Hello, everyone and welcome to episode 539 of the MTT-Goldfish podcast.

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

kicking things off with the owner of MTG Goldfish, Richard. How are you this fine Monday, Richard? Good morning, Seth. For the first time in probably 15 years, I made it out to pre-release. Super excited. The cloud got me. Cloud got me. We did it. I want to hear your pre-release stories. I'm very curious how pre-release events went because this set's been super hype, but we'll get into that in a minute.

We got another co-host in Crem.

I was going to say good morning, Crem, but I think it's actually evening because you're like on the other side of the world.

How are things?

It is 1 a.m.

I already lived Monday.

So I'm going back to do another Monday.

Tell us. They're still expensive. That I can tell you. Other than that, I mean, yeah, like, uh, I got to do a pre-release before I left. I'm, as you could tell, not in my normal studio. I'm saying hi to all from Korea. So anyway today. Shower curtain set up. I like it. Yeah, the last shower curtain on the road. It really does. It's like shower curtains. I understand the YouTube comments. So today, we're going to be jumping around a little bit.

We're going to talk about pre-release events for Final Fantasy.

We had early access for Standard for Final Fantasy.

Of course, also Real Standard.

Some news there.

Some Final Fantasy price updates.

Some scalping news.

An interesting technique from LGS trying to crack down on scalpers. A new promo, a new secret layer-up, and then some fish mails, so we're going to be bouncing around a little bit today. But before we get to that, 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, you can skip them with Card Conduit. You can use your curated service re where you're sending as many cards as you want with a buy list value of a dollar or more and pay to say 5% service fee. And if you want to do a bit of work, you can use our sorted service where you list and sort your cards in advance and pages a 2% fee. Either way, you're going to get a detailed report with the results and a fast payment which 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

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and let's kick things off with final fantasy pre-release so richard i know you made it out to one

crim you made it out to one i'verem, you made it out to one. I've been asking people on my social media. It sounds like a lot of people were pre-releasing this weekend, lots of sold out pre-releases. I'm curious, though, how'd pre-release go? How'd it feel to open the set? What was your first impression of the limited format? Richard, tell me about your pre-release.

All right.

So I went to my usual spot Friday night.

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