Spike Colony

Mike, Lanny and Lan run down Lan's Oath-Replenish deck and bounce around some observations on emerging trends in Premodern in an attempt to get a grasp on the metagame going into the most important NA tournament of the year, Lobstercon! Keep your eyes out as registration goes live around 10a ET on 4/28

Sam Black drops in on the pod to chat about his latest takes on Premodern and dives deep into his growing catalog of Old School brews! Check out Sam's Moxfield here https://www.moxfield.com/users/SamuelHBlack And Sam's everything else @SamuelHBlack online!

Mike and Lanny go super deep on Goblins vs. Burn after Mike's shocking choice to take the draw! This week ended up being a 2 part episode as the one and only Sam Black drops in mid-record, stay tuned!

What are show notes if all time circles back into itself and topics exist not in discrete units but rather an endless continuum of circular reasoning? Hour 1: Storm at Easter Champs 58:00 a few minutes on the other t8 decks before returning to storm, and then back to the other t8 decks for the next hour or so. Hour 3: Mostly random banter Win a Mox AND cash tourney at Fifth Hammer Brewing on 4/28 Endless Wurm at Endless Life on 5/4 Details at https://www.mtgnyc.com/calendar LOVE, SPIKE COLONY

10:40 Agency detour 14:40 Marvel Snap detour 20:00 Premodern talk begins 28:30 Devourer 49:00 Tireless Tribe 52:00 Shazam vs. Superman / GAT 1:00:00 Mono B beatdown 1:16:00 What are we thinking of playing at the upcoming Bearded Dragon 1k 1:34:00 Goblins I lost my burn vs. GW oath match lol LOVE, SPIKE COLONY

Show Notes?!? 0:01:20 - Discussing Mike saying burn players are bad 0:30:00 - Premodern 0:35:35 - Tsabo’s web 0:49:40 - Mengu Elves, but then Mike talks a little contemporary magic 0:56:50 - ‘One card per turn’ talk 1:16:40 - Detour to talk about critical mass 1:22:00 - When has Ponza been good before? 1:26:00 - Agency LOVE, SPIKE COLONY

Bill joins us to discuss his championship run and the continued rise of the newest menace of Premodern. LOVE, SPIKE COLONY.

I had to run to cook dinner for the Mrs. So we recorded a quick one. So levels and background noise will be bad but sorry. I got 2nd with GAT, Mike got t4 with UW. LOVE SPIKE COLONY!

RG Terravore Oath Ponza takes down 2 mid-sized swiss tournaments on the same day. Mike and Lanny yell at each other for too long mostly about whether or not it beats burn. (Note from the editor: at the time of this recording and over the last month, we hadn't looked into much background on the RG deck and I just slapped on -pauloosh because it looked close enough to the GW deck. Turns out Billy, the recent winner at Worcester's monthly and oath-ponza brewer, came up with the first effective TvTyrant-g-oath-ponza splashing red list a while back. Fran's winning take came later and, notably, the two lists were incidentally very close. I called it a Tesla/Edison thing in the pod, which is pretty accurate. So we'll officially endorse the usage of MCLD, or BillyTyrantPauloosh? Teslaoath???) We also talk prep for our upcoming 1K at Endless Life Brewing hosted by Sunny and rehash the tier list! LOVE, SPIKE COLONY

Mike pulls in another 4-0 this week at meet up and the pals discuss old decks, new decks and dive somewhat deep on what they hate about certain decks. Also some mild gearing up for the $1K coming in a couple weeks! LOVE, SPIKE COLONY

Lanny and Mike catch up after over a month of not podding together! We chat the tournament spree, new tech, and everything in between. This was recorded on 2/3 - congrats to Bryn for winning the 1K at SCG Con Hartford! We'll be back on the mostly weekly schedule now that I'm home. LOVE, SPIKE COLONY

The Premodern master of burn joins Michael J to talk about all the hot decks right now including burn and Aaron's spicy new old UB Psychanought. They also talk PSS4, Lobstercon '22, and other fun premodern memories! LOVE SPIKE COLONY! in fact, love spike colony so much that this week will be a double episode drop <3

Fpawlusz joins as our special guest host hot off his win at the first Magic Online Series Premodern Challenge w/ RG Oathpauloosh. I haven’t listened to this episode yet so complain to Mike about any of the content… I’m back in February, LOVE, SPIKE COLONY

BK joins Spike Colony once again! This time to fill in for Lanny as scheduling the past few weeks has been very difficult. Mike and BK discuss all the excitement following a triple header weekend of live mid-sized swiss Premodern tournaments across the country. There's also some good old reminiscin' and plenty of other off-topic banter you've repeatedly shared with me doesn't bother you at all, and in fact you want more of! LOVE, SPIKE COLONY

Mike and Lanny catch up on 3 weeks of missed action as they have spent more time in person than in podcast. More tier list debate as basic mountain strategies heat up after recent results from the Misty Mountain winter finals and another good showing for Mike with burn at locals. Mike attempts to prove overload is bad in the least effective way possible.

Mike and Lanny play decks they love this week as they bring Burn and GAT to the most recent meetup. They also cover MenguElves, Oathpauloosh and other deck ideas that have cropped up this week. LOVE, Spike Colony

This week, Mike and Lanny dive deep into play style and what Lanny believes to be the current top decks in the format (you can find the tier list here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XYUnWiWgz4Sjyvi8qVU_ajBwBnvPuzVtedw3Jeh5-YU/edit?usp=sharing). LOVE, Spike Colony

Mike and Lanny turn their focus back fully on Premodern and discuss the exciting decks succeeding in both the Fall Brawl and Dutch Nationals.

Sorry for the inconsistent audio! in-person records are always a little finicky. Mike and Lanny scrub out an RCQ and reflect on when to be bloodthirsty, more heavy burn talk, oath of druids being bullshit, Lanny going 2-6 with oath of druids across two online events, a little enchantress, pro tour history, and your regularly programmed wildly off-topic nonsense. LOVE SPIKE COLONY Rough time codes: 0:00-57:00 Bloodthirst and burn talk 57:00 - oath of druids is bullshit 1:15:00 - enchantress 1:28:00 - why do you hate ritual hippie 1:54:00 - Hubris in deckbuilding 2:28:00 - coaching/learning

Mike and Lanny haven't talked in a very long time so chaos ensues. Topics include: Spanish nats, Mike playing Oathpauloosh, Modern Miracle Gro, Modern Burn, trying to understand one's true self, Oathpauloosh again for a little bit, and much much much, so much, more.