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February 2021
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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 Command.

B&R update: https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/february-15-2021-banned-and-restricted-announcement
Strixhaven: https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/feature/first-lesson-introduction-strixhaven-2021-02-18


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Direct download: Episode_613_-_On_Hammers__Schools.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 11:00am EDT

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 - https://playhearthstone.com/en-us/news/23620129/introducing-the-core-set-and-classic-format


Come join us in the future! The show is live on Thursdays around 8pm(ish) Eastern time on Twitch!

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This episode’s post: themanapool.com/podcast/episode-612
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Direct download: Episode_612_-_The_Surprise_Ban__Other_Stories.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:00am EDT

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 try to determine what makes one good or bad.

This was a fun discussion with quite a few twists, turns and tangents (of course). Let us know what you thought! And if you have any ideas for topics for other non-MTG episodes, be sure to let us know!

 


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Direct download: Episode_611_-_Weaponized_Nostalgia.mp3
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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 next week!

Kaldheim Gallery: https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/card-image-gallery/kaldheim
Kaldheim Variants: https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/card-image-gallery/kaldheim-variants


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Direct download: Episode_610_-_The_Sagas_of_Kaldheim.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 11:00am EDT