Episode 104: Must-Knows For (Today's) Modern Tournaments

This week we take a journey into the ManaTraders Modern Tournament Series. We talk about the decks we played with and against, potential mental and strategic approaches to events like these, and some hot hot takes about Modern and Magic. We also spend some time talking about Stan's recent successes, and the first batch of Kaldheim spoilers! The Break Down: Stan's Satellite Results! The Dive Down: Our Manatraders Results! The Wind Down: Kaldheim Spoiler Results! Download the FREE Untapped Companion to track your stats, see your decklists, get details on your performance and more! Use our link to help us out without spending anything: https://mtga.untapped.gg/companion?utm_medium=affiliate&utm_source=youtube&utm_campaign=divedown Become a citizen of The Dive Down Nation!: http://www.patreon.com/thedivedown Get 15% off your first 3 months of ManaTraders! https://www.manatraders.com/?medium=thedivedown and use code "thedivedown" Timestamps: 3:29 - Housekeeping 6:02 - The Break Down begins: Stan’s SCG Tour Online Report 14:20 - New Insights on Historic Neostorm 25:12 - The Dive Down begins: Introducing the Manatraders Modern Qualifiers 34:30 - Who’s Playing in Manatraders Qualifiers? 39:50 - N=31 Metagame Analysis 46:30 - Trying to qualify with Elves, Bogles, and Ponza 52:38 - Trying to qualify with UR Prowess 1:01:16 - Trying to qualify with Mono-Red and GW Titan 1:15:36 - Let’s Talk About Modern… 1:22:38 - Tournament Takeaways 1:36:15 - The Wind Down begins: Kaldheim Spoilers, part 1 Links from this week's episode: The December Manatraders tournament: https://www.manatraders.com/tournaments/9 Ongoing Kaldheim Spoilers: https://scryfall.com/sets/khm?order=spoiled&as=grid Our opening music is Nowhere - You Never Knew, and our closing music is Space Blood - Goro? Is That Your Christian Name? email us: [email protected] twitter: https://twitter.com/thedivedown