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/

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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

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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

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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

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