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Episode 568 – Happily Ever After
The dorks dive back into Throne of Eldraine previews as they finish up cycles and dig into even more awesome & flavorful cards!

Episode 567 – Run, Run As Fast As You Can
The dorks are back to cover even more fairytale goodness with Throne of Eldraine previews!

Episode 566 – The Eldraine Adventure
The dorks cover lots of cards in the first big wave of Throne of Eldraine previews!

Episode 565 – Form, Function, and Filigree
The dorks go to Kaladesh to determine if it would be cool to live there in the latest edition of There's No Plane Like Home

Episode 564 – The Magnor Stack
The dorks talk about a gift that we finally got to play with, the Magnor Stack! It's a collection of real and custom cards that supplements our games of Magic, creating a new way for us to play!

Episode 563 – Commander 2019 Eggstravaganza
The dorks are joined by Chase from Best of 3 to cover the rest of the Commander 2019 cards & decks! She has a bit of an egg fascination going - you've been warned.

Episode 562 – Commander 2019, Part 1
We're talking about half the Commander 2019 decks with a special guest - Mike from Best of 3!

Episode 561 – The Trial of Icolnir
Karim, Alaric, and the Angel head into the mountain to see what challenges await in the next installment of Brian's custom MTG RPG!

Episode 568 – Happily Ever After

By The Mana Pool | Published September 22, 2019 Leave a comment

The dorks dive once more into the Throne of Eldraine previews! We’ve got plenty of cycles to finish – hybrid cards, lands, uncommon knights, legendary creatures and artifacts, lots of stuff! While we’re at it we’re bouncing around and hitting whatever other good stuff we can find, whether it’s super flavorful, an obvious fairy tale reference, or blatantly powerful. We’ll even hit that one blue mythic (yeah, you know the one) and discuss reasons it could be mythic and just how powerful it really could be.

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Episode 567 – Run, Run As Fast As You Can

By The Mana Pool | Published September 15, 2019 Leave a comment

The dorks are back to discuss even more Throne of Eldraine cards! You like fairy tales? What about knights? What about fairy tales…with knights? What about flavorful cards? Or billy goats? Big bad wolf? Excalibur? Trolls? The Questing Beast? The way every fairy tale begins? Randomly suplexing bears? Is any of this sounding good yet?

…what if I offered you a Bog Naughty?

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Episode 566 – The Eldraine Adventure

By The Mana Pool | Published September 8, 2019 Leave a comment

Throne of Eldraine is almost upon us, so we’re here to talk about as much of the new stuff as we can! We’ve got Adventures, we’ve got Food, we’ve got Knights, we’ve got Brawl legendaries…there’s a lot going on here. And all of it looks neat! So join the dorks as we discuss the cards, the flavor, and the art of a bunch of the Eldraine set!

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Episode 565 – Form, Function, and Filigree

By The Mana Pool | Published September 1, 2019 Leave a comment

We’re doing another edition of There’s No Plane Like Home, where we take a look at one of the many planes of the Magic multiverse and try to figure out if we’d actually mind living there. This time we’re focusing on the home of both Chandra Nalaar and the Inventors’ Fair. So fire up the aether harvester, hop in your filigreed race car, and decorate some giants – we’re going to Kaladesh!

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Episode 564 – The Magnor Stack

By The Mana Pool | Published August 25, 2019 Leave a comment

Back in June, I got a mystery package in the mail from longtime listener Magnor Criol. Inside was an amazing thing that took an insane amount of time, effort, and dedication to create. We’ve decided to call it the Magnor Stack. It was a collection of cards, real and custom, that represented a new way for us dorks to play Magic whenever we get together. The custom cards were all in-jokes of some sort, and a lot of the real cards had new flavor text that were references to our silliness.

We finally got together to play this weekend, and 2/3 of our games were played with the Magnor Stack. And IT. WAS. AWESOME! On this episode we’re just going to show off a bunch of the cards from the Stack that we played and what was going on when we played them.

Huge huge HUGE thanks to Magnor Criol for the amazing gift! We love it and we’re totally gonna keep playing with it whenever possible!

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