Fact or Fiction
A Premodern Magic: The Gathering podcast from the Squee's House of Pizza crew. Tournament reports, deck deep dives, and honest takes on the format, for the people already brewing in it.
Episodes
8 episodes
Episode 8: "Deck Selection" - Power, Knowledge, or Metagame
Terravore decks won the Buckeye Brawl 2 and the Czech National Championship this month, and they were two very different decks. Most of the episode, though, is about deck selection, and whether you're better off on the strongest deck, the one y...
Episode 7: "Summer Tournament Roundup" - What the Data Says, With Hodge
Five summer Premodern events produced five different winning decks, from Dreadnought at the European Championship to mono-black at the South American Championship. CCL commissioner Hodge joins Neal and Chris to go through PEACE in Berkley, Mich...
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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 disagree...
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Episode 5: "Five Color Oath Ponza" - Vindicate Next to Meddling Mage
Claire Ackerman's Oath Ponza is a five color deck now, and this is the episode where she explains how it got there. The four color build made top four at LobsterCon 2026, and rather than sleeve it up again she rebuilt it, taking a top eight at ...
Episode 4: "Shoe City Showdown" - Elves Beats Replenish
Ben Bauer won the Shoe City Showdown #4: Enchanted Summer with Elves, and the deck waiting for him in the finals was Replenish, the same matchup that ended his LobsterCon quarterfinal earlier this year. He goes through the full run with Neal, C...
Episode 3: "House of Champions" - Sligh Takes Sacred Torch Showdown 2026
Neal Sacks won the 2026 Sacred Torch Showdown in New York on a Sligh list built almost entirely to beat Dreadnought, and this episode is the full accounting of how that deck came together and how the tournament went. Twelve of the fifteen sideb...
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Episode 2: "Summer Regional" - Bubbled at Both Cuts
Neal Sacks and Chris Roy recap a New England summer regional, one of the bigger events on the local calendar, run by Duress Crew and drawing a crowd that included players up from New York. It is a full tournament report aimed at anyone followin...
