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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!

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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 got together to play this weekend, and 2/3 of our games were played with the Magnor Stack. And IT. WAS. AWESOME! On this episode we're just going to show off a bunch of the cards from the Stack that we played and what was going on when we played them.

Huge huge HUGE thanks to Magnor Criol for the amazing gift! We love it and we're totally gonna keep playing with it whenever possible!

Opening a Mystery Package: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4suED1FIoMk Historic Cards in the Stack: themanapool.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Historic-Dork-Cards.pdf Custom Dork Cards: themanapool.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Custom-Dork-Cards.pdf Dork Deck Sagas: themanapool.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Dork-Deck-Sagas.pdf

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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!

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Commander 2019 Card Image Gallery - https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/card-image-gallery/commander-2019-edition Commander 2019 Decklists - https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/feature/decks-commander-2019-edition-2019-08-08

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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 pretty good. Who'da thunk it?

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Commander 2019 Card Image Gallery - https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/card-image-gallery/commander-2019-edition Commander 2019 Decklists - https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/feature/decks-commander-2019-edition-2019-08-08

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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?

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Magic was at San Diego Comic-Con this year, and boy did they drop some doozies on us! On this episode the dorks are diving right into all the art and information revealed about Throne of Eldraine, the next Magic set. Be warned: there's a lot of random speculation and nonsense. And yes we even talked about poop, albeit briefly.

After that we're diving into the booster changes outlined in Mark Rosewater's Project Booster Fun article. We'll go over all the new flavors of boosters that aren't new, the one that is new, and all the new promo cards (most of which aren't new).

Let us know what you think about this unstructured discussion of news, which isn't usually something we do.

Project Booster Fun - https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/making-magic/project-booster-fun-2019-07-20 New Era of Brawl - https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/card-preview/new-era-brawl-2019-07-22

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The dorks dive back into the Heirs of Trivester, Brian's custom-made Magic-based RPG game! Last time Karim, Alaric, and the Angel were bumbling around the forest fighting big ants and big cats, but now we're finally getting closer to tracking down the mysterious Icolnir. Apparently we're not supposed to trust her appearance but we are supposed to show her great respect. No problem, right?

If you have no idea what's going on here, please refer to these episodes for the full story of Heirs of Trivester: Character Creation – themanapool.com/podcast/episode-407/ Part 1 – themanapool.com/podcast/episode-423 Part 2 – themanapool.com/podcast/episode-430 Part 3 – themanapool.com/podcast/episode-450 Part 4 – themanapool.com/podcast/episode-471 Part 5 – themanapool.com/podcast/episode-521 Part 6 – themanapool.com/podcast/episode-531 Part 7 – themanapool.com/podcast/episode-543/

The Trivester Map, courtesy of Jars Cristobal: http://themanapool.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/trivester-map-logo.png

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The dorks begin this episode by discussing the MTG Arena State of the Beta announcement. There are elemental cats, a Battle Pass, and the Historic format. Oh, and the London Mulligan and Core Set 2020. Those are important too I guess.

After that, the dorks turn their attentions to the full set of Core Set 2020. We're checking out the rest of the mythics and cycles that weren't finished last episode, then jumping around and looking at whatever catches our eye. Hate cards, colored artifacts, legendary creatures, you name it! This Core Set looks really awesome!

Core Set 2020 Card Image Gallery - https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/card-image-gallery/core-set-2020 MTG Arena State of the Beta - https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/magic-digital/mtg-arena-state-beta-june-27-2019

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First, we have another adorable Sam Quiz! Then Mike & Brian do their brief recap of their time at MagicFest Washington DC. After that we're talking about a gift that we got from a longtime listener after well over a year of work!

And then we get to the main topic, going over Core Set 2020 previews! These cards are pretty nuts for a Core Set, and we're very excited to dig our teeth into them!

At the end there's a bit of a tangent about year-round school vs. a huge summer break, pretty much out of nowhere. Because we're cool like that.

Opening the Mystery Package - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4suED1FIoMk Core Set 2020 Card Image Gallery - https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/card-image-gallery/core-set-2020

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We begin this episode with brief discussions about losing power. Then we're off to review the three new versions of Chandra that were revealed recently. After that we realized we sort of forgot to mention the upcoming animated Netflix MTG series on this show!

The main topic of this episode, however, is a Mythic Conscription for Weatherlight! Since we just wrapped up a years-long storyline, we thought we'd go back to the beginning of the original years-long storyline!

M20 Chandras reveal article - https://io9.gizmodo.com/get-to-know-magics-most-famous-fire-mage-in-these-brand-1835412320 Magic Netflix show announced - https://ew.com/tv/2019/06/03/netflix-magic-the-gathering-series-joe-anthony-russo/

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