Tusk Talk Podcast Episode 22: Vintage Champs and Mishra’s Last Stand

Part one of a double feature on Eternal Weekend. Hot Carl / Ponder? (Greg Mitchell), Nedleeds (Sean), and Vintage Champs Top 8 competitor Greedy Mike (Mike Kiesel) talk Vintage and food in Pittsburgh. Timestamped table of contents: 00:00 – Intro 02:30 – Vintage Champs Top 20’ish overview and thoughts 06:00 – Hot Carl’s failure 10:00 – Nedleeds’ failure 18:00 – Greedy Mikes Run to Glory 50:00 – The Top 8 and being killed by Montolio 62:00 – Is Andrew Markiton an avatar of Mishra? 66:00 – How good is this Workshops deck, really? 72:00 – The tears of the Internet, or restricting Mishra’s Workshop 80:00 – Why can’t ‘blue’ decks compete anymore? 90:00 – The Misstep Two Step 100:00 – If not Workshop, then what? 110:00 – Wrap-up and Pittsburgh Show Notes – North America Vintage Champs 2017 – ALL Decklists and Metagame Breakdown – The Curious Case of Mishra’s Workshop, by Sean – Vintage Champs 2017 and the State of Vintage, by Jaco Contact us at [email protected].