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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, Bra…

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 un…

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 Ch…

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 Survi…

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…

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 pape…

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 …