
Episode 31: How to Casual Spike a Tournament
07/19/19 • 95 min
The Break Down: MF Krakow's MCQ and Tobi Henke's GP Dallas Data
The Dive Down: Deck Selection for GP Denver's MCQ
The Wind Down: The Timing of MH1's Release
Timestamps:
The Break Down Begins – MF Krakow's MCQ: 2:36
Tobi Henke’s GP Dallas data: 18:08
The Dive Down Begins – Our deck selection process: 31:40
Shane: Timing your selection and metagaming modern: 35:00
Zak: Familiarity vs. Power and learning something new: 45:14
Stan: Playing the unfamiliar and tournament goals: 56:51
Dave: Finding your way in the Modern meta and data-driven decisions: 1:10:40
The Wind Down – The timing of MH1’s release: 1:28:21
Links from this week's episode:
GP Krakow's MCQ T8: https://www.channelfireball.com/top-8-decklists-of-the-modern-mcq-at-magicfest-krakow/
Tobi Henke's Dallas Data: https://www.channelfireball.com/articles/full-modern-metagame-and-win-rates-from-dallas-and-what-it-means-moving-forward/
Our opening music is Nowhere - You Never Knew, and our closing music is Space Blood - Goro? Is That Your Christian Name?
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The Break Down: MF Krakow's MCQ and Tobi Henke's GP Dallas Data
The Dive Down: Deck Selection for GP Denver's MCQ
The Wind Down: The Timing of MH1's Release
Timestamps:
The Break Down Begins – MF Krakow's MCQ: 2:36
Tobi Henke’s GP Dallas data: 18:08
The Dive Down Begins – Our deck selection process: 31:40
Shane: Timing your selection and metagaming modern: 35:00
Zak: Familiarity vs. Power and learning something new: 45:14
Stan: Playing the unfamiliar and tournament goals: 56:51
Dave: Finding your way in the Modern meta and data-driven decisions: 1:10:40
The Wind Down – The timing of MH1’s release: 1:28:21
Links from this week's episode:
GP Krakow's MCQ T8: https://www.channelfireball.com/top-8-decklists-of-the-modern-mcq-at-magicfest-krakow/
Tobi Henke's Dallas Data: https://www.channelfireball.com/articles/full-modern-metagame-and-win-rates-from-dallas-and-what-it-means-moving-forward/
Our opening music is Nowhere - You Never Knew, and our closing music is Space Blood - Goro? Is That Your Christian Name?
email us: [email protected]
twitter: https://twitter.com/thedivedown
Previous Episode

Episode 30: Cut to the Core
The Break Down: Analyzing the Bridge from Below ban
The Dive Down: Our picks to click for Core Set 20
The Wind Down: What to do with all these cleared up sideboard slots
Timestamps:
Start of the Break Down - 2:21
Analyzing WOTC’s Announcement - 8:10
ELO Project - 24:18
Start of Dive Down - 27:20
Thunkerin Awakener - 29:19
Chandra, Awakened Inferno - 33:46
Elvish Reclaimer - 40:39
Fry - 46:25
Chandra, Acolyte of Flame - 51:48
Scheming Symmetry - 58:23
Leyline of Abundance - 1:06:28
Chandra’s Regulator - 1:08:05
Risen Reef - 1:11:37
Brought Back - 1:15:37
Start of the Wind Down - 1:17:59
Leyline of the Void moving forward - 1:22:05
Links from the episode:
B&R announcement - https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/july-8-2019-banned-and-restricted-announcement-2019-07-08
ELO Project - http://www.mtgeloproject.net/
Thunderkin Awakener - https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=466916
Chandra, Awakened - https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=466881
Elvish Reclaimer - https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=466923
Fry - https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=466894
Chandra, Acolyte - https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=466880
Scheming Symmetry - https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=466867
Leyline of Abundance - https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=466933
Chandra’s Regulator - https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=466885
Risen Reef - https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=466971
Brought Back - https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=466763
Edgar’s Elemental Deck - https://twitter.com/EdgarMTG/status/1148284547156647936
Our opening music is Nowhere - You Never Knew, and our closing music is Space Blood - Goro? Is That Your Christian Name?
email us: [email protected]
twitter: https://twitter.com/thedivedown
Next Episode

Episode 32: Down and Out at the Denver MCQ
The Break Down: The Modern MOCS - Hogaak's Back
The Dive Down: MCQs are Hard - Our experiences at MF Denver
The Wind Down: The Modern Power 9
Timestamps:
02:13 - Housekeeping
03:42 - The Break Down begins – The Modern MOCS
18:30 - The Dive Down begins – Getting to MF Denver
22:45 – What’s a MF like?
35:30 – The decks we played during the MF
38:29 – What’s a MCQ like?
45:33 – What we played at the MCQ – Shane
48:50 – Dave
1:01:25 – Shane pt2
1:05:08 – Stan
1:16:39 – Zak
1:26:19 – The Wind Down – Our Modern Power 9
Links from this week's episode:
The Modern MOCS: https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/mtgo-standings/modern-mocs-2019-07-17-0
Our opening music is Nowhere - You Never Knew, and our closing music is Space Blood - Goro? Is That Your Christian Name?
email us: [email protected]
twitter: https://twitter.com/thedivedown
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