Mike discusses the top 8 reasons why you should be playing Bant in standard, and after Roman and Mike discuss Roman's 6-0 list from the first week of MagicFest Online qualifiers and what changes they would make for the Grand Prix this weekend. Mike's original article: The Top 8 Reasons to Play Bant in Standard Your hosts: Roman Fusco - @Roman_Fusco Mike Flores - @fivewithflores Subscribe to Ancestral Recall at iTunes! https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id1213552541#

Mike discusses the top 8 reasons why you should be playing Bant in standard, and after Roman and Mike discuss Roman's 6-0 list from the first week of MagicFest Online qualifiers and what changes they would make for the Grand Prix this weekend. Mike's original article: <a href="https://www.coolstuffinc.com/a/michaelflores-03252020-the-top-8-reasons-to-play-bant-in-standard%E2%80%9D" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">The Top 8 Reasons to Play Bant in Standard</a> Your hosts: Roman Fusco - <a href="http://twitter.com/Roman_Fusco" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@Roman_Fusco </a>Mike Flores - <a href="http://twitter.com/fivewithflores" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@fivewithflores</a> Subscribe to Ancestral Recall at iTunes! <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id1213552541#" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id1213552541#</a>

Ancestral Recall #22 - The Top 8 Reasons to Play Bant in Standard

Roman and Mike go back in time to 2005, after Mike wins a Kamigawa block constructed PTQ at Neutral Ground, to look at lessons learned while brewing a rogue deck for an established metagame.

Roman and Mike go back in time to 2005, after Mike wins a Kamigawa block constructed PTQ at Neutral Ground, to look at lessons learned while brewing a rogue deck for an established metagame.

#21 - Critical Mass

Roman and Mike go back in time to 2002, as Mike Flores of 2002 takes his own trip back in time to tell the stories of the ten most memorable matches of Magic that he had ever seen.

Ancestral Recall #20 – The Ten Greatest Battles of All Time

Roman and Mike go back in time to 2004, to look at one of the most important lessons a Magic player can learn: to see ones own mistakes.

Ancestral Recall #19 – Realizing How Bad You Are

Roman and Mike go back in time to 2005, to learn how intangible skill can add up over a game to make a player seem lucky.

Ancestral Recall #18 – Magic: the Intangibles

Roman and Mike get together to pore over a 2010 article by Mike Flores about lessons learned from Hall of Famer Zvi Mowshowitz on how to think about the game of Magic.

Ancestral Recall #17 – How to Think About Magic

Roman and michaelj are relegated to wandering the streets of Manhattan like a pair of recording vagabonds, so they talk about Roman's recent successes... All of which occurred as a result of the lessons taught by Ancestral Recall.

Ancestral Recall #16 – In the Style of Top 8 Magic

Roman and Mike learn ancient deck design wisdom from Mike Flores' 2007 article, "Bits and Pieces — The Traits of a Great Deck Designer".

Ancestral Recall #15 – Bits and Pieces

Roman and Mike take a look at Nick Spagnolo's treatise on how to win at Magic by playing the colour Blue.

Ancestral Recall #14 – Casting Blue Spells

Roman and Mike take a look at Brian Hacker's hugely influential article on gambling and Magic, "The New Pool Halls"

Ancestral Recall #13 – The New Pool Halls

Mike and Roman take a look at one of Mike's favourite Pro Tour Hall of Fame ballot articles, from the second year of the Hall of Fame, 11 years ago.

Ancestral Recall #12 – One Man’s Ballot

Mike and Roman take a look at the classic strategy of siding in an unexpected permanent type for The Old Switcheroo.

Ancestral Recall #11 – The Old Switcheroo

Mike and Roman discuss the dangers and advantages of switching to a new deck for a tournament at the last minute.

Ancestral Recall #10 – Winner Winner Chicken Dinner

Mike introduces Roman to the concept of virtual card advantage.

Ancestral Recall #9 – Virtual Card Advantage

Mike and Roman talk about how preparing a deck to beat the best deck can be the right strategy to take down a tournament.

Ancestral Recall #8 – Tuning the Second Best Deck

Mike and Roman talk about the theory of how to trade cards for your opponent's Life, or as it is called: The Philosophy of Fire!

Ancestral Recall #7 – The Philosophy of Fire

Mike and Roman talk about Chad Ellis's article on the tendency Magic players have to lose games because they are too fixated on doing something cool.

Ancestral Recall #6 – The Danger Of Cool Things

“Asking Better Questions” provides a model to improve your own quality of information in Magic by… Well… Asking better questions.

Ancestral Recall #5 – Asking Better Questions

What does it mean to be "results focused" and why does Mike thing we all should be (in the face of common, poker-descended, gamer wisdom)?

Ancestral Recall #4 – JUSTICE

Is Rogue deck building still relevant? Or at least Mike's take from nearly two decades ago? As usual, the Regional Champ weighs in with a modern perspective.

Ancestral Recall #3 – The Rogue Strategy

Great idea for a show- reading old Magic Articles and discussing their impact/ modern relevance. Only reason this isn&#39;t 5 stars is that the release schedule is inconsistent, and when reading decklists, they just blow thru them like crazy, which is usually fine for me (as someone whose played for years), but when they did an article on a time period I wasn&#39;t playing (Time Spiral) it was impossible to follow because I didn&#39;t know what the cards did. They don&#39;t need to say what each card does, but going a little slower so you can differentiate cards and pause to look up would be a great improvement

Great show

A podcast where Mike Flores can talk about himself for an hour, what&#39;s not to love?  Honestly, I love this show. The combo of grizzled veteran and rising star is great, and unlike some podcasts the audio quality is excellent.  Worth a listen simply for the banter, and the content is fantastic too.  Definitely my favorite MtG podcast.

Flores fans rejoice

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