Episode 206: Modern Domain Zoo & NRG Champs

This week Dave and Shane work on becoming Masters of their Domain with a quick dive into a deck that has been a bit of surprise in modern lately — Modern Domain Zoo. We debate which two drops are the best in this deck, wonder why this deck even has one drops, and finally, most domainedly, talk about killing opponents from the low teens with gameplans that include double Tribal Flames. But before all that, we talk about the exciting end of the 2022 NRG Championship Series, break down the decks from Modern and Pioneer, and marvel about the tiny tech choices people can make in a field of 16 players.

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Timestamps:
4:13 - Housekeeping
6:24 - The Break Down: The NRG Championship
8:58 - The Modern meta & decklists
28:24 - The Pioneer meta & decklists
41:53 - The tournament results
47:55 - Spring is here
50:42 - The Dive Down: Masters of our Domain (Zoo)
52:37 - What Domain is all about
54:55 - The Domain creatures
1:05:48 - The Domain spells
1:14:06 - The manabase and mana strategy
1:21:14 - Some thoughts about Domain Zoo
1:26:08 - Wrapping up

Links from this week's episode:
NRG Champs Decklists:
https://articles.nerdragegaming.com/decklists-archive/modern-2022-nrg-championship-january-14-15-2023/
https://articles.nerdragegaming.com/decklists-archive/pioneer-2022-nrg-championship-january-14-15-2023/
Sample Domain Zoo List: https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/5339959#paper

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