Jul 7, 2026 · 1 hr 6 min · 9 segments
Tony from the Howling Salt Mine joins us to talk about his top 40 run at The Royal Rumble with S-Tier Selvala, Blinging out Decks, and taking off the ankle weights in cEDH.EBAM LinkTree…
So we're going to jump straight into our opening segment, the Punter's Confessional.
Mm.
And Tony, did you bring a story with you today about a time you might have punted in a game of competitive Magic?
Yes.
Yes, I did.
It's kinda like twofold, and it made me stop playing a commander, uh, because I just punted both times.
So I had, like many of us, I had a Glarb phase.
Uh, albeit mine was very short-lived.
I think I saw one of the Playing To P- Playing With Power episodes where somebody's just Glarbing all over people, right? Like fucking doing-
Yeah, Glarb them up
...
the necro thing.
Yeah, like [laughs] flash enablers, doing it, and it seemed so cool when they did it.
I was like, "I wanna do this.
That seems really cool." And so in my first game with it, I, uh...
My, the problem is I don't fucking play blue.
Like, I don't really like it, and I ha- have, until very, very recently, which will be s- a spoiler for folks here, uh, I haven't really been playing any decks in CDH specifically that had blue.
Uh, I didn't play decks that had blue.
Uh, so Glarb was my first attempt at that.
Uh, and in, like, probably my second or third game, I was doing it, Peter.
Like, I had the necro out.
But we were, like, late in the night, and I knew I could look at every card as I was, like, pulling them off the top, but I was like, "I'm just gonna pull them off the top." Mike's yelling at me, uh, my co-host from the show, and...
But it's one of the- it's just, like, late.
I'm like, "We're trying to end the game right now."
Yeah.
So we're going to jump straight into our opening segment, the Punter's Confessional.
Mm.
And Tony, did you bring a story with you today about a time you might have punted in a game of competitive Magic?
Yes.
Yes, I did.
It's kinda like twofold, and it made me stop playing a commander, uh, because I just punted both times.
So I had, like many of us, I had a Glarb phase.
Uh, albeit mine was very short-lived.
I think I saw one of the Playing To P- Playing With Power episodes where somebody's just Glarbing all over people, right? Like fucking doing-
Yeah, Glarb them up
...
the necro thing.
Yeah, like [laughs] flash enablers, doing it, and it seemed so cool when they did it.
I was like, "I wanna do this.
That seems really cool." And so in my first game with it, I, uh...
My, the problem is I don't fucking play blue.
Like, I don't really like it, and I ha- have, until very, very recently, which will be s- a spoiler for folks here, uh, I haven't really been playing any decks in CDH specifically that had blue.
Uh, I didn't play decks that had blue.
Uh, so Glarb was my first attempt at that.
Uh, and in, like, probably my second or third game, I was doing it, Peter.
Like, I had the necro out.
But we were, like, late in the night, and I knew I could look at every card as I was, like, pulling them off the top, but I was like, "I'm just gonna pull them off the top." Mike's yelling at me, uh, my co-host from the show, and...
But it's one of the- it's just, like, late.
I'm like, "We're trying to end the game right now."
Yeah.
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