Here is something I’ve been working on. I’m an old legacy player and this is a version of the first constructed deck I ever created. I got the cards off a website called eBay that had only been in operation for around 9 months.
anyway I do have my old stifle/dreadnought deck and I realize it’s top tier but I’m curious if this old nostalgic BW suicide black deck stands a chance at all In the meta.
Pauper metagame update.
source: magic4ever.com/pauper
The Singapore Nationals was held on Sat, 9 May. This was our first tournament and 40 players turned up! The field included several local PM stalwarts, some PT competitors and a few visitors from overseas.
See photos above for a quick event summary from the TO as well as huge thanks to kind sponsors who donated over $1k of prizes.
I took the event down with Sligh - facing bogeyman and recent Lobstercon winner Replenish 3x times, including int the QF and Finals. Yes, it's true, this was my first PM event.
Top 16 decklists are here: metagame breakdown in images. 4 out of the 5 Replenish decks made the T8.
https://mtgdecks.net/Premodern/2026-singapore-premodern-nationals-tournament-248514
My (LONG) tournament report is here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PNwT_RmDKpTacDDZfdDa9f0oTzhgAqtuZPahhG5SsnE/edit?usp=sharing
Upcoming Content:
- There is an upcoming interview I did with the TO Lionel - will post a link
- Writing my tournament report and will post a link when it's ready in a day or two
- Happy to run a Q&A here.
If any PM podcasters want a guest POV, I'm happy to tee something up. DM me.
Have fun and always count to 20!
If not, how well stocked are the vendors at these things usually? Is it hard to find three or four wastelands and cartographers in the hour or so before it kicks off?
I just got back from Lobstercon’s Premodern event hosted by the Duress Crew. I joined the Premodern community over the last couple of years as a way to get away from the hyper-competitive atmosphere of modern MTG. So finding out that some guy traveled all the way from New York just to cheat his way through the event is absolutely wild. What the hell, man… imagine joining an old format to cheat.
Alpha/Beta = 217 cards (4.04%) [292 card set]
Arabian Nights = 41 cards (0.76%) [78 card set]
Antiquities = 48 cards (0.89%) [85 card set]
Legends = 131 cards (2.44%) [310 card set]
The Dark = 53 cards (0.99%) [119 card set]
Fallen Empires = 29 cards (0.54%) [102 card set]
Hey Everyone! You might remember Pat and Jerry from Leaving a Legacy. We are trying out something new with our newfound love of Premodern. We catch up on old times and then try out a spicy new brew Jerry put together. This is a new project, so please let us know what you would like to see!
Ep. 1 - New England Threshnought
Hi! I ask this question because I just printed out two decks to play, mono red sligh and stiflenought. A friend and I were playing them against each other and Blue won almost every time. I know that that deck is dominant right now, and maybe it just counters sligh due to its strength and ability to interact, but even post board it felt pretty dominant.
Is this sligh list a little weak? I saw one with some [[flame rifts]] and [[sulfuric vortex]] to do some more damage potentially as the deck can't really outvalue Blue anyway. Is it just that we were playing those two specific lists against each other and that in a tournament things would be different? Looking to play both in local tournaments so I would hate to see one deck be somewhat less viable but I also see reasonable (but not amazing) stats with sligh on this reddit and in the tournaments.
Thanks in advance!
Sideboard is not finalized, don’t have everything foil for that yet but the main board is. Some concessions had to be made since some older cards don’t have foil printings. It won’t be completely ”optimal” till then but my happiness is optimal with it. I took ideas from a lot of other lists but fpawluszmtg‘s u/w dreadnought list was a deciding factor on adding white In the end. My friend had a dci Stifle in his binder he let me have that started me on this path.
“Holy moly. Who knew one judge stifle would cost so much“- JP 2026
Skip untap. Pay upkeep. Play island. Go.
4 dudes who like to color on magic cards (Mr.Meseeks, Travis/retromancers Tonywok/retromancers and myself) came together for a collaboration project unlike any other - a playset of uniquely divided gush. For this project we split each copy of gush into 4 parts - an "X", "+", rows, and lastly a free for all. Each person started one and sent it to a different person.
We couldn’t decide who should get them, so we chose to auction them off for charity - the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (details to come). More info at Mr.Meseeks TikTok
https://www.tiktok.com/@a.b.stract/photo/7638979614995451150?\_r=1&\_t=ZT-96KiLIO4W4r
New tournament report from Galen Lemei (aardshark on Discord).
As most of you probably saw on stream he went 13-2 in swiss as the only undefeated player going into Day 2, making Top 8 with an absolutely savage run.
The report covers all 16 rounds, the decklist, tournament prep, mindset going in, and the always-stellar vibes of this truly special event.
Big credit to the FEB Cabal - Robin, Mike, McLean, Carl, Biel, Clara, MoxlessGuy and others. hFEB put 4 of 13 pilots into Day 2 this year.
Full report: https://trademagic.gg/articles/hfeb-top8-lobstercon-2026
Photo by DuressCrew
Another clash between tier‑1 contenders, but more importantly two trusted lists for these archetypes — proof that a single color is more than enough to cause chaos.
Mono‑Red Sligh enters the matchup as the favorite, while Moneyball Black clings to Masticore as its best hope to turn things around.
Black actually plays very few creatures with real staying power, the kind that can truly strike fear into the opponent.
So in the end, what is it really? A midrange deck or an aggro deck?
For now, rather than answering that question, it will simply try to win.
🖤 Moneyball Black: 🖤
4 Dark Ritual
4 Duress
4 Cabal Therapy
4 Ravenous Rats
3 Withered Wretch
2 Nantuko Shade
2 Knight of Stromgald
4 Hypnotic Specter
2 Masticore
1 Graveborn Muse
2 Phyrexian Arena
2 Diabolic Edict
2 Smother
1 Snuff Out
16 Swamp
4 Mishra's Factory
3 Wasteland
Sideboard
4 Engineered Plague
3 Dystopia
2 Phyrexian Negator
1 Tormod's Crypt
1 Phyrexian Furnace
2 Gloom
2 Powder Keg
🔥🔥🔥 Monored Sligh 🔥🔥🔥
4 Jackal Pup
4 Grim Lavamancer
4 Mogg Fanatic
2 Goblin Patrol
4 Ball Lightning
3 Sulfuric Vortex
2 Cursed Scroll
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Fireblast
4 Incinerate
4 Seal of Fire
1 Reckless Abandon
2 Barbarian Ring
4 Wooded Foothills
4 Bloodstained Mire
10 Mountain
Sideboard
2 Anarchy
1 Rejuvenation Chamber
2 Overload
2 Mogg Salvage
3 Red Elemental Blast
2 Price of Progress
1 Lava Dart
1 Cursed Scroll
Zac interviews Jerry Mee about his return!