A lot went down in Magic Town this week, and we’re catching you up. We dig into the latest banned and restricted announcement (Competitive Brawl gets new commander bans, and Standard is apparently thriving, Meghan’s lifegain deck can confirm), get our first look at Darkhold Destiny, Marvel’s spooky new Universes Beyond set, and break down the big booster pack shake-up, including 1-in-1000 “God packs." We also send our congratulations to the Wizards of the Coast employees who are unionizing!Support the union: https://unitedwizardsofthecoast.com/✨ Support us on Patreon!🧙 Subscribe to our Commander Channel!💪 Get sweet sleeves: Dragon Shield! Use code GLHF for 5% off!🃏 Visit our sponsor Card Kingdom!👕 Buy Some Sweet GLHF Merch📺 Look! It’s our GLHF YouTube Channel🐦 Follow us on Bluesky📸 Stalk us (politely) on Insta🌐 Everything GLHF is on our Website

Reality Fracture is here, and after getting our hands dirty in the Draft queues, we have THOUGHTS! Maria, Meghan, and Tyler dig into the early data to figure out which color pairs are winning, which commons wildly overperformed expectations, which uncommons are basically mythics wearing fake mustaches, and why four toughness might just be the "magic number."Come dink around with us as we break down one of the slower, more balanced, and delightfully complicated Draft formats we’ve played this year!✨ Support us on Patreon!🧙 Subscribe to our Commander Channel!💪 Get sweet sleeves: Dragon Shield! Use code GLHF for 5% off!🃏 Visit our sponsor Card Kingdom!👕 Buy Some Sweet GLHF Merch📺 Look! It’s our GLHF YouTube Channel🐦 Follow us on Bluesky📸 Stalk us (politely) on Insta🌐 Everything GLHF is on our Website

Sanity is in short supply this week as Meghan survives a Nyquil fever dream and Tyler the deep dark depths of the woods! But they brave the wilds of the GLHF studio to rank what Magic means to them, get thrown by a game of Scryfall randomizer ("Hot Frosty" is now an official unit of measurement), and make bold predictions on the best common in each color of Reality Fracture. Plus a prerelease report featuring not one--not two--but three Jaces at once.✨ Support us on Patreon!🧙 Subscribe to our Commander Channel!💪 Get sweet sleeves: Dragon Shield! Use code GLHF for 5% off!🃏 Visit our sponsor Card Kingdom!👕 Buy Some Sweet GLHF Merch📺 Look! It’s our GLHF YouTube Channel🐦 Follow us on Bluesky📸 Stalk us (politely) on Insta🌐 Everything GLHF is on our Website

Get ready to get fractured! Judge Rob joins Maria and Tyler to walk you through the trickiest cards, rules, and interactions in Reality Fracture before your prerelease this weekend. We cover the return of Prepare, what's going on with all those Jace planeswalker tokens, negative power on creatures, and a whole lot of totally unnecessary eyeballs. Plus: a surprise contender for cutest card in the set!✨ Support us on Patreon!🧙 Subscribe to our Commander Channel!💪 Get sweet sleeves: Dragon Shield! Use code GLHF for 5% off!🃏 Visit our sponsor Card Kingdom!👕 Buy Some Sweet GLHF Merch📺 Look! It’s our GLHF YouTube Channel🐦 Follow us on Bluesky📸 Stalk us (politely) on Insta🌐 Everything GLHF is on our Website

Alchemy is being put out to pasture on Arena, so we pour one out, dig through Wizards' format data (93% of Standard is Best-of-One?!), and learn some more shocking truths about how people really plat MTG Arena. Then we take a tour through Jace's Echoverse to check in on the mirrored pairs from Reality Fracture! Who's thriving, who's an a-hole, and who got turned into a werewolf. Plus: one very load-bearing pair of moist frog thighs.✨ Support us on Patreon!🧙 Subscribe to our Commander Channel!💪 Get sweet sleeves: Dragon Shield! Use code GLHF for 5% off!🃏 Visit our sponsor Card Kingdom!👕 Buy Some Sweet GLHF Merch📺 Look! It’s our GLHF YouTube Channel🐦 Follow us on Bluesky📸 Stalk us (politely) on Insta🌐 Everything GLHF is on our Website

Reality is fracturing and Jace is the problem!! Classic. This episode, Maria (she's back!), Meghan, and Tyler dig into the brand new Reality Fracture mechanics — Empower Jace, Heartwood tokens, the return of Prepare, and the delightfully weird Echoed Pairs. PLUS: the Zeta Set disaster that had Maria waiting in a five-hour queue for nothing, some love for midwest gas stations, and an update on Tyler's life in the cage.✨ Support us on Patreon!🧙 Subscribe to our Commander Channel!💪 Get sweet sleeves: Dragon Shield! Use code GLHF for 5% off!🃏 Visit our sponsor Card Kingdom!👕 Buy Some Sweet GLHF Merch📺 Look! It’s our GLHF YouTube Channel🐦 Follow us on Bluesky📸 Stalk us (politely) on Insta🌐 Everything GLHF is on our Website

Let's look at the big picture of Magic, courtesy of Head Designer Mark Rosewater! Meghan and Tyler dig into his two-part "Big-Picture Questions" mailbag, taking the temperature of where Magic design is headed, what's behind some of its biggest decisions, and the burning questions players have been asking for years. PLUS: a detour into the question: what makes a chess Grand Master: nature or nurture?✨ Support us on Patreon!🧙 Subscribe to our Commander Channel!💪 Get sweet sleeves: Dragon Shield! Use code GLHF for 5% off!🃏 Visit our sponsor Card Kingdom!👕 Buy Some Sweet GLHF Merch📺 Look! It’s our GLHF YouTube Channel🐦 Follow us on Bluesky📸 Stalk us (politely) on Insta🌐 Everything GLHF is on our Website

Grab a deck and chill with the GLHF crew! The MTG Hall of Fame is finally back, and we're breaking down the 2026 class — the unanimous votes, the surprises, and the snubs that have us like O_o. Then Meghan reports back from post-bans Standard (spoiler: it's combo city), and Flavor Text Theatre pitches you a movie...Hobbit style.✨ Support us on Patreon!🧙 Subscribe to our Commander Channel!💪 Get sweet sleeves: Dragon Shield! Use code GLHF for 5% off!🃏 Visit our sponsor Card Kingdom!👕 Buy Some Sweet GLHF Merch📺 Look! It’s our GLHF YouTube Channel🐦 Follow us on Bluesky📸 Stalk us (politely) on Insta🌐 Everything GLHF is on our Website

Meghan has a problem. She can't win at Hobbit draft! What is she doing wrong?! If you feel like Meghan, don't worry! Tyler is here with the data to turn that frown (or losing streak) upside down. With his 88% win percentage, he'll share the tactics to take down your pod and look good doing it...we guarantee it.✨ Support us on Patreon!🧙 Subscribe to our Commander Channel!💪 Get sweet sleeves: Dragon Shield! Use code GLHF for 5% off!🃏 Visit our sponsor Card Kingdom!👕 Buy Some Sweet GLHF Merch📺 Look! It’s our GLHF YouTube Channel🐦 Follow us on Bluesky📸 Stalk us (politely) on Insta🌐 Everything GLHF is on our Website

An unexpected journey, indeed! Prerelease weekend sent us over the Misty Mountains and straight into The Hobbit, and we've returned with treasure to share. Tyler recounts his victories from his local event, Maria ventures into a Scottish game store for her first taste of the set, and together we crown the cards that impressed us most — plus the surprises lurking at the back of those booster packs.✨ Support us on Patreon!🧙 Subscribe to our Commander Channel!💪 Get sweet sleeves: Dragon Shield! Use code GLHF for 5% off!🃏 Visit our sponsor Card Kingdom!👕 Buy Some Sweet GLHF Merch📺 Look! It’s our GLHF YouTube Channel🐦 Follow us on Bluesky📸 Stalk us (politely) on Insta🌐 Everything GLHF is on our Website