Dominaria's Judgment 171: Building a Jenga Tower with Joseph Puglisi

About this episode

Joseph Puglisi discusses his recent successes in Modern and strategies for competitive play.

Joseph Puglisi made his mark on Modern very emphatically this RC season, developing the Jeskai list that took his Scrapheap teammate Vinnie Fino to the trophy in Houston (beating his brother John in the finals) and reviving the Izzet Opal/Cutter deck for his own finals appearance in Vegas - but he may not even be the best player in his own household! Before jetting off for an extended victory lap in Japan, he drops by to glaze his brother/team and discuss how he and they manage to ambush formats (and the English language...) so often.   Jenga vs Slop

People in this episode

Guest: Joseph Puglisi

Topics covered

• Modern
• Jeskai list
• Izzet Opal/Cutter deck
• competitive play
• format ambush

Keywords

• Modern
• Jeskai
• Izzet
• competitive play
• Joseph Puglisi
• Scrapheap
• format ambush

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Scrapheap

Places: Houston, Vegas, Japan

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