A Premodern Magic: The Gathering podcast from the Squee's House of Pizza crew. Tournament reports, deck deep dives, and honest takes on the format, for the people already brewing in it.
Episode 8: "Deck Selection" - Power, Knowledge, or Metagame
Terravore decks won the Buckeye Brawl 2 and the Czech National Championship this month, and they were two very different decks. Most of the episode, though, is about deck selection, and whether you're better off on the strongest deck, the one you've played the most, or whatever beats the room you expect. Chris talks about going from Stasis to Stiflenought to Parallax Tide to Psychatog, and Sam explains why he'd rather master one good deck than chase the metagame. Neon Mushroom won Buckeye Bra...
23 Sept 2026
Episode 7: "Summer Tournament Roundup" - What the Data Says, With Hodge
Five summer Premodern events produced five different winning decks, from Dreadnought at the European Championship to mono-black at the South American Championship. CCL commissioner Hodge joins Neal and Chris to go through PEACE in Berkley, Michigan, the South American Championship in Argentina, Brazilian Nationals, the Peach Ball in Marietta, Georgia, and the European Championship in Poland, with top eight conversion rates for each. Mr Meseeks and Mike Atkinson of the Motor City Metalworkers,...
9 Sept 2026
Episode 6: "Top 8 Underrated Cards" - Ranked by Math, Not Consensus
Three lists, five cards each, and not one card appeared on more than one of them. That left Neal, Chris, and Sam with fifteen cards and no way to merge them, so the order got decided offline and revealed one card at a time on tape. The disagreements start on the first card and do not really stop until the last one. The episode also recaps the August monthly at ELD, where the crew put three players in the top eight and took the title. The tournament half covers a Stiflenought top eight built f...
26 Aug 2026
Episode 5: "Five Color Oath Ponza" - Vindicate Next to Meddling Mage
Claire Ackerman's Oath Ponza is a five color deck now, and this is the episode where she explains how it got there. The four color build made top four at LobsterCon 2026, and rather than sleeve it up again she rebuilt it, taking a top eight at NE Summer Regionals with the new list. Neal and Chris ask how a Legacy control player ended up on a green mana denial deck, and more usefully, how the choices actually got made: Wednesday night calls with her friend Joe, a maybe board of thirty to forty...
12 Aug 2026
Episode 4: "Shoe City Showdown" - Elves Beats Replenish
Ben Bauer won the Shoe City Showdown #4: Enchanted Summer with Elves, and the deck waiting for him in the finals was Replenish, the same matchup that ended his LobsterCon quarterfinal earlier this year. He goes through the full run with Neal, Chris, and Sam, from a round two loss to Red-Green Survival Madness to a finals rematch he did not expect to win. There is a fire alarm partway through the day. Anyone playing Elves, or building against it, gets the current thinking on the list straight ...
Neal Sacks won the 2026 Sacred Torch Showdown in New York on a Sligh list built almost entirely to beat Dreadnought, and this episode is the full accounting of how that deck came together and how the tournament went. Twelve of the fifteen sideboard slots went to one matchup: four Mogg Salvage, four Overload, and four Red Elemental Blast, which forced the maindeck to answer everything else on its own. That meant four Wasteland, no Ball Lightning, three Volcanic Hammer, Goblin Patrol over Gobli...
18 Jul 2026
Episode 2: "Summer Regional" - Bubbled at Both Cuts
Neal Sacks and Chris Roy recap a New England summer regional, one of the bigger events on the local calendar, run by Duress Crew and drawing a crowd that included players up from New York. It is a full tournament report aimed at anyone following the Northeast Premodern scene or curious how the paper metagame is pulling away from what Magic Online looks like. The headline is Chris going 5-0-2 with Psychatog and missing top eight in ninth on tiebreakers, undefeated and out. Before the event the...
1 Jul 2026
Episode 1: "Pilot" - Meet the Crew
The first episode of Fact or Fiction is all introductions. Neal Sacks and Chris Roy lay out who the Squee's House of Pizza crew is, how a group of friends playing Premodern turned into a registered crew, and where the name came from. If you've seen S.H.O.P. near the top of the Crew Clash League standings and wondered who these people actually are, this is the background before the deck talk starts in later episodes. Chris walks through the founding members and how the crew came together, then...
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