Hello, everyone and welcome to episode, 563 of the MTG Goldfish podcast. I'm Seth, probably better

know to Safrat Aleph, 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? Is it Tuesday where you are? I don't know. Whatever day it is where you're at, Richard. How is it going? I come from the future again, Seth. It is Tuesday for me. I'm doing well, Seth. How are you guys doing? I am doing super well. I don't know about Crimrim, though. Krim, you were just telling us you had quite the adventure on your way home. On your way home this morning, actually, just a few hours ago. How was your trip? How was your right home? I love time traveling. I had the longest Sunday of my life because mid-flight, you know, the pilot tells us from from Japan on the way home that, hey, we might have a engine problem. So we need to turn around. So I'm just happy I'm back, you know? So it's one of those things. I'm glad. I'm glad you made it. I'm glad you made it. So today we're going to be talking a little bit about modern. It was a big

modern regional championship weekend. I think there were four regional championships this weekend. So I'm going to talk about where modern's at. Standard. We have a new standard format. And I got some thoughts on standards. So we're going to dig into Standard a little bit. Then we might also hit up some arena news, a new secret layer drop, some fish mail, so that's an overview for today.

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And let's talk some magic and let's start with modern. So this was Regional Championship weekend.

There was Regional Championship USA, one in Euro in Africa, Japan and Korea, one in Canada.

So we had four big regionals.

And I got to say, I spent a lot of this weekend as I was doing other stuff, checking in on these tournaments.

And as far as diversity is concerned, modern's in a really

good spot right now. If you just look through all these top eights, there is a lot of different

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