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Episode 598 – If You’re Not Draco…
The dorks do a Mythic Conscription for Planeshift and discuss the intricacies of the Cube Rule of Food Classification

Episode 597 – Double Double Toil & Trouble
The dorks discuss Set Boosters and dive into the full set of Double Masters!

Episode 596 – Hello Darkness My Old Friend (Heirs of Trivester)
Another RPG episode? Already? Wow! Will the Angel get to use her sword? Will Karim rejoin the other two? Will Alaric set any more wurms on fire?

Episode 595 – I Rolled…Dysentery (Heirs of Trivester)
The dorks return to Trivester for the custom RPG! Too many 1s get rolled and the party gets split! Oh no!

Episode 594 – Tinybones & the Muxus Cascade
The dorks take a look at the new cards in Jumpstart!

Episode 593 – Shrines & Stuff
The dorks dive in to more Core Set 2021 previews!

Episode 592 – The Good Boys & the Ugly Underbelly
The dorks cover the recent writings about racism in MTG and WotC, the bans that came from it, and hit the Core Set 2021 previews!

Episode 591 – The Three Tarkirs
The dorks are back to do a Tarkir edition of There's No Plane Like Home!

Episode 598 – If You’re Not Draco…

By The Mana Pool | Published August 9, 2020 2 Comments

The dorks are back! After a wonderful discussion about the Cube Rule of Food Classification, which is very important by the way, we’re doing another Mythic Conscription! This time we’re doing Planeshift, the second set of the Invasion block. Planeshift is…problematic. You’ll see what we mean.

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Episode 597 – Double Double Toil & Trouble

By The Mana Pool | Published August 3, 2020 Leave a comment

The dorks finally take a look at Double Masters! It’s a reprint set, so it’s a little weird to talk about all these cards that we already know about, but we managed to remember how to do it! After we give you the news about YET ANOTHER new kind of booster, that is. That doesn’t show up until Zendikar Rising though, so who even cares right now, right?

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Episode 596 – Hello Darkness My Old Friend (Heirs of Trivester)

By The Mana Pool | Published July 19, 2020 Leave a comment

But yeah, with the party split during the last episode we were really hot to try to get back together, even though we literally had no idea what the other part of the group was up to. And since I haven’t listened to any of the other part, I don’t actually know how to write this. Let’s just say some crazy stuff happens and leave it at that, shall we?

Wait, what? The dorks are doing a second RPG episode…IN A ROW? Inconceivable!

Also, an update on the YouTube side of things at the end!

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Episode 595 – I Rolled…Dysentery (Heirs of Trivester)

By The Mana Pool | Published July 12, 2020 Leave a comment

We return to Brian’s custom-made RPG on the strange plane of Trivester! Our party (Karim, Alaric, and the Angel) are heading towards a place called Aosk to find Gandr, who is apparently some manner of evil thing? Two of our heroes have some serious problems with their rolls, as 1s are popping up and causing all kinds of havoc. And then the unthinkable happens!

No no, not THAT unthinkable! Let’s just say an exploding wurm splits the party! The dorks, wanting to be true to the adventure, actually take turns with the GM to further their own adventures while the others separated themselves from the call. It’s going to be pretty awesome later when we all find out what the other party has been up to!

All the Heirs of Trivester episodes: http://themanapool.com/tag/heirs-of-trivester/

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Episode 594 – Tinybones & the Muxus Cascade

By The Mana Pool | Published June 28, 2020 Leave a comment

The dorks dive into Jumpstart! First we’ll explain what it is, and the concept is actually pretty neat. Then we’ll jump into the Card Image Gallery and go through all the new cards in it. The new cards are mostly really cool. Oh, and there are Legendary creatures that have actually interesting abilities! Remember those? Wow!

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