Freshly Brewed: A Magic: The Gathering Podcast

Freshly Brewed is a Magic: The Gathering Podcast hosted by two of the most passionate deck brewers in the game: Frank Lepore and Ali Aintrazi. Join them each week as they discuss the latest goings-on along with their favorite cards that no one is playing...yet. You can follow the podcast on Twitter at @FreshBrewedMTG or Frank and Ali at @FrankLepore and @AliEldrazi
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Freshly Brewed, Episode 3 - The $500 Burst Lightning 3
Jun 4, 2015

Frank and Ali talk about the foil Tarmogoyf pick from Grand Prix Las Vegas, the merits of obscure cards like Mystic Snake, and the potential of a deck with both Ugin, the Spirit Dragon and Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker.

Pascal Maynard's eBay auction for his foil, stamped Tarmogoyf: http://www.ebay.com/itm/MTG-Foil-Tarmogoyf-MM2-Stamped-GP-Vegas-Top-8-Pascal-Maynard-/261911963536

Frank's Bant Eternal Command article: http://magic.tcgplayer.com/db/article.asp?ID=12582

Ali's Esper Twix article: http://magic.tcgplayer.com/db/article.asp?ID=12585

Be sure and follow Frank and Ali on Twitter at @FrankLepore and @AliEldrazi.

3 Comments
  • five and a half months ago
    ErikG
    I still really want to see a Grixis Control list with Nicol Bolas and Ugin, Spirit Dragon, in Modern. I'm not sure if Origins will make that more or less viable a strategy, however I believe an oppressive control deck with tools to take down all the Combo lists (Scapeshift, Living End, Splinter Twin) might be the ticket.

    Winning with Bolas might be tough after all's said and done, depending on the matchup, but it'll be good fun all in all. Cool podcast gentlemen, will be watching.
  • seven and a half months ago
    MarloweC
    I didn't see the entire pack, but I may take Tarmogofy even if it's NOT foil. It's a perfectly valid hate draft pick.
  • seven and a half months ago
    Waladil
    You guys got a bit into the issue with Modern where new decks are probably viable but rarely are created. I was recently playing around with the idea of a deck and wanted to build it on MTGO, but I couldn't find the cards for trade. So it became a catch-22 for these cards; nobody's selling them because nobody's buying them because they're not in big-name decks, but nobody's creating a new big-name deck with them because nobody's selling them.
    In real life this is similarly a problem with personal collections and store collections, because local stores tend to only have cards from the last set or cards likely to sell. However there are online resources like TCGPlayer or StarCity that have pretty much every card for sale, but then you're looking at issues like slow iteration time, which is anathema to brewing, if every time you want to try a new card you have to wait 3-5 days for shipping.
    MTGO is a much better brewing environment, just because you can iterate much faster there than IRL, but it suffers from even smaller card selection. I wonder what the community reaction would be if Wizards opened a store from which you could buy any card that has passed its redemption date, but would be unable to trade cards purchased this way. I guess the immediate problem with that iteration of the idea is that it'd kill the secondary market when a lot of people start just buying the cards straight from Wizards. Maybe have a daemon running that monitors the average sale price of pretty much every card and then sell the cards for 1.25x average bot sale price? So it'd always be cheaper to buy them on the market, assuming you can find them on the market. The problem then would be creating, testing, and maintaining that daemon.