The Dive Down
The Dive Down is a weekly podcast for people who love Magic: The Gathering but like talking about other things too. From videogames, to parenting, to 3D printing, and beyond.
Each week hosts Dave, Stan, and Shane discuss the latest Magic formats they've been playing, videogames they've been beating, movies they've been watching, music they've discovered, and the daily embarrassments they endure along the way.
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- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 96 minutes
- Episodes
- 357
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
Episode 316: The Quiet Before the Dragonstorm
We looked at nine Magic Online Modern Challenges that fired in the unique week between a Modern ban and Dragonstorm: Tarkir's online debut. On this week's show, we benchmark the current Modern format…
Episode 315: Underworld, Breached
This week we react to one of the least surprising bans in recent Modern history and say goodbye to Underworld Breach. Dave, Devon, and Stan react, make predictions about what we think is next, and ta…
What's That In Your Pocket, Level 5: Nintendo's Switch 2 Direct
Today's the day we take What's That In Your Pocket public! Formerly a Patreon exclusive, you can now find us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you enjoy pods! Join us every 2 weeks as we get to…
Episode 314: Staying Busy Until Bans & Dragons Burn it All Down
On this week's show, we discuss how to approach deck practice in Modern and Standard even though both formats are about to see significant changes. Stan plays some Living End and Jeskai Energy, d00mw…
Episode 313: Is Ugin Sexy Enough to Save Modern?
On this week's show, we review the coolest decks from the Hunter Burton Memorial Open, the Spotlight Series in Utrecht, and the Southeast Asia RC in Bangkok. Then we wrap with a first look at Dragons…
Episode 312: Breach Takes Charlotte and Other Modern Tales
The final Modern RC of the season is now behind us, but the story of Temur Breach's dominance continues. We chat about the event metagame, the incredible amount of Grinding Station decks in the top 3…
Episode 311: Eldrazi Innovations & A Modern Dose of Ketramose
With RC Charlotte on D00mwake's doorstep, Devon shares the results and findings of his practice for the one of the year's biggest Modern tournaments. Dave kicks off the show a look at the metagame da…
Episode 310: A Lot of MaRo in Chicago
MagicCon: Chicago was the biggest MagicCon ever, in part because The Dive Down was there to experience it. This week's show features conversation we had at the Con with Mark Rosewater, Blake Rasmusse…
Episode 309: Aetherdrift & Green Sun’s Zenith: Not What We Expected
Magic never ceases to amaze us. On this week's episode, we discuss our mutual surprise over the impact of Aetherdrift on Modern. Then we wrap our series on Modern's latest unbans with a look at Green…
Episode 308: Portland RC: Reactions & Reflections
On this week's show, we review the results of the latest Modern Regional Championship, along with the Sunday 10K, and kneel at the altar of our new format overlords, Underworld Breach & Grinding Stat…
Episode 307: Energy Bars: Prepping for Portland
It's Portland time! Join us as we go deep on Stan's tournament prep for the Modern RC. We talk Stan's testing journey with Boros Energy, go deep on the mirror and the other top matchups, discuss the …
Episode 306: You Can't Play Splinter Twin in Prague
After a huge weekend of Modern Regional Championships, we're tripping over spreadsheets of matchup data. We discuss which decks impressed us, surprised us, and disappointed us from three huge tournam…
Episode 305: Why Mox Opal Is or Isn't the Best Card in Modern
As we continue to play with Modern's latest round of unbans, something has become apparent. Mox Opal is a heck of a card. On this week's show, we play it in Temur Breach, Affinity, Hammer Time, and B…
Episode 304: Why Isn’t Faithless Looting the Best Card in Modern?
In the first of our episodes diving into each card from the recent unbans, we take a deep look at Faithless Looting. First we take a look at the history of the card — all the way back to spoiler conv…
Episode 303: The One Where Devon 9-0d a Spotlight
We're back — to podcasting. But also Devon's back — to large eventing. And, in a way, Magic is back — with a 1,400+ person open tournament. We spend this week talking about what happened, what's goin…
Bonus: Return of the Rhinos
Rhinos is making a comeback and so are we! As we wind down from vacation mode, Stan and D00mwake warm up their podcasting muscles with one of their favorite topics: Crashing Footfalls in Modern. Enjo…
Episode 302: The Mad Lads Did It
A B&R so hot we had to pause our vacation. The One Ring, Amped Raptor, and Jegantha are banned. Mox Opal is unbanned. Mox Opal, Green Sun's Zenith, Faithless Looting and Splinter Twin are unbanned. D…
Episode 301: Standard Rules, Modern Drools, and Pokémon Fools
We kick off this week's show with an important announcement about the future of The Dive Down. Just listen since it's too long to explain in writing. Then we bemoan the B&R window before highlighting…
Episode 300: Magic as Richard Garfield Intended, ft. Richard Garfield, Ph.D.
The doctor is in. For a very special episode 300, The Dive Down sits down with THE Richard Garfield, inventor of Magic: The Gathering and great-great-grandson of President James A. Garfield. What is …
Episode 299: Stan Won an RCQ!
They said it couldn't be done, but one of the Dive Down boys (other than D00mwake) finally won an RCQ. On this week's show, Stan talks about piloting Boros Energy to qualify for RC Portland, and we b…