Episode 125: Hello Historic Anthology 5, Goodbye MPL

Jobs were lost (after next year) and new cards are announced (for next week). We go through all 25 additions from Historic Anthology 5, consider their potential and their competitive past. We also reflect on what the competitive future looks like for casual spikes. The Break Down: Goodbye MPL The Dive Down: Hello Historic Anthology 5 Become a citizen of The Dive Down Nation!: http://www.patreon.com/thedivedown Get 15% off your first 2 months of ManaTraders! https://www.manatraders.com/?medium=thedivedown and use code "thedivedown2021" Timestamps: 1:48 - Housekeeping 4:46 - The Break Down begins: We are all Casual Spikes now 36:05 - The Dive Down begins: HA5 36:58 - The Praetors 48:02 - Silumgar's Command 49:49 - Ojutai's Command 51:38 - Dromoka's Command 56:31 - Atarka's Command 1:06:05 - Kolaghan's Command 1:13:45 - Ancient Grudge 1:14:44 - Ray of Revelation 1:15:51 - Grisly Salvage 1:18:14 - Dragonstorm 1:20:24 - Intangible Virtue 1:23:10 - Into the North 1:24:36 - Relic of Progenitus 1:26:56 - Trash for Treasure 1:27:49 - Ichor Wellspring 1:29:41 - Stifle 1:30:56 - Merfolk Looter 1:32:32 - Reverse Engineer 1:33:50 - Court Homunculus, Vault Skirge, and Whirler Rogue 1:37:15 - Final thoughts on Historic Anthology 5 1:39:15 - Closing Out Links from this week's episode: https://scryfall.com/sets/ha5 https://magic.gg/news/esports-transitions-and-getting-back-to-gathering 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 Sunday night at 8pm Central: https://www.twitch.tv/thedivedown_shane email us: [email protected] twitter: https://twitter.com/thedivedown