0:00-38:45 – Chris and I bullshitting about the upcoming draft and old cards
38:45 – The actual draft coverage starts here.
My 2017 Eternal Weekend Tourney Report

Will’s Latest Version of Atog

Francis Ford’s Mono Blue Glasses Control

Jimmy Cooney’s Fungal Enchantress

David Haftner’s Titania’s Prison

Doesn’t this guy remind you of the first season of True Detective?
Matt’s Novicecon report on Svante Landgraf’s blog


Mono Black Rack

Icatian WW

Blood Moon Goblins

Flux Merfolk

R/G Beats (Swedish)

R/B Troll Disco

Deadguy Ale

B/g Dingus
Intro to Old School Google Doc

Sweet poster for 2018 Back to the Past tourney

W/R Sunglasses.draft.dec

Fungal Enchantress, format staple.

Board state from EW 2017 after Jimmy Phantasmal Terrained my Factory to turn on his 2 Dandan’s (and the Control Magic in my hand.)


Will’s Atog List from Kirwan’s

“12 creature” RUG Tog (EC)

8 Creature U/R Tog (EC)

All-in Berserk Tog (Swedish)

Howling Mine Tog (Swedish)

So I have a new project.
I am generally VERY careful about pushing Magic onto my kids. Nothing would enrich my life more than if they fell in love with the game, but I do not want to force it on them and risk turning them off. So I have been treading lightly (arguably too lightly.) But my 3 oldest kids are 6, 7, and 9 now, so I think it is time to finally dive a little deeper. As such, I have built them 5 different mono color, 40 card, Old School legal decks. Just 4 copies of 6 different cards + 16 basic lands for now. About as simple as it gets, although I did include pump knights over regular knights and some slightly more complicated stuff like Fireball and Berserk, just to add a little bit of spice as mono vanilla creatures is boring AF.
The plan is to let them get their feet wet by playing these for a few weeks/months. Then, once they learn the ropes and start to get bored of the same ole’ decks, I will show them an assortment of other/better cards they can add or swap into their decks. All Old School legal of course. I plan on recording all the changes they make, and seeing how things evolve over time. I will post all their changes here.
Also before you complain about the lands not being Old School legal, please note that my 500+ Alpha/Beta basics are already in the Broken Draft and my other 23 Old School decks. Plus I love Mirage/Urza’s/Tempest lands. Sue me 🙂