Hello, everyone, and welcome to episode 543 of the MTG Goldfish podcast.

I'm Seth, probably better notice at Fran Olive, and we have the full crew here this week, kicking things off with the owner of MDG goldfish, Richard.

How are you this fine Monday, Richard?

Good morning, Seth, doing well.

Happy Fourth of July weekend from the future past.

From the past, indeed.

It was a good, it was a good fun weekend.

It's hot out here, though.

My goodness, hot and humid.

But I guess that's what Fourth of July weekends are supposed to be for. We got another

coast in Crim. Good morning, Crim. How's it going today? Uh, it's going. I'm pretty tired

at a fun weekend going out to Anime Expo. So, oh, nice. So anyway, today, we're going to be jumping around a little bit topic-wise. So we want to talk a little bit about the price of magic in general, also the price of some upcoming collector booster boxes. We want to talk about competitive magic. We also got the teaser for Edge of Eternities from Mark Rosewater, post-Band standard, and then some fishmail questions, so we're going to be hopping around. Before we get into it, though, a reminder that today's show has been brought to 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, you can skip them with Card Conduit. You can use our curated service to send in as many cards as you want with the buy list value of a dollar and more and pay just a 5% service fee. And if you want to do a bit of work, you can use their sorted service where you list and sort your cards in advance and pay just a 2% fee. Either way, you're going to get a detailed report with the results in a fast payment when your orders processed. And you can even get another 10% off by heading over to card conduit.com slash MTG Goldfish. Card conduit, it's the easiest way to saw your magic card. So thank you to Card Conduit for supporting the show. And let's talk some magic. And let's start with the state of the state of competitive magic. So this is kind of a two-part question. First, we just got bannings a

week ago, and we have a new standard format. I know we're going to have another new one in like

three weeks when we get rotation with Judge of Eternities, but I'm curious, Grimm, what's your

initial impressions of post-band standard? And then I know we got to get to Richard for some tournament

critiques here at a minute. But what do you think,

I mean, we've had a week since the Mannings. Is Standard saved? I personally, I think that

if you are a fan of like midrange decks and like whatnot, this is the great format, right?

Like I, I still believe that mid range is mid range, mid range decks being at the top means it's a fine format.

And so I myself am heavily biased because now both of my decks are unlocked

between Demer Midrange and Demer Demon.

I've been playing both of those.

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