Hello everyone and welcome to episode 575 of the MTG Goldfish podcast.

I'm Seth, probably better know to Safra and 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. I'm doing well. How are you doing? I am doing amazingly, and we have some fun topics today, but we got another co-hosting, Crim, Crim! I heard you were playing, what, store champs, regionals? Why do you play this weekend? I know you're doing some tournamenting this weekend. I played, believe it or not, this mythical format in person. It's called standards. Standard. It was for fun of my own free will. I went out and I had a good time. It's wild. It's a concept, right? I was not believable at you warbred., okay. All right. Yeah. Sorry, everybody. I was trying to get some brownie points, you know? Like, it's fun. Standard's really good right now, and I love this Demir excruciator deck. Yeah, that seems like the kind of deck you would enjoy. Yeah, that seems like a crim deck for sure. It's Mill. It's Mill and control all in one. It's like the crim heaven. Yeah, it's Utopia over there.

Anyway, today, we're going to be talking about a couple of things. So first, we got Hasbro's

financials for last year, and the numbers are kind of huge. So we want to talk about that a little bit. And then we're going to spend a bunch of the cast today with a question that Richard brought up, which was, is Thot Seas too good for Standard in 2026? Not going to spend the whole cast talking about ThaSys, but we got a list of cards. And I'm kind of curious with how much we've seen power creep in the format, would these cards be safe to print into standard in 2026? So that's what we're working with the day. Before we get into it, though, we got a couple of sponsors. Today's show is brought to you by Card Conduit, 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 reset 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 our 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 and a fast payment which orders processed. And you can even get another 10% off by heading

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And let's talk some magic.

And let's start with the financial information because I think these numbers and what we

learned from the 2025 results are actually kind of interesting.

So you can read all the financials, dig super deep into it.

But the big numbers here that stuck out to me, for 2025, Wizards of the Coast as a whole,

was up 45% compared to the previous year, which they said was a record.

It's the most saved increase in one year ever.

In Magic and Specific, was up 59% compared to 2024. Huge numbers.

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