DegenCast

Magical Hacks

DegenCast, presented by Eternal Central, is a booze and profanity-fueled exploration of current events in the Eternal formats by the Magical Hacks, a Carolinas-based group devoted to Eternal Magic, in the same sense that cows are devoted to the hamburger industry.

  1. 01/30/2022

    DegenCast Episode 16: GenCon, Hacksmas, and Legacy Chatter

    The Hacks have returned to review GenCon, Hacksmas 21, talk about Legacy, and much more! 0:00 Intro:|m| 0:30 Intro joke 1:55 The misadventures Hackfather and T&B at GenCon 2021 3:40 Jame and T&B acquire new cardboard 4:50 Playing vintage, featuring Shivan Dragon and Exalted Angel 6:56 Hackfather has a “What could be so urgent?” moment 10:00 How Hackfather and T&B messed up GenCon: it’s not a MTG event, check out the board games, TTRPGs, n such 13:25 Hacksmas: Battle of the Mounds 2 review 20:10 Hackfather vs The Godfather of Pimp: First Blood part Two 23:15 Kingslayer plays Hyper to decent success 30:38 We love Conan, but don’t play the 1st ed D&D campaign 32:01 Newsflash: New Hacks inducted, somehow have other friends 32:56 Hackfather learns the pain in fighting games 33:51 Hacks and Tusks make up a new Jyhad format: Vampstended 35:28 King of the weekend: Dr Bill’s Vintage cube 38:54 Hacks and friends experience dinner failure, again. Bonus: Hackfather does hibachi 41:13 Can the Hacks make Hacksmas bigger? Stay tuned, submit applications to Hackfather 44:44 Where are the Legacy Bans? Cuz losing to your own Berserk is dumb 48:54 Kinglsayer’s Legacy analysis: phyrexian crusader = bad, Solidarity=good, hunting pack solidarity=OP 52:50 Kingslayer and The Imp meme in Arena standard 57:25 Dec 25th is the Imp Day, not that other thing 60:10 MH2 in Legacy discussion 68:07 Hackfather forgets Urza’s Saga text 73:45 Legacy ban discussion 74:04 First “ban brainstorm”, the hosts are slipping 79:38 Hackfather will try to redeem himself in Camjam 2 82:09 Outro: |m||m|

    1h 23m
  2. 12/03/2021

    DegenCast Episode 15: One Hack Leaves, Another One Enters

    The crew is back. Richard Sponholz and James Easteppe talk about a variety of Magic formats, and the show’s contributors change. 00:00 Spooner attempts an announcement 00:32 The hosts get sidetracked by feet in OS deck pics 01:40 Back on topic 05:15 Memory lane: SCG Summer 2019 09:25 The beginning of the end (the dark origin?) 11:45 #notsponsored Buy Baldy’s Blends 12:39 Appearance on LaL and Hackfather learns a new word 16:30 EW 2018 19:10 Spooner fails at #mtgfinance but was a Modern GBT 22:15 The hosts recall dead Tech platforms 22:40 GP Charlotte 2016 and James learns about Pokemon 27:28 GP Hoth (GP Louisville 2017) 30:12 How the Spooner met Hackfather 34:13 Spooner says goodbye 36:08 Interlude (My heart will cry at this crap recorder player) 37:38 Intro to Part 2 38:06 The Kingslayer ascends 39:40 The hosts review Modern Horizons 2 cards 40:28 The damn dirty monkey 47:56 WOTC fixes Tombstalker 49:47 The hosts issue a true Great Designer Search challenge 50:54 Kingslayer gets a boner about Infect 55:17 Hackfather re-enters Legacy, gets metagamed 56:04 Kingslayer strives to make Worldgorger Dragon work 61:43 Modern…why? Modern sucks 66:26 Kingslayer talks about a (proper?) format (Summer Derby) 71:23 Kingslayer proxies…Goblin Balloon Brigade?! 77:34 The spicy “budget” deck from the Derby 79:55 Hackfather debates the definition of spicy decks 80:50 The hosts discuss lizards in Vintage 87:59 Hackfather buys shinies…wait what? 90:11 EDH & Aussie: the acceptable 1 strip mine formats 93:53 The hosts complain about power level evaluation 94:42 Solution: Hack$ EDH 101:00 The hosts discuss…philosophy 108:36 Closing remarks 110:30 Outro Show Notes – DFB’s website – Summer Derby 2021 Results and Deck Photos – Aussie 7 Point Highlander

    1h 51m
  3. 11/03/2020

    DegenCast Episode 13: Dave Firth Bard and LobsterCom 2020

    Richard Sponholz and James Easteppe are joined by a very special guest, a founding member of New England Old School scene and prolific Old School tournament organizer, Dave Firth Bard. We talk about his history with the game, the growth and cultivation of the New England Old School scene, and most importantly in 2020, webcam Magic, as well as the recent LobsterCom webcam OS tournament he hosted. Can we finish the episode before James drinks himself into a stupor? No, but we can make it sound that way through the magic of editing! 00:00:00 Intro 00:02:00 Dave’s history with Magic 00:07:55 Discussing and loving ante, and “40k” 00:12:48 Webcam tournaments 00:17:55 The origins of NEOS, and the growth of the national OS scene 00:24:25 Southeastern OS scene, James’ history of verbally abusing Rich 00:27:10 The origins of Dave as tournament organizer 00:30:00 No one likes Worchester, MA 00:36:45 Dave recaps the webcam OS of 2020 (it is a lot) 00:45:40 LobsterCom 2020 00:46:00 The friday night boil 00:47:45 “7/11” 00:53:10 Beasts Old School 1.5 00:56:32 LobsterCom 2020 and Atlantic OS 01:02:20 The story of Atlantic OS and its philosophy 01:10:15 Worst sushi joint ever, and DFB and Rich finally meet 01:12:30 Workshop in Atlantic 01:18:50 Hymn and The Rack are good Magic cards 01:22:05 Drunk James talks about blue again 01:23:40 The Lightning Ball – EC Rules OS 11/21/2020, 4pm EST 01:24:45 James doesn’t know how time zones work 01:28:40 Closing thoughts 01:33:00 Outro Total runtime: 01:33:31

    1h 34m
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DegenCast, presented by Eternal Central, is a booze and profanity-fueled exploration of current events in the Eternal formats by the Magical Hacks, a Carolinas-based group devoted to Eternal Magic, in the same sense that cows are devoted to the hamburger industry.