Why These Cards Got WAY More Popular | EDHRECast 399

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🗓️ 19 January 2026

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

These cards saw huge surges of play! Which ones spiked and fell, and which ones will stay the course?

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the ETH RETCast, where we're all about Commander, Dada, and Dad Jokes.
0:15.0	I'm Joey Shultz, and I'm joined by my pun-tastic co-host.
0:18.0	Whenever he plays against a High Perfect Morc't deck, he's going to remove it
0:22.2	just so he can say more like by Perfect Morcan't. It's Matt Morgan. And they won't have to wonder
0:28.6	why Morcan't either. So, but yeah, anyway, Joe, I wanted to tell you, I went to a zoo this past
0:34.4	weekend, but they only had one dog. and I just need to say, it was a
0:38.4	pretty shit zoo.
0:41.2	I'm really hoping that the YouTube algorithm doesn't interpret that as a potential other
0:45.9	type of word that then gets us demonetize.
0:48.0	You're playing with fire here, I feel.
0:49.4	Everybody loves those dogs.
0:50.8	They're so pretty.
0:51.9	They are very pretty dogs, actually, with a... I'm very happy to report, though. It was a petting zoo, so I got to pet it.
0:59.6	Hey, okay. Fantastic. And also, YouTube, be nice for us. Listeners, pray for us. Okay. So, Matt,
1:07.6	it's the two of us on this episode, and we're talking about some cards that the year
1:12.4	2025 changed in the EDH format. Yeah, I mean, you guys got to talk about all the data
1:18.8	that you all collected last year, and I wasn't there because I don't play the game anything
1:23.2	like you guys do, but that doesn't mean I don't get to participate in a conversation about
1:27.7	some of the cards that had data changing over the course of 2025 because there were some spikes,
1:32.4	even for some cards that we've known about for a long, long time. So we're going to take a moment
1:37.1	to look at some of the cards that saw some pretty significant jumps up and kind of what might
1:41.4	have caused those numbers to skyrocket the way they did.
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