This week we have an interview with a first time PT competitor to talk about the first Arena PTs, the meta and how the lead up to the tournament went. Check our guest out over on Twitter, here. If you are interested in watching some of the week

Episode 132 – Back to the Future!

Jun 12th, 2020 1h 3m

With a weekend of results to look at, I am joined by Scott Mines aka HowlingMines aka That Soulherder Guy and together we travel into the dim past of… about 3 months ago. What was old is new again and we go through match ups, whats changed and

Episode 131 – What will Standard look like now?

Jun 5th, 2020 43m 16s

We have new rules for companions and bannings on Fires of invention and Agent of Treachery. So I am once again joined by Chris Arlow, to go through what he thinks is going to happen in Standard now. Check him out over on Twitter, here. If you a

Episode 130 – Preparing for the PT and bans incoming

May 29th, 2020 44m 56s

So there is a lot going in in Magic at the moment. We have PTs in about 2 weeks, B&R on monday for standard and historic, and a change to the companion mechanic coming at the same time as the new B&R. So I grab a player I respect to play some e

Episode 129 – Looking in on Legacy

May 23rd, 2020 41m 42s

Companions have been dominating in multiple formats at the moment, so much so that Vintage and Legacy had some bans this week. So I bought on a guest to talk about what Legacy was up to beforehand and what it will start to look like going forwa

Episode 128 – Talking Cycling with Mark Gabriele

May 15th, 2020 49m 24s

Lukka Fires has been dominant over the last couple of weeks so I bring in someone to talk about a deck thats been doing very well against it at the moment, Cycling. I managed to get some time with an SCG grinder, MTG Arena Zone Author and 35th

Episode 127 – New Fires with Sean Goddard

May 8th, 2020 55m 39s

With paper tournaments being put on hold, I have a chat with one of Team Axion Now’s newest members, and 9th place finisher at PT Brussels, Sean Goddard. We go through his recent run on the Channel Fireball Arena Tournament scene, and give some

Episode 126 – Fighting Fires With Rob Catton

May 1st, 2020 1h 2m

With the Standard meta developing at a rapid pace, the strongest deck early on is just a new take on an old classic, Jeskai Fires has seen some excellent upgrades, so we chat to a man who is currently playing one of the strongest versions of th

Episode 125 – Week 1 Ikoria Standard

Apr 24th, 2020 53m 23s

This week we start looking at how Ikoria is changing the standard meta. This week’s guest is coming off a top 4 at the MTGO standard Challenge over the weekend, and is a staple of the UK competitive scene, Charles Eliatamby. Check him out over

Episode 124 – Ikoria with Alexander Gordon-Brown

Apr 17th, 2020 1h 24m

This week instead of looking at the mechanics we are trying to get an idea of how the cards and decks fit together with some of the new cards in Ikoria. Many of these cards are extreamly hard to evaluate, so I have a guest on who has made a nam

Episode 123 – Ikoria with Judge Hannah

Apr 10th, 2020 1h 20m

We’ve got enough spoilers now to really sink our teeth into the Mechanics ahead of the release, so I brought on Judge Hannah Lissaman to talk about how this all works, at least as far as we know. If you are interested in our guest this week, ch

Episode 122 – Legacy Primer

Apr 3rd, 2020 52m 22s

Continuing our series of primer episodes to non-rotating formats, this week I have GP Top 8 competitor in Legacy at Bologna, Matt Brown, to give us a look at the macro-archetypes that dominate the format. Hopefully this episode will mean you ar

Episode 121 – Pioneer (Re)Primer

Mar 27th, 2020 1h

This week, much like last week, I’m talking to a special guest about a format we haven’t taken a broad look at in a little while. This week our guest is Chris Vincent and we are talking about Pioneer.Music: www.bensound.comArt: Spell Quelle

Episode 120 – Modern (Re)Primer

Mar 20th, 2020 57m 29s

This week I am joined by special guest and recent winner of the Axion Now Mega Modern, James Staples, who gives us an update on modern after the latest bannings and then gives us an overview of how the format is looking at the moment in general

Episode 119 – I’m going to the PT!

Mar 13th, 2020 1h 4m

This week we look at the B&R from this week and the next seasons WPNQ set up, and then I talk about how I’ve made it to the PT by winning a WPNQ.Music: www.bensound.comArt: Lucky Clover by John Stanko. This podcast is supported by our patre

Episode 118 – The new face of Standard

Mar 6th, 2020 1h 8m

This week we take a look at some Standard results from Dark Sphere’s WPNQ as well as talk about how the format seams to be shifting based on online results. We also have a chat about Modern ahead of this weekend’s Mega Modern event.Music: w

Episode 117 – The problem with competitive

Feb 28th, 2020 1h 37m

This week we take a look at some pioneer prelim results from Axion Now and Chaos Cards, before haing a discussion about the current WPNQ and Prelim based competitive system, having taken into account feedback from listeners and twitter follower

Episode 116 – Trying something new

Feb 22nd, 2020 1h 8m

This week we try something new, a slightly more freeform episode. We talk about worlds, and what you can do in standard right now, as well as look at some modern lists from Dark Sphere’s WPNQ Prelim.Music: www.bensound.comArt: Frilled Mysti

Episode 115 – Talking with a PT Competitor

Feb 15th, 2020 2h

In an extra long episode, we have results from Chaos cards, and we talk through the news of data avaliability from GPs, Arena coming to mobile, and the results from PT Phoenix. Our guest this week is PT competitor Graham Caunce, who gives us hi

Episode 114 – Post PT Pioneer

Feb 7th, 2020 1h 9m

This week we have a talk about the results from Mystic Games and Manaleak. We also talk about the players tour at the weekend and how pioneer has developed and what we expect to see going forward.News: 2:20 Local Results: 11:20 Deep dive:

Episode 113 – Theros Week one Standard

Jan 31st, 2020 58m 14s

This week we have a guest on the podcast, Danny St John-Hall (@PrefacedKarama) returns to tell us about standard and how hes been getting on in the Arena Metagame Challenges. We also look at some pioneer results from Axion Now.. News: 6:40

Episode 112 – Theros Top 10s

Jan 24th, 2020 1h 54m

We have new information about the GPs happening this year so we talk about that for a bit, but most of this weeks episode is devoted to talking about the cards from Theros Beyond Death we think are going to make the biggest impact on constructe

Episode 111 – Shaking up Modern

Jan 17th, 2020 1h 21m

This week saw a big Banned and Restricted Announcement for Modern, and so we spend a lot of the news section talking about what effect we think this is going to have on the format, was this set of bannings enough to get Modern out of the funk i

Episode 110 – New Year Thoughts

Jan 13th, 2020 1h 11m

Our first episode back sees Jon return to the podcast. We talk a bit about the state of the competitive contructed formats for this WPNQ season, and then we have a quick look at some of the spoliers.I would like to say a quick sorry folks for

Episode 109 – Pioneer with Henry Guille

Dec 20th, 2019 1h 11m

This week on the podcast I have Henry Guille, a Judge who works a lot with Axion Now. He talks us through his recent Mega Modern run and then has some analysis to share with us on pioneer results and talks a bit about the way the format is cons