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The decklists for Duel Decks: Heroes vs. Monsters have been revealed, and with them two of the mechanics from Theros along with a small handful of cards. The dorks go over all of this new stuff and and decks themselves. Spoiler alert: They look like fun.After that, we did another Old vs. New, this time focusing on the horrific antics of the Rakdos guild. Two versions of Rakdos himself, a pair of Blood Witches, and of course the guildmages face off to determine whether the old guard or the new hotness are superior. You know, once we remembered what we were doing.We finished it off by reading a pair of very inspiring and wonderful listener emails. This led to us being exceptionally mushy and giving out some of our patented life-enriching advice. Well, patent-pending. It's good stuff though, so do enjoy.By the way, here's where you can find the list for the Duel Decks: http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/feature/261And here's the link to the first reveal of Rakdos Augermage that we discussed: http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtgcom/daily/bd223

Intro & Outro Music – Diamond by Swift – http://www.myspace.com/swiftbandBreak Music - The Munsters' Theme by Jack MarshallThis episode’s post: http://themanapool.com/podcast/episode-291 Forum thread for this episode: http://cardshark.freeforums.org/episode-291-old-monsters-vs-new-heroes-t947.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 look, another live episode! The dorks gathered at Dirk's house to hang out, play some Magic, and try to remember what each of us actually look like. Oddly enough we look just like our cartoons on the website, only slightly less cartoony. Hey, I said slightly!We played a rousing game of Commander right off the bat, with some happenings that happened that were seriously awesome. Okay, so I either don't want to spoil anything or I don't actually remember anything that happened. I'll leave that up to your imagination. Either way is fine. It was a pretty good game though.Then we took a short break and played a game of Horde Magic with the deck sent to us by a listener, Lou. Of course, he built it for other more intricate reasons, but my incredibly well-prepared self had neglected to bring the rules he made up for the alternate format. So we played a simple game of Horde Magic, treating all the */* Minion tokens as 2/2 zombies. Then we played another one, treating them as having power and toughness equal to the number of them on the battlefield. Both were fun games, and we hope you enjoy listening to them as much as we enjoyed playing them!

Intro & Outro Music – Diamond by Swift – http://www.myspace.com/swiftband Break Music 1 – Rickroll/Mario Mix by I Fight Dragons - http://ifightdragons.comBreak Music 2 – Under the Sea by Samuel E. Wright (as Sebastian the Crab) from Disney's The Little Mermaid

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On this episode, the dorks take a nice long look at From the Vault: Twenty. We're taking a long look at each card in it and explaining (to the best of our ability anyway) why it deserves to be there. Of course, with an in-depth discussion of each card, this topic went on longer than we thought it would. So after that we did some quickfire news, taking a look at the Hall of Fame, Worlds, and the new Holiday Gift Box before calling it an episode. Hope everyone enjoys!

From the Vault: Twenty - http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/rc/259

Worlds coverage - http://www.wizards.com/magic/magazine/article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/eventcoverage/wc13/welcome

Hall of Fame inductees - http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/twtw/258

Holiday Gift Box - http://wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/arcana/1290

Intro & Outro Music – Diamond by Swift – http://www.myspace.com/swiftband Break Music – nope, not this week

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So by now you've heard all about this from any number of other sources, but you still haven't heard it from us! At the San Diego Comic Con and Pax Australia, Wizards decided to announce a lot of nonsense about the future of Magic. So of course, we decided to give our two cents about all of that. There's plenty of talk about some upcoming Helvault-style silliness for Theros, From the Vault: Twenty reveals, Commander previews, and probably some other stuff.

Then we went with a listener idea! Our old buddy Beach (no longer Beach, but it's how everyone knows him) asked us to hit the Commander Banned List and give our opinions on the cards there. So we went through all of them, rattling off reasons why we think each card should or should not be on the list. Then we threw out a few cards that we think probably should be on there that currently aren't. It was a fun discussion, we hope you guys enjoy it!

The Deck Brian likedhttp://admin.starcitygames.com//deckdatabase/displaydeck.php?DeckID=57494SCG's SDCC rounduphttp://www.starcitygames.com/news/177_Theros+Information+and+more!GM's SDCC rounduphttp://www.gatheringmagic.com/greg-haenig-news-07202013-san-diego-comiccon-panel-roundup/Commander preview cardshttp://mtgcommander.net/rules.phpNew Commander producthttp://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/arcana/1281Extended is deadhttp://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/other/07222013

Intro & Outro Music – Diamond by Swift – http://www.myspace.com/swiftband Break Music – Not Afraid by Eminrm - http://www.eminem.com

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Hey look, here's the episode you probably should have gotten last time. But you didn't, you got it this time. So there.Chewie, Mike, and Brian set out for Atomic Empire in Durham, North Carolina for the Magic 2014 Core Set Release. While there, we met up with our old buddy AJ, everyone's favorite bowtie wearing L2 Cluze, and several other assorted listeners, opponents, judges, and what-have-you. As always with these episodes, you'll be hearing what happens as it happens rather than having to listen to us fumble around for what happened days later. And I especially hope you'll enjoy the talk with the guy who opened a truly ridiculous sliver deck.Intro & Outro Music – Diamond by Swift – http://www.myspace.com/swiftband Break Music – nope, not this week

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This episode is going to sound a little silly. You see, we recorded a bunch of stuff at the M14 Prerelease, but I wanted to do some more. So we recorded a "quick" Old vs. New to append to the end and have a full episode. Of course, we're pretty much incapable of doing anything quickly, so we ended up with an hour and a half of Golgari discussion. You know how we do it.So, rather than release a 3 hour episode, I decided to release them separately. But because the prerelease stuff was a live episode, I needed to actually listen to it, and the weekend was full of surprise familial visits, so I didn't have time to do so. So I released them in reverse order to keep from delaying the release of an episode any further! Look for the prerelease episode soon!Intro & Outro Music – Diamond by Swift – http://www.myspace.com/swiftband Break Music – nope, not this week

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Hey look, it's the full Magic 2014 set! That's what we've got this episode. It's all M14 all the time! And because it's tradition, we brought our old buddy Bill Bloodworth to talk spoilers. Or the full set. Or whatever. He's @SqueeGoblnNabob on Twitter, and you should totally follow him. But yeah, there's nothing else to say here. We did the Card Image Gallery the whole episode. I should probably give you the link, I guess. Here, hope you guys enjoy: http://www.wizards.com/magic/tcg/article.aspx?x=mtg/tcg/magic2014coreset/cigIntro & Outro Music – Diamond by Swift – http://www.myspace.com/swiftband Break Music – nope, not this week

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On this episode, we finally overcome one of our greatest weaknesses as podcasters - the inability to have Myke Okuhara on the show! The scourge of TheManaPool.com's comments joins us from Honolulu, where the dolphins are ferrying his internet back and forth to us with great speed. And to celebrate (not really, but it sounded good) we've got a brand new Magic Mad Lib courtesy of Brian! This one is entitled...Science.Then, of course, there's all the Magic 2014 previews. And there were a lot. Like damn. If you'd like to follow along, I just happen to have this fancy link. Of course now the entire set is revealed, but still. Click the link. Click it!http://www.wizards.com/magic/tcg/article.aspx?x=mtg/tcg/magic2014coreset/cig#By the way, Myke Okuhara is pretty awesome. I'm just sayin'.Intro & Outro Music – Diamond by Swift – http://www.myspace.com/swiftband Break Music – nope, not this week

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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]

This is the first episode after Chewie got back from his listener-supplied trip to Grand Prix Las Vegas! So of course, he has to talk at great length about GP Vegas. Because it was amazing in so many ways. Like, SO many ways. So I'm gonna go ahead and apologize for how long that took, because apparently no one realized just how long we went on about it.Then there's all the other stuff! Here are some handy links for you:M14 previews: http://www.wizards.com/Magic/tcg/article.aspx?x=mtg/tcg/magic2014coreset/cigM14 promos and tokens: http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/arcana/1262Super-sweet SDCC Garruk promo: http://geek-news.mtv.com/2013/06/24/magic-the-gathering-planeswalkers-san-diego-comic-con/The GP Vegas infographic: http://www.gatheringmagic.com/james-arnold-design-art-06242013-grand-prix-las-vegas-an-infographic/Inside the Deck from GP Vegas part 1: http://www.gatheringmagic.com/inside-the-deck-rich-castle-06232013-videos-from-grand-prix-las-vegas/And part 2: http://www.gatheringmagic.com/inside-the-deck-las-vegas-video-06272013-videos-from-grand-prix-las-vegas-part-two/

Intro & Outro Music – Diamond by Swift – http://www.myspace.com/swiftband Break Music – nope, not this week

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