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The Mana Pool

Chewie, Mike, Brian, and Dirk have been talking about Magic: The Gathering on the internet for almost 10 years (at the time of this writing). Since there are so many shows about strategy and tournaments, these dorks focus on all the fun you can have with the game outside of that, from flavor to philosophy to game design to history to whatever else we can come up with. We"re funny, we"re serious about what we do, and we love it!

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01:46:41

Episode 620 - Omnisword of Ultimate Badassness

The Mana Pool ·

2021/05/03

So incredibly sorry for the delay on this episode! Chewie had lots of real-life stuff come up so he couldn't actually get it all put together for a week. The dorks (most of them anyway) are back to look at Commander 2021 since it has been revealed! Will this be yet another case of a handful of boring Commanders with the usual abilities that are some variation of "whenever you draw a card, draw a card"? Let's find out! And you get to hear the bizarre tale of the theft of our Twitter account. That was

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01:49:39

Episode 619 - Keep Learning!

The Mana Pool ·

2021/04/12

The full Strixhaven set has been revealed, so the dorks are combing through it looking for the neat stuff. We've got the Mastery spells, an Eye Bat, a...trudge?, a cycle of weirdly-costed multicolored hybrid cards, and an 11/10 creature for...four mana. Wait, WHAT? Also, PLEASE make sure your podcast app of choice is subscribed to the right RSS feed, because the Feedburner feed will soon stop updating with new episodes! Strixhaven Card Image Gallery

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01:55:36

Episode 618 - The Deans List

The Mana Pool ·

2021/04/05

The dorks continue with Neverending Preview Season! Strixhaven previews are in full swing, so of course that's our focus for this episode. After hitting the mythics that have been revealed (as is our tradition) we take a look at all the various Deans of Strixhaven. There are a LOT of Deans at Strixhaven. Holy crap. Also, PLEASE make sure your podcast app of choice is subscribed to the right RSS feed, because the Feedburner feed will soon stop updating with new episodes! Strixhaven Card Image Gallery

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01:49:02

Episode 617 - Learn!

The Mana Pool ·

2021/03/29

Neverending Preview Season is upon us again, and the dorks jump headfirst into Strixhaven! We've got a few new mechanics, but nothing overly complicated. Among the revealed cards we find: 1) Chewie's new bae, Professor Onyx (please step on me) 2) The Kenrith twins, attached at the hip again...literally this time 3) Kasmina, giving all planeswalkers new toys 4) Magecraft. Lots and lots of Magecraft. 5) Lessons we all need to...LEARN! Also, PLEASE make sure your podcast app of choice is subscribed to

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01:51:26

Magic Legends: A First Look

The Mana Pool ·

2021/03/22

The dorks make some announcements about the TMP podcast and website, discuss their Covid-19 vaccine experiences (for a good long while because it's important), then look at the freshly released full schedule of Magic sets for the rest of the year. After that, we head into Magic Legends. The open beta begins extremely soon, so we decided to review the videos on DailyMTG and try to figure out what we think without actually playing the game. We're looking at deckbuilding, artifacts, and equipment at

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01:52:41

Episode 615 - The Music Episode

The Mana Pool ·

2021/03/16

The dorks are back with another non-Magic episode! This time we're talking about music, and this episode, as it is with all the good ones, ended up being more about us than the topic at hand. We'll discuss our history with music, the stuff we like, the stuff we don't like, what we use music for, our history with live music, all kinds of neat stuff. Also, Chewie announces the dissolution of the TMP Facebook page and the TMP website, but everything else will stay the same. Just trimming away excess

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02:01:32

Episode 614 - More Universes Beyond

The Mana Pool ·

2021/03/01

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 to come up with more properties that could totally be turned into Magic products. And Dirk reveals a potentially unhealthy obsession with

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01:48:09

Episode 613 - On Hammers & Schools

The Mana Pool ·

2021/02/22

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, WotC unexpectedly revealed some information about the next set, Strixhaven. They explained what the five schools of magic are and showed us a Command from each school. Yup, that kind of

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01:32:30

Episode 612 - The Surprise Ban & Other Stories

The Mana Pool ·

2021/02/15

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 biggest news Hearthstone has ever seen. Then we shift into high gear to do a Magic Mad Lib with Twitch Chat! Hearthstone's Core Set -

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02:32:46

Episode 611 - Weaponized Nostalgia

The Mana Pool ·

2021/02/08

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 we mean by all of these different varieties and then discuss why they might be made in the first place. Then the five of us go over many (many) examples across all of those to

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02:00:32

Episode 610 - The Sagas of Kaldheim

The Mana Pool ·

2021/02/01

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 the card image gallery to find other neat stuff to talk about, and answer some questions from Twitch chat as usual. And we pitch an idea for the first non-Magic TMP episode of 2021 that we'll be doing

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01:56:50

Episode 609 - Gods & Monsters of Kaldheim

The Mana Pool ·

2021/01/25

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 out about, and a land that REALLY pisses off our old buddy Xenagos. Kaldheim Gallery: https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/card-image-gallery/kaldheim Kaldheim

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01:56:25

Episode 608 - First Look at Kaldheim

The Mana Pool ·

2021/01/18

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 set. Kaldheim Mechanics: https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/feature/kaldheim-mechanics-2021-01-07 Kaldheim Gallery:

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02:02:32

Episode 607 - The Final TMP of 2020

The Mana Pool ·

2021/01/11

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, and and and. But here it is now! Chewie tells the tale of December, that has focused all of its 2020 wrath on him at once. We reflect on the frustrations that come from watching our fellow

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02:01:18

Episode 606 - Repelling the Wolves (Heirs of...

The Mana Pool ·

2020/12/31

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 and New Year's, with some of Chewie's life trying to fall apart in the meantime. But here we go, with another episode to follow soon after! Welcome back to Trivester! When we last left our

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02:00:48

Episode 605 - Beware the Thumbles

The Mana Pool ·

2020/11/15

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 Lotus this episode. No we weren't terribly impressed. But Thumbles is (are?) clearly the best thing (things?) to come out of this episode. Commander Legends Card Image Gallery

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01:50:45

Episode 604 - Cascading Into Commander Legends

The Mana Pool ·

2020/11/09

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 worry, we're gonna come back to this set next week! Commander Legends Card Image Gallery - https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/card-image-gallery/commander-legends Come join us in the future! The

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02:07:15

Episode 603 - The Borderline Mythics of Apocalypse

The Mana Pool ·

2020/10/12

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,

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01:47:11

Episode 602 - Moosataur and Squirrel

The Mana Pool ·

2020/09/20

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 Image Gallery - https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/card-image-gallery/zendikar-rising Variants Gallery

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01:52:43

Episode 601 - Lead Us To Glory!

The Mana Pool ·

2020/09/13

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. Zendikar Rising Card Image Gallery - https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/card-image-gallery/zendikar-rising Variants Gallery -

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