The Mana Pool

By Chewie Slate

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 tournamen... more

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November 01, 2009 Episode 104 - PTQ Results, Duel Decks, and Olive Oil
In this episode, Mike gets distracted
by something early on. But that's not the actual content of the
show! Brian and I kick it off by each opening a pack of Zendikar and
going through the contents. Then we switch gears and talk about
Brian's PTQ experience from a few weekends ago. He did really well.
His deck list is in the forum thread for this episode, give it a look
and let us know what you think.

And of course, we had to go over the
freshly released lists for Duel Decks: Garruk vs. Liliana. Rancor!
Mutilate! Beasts! Yay! We go over each list, giving a pretty
detailed rundown on how we think each one will work. Then of course
we have to pick a winner. Keep listening to find out who we thought
might come out ahead this time.

Music for this episode is freakin'
great, you should go check it out!
Carl Sagan - A Glorious Dawn ft.
Stephen Hawking by John Boswell
Youtube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgiXGELjbc
Check out more Symphony of Science: http://www.symphonyofscience.com

Forum thread for this episode: http://cardshark.freeforums.org/episode-104-ptq-results-duel-decks-and-olive-oil-t421.html
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2h 4min
October 29, 2009 Jungle Rat Rob - Mana Pool 2: Electric Boogaloo
Here
it is, as promised. For hitting our 100th
episode, Jungle Rat Rob (Rob Anderson) has worked his audio editing
magic again and come up with another great clip compilation! This
time it's got so much funny that he couldn't fit it all in one song,
so he used three. We have the Superman Main Theme by John Williams,
Sabre Dance by Aram Khachaturian, and Simple Passing by Hammerbox.
This also features cameos by Claire (the hot one from the Avant-Card
Show), AJ (of "Kill AJ” fame), and our oft-mentioned fan/stalker,
Ben (Panahinuva on the forums).

And
again, Rob has managed to capture the essence of what makes the show
fun. As before, it's light on actual Magic content, but heavy on
awesomesauce. He manages to illuminate who we hosts really are and
exactly what it is that makes this show worth listening to. There's
lots of giggling, guffawing, picking on Chewie, and random nonsense
that you've come to expect from us here on The Mana Pool. Thank you
so much again for the most excellent tribute Rob, we really really
appreciate it. And hopefully, all you listeners out there checking
this out will agree!
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10min
October 25, 2009 Episode 103 - Standard Rotation: The Faerie Tale is Over
And in this episode, we bid a fond
farewell to the Lorwyn/Shadowmoor mega block. We're gonna take a
look back at the stuff that is gone from this Standard. All those
cards that we loved, hated, despised, thought were nifty, and were
beaten by are getting one last look before heading off to Extended
Land forever and ever amen.

And then, not to get stuck looking at
the past, we forge ahead into the present! We're taking a look ahead
at the cards in Zendikar that tickle our various fancies. Whether
we're talking about stuff that just looks cool, or potential Standard
powerhouses, or stuff we think is just silly, we're gonna cover it.

Forum thread for this episode: http://cardshark.freeforums.org/episode-103-standard-rotation-the-faerie-tale-is-over-t419.html
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2h 12min
October 15, 2009 Episode 102 - Zendikar Limited Experiences
Hello again, and welcome to The Mana
Pool! This is Mike, filling in for Chewie on the show notes while
he's busy getting a previous episode uploaded. For those of you
who've been anxiously awaiting our customary Prerelease story time
episode, this is your lucky day! Not only do we have that, but due
to scheduling conflicts and hateful technological mishaps, it took us
so long to get this one recorded that we also have Launch Party
stories as well. As usual, Chewie and Brian took very good notes,
and they have several fine tales of epic plays, bad beats, and very
interesting cards. Did I have any good stories for this episode?
Yes and no.

Forum thread for this episode: http://cardshark.freeforums.org/episode-102-zendikar-limited-experiences-t413.html
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2h 15min
October 06, 2009 Episode 101 - Late Zendikar Preview 3
Well...better late than never. This is
the fabled lost episode 102 of The Mana Pool. Okay, so it's not so
much fabled, and it was never really lost. But I do apologize for
this episode being so incredibly late. I suddenly found myself
working 6 or 7 days' worth of work in a 5 day period, and by the time
I got home, I didn't want to do anything at all. But enough of
lateness excuses!

I'd also like to apologize for the
content of this episode. You see, it's just me, Mike, and my
roommate Scott going over some previews. I'm not...entirely sure
what happened, but something about this episode just felt off. We
did the rest of the previews, and Scott had a few interesting n00b
questions for us, but that's about it. I do remember the music,
though.

Music for this episode: Whack It by
Swift
Check them out at http://www.swift-band.com

Forum thread for this episode: http://cardshark.freeforums.org/episode-101-late-zendikar-preview-3-t412.html
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1h 32min
September 27, 2009 Episode 100 - No Title Necessary
WE MADE IT! Thanks to everyone who has
listened, commented, criticized, and offered feedback, advice, help,
and ideas for these hundred episodes. We really appreciate all of
you who have stuck with us all this time, all of you who have stuck
with us since we joined the MTGCast, and all of you who have just
discovered us.

And a special thanks goes out to Eric
from St. Louis who is Mr. Suitcase who is thewachman who is one of
the hosts of Monday Night Magic. Not only did he send us a
congratulatory audio file to put in this episode, he also convinced
others to do so too. Thanks to Trevor, Tom, and Kevin from MTGRadio
for their support. Thanks to Christian, Bryan, Aaron, Jeff, and
Claire over at the Avant-Card Show for being complete ripoffs of us
but having a girl so it's okay...I mean for all the ribbing and
poking and insulting and general fun we've had since you guys got
started. Really, we love you guys. Thanks to the Road Warrior Chris
Otwell, not only for the audio file, but for all the work he does
behind the scenes each week to keep the MTGCast network running
smoothly. And finally, thanks to Noah Whinston, formerly of the
Sunday Super Show, for sticking with us since episode 10 (a
Morningtide preview episode), even though we're not technically his
cup of competitive-style-Magic tea.

What, you want to know what's actually
in this episode too? Geez you people are picky! Due to real life
getting in everyone's way, our 100th episode extravaganza sort of got
scaled back a bit. Then, due to technical difficulties, our first
idea kind of got shot down. Brian had the brilliant idea to run
through 100 cards that mean something to us for our 100th episode.
That's 25 apiece! So we made our lists and went for it. So this
episode didn't end up being 100 hours long, we decided to stick with
a 30 second time limit for each card, complete with a buzzer of some
sort so we'd know when to stop.

Of course, the end of the show sort of
disintegrates into a lot of random nonsense involving the
questionable music collection of the lead dork. We would like to
stress that all of this music is used without permission and is owned
by the respective copyright holders or rights owners or whatever.
But it's just us being silly, which apparently you listeners enjoy.
So I hope you enjoy, and thanks again for everything. We couldn't do
this without you guys, so hopefully you'll push us to do another
hundred shows!

Find the Avant-Card Show at http://www.avantcardshow.com
Find the rest on the MTGCast, located at http://mtgcast.com

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1h 52min
September 22, 2009 Episode 99 - Zendikar Preview 2
More Zendikar previews! Join us this
episode for lots more Zendikarian goodness, along with a discussion
of temporal mechanics and a special guest of sorts. This episode
also includes a good 11 minutes of lost footage from the previous
episode, including our take on Nissa Revane, Nissa's Chosen, and a
somewhat depressing Mike story. There's a brief discussion of the
Banned & Restricted List updates in there too.

Forum thread for this episode: http://cardshark.freeforums.org/episode-99-zendikar-preview-2-t402.html
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1h 59min
September 16, 2009 Episode 98 - Zendikar Preview 1
Hey, Mike here. Well, here it is, the
episode we all knew had to be coming. Thank goodness that we were
all looking forward to it, too! It's the first big episode of
Zendikar previews here on the Mana Pool, and we decided to go for a
bit of a different structure this time. Rather than just go up the
list, Brian had the foresight to group the cards into convenient
broader discussion topics, based on mechanics, themes, and/or
content. Give us your feedback on how you think it worked out.

But yes, listen in for an episode full
of Vampires, Fire, and Arguing on the Internet. And also another
Brian with Phasing. We'll try to work on that...

Forum thread for this episode: http://cardshark.freeforums.org/episode-98-zendikar-preview-1-t397.html
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2h 4min
September 08, 2009 Episode 97 - Land Before Time
DISCLAIMER: In an effort to keep our
listeners safe while listening to our show, we have decided to forgo
any and all comedy this episode. We here at The Mana Pool are
committed to your well-being, and we certainly don't want anything
bad to happen to any of you (with only very few exceptions). That
being said, we hope you enjoy this funny-free episode of The Mana
Pool. Thank you and drive around.

To begin the show, we have a small
collection of Zendikar previews. We figured from these cards that
land will probably be pretty big in this block, so we decided to take
that idea and run with it. Actually, it was Brian's idea, but his
head is big enough already. That's probably why he was in and out of
the episode all night. Spoiler: He didn't make it all the way to
the end.

To start off this land-tastic episode,
I take my Land Deck...Out of the Deck Box! It's a deck built around
Earth Surge, which is one of the crappiest cards to come out of the
Ravnica Block (a tie-in to last week!). But I made it work. As
always, for a full decklist, check out the forums. Then we spend a
fair amount of time taking a look back at some of our favorite lands.
We're talking cycles of lands, weird land, useful land, just
whatever you can think of. Except Sorrow's Path. Hit the forums and
tell us about some of your favorite lands!

And finally, we end the episode on a
bit of a rant, as I pull out the old Chewie's Soapbox from my time
doing the Cardshark Member Newsletter back in the day. This rant is
about Tazeem, that promotional planar card you could ONLY get by
going to the Planechase Release Event. Let us know how you feel
about the exclusive promo card.

Forum thread for this episode: http://cardshark.freeforums.org/episode-97-land-before-time-t393.html
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2h 10min
September 05, 2009 Episode 96 - Reflection on Ravnica
Holy crap it's the Mana Pool! Wizards
has revealed the last two Planechase decks, so we check out each and
every plane on this fabulous tour of the multiverse. Keep an ear out
for lots of informational sound-related material - like what being on
fire sounds like, and discussions on spheres on the vertical surface
that holds up the ceiling. Doosh!

Because we talked about bad mechanics
on the last episode, we mentioned Ravnica quite a few times. So Dirk
thought we should do a block review of Ravnica as a whole. So we
did! We take each of the 10 guilds of Ravnica and go over what their
deal is. This includes but is not limited to: their mechanic, their
philosophy, their place in the Ravnican society, and a few nifty
cards from each one. We really loved Ravnica block.

And a big thank you goes out to all the
people who entered the Duel Decks Contest! We're going to get
started on that at some point and determine winners...at some point.
Download this episode here: right here!
Forum thread for this episode: http://cardshark.freeforums.org/episode-96-reflection-on-ravnica-t391.html
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2h 19min

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