Modern Innovations, Pro Tour Learnings – The Aspiringspike Interview

Evart “Aspiringspike” Moughon is a Magic player and streamer. He is best known for his deckbuilding innovations in the Modern format.

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Timestamps

0:00:00 Intro
0:00:50 Streaming Dark Souls
0:06:02 Personal off-stream projects
0:07:58 Value of effective practice
0:13:45 Viewership drop when variety streaming
0:15:53 Deckbuilding process
0:23:17 Innovating (and breaking) the Modern format
0:27:50 The Crokeyz tweet
0:31:30 Right place, right time
0:36:01 Talking about success
0:37:42 What Spike learned from Kai Budde and Reid Duke
0:46:59 Level-up – Pro Tour deck selection process
0:53:01 Questioning assumptions, intuitive learning, stream feedback
0:58:28 On expressing negative emotions on-stream
1:01:55 Working on the Lord of the Rings set
1:15:34 Making a tabletop RPG with TCG elements
1:19:12 Boundaries of creative output and personal life
1:22:06 Five questions with Aspiringspike (lightning Q&A)