Monster of the Week - Constructing Old School Magi

Seb and Anton have a chat with Patrick McElligott about the newest Storm deck in Premodern: Snap Cradle Pop. How much mana can you make with Snap, Gaea’s Cradle, Crop Rotation and Temporal Fissure?!

Seb is out! Never to be seen or heard of again!? Thankfully we have Anton that can pick up the reins. He is joined by no other than Martin Berlin in this END OF THE YEAR REVIEW. And who will pick upp the mantle from Åland that we haven’t heard or seen since he started to venture deep into Finland on his journey to find the real Santa… well, THANK GOD we have Svante! So there it is: First part is a bit about PM coming to MTGO (i.e. MODO). Second part is about PM in general, the state of the format, upcoming bans!? Unbans!? Let us pry that Berlin brain right open and get to the jist of it all. Third part is OS. We might seem unenthusiastic at this point but mainly we just run out of time and brush over it on some points. MORE TO COME SURELY 2026.

Seb have some help from Svante with the co-hosting this week. They have a chat with Frank about his run during UTC and they delve into Atog builds and its place in todays OS.

Seb and Anton have a chat with Brandon about his “Forbidden crypt” and his great run with it. Brandon’s list

Seb and Anton have a chat with Fluffy about magic in general, being an organizer and the Swedish nationals in Premodern.

Seb and Anton have a chat with Frank about a new version of elves, his great run with it and their trip to Tampere for the Premodern European Championships this years.

We put together a short tribute episode in memory of The Ultimate Platypus, our dear friend Jens Jaeger. We wanted to honor his life, his kindness, and the unforgettable impact he had on all of us. Seb and Anton have a brief chat with Chris about the sad passing of our dear friend Jens. Those who wanted to share a short message—whether it was a thank you, a memory, or just a few words—were warmly invited to record or write something and we included these messages in the episode as a way for everyone who loved Jens to express their appreciation and say goodbye. Let’s remember the incredible person he was. The foundation that Chris talks about in the episode is linked here: https://platypus.asn.au/

In this, the 93rd episode of Monster of the Week, Seb and Anton have a chat with Scott Nelson Foster about Sneak attack in premodern with his take on the deck after a great run with it.

Seb and Anton have a chat with Martin Berlin, winner of EPIC and the founder of premodern. We go deep into the format and end with a brief discussion of the state of Premodern and try to pick his brain about what changes we could expect in the future.

Anton and Chris have a chat with Jens about his experience from Lobstercon 2025.

Seb and Anton have a chat with Chris Budesheim about his run at the premodern GP Frankfurt.

Seb, Anton and Thai conclude their chaotic chat about the Noobcon weekend. Anton do some calls to some of the greats from the weekend that was Noobcon 2025.

Anton tries to keep seb in check while he is interrupting Thai and Seb calls up Reindeer, Erkka and the winner of Noobcon, Simon to have a chat about their noobcon weekend. All in the first part of two about Noobcon 2025! https://teamtron.dk/ Simons winning deck for Noobcon 2025 Erkkas top8 Troll deck Sebs Eureka deck Sebs troll deck (9th at Noobcon 2025)

Seb and Anton have a chat with Alvaro about his Contamination deck adn dig into some other sweet black brews.

Seb and thai have a chat about his and Emils weekend at the “Arvika Festivalen”. Emils BUG Ponza deck for runner up place at the main event in Arvika 2025

Seb and Anton have a chat with Grzegorz about the rise of Premodern in Poland and the first Poland nationals.

Seb and Anton have a chat with Jiri Tuma and his journey playing Pit Rack.

This is a live episode Seb and Åland did on UTC back in october 2024. Drew Tucker, one of the original artists of Magic the gathering joins in and have a chat about his early beginnings as an illustrator for magic cards.

On this episode Seb have a chat with the legendary mtg artist Brian Snoddy. Be sure to check out his website briansnoddyart.com and the DND adventures we talk about in the episode at 99centadventures.com

Seb, Anton and Åland have a chat about this years OS and PM magic. Shownotes with all the decklists and stuff linked we talked about in the episode