Fact or Fiction

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 co

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

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

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

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 d

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

Episode 1: "Pilot" - Meet the Crew

The first episode of Fact or Fiction is all introductions. Neal Sacks and Chris Roy lay out who the Squee's House of Pizza crew is, how a group of friends playing Pr