Episode 70: Ponza: Sprawling Out

We hang out with our old friend Klothys and her minions as we do a deck dive into the latest tier 1 Modern deck, Ponza!

The Break Down: Challenge of the Companions

The Break Down, cont: The Takes You're Looking For

The Dive Down: 2 Glorybringers on Turn 3

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Timestamps:

2:45 - Housekeeping

5:42 - The Break Down begins: a Pioneer super qualifier

6:28 - The top 8 (with maybe some Companion talk)

22:42 - The rest of the meta

25:48 - The immediate impact of Companions and our hot takes

39:25 - The Dive Down: Gruul Midrange/RG Ponza

45:10 - Our initial thoughts

48:40 - What this deck is trying to do

53:15 - The early game

58:22 - The midgame

1:00:58 - A special focus on Klothys

1:06:43 - Back to the ramp targets and midgame plays

1:13:20 - Closing out the game

1:21:01 - The Companion Variant

1:31:45 - Why is Ponza good now?

1:36:30 - Some good and kinda bad matchups

1:41:30 - Some helpful thoughts

1:45:30 - How to stop Ponza

1:48:50 - The future of Ponza in the meta

1:50:28 - Closing out

Links from this week's episode:

The Pioneer Super Qualifier: https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/mtgo-standings/pioneer-super-qualifier-2020-04-18

The “Classic” Ponza list: https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/2878672#paper

The Companion list: https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/2941115#paper

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