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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 560 – Down the Eldraine
The dorks cover all the MTG SDCC stuff! It's pretty sweet!

Episode 559 – In Search of Icolnir, Mistress of the Mountain
Karim, Alaric, and the Angel head up the mountain in Brian's custom MTG RPG!

Episode 558 – But No One’s Riding the Goblin
The dorks cover the latest big Arena announcement and even more Core Set 2020!

Episode 557 – Cavaliers, Dinosaurs, and Gang Signs
The dorks discuss GP DC, a mystery package, and all the M20 previews we can fit in! With a Sam Quiz at the beginning for good measure!

Episode 556 – Yeah, It’s a Book
The dorks cover the new Chandras &, the Netflix show then do a Mythic Conscription for Weatherlight!

Episode 563 – Commander 2019 Eggstravaganza

By The Mana Pool | Published August 18, 2019 Leave a comment

It turns out Commander 2019 was too big for one podcast! So we’re back this week with our look at the Naya Populate deck and the Rakdos Madness deck! And we’re joined by Chase from Best of 3, who you might remember from our War of the Spark prerelease episode. She’s really into eggs. Like…REALLY into them. Like damn.

And I assure you we didn’t actually kidnap her. She was totally on the show of her own free will. Seriously!

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Episode 562 – Commander 2019, Part 1

By The Mana Pool | Published August 11, 2019 1 Comment

Commander 2019 is upon us! And since our Mike can’t be with us this week, we grabbed another Mike to join us – L2 judge and cohost of the Best of 3 podcast, Mike Moore!

It turns out that talking about Commander cards takes a while, so it turns out we’re only doing the first two decks this week – the Sultai Morph deck and the Jeskai Flashback deck. We’re going into detail on all the new cards in each deck and then taking a look at the reprints that make up the rest. Turns out the new cards are pretty good. Who’da thunk it?

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Episode 561 – The Trial of Icolnir

By The Mana Pool | Published August 4, 2019 Leave a comment

What’s that? Another episode of Brian’s custom MTG RPG already? Why yes actually! Before Neverending Preview Season(tm) kicks off yet again, we’re seizing the opportunity to follow up on the semi-cliffhanger from two episodes ago! We’re heading into the mountain to see what sort of trial Icolnir has (almost literally it turns out) cooked up for us!

Treasure? Check! Brutal combat? Check! Party wipe? I guess you’ll just have to see won’t you?

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Episode 560 – Down the Eldraine

By The Mana Pool | Published July 28, 2019 Leave a comment

Magic was at San Diego Comic-Con this year, and boy did they drop some doozies on us! On this episode the dorks are diving right into all the art and information revealed about Throne of Eldraine, the next Magic set. Be warned: there’s a lot of random speculation and nonsense. And yes we even talked about poop, albeit briefly.

After that we’re diving into the booster changes outlined in Mark Rosewater’s Project Booster Fun article. We’ll go over all the new flavors of boosters that aren’t new, the one that is new, and all the new promo cards (most of which aren’t new).

Let us know what you think about this unstructured discussion of news, which isn’t usually something we do.

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Episode 559 – In Search of Icolnir, Mistress of the Mountain

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

The dorks dive back into the Heirs of Trivester, Brian’s custom-made Magic-based RPG game! Last time Karim, Alaric, and the Angel were bumbling around the forest fighting big ants and big cats, but now we’re finally getting closer to tracking down the mysterious Icolnir. Apparently we’re not supposed to trust her appearance but we are supposed to show her great respect. No problem, right?

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