Freshly Brewed: An MTG Podcast

This week Rob and I try our hands at designed four separate custom Magic cards based on Marvel Comic characters: Spider-Man, Wolverine, Captain America, and Captain America's Shield. Be sure to find us on Twitter or Facebook and let us know what you think of the designs, if you like this exercise, and who you'd like to see us tackle next!

Here we are...again, talking about three more Standard cards that have been banned. Get the low down on our thoughts about the latest rounds of Standard and Historic updates this week!

This week we talk about the most recent Standard banning of Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath, and why it's kind of a joke. We also discuss how the Standard format has gotten itself into the mess it has in the past few years.

Zendikar Rising previews are flooding out the gate. This week we talk about some of our favorites, and why we think this set has some of the best mechanics ever printed to mitigate variance.

This week we discuss all things Historic, including the upcoming banning that has been announced for next week, a ton of brews we've been playing, and some of the cards that might not belong in the format.

Wow. Another week, ANOTHER round of bannings. Will they ever stop? Four more cards banned in Standard bring the total up to a record breaking 10 cards. Let's discuss those, along with the bannings in Pioneer and Historic.

This week we talk about lots of set-related things! We talk about the Set Boosters that are being released with Zendikar Rising, we talk about Double Masters, and we talk about some of our favorite cards and new art present in the set.

With new bannings seemingly every week, this week we talk about the latest round of them that affected four formats: Historic, Pioneer, Modern, and Pauper. 

This week we each pick five cards from M21 to answer five questions: 1) what card do we see as a possible organized play mistake, 2) what is a pet card of ours, 3) what card did we expect more from, 4) what card do we think will shine soon that hasn't yet, and 5) what card do we want to brew with next!

This week Rob and I continue our M21 set review, including all the red, green, gold, and colorless cards in the set. Below is a list of the cards we're fond of,  that we believe will see some amount of play.

Red
Bolt Hound
Brash Taunter
Chandra, Heart of Fire
Chandra's Incinerator
Chandra's Pyreling
Conspicuous Snoop
Heartfire Immolator
Kinetic Auger
Scorching Dragonfire
Soul Sear
Terror of the Peaks
Thrill of Possibility
Transmogrify

Green
Azusa, Lost but Seeking
Elder Gargaroth
Fungal Rebirth
Garruk's Harbinger
Garruk's Uprising
Life Goes On
Llanowar Visionary
Primal Might
Quirion Dryad
Ranger's Guile
Return to Nature
Run Afoul
Scavenging Ooze
Thrashing Brontodon
Track Down

Gold
Conclave Mentor
Experimental Overload
Indulging Patrician
Niambi, Esteemed Speaker
Radha, Heart if Keld
Watcher of the Spheres

Colorless
Ugin, the Spirit Dragon
Solemn Simulacrum
Sparkhunter masticore

Land
Animal Sanctuary
Fabled Passage
Radiant Fountain
All Five Temples

This week we  start our M21 set review, including all the white, blue, and black cards in the set. Below is a list of the cards we're fond of, that we believe will see some amount of play.

White
Angelic Ascension
Baneslayer Angel
Basri Ket
Basri's Lieutenant
Containment Priest
Faith's Fetters
Griffin Aerie
Nine Lives
Pack Leader
Revitalize
Runed Halo
Seasoned Hallowblade
Selfless Savior
Speaker of the Heavens
Vryn Wingmare

Blue
Barrin, Tolarian Archmage
Discontinuity
Enthralled Hold
Frantic Inventory
Ghostly Pilferer
Lofty Denial
Miscast
Opt
Rain of Revelation
Rewind
Riddleform
See the Truth
Stormwing Entity
Sublime Epiphany
Teferi, Master of Time
Teferi's Ageless Insight
Teferi's Tutelage
Unsubstantiate
Waker of Waves

Black
Archfiend's Vessel
Demonic Embrace
Duress
Eliminate
Grasp of Darkness
Grim Tutor
Hooded Blightfang
Kaervek, the Spiteful
Kitesail Freebooter
Liliana, Waker of the Dead
Liliana's Devotee
Massacre Wurm
Necromentia
Peer into the Abyss
Silversmote Ghoul
Village Rites
Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
Witch's Cauldron

This week we talk about what Jumpstart even is (we still may not know), along with what can possibly be done about a Standard format that never seems to improve.

M21 previews have officially begun, and this week Rob and Frank go over some of their favorites. With brand new planeswalkers, spicy reprints, and format staples, inside you'll get both of their opinions on some of the hottest revealed cards.

This week Rob and I resurrect the popular Freshly Brewed podcast to talk about companions, and bannings, and what has been going on in Standard. Did banning Fires of Invention and Agent of Treachery fix the format, or were they merely banned-aids?