This Podcast Discusses:

• Current Standard
• Fate Reforged spoilers (in particular Soulfire Grand Master and Jeskai Sage)

What does Patrick Chapin’s New Year’s Eve party bus have to do with a mid-2000’s Tsuyoshi Fujita deck design?

Our hosts discuss Standard – reviewing Mike’s Star City Super Invitational Qualifier Top 4, possibly in preparation of Patrick’s upcoming hometown event, Grand Prix Denver.

Mike’s R/W deck, as played:

2 Chandra, Pyromaster
4 Lightning Strike
4 Magma Jet
4 Monastery Swiftspear
4 Stoke the Flames

3 Brimaz, King of Oreskos
4 Chained to the Rocks
3 Heliod’s Pilgrim
4 Seeker of the Way
4 Wingmate Roc

4 Battlefield Forge
1 Evolving Wilds
10 Mountain
1 Plains
4 Temple of Triumph
4 Wind-Scarred Crag

sb:
2 Arc Lightning
2 Chandra Pyromaster
2 Sarkan, the Dragonspeaker
3 Elspeth, Sun’s Champion
2 End Hostilities
4 Erase

Potential future state of Mike’s R/W deck, via Patrick’s suggestions (sorry, Taylor Swiftspear):

2 Chandra, Pyromaster
1 Dragon Mantle
4 Lightning Strike
4 Magma Jet
4 Stoke the Flames

4 Brimaz, King of Oreskos
4 Chained to the Rocks
1 Elspeth, Sun’s Champion
4 Heliod’s Pilgrim
4 Seeker of the Way
4 Wingmate Roc

4 Battlefield Forge
1 Evolving Wilds
10 Mountain
1 Plains
4 Temple of Triumph
4 Wind-Scarred Crag

sb:
1 Anger of the Gods
2 Arc Lightning
2 Chandra Pyromaster
2 Sarkan, the Dragonspeaker
2 Elspeth, Sun’s Champion
2 End Hostilities
4 Erase

“Meaningful decisions are overrated.”
-Patrick Chapin

A general discussion of the great Fate Reforged two drops Soulfire Grand Master and Jeskai Sage. Did we say “great”? Interesting discussion from Patrick turns Mike around on a previously not-loved Jeskai Sage.

Editor’s Note: Patrick and Mike muse on using Soulfire Grand Master to recycle Temporal Tresspass. Temporal Trespass exiles itself so this is not a possible interaction.

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