Today on the blog: watch as Lorkac tears through the #Premodern competition with a finely-tuned build specifically designed to attack the current meta. If you like blowing people out with Reverent Mantra, this one's for you.
Full tournament report and primer: https://trademagic.gg/articles/premodern-rebels
https://trademagic.gg/articles/staying-angry-at-lobstercon-2026
I've been pretty excited to publish this article for awhile now. Over the last few years, I've watched as Chris Hall (who's in my local playgroup) has dedicated himself to this deck to an almost absurd degree. I'm confident that at this point Chris has more reps with the deck than anyone else in the world, and with his back-to-back top 8 / top 16's at Lobstercon I believe he has the highest record with it as well. His proficiency with it has transformed my understanding of it as a "glass cannon" deck to something far more resilient, flexible, and deadly. It's also transformed our local meta to the point where an abundance of graveyard hate is simply a necessity. Ironically the effect of this is that it's only made him better at navigating hateful board states. Even though Lobstercon happened a little while ago, there's a lot here worth taking in here. Hope you Enjoy!
New tournament report from Galen Lemei (aardshark on Discord).
As most of you probably saw on stream he went 13-2 in swiss as the only undefeated player going into Day 2, making Top 8 with an absolutely savage run.
The report covers all 16 rounds, the decklist, tournament prep, mindset going in, and the always-stellar vibes of this truly special event.
Big credit to the FEB Cabal - Robin, Mike, McLean, Carl, Biel, Clara, MoxlessGuy and others. hFEB put 4 of 13 pilots into Day 2 this year.
Full report: https://trademagic.gg/articles/hfeb-top8-lobstercon-2026
Photo by DuressCrew