Hello, everyone, and welcome to episode 589 of the MTG Goldfish podcast.

I'm Seth, probably better know to Saffron Olive, and we have the full crew here this week.

Kicking things off with the owner of MG old fish. Richard, how are you

this fine Monday, Richard? Good morning, Seth. I'm running on fumes. I stayed up all night

playing Slade Aspire 2. I may have sacrificed some sleep to get some time to play. I got to ask you,

Richard, because I've been playing that game a little bit.

So we did a video together, like a team game for a Patreon video, but I've been playing

a little for fun too.

Do you feel like the game is like super easy?

Like, like, whoa.

Okay, okay.

So the Patreon video coming up Wednesday, check that out where it's me, Seth, Neatook, and Tomer,

and we're playing it for the first time, essentially, except Neatook, you know what he's doing.

So my takeaway from that was multiplayer super easy, single player, because I never played Slate Aspire 1.

I spent, I don't know how many runs, 10, 15, 20 runs, like getting dunked on,

getting absolutely nowhere. And I'm like, is this a Souls game? Like, why is this so ridiculously

hard? How do people enjoy this crap? But then it clicked. Like, once I, once I figure out how

the game is actually played, because counterintuitively, it has nothing to do with cards really, right?

So once you figure out how to play,

it was easy climbing up the ascension levels

that I beat the ascension 10 on Ironclad,

so the highest one.

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