By: Travis Allen
@wizardbumpin

Don’t miss this week’s installment of the MTG Fast Finance podcast, an on-topic, no-nonsense tour through the week’s most important changes in the Magic economy.

SCG Gave us our first taste of Throne of Eldraine in Standard and Modern, and, well, I don’t think many are happy. Golos Ramp has just completely dominated Standard already, and all the mid-level pros are griping about it in a way they typically don’t unless things get real bad. They also griped about Hogaak early on, for reference. Some stats were floating around this weekend reporting that Philly went two and a half hours over time total on day one, which is an unreal amount of overage. That’s not that surprising if there’s 10,000 players in the room ala Vegas #2,  but an SCG Open? Format issue. 

On top of that, Urza Outcome had an excellent showing in the team event (though was oddly absent from the classic), with Once Upon a Time Titanshift performing equally as well. Do you want to lose to someone comboing off with Urza on turn three, or lose to someone attacking with a 10/6 double strike trample Titan on turn two? Truly a paradise of player’s choice.

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Travis Allen has  been playing Magic: The Gathering since 1994, mostly in upstate New York. Ever since his first FNM he’s been trying to make playing Magic cheaper, and he first brought his perspective to MTGPrice in 2013. You can find his articles there weekly, as well as on the podcast MTG Fast Finance.

By: Travis Allen
@wizardbumpin

Don’t miss this week’s installment of the MTG Fast Finance podcast, an on-topic, no-nonsense tour through the week’s most important changes in the Magic economy.

I know you were all concerned about my wellbeing but fear not, I was simply on vacation. I have returned, eager to share with all of you my indispensable Opinions About Magic Cards. Throne of Eldraine has lit a lot fires under a lot of butts, with two of the more prevalent discussions regarding Oko’s strength, and the viability of Paradoxical Urza in Modern. Although now that I think about it the latter is unrelated to TOE at all, since it uses no cards from that set, and is simply occurring within the same chronological space. Whatever. We’ll talk about both!

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Travis Allen has  been playing Magic: The Gathering since 1994, mostly in upstate New York. Ever since his first FNM he’s been trying to make playing Magic cheaper, and he first brought his perspective to MTGPrice in 2013. You can find his articles there weekly, as well as on the podcast MTG Fast Finance.