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Episode 603 – The Borderline Mythics of Apocalypse
The dorks do a Mythic Conscription for Apocalypse and its many good cards! But are they Mythic?

Episode 602 – Moosataur and Squirrel!
That is one angry moose-man. Yay Zendikar Rising previews!

Episode 601 – Lead Us To Glory!
The dorks dive into the Zendikar Rising Card Image Gallery!

Episode 600 – Exiled!
We got four special guests and brought back Exiled to celebrate 600! Awesome!

Episode 599 – As Different As Night & Day
The dorks look at Lorwyn & Shadowmoor for a new There's No Plane Like Home!

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 603 – The Borderline Mythics of Apocalypse

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

The dorks are back! And this time we’re doing a Mythic Conscription for the final set of the Invasion block, Apocalypse. Apocalypse was a neat set full of all kinds of awesome cards, but how many of them could have been mythic? Weirdly enough, this is one of the hardest sets we’ve had to do just because so many of these cards are really good and solid rares, but not many seem to climb up into Mythic territory.

Stick around for the final thoughts, where we have black hole questions, Genshin Impact, Final Fantasy 8, Kingdom Hearts, Among Us, the upcoming hiatus of Monday Night Magic, and the Dresden Files TV show.

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Episode 602 – Moosataur and Squirrel!

By The Mana Pool | Published September 20, 2020 Comments Off

Hey look, the dorks return with even more Zendikar Rising stuff! We’re looking through the Card Image Gallery and talking about whatever catches our eye whether it’s a returning legendary creature, a bizarre faceless elemental thing, a lizard made out of vines, or a CLEARLY PSYCHOTIC MINOTAUR MOOSE THING OH GOD RUN!

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Episode 601 – Lead Us To Glory!

By The Mana Pool | Published September 13, 2020 Leave a comment

The dorks are back with Zendikar Rising previews! Apparently the preview season for this set was extra short, because the full Card Image Gallery is up! In this episode we’re going through the mythics and whatever else looks good to us. Yes this does include the adorable jerboa that will, in fact, lead us all to glory.

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Episode 600 – Exiled!

By The Mana Pool | Published September 10, 2020 3 Comments

THIS IS IT! This number is just ridiculous, so we decided to do something ridiculous to celebrate! We are joined by four excellent guests to be contestants in the return of Exiled, our deckbuilding game show! It’s like Chopped, but with Magic cards! We’ve got the original voice of Casual Magic himself, Anthony Alongi (@anthonyaalongi), digital alterer and longtime listener ALK Alters (@AltersALK), content creator extraordinaire DeQuan Watson (@PowrDragn), and the always infectious & enthusiastic Chase (@ManaCurves). This is a long one (of course) but it’s SO MUCH FUN the entire time! Who will come out on top as the Exiled Champion?

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Episode 599 – As Different As Night & Day

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

The dorks are back with another edition of There’s No Plane Like Home! Do you like happiness and sunshine and friendly creatures? Or do you prefer darkness, creepiness, and danger? Either way, do we have a place for you! Lorwyn is for the sunshine people, where the most dangerous thing to worry about is…well, racist elves running you through simply for being ugly. But other than that, there’s not much to worry about.

If horror and paranoia are more your style we’ve got Shadowmoor. Things wanting to kill or eat you are actually everywhere. In fact, one of the only safe parts of this world is…well, the friendly elves that are out to preserve beauty. Everything else either hates you, is terrified of you, wants to eat you, or is just mean and wants to kill you simply because you’re there.

Be sure to hang out for a sneak peek at what we’re doing for episode 600 and how YOU can help us out with it!

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