Episode 115: Modern Bant Ephemerate: The Flicker Mob ft. Aspiringspike

This week we tackle another Patron request from Bob - Bant Ephemerate! And who better to have on than one of the masters of the deck, Aspiringspike himself, Evart Moughon. We go over the ins and outs of the deck, with Shane wondering just how to cast counterspells, Dave running out of time on Magic Online, and Stan just blinking stuff. Before that, we look at the latest Historic Anthology and give our takes on what cards might have an impact. The Break Down: A Shadow Over Historic The Dive Down: Draw 2 Whenever You Can The Dive Down, cont: Winning With Three 2/2s 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: 2:36 - Housekeeping 6:08 - The Break Down begins - Historic Anthology 4 11:48 - The cards of Historic Anthology 4 14:50 - Death's Shadow 24:06 - Declaration in Stone 27:15 - Thraben Inspector 29:03 - Flameblade Adept 32:06 - Blinkmoth Nexus 34:01 - Sword of Body and Mind 35:31 - The other stuff 38:35 - Thoughts on Anthologies 43:26 - The Dive Down begins - a brief history of Bant Ephemerate 48:45 - What inspired Evart to keep coming back to this shell? 51:43 - Ephemerate: the key card 56:33 - What are we bouncing? Eternal Witness 1:01:30 - Ice-Fang Coatl 1:04:27 - Skyclave Apparition 1:07:43 - Wall of Omens 1:09:30 - Venser, Shaper Savant 1:11:40 - The Counterspells & How to Cast Them 1:23:04 - The Teferis 1:25:15 - The Mana 1:29:28 - Time Warp (Time Warp!) 1:31:35 - How Fun is the Deck? 1:37:37 - Some Sideboard Tips 1:41:12 - How Does This Slow Deck Win? 1:46:48 - Final Tips For Picking Up This Deck Links from this week's episode: Historic Anthology 4: https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/magic-digital/get-ready-historic-anthology-iv-2021-03-05 Bant Ephemerate: https://www.streamdecker.com/deck/yHz1usZ4J Watch Aspiringspike on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/aspiringspike Find Aspiringspike on Twitter: https://twitter.com/moughonevart Our opening music is Nowhere - You Never Knew, and our closing music is Space Blood - Goro? Is That Your Christian Name? Watch us stream our episodes every Monday night at 8pm Central: https://www.twitch.tv/thedivedown_shane email us: [email protected] twitter: https://twitter.com/thedivedown