All Tings Considered

DFB comes on the show for the first time in waaaaaay too long to recap Lobstercon 2024 and make an announcement for 2025 that may be relevant to your interests given you are reading this.

Great friend of the pod Lan D. Ho comes on the show this week to chat about his broken heart.

Leo Bruder finally joins the show to talk about his 6 year journey destroying everything and everyone with his unique take on robots.

The runners up from Mobstercon 2024 (Jeff White, Ben Farkas, and Chris Manning) join the show this week to actually talk about their decks a bit before of course going off the sports card rails.

Old School end boss Ty Thomason comes on the show this week to talk about his team's process on their way to winning Mobstercon 2024.

Sad news in the Old School world, alionamongstmen is no longer with us.

This week, fresh off his finals appearance at Finnish nats, Janne Ohman joins the show to share the hottest new deck in Premodern.

The best TO in the business, Shawn Sullivan, joins me this week to chat about his latest banger of a tourney, The Satanic Panic.

Premodern ringer Alvaro Galindo joins me this week to talk about the only thing worth talking about in Premodern, black cards.

A bunch of misers allow me to live vicariously through them by sharing their thoughts and tales from n00bcon.

The entire team (well not w7) meets for our semi-annual bored meeting.

Premodern Prince Flint Espil joins the show this week to discuss the current state of Premodern.

Old friend and OG miser Lan D. Ho comes on the show this week to chat about everything and nothing.

Currently top 5 on the PM "Enchantments Cast" leaderboard, Rich Shay joins the show this week to chat about his latest baby, UG Enchantress.

Relative Old School newcomer Ty Thomason joins the show this week to chat about his recent win at Glorycon 3.

As is tradition, old friend Chris Mason joins the show to recap the year in old school.

My guest this week is swb, who regales me with the tale of his week, beginning with Ball Lightning in the big apple followed by Necro in Nashville, with a smattering of 5th edition packs to tie the rooms together.

I have 3 guests join me this week to talk about Chalice 2023.  Only one of them sniffs these game worn John Stockton nut huggers every night before bed.  Tune in to find out who.

Brothers of Fire Jonas and Stebbo join the show this week to bask in the afterglow of their win in the 2023 money draft world championships.

Spike Summit champion, OS end boss, and all around good dude Will Parshall comes on the show this week to talk about the new Swedish meta and recap his tourney win.

Old friend, PT player, magic lover, PM brewer, and great man Lan D. Ho comes on the show today to talk duplicate sealed, how he approaches brewing in Premodern, and tell some stories from the good 'ole days.

Old friend and good man Cam Wall comes on the show this week to talk about his addiction and AAA.

4 of the pillars of X-Point, Louis de Nijs, Joe Becica, Joe Scherer, and Tim Atwood join me today to get into the weeds of the best Old School format out there.

Premodern brewer, cube lover, and Land Tax opinion haver Caleb Durward joins me on the show this week for a nice potpourri.

Friend of the pod and extremely good man Jeff Liu comes back on the show this week to talk about, uhhh, Commander.

Rich Bourque, one of the good guys in Old School, comes on the show this week to talk about his run to the finals at Lobstercon with a unique Shops list, plus shares a few tales from the good old days in the greatest city in the world.

The hottest man in Premodern, Lanny Huang joins me this week to talk about whatever was leftover after the other 3 podcasts he has done over the last few weeks.

The most beloved member of Team Sped, Jeff White, returns this week to discuss the one ring of Magic: The Gathering formats, Modo Holiday Cube.

Mike Flores comes on the show this week to break Serrated Arrows.

Tier 1 Premodern boomer/brewer (brewmer?) Matt Harper comes on the show this week to chat about 2 of his tribal masterpieces.

One of the best deckbuilders of all time, Sam Black, joins the show this week to tell me about the parfait list he used to win the Misty Mountain Games Premodern Spring Cup

Magic Pro Tour Hall of Famer Olle Rade comes on the show this week to brag about his 2nd Giant Shark.

Old Order end boss Levi Baumgardner comes on the show this week to talk ante after his 2nd place finish at the inaugural alter ante open.

Premodern ringer Tom Metelsky was nice enough to let me pick his brain this week about all things Premodern.

Fairly good man Andy Baquero takes over the pod this week with a series of interviews about his sweet Scryings Event, Scry Harder.

So we did it again.  This one felt a little better than the last time, but who the hell knows.  Listen at your own risk.

Old Order CEO Mike Frantz comes on the show this week to chat about a sick little event he has been brewing up.

Old friend Chris Mason comes back on the show for our traditional Old School year end recap.

Arguably the best man in Old School, Slanfan, comes on the show this week to share the ridiculous deck that he used to win the 2022 Magic World Cup.

Magical masters Olle Rade and Martin Lindstrom (Fluffy) join the show this week to discuss all things Premodern Elves.

More Chalice coverage!  First Cam Wall and Shawn Sullivan share their road trip recording from Seattle to San Fran.  Then Brothers of Fire Jonas and Stebbo come on the show to figure out if we can splash Slater's tight rig into Kapowski kontrol.

Old friends Danny Friedman and Paul DeSilva join me this week to rub some salt in my Chalice fomo wounds.

Marc Vogt (Pemmin) has broken PM once again, winning BOTH events at the 2022 Premodern Eurochamps.  He joins this week for a deep dive on his deck as well as some tales from the event.

Will Magrann comes back on the show this week to finally answer the age old question: How much is a Giant Shark worth?

The 2 Princes of Premodern, Michael Heup and Flint Espil come back on the show to talk about the greatest Magic content on the web, the Premodern Showdown Series 4.

Ryan Rudolph is the reason you have been staring down Motis across the table lately. He joins the show to share exactly how that happened. Then Lucas Glavin, fresh off a T4 at the Summer Derby with his own Motis, joins in to finally solve that age old question: what is the correct number of Mahamotis to play in Old School?

The last time anyone cast a Durkwood Boar was during 5th/Vision draft at PT Rye. Not anymore. Andres Hojman joins the show to share the story of how he made T16 at the Old School Summer Derby on the backs of his boars.

The 2nd best Magic player of all time, Jon Finkel, joins the show this week to walk through a broken draft he did.

OS Legend Magnus de Laval joins me this week for a behind the scenes look at the new Magic: The Gathering expansion, Legends.

Nicolas Allard (sp?) joins the show today to take a deep dive into the Old School deck data he has mined.

Master deckbuilder Brian Kowal comes on the show this week to dissect the Premodern UWR Angels list that he played to the Top 8 at Lobstercon.

Rich Shay comes back on the show to chat about the Zur's Weirding deck he finished 2nd at Lobstercon with.

Fresh off his 3rd place finish at Lobstercon, Mike Flores comes back on the show to tell us how it all went down.

This one is a real potpourri, featuring 3.5 different chats with 3.5 different undergound hitters.  Some of it is about Lobstercon.

First ever Team Sped bored meeting.  Warning: Listen at your own risk.

This episode features some people you may know talking about a tournament you may have heard of.  I believe it hits the listenable(ish) bar I strive for here on ATC, although I have not listened myself so no promises.

The best TO in the business, Shawn Sullivan, comes on the show this week to chat about his latest creation, Fire Walk With Me.

Eli Kassis, fresh off a Pro Tour* Victory, joins the show this week to dissect the deck that won it all.

You down with DFB?  How 'bout some potpourri!

Old friend Mike Flores comes on the pod today to talk about his first magic trade, why Chain Lightning is better than Bolt, the origin of napster, and one burly protector.

Fresh off his T4 finish at Havenwood 3, Tim Moran joins the show this week to talk about the best green card in Legends.

Marc Vogt (aka Pemmin) comes on the show this week for a deck tech on the Premodern Parallax Tide deck he has been crushing with.

Mase joins the show this week for our 4th annual recap of the year in Old School.

My besties Jamie Parke and Ben Farkas join the show this week to talk about an extremely important subject: 5th-Visions draft.

PT Hall of Famer Olle Rade comes back on the show to reminisce about his top 8 at PT Chicago '97, inventing Temple of Sped, his original Duelist Invitational card, and "no attacks, no blocks."

Friend of the pod Aland comes on the show this week for a potpourri.  We chat about [redacted] house in central western Europe, the 59th and 60th cards in Troll Disco, some of the OG Swedes, and who invented 12 bolt.

The RUG Doctor himself, Svante Landgraf, comes back on the show to try and break Arabian Aggro.

The creator of X-Point, Louis de Nijs, and his partner in crime Raymond Mitchell join the show this week to chat about my favorite current OS format.

DFB holds Jeff Liu's hand for a 3rd time to finally get this Urza's Ante coverage out the door.

3 of the top 8 Beasts of the Bay come on the show to cover a traditional Desert Storm money draft we did at Urza's Chalice, plus a bonus car ride kicker with 2 of the top 6 Sisters of the Flame.

It's finally here, the episode Farkas has been demanding for over 3 years.  3.5 hours of story time with the T2K himself, buckle up.

The Prince of Premodern, Mike Heup, joins me this week to chat about some of the sweet brews we have been playing over the last few months.

My besties Jeff and Adam join me for a dojo-esque tourney report from the BonchonCon, er, LobsterCon 2021.

The godfather of Premodern Oath of Druids, Patrick Burt comes back on the show to finish his tale of singlehandedly bringing Oath into tier 1.

Old friend and founding member of Team Sped Joe Weber (aka w7) comes on the show this week to reminisce about the glory days, rank the current members of the team, and explain exactly why Karens are getting into fist fights at Walmart over Pokemon cards.

The greatest man in Old School, Mattias Berggren (aka Slanfan), joins me today to chat Tolaria, Beta duals, Deckpic Tinder, and hot take vs cold take.

The interviewer becomes the interviewee as I join Dan Knudsen for this week's episode, where he asks me to play Fuck/Marry/Kill with Team Sped.

Old School end boss and Grand Prix Champion (err Finalist) Lucas Glavin joins me this week to talk about cutting his gaming teeth at YMG, how easy it is to be a teacher, and the best decks in modern day Old School.

The 2021 Summer Derby champion himself, Jeffrey William White III, explains what it's like to be the luckiest guy on planet earth.

The weirdest Crossover since Batman met Elmer Fudd! (yeah - this happened friends). Four of the most attractive European content creators talk about important stuff and nice brews.

Beast of the Bay Jeff Liu joins me this week to show off his latest graveyard/orb combo brew.

Fan favorite David Chambers joins me this week to go over the sweet brew that he went 8-1 with at the Ivory Cup last weekend.

A variety of NEOS misers join the show in a 2 part episode recorded as the sun was setting on the Burrowing Invitational in Vermont.

Earthquake League founding member Thomas Sutherland comes on the show this week to talk about the 2nd most boring topic in OS.

Adam Lemke and one of the Cohen brothers join the pod this week to walk us through one of their drafts from the latest Sped Weekend.

2 time shark winner Martin Lindstrom (aka Fluffy) joins the show this week to try and convince me that it is correct to play Timetwister in The Deck.

Arguably the greatest Magic player of all time, Kai Budde, joins the show this week.  We touch on a bunch of stuff, the most important being exactly how long it took him to dismantle Mark LePine in the finals of Worlds '99.

Friends of the pod Adam Merkado and Paul DeSilva take over the show this week to talk about the pretty pictures on all the scimitar cards.

Beloved NEOS member Marc Flore comes on the show this week to talk about Elder Spawn, losing at Magic (no relation to Elder Spawn), and opening an ice cream parlor during the pandemic (and ofc what the best flavor of ice cream is.)

Sisters of the Flame Andy Baquero and Seth Roncoroni join the show this week to talk about the design of Andy's custom Old School Cube, followed by a draft walkthrough of Seth's draft from the Sisters' event last weekend.

DFB joins the show today to explain exactly how he is crushing everyone in singleton with MiracleWorker.dec, as well as why he is selling all his Magic cards.

Old friend of the pod Svante Landgraf comes back on the show to help dissect a brew that, while sweet, is a little rough around the edges.

I take a break this week and Mark LePine fills in, talking with the creator of the High Tide deck from PT Rome, Jason Opalka.

Old friend Will Magrann joins the show this week to go over the interesting n00bcomn II metagame and how we attacked it.

Pete Lankering, NEOS'er and probably the coolest Old Schooler on the block, comes on the show this week to talk about the time he mailed cash in an envelope to Starcity to fuel his Magic addiction, NE Regionals 1998, and Gary.

Somewhat softened spike Greg Kraigher comes on the show this week to talk abut the best color in Old School.

Jeff White, Adam Lemke, and I talk about some things.

The most beloved man in Old School, Shaman Ben Perry, joins the show this week to chat about deckbuilding, Worldgorger Dragon, Twin Peaks, and share the greatest money draft story I have ever heard.