Skullcraic
121 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 4 years ago -Skullcraic is a weekly Magic: The Gathering digest podcast where three competitive Dublin grinders bring you a breakdown of all the latest Magic news and speculation.
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70 - Guess Who: Planeswalker Edition
March 11, 2019 13:42 - 1 hour - 72.9 MBThis week on Skullcraic, we discuss the announcement of a planeswalker in every pack of War of the Spark, and 36 planeswalkers in the set! We go through each planeswalker and give our predictions of their fate. We cover how Standard is developing for us and what we've been playing through the Arena ranks. In Enter the Arena we cover how to choose a deck for your local metagame! Stay tuned after the outro for Extra Credits, where we design some cards on-the-fly for characters who might be in f...
69 - Modern on the Horizon
March 04, 2019 17:43 - 1 hour - 57 MBThis week, we're celebrating Autumn Burchett's victory in the very first Mythic Championship, as well as the wonderful things that were said in the wake of that victory. We're also glad to see the end of the race for top 8 in MTG Arena. We also cover the announcement of the new Modern Horizons product and give our thoughts on what kind of cards we might be likely to see reprinted there.
68 - Night of Autumn
February 26, 2019 15:49 - 1 hour - 83.5 MBThis week, Ciaran has rejoined us and this episode is jam-packed full of news! At last, Wizards has revealed the full qualification path for the new Mythic Championships, as well as announcing that a new mulligan variant will be tested at the upcoming Mythic Championship in London. Speaking of Mythic Championships, the first one ever happened this past weekend in Cleveland, so we give our thoughts on the Standard format as it develops there. Because of the prerelease MagicFest in London, Wiza...
67 - Bolt-Snap-Bolt You
February 19, 2019 11:32 - 1 hour - 71.2 MBOn this week's Skullcraic, Ciaran is away in LA but Al comes back to us with his report from RPTQ London. We go over the latest news including the banning of Nexus of Fate in Arena Standard, as well as the latest updates to Arena and the announcement that MagicFest London is going to be a Prerelease MagicFest! In Enter the Arena, we discuss everything you need to know to physically prepare yourself for your first trip to a MagicFest! Stay tuned after the outro music for a Valentine's-themed e...
66 - Nexus of Hate
February 11, 2019 18:39 - 1 hour - 58 MBThis week on Skullcraic, we're down a host but we're up a lot of Magic news! We discuss the recently announced Mythic Invitational, the 'And' of Magic Arena, and the nightmare that is playing against Nexus of Fate on Magic Arena! We also go over our impressions of how RNA standard has continued to evolve and offer some tips on what you might play to get ahead of the competition. This week's Enter the Arena addresses a topic that new players may find daunting when moving from Arena to paper M...
65 - Enter the Arena
January 29, 2019 18:54 - 1 hour - 78.8 MBThis week on Skullcraic we're talking about Modern bans and Ravnica Allegiance! Krark-clan Ironworks has been banned in Modern, so we talk about the implications of that decision on the format. With the release of RNA we've been playing a lot of limited on Arena, so we dive into the format and give you our initial stats and impressions of how it's shaping up, as well as a look at the new Standard and what decks might be the next big thing! We're putting Tournament Reports and Deck of the Week...
64 - The Podcast Reborn
January 17, 2019 08:08 - 1 hour - 92.8 MBWe're back! Through the magic of the internet, Skullcraic has been reborn and will be back giving your weekly dose of Magic news and tournament report through the lens of three spikes from Ireland (via Vietnam). This week we're talking about the newest spoilers from Ravnica Allegiance including our own personal Top 3's of the set. Our Tournament Report is a quick rundown of the team RPTQ that Ciaran and Alan were preparing for when last we left them, as well as a warning to the listeners to c...
63 - The Arrival of Horse Tribal
June 19, 2018 23:28 - 1 hour - 84.8 MBThis week we've got a bunch of new M19 cards to talk about, and Ciarán and Al go over their plans for the team unified RPTQ. In our deck of the week, we have a very surprising appearance of a certain Goblin...
62 - ...And Doesn't Stop
June 11, 2018 22:28 - 1 hour - 82.7 MBThis week, we've got a whole host of surprise spoilers for Core Set 2019 to go over, as well as the results from GP Copenhagen. Our Deck of the Week is B/R control, as piloted by Thoralf Severin to an 11-4 finish at Copenhagen.
61 - Chainwhirler Gets Moving
June 05, 2018 22:57 - 1 hour - 81.6 MBThis week, we're talking all about Pro Tour Dominaria, and the fact that Goblin Chainwhirler is EVERYWHERE! We start to discuss Team Alan's plans for the team unified standard RPTQ, and give a bonanza of tournament reports, including two modern tournaments and a team draft! Our Deck of the Week is UG Karn! Womp Womp.
60 - Pro Tour "Spaghetti Maze"
May 28, 2018 21:54 - 1 hour - 63.2 MBThis week, we're catching up with the latest Announcements as well as going over a few of our favourite spoilers from Battlebond. We touch on our feelings about the different formats in Magic at the moment, and our Deck of the Week is the best of both worlds, a Vintage deck with some powerful Standard cards! Stay tuned after the outro for coverage of the actual best Magic format!
59 - All Topdecks are Topdecks
May 21, 2018 22:36 - 1 hour - 62.9 MBWe're back from a brief hiatus, and we're talking all Standard, all the time (well, we actually talk about Legacy a bit too)! We go over our experiences at Grand Prix Birmingham, leading into metagame shifts and another glorious PPTQ win for Al! Our Deck of the Week is the deck that has taken the metagame by storm: the controlling, mirror-beating B/R Vehicles!
58 - A Standard Trifecta
May 07, 2018 22:58 - 59 minutes - 54.3 MBThis week on Skullcraic we're talking a little about the wonderful new dual lands that Battlebond will soon be bringing to us, and then we're going deep on the first couple of weeks of the new Standard meta, in preparation for trip to Grand Prix Birmingham this coming weekend! No Tournament Report this week as we're saving ourselves for this weekend! Our Deck of the Week of the week marches on though, it's a new twist on an old favourite: W/B Vehicles!
57 - Discovering Dominaria
April 27, 2018 22:06 - 1 hour - 71.7 MBThis week, we've got some updates to the Magic Tournament Rules to go over, as well as our first impressions of Dominaria Limited, which also includes our Tournament Report of the Prerelease. Our Deck of the Week this week serves as an update to Alan's investigations into Legacy Burn in preparation for Grand Prix Birmingham.
56 - A Hollow, Iron Victory
April 18, 2018 19:56 - 1 hour - 64.4 MBThis week, we're going through a few final interesting cards from Dominaria before the release, and talking about the latest Banned and Restricted announcement. We have another record-breaking weekend for Grand Prix, with Jessica Estephan becoming the first ever woman to win a GP, congratulations to her! We have a Modern Tournament report and our deck of the week is the deck that won GP Hartford in the hands of Matt Nass: Krark-Clan Ironworks combo! Stay tuned after the outro for the final in...
55 - Flying the Weatherlight to the Moon
April 10, 2018 21:58 - 1 hour - 64.5 MBWe're back after a week off! This week we've each selected two cards from the Dominaria spoiler that we're most excited about, and we go over the results from the double GP this past weekend in Seattle. We give a Legacy tournament report, and our Deck of the Week is also a Legacy deck, with plenty of input from the BasicMountain himself, Patrick Sullivan.
54 - I Guess It's Time... To Memory
March 27, 2018 21:19 - 1 hour - 93.9 MBThis week, we kick things off with a discussion of the officially revealed cards of Dominaria! We go on to an absolutely epic tournament report featuring a win for one of the Skullcraic team, and after the outro we give you a taste of our card design chops!
53 - Mono-Green Shamrock Tribal
March 20, 2018 22:45 - 1 hour - 78.2 MBThis week on Skullcraic we're talking about the release and our impressions of Masters 25, and we go over the Top 8 from Modern Grand Prix Phoenix. We've got a PPTQ report featuring a very St. Patrick's-themed deck: Mono-Green Ghalta!
52 - The Dusky Bois are Back in Town
March 15, 2018 00:14 - 1 hour - 79.2 MBThis week on Skullcraic, we're talking about Dominaria leaks (don't worry, we only discuss the officially spoiled card in case you lovely listeners don't want to be spoiled) and WotC's Quick response! We give a full report of our time at Grand Prix Madrid, as well as our Deck of the Week being the deck David played at the event, courtesy of Matthew Foulkes aka YUGIOHPLAYER1942
51 - Jace Masters
March 07, 2018 04:00 - 1 hour - 77.7 MBThis week on Skullcraic, we're talking about the full spoiler for the very underwhelming Masters 25, a lot about our prep for GP Madrid, and give a Tournament Report from the weekend PPTQ! Our Deck of the Week is Mono-red Sneak Attack!
50 - Mastering Fifty
February 28, 2018 00:00 - 1 hour - 75.2 MBIt's the fiftieth episode of Skullcraic! To celebrate, we're giving away a signed Glorybringer playmat! We're talking about value-packed Challenger decklists, the future of Masters sets, as well as the latest spoilers from Masters 25! We got a post-unbanning Modern tournament report, and go over the results from GP Memphis in David's quest for a Standard deck that he doesn't hate! Stay tuned after the outro this week for the thrilling conclusion to Craickling Doom!
49 - Strength from the Fallen Cats
February 20, 2018 21:45 - 1 hour - 71 MBThis week on Skullcraic, we're talking about the announcement of Battlebor...er...Battlebond! The latest in a line of limited-focused supplemental sets from Wizards. We go over our thoughts on the post-unbanning Modern format, and we get perhaps our biggest tournament report from a PPTQ yet, with 25% Skullcraic representation in the top 8! We also mention Reid Duke's brilliant article series about how NOT to draw yourself into 9th place. Our Deck of the Week is the eventual winner of the afor...
48 - Jace Liberated
February 13, 2018 22:52 - 1 hour - 76.8 MBThis week, we go over the shocking announcement of... further changes to the way Wizards is going to disseminate 5-0 decklists! Oh, and I guess some cards got unbanned in Modern too. This is fine. We give a quick tournament report from Standard and our Deck of the Week is Dan Ward's GP-winning Bogles! Stay tuned after the outro for the continuing adventures of Jess-guy and Espertron!
47 - Wolfe Liberated
February 06, 2018 22:09 - 1 hour - 65.3 MBThis week on Skullcraic, David hears back from the Judge Investigation Committee, and we also had Pro Tour Rivals of Ixalan, the return of the Modern Pro Tour! Many people are hailing it as one of the most enjoyable Pro Tours in years, so could this be the start of a Golden Era of Modern coverage? Our deck of the week is one of the most interesting and newest decks from the PT: B/R Hollow One as played by Ken Yukuhiro all the way to a Top 8 finish! In other news, Wizards have reversed their d...
46 - Azor Brought the Law and Went 4-1
January 31, 2018 22:09 - 1 hour - 82.1 MBThis week on Skullcraic, we're talking about unfortunate DQs in GP Houston (and how to avoid that fate yourself!), the current state of Standard, and Ciarán gives us a tournament report from his first ever Grand Prix! Our deck of the week is the breakout deck of this new Standard format: Grixis energy.
45 - Kitesail Corsair is Upside Down
January 24, 2018 23:37 - 1 hour - 73.7 MBOn this week's podcast, we dive into the Magic Arena economy, thinking about how it will work in practice and what pitfalls there could be. We've been playing a LOT of limited, so we give our impressions from a draft camp weekend hosted by some of the prominent Irish community members. We briefly touch on GP pricing before heading full speed ahead into our Deck of the Week: Standard Bogles! Stay tuned after the outro for more Craickling Doom!
44 - Refining Standard
January 16, 2018 22:40 - 1 hour - 82.2 MBThis week, it's all about the bans! Wizards have announced even more Standard bans, and they're probably pretty necessary! After our lengthy look at that, we give a Tournament Report for our prerelease weekend, and then go over some sweet brews for this new format! Stay tuned during Extra Turns for Alan's latest concoction: Craickling Doom!
43 - Hungry Hungry Chupacabra
January 09, 2018 22:18 - 1 hour - 83 MBThis week on Skullcraic we've got the full and complete preview of Rivals of Ixalan to pore over! Alan gives us another PPTQ report (you just can't keep that guy from making Top8!), and our deck of the week is SaffronOlive's Pirate God, with the caveat of perhaps adding a few Rivals cards! We also discuss Patrick Sullivan's rant about everyone's favourite Beast Horror, and in Extra Turns we ruminate deeply on what colour combination is etched onto our souls...
42 - Lording It Over Ixalan
January 02, 2018 21:49 - 1 hour - 85.5 MBIt's 2018 and that means it's time once again for spoiler season! We sink our teeth into some of the new cards previewed from Rivals of Ixalan, Magic's last ever(maybe) small set! David and Alan went to a PPTQ and did quite well, and our deck of the week is a lovely little rogue brew from the Magic Online 5-0 lists!
41 - Fairytale of New Phyrexia
December 20, 2017 22:25 - 1 hour - 60.5 MBThis week, we're talking about the retirement of Duel Decks, and the introduction of Challenger Decks. There's a new Rivals of Ixalan Preview card, and a new mechanic to go along with it! Alan gives us a Tournament Report from a sealed PPTQ, and our Deck of the Week is the deck that just won't die: Grixis Death's Shadow! Be sure to stay tuned after the outro for a wonderful rendition of Fairytale of New Phyrexia. Happy Holidays!
The Disqualification
December 12, 2017 20:48 - 51 minutes - 47.4 MBThis episode is David's account of his disqualification from the World Magic Cup.
40 - World Magic Cup Prep
November 28, 2017 21:39 - 1 hour - 78.1 MBOn this week's Skullcraic, we talk a little bit about harassment and bullying in the Magic community in light of recent events. For a fantastic rundown and a great message, check out The Professor's video on the topic. After that, David gives an overview of his prep for the World Magic Cup, and the experience of being on a team for the first time. Our tournament report this week is Legacy (with a cameo from Pauper), and our Deck of the Week is also Legacy: Ciarán's Punishing Maverick list fro...
39 - Prey-ing for Counters
November 21, 2017 22:59 - 1 hour - 74.8 MBOn this week's edition of Skullcraic, we're talking even more Unstable Mechanics, new Rivals of Ixalan cards, and our anticipation of the beginning of closed Beta for MTG:Arena. All of the hosts travelled to a PPTQ this weekend, so we report on how we fared, and our Deck of the Week is Legacy Grixis Delver, which Alan played to a semifinals finish at a local Legacy event!
38 - An (Un)Stable Meta
November 14, 2017 21:40 - 1 hour - 90.2 MBThis week, we're talking about the triple Grand Prix weekend and the composition of the Top 8s across the globe! (hint: there's a lot of energy) We give a little time to Unstable but we don't go over too many cards in detail, just in case people don't want to be spoiled! We give our Standard Tournament Report and of course our Deck of the Week: Ben Stark's Desert Red!
37 - PT Punts
November 07, 2017 20:58 - 1 hour - 76.4 MBThis week on Skullcraic, we start things off with Bust-a-Booster ™, our hunt for the most likely last-picked card from a booster pack! We discuss the full reveal of the cards included in From the Vault: Arguel's Blood Fast, and then dig into all the news from Pro Tour Ixalan, from DQs to the winning list and the strangely punt-filled Top 8!
36 - Spooky Spoilers
November 01, 2017 22:40 - 1 hour - 62.1 MBIt's the end of Spooktober, so we've got a ghastly cast filled with frights and stuffed with spooks! But there's also plenty of real Magic news, with the announcement of changes to the way Grand Prix will cut to day two, as well as plenty of new promo cards for us to salivate over, including some early reveals of Rivals of Ixalan cards! We also mentioned TheMagicManSam's latest documentary: The Boogeyman (spooky!). If you're listening with kids, it might be a good idea not to let them hear t...
35 - ROBOT GOD
October 24, 2017 19:10 - 1 hour - 75.8 MBThis week we're talking about the results of Eternal Weekend, as well as the results of the latest StarCityGames Modern and Standard tournaments. The bulk of our time this week though, is taken up with our report of our local Store Invitational in Gamer's World Dublin. Our Deck of the Week is David's deck from that event: B/R Artifact aggro.
34 - The Stoppable David Wolfe
October 18, 2017 19:57 - 1 hour - 76.8 MBThis week on the podcast, one of us is going to the Magic World Cup! We take a deep dive on our Nationals Tournament Report, plus we quickly go over the latest B&R announcement, and some of the discussion on WotC not publishing enough MTGO data to keep things competitive, while simultaneously giving some pros access to data that the rest of us don't have. We also touch on the Nationals results from the US and Brazil. Stay tuned after the outro for a special edition of extra turns where Alan i...
33 - The Unstoppable Huey Jensen
October 11, 2017 22:52 - 1 hour - 68.9 MBThis week, we're talking about insignificant aesthetic changes, not-so-insignificant rules changes, and about how insanely good at Magic William 'Huey' Jensen is!
32 - Taking Standard Hostage
October 03, 2017 20:46 - 1 hour - 66.2 MBOn this week's episode, we're talking about policy changes, the end of Windmill Slam, ridiculous Legacy pirate decks, and the results of the first big Ixalan Standard tournament: SCG Dallas Ft. Worth. Also, there's this: John Avon Playmat Kickstarter! We have a quick tournament report and or Deck of the Week is the breakout deck of the weekend: Sultai Energy!
31 - Merfolk? Don't Be Coddin' Me
September 27, 2017 21:36 - 1 hour - 69.3 MBIn this week's edition of Skullcraic, we're talking about the potential of codes in packs, our first impressions of the Ixalan limited format, as well as our predictions and expectations for the upcoming Standard! We have a lot of limited tournaments to report, and our Deck of the Week: Ramunap "everything old is new again" Red!
30 - The Scarab God is Bugged
September 19, 2017 20:46 - 1 hour - 91 MBThis week, we're talking about double-faced Ixalan cards, as well as Dino-sized drafts and the Weatherlight (possibly, probably not) on Ixalan in the Magic Story! We have a modern PPTQ to report, and our deck of the week is: multiple Ixalan brews!
29 - Spell P-I-E-R-C-E
September 12, 2017 20:12 - 1 hour - 91.2 MBOn the podcast this week, we're talking about all the exciting new Ixalan cards that have been previewed, as well as the old-school-style, all-at-once spoiling of Iconic Masters at Hascon! We also had the announcement and demo of MTG: Arena, the newest digital representation of Magic! David gives a Modern tournament report and we discuss our deck of the week: 4C Energy, as played by Japanese National Champion Kenta Harane! (p.s. I saw his hand with Vendilion Clique)
28 - They Do Move in Herds
September 05, 2017 21:27 - 1 hour - 86.3 MBThis week, we've got plenty of new Ixalan previews to talk about, as well as the results from Grand Prix Turin and Grand Prix Washington DC! We report some modern shenanigans and some unlikely standard success stories, and our deck of the week is the winning deck from Turin: U/B Control! Also, stay tuned after the outro for some Triassic Trivia!
27 - High and Dry with the Cunning Castaway
August 29, 2017 21:44 - 1 hour - 68.5 MBThis week, Ixalan preview season has officially begun! Wizards confirmed the leak from a couple months ago, and previewed every card that was legible from it, including making a statement on the legal proceedings that have followed. There's a new Jace, and he comes along with a total change in the way planeswalkers are handled in the game! There was also a B&R announcement, with some changes to legacy. We give our tournament report, and our deck of the week this week is full of arcane tomfool...
26 - Total Eclipse of the Second Sun
August 22, 2017 20:28 - 1 hour - 72.5 MBThis week, Brad Nelson, BBD and Corey Baumeister have been tearing it up at the top tables with the triumphant resurgence of Temur Energy, which also happens to be our Deck of the Week! We run down all the metagame shifts that GP Denver brought, and dig into the sealed format with a sealed PPTQ report from Al. Plus all the locust facts you could ever possibly want. Ever. Brian DeMars: Decks Like Death's Shadow Will Always Become the Best Deck "Skullcraic Theme" composed and performed by Ba...
25 - Wizard Mirrors
August 15, 2017 21:14 - 1 hour - 79.2 MBThis week we take a look at the final Commander 2017 previews, give a much-anticipated roundup about the Irish WMC team captaincy race, and get into the weeds about the Modern and Standard metagames! We have some tournaments to report from, and our deck of the week: Sultai Reanimator!
24 - It is Commander Time, My Dudes
August 10, 2017 22:22 - 1 hour - 75.6 MBIt is Commander 2017 preview season! We discuss the announcement (and only the announcement...) of MTG: Arena. A bunch of the new commander cards have been previewed already, so we give our hot takes on the ones that jump out to us. We've all been doing a lot of non-Magic stuff recently so we talk a little bit about our real-life adventures, and then we give a Game Day Tournament Report, and our Deck of the Week: U/W Approach!
23 - Hazoret the Heartbreaker
July 31, 2017 07:00 - 1 hour - 84.3 MBGood news everyone! Mono-Red is back, and it's better than ever! This week we discuss all the high highs and low lows of Pro Tour Hour of Devastation. We also touch on the HasCon promo cards which were revealed this week, give a Modern PPTQ Tournament Report, and our Deck of the Week!
22 - Disappointment Island
July 25, 2017 21:42 - 1 hour - 62.7 MBThis week, we've got a slight update to the Standard Showdown announcements from last week, and tons of new information from SDCC on Unstable, the new Un-set coming to us this winter. We give you the rundown on our recent foray into modern, and our deck of the week is a blast from the past(aka about a year ago): U/R Prowess!