The Mana Pool – Magic the Gathering Podcast

Episode 614 – More Universes Beyond

The dorks are back with another surprise news-related episode! Wizards made a massive announcement about upcoming products that are branded with non-Magic properties. The two examples given were Warhammer 40K and…Lord of the Rings? Whaaaaa? So the dorks spend an entire episode discussing this, figuring out what it could mean for the future, and trying […]

03-01
02:01:32

Episode 613 – On Hammers & Schools

The dorks are back with…Monday Night Magic? Wait, this can’t be right, let me go look. Yeah, the dorks are actually looking at the news! First up, WotC swung their banhammer wide, with a massive pile of casualties across many many formats. Holy crap. And then there was actual timely news! The day of recording, […]

02-22
01:48:08

Episode 612 – The Surprise Ban & Other Stories

The dorks are back on card games this week! We begin by taking a look at a very important nugget of information hidden in an advertisement – the first time a ban was announced somewhere other than, you know, a ban announcement. Then we’re changing gears to talk about what could very well be the […]

02-15
01:32:29

Episode 611 – Weaponized Nostalgia

This is our first non-Magic podcast episode! To help us out on this momentous occasion, we are joined by Squee, formerly of Monday Night Magic. We’re taking a look at remakes, reboots, remasters, rereleases, and legacy sequels across several different media – movies, tv shows, and video games. First up we try to define what […]

02-08
02:32:45

Episode 610 – The Sagas of Kaldheim

The dorks head back into Kaldheim to check out all the Sagas that we just missed during the last two episodes. Some of these are absolutely ridiculous, while the rest are just…well, pretty good actually. The art though! The Saga art is AMAZING in this set! Of course we also bounce around the rest of […]

02-01
02:00:31

Episode 609 – Gods & Monsters of Kaldheim

The dorks return to the Kaldheim Card Image Gallery and continue poking around at the awesome stuff inside. There’s a brand new Vampire Dragon (Dragon Vampire?) that makes Brian extremely happy. There’s a whole new pantheon of Gods to discuss, a whole mess of weird creatures to fear, the Snow Figure of Destiny to freak […]

01-25
01:56:49

Episode 608 – First Look at Kaldheim

After not recording a show for a solid month the dorks are finally back! And we’re taking a look at Kaldheim for the first time! We’ll hit the mechanics first and then bounce around the Card Image Gallery talking about whatever new cards catch our eye! Planeswalkers, snow, gods, a legendary squirrel? What a weird […]

01-18
01:56:25

Episode 607 – The Final TMP of 2020

This was recorded six months ago on Dec 17, 2020. It was recorded on Chewie’s old laptop because the dead computer. It was supposed to get posted a few days later, but then I was delayed because of putting the new computer together, and then getting bummed out, and then getting distracted, and then holidays, […]

01-11
02:02:32

Episode 606 – Repelling the Wolves (Heirs of Trivester #14)

After a long delay, both intentional and not, this episode is finally here! This was recorded way back on the 10th of December, but Chewie’s computer died on the evening of the 11th. It took a while, but it was finally resurrected just in time for the holidays and the obligatory no-man’s land between Christmas […]

12-31
02:01:18

Episode 605 – Beware the Thumbles!

The dorks are starting off by explaining what’s up with new Akroma’s art. It turns out she’s got prosthetic legs, which is not something we knew about, so that’s actually really cool! From there we head into the Card Image Gallery, bouncing around and talking about whatever cards catch our eyes. Yes we hit the […]

11-15
02:00:48

Episode 604 – Cascading Into Commander Legends

After accidentally not doing a show for longer than anticipated, the dorks are back to FINALLY take a look at Commander Legends! We’re just bouncing around the Card Image Gallery and enjoying all the weird new stuff! And if we missed a card you wanted us to talk about (and I KNOW we did) don’t […]

11-09
01:50:44

Episode 603 – The Borderline Mythics of Apocalypse

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 […]

10-12
02:07:15

Episode 602 – Moosataur and Squirrel!

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! Zendikar Rising Card […]

09-20
01:47:10

Episode 601 – Lead Us To Glory!

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 […]

09-13
01:52:43

Episode 600 – Exiled!

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), […]

09-10
03:30:43

Episode 599 – As Different As Night & Day

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 […]

08-23
01:53:52

Episode 598 – If You’re Not Draco…

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. Come join us in the future! The show is […]

08-09
01:27:44

Episode 597 – Double Double Toil & Trouble

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 […]

08-03
01:51:52

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

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 […]

07-19
02:12:56

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

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 […]

07-12
01:43:48

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