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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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01:40:48

Episode 580 - So Crisp and Unsanctioned

The Mana Pool ·

2020/02/02

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,

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01:58:27

Episode 579 - Unemployed Cat & the Titan Leftovers

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2020/01/19

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. TBD Card Image

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01:55:30

Episode 578 - Still Beyond Death

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2020/01/05

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

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01:51:03

Episode 577 - Theros Beyond Punctuation

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2019/12/22

Neverending Preview Season has returned! We're talking about all the Theros Beyond Death cards that had been previewed when we recorded! We're covering the mechanics, the planeswalkers, and everything else! We're also discussing (briefly but importantly) the lack of a colon in the title of the set, when the next set clearly has a colon in it. Chewie has a theory! Also, it's the last episode of TMP of 2019! We hope you all have a fabulous winter holiday and the end of your year is awesome! We'll see

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01:36:31

Episode 576 - The Revelations of Icolnir

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2019/12/15

It's time for another installation of Brian's custom MTG RPG, Heirs of Trivester! The last time we saw our heroes they had barely taken out a vicious noggle mage controlled by Icolnir after making their way through a cavernous labyrinth. This episode picks up right there, with our weary travelers still bleeding on the floor of the cave. We'll hear all about what is happening on this plane, get a bit of a history lesson, and manage to pick up some sweet new gear! You know, since most of ours didn't

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01:49:19

Episode 575 - Urza's Mythic Legacy

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2019/12/08

The dorks are back after taking the week off for Thanksgiving, and we are in rare form. The actual point of this episode is simple - do a Mythic Conscription for Urza's Legacy. Nice and simple, right? But since the dorks were in such rare form, we sort of strayed off topic. A lot. Pretty much everyone says something that, in a perfect world, would be cut from the final podcast. But as this is not a perfect world, you get to hear all our nonsense! Come join us in the future! The show is live on

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01:46:31

Episode 574 - Historic Anthology: TMP Edition

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2019/11/24

The dorks are back with more timely content! First up we have to comment on the recent massive B&R update, because it was pretty big. But then we're shifting to the Historic Anthology announcement for Magic Arena! They're adding 20 cards from the pre-Historic era (can't believe we missed that joke on the show!) to Arena for use in the new format and Chewie thought we could totally do that too! Each of the four dorks picked out five cards of our own to add to Historic! We each came at this from a

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02:07:04

Episode 573 - The Return of the Story Circle

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2019/11/10

The dorks are back with a big episode all about Commander! First off we have to discuss all the Commander products that were announced for 2020. We'll also address the potential for supplemental product fatigue that might come from these products, but it's not as bad as you might think at first blush. Plus, find out who finally has a suggestion of legs after all these years... From there, we're turning our attention to The Mana Pool Story Circles. Turns out it's been over a year since we did one

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02:09:38

Episode 572 - A Brief History of Magic Formats

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2019/11/03

Pioneer was announced as a brand new competitive format, which is something that hasn't happened on this scale since Modern was announced 8 years ago. We thought it would be cool to go back and look at the history of competitive Magic formats since the beginning. We're talking Type I, Type II, Type 1.5, and even Type 1.x. Remember Extended? Poor Extended. To clarify, we're only talking about Constructed formats that were sanctioned for paper to play at premier events. No online-only formats (though

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01:30:24

Episode 571 - Brian Talks Brawl Rotation

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2019/10/20

Since Standard rotated with Throne of Eldraine that means Brawl rotated too! And our own rambling dork Brian is ALL ABOUT some Brawl, so he wanted to do an episode about it! So we're gonna hit what left Standard and what that means for Brawl, with Brian's decks as an example. There's a good amount of discussion with the live Twitch chat too, which is why you should come join us live on Thursday nights! If you have any Brawl plans in the new post-rotation format, let us know! Come join us in the

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01:45:43

Episode 570 - The Saga Conscription

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2019/10/13

The dorks are back from a two week podcasting break, and we're coming out firing! We're giving the Mythic Conscription treatment to a notoriously overpowered set, Urza's Saga! In this discussion we'll point out the difference between powerful cards and, well, design mistakes. Which color is loaded with potential mythics? Which color just doesn't seem to have much for the discussion? And what about Tolarian Academy? Come join us in the future! The show is live on Thursdays around 8pm(ish) Eastern

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01:10:16

Episode 569 - Throne of Eldraine Prerelease Field...

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2019/10/06

It's Prerelease time again! Chewie, Mike, Brian, and Sam (!) all went to House of Cards in Winston-Salem NC to play! First, Chewie tells the story of the weekend of Scott's wedding and the horrible, horrible sunburn while he & Mike are in the car on the way to the shop. We didn't get any pre-tournament recordings with Brian & Sam because they were playing a game of Brawl. Once the tournament begins you'll get to hear from us all between rounds as we discuss how the games went. Which dork will be

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01:51:45

Episode 568 - Happily Ever After

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2019/09/22

The dorks dive once more into the Throne of Eldraine previews! We've got plenty of cycles to finish - hybrid cards, lands, uncommon knights, legendary creatures and artifacts, lots of stuff! While we're at it we're bouncing around and hitting whatever other good stuff we can find, whether it's super flavorful, an obvious fairy tale reference, or blatantly powerful. We'll even hit that one blue mythic (yeah, you know the one) and discuss reasons it could be mythic and just how powerful it really

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01:59:14

Episode 567 - Run, Run As Fast As You Can

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2019/09/15

The dorks are back to discuss even more Throne of Eldraine cards! You like fairy tales? What about knights? What about fairy tales...with knights? What about flavorful cards? Or billy goats? Big bad wolf? Excalibur? Trolls? The Questing Beast? The way every fairy tale begins? Randomly suplexing bears? Is any of this sounding good yet? ...what if I offered you a Bog Naughty? Card Image Gallery: https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/card-image-gallery/throne-eldraine Varient Image

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02:11:54

Episode 566 - The Eldraine Adventure

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2019/09/08

Throne of Eldraine is almost upon us, so we're here to talk about as much of the new stuff as we can! We've got Adventures, we've got Food, we've got Knights, we've got Brawl legendaries...there's a lot going on here. And all of it looks neat! So join the dorks as we discuss the cards, the flavor, and the art of a bunch of the Eldraine set! Card Image Gallery: https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/card-image-gallery/throne-eldraine Varient Image

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01:51:16

Episode 565 - Form, Function, and Filigree

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2019/09/01

We're doing another edition of There's No Plane Like Home, where we take a look at one of the many planes of the Magic multiverse and try to figure out if we'd actually mind living there. This time we're focusing on the home of both Chandra Nalaar and the Inventors' Fair. So fire up the aether harvester, hop in your filigreed race car, and decorate some giants - we're going to Kaladesh! Come join us in the future! The show is live on Thursdays around 8pm(ish) Eastern time on Twitch! Become a

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01:48:25

Episode 564 - The Magnor Stack

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2019/08/25

Back in June, I got a mystery package in the mail from longtime listener Magnor Criol. Inside was an amazing thing that took an insane amount of time, effort, and dedication to create. We've decided to call it the Magnor Stack. It was a collection of cards, real and custom, that represented a new way for us dorks to play Magic whenever we get together. The custom cards were all in-jokes of some sort, and a lot of the real cards had new flavor text that were references to our silliness. We finally

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02:31:08

Episode 563 - Commander 2019 Eggstravaganza

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2019/08/18

It turns out Commander 2019 was too big for one podcast! So we're back this week with our look at the Naya Populate deck and the Rakdos Madness deck! And we're joined by Chase from Best of 3, who you might remember from our War of the Spark prerelease episode. She's really into eggs. Like...REALLY into them. Like damn. And I assure you we didn't actually kidnap her. She was totally on the show of her own free will. Seriously! Check out Best of 3 - best-of-3.com@ListentoBo3 on Twitter Follow Chase

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01:52:35

Episode 562 - Commander 2019, Part 1

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2019/08/11

Commander 2019 is upon us! And since our Mike can't be with us this week, we grabbed another Mike to join us - L2 judge and cohost of the Best of 3 podcast, Mike Moore! It turns out that talking about Commander cards takes a while, so it turns out we're only doing the first two decks this week - the Sultai Morph deck and the Jeskai Flashback deck. We're going into detail on all the new cards in each deck and then taking a look at the reprints that make up the rest. Turns out the new cards are

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02:09:44

Episode 561 - The Trial of Icolnir

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2019/08/04

What's that? Another episode of Brian's custom MTG RPG already? Why yes actually! Before Neverending Preview Season(tm) kicks off yet again, we're seizing the opportunity to follow up on the semi-cliffhanger from two episodes ago! We're heading into the mountain to see what sort of trial Icolnir has (almost literally it turns out) cooked up for us! Treasure? Check! Brutal combat? Check! Party wipe? I guess you'll just have to see won't you? Come join us in the future! The show is live on Thursdays

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