The Mana Pool

In case you couldn't tell from the amazing title, the dorks are joined this week by our favorite Level 2 judge and Monday Night Magic cohost, Cluze! I can say that because Prillaman is a Level 3 now. Dr. Science comes on to help us take a look at the full Born of the Gods set before the prerelease. Yes I know it's after the prerelease now, but give me a break here. There's not much else to say, so everyone give it a listen and enjoy!

Follow Cluze on Twitter: @lacluyzeListen to Cluze on Card Advantage - http://mtgcast.com/topics/mtgcast-podcast-shows/active-podcast-shows/card-advantage

Born of the Gods Card Image Gallery: http://www.wizards.com/magic/tcg/article.aspx?x=mtg/tcg/bornofthegods/cig

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In case you weren't aware, we're still knocking out those Born of the Gods previews. We recorded this the day the FAQ was accidentally put up, but we didn't actually do any of those cards. That would have been a really long show, and that's turrible. As has become tradition during preview season, we reached through the internet and snatched up our old buddy Bill Bloodworth (@SqueeGoblnNabob) to join in the fun. Then we all ate cake!

Okay, we didn't eat cake. But it's still a good, cake-free, low-calorie episode! And blame Chewie for being whelmed.

Born of the Gods Card Image Gallery: http://www.wizards.com/magic/tcg/article.aspx?x=mtg/tcg/bornofthegods/cig

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On this episode, the dorks take on all the news and the first round of Born of the Gods spoilers! There's a serious amount of bizarre news, from coins to a movie to a high-priced Modern Event Deck announcement. News you can use? Probably not, but there's plenty enough news here! All the links are down below, so follow along if you want!

After that, we have a super secret special guest! So secret that we didn't actually know about him until he was on the show! But out of nowhere we invited JT to join us for previews! You know him from our GP Charlotte episode and I'm pretty sure he was on another episode at some point. You've got a search bar on the site, if you wanna hear him again I'm sure you can find him. He's pretty awesome, and so are the new mechanics and some of the new cards from Born of the Gods!

Everyone enjoy, then go follow JT on Twitter, he's @NerdPop140!

MTG Collector Coins: http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/news/281

Modern Event Deck: http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/arcana/1404

MTG Movie announcement: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/fox-bring-magic-gathering-big-670529

Nostalgia Critic's editorial "When is something so bad it's good?": http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/41967-when-is-something-so-bad-its-good

Born of the Gods Card Image Gallery: http://www.wizards.com/magic/tcg/article.aspx?x=mtg/tcg/bornofthegods/cig

Intro & Outro Music – Diamond by Swift – http://www.myspace.com/swiftbandBreak Music - God Gave Rock 'N' Roll to You II by Kiss - http://www.kissonline.comThis episode’s post: http://themanapool.com/podcast/episode-308 Forum thread for this episode: http://cardshark.freeforums.org/episode-308-dual-colored-gods-t977.html Check out our archive at http://themanapool.com/category/podcast Our Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/TheManaPool Our Google+ page: http://gplus.to/themanapool Email us at [email protected] Follow us on Twitter at @TheManaPool Cardshark Member Promotions: http://www.cardshark.com/Promotions/Member-Promotions.aspx Subscribe to our RSS feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/themanapool

We had lots of news to cover since we hadn't recorded in two weeks. We took the holiday weeks off don't you know. There's the new planeswalker, the new card frame, and some other less impressive stuff. We'll give you our take on all of it, no matter how lame and/or insignificant.

After that we're off to our wrap up of the Old vs. New series. Since we covered all the guilds, we decided to take a look at the other aspects of the two blocks. Mana rocks, lands, overall block structure, that sort of thing. It's actually a pretty good discussion, we hope you guys enjoy. That's about it for the wrap up, we're just shooting for a nice short episode to ease back into the podcasting gig.

You know, to be a short episode, the file sure is pretty big. Huh.

Proceed to Bane Alley, await further instructions.

Kiora, the Crashing Wave - http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/feature/279Magic 2015 - http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/arcana/1401New card frame - http://wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/feature/281Animated Gif of the new card frame - http://m.imgur.com/a/LsXsODeck pack for M14 - http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/arcana/1402

Intro & Outro Music – Diamond by Swift – http://www.myspace.com/swiftbandBreak Music - nope, just a short one this weekThis episode’s post: http://themanapool.com/podcast/episode-307 Forum thread for this episode: http://cardshark.freeforums.org/episode-307-old-vs-new-wrap-up-t976.html Check out our archive at http://themanapool.com/category/podcast Our Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/TheManaPool Our Google+ page: http://gplus.to/themanapool Email us at [email protected] Follow us on Twitter at @TheManaPool Cardshark Member Promotions: http://www.cardshark.com/Promotions/Member-Promotions.aspx Subscribe to our RSS feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/themanapool

Hey everyone! During the holidays, what better way to celebrate the season than by doing the last of the Old vs. New discussions! And how appropriate that we did the "organized religion" guild for the holidays? Actually, that's probably not terribly appropriate. But either way, it's time for the Orzhov! Sure the guild leader and the lieutenant are the same character for both discussions, but that's part of the fun! Right? Yeah, we'll call it fun. Yeah black and white fun times! What's black and white and...something...all over? Yeah, I couldn't come up with anything when we recorded the episode either. Anyway, enjoy it!

Intro & Outro Music – Diamond by Swift – http://www.myspace.com/swiftbandBreak Music - nope, all business this weekThis episode’s post: http://themanapool.com/podcast/episode-306 Forum thread for this episode: http://cardshark.freeforums.org/episode-306-the-mafia-church-t972.html Check out our archive at http://themanapool.com/category/podcast Our Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/TheManaPool Our Google+ page: http://gplus.to/themanapool Email us at [email protected] Follow us on Twitter at @TheManaPool Cardshark Member Promotions: http://www.cardshark.com/Promotions/Member-Promotions.aspx Subscribe to our RSS feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/themanapool

It's been a long time since the four of us actually recorded an episode, so we've got a lot of ground to cover on this one. First off, we have to apologize for the sound quality of the last episode. And we know we screwed up how Vorel of the Hull Clade works. Our bad. We're allowed one major screw up every couple years, right? Then Mike tells us about some drafting he's been doing. After that there's a mess of news type stuff (the links are down there a little further of course). Then we sorta screw around a bit, sharing some random non-Magic nonsense until the musical break.

After that, it's time for the good stuff. As if you didn't know from the ridiculous title, this episode continues the Old vs. New: Ravnica Guilds with the Gruul Clans! The discussions here were really good, and this might be our all-around closest Guild OVN yet. Holy crap.

No really, this was a great one. Hope you guys enjoy!

Links!

Battle the Horde: http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/arcana/1372

This year's Holiday Card: http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/arcana/1380

MTG Merch: http://www.mtgmerch.com/

Intro & Outro Music – Diamond by Swift – http://www.myspace.com/swiftbandBreak Music - Hope Rides Again by The Protomen - http://www.protomen.comThis episode’s post: http://themanapool.com/podcast/episode-305 Forum thread for this episode: http://cardshark.freeforums.org/episode-305-a-seriously-gruuling-show-t971.html Check out our archive at http://themanapool.com/category/podcast Our Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/TheManaPool Our Google+ page: http://gplus.to/themanapool Email us at [email protected] Follow us on Twitter at @TheManaPool Cardshark Member Promotions: http://www.cardshark.com/Promotions/Member-Promotions.aspx Subscribe to our RSS feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/themanapool

Since we didn't want to skip another week, we looked around and dug up an old episode we had in the can. Originally recorded back in August (probably), this live episode is...a little weird. For some reason, Audacity decided to ignore the usual desktop mic and listen to the crappy built-in mic on the laptop. So because of that...it sorta sounds like we recorded it in a bathroom. Sorry about that. I'm pretty sure it's still perfectly serviceable, it's just not the usual glorious sound quality that you're used to.

As far as what's actually going on in this one, it's a live episode. That means we're all sitting around playing some Magic! We begin with a Commander Planechase game, and those are usually a blast. Since it's been SO long since we recorded this, I couldn't tell you one way or the other. After a quick musical break, we play a really quick and really filthy 60-card Archenemy game. I mean it, it was awful. Even Mike, who was the villain, felt bad about it afterwards. So to make up for it we did another one. This time Chewie was the bad guy, and it went a lot longer than the first one. Not in a bad way, it was just a lot more fair.

Intro & Outro Music – Diamond by Swift – http://www.myspace.com/swiftbandBreak Music - Golbez, Clad in Darkness from Final Fantasy IV by Nobuo Uematsu - http://www.nobuouematsu.comThis episode’s post: http://themanapool.com/podcast/episode-304 Forum thread for this episode: http://cardshark.freeforums.org/episode-304-from-the-arcane-lavatory-live-t968.html Check out our archive at http://themanapool.com/category/podcast Our Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/TheManaPool Our Google+ page: http://gplus.to/themanapool Email us at [email protected] Follow us on Twitter at @TheManaPool Cardshark Member Promotions: http://www.cardshark.com/Promotions/Member-Promotions.aspx Subscribe to our RSS feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/themanapool

You knew it was coming. Deep down, you knew. Once they announced the new Commander product, you even started asking for it. As the decks were revealed, you even demanded it.

Well who are we to ignore the pleas of our beloved fans? So here we go. The four of us gathered at Brian's house along with John, The Fifth One. You might recognize him from some of our Prerelease Field Recordings, he's been there for a couple of them. But we each grabbed an unedited Commander 2013 deck and commenced beating the holy living crap out of each other. In an epic three hour game (and that's not counting the break for lunch in the middle) we traded haymakers, board wipes, and verbal barbs until only one dork stood victorious!

Which of the green decks did Dirk play? Which of the dorks almost lost their temper and all interest in the game? Who ended up winning the whole shebang? Which of those was a trick question? For answers to all of these and more, tune in to listen. Don't worry, after the editing the game wasn't the full three hours.

Intro & Outro Music – Diamond by Swift – http://www.myspace.com/swiftbandBreak Music - Shot Through the Heart by Bon Jovi - http://www.bonjovi.comThis episode’s post: http://themanapool.com/podcast/episode-303 Forum thread for this episode: http://cardshark.freeforums.org/episode-303-commander-shenanigans-2-command-harder-t965.html Check out our archive at http://themanapool.com/category/podcast Our Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/TheManaPool Our Google+ page: http://gplus.to/themanapool Email us at [email protected] Follow us on Twitter at @TheManaPool Cardshark Member Promotions: http://www.cardshark.com/Promotions/Member-Promotions.aspx Subscribe to our RSS feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/themanapool

It's all Simic, all the time in this episode! Well that's a slight exaggeration. First we had to shoot the breeze, discussing the True-Name Nemesis, Grand Prix DC's imminent encroachment by Chewie, and the state of MTGCast. But THEN, then it was the whole Simic thing. Yeah, we've got another Old vs. New for you. It turns out that Simic is pretty deep, so we spent a long freakin' time on this one. Dirk even went off for a while. A couple times. No kidding.

But at this point I'm just taking up space so the post on the website doesn't look funny. So we hope you enjoy all the turquoise glory! Get it? Blue and green? Turquoise? Anybody?

My mom thinks I'm funny :p

Intro & Outro Music – Diamond by Swift – http://www.myspace.com/swiftbandBreak Music - No breaks, work to do!This episode’s post: http://themanapool.com/podcast/episode-302 Forum thread for this episode: http://cardshark.freeforums.org/episode-302-what-s-with-the-elf-wizards-t964.html Check out our archive at http://themanapool.com/category/podcast Our Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/TheManaPool Our Google+ page: http://gplus.to/themanapool Email us at [email protected] Follow us on Twitter at @TheManaPool Cardshark Member Promotions: http://www.cardshark.com/Promotions/Member-Promotions.aspx Subscribe to our RSS feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/themanapool

Chewie enjoyed asking people Three Questions at GP Charlotte so much that he decided to truck up to Pittsburgh and do it again! As always, Chewie's asking Three Questions to anyone willing to answer them, whether they're a listener, judge, pro player, innocent bystander, or just someone that catches his eye.

The real purpose of this show, like most of the stuff Chewie does, is to entertain you, the listener. Rather than asking the same old questions that everyone else does, he's looking to give you a slightly more off-the-wall look into these Magic players and judges and what-have-you by catching them off guard and putting them on the spot.

This episode covers the Friday of GP Pittsburgh. The event was sort of dead by the time Chewie got there, but after being filled with glorious Indian food he was more than willing to wander around and talk to people. He got some of his tournament buddies, a mess of judges, the judge manager, G-Fabs, and even a whole Commander game full of Twitter folks like Norbert88 and Brainstorm Brewery's Jason Alt.

Hope you enjoy! Let me know what your answers would be!

Your host: ChewieTwitter: @TheManaPoolEmail: [email protected]