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Episode 552 – Flavor Fight: Planeswalker Edition
The dorks run through a bracket of planeswalkers for a knock-down, drag-out Flavor Fight!

Episode 551 – War of the Spark Prerelease Field Recordings
The dorks are at the War of the Spark Prerelease with some special guests!

Episode 549 – It’s Almost Noon, What Are You Doing With Your Life?
The dorks are back with even more War of the Spark previews! Like a lot more. And we didn't even come close to getting them all!

Episode 548 – Epic War of the Spark Previews (with Exclusives!)
The dorks show off their exclusive free War of the Spark previews with a special cute guest, then cover as many of the other previewed cards as we can manage!

Episode 547 – One Epic Flavor Fight
The dorks do another mad lib followed by a slightly bizarre flavor fight!

Episode 546 – Tolkien, with More Clanking and Meowing
The dorks try to figure out what it might be like to live on Argentum. I mean Mirrodin. I mean New Phyrexia. Whatever same thing!

Episode 545 – Firebreathing and Tree Pants
The dorks fight through technical difficulties to do a Mythic Conscription for Visions!

Episode 544 – Dorky Deckbuilding Advice

Episode 552 – Flavor Fight: Planeswalker Edition

By The Mana Pool | Published May 12, 2019 Leave a comment

It’s time for another Flavor Fight! This time the contestants are mustard, mayo, honey, and…wait, what? NO!

Okay, now that THAT’S out of the way, let’s actually do another Flavor Fight! As you might have been able to tell from the title and/or thumbnail, we’re doing a Planeswalker Flavor Fight!

But also because I’m pretty sick of hearing about the 37 planeswalkers that got cards in War of the Spark, we’re limiting our contestants to ones that A) had no card in War and 2) we know more than two lines’ worth of information about. Sorry to all you Will & Rowan Kenrith fans out there – both of you.

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Episode 551 – War of the Spark Prerelease Field Recordings

By The Mana Pool | Published April 29, 2019 Leave a comment

The War of the Spark is upon us! That means it’s time for another Prerelease! Three of the dorks are at House of Cards in Winston-Salem, NC to go to battle! But this episode isn’t just Chewie, Mike, and Brian talking about their pools! We have a variety of guests on this episode! Mike’s cousin Joseph showed up for the Prerelease too! Mike & Brian both played against the lovely Chase (@ManaCurves on Twitter), so she joined us for two round recaps!

But our super special guest was none other than one Samantha Baker, who was playing in her VERY FIRST prerelease! Tara, the manager of House of Cards, took her under her wing to help her build her deck and play her games! And she even finished with a better record than one of the dorks! Holy crap!

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Episode 550 – The Atrocity Buffet

By The Mana Pool | Published April 21, 2019 Leave a comment

We’ve made it to 550! To celebrate, we apparently killed two of our hosts. Hopefully our reanimation spells will resolve before the end of the episode.

It’s the end of the story of War of the Spark! We’re covering all the story-focused cards we can find, so hey, spoiler warning! We’re going all the way to the conclusion and talking all about it! Get ready to feel some feels, because once that’s all done we’re even going to mention the new Signature Spellbook that was revealed by Polygon!

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Episode 549 – It’s Almost Noon, What Are You Doing With Your Life?

By The Mana Pool | Published April 14, 2019 Leave a comment

The dorks are back with even more War of the Spark previews! We’re starting off with all the cards in the Story Scenes, because the story is the whole point of this episode! Then we’re jumping around to the planeswalkers we missed, the Gods (who were being previewed while we were recording), and a few other highlights.

And don’t worry about the lack of Mike at the beginning, he’ll show up partway through the episode. You won’t have to do without the beard for an entire show!

RE: the title – it’ll make sense, I promise.

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Episode 548 – Epic War of the Spark Previews (with Exclusives!)

By The Mana Pool | Published April 8, 2019 4 Comments

War of the Spark previews are upon us! And we just happen to have FIVE cards to show off! We’re doing something a little different with our previews this time, we hope you enjoy it! Yay free previews!

But first Samantha joins us for a Sam Quiz! After that it’s time to hit the War of the Spark mechanics and check out all the cards from the story scenes thus far! After finally finishing with all that we’ll jump over to the Card Image Gallery to pick out a few more neat ones before we wrap up this epic length episode!

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