Episode 6: "Top 8 Underrated Cards" - Ranked by Math, Not Consensus

Three lists, five cards each, and not one card appeared on more than one of them. That left Neal, Chris, and Sam with fifteen cards and no way to merge them, so the order got decided offline and revealed one card at a time on tape. The disagreements start on the first card and do not really stop until the last one. The episode also recaps the August monthly at ELD, where the crew put three players in the top eight and took the title. The tournament half covers a Stiflenought top eight built for a red room that never showed up, a Psychatog run to the top four on a list dating back to March, a Terrageddon 4-2 with a single Zuran Orb sitting uncast in the sideboard, and the Mono-Red Goblins list currently trophying leagues, which plays two Goblin Tinkerer main instead of Naturalize and sets up an argument about how many Goblin Goons a Warchief deck should actually run. The countdown arguments themselves move through Moneyball, Psychatog, Terrageddon mana bases, Landstill, Enchantress, Replenish, Oath, Elves, and Sligh, which should tell you roughly what kind of cards made it. Also here: a Classic Legacy tournament that cuts off at Rise of the Eldrazi and bans Vengevine instead of Survival of the Fittest, a Boros Energy run at the Baltimore Regional Championship falling on the same day as the September 12 monthly, and the article and video schedule the crew picked up during five weeks without an event. Chapter timestamps 00:00:00 - Intro and what's on this episode 00:01:55 - August ELD monthly results 00:10:51 - Downtime, Classic Legacy, and videos 00:22:00 - Mono-Red Goblins for September 00:30:08 - How the underrated list was built 00:31:36 - Numbers eight and seven 00:45:55 - Numbers six, five, and four 01:01:18 - Numbers three and two 01:15:15 - The number one card and the bubble References and links Substack articles: https://thesack1.substack.com/ Send us Fan Mail: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2626886/fa...