Hello everyone and welcome to episode, 550 of the MTG Goldfish podcast.

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

kicking things off with the owner of MTG Goldfish, Richard. How's it going this fine Monday, Richard? Good morning, Seth. Doing well. How are you doing? I'm doing super well. We got some interesting topics to talk about today. But before we get into that, we got another co-hosting Crim. Good Morning, Crim. And also, a kitty. What's a kitty's name? I never remember the cat's name. Her name is Luna.

And she is aggressive about her affection and she only wants it while I'm recording.

Never any other time.

She really likes to be part of the content.

I have noticed that about Luna.

Legit, she moves the mic all the time.

And oh, I swear, dude, she's only here when I'm filming.

Anyway, today we're going to be talking, jumping around a little bit.

We're going to start talking about standard.

I have this interesting question about standard about how we can balance formats without actually banning cards. So we're going to dig into that a little bit. We also got Spider-Man spoilers, a couple of smaller random topics about universes beyond and weird places selling magic, some fish mail to get to. So that's the plan for today. Before we get into it, though, a reminder that today's show is 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 it with Card Conduit. You can use their curated service where you send in as many cards as you want with a buy list value of a dollar or more, and pages 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 page you stay 2% fee either way you're going to get a detailed

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And to set the stage for what we're going to dig into, which is how can we balance

magic or balance standard without actually banning cards, we're still kind of living

in VB's world and standard.

We had a couple of tournaments this weekend, not like super big tournaments.

Next weekend is a super big GP style tournament, which is really what I'm waiting for to see what the meta really looks like in the wild. But we had like a nerd rage game event that was like seven of eight decks in the top eight were VV decks. There was another one, Laughing Dragon, I think, had a like a 20K for standard that was six of the top eight ended up being VV Dax.

I know, Krimm, you said you played store champs, which was not nearly as big. And it was also pretty VV heavy, right? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. So, we already know this, though. We're not just going to bash VV again. We've been talking about this for weeks now. Why would you? I love VEV. I know you do, Crim.

Is there anything that could happen in magic that would make you not like Veevi?

Like, could be so broken, it could ruin your fandom or no? No. No. No. It's like, you know what? It's like, hey, if you got banned, I'll salute him, send him off on a high note. his memories will live on in the skies, okay? I get it. I get it.

And you know what? Him being banned makes it so that it's lore accurate.

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