Hello, everyone, and welcome to episode 550 for the Mt Gullfish podcast.

I'm Zeth, probably better known as Zaffron Olive, and we have the full crew here this week,

kicking things off, fresh off the plane with the owner of Empty

Goldfish.

Richard, how's it going this fine Monday?

I love me some 10-hour flight delays to kick off my week, but straight, the RNG gods

aligned, the lightning stopped or whatever, and actually arrived like just in time for our podcast

straight off the plane here we go oh well you could have always tried to do it with an airplane

wifi you know oh god and that was of course cram how's it going thisram? Good morning. Pretty excited. I've secured my secret layers and I'm all set. Oh, wait. You already- Oh, that's right. Wow. Oh, that's not bad then. Because it just launched like 20 minutes ago, right? Well, I got lucky in that I have like five computers and ways set up to try to see if I get mine. So one of them was nine minutes while the rest were like an hour. So I was like, I don't want to, I don't want to deal with that. Hey, well, at least it worked. So anyway, today, we're going to be, we're going to be jumping around a little bit. We're going to talk first impressions of Spider-Man. we had some early access, there were some pre-release events. So we're going to talk about that.

We're going to talk first impressions of Spider-Man. We had some early access. There were some pre-release events. So we're going to talk about that. We're going to maybe predict the next year of magic. We know we're getting all the sets next year this weekend at the Pro Tour. And we also found out there's a Nickelodeon crossover coming. So we're going to talk about that a bit. There is a Pro Tour this weekend. So we're going to talk a bit of modern, and then a couple of little bits of news, some weird stuff on social media, some more fleam news, and then some fish mail. So that's the overview for today. Before we get into it, though, a reminder that today's show is brought you by Card Conduit, and Card Conduit's the easiest way to sell your magic cards. If you ever get tired of the hassles of buy listing, well, you can skip them with card conduit. You can use your curated service where you send in as many cards as you want with a buy list value of a dollar or more and pay just a 5% service fee. And if you want to do a bit of work, you can use a sorted service where you list and sort your cards in advance. It pay just a 2% fee. Either way, you're going to get a detailed report with the results in a fast-pay-winch orders processed, and you can even get another 10% off by handing over to card conduit.com slash mtg goldfish. Card conduit, it's the easiest way to sell your magic card, so thank you to Card Conduit for supporting this show. And let's talk some magic, and let's start with Spider-Man. So it was pre-release weekend for Spider-Man. Last week, we had early access, so we got to check out the set a little bit in standard ahead of time. And I'm curious, I think, Crim, you said you made it to multiple pre-releases. Richard, you even made it to one on the road. How was Spider-Man pre-release?

What's your first impression now that you got to play with the set of it?

If web slinging is one of the funniest mechanics, because like if you simply just block,

like, and you have to block to kill, their hand clunks up.

But if you don't, it's over.

Like, it's straight up over because, like, silk, everybody I played in my, like, first pre-release had silk.

And I'm just like, dude, silk is unbeatable.

That second ability is so powerful to pump all your team for only five

mana and to give it like vigilance but all around it was pretty fun it's pretty

agro um i saw a lot of mayhem decks popping off a lot of web slinger decks i tried to roll

with probably so you know when you do limited you're supposed to take all the good cards you put

and make a deck out of it well i took all the good cards and I removed them from my deck. And then what I did was I opened a lot of city pigeons, right? And I opened with great power, bioorganic carapace, and all of these oras. So I built pigeon Voltron and I found out if they remove my pigeon I lose.

So I went one and two because I tried to pigeon Voltron.

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