Goyf Are So Back: Modern Challenges, Gruul Aggro (Prowess), & More
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After a brief intro, Stan is forced to drop out of the ep leaving Shane and Dave in the hot seat. First, they examine last weekend's 4 Modern Challenges in search of ideas, inspiration, and surprises. Do you know what the highest frequency deck was in all these Challenges? How about the one most likely to convert to an X-2 or better record? After all the event talk, the team goes deep into Andrea Mengucci's Gruul Prowess list from the weekend and welcome the return of the real king — Tarmogoyf. • Shane & Dave Take Over • A Few Surprising Challenges • More Talk About Tarmogoyf Become a citizen of The Dive Down Nation!: http://www.patreon.com/thedivedown Show the world that you're a proud citizen of The Dive Down Nation with some merch from the store: https://www.thedivedown.com/store Upgrade your gameplay and your gameday with Heavy Play accessories. Use code THEDIVEDOWN2024 for 10% off your first order at https://www.heavyplay.com Get 10% off your first 2 months of ManaTraders! https://www.manatraders.com/?medium=thedivedown and use coupon code THEDIVEDOWN_TZL And now receive 8% off your order of paper cards from Nerd Rage Gaming with code DIVE8 at https://www.nerdragegaming.com/ Timestamps: 1:55 - Stanley Cups x Heavy Play 5:33 - This week's show/housekeeping 9:49 - The current Modern Challenge metagame 34:48 - Gruul Prowess in Modern 51:25 - Is Abundant Harvest good? 54:22 - Is Questing Druid good? 58:26 - More on Gruul Prowess 1:11:52 - Briefly talking MH3 spoilers 1:18:37 - Turn it off if you want: some Survivor chat 1:24:50 - Wrapping up Links from this week's episode: Bamzing's Challenge Posts: Saturday: https://www.reddit.com/r/ModernMagic/comments/1ckv7pz/saturday_modern_challenges_results_may_4_2024/ Sunday: https://www.reddit.com/r/ModernMagic/comments/1cllxrd/sunday_modern_challenges_results_may_5_2024/ Mengu's Prowess List: https://x.com/Mengu09/status/1786721343523704991 Our opening music is Nowhere - You Never Knew, and our closing music is Space Blood - Goro? Is That Your Christian Name? email us: [email protected] twitter: https://twitter.com/thedivedown Support The Dive Down
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