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Episode 582 – Everything Changed When the Kami Nation Attacked
The dorks do the Kamigawa installment of There's No Plane Like Home

Episode 581 – Urza’s Salad
The dorks finish the Mythic Conscription of Urza Block with Urza's Destiny!

Episode 580 – So Crisp and Unsanctioned
The dorks take a look at Unsanctioned in all its silly, silver-bordered glory!

Episode 579 – Unemployed Cat & the Titan Leftovers
Now that the full set has released the dorks take a look at all of Theros Beyond Death

Episode 578 – Still Beyond Death
The dorks are back for 2020 by diving into Theros Beyond Death previews!

Episode 577 – Theros Beyond Punctuation
The dorks cover all the Theros Beyond Death cards for the last TMP episode of 2019!

Episode 576 – The Revelations of Icolnir
In this MTG RPG episode the dorks finally get some information from Icolnir to find out what's going on

Episode 575 – Urza’s Mythic Legacy
The dorks goof off while doing a Mythic Conscription for Urza's Legacy!

Episode 582 – Everything Changed When the Kami Nation Attacked

By The Mana Pool | Published February 23, 2020 Leave a comment

The dorks are back, now that Chewie is no longer a walking corpse! And what are we doing for our triumphant return? We’re doing another installment of There’s No Plane Like Home, where we take a look at one of the planes of Magic to determine if it would be a good place to live. We’ll take a look at the different locations of Kamigawa, the different groups and races that live in those locations, and of course the constant threat of getting murdered by random Kami.

But hey, there are Ninja! That means nowhere else is nearly as cool as Kamigawa, right?

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Episode 581 – Urza’s Salad

By The Mana Pool | Published February 9, 2020 Leave a comment

The dorks are finishing up their Mythic Conscription of the Urza block with the final set, Urza’s Destiny! As is usually the case with older sets, some colors have plenty of possible mythics, and some just…don’t. Old sets are kind of inconsistent like that.

Also, Chewie blows his own mind with a pair of clever ways to remember the order of the Urza block sets. Oh, and there’s a brief discussion of hippos. And the horrible weather we were having. And probably a few other things.

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Episode 580 – So Crisp and Unsanctioned

By The Mana Pool | Published February 2, 2020 Leave a comment

Out of nowhere, Unsanctioned was revealed on Tuesday. Unsanctioned is the latest silver-bordered product from WotC, but it’s not a full new Un set. It’s a boxed set that features five decks full of some of the greatest hits of silver-bordered cards along with a few new cards in each color. The dorks go in-depth on all the new cards and drop a few honorable mentions of the reprints.

During the final thoughts we ended up going off on a few topics. Brian & Sam’s Prerelease experience, streaming Skyrim, and Dirk’s hang up about the Star Wars Expanded Universe. Just good old random nonsense!

In other news, Brian upgraded his computer to Windows 10. That means he can use his headset mic, which is why he sounds drastically different now.

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Episode 579 – Unemployed Cat & the Titan Leftovers

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

The dorks are back to cover the rest of the cards in Theros Beyond Death! Well, as many as we can get through in a single episode anyway. There are demigods, a new planeswalker, an elegantly designed cycle of Omens, a cycle of Interventions, a pair of Titans, plenty of analogues for Greek heroes, and more Sagas! Since this is apparently the wordiest set ever released, there’s a LOT to get through.

That cat needs to get a job though. Dang.

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Episode 578 – Still Beyond Death

By The Mana Pool | Published January 5, 2020 1 Comment

For the first TMP episode of 2020 we’re continuing with Neverending Preview Season! We’re looking at all the sweet Theros Beyond Death stuff that has popped up since our last episode. This includes some crazy new gods, a “fixed” Yawgmoth’s Will, and a few neat Sagas. The new set looks pretty awesome!

Apologies for Chewie sounding weird in this episode. Something happened to his audio settings. To the stream audience he sounds normal, but he’s extra loud in the recorded file. Hopefully that’ll get figured out before the next episode, because it’s highly obnoxious.

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