:44 - Reinforced Ronin 1:00:25 - Hidetsugu Consumes All 1:05:43 - Experimental Synthesizer 1:08:08 - Enthusiastic Mechanaut 1:09:40 - Mech Hanger/Greasefang, Okiba Boss 1:13:09 - March of Wretched Sorrow 1:14:30 - Containment Construct 1:18:11 - Silverfur Master 1:19:45 - Light-Paws, Emperor's Voice 1:22:42 - March of Swirling Mist 1:25:27 - Mechtitan Core 1:27:52 - Explosive Singularity 1:30:12 - Generous Visitor 1:31:20 - Disruption Protocol 1:33:56 - Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire/Takenuma, Abandoned Mire 1:38:09 - What are we most excited to play with? 1:40:55 - The Wind Down: Stan <3 Legacy 1:46:20 - Closing out Links from this week's episode: Full spoilers: https://scryfall.com/sets/neo?as=grid Our opening music is Nowhere - You Never Knew, and our closing music is Space Blood - Goro? Is That Your Christian Name? Watch us stream our episodes every Sunday night at 8pm Central: https://www.twitch.tv/thedivedown_shane email us: [email protected] twitter: https://twitter.com/thedivedown Leave us an audio message: https://www.podinbox.com/thedivedown

It's time to head back to Kamigawa in the latest set... our Neon Destiny. I mean Density. I mean Dynasty. We take a look at cards from the first batch of spoilers we think are good in Modern, Historic, Pioneer, or just plain good! Before that, we break down the ManaTraders January Pioneer tournament. Intro: Green Socks Filled With Money The Break Down: Closing the Book on Pioneer The Dive Down: You're My Density Check out our NEW SPONSOR, Barrister and Mann! https://www.barristerandmann.com/ Use code THEDIVEDOWN2022 for 15% off your first order of some incredible fragrances, soaps, beard oils, and more. Become a citizen of The Dive Down Nation!: http://www.patreon.com/thedivedown Get 15% off your first 2 months of ManaTraders! https://www.manatraders.com/?medium=thedivedown and use code "THEDIVEDOWN2022" Timestamps: 2:23 - Housekeeping 8:02 - The Break Down - Manatraders Pioneer January! 17:32 - The Top 8 and our thoughts on Pio 28:00 - The Dive Down begins - the mechanics of Kamigawa 39:07 - Let's talk cards! Boseju, Who Endures 50:28 - Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance 53:00 - Lion Sash 59:40 - The Reality Chip 1:04:26 - The Wandering Emperor 1:12:08 - Invoke Calamity 1:16:06 - March of Otherworldly Light 1:20:53 - Azusa's Many Journeys 1:23:58 - Secluded Courtyard 1:26:10 - Hotshot Mechanic 1:27:33 - "Procession of Joy" 1:31:19 - Lizard Blades 1:32:28 - Life of Toshiro Umezawa 1:35:11 - Mooncircuit Hacker 1:36:40 - Closing out Links from this week's episode: The decks and metagame of the ManaTraders Pioneer Tournament: https://pastebin.com/A6P4Dzs9 The Mechanics of Neon Dynasty: https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/feature/kamigawa-neon-dynasty-mechanics-2022-01-27 Neon Dynasty spoilers: https://scryfall.com/sets/neo?order=set&as=grid Our opening music is Nowhere - You Never Knew, and our closing music is Space Blood - Goro? Is That Your Christian Name? Watch us stream our episodes every Sunday night at 8pm Central: https://www.twitch.tv/thedivedown_shane email us: [email protected] twitter: https://twitter.com/thedivedown Leave us an audio message: https://www.podinbox.com/thedivedown

With Dave off this week, we are joined by streamer, former guest, and co-host of Mishra's Babble, SpiderSpace! In the Break Down we talk about the (lack of) bans in Modern, then dive deep into the Modern Super Qualifier and SpiderSpace's second place finish. We then head into the Dive Down to discuss our recent play experiences, and in the Wind Down talk about the somber announcement from SCG of their ceasing their competitive content coverage. The Break Down: Companions Live On The Dive Down: And Spider Made the Finals! The Wind Down: But Star City Though... Check out our NEW SPONSOR, Barrister and Mann! https://www.barristerandmann.com/ Use code THEDIVEDOWN2022 for 15% off your first order of some incredible fragrances, soaps, beard oils, and more. Become a citizen of The Dive Down Nation!: http://www.patreon.com/thedivedown Get 15% off your first 2 months of ManaTraders! https://www.manatraders.com/?medium=thedivedown and use code "THEDIVEDOWN2022" Timestamps: 4:34 - Housekeeping 7:20 - The Break Down begins - No bans in Modern! 17:16 - Analyzing the WOTC tea leaves 28:58 - Potential future unbannings 32:40 - What do we want unbanned? 39:25 - Saturday's Modern Showcase Challenge, ft Spiderspace! 1:02:21 - Cool Decks, Inc - Boros Brought Back 1:05:51 - The Dive Down begins - Spiderspace's lamenting 1:17:55 - Stan's smashing 1:23:30 - Shane's losing 1:30:45 - The Wind Down: But Star City Though... Links from this week's episode: January 25th B&R Announcement: https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/january-25-2022-banned-and-restricted-announcement Find Gabe on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SpiderSpaceMTG Saturday's Super Qualifier: https://www.mtggoldfish.com/tournament/modern-challenge-12377842#paper Our opening music is Nowhere - You Never Knew, and our closing music is Space Blood - Goro? Is That Your Christian Name? Watch us stream our episodes every Sunday night at 8pm Central: https://www.twitch.tv/thedivedown_shane email us: [email protected] twitter: https://twitter.com/thedivedown Leave us an audio message: https://www.podinbox.com/thedivedown

Stan and Dave sit down with the wonderful Carolyn Kavanagh to talk about the latest season of the VML, how we make new friends as adults, and which tree-dwelling mammal is the best animal of all. We also check in on Carolyn's current relationship with Modern and Mono-Green Tron. Check out our NEW SPONSOR, Barrister and Mann! https://www.barristerandmann.com/ Use code THEDIVEDOWN2022 for 15% off your first order of some incredible fragrances, soaps, beard oils, and more. Become a citizen of The Dive Down Nation!: http://www.patreon.com/thedivedown Get 15% off your first 2 months of ManaTraders! https://www.manatraders.com/?medium=thedivedown and use code "THEDIVEDOWN2022" Links from this week's episode: vmlmtg.com https://twitter.com/VMLMTG https://twitter.com/MightyLinguine Our opening music is Nowhere - You Never Knew, and our closing music is Space Blood - Goro? Is That Your Christian Name? Watch us stream our episodes every Sunday night at 8pm Central: https://www.twitch.tv/thedivedown_shane email us: [email protected] twitter: https://twitter.com/thedivedown Leave us an audio message: https://www.podinbox.com/thedivedown

The heat is on in Pioneer town. Is the format back from the dead? Seems like everyone is talking about it, and it’s this month’s format for the Manatraders monthly tournament series. So we’ve invited the incredibly wise and skilled Dom Harvey to share his insights and analysis of Pioneer’s most popular decks, including Jeskai Ascendancy, Izzet Phoenix, Boros Heroic, Lotus Field, and more. The Dive Down, pt1: No Break Down This Week! The Dive Down, pt2: Because the Whole Ep is Just Decks! The Dive Down, pt3: Phoenix, Ascendancy, Heroic, Chonks, and More! Check out our NEW SPONSOR, Barrister and Mann! https://www.barristerandmann.com/ Use code THEDIVEDOWN2022 for 15% off your first order of some incredible fragrances, soaps, beard oils, and more. Become a citizen of The Dive Down Nation!: http://www.patreon.com/thedivedown Get 15% off your first 2 months of ManaTraders! https://www.manatraders.com/?medium=thedivedown and use code "THEDIVEDOWN2022" Timestamps: 4:24 - Housekeeping 9:10 - The Dive Down begins - Pioneer Time! 11:30 - Izzet Phoenix 25:36 - Jeskai Ascendancy 36:13 - Boros Heroic 46:40 - Lotus Field 55:57 - Chonk-ish Red 1:06:07 - Jund Food 1:13:15 - Rakdos Midrange 1:19:25 - Azorius Control 1:25:41 - What is Pioneer about? 1:47:20 - Dom on Dom 1:53:29 - Closing out Links from this week's episode: Dom's Twitter: https://twitter.com/dominharvia?lang=en Dom's linktree: https://linktr.ee/domhrv The top decks of Pioneer: https://www.mtggoldfish.com/metagame/pioneer#paper Our opening music is Nowhere - You Never Knew, and our closing music is Space Blood - Goro? Is That Your Christian Name? Watch us stream our episodes every Sunday night at 8pm Central: https://www.twitch.tv/thedivedown_shane email us: [email protected] twitter: https://twitter.com/thedivedown Leave us an audio message: https://www.podinbox.com/thedivedown

This one goes out to the one I Yawg. It's been a long time coming, but it's finally time for us to sling some wither counters and get undying with everyone's favorite physician, Yawgmoth. Tune in to hear us fumble around with triggers, stacking, and life totals, and to hear Shane give his tepid approval to a deck beloved by millions. Stan's approval is even more tepid. Dave claims he'd rather be playing Titan (is that a bit?). Before we get into all this though, we go over one of this weekend's Modern Challenges and talk about the weirdness that is Jund Reclaimer and a few other things. Thanks for tuning in, #yawgsqwad! The Break Down: They Reclaim Sagas Now Don't They? The Dive Down: -1 for You, -1 for Me The Dive Down, pt.2: For the Yawg Stans but Not for Our Stan Check out our NEW SPONSOR, Barrister and Mann! https://www.barristerandmann.com/ Use code THEDIVEDOWN2022 for 15% off your first order of some incredible fragrances, soaps, beard oils, and more. Become a citizen of The Dive Down Nation!: http://www.patreon.com/thedivedown Get 15% off your first 2 months of ManaTraders! https://www.manatraders.com/?medium=thedivedown and use code "THEDIVEDOWN2022" Timestamps: 3:00 - Housekeeping 4:48 - Barrister and Mann Promo Time 6:20 - The Break Down - The Sunday Challenge 18:08 - Cool Decks, Inc. 27:26 - The Dive Down Begins - Yawgmoth! 30:00 - Our history with Yawg 32:05 - The Yawgmoth combo 37:15 - Yawgmoth, Thran Physician 42:52 - The Undying creatures 48:12 - The mana dorks 54:13 - The tutors 58:07 - Grist, the Hunger Tide 1:05:15 - Sideboard options 1:11:41 - Strategic considerations and playing with Yawgmoth 1:20:34 - Keeps and mulls 1:26:45 - Life-total management 1:29:00 - Matchups 1:35:20 - Proliferating 1:37:45 - Strengths and weaknesses of Yawgmoth 1:42:16 - Our bottom line on Yawg Links from this week's episode: Sunday's Challenge: https://www.mtggoldfish.com/tournament/modern-challenge-12372530#paper DemonicTutors Yawg list: https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/4541927#paper Our opening music is Nowhere - You Never Knew, and our closing music is Space Blood - Goro? Is That Your Christian Name? Watch us stream our episodes every Sunday night at 8pm Central: https://www.twitch.tv/thedivedown_shane email us: [email protected] twitter: https://twitter.com/thedivedown Leave us an audio message: https://www.podinbox.com/thedivedown

It's 2022, and we're back with an episode that looks forward to the new year. We asked for listeners to submit their 2022 goals via audio and text, and everyone delivered! We give our thoughts and feedback on the goals of The Nation, and also discuss our own. Before that, we go over Stan's December 2021 Modern summary and the latest Modern Challenges. Here's to 2022! The Break Down: December Modern Check-In The Dive Down: Your Goals are Our Goals Check out our NEW SPONSOR, Barrister and Mann! https://www.barristerandmann.com/ Use code THEDIVEDOWN2022 for 15% off your first order of some incredible fragrances, soaps, beard oils, and more. Become a citizen of The Dive Down Nation!: http://www.patreon.com/thedivedown Get 15% off your first 2 months of ManaTraders! https://www.manatraders.com/?medium=thedivedown and use code "THEDIVEDOWN2022" Timestamps: 4:20 - Housekeeping 7:27 - A Special Barrister and Mann announcement! - THEDIVEDOWN2022 13:16 - The Break Down begins - The December Recap 23:16 - Saturday's Challenge 30:24 - Saturday's Top 8 36:40 - Sunday's Top 8 42:08 - The Dive Down begins - The goals of the Nation 44:00 - Avoiding mistakes 57:04 - Simplification and moderation 1:14:45 - Diving in deeper and playing more 1:23:55 - Our playing goals in 2022 1:28:51 - Winning with a brew 1:31:35 - Performance-based goals 1:38:50 - Do we have any goals for new formats on The Dive Down? 1:48:42 - Closing out Links from this week's episode: Saturday's Challenge: https://www.mtggoldfish.com/tournament/modern-challenge-12367813#paper Sunday's Challenge: https://www.mtggoldfish.com/tournament/modern-challenge-12367819#paper Our opening music is Nowhere - You Never Knew, and our closing music is Space Blood - Goro? Is That Your Christian Name? Watch us stream our episodes every Sunday night at 8pm Central: https://www.twitch.tv/thedivedown_shane email us: [email protected] twitter: https://twitter.com/thedivedown Leave us an audio message: https://www.podinbox.com/thedivedown

The end of 2021 is upon us, which means it's time for our annual year in review episode! And this time, we've brought a friend, our reliable unofficial fourth co-host, Aspiringspike. We first talk about the biggest releases, bannings, and changes in 2021 for Modern and Historic, then head into the awards show to hand out this year's Diveys. We talk about our favorite cards, decks, and events of the year, then discuss our goals for 2022. Thanks to all of you for another great year of The Dive Down! The Break Down: A Whole Year (in Order!) The Dive Down: Taking and Taking and Taking Become a citizen of The Dive Down Nation!: http://www.patreon.com/thedivedown Get 15% off your first 2 months of ManaTraders! https://www.manatraders.com/?medium=thedivedown and use code "thedivedown2021" Timestamps: 5:43 - Housekeeping 6:57 - The Break Down - 2021 begins! 13:38 - Kaldheim, Oops, all Valkis, and some bans 22:52 - Historic Anthology 4 and Time Spiral Remastered 24:30 - April update, Strixhaven, and the Mystical Archives 33:51 - Modern before and after Modern Horizons 2 43:48 - July and Adventures in the Forgotten Realms 49:20 - Jumpstart: Historic Horizons 52:24 - Modern in October and Innistrad: Midnight Hunt 1:00:21 - December begins and the year ends 1:04:55 - The Dive Down begings - The 2021 Awards Show! 1:05:32 - The Best Card of the Year 1:10:53 - The Non-2021 Card of the Year 1:12:21 - Supporting Card of the Year 1:15:11 - Overhyped Card of the Year 1:20:05 - Overperformer of the Year 1:21:57 - The Deck of the Year 1:25:53 - Most Hated Deck of the Year 1:27:52 - In Memoriam 1:32:36 - Magic Experience of the Year 1:37:13 - The Best WOTC Decision of the Year 1:40:01 - #mtgfinance of the Year 1:40:47 - Our 2022 Goals 1:46:13 - The Best Guest(s) of the Year and Thanks 1:48:40 - Closing out Links from this week's episode: Watch Aspiringspike on twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/aspiringspike Find Spike on twitter: https://twitter.com/Aspiringspike Our opening music is Nowhere - You Never Knew, and our closing music is Space Blood - Goro? Is That Your Christian Name? Watch us stream our episodes every Sunday night at 8pm Central: https://www.twitch.tv/thedivedown_shane email us: [email protected] twitter: https://twitter.com/thedivedown

In the second installment of We Did It For Science, we explore... gulp... Amulet Titan. Yes, our most hated card goes through our rigorous experimental testing regimen. We go over what these decks are about, gameplans, threats, tips & tricks, and, most importantly, just how much we still hate Primeval Titan. Prior to that, we dive into the metagame of the latest Modern Showcase Challenge. The Break Down: A Showcase Challenge The Dive Down: No Idea How to Play This Deck The Dive Down, cont: Look at This Cool Screenshot Become a citizen of The Dive Down Nation!: http://www.patreon.com/thedivedown Get 15% off your first 2 months of ManaTraders! https://www.manatraders.com/?medium=thedivedown and use code "thedivedown2021" Timestamps: 4:57 - Housekeeping 7:05 - The Break Down - The Milwaukee NRG Modern Trial 9:40 - The Saturday Modern Showcase Challenge meta 16:13 - The Showcase top 8 27:30 - The Dive Down begins - We Did it For Science: Titan Edition 34:30 - What are Titan decks all about? 55:20 - Keep or mulls? 59:26 - The land sequencing conundrum 1:09:24 - Gameplans with Amulet Titan 1:18:16 - The non-Titan threats 1:26:18 - Tips & tricks 1:35:04 - Why is Amulet resurging? 1:40:55 - Would we repeat the science experiment? 1:45:13 - Closing out Links from this week's episode: The December 11th Showcase Challenge Bamzing post: https://www.reddit.com/r/ModernMagic/comments/retyjd/modern_showcase_challenge_3_results_dec_11_2021/ Our opening music is Nowhere - You Never Knew, and our closing music is Space Blood - Goro? Is That Your Christian Name? Watch us stream our episodes every Sunday night at 8pm Central: https://www.twitch.tv/thedivedown_shane email us: [email protected] twitter: https://twitter.com/thedivedown

It's another in our awesome series of top-tier Patreon request episodes, as we take on Mickey S's (no, the other Mickey S) challenge to explore the decks and metagame of best-of-one Historic on Arena. We played a bunch of fun decks and faced off against even more, and have a lot of thoughts on the format. Prior to that, we break down the Innistrad Set Championship and go over the announcement of Alchemy and its impact on Historic, and perhaps all of Magic. Thanks again, Mickey! The Break Down: Top 8s All Around The Dive Down: Alchemical Explanations The Dive Down, cont: Best of One, Best of All Become a citizen of The Dive Down Nation!: http://www.patreon.com/thedivedown Get 15% off your first 2 months of ManaTraders! https://www.manatraders.com/?medium=thedivedown and use code "thedivedown2021" Timestamps: 5:15 - Housekeeping 6:32 - Dave and Stan top 8 a store championship! 15:56 - Alchemy... is here 22:55 - The positives 32:14 - Kinda moving into the negatives here 41:05 - Some final takes 48:05 - The Dive Down begins - the Innistrad Set Championship 52:45 - The Top 8 57:17 - Best-of-One Historic - what's the difference? 1:02:00 - The decks of BO1 Historic - Heliod Lifegain 1:06:17 - Elves 1:08:53 - Gruul Shamans 1:10:27 - Izzet Phoenix 1:17:35 - Abzan Auras 1:21:24 - Azorius Auras 1:25:02 - Selesnya Humans 1:27:45 - Mono-W Humans 1:32:50 - Chonky Red 1:34:07 - Mono-Red Torbran 1:41:28 - The rest of the BO1 metagame 1:46:55 - Our thoughts on BO1 1:53:30 - Closing out Links from this week's episode: The Arena State of the Game article: https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/magic-digital/mtg-arena-state-game-alchemy-2021-12-02 Introducing Alchemy: https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/magic-digital/introducing-alchemy-new-way-play-mtg-arena-2021-12-02 The Innistrad Championship: https://magic.gg/events/innistrad-championship The Untapped.gg Historic tier list: https://mtga.untapped.gg/meta/tierlist?format=historic Our opening music is Nowhere - You Never Knew, and our closing music is Space Blood - Goro? Is That Your Christian Name? Watch us stream our episodes every Sunday night at 8pm Central: https://www.twitch.tv/thedivedown_shane email us: [email protected] twitter: https://twitter.com/thedivedown

In this latest installment in our series of bonus eps, Shane is joined by the hosts of the videogame and culture podcast BAD END, Josh Calixto and Kyle Kukshtel. They talk about BAD END and the Superculture network, their thoughts on what makes games and Magic work, and, most importantly, what their least favorite video games are. It's a great conversation, and we hope you like it! Become a citizen of The Dive Down Nation!: http://www.patreon.com/thedivedown Get 15% off your first 2 months of ManaTraders! https://www.manatraders.com/?medium=thedivedown and use code "thedivedown2021" Links from this week's episode: BAD END: https://www.badendpodcast.com/ BAD END on Twitter: https://twitter.com/badendpodcast Josh: https://twitter.com/HiThereJosh Kyle: https://twitter.com/kkukshtel Our opening music is Nowhere - You Never Knew, and our closing music is Space Blood - Goro? Is That Your Christian Name? Watch us stream our episodes every Sunday night at 8pm Central: https://www.twitch.tv/thedivedown_shane email us: [email protected] twitter: https://twitter.com/thedivedown

We come to you LIVE (well, sorta) from the recent MTG Las Vegas event, where we tapped some cards, hung out with friends, and talked to some big name players! We talked to some current and future household names about Modern, the decks they brought, and their tournament experiences. Thanks to our old and new friends Joe Lossett, Tannon Grace, Yamakiller, Aspiringspike, Sam Pardee, Reid Duke, Eli Loveman, Michael Rapp, and top 8 finishers Joel Lapray, Levi Sprung, and Steve Pearlman for the fun and insightful conversations! The Dive Down: Shane & Stan went to Vegas! The Dive Down, cont: For some reason Dave is here too! The Dive Down, cont again: More interviews than you can shake your deck at! Become a citizen of The Dive Down Nation!: http://www.patreon.com/thedivedown Get 15% off your first 2 months of ManaTraders! https://www.manatraders.com/?medium=thedivedown and use code "thedivedown2021" Timestamps: 3:20 - Housekeeping 6:17 - MtG Las Vegas discussion begins 8:18 - Shane & Stan live from Vegas 21:47 - Discussing the overall event 28:26 - Joe Lossett talks 4-Color Control 36:15 - Tannon Grace chats... magic! 41:40 - Yamakiller talks Grixis Shadow 49:28 - Aspiringspike talks Rakdos Lurrus 58:52 - Sam Pardee on 4C Elementals 1:06:16 - Reid Duke talks Yawgmoth 1:11:53 - Stan talks about his tournament 1:14:28 - Eli Loveman on Hammertime 1:20:27 - Michael Rapp on Grixis Shadow 1:26:29 - Top seed Joel Lapray on Hardened Scales 1:32:06 - Talking the top 8 decks 1:39:49 - Top 8 finisher Levi Sprung 1:48:05 - Top 2 finisher Steve Pearlman 1:56:45 - Our takes on Modern after Vegas 1:59:55 - Thanks and closing out Links from this week's episode: MTG top 8 lists: https://twitter.com/theMMcast/status/1462223403914387458 Our opening music is Nowhere - You Never Knew, and our closing music is Space Blood - Goro? Is That Your Christian Name? Watch us stream our episodes every Sunday night at 8pm Central: https://www.twitch.tv/thedivedown_shane email us: [email protected] twitter: https://twitter.com/thedivedown

It's episode 150!! In our final Road to Las Vegas segment, we are joined by SCG grinder, former host of Turn One Thoughtseize, and all around great guy Zach Allen. We first talk over the weekend's Challenges, then head into The Dive Down to talk about the decks of Modern, leveling up as a player, playing in a big tournament, why Aether Gust is the best card in Modern, and more. It's a can't-miss episode! The Break Down: A Huge Challenge The Dive Down: Preparation Makes Perfect The Dive Down, cont: The End of the Road Become a citizen of The Dive Down Nation!: http://www.patreon.com/thedivedown Get 15% off your first 2 months of ManaTraders! https://www.manatraders.com/?medium=thedivedown and use code "thedivedown2021" Timestamps: 4:18 - Housekeeping 9:10 - The Saturday Challenge metagame 19:54 - The Top 8 39:24 - The Sunday Challenge Top 8 43:30 - The Dive Down begins - Zach's competitive past 47:08 - How Zach leveled up 57:15 - What is Modern about right now? 1:03:34 - Zach's thoughts on the best decks 1:30:11 - Do paper events lag behind MTGO? 1:35:35 - Performing your best at an event 1:40:41 - What does it take to win? 1:42:10 - Zach's advice on Modern 1:45:05 - Stan and Zach talk Murktide 1:51:30 - Where to find Zach and closing out Links from this week's episode: Find Zach on Twitter: https://twitter.com/a22en Saturday's Challenge: https://www.mtggoldfish.com/tournament/modern-challenge-12355688#paper Sunday's Challenge: https://www.mtggoldfish.com/tournament/modern-challenge-12355715#paper Our opening music is Nowhere - You Never Knew, and our closing music is Space Blood - Goro? Is That Your Christian Name? Watch us stream our episodes every Sunday night at 8pm Central: https://www.twitch.tv/thedivedown_shane email us: [email protected] twitter: https://twitter.com/thedivedown

This week the three friends go through the second half of spoilers from Crimson Vow and consider which ones they'd marry for Modern (and other formats). But first, friend of the pod Zach Ryl (aka Manacymbal) stops by to talk us through his Modern Challenge Victory on Saturday, November 6. The Break Down: A Victorious Challenger The Dive Down: Crimson Vow — More 1 Mana Spells Than We Thought! Become a citizen of The Dive Down Nation!: http://www.patreon.com/thedivedown Get 15% off your first 2 months of ManaTraders! https://www.manatraders.com/?medium=thedivedown and use code "thedivedown2021" Timestamps: 4:14 - Housekeeping 6:20 - The Break Down with ManaCymbal 7:24 - Saturday's Modern Challenge 37:17 - ManaCymbal talks his first place finish with 4C Creativity 1:01:05 - The Dive Down begins 1:02:35 - Geralf, Visionary Stitcher 1:04:22 - End the Festivities 1:06:16 - Ancestral Anger 1:10:30 - Blood Fountain 1:12:10 - Voldaren Epicure 1:14:09 - Wash Away 1:17:58 - Eruth, Tormented Prophet 1:22:28 - Cradle of Safety 1:24:36 - Stormchaser Drake 1:26:33 - Curse of Hospitality 1:28:17 - Cemetery Prowler 1:31:35 - Cemetery Illuminator 1:34:48 - Dreamshackle Geist 1:37:05 - Inspired Idea 1:39:31 - Faithbound Judge 1:41:45 - Thalia, Guardian of Thraben 1:42:40 - Ascendant Packleader 1:43:30 - Lantern of the Lost 1:46:11 - Reckless Impulse 1:49:24 - Our favorite cards 1:51:10 - Closing out Links from this week's episode: Saturday Modern Challenge - https://www.reddit.com/r/ModernMagic/comments/qosb9r/saturday_modern_challenge_results_nov_6_2021/ Our opening music is Nowhere - You Never Knew, and our closing music is Space Blood - Goro? Is That Your Christian Name? Watch us stream our episodes every Sunday night at 8pm Central: https://www.twitch.tv/thedivedown_shane email us: [email protected] twitter: https://twitter.com/thedivedown

The title says it all! We first talk the MOCS, the SCG Invitational, and some Modern Challenges to try to wrap our head around the Modern meta. Then Shane makes up for being off last week with a discussion of Esper Reanimator. Then we go over the first batch of Crimson Vow spoilers and talk about some Cool Cards, Inc. The Break Down: Several Events The Dive Down: Esper Reanimator The Dive Down, cont: Crimson Vow Spoilers Become a citizen of The Dive Down Nation!: http://www.patreon.com/thedivedown Get 15% off your first 2 months of ManaTraders! https://www.manatraders.com/?medium=thedivedown and use code "thedivedown2021" Timestamps: 3:32 - Housekeeping 7:25 - The Break Down - A lot of events 8:12 - The MOCS 18:03 - The SCG Invitational 29:30 - Saturday's Challenge 38:30 - Sunday's Challenge 39:19 - Takeaways from these events 44:18 - The Dive Down begins - Shane on Esper Reanimator 51:53 - What Esper Reanimator is doing well 54:32 - What it isn't doing as well 1:06:00 - The bottom line on Reanimator 1:10:46 - The mechanics of Crimson Vow 1:19:22 - The cards begin - Manaform Hellkite 1:22:06 - Path of Peril 1:24:53 - Cemetery Protector 1:27:11 - Chandra, Dressed to Kill 1:31:01 - Dig Up 1:31:50 - Geist Lightsnare 1:34:40 - "Bedsheet Elemental" 1:36:04 - Dread Fugue 1:38:18 - Change of Fortune 1:40:01 - Grolnok, the Omnivore 1:41:07 - Demonic Bargain 1:43:30 - Closing out Links from this week's episode: The MOCS: https://magic.gg/decklists/2021-magic-online-champions-showcase-season-2-modern-decklists Randy's Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xmJkCX2mpIoVFd8TTwqE44LARRNevUeSSqJUdAjAV4s/edit#gid=0 SCG Top 8 Decks: https://old.starcitygames.com/decks/results/format/28/event_ID/21/start_date/31-10-2021/end_date/31-10-2021/start/1/finish/8/w_perc/0/g_perc/0/r_perc/0/b_perc/0/u_perc/0/a_perc/0/order_1/finish/limit/25/start_num/0/ Saturday's Challenge: https://www.mtggoldfish.com/tournament/modern-challenge-12351480#paper Sunday's Challenge: https://www.mtggoldfish.com/tournament/modern-challenge-12351484#paper Esper Reanimator: https://www.streamdecker.com/deck/IfleifZ9n Our opening music is Nowhere - You Never Knew, and our closing music is Space Blood - Goro? Is That Your Christian Name? Watch us stream our episodes every Sunday night at 8pm Central: https://www.twitch.tv/thedivedown_shane Leave us an audio message in our PodInbox: https://www.podinbox.com/thedivedown email us: [email protected] twitter: https://twitter.com/thedivedown

Streamer, musician, podcaster, and ever-present Magic personality Zach Ryl, aka Manacymbal, joins Stan to talk about the Indomitable Creativity deck in Modern, content creation, and music! Recorded on October 7th. Become a citizen of The Dive Down Nation!: http://www.patreon.com/thedivedown Get 15% off your first 2 months of ManaTraders! https://www.manatraders.com/?medium=thedivedown and use code "thedivedown2021" Links from this week's episode: Serum Visions Podcast: https://serumvisions.podbean.com/ MTG Parody Songs: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2_KjuSPkJvLbbBstdPc2IVh1YSemmjQv This Week in Modern: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2_KjuSPkJvLHdr51QgBsjKAevQz5U2bg Twitch: https://www.twitch.com/manacymbal 4C Creativity deck talk and tournament report: https://youtu.be/Ou7X5IjzVIw Our opening music is Nowhere - You Never Knew, and our closing music is Space Blood - Goro? Is That Your Christian Name? Watch us stream our episodes every Sunday night at 8pm Central: https://www.twitch.tv/thedivedown_shane email us: [email protected] twitter: https://twitter.com/thedivedown

Shane's gone so Stan and Dave are finally free to do whatever they want. And what they want to do is play too many colors and evoke some elementals! At least that's what they thought they wanted to do — we think? That's right, for the third in our Road to Vegas series we tackle the element... als. But first enjoy a tour of one of last week's Modern Challenges and a live paper tournament from NRG. Stan talks about cool things. Dave reminisces about when he seemed cool. Somewhere, Shane is being cool. Unnecessary Anecdote: The Beach Boys! The Break Down: A Challenge and Some NRG The Dive Down: Four Arms to Hold You Still Become a citizen of The Dive Down Nation!: http://www.patreon.com/thedivedown Get 15% off your first 2 months of ManaTraders! https://www.manatraders.com/?medium=thedivedown and use code "thedivedown2021" Timestamps: 7:12 - Housekeeping 10:13 - The Break Down - A Modern Challenge 21:31 - The Nerd Rage Gaming paper event 30:10 - The Dive Down - The Road To Vegas pt 3 34:04 - Some powerful Modern cards 46:00 - Stan on 4-Color YoRhinos and Temur Rhinos 1:00:00 - The matchups 1:12:05 - Dave on 4-Color Elementals 1:18:40 - The matchups 1:42:15 - Closing out Links from this week's episode: Saturday Modern Challenge: https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/mtgo-standings/modern-challenge-2021-10-24?xd34 Bamzing's Post About Same: https://www.reddit.com/r/ModernMagic/comments/qew011/saturday_modern_challenge_results_oct_23_2021/ NRG Modern on MTGMelee: https://mtgmelee.com/Tournament/View/7504 4c Yorhinos: https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/4383735#paper 4c Elementals: https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/4363826#paper Our opening music is Nowhere - You Never Knew, and our closing music is Space Blood - Goro? Is That Your Christian Name? Watch us stream our episodes every Sunday night at 8pm Central: https://www.twitch.tv/thedivedown_shane email us: [email protected] twitter: https://twitter.com/thedivedown

This week we dive into part two of our series in our anticipation of the return to paper Magic — The Road to Vegas. Dave, Stan, and Shane go through the ins and outs of the next tier of Modern's meta. We're looking at two boomer decks — Jund (secretly zoomer?) and UW Control — and one newmer deck in Hammer. Find out which one we think is best positioned for MTG Vegas. Before that we talk about the latest Historic changes, and go through the results of one of last week's MTGO Modern PTQs. Stan controls. Shane hammers. Dave ionizes. The Break Down: Modern Super Showcase WKQ The Dive Down: Boomer Decks The Wind Down: The Short List Become a citizen of The Dive Down Nation!: http://www.patreon.com/thedivedown Get 15% off your first 2 months of ManaTraders! https://www.manatraders.com/?medium=thedivedown and use code "thedivedown2021" Timestamps: 3:33 - Housekeeping 5:36 - Historic Bannings! 10:29 - Historic digital only card changes! 16:13 - The Modern PTQ Top 16 analysis 25:56 - The PTQ meta 34:18 - The Dive Down begins: The Road to Vegas vol.2 36:20 - Dave on Jund Saga 1:05:52 - Stan on Azorius Control 1:29:18 - Shane on Hammertime 1:51:35 - What's on our decks to play shortlist? Links from this week's episode: Modern PTQ Results: https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/mtgo-standings/modern-premier-2021-10-16?xd2 Moonblade Deck: https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/mtgo-standings/modern-challenge-2021-10-17?xd2#talisker_st_place Jund Saga: https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/4325030#paper UW Control: https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/mtgo-standings/modern-premier-2021-10-16 Hammer: https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/4109042#paper Our opening music is Nowhere - You Never Knew, and our closing music is Space Blood - Goro? Is That Your Christian Name? Watch us stream our episodes every Sunday night at 8pm Central: https://www.twitch.tv/thedivedown_shane Leave us an audio message in our PodInbox: https://www.podinbox.com/thedivedown email us: [email protected] twitter: https://twitter.com/thedivedown

This week's ep is a Patreon request by one of the first citizens of The Dive Down Nation - KilgoreTrout, aka Jason! He asked us to do a Q&A episode, and to make it even more fun we brought in some new technology to get audio submissions. We got questions from citizens around the world about Magic, collecting, and podcasting - so thanks to everyone who got involved! And special thanks to Jason for being a true citizen for so long! The Break Down: Still Had to Get A Challenge In The Dive Down: Hear Our Voices, Hear Your Voices The Dive Down, pt2: Call Me Maybe Become a citizen of The Dive Down Nation!: http://www.patreon.com/thedivedown Get 15% off your first 2 months of ManaTraders! https://www.manatraders.com/?medium=thedivedown and use code "thedivedown2021" Timestamps: 4:06 - Housekeeping 6:49 - The Break Down - More Modern Meta 21:00 - Sunday's Top 8 25:55 - The Dive Down begins - Questions... AND ANSWERS! 27:18 - Inside the Grinder's Studio 38:53 - What are we most excited about for CFB Vegas? 41:53 - How to play 8+ rounds of Magic? 47:45 - What are our favorite foils? 50:25 - What is the best Limited set of all time? 55:34 - What Modern Horizons cards would be safe in Standard? 1:02:26 - What does "bolting the bird" really mean anymore? 1:06:40 - How do we value our collections? 1:15:20 - How do we see ourselves engaging with Magic over the rest of our lives? 1:18:07 - How do we get the most bang for our buck in Magic? 1:28:02 - What cards do we want unbanned in Modern? 1:33:54 - What are our favorite topdecks? 1:37:23 - What decks would we buy first? 1:39:50 - What decks would we not play in paper? 1:41:38 - What would we be podcasting about if it wasn't Magic? 1:47:35 - Closing out Links from this week's episode: Saturday's Challenge: https://www.mtggoldfish.com/tournament/modern-challenge-12345852#paper Sunday's Challenge: https://www.mtggoldfish.com/tournament/modern-challenge-12345858#paper DemonicTutor's Yawgmoth VOD: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1172755666 Our opening music is Nowhere - You Never Knew, and our closing music is Space Blood - Goro? Is That Your Christian Name? Watch us stream our episodes every Sunday night at 8pm Central: https://www.twitch.tv/thedivedown_shane Submit an audio question to our PodInbox: https://www.podinbox.com/thedivedown email us: [email protected] twitter: https://twitter.com/thedivedown

In the first episode of a new miniseries (???), Stan and Shane talk about their experiences testing two of the top decks in the format in their preparation for the CFB Vegas event in November. How do Izzet Murktide and Boros Burn perform right now? Why are they good, and what might be their fatal flaws? Only one way to find out! The Break Down: Dave's Not Here, Man The Break Down, cont: Some Good Good Challenges The Dive Down: Matchups and Putdowns Become a citizen of The Dive Down Nation!: http://www.patreon.com/thedivedown Get 15% off your first 2 months of ManaTraders! https://www.manatraders.com/?medium=thedivedown and use code "thedivedown2021" Timestamps: 3:07 - Housekeeping 6:16 - The Break Down begins 15:00 - Sunday's Challenge 21:30 - What these Challenges tell us 25:04 - Cool Deck(s), Inc. 27:35 - The Dive Down begins - The Road to Vegas 34:41 - Stan on Izzet Murktide 38:44 - Why has Murktide been successful, and how is it positioned right now? 42:32 - Murktide's matchups 1:01:13 - Some final thoughts on Murktide 1:06:40 - Shane on Boros Burn 1:07:31 - What's up with Burn? 1:10:32 - Burn's matchups 1:32:10 - Some thoughts on Burn 1:40:46 - What to try next? 1:43:00 - Closing out Links from this week's episode: Saturday's Challenge: https://www.mtggoldfish.com/tournament/modern-challenge-12344224#paper Sunday's Challenge: https://www.mtggoldfish.com/tournament/modern-challenge-12344230#paper Mardu Midrange: https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/4342367#paper Our opening music is Nowhere - You Never Knew, and our closing music is Space Blood - Goro? Is That Your Christian Name? Watch us stream our episodes every Sunday night at 8pm Central: https://www.twitch.tv/thedivedown_shane email us: [email protected] twitter: https://twitter.com/thedivedown

On this week's episode Shane and Dave explore the depths of Modern in what we are calling.... "The People's Meta." We look at every deck from a recent 5-0 League dump to discuss their place in the metagame, what makes them interesting, and how they are implementing new cards and strategies. Before that, we go through Saturday's Showcase Challenge to look at what people are bringing to the top tournaments. The Break Down: Showcasing Modern The Dive Down: Mainstreams and Roguestreams The Dive Down, cont: More. Patron. Shoutouts. Become a citizen of The Dive Down Nation!: http://www.patreon.com/thedivedown Get 15% off your first 2 months of ManaTraders! https://www.manatraders.com/?medium=thedivedown and use code "thedivedown2021" Timestamps: 3:25 - Housekeeping 5:00 - The Break Down - Saturday's Modern Showcase Challenge 14:30 - The Showcase top 8 21:12 - The Dive Down beings - The People's Meta 30:19 - The Current Mainstream 55:37 - The Past Mainstream 1:26:05 - The Upcoming Rogues 1:48:03 - Thoughts on Modern 1:51:01 - Closing out Links from this week's episode: Saturday's Showcase Challenge: https://www.mtggoldfish.com/tournament/modern-challenge-12342275#paper The League Dump: https://www.mtggoldfish.com/tournament/modern-league-2021-09-24#paper Our opening music is Nowhere - You Never Knew, and our closing music is Space Blood - Goro? Is That Your Christian Name? Watch us stream our episodes every Sunday night at 8pm Central: https://www.twitch.tv/thedivedown_shane email us: [email protected] twitter: https://twitter.com/thedivedown

The latest set has hit the digital shelves of Magic Online and Arena, and we are here to dig into a few new decks and run them through the Sleeve/Believe/Heave wringer! We first look at Esper Reanimator and Jeskai Phoenix in Modern, then head over to Magic Arena and dive into Izzet Delver in Historic. Do the cards of Midnight Hunt have what it takes to make an impact? Let's find out! The Break Down: Star Studded Challenges! The Dive Down: Sleeve/Believe/Heave: Mend These Decks! Become a citizen of The Dive Down Nation!: http://www.patreon.com/thedivedown Get 15% off your first 2 months of ManaTraders! https://www.manatraders.com/?medium=thedivedown and use code "thedivedown2021" Timestamps: 2:40 - Housekeeping 5:15 - The Break Down: Modern Challenges 24:47 - Sunday's Challenge 30:01 - Cool Decks, Inc 36:51 - The Dive Down begins: S/B/H, Midnight Hunt ed. 39:42 - Esper Reanimator 1:00:58 - Jeskai Phoenix 1:20:28 - Izzet Delver 1:34:07 - Closing Out Links from this week's episode: Saturday's Challenge: https://www.mtggoldfish.com/tournament/modern-challenge-12340205#paper Sunday's Challenge: https://www.mtggoldfish.com/tournament/modern-challenge-12340211#paper Jund Sac: https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/4311126#paper Dredge: https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/4311118 Esper Reanimator: https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/4311099#paper Jeskai Phoenix: https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/4311100#paper Our opening music is Nowhere - You Never Knew, and our closing music is Space Blood - Goro? Is That Your Christian Name? Watch us stream our episodes every Sunday night at 8pm Central: https://www.twitch.tv/thedivedown_shane email us: [email protected] twitter: https://twitter.com/thedivedown

This week, Stan leave Dave and Shane to their own devices as he returns to a parental-leave induced bliss. With dad gone, the last two friends decide to go wild and cover SCG's recent Historic satellites in a quick and fun break down followed by arguing about too many cards for far too much time. And they thought this would be a short one! Dave considers light up the night. Shane says the world "cool" 500,000 times in two hours. Somewhere, in the midst of a dream, Stan cringes. The Break Down: SCG Historic Satellites + $5k The Dive Down: Innistrad: Midnight Hunt Spoilers, pt.II Become a citizen of The Dive Down Nation!: http://www.patreon.com/thedivedown Get 15% off your first 2 months of ManaTraders! https://www.manatraders.com/?medium=thedivedown and use code "thedivedown2021" Timestamps: 3:04 - Housekeeping 5:06 - The Break Down: The SCG Historic Championship Qualifier 14:15 - The Dive Down: Innistrad: Midnight Hunt, vol.2 15:40 - The Adversary Cycle 33:39 - Ghoulcaller's Harvest 37:49 - Willow Geist 40:23 - Sunset Revelry 42:34 - Meathook Massacre 45:40 - Fateful Absence 50:10 - Light Up The Night 55:02 - Turn the Earth 58:07 - Lunarch Veteran 1:01:30 - Delver of Secrets 1:07:54 - Secrets of the Key 1:12:11 - Otherworldly Gaze 1:14:51 - Malevolent Hermit 1:19:09 - Patrician Geist 1:22:46 - Suspicious Stowaway 1:25:39 - Outland Liberator 1:29:00 - Rem Karolus, Stalwart Slayer 1:31:35 - Slaughter Specialist 1:34:29 - Adeline, Resplendent Cathar 1:36:37 - Teferi, Who Slows the Sunset 1:39:47 - Dennick, Pious Apprentice 1:41:43 - Jerren, Corrupted Bishop 1:44:10 - Cathartic Pyre 1:45:17 - Memory Deluge 1:47:37 - The cards we are most sure about 1:49:23 - The cards we are most unsure about 1:50:09 - What cards do we want to be good? 1:50:55 - What cards will have the biggest impact on non-Modern formats? 1:52:00 - What cards will have the biggest impact on Modern? 1:54:00 - Closing out Links from this week's episode: Historic $5K SCG TOUR ONLINE CHAMPIONSHIP QUALIFIER: https://mtgmeta.io/tournaments/4059 Our opening music is Nowhere - You Never Knew, and our closing music is Space Blood - Goro? Is That Your Christian Name? Watch us stream our episodes every Sunday night at 8pm Central: https://www.twitch.tv/thedivedown_shane email us: [email protected] twitter: https://twitter.com/thedivedown

This week we're getting to band back together. Stan returns to take Shane and Dave through a tour of the format he's been playing most recently — Historic. He's learned a lot from playing at all times of the night and day and night and who knows what time it is anyway? After that, the team fully jumps into the Midnight Hunt. Dave likes some cards. Shane doesn't like them. Stan knocks the rust off. The Break Down: Stan's Back... But For How Long? The Break Down, cont: A Taste of Historic The Dive Down: Midnight Hunt, Part 1 Become a citizen of The Dive Down Nation!: http://www.patreon.com/thedivedown Get 15% off your first 2 months of ManaTraders! https://www.manatraders.com/?medium=thedivedown and use code "thedivedown2021" Timestamps: 3:19 - Housekeeping 5:58 - The Break Down: The new decks of Historic 8:49 - The Jeskai decks 22:54 - Counteracting Jeskai 26:18 - Cascade combo 29:25 - Gruul Shamans 35:31 - Scurry Oak combo 37:52 - Merfolk 41:09 - Mono-Red variants 45:43 - Vesperlark combo 49:00 - What we're playing 52:50 - The Dive Down: Innistrad: Midnight Hunt! 54:50 - The mechanics of Innistrad 1:05:39 - The cards begin - Consider 1:08:03 - Play With Fire 1:09:30 - Infernal Grasp 1:11:34 - Champion of the Perished 1:12:34 - The land cycle 1:15:45 - Wrenn & Seven 1:19:07 - Poppet Stitcher 1:22:50 - Rite of Harmony 1:26:00 - Curse of Silence 1:27:59 - Croaking Counterpart 1:29:34 - Vampire Socialite 1:30:59 - Bladestich Scaab 1:31:58 - Diregraf Rebirth 1:33:48 - Brutal Cathar 1:36:05 - Curse of Shaken Faith 1:38:35 - Flame Channeler 1:40:57 - Faithful Mending 1:47:05 - Predictions Our opening music is Nowhere - You Never Knew, and our closing music is Space Blood - Goro? Is That Your Christian Name? Watch us stream our episodes every Sunday night at 8pm Central: https://www.twitch.tv/thedivedown_shane email us: [email protected] twitter: https://twitter.com/thedivedown

This week, Dave and Shane recruited our old friend Evart Moughon, aka Aspiringspike, to help us wrap our heads around all things Modern. We talk about his deck selection at the HBMO, the ever-changing Modern metagame, and his thoughts about the best decks in the format. Before that, we discuss Magic's 2022 product release roadmap. Does Spike think Hobbit aggro will be the new tier 0? Listen and find out! The Break Down: All About 2022 The Dive Down: Dress Down Dive Down The Dive Down, cont: Just a Lot of Questions About Modern Become a citizen of The Dive Down Nation!: http://www.patreon.com/thedivedown Get 15% off your first 2 months of ManaTraders! https://www.manatraders.com/?medium=thedivedown and use code "thedivedown2021" Timestamps: 2:52 - Housekeeping 6:10 - The Break Down: Magic's 2022 product roadmap 6:50 - Returning to Innistrad (again!) 12:14 - Returning to Kamigawa! Demon Crime Lords! 18:22 - Returning to Dominaria! 21:03 - Returning to Double Masters and Jumpstart! 22:39 - Pioneer Challenger Decks 28:41 - Secret Lairs and Universes Beyond 43:26 - The Dive Down: Talking Modern with Spike 43:45 - The Hunter Burton Memorial Open 48:50 - How do the paper and online meta differ? 51:40 - Grixis Dress Down Shadow 57:08 - Spike's favorite Dress Down interactions 59:07 - The evolving Modern meta 1:06:44 - Is there a best DRC deck? 1:11:20 - How do you think about playing a DRC deck? 1:15:24 - How can you wrap your head around the meta? 1:20:40 - Spike's take on the meta 1:25:40 - Defining tiers in Modern 1:27:34 - Hammertime time 1:30:58 - What keeps decks out of the upper tiers? 1:35:40 - How do we feel about MH2 Modern? 1:37:04 - Evart's trophy race 1:40:00 - What's your favorite MH2 card? 1:43:25 - Pro or anti-Core set? 1:46:15 - What is it about Modern? 1:48:31 - Where to find Spike 1:51:07 - Closing out Links from this week's episode: Aspiringspike on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/aspiringspike Aspiringspike on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MoughonEvart Rakdos Mid ft Den of the Bugbear: https://www.streamdecker.com/deck/VjqTVfP45 Our opening music is Nowhere - You Never Knew, and our closing music is Space Blood - Goro? Is That Your Christian Name? Watch us stream our episodes every Sunday night at 8pm Central: https://www.twitch.tv/thedivedown_shane email us: [email protected] twitter: https://twitter.com/thedivedown

With Stan and Dave out this week, Shane recruited the hosts of Mishra's Babble for another crossover episode. They spend time evaluating the metagame and decks from the Hunter Burton Memorial Open, then head into The Dive Down to evaluate the impact of MH2 on the meta, their deck selection, and how they think about the format. The Break Down: Meet The Babblers The Break Down Pt.2: HBMO The Dive Down: MH2 is Still Crushing It Become a citizen of The Dive Down Nation!: http://www.patreon.com/thedivedown Get 15% off your first 2 months of ManaTraders! https://www.manatraders.com/?medium=thedivedown and use code "thedivedown2021" Timestamps: 3:07 - Housekeeping 4:30 - Introducing our guest hosts 16:25 - The Break Down: The Hunter Burton Memorial Open 19:10 - The Top 300 Meta 29:35 - The Top 128 Decks 38:47 - The Top 32 Decks 46:35 - The Top 8 1:12:15 - The Dive Down: The Impact of MH2 1:13:10 - Efficiency 1:21:32 - Flexibility 1:24:45 - What strategies and mindsets have shifted? 1:37:22 - What opportunities are there in Modern? 1:47:30 - How can we learn from our experiences? 1:55:02 - Where to find our guests and closing out Links from this week's episode: Mishra's Babble Podcast: https://anchor.fm/francisco-pawluszek/ Fran on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/fpawlusz Evan on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/evaros Gabe on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/spiderspace HBMO Decks: https://www.mtgel.com/deck/1 Our opening music is Nowhere - You Never Knew, and our closing music is Space Blood - Goro? Is That Your Christian Name? Watch us stream our episodes every Sunday night at 8pm Central: https://www.twitch.tv/thedivedown_shane email us: [email protected] twitter: https://twitter.com/thedivedown

MTGO grinder and deck designer, Matt Hayashi, aka MHayashi, joins Stan to talk about Mono Red Obosh, Hammer of Bogardan, and some of Matt's other favorite strategies in Modern. Become a citizen of The Dive Down Nation!: http://www.patreon.com/thedivedown Get 15% off your first 2 months of ManaTraders! https://www.manatraders.com/?medium=thedivedown and use code "thedivedown2021" MHayashi's Twitter: https://twitter.com/MHayash55780121 MHayashi's YouTube channels: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvVnz4iBRxBtVI2oe80S3kg?view_as=subscriber https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVnBRe8ri0glLI0_5G-L11g MHayashi's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MagicMatt Our opening music is Nowhere - You Never Knew, and our closing music is Space Blood - Goro? Is That Your Christian Name? Watch us stream our episodes every Sunday night at 8pm Central: https://www.twitch.tv/thedivedown_shane email us: [email protected] twitter: https://twitter.com/thedivedown

This week we tackle a top-tier Patreon request! Sean D asked us to look at Stoneforge Mystic in Modern, and we were more than happy to oblige. We each played a deck featuring Stoneforge in very different ways, and of course are happy to bring you our takes. Before that, we take a look at two wild Modern challenges that give us a lot of hope! And don't miss Housekeeping for some very important announcements! The... Housekeeping??: A Can't Miss Housekeeping The Break Down: More Modern Challenges The Dive Down: Rock, Paper, Stoneblades Become a citizen of The Dive Down Nation!: http://www.patreon.com/thedivedown Get 15% off your first 2 months of ManaTraders! https://www.manatraders.com/?medium=thedivedown and use code "thedivedown2021" Timestamps: 2:39 - Housekeeping 8:26 - The Break Down: More Modern Challenges 26:20 - The Dive Down: Revisiting Stoneforge 29:00 - Stoneforge's History in Modern 37:27 - The Decks We Tested 42:06 - Nettlecyst Non-Blade 59:34 - Esper Blade 1:11:39 - Orzhov Griefanimatorblade 1:37:10 - Our Takes on Stoneforge in Modern Today 1:42:00 - Closing Out Links from this week's episode: Saturday's Challenge: https://www.mtggoldfish.com/tournament/modern-challenge-12326162#paper Sunday's Challenge: https://www.mtggoldfish.com/tournament/modern-challenge-12326167#paper Orzhov Nettle-non-blade: https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/4197511#paper Esper Blade: https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/4206684#paper Orzhov Griefanimateblade: https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/4212787#paper Our opening music is Nowhere - You Never Knew, and our closing music is Space Blood - Goro? Is That Your Christian Name? Watch us stream our episodes every Sunday night at 8pm Central: https://www.twitch.tv/thedivedown_shane email us: [email protected] twitter: https://twitter.com/thedivedown

Jumpstart: Historic Horizons is upon us, and we are contractually obligated to have takes for you. So here they are. We go over the new mechanics, the economy issues, and, most importantly, the stand-out cards in the set. Before that, we look at some of the most recent high-level Historic tournaments to take a look at the current meta before it gets shaken up. The Break Down: Historic Insights The Dive Down: Seeking Perpetual Conjuration The Dive Down, cont: Just a Whole Lot of Cards Become a citizen of The Dive Down Nation!: http://www.patreon.com/thedivedown Get 15% off your first 2 months of ManaTraders! https://www.manatraders.com/?medium=thedivedown and use code "thedivedown2021" Timestamps: 2:20 - Housekeeping 8:31 - The Break Down Begins! 10:14 - The Historic Tournament Metagame 20:59 - The Winning Decks in Historic 25:49 - What We're Looking for in Historic Horizons 34:12 - The Dive Down Begins! Introducing Historic Horizons 38:44 - The Digital Mechanics of Historic Horizons 50:50 - Our Takes on Digital Mechanics 1:02:19 - Finally Talking About the Cards 1:04:13 - The White Cards 1:12:00 - The Blue Cards 1:20:25 - The Black Cards 1:26:00 - The Red Cards 1:34:30 - The Green Cards 1:37:40 - The Gold Cards 1:40:05 - The Artifacts 1:40:54 - Takes on Historic Horizons Cards 1:44:38 - Closing Out Links from this week's episode: Historic Horizons Announcement: https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/magic-digital/what-mtg-arenas-jumpstart-historic-horizons-2021-07-26 The New-to-Magic Cards: https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/card-image-gallery/jumpstart-historic-horizons The Packet Lists: https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/magic-digital/jumpstart-historic-horizons-packet-lists-2021-07-26 Our opening music is Nowhere - You Never Knew, and our closing music is Space Blood - Goro? Is That Your Christian Name? Watch us stream our episodes every Sunday night at 8pm Central: https://www.twitch.tv/thedivedown_shane email us: [email protected] twitter: https://twitter.com/thedivedown

This week we do a deep dive into some STATS. We look at the big ManaTraders event from last weekend - what decks made it to the swiss, and how did they perform? We even get a tournament report from the one host who qualified! Following that, we take a look at the evolving Modern metagame from the last 3 weeks of tournament data to see how the format is shaking out. The Break Down: Historic What? The Dive Down: Crashing ManaTraders The Dive Down, cont: Hammer Seems Good Become a citizen of The Dive Down Nation!: http://www.patreon.com/thedivedown Get 15% off your first 2 months of ManaTraders! https://www.manatraders.com/?medium=thedivedown and use code "thedivedown2021" Timestamps: 2:31 - Housekeeping 3:35 - The Break Down begins - Historic Changes are Afoot! 15:15 - The Historic Horizons leak 28:45 - The ManaTraders Modern Event 30:50 - The ManaTraders Modern Meta 44:44 - The MT Top 8 51:40 - Fighting HammerTime 53:40 - Stan's Footfalls Tournament Report 1:08:57 - A Look at the Competitive Modern Meta 1:17:15 - Looking More Closely at the Top Modern Decks 1:31:40 - What's Not at the Top? 1:34:35 - Takes on the Meta 1:41:40 - Closing Ou Links from this week's episode: Bamzing's ManaTraders breakdown: https://www.reddit.com/r/ModernMagic/comments/oqhs4y/manatraders_series_modern_decklists_july_2021/ WIll Krueger's HammerTime writeup: https://docs.google.com/document/d/13NtaEE5xyhElk68kxcI9XYteWw6Je-hlXzik64otj3U/edit Our opening music is Nowhere - You Never Knew, and our closing music is Space Blood - Goro? Is That Your Christian Name? Watch us stream our episodes every Sunday night at 8pm Central: https://www.twitch.tv/thedivedown_shane email us: [email protected] twitter: https://twitter.com/thedivedown

In this weeks ep, we reveal the results of The Dive Down Nation's Modern Ban survey. What are the five cards you voted on to be removed from Modern, and more importantly.... what are our takes on the results?! Before that, we go over some Tasha's Hideous Laughter math that citizen of the Nation Stefan generated, and briefly discuss Sunday's Modern Challenge Top 8! The Break Down: Tasha's Hideous Mathter The Dive Down: The Nation Decides The Dive Down, cont: What if Nothing? Become a citizen of The Dive Down Nation!: http://www.patreon.com/thedivedown Get 15% off your first 2 months of ManaTraders! https://www.manatraders.com/?medium=thedivedown and use code "thedivedown2021" Timestamps: 2:45 - Housekeeping 7:10 - The Break Down - Tasha's Hideous Math 17:33 - Breaking News! The Sunday Challenge Top 8 22:22 - The Dive Down Begins 23:46 - Lurrus of the Dream-Den 25:57 - The case for banning Lurrus 38:02 - The case against banning Lurrus 44:40 - The final verdict on Lurrus 47:57 - Mishra's Bauble 51:40 - The case for banning Bauble 58:31 - The case against banning Bauble 1:04:36 - The final verdict on Bauble 1:07:22 - Primeval Titan 1:08:55 - The case for banning Titan 1:13:20 - The case against banning Titan 1:15:20 - The final verdict on Titan 1:18:37 - Teferi, Time Raveler 1:19:28 - The case for banning Teferi 1:24:05 - The case against banning Teferi 1:27:29 - The final verdict on Teferi 1:29:45 - Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer 1:30:40 - The case for banning Ragavan 1:36:40 - The case against banning Ragavan 1:38:10 - The final verdict on Ragavan 1:39:15 - Should we ban... Nothing? 1:41:10 - The Wind Down - what didn't make the top 5? 1:48:38 - Closing out Links from this week's episode: How Hideous is Tasha's Laughter: https://www.reddit.com/r/ModernMagic/comments/omalkc/how_hideous_is_tashas_laughter_what_the_numbers/ Sunday's Challenge: https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/mtgo-standings/modern-challenge-2021-07-19 Our opening music is Nowhere - You Never Knew, and our closing music is Space Blood - Goro? Is That Your Christian Name? Watch us stream our episodes every Sunday night at 8pm Central: https://www.twitch.tv/thedivedown_shane email us: [email protected] twitter: https://twitter.com/thedivedown

First up this week, we take a quick spin through last week's Modern Leagues and pick out a few extremely cool decks to chat about. After that it's an Izzet world and we just delve right into it. That's right, it's UR week on The Dive Down (again) as we take a deep look at one of the latest best decks of Modern Horizons 2 Modern — Izzet Murktide. We discuss why we think the deck is suited to the meta right now, how to play it, and how to beat it (we think). Tune in to find out if this is a control deck, a midrange deck, or a tempo deck — we have a definitive answer! (Warning: We do not have a definitive answer.) Shane loves Counterspell. Dave loves Garden State. Stan loves 8-2s. The Break Down: Some Cool Decks We Saw The Dive Down, pt 1: An 8/8 for Two The Dive Down, pt 2: Izzet Just Death's Shadow? Become a citizen of The Dive Down Nation!: http://www.patreon.com/thedivedown Get 15% off your first 3 months of ManaTraders! https://www.manatraders.com/?medium=thedivedown and use code "thedivedown2021" Timestamps: 4:00 – Housekeeping 8:36 – The Break Down begins – Cool Decks, Inc! 10:15 – 4C Carth the Lion Superfriends 17:30 – Sultai Tokens 22:00 – Izzet Phoenix 25:49 – Hammertime ft. Ingenious Smith 32:38 – The Dive Down begins – Izzet Murktide! 39:00 – The Spells 42:50 – A Mishra’s Bauble digression 47:07 – The Sideboard 49:40 – The fundamental strategies of Murktide 1:00:15 – Is this a Control deck? 1:07:41 – A Murktide Regent digression 1:12:00 – Is this a Graveyard deck? 1:20:33 – A Counterspell digression 1:23:20 – Tactics & Sequencing 1:33:50 – Our experiences playing 1:44:41 – Closing out Links from this week's episode: 4C Carth Superfriends, as trophied by Greenhide1 https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/4136337#paper BUG Tokens, as trophied by Litledude123 https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/4129352#paper MODERN Izzet Phoenix, as trophied by AspiringSpike https://twitter.com/MoughonEvart/status/1413522001583554568 Hammertime with Ingenious Smith by Hamuda https://twitter.com/hamudao3/status/1413998949728411648?s=20 2nd Place Izzet Murktide deck from Saturday’s Modern Challenge from DO0MSWITCH https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/mtgo-standings/modern-challenge-2021-07-11?xd2#domswitch_nd_place Our opening music is Nowhere - You Never Knew, and our closing music is Space Blood - Goro? Is That Your Christian Name? Watch us stream our episodes every Sunday night at 8pm Central: https://www.twitch.tv/thedivedown_shane email us: [email protected] twitter: https://twitter.com/thedivedown

Well, we've finally arrived at The Forgotten Realms, and talk about what mechanics and cards from the latest set we think have the potential to impact Historic, Modern, and Pioneer. Before that, we talk about the weekend's Modern Challenges to continue to keep up with the dynamic Modern meta. The Break Down: Another Heartfelt Thanks//It's Darcy B's World The Dive Down: Spoiled by Spoilers The Wind Down: Venture Bros. Become a citizen of The Dive Down Nation!: http://www.patreon.com/thedivedown Get 15% off your first 2 months of ManaTraders! https://www.manatraders.com/?medium=thedivedown and use code "thedivedown2021" Timestamps: 3:08 - Housekeeping 6:09 - The Break Down begins- Modern Challenges 9:37 - A Murktide Regent and Izzet diversion 15:27 - The Cascade decks 22:18 - More thoughts on the Challenge 27:56 - The Challenge top 8 29:29 - The Sunday Challenge 33:29 - What We're Buying 39:10 - The Dive Down begins - Venture into the Adventure! 41:12 - Our History with D&D 50:44 - Dungeons 58:21 - D20s 1:05:34 - Creature Lands 1:10:13 - Classes 1:15:25 - Pack Tactics 1:18:06 - Cards that Inspire Us 1:18:58 - Treasure Vault 1:21:08 - Portable Hole 1:23:15 - Demilich 1:26:12 - Flameskull 1:29:14 - Circle of Dreams Druid 1:31:46 - Oswald Fiddlebender 1:34:59 - Grim Wanderer 1:36:52 - Yuan-Ti Malison 1:38:31 - Hand of Vecna 1:40:40 - Sphere of Annihilation 1:41:54 - Devour Intellect & Eye of Vecna 1:44:35 - The Wind Down - Venture Bros. Links from this week's episode: Saturday's Challenge: https://www.reddit.com/r/ModernMagic/comments/odmf2t/modern_showcase_challenge_results_jul_3_2021/ Sunday's Challenge: https://www.reddit.com/r/ModernMagic/comments/oeac16/sunday_modern_challenge_results_jul_4_2021/ Adventures in the Forgotten Realms: https://scryfall.com/sets/afr Our opening music is Nowhere - You Never Knew, and our closing music is Space Blood - Goro? Is That Your Christian Name? Watch us stream our episodes every Sunday night at 8pm Central: https://www.twitch.tv/thedivedown_shane email us: [email protected] twitter: https://twitter.com/thedivedown

SPECIAL NOTE: We had issues with Dave's audio this week, so he sounds bad! We are sorry! In this week's episode we continue to explore the developments and decks of the Modern Horizons 2 metagame. We first explore 4 Modern events that took place over the last weekend, then talk about our experiences playing some of the latest contenders in Modern. Is Stan converting to a full-time Enchantress player? Did Shane purchase another set of Stoneforge Mystics? Did Dave.... oh wait Dave always loves Rakdos. The Break Down: Together Again The Dive Down: 68 Degree Basement The Dive Down, cont: Rakdos, Hammer, Enchantress Become a citizen of The Dive Down Nation!: http://www.patreon.com/thedivedown Get 15% off your first 3 months of ManaTraders! https://www.manatraders.com/?medium=thedivedown and use code "thedivedown2021" Timestamps: 3:40 - Housekeeping 7:35 - The Break Down begins - the evolving Modern meta 8:58 - The MOCS Showcase 15:40 - Insight Modern 5k 29:42 - Modern Challenges 31:09 - Takes on the Meta 37:23 - The Dive Down begins - S/B/H MH2v2 38:18 - Rakdos ft. Lurrus 1:02:39 - Mono-W Hammertime ft. Lurrus 1:21:00 - Selesnya Enchantress Links from this week's episode: MOCS Champions Showcase: https://magic.gg/decklists/2021-magic-online-champions-showcase-season-1-modern-decklists Insight Esports Modern 5k: https://mtgmelee.com/Tournament/View/6888 6/27 Modern Challenge: https://www.mtggoldfish.com/tournament/modern-challenge-12309177#paper 6/28 Modern Challenge: https://www.mtggoldfish.com/tournament/modern-challenge-12309183#paper Rakdos Rock: https://www.streamdecker.com/deck/6W2Hiwbm_ _Mono-White Hammer: https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/4109042#paper Selesnya Enchantress: https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/4100268#paper Our opening music is Nowhere - You Never Knew, and our closing music is Space Blood - Goro? Is That Your Christian Name? Watch us stream our episodes every Sunday night at 8pm Central: https://www.twitch.tv/thedivedown_shane email us: [email protected] twitter: https://twitter.com/thedivedown

Stan and Shane played a whole lot of blue spells for the latest installment of Sleeve/Believe/Heave, featuring some emerging Modern Horizons 2 strategies. We chat about our findings with the Izzet Delver decks, Izzet Food, Jeskai Monkey Blade, and more! The Break Down: Modern Challenges The Dive Down: Sleeve/Believe/Heave Modern Horizons 2 Blue Decks ed. Become a citizen of The Dive Down Nation!: http://www.patreon.com/thedivedown Get 15% off your first 2 months of ManaTraders! https://www.manatraders.com/?medium=thedivedown and use code "thedivedown2021" Timestamps: 3:35 - Housekeeping 5:38 - The Break Down - Two Modern Challenges 19:38 - Sunday's Challenge 28:31 - Challenge Trends 37:33 - The Dive Down Begins - Jeskai Tempo 43:55 - A Prismatic Ending Sidebar 49:05 - A Ragavan Sidebar 59:04 - A Kaldra Compleat Sidebar 1:05:41 - Izzet Urza Food Midrange 1:13:39 - Stan Quizzes Shane on Urza Food 1:23:44 - Delver in Modern 1:27:06 - Izzet Delver v2 1:30:39 - A Dragon's Rage Channeler Sidebar 1:32:30 - Back to the Deck 1:37:06 - Delver vs. Stoneblade 1:40:05 - An Urza's Saga Sidebar 1:48:30 - Closing Out Links from this week's episode: Saturday's Challenge: https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/mtgo-standings/modern-challenge-2021-06-20 Sunday's Challenge: https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/mtgo-standings/modern-challenge-2021-06-21 Jeskai Control/Tempo: https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/4070264#paper Izzet Urza Food: https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/4089146 Izzet Delver variants: V1: https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/4074067#paper V2: https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/4089149 Stan version: https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/4074197#paper Our opening music is Nowhere - You Never Knew, and our closing music is Space Blood - Goro? Is That Your Christian Name? Watch us stream our episodes every Sunday night at 8pm Central: https://www.twitch.tv/thedivedown_shane email us: [email protected] twitter: https://twitter.com/thedivedown

In our latest bonus episode, we're joined by a genuine MTGO stalwart, Gabe Maxson aka SpiderSpace to chat about Modern, content creation, and white taxes decks. Find SpiderSpace at: https://www.twitch.tv/spiderspace https://twitter.com/spiderspacemtg Hear Mishra's Babble at https://anchor.fm/francisco-pawluszek/episodes/Ep-5-Modern-Continues-to-Evolve-e12qogj SpiderSpace's Flickerwisp Lines for Aspiring Taxes Players: https://twitter.com/SpiderSpaceMTG/status/1313308453041922048 Become a citizen of The Dive Down Nation!: http://www.patreon.com/thedivedown Get 15% off your first 3 months of ManaTraders! https://www.manatraders.com/?medium=thedivedown and use code "thedivedown2021" Our opening music is Nowhere - You Never Knew, and our closing music is Space Blood - Goro? Is That Your Christian Name? Watch us stream our episodes every Sunday night at 8pm Central: https://www.twitch.tv/thedivedown_shane email us: [email protected] twitter: https://twitter.com/thedivedown

On this week's episode we attempt something ambitious - looking at every deck in the most recent Modern deck dump that features MH2 cards. And that's almost all of them! Join us as we talk about the latest decks, trends, and dare we say it, strategies in Modern. Housekeeping: A Heartfelt Thanks The Break Down: 99 Decks The Break Down, pt2: The Bell Returns Become a citizen of The Dive Down Nation!: http://www.patreon.com/thedivedown Get 15% off your first 3 months of ManaTraders! https://www.manatraders.com/?medium=thedivedown and use code "thedivedown2021" Timestamps: 6:58 - Housekeeping 10:15 - Some high-level Deck Dump stats 11:52 - The most seen MH2 cards so far 20:08 - The most seen old cards 21:35 - Some more deck dump stats 23:42 - The deck dump begins: Mono-black Food, Living End, Lantern Control, Azorious Affinity, Obosh Red 32:17 - Orzhov Stoneblade Blink, Living End variants, Azorious Stoneblade, G Hardened Scales, Golgari Elves 42:51 - Boros Burn, Azorious Blink, Izzet Delver, Golgari Elves, Elementals, Azorious Control 51:33 - Urza Affinity Food, Azorius Affinity and Urza's Saga talk 1:02:04 - Grixis Delirium, Jund, Orzhov Stoneblade Blink 1:11:49 - Orzhov Reanimator, Domain Zoo, Boros Taxes 1:17:41 - The Bell Returns! Abzan Blink, Merfolk, Esper Stoneblade, W Taxes, Jeskai Delver, Azorius Urza Control, Selesnya Enchantress, G Tron, Glimpse of Tomorrow, Orzhov Stoneblade 1:27:08 - Temur Cascade, Gruul Scales, Boros Prowess, Orzhov Stoneblade Control, Yawgmoth, Golgari Food, the Rock, Arclight Phoenix, Orzhov Shadowblade, Gruul Ponza, Blue Moon 1:37:00 - Amulet Titan, Rakdos Shadow, Rakdos Skelemental, Mardu Reanimator Electrodominance stuff, Hammertime, Sultai Urza Artifact stuff, Grixis Shadow, Golgari Food, Humans 1:45:07 - Izzet Delver, Foodvine, Crabvine, Jund Shadow, 4C Cascade Nahiri Control, Red Prowess, Azorius Affinityblade, Orzhov Reanimator, Titania Titan 1:50:35 - Fast takeaways and closing out Links from this week's episode: June 11th Modern League Deck Dump: https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/mtgo-standings/modern-league-2021-06-11 Our opening music is Nowhere - You Never Knew, and our closing music is Space Blood - Goro? Is That Your Christian Name? Watch us stream our episodes every Sunday night at 8pm Central: https://www.twitch.tv/thedivedown_shane email us: [email protected] twitter: https://twitter.com/thedivedown