Brainstorm Brewery

An archive of Brainstorm Brewery episodes.

Brainstorm Brewery #88 – Current Pro

Taking time out of his busy schedule of Pro Tour preparation, Ray Perez Jr. (@RayFuturePro) drops by the show to give us some inside info about how the member of a team like MTGMadness prepares for a Pro Tour stop, to tell us about the decks he likes in Modern, and to talk a little…

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Brainstorm Brewery #87 – Finance Shminance

It’s a Modern-tastic episode as the gang is joined by Mox Reuby himself—Reuben Bresler (@moxreuby). With bannings and unbannings shaking up the Modern format, there is a lot to discuss. How much of it is finance, and how much of it is general speculation about what the Modern format will look like? You decide! So…

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Brainstorm Brewery #86 – Bored of the Gods

It’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for: the Born of the Gods set-review episode. Dispens-ing with a confusing letter grade, the gang decides to focus its energy on analysis and predicting what the cor-rect price to pick up and sell off each card will be. Are the rares or mythics more exciting? Which card…

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Brainstorm Brewery #85 – Jason in Stereo

Brainstorm Brewery doubles down on Jasons as they are joined by real world and MTG Financier Jason (@time_elemental) to talk about Born of the Gods, the 20 tix contest, his finance philosophy and more. Is this set really Dragon’s Maze 2.0? Is Pain Seer the next Bob or the next Blood Scrivener? How many cards…

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Brainstorm Brewery #84 – The Greatest Fool of All

We don’t mean to spend so much time talking about Reddit even though so much happened this week that we really feel like we have to. We’ve got spoilers, spoilers, spoilers! The gang talks about more than three cards, but I didn’t want to keep writing ā€œspoilersā€. Here’s another spoiler – you only have one…

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Brainstorm Brewery #83 – Gathering of Magi

he cast is celebrating an actual milestone—this marks this point when more episodes were recorded on GatheringMagic than not. To help celebrate, the usual gang of miscreants is joined by GatheringMagic’s Con-tent Manager and Head Honcho Adam Styborski (@the_stybs). With price spikes and new card borders to discuss, the gang gets down to business and…

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Brainstorm Brewery #82 – 2013 Retrospective

2013 is in our rearview mirrors, and what a year it was. There were a lot of financially-relevant happenings in the year gone by, and the gang reminisces. What happened in 2013, and how can that help us look at 2014? What will we be ready for when history repeats itself? Tune in for a…

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Brainstorm Brewery #81 – Armchair Speculation

What do you do when a Travis Woo brew does the voodoo that a Woo brew do? That’s one of the questions on everyone’s minds this week as a card in Modern quintuples up overnight. Who’s buying these cards between $2 and $10? Is it a good buy at $10 anticipating $20? Should those of…

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Brainstorm Brewery #80 – Sticking Your Neck Out

The cast turns eighty, which is old enough to drive a car into a farmer’s market and blame it on the floor mat. This episode starts with a bang—do financiers tend to hedge their bets because they’re afraid to be wrong? It doesn’t let up, as the gang goes down a laundry list of finance…

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Brainstorm Brewery #79 – How the Cookie Crumbles

Some big news in the world of Magic Online has broken and everyone is wondering how the market will be affected. Has Wizards finally gotten it together and fixed the MODO problem? Does any of the gang have confidence in MODO going forward? How do we respond to sudden price spikes in Modern and Legacy…

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Brainstorm Brewery #78 – Apparently Sesquicentennial Means 150

Not a whole lot happened in the last week outside of a temporary decline in MODO prices brought on by the unscheduled maintenance and a lack of confidence in the long-term viability of MODO, but prices have already returned to normal mostly. The gang doesn’t want to take any of that out on you and…

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Brainstorm Brewery #77 – If It’s Broke, Don’t Fix It

The cast is interrupted by breaking news- Magic Online events have been suspended so the whole system can be fixed. In the wake of the disastrous weekend where the MOCS and a PTQ both crashed on MODO the community reacted badly- will the backlash from taking MODO down to fix it be worse? The cast…

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Brainstorm Brewery #76 – Going Infinite

The Brew Crew is joined by streaming savant Kenji Egashira (@NumotTheNummy) to talk about all things MODO- bankroll management, streaming, Theros draft archetypes and the dream of going infinite. Kenji was a member of this year’s winning Community Cup team and comes with some stories to tell about his experiences in Seattle. The gang goes…

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Brainstorm Brewery #75 – Sesquicentennial

Brainstorm Brewery turns 75 this week and shows no signs of pumping the brakes. You shouldn’t pump your brakes, anyway- most cars these days have ABS and you’re not doing anyone any good. This episode is a back-to-basics, no-nonsense cast that is short on dilly-dallying and long on both values and hyphens. With a few…

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Brainstorm Brewery #74 – Mailbagstravaganza

It’s a comedy of errors as the gang deals with a series of unfortunate events that all conspired to make sure an episode wasn’t recorded this week. Deciding to save some of the headier topics for another week, the gang digs into a mailbag backlog and finds some great topics. E-mails ranged from timely topics…

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Brainstorm Brewery #73 – Ray Current Pro

Raymond “@RayFuturePro” Perez is going to need a new nickname after finishing an astonishing eleventh place at the Pro Tour in Dublin, netting $5,000, an invite to Valencia, and a spot on Team Brainstorm Brewery. Back again to regale the gang with tales of the Pro Tour, muse about the future of splashy weekend decks,…

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Brainstorm Brewery #72 – Inside the Matty Studio

It’s a mini Meavy Meta meetup! Matthew Bartholomew Beverly (Total guess on the middle name, but tease him as though that?s accurate) a.k.a @MattyStudios drops by to talk finance both of the paper and MODO variety. The gang talks about movers in Theros and other Standard-legal sets, good online resources for tracking prices and Matty…

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Brainstorm Brewery #71 – Ice Cream and Brews

Jeff Hoogland (@JeffHoogland) swings by the cast to talk all about the art of brewing. With spicy brews for both Modern and Standard, Jeff weighs in on the playability potential of a few key cards and that translates into great insight about the financial future of cards as well. Find out what he likes, what…

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Brainstorm Brewery #70 – Plain Mono White Tease

The Theros pre-release is behind us and it’s time to take a look back at what we learned and how that might bode for the future of this children’s card game we all know and love. To properly recount the experience, the gang enlists the help of Erin Campbell (@OriginalOestrus). It wasn’t too long that…

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Brainstorm Brewery #69 – Theroasted

It’s set review time again, and everyone is excited except for our hosts. With a big old bag of Mythics and Rares to go through, the gang is back at it again, recording their educated guesses for posterity with the hopes of making you some money, or helping you save some, this pre-release weekend. The…

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Brainstorm Brewery #68 – The Once and Future Pro

Ryan gets a visitor at home, and when your visitor is none other than Pro Tour qualifier and future BrainstormBrewery.com writer Ray Perez (@RayFuturePro) you let him on the cast. With a new crop of Theros spoilers, the lame duck season on MODO extending another month and a surprising amount of developments in the sports…

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Brainstorm Brewery #67 – Brainstorm Brew

There are a lot of brewers in the kitchen as Steven Mann (@slickjagger) and Michael Motyka (@Mmotyka) join the regular gang of idiots to talk about home brewing, aging beer and their collaboration with the cast to come up with a beer that epitomizes this podcast- a true Brainstorm Brew. Don’t miss your chance to…

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Brainstorm Brewery #66 – Speculating Quietly

Stopping by the cast to talk about the business of speculation as well as the business Quiet Speculation is Doug Linn. Doug is a cofounder and co-owner of QuietSspeculation.com, and technically, he’s Corbin’s and Jason’s “boss,” so when he tells Corbin to shut up, he kind of has to. With Theros spoilers, controversy surrounding QS’s…

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Brainstorm Brewery #65 – Twincastin’

With Ryan Bushard missing in action and Corbin Hosler taking his love of Merfolk one step too far by flooding his house and sloshing around on the floor holding a trident, it’s up to Marcel and Jason to save the day. Save the day they do, with a Gen Con wrap-up, talk of Theros spoilers…

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Brainstorm Brewery #64 – Not a Polish Sausage

Brainstorm Brewery takes a stand in this one, folks. In a week where not much happened financially, the cast has another guest on to talk about a few things other than finance and they’re here to tell you that you can love it or leave it. The guest in question- Polish Tamales, arguably the most…

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