[Podcast] Everyday Eternal Episode 14: Field Reports

[thecrav]

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In episode 14 of #EverydayEternal, Matt Pavlic (sdematt) and and Sam Craven (thecrav) are joined by another tournament topping guest, Bob Huang (@silyaznfoo), who recently Top 16′ed both Grand Prix: DC and StarCityGames Providence Legacy Open.

All three casters have tournament reports including Grand Prix: DC, The Vancouver Legacy Classic, and StarCityGames Providence. We do a bit more analysis on True-Name Nemesis, including the impact on Legacy and where we see the metagame going from here. We close out with a bit of listener feedback.

Here’s the timestamped table of contents for your listening ease and enjoyment:
01:25 Sam’s terrible Grand Prix: DC report
05:30 Matt’s report on the Vancouver Legacy Classic
10:56 Bob’s report on Grand Prix: DC and StarCityGames Providence Legacy Open
20:04 True-Name Nemesis – How the metagame is adjusting and will continue to adjust, and the best TNN and anti-TNN decks
44:10 Recent insane plays
48:24 Graveyard hate (or, “How I learned to stop worrying and hate the graveyard”)
55:25 Outro

Links of Interest

Grand Prix: DC Coverage
StarCityGames Providence Legacy Open Top 16 Decklists

Thanks again for listening! If you have any questions or just want to chat, let us know on Twitter (@EternalMTG), like us on Facebook (facebook.com/EverydayEternalPodcast), or email (EverydayEternalCast@gmail.com), or in the thread below.

[Kayradis]

Once again, sweet podcast!

[Lemnear]

Nice podcast once more guys

[Shawon]

I chuckled at the graveyard hate section. I appreciated Matt trying to pronounce my forum name correctly. My forum name, Shawon, was my kid nickname when I lived in Japan until I was 4. I'm not Japanese, in case you're wondering. The 'w' is silent, so it's pronounced "Sha-ohn." But when I moved to Kentucky, I did go by the nickname of Shawn to Americanize my Japanese moniker, so hearing Shawn did invoke some childhood nostalgia. Thanks lol, and thanks for listening to my feedback. I appreciate it, guys.

The reason I asked about graveyard hate in the first place is because, as I've mentioned before in previous feedback threads, I play Affinity, and lately, I've been pondering the decision of running graveyard hate. I was curious as to what the podcast's rule of thumb was regarding the count of SB cards dedicated to graveyard hate. I was surprised to hear the podcast recommend running up to three 3 gy cards, and recommend ditching graveyard hate altogether if one ends up needing at least 4 or 5 graveyard hate cards, given your urgence of players to sport grave hate. Since the decks you cited incidentally have ways to support or find graveyard hate, I can understand the reasoning for low counts, say 1-2 pieces in a Brainstorm deck. Would the cast still recommend only 3 pieces of graveyard hate in a linear deck like Affinity, which has few if none MD means to support 3 pieces of graveyard hate? Or just not bother if running 5 graveyard hate pieces like I'm doing has to be enough?

[Megadeus]

Listened this morning at work. Good stuff. Always liek to hear experienced players that have done well at recent tournaments talking about them

[thecrav]

listened this morning at work. Good stuff. Always liek to hear experienced players

that have done well at recent tournaments talking about them

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[Megadeus]

:(

If I wanted to hear about an 0-2 drop I would talk into a tape recorder about my own tournaments and listen to it ;) Hahaha I kid I kid....

Edit: Maybe a topic could be how you guys deal with tilting? How you prevent it from happening?

[sdematt]

If I wanted to hear about an 0-2 drop I would talk into a tape recorder about my own tournaments and listen to it ;) Hahaha I kid I kid....

Edit: Maybe a topic could be how you guys deal with tilting? How you prevent it from happening?

As long as you played tight and made as few mistakes as possible, that's all that counts. If my opponent got the God hand, I ran into bad matchups, or I bricked on drawing certain cards, it's all variance. I can't control the variance, so I just let go. I only get tilty if I lose due to a play mistake on my part. When I do that, I write down what I did wrong, and usually, I never do it again.

-Matt

[lyracian]

I enjoyed that and I do not mind hearing about how other peoples event went even if it was bad.

About Thassa; the one card you did not mention that helps to make her good is Counterbalance! Your second balance does something and being Indestuctable helps if you have to drop Energy Field without RIP; when all you control is lands, top, enchantments some decks just can not destroy anything to get rid of Field. The single Blue casting cost can also be relevant if an opponent is going with mana denial to keep you off double blue. Overall she has not been amazing but I am certainty sticking with a singleton for now.

On the Gravehate issue would your advice be the same for a small known meta? I advised my friend to go up to 5 in his sideboard as the only local deck he did not have a reasonable chance against was Tin Fins.