The Howling Salt Mine

Latest Episodes:

Land Thievery, Sibling Rivalries, and Pre-release Cheats | HSM 228 Nov 05, 2026

Show notes

Sam is gone! So Mike and Tony Play, today we have a 5th player with a legendary comeback, sibling rivalries where someone doesn't know how combat works, and someone going to two pre-releases in a row and obviously trying to cheat.

Also Tony decided to try a climbing competition and it was filled with stress...and some sends. Also also, it is officially cannon, Mike says that Tony is very athletic.

Stay Salty!

Sam, Mike, & Tony

Timestamps!:
00:00:0 Intro!
00:02:18 Where's Sam?
00:18:03 What is Salt?
00:19:57 Story 1: Land Thievery
00:36:07 Story 2: Sibling Rivalries
00:54:04 Story 3: Pre-release Cheats
01:06:00 Salty Card of the Week!
01:13:58 Outro

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Have you ever been salty while playing Magic the Gathering? This is the show for you.

The Howling Salt Mine is a Magic the Gathering comedy/advice podcast where we read salty stories from the community about games gone wrong, frustrating interactions, and challenging playgroup dynamics. Stories range from frustrating FNMs, getting pubstomped by that jerk at your LGS, and lots of commander stories where the salt is plentiful. We offer advice on how to deal with the frustrations of losing, how to avoid (or use) the saltiest cards in EDH, and how to navigate social situations.

Join Sam, Mike, and Tony each week as we delve into the salty, salty mines of the community, put some salt in our mine cart, and bring it right back up to our dear prospectors listening at home.

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Email your salty stories to thehowlingsaltmine@gmail.com!

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Salt Can be Fun, Two Turtles, and Ready for cEDH? | HSM 227 Oct 29, 2026

Show notes

Salt can be fun but sometimes you need to power down to experience it, TMNT simply has too much synergy, and Mike and Tony are curious boys who like to learn about story titles but it upsets Sam.

Also, Sam thinks he has a green thumb with hot peppers (even though he stresses out his plants), Tony's dad actually has a green thumb, and Mike used to have a pet turtle.

Stay Salty!

Sam, Mike, & Tony

Timestamps!:
00:00:00 Intro!
00:02:09 What is Spice?
00:23:39 What is Salt?
00:26:15 Story 1: Salt Can be fun
00:37:29 Story 2: Two Turtles
00:53:07 Story 3: Are you ready for cEDH
01:10:45 Salty Card of the Week!
01:21:15 Outro

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Have you ever been salty while playing Magic the Gathering? This is the show for you.

Join Sam, Mike, and Tony each week as we delve into the salty, salty mines of the community, put some salt in our mine cart, and bring it right back up to our dear prospectors listening at home.

____

Email your salty stories to thehowlingsaltmine@gmail.com!

Buy DragonShield products and our custom sleeves from our affiliate link! Use code "staysalty" all lowercase, all one word for a discount!

Pick up one of our HSM hats!

Find HSM shirts on our website and our Bonfire site!

Get HSM playmats from our friends at Jank Mats! Use our affiliate link!!

Find links to all our social media pages on our Linktree!

Check out our Moxfield!

Podcast art by the talented Devin Burnett! @j.d.burnett

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Mini Masters, Backsies, and Maliciousness or Incompetence | HSM 226 Oct 22, 2026

Show notes

A mini masters event is supposedly single elimination, the art of when to accept or deny backsies (our new favorite word), and not announcing cards is cool when you aren't sure your opponents know what is going on.

Also, Sam walks us through a new an innovative deck building process where claims he actually knows how to finish decks now.

Stay Salty!

Sam, Mike, & Tony

Timestamps!:
00:00:00 Intro!
00:02:56 Perfected Deck Building
00:24:36 What is Salt?
00:26:40 Story 1: Single elimination limited...or is it?
00:39:20 Story 2: You played it wrong, that sucks
00:55:33 Story 3: Maliciousness or Incompetence
01:18:07 Salty Card of the Week!
01:29:28 Outro

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Have you ever been salty while playing Magic the Gathering? This is the show for you.

Join Sam, Mike, and Tony each week as we delve into the salty, salty mines of the community, put some salt in our mine cart, and bring it right back up to our dear prospectors listening at home.

____

Email your salty stories to thehowlingsaltmine@gmail.com!

Buy DragonShield products and our custom sleeves from our affiliate link! Use code "staysalty" all lowercase, all one word for a discount!

Pick up one of our HSM hats!

Find HSM shirts on our website and our Bonfire site!

Get HSM playmats from our friends at Jank Mats! Use our affiliate link!!

Find links to all our social media pages on our Linktree!

Check out our Moxfield!

Podcast art by the talented Devin Burnett! @j.d.burnett

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Mischievous Dice Rolls, Shout Beats Storm, Pregame MLD | HSM 225 Oct 15, 2026

Show notes

Today mischievous dice rolls that could get people DQed, a spelltable opponent misunderstands and shouts through a storm win, and a pregame discussion mentions MLD in bracket 2 and yet the game is still played.

Also, Tony went to a world cup game, but Sam wouldn't let him talk about it so we talk about Sake and orange juice pulp instead. (You're welcome, everyone.)

Oh also it's a GREMLIN BOYS EPISODE!

Stay Salty!

Sam & Tony

Timestamps!:
00:00:00 Intro!
00:03:25 Sake and the World Cup
00:16:34 What is Salt?
00:18:59 Story 1: Mischievous dice rolls
00:30:28 Story 2: Shouting beats storm
00:45:37 Story 3: Pregame MLD
01:04:02 Salty Card of the Week!
01:17:38 Outro!

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Have you ever been salty while playing Magic the Gathering? This is the show for you.

Join Sam, Mike, and Tony each week as we delve into the salty, salty mines of the community, put some salt in our mine cart, and bring it right back up to our dear prospectors listening at home.

____

Email your salty stories to thehowlingsaltmine@gmail.com!

Buy DragonShield products and our custom sleeves from our affiliate link! Use code "staysalty" all lowercase, all one word for a discount!

Pick up one of our HSM hats!

Find HSM shirts on our website and our Bonfire site!

Get HSM playmats from our friends at Jank Mats! Use our affiliate link!!

Find links to all our social media pages on our Linktree!

Check out our Moxfield!

Podcast art by the talented Devin Burnett! @j.d.burnett

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Snooki's Stax, Strong But Not Amazing, and Same Wins | HSM 224 Oct 08, 2026

Show notes

Snooki baptizes new cEDH players in staxy salt, a salty game with a deck described as "strong but not amazing" (whatever that means), and it turns out there is more than one win condition.

Also, Tony take a seat in the sapphire lap of luxury and shares his experience salting it up with the upper crust.

Stay Salty!

Sam, Mike, & Tony

Timestamps!:
00:00:00 Intro!
00:01:48 Chairs and Inner Demons
00:16:43 What is Salt?
00:17:51 Story 1: Stomped at Vegas by Lazerpants
00:30:11 Story 2: What's Priority Sam?
00:50:07 Story 3: Terrible, horrible, no good, very bad games
01:06:51 Salty Card of the Week!
01:19:46 Outro!

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Have you ever been salty while playing Magic the Gathering? This is the show for you.

Join Sam, Mike, and Tony each week as we delve into the salty, salty mines of the community, put some salt in our mine cart, and bring it right back up to our dear prospectors listening at home.

____

Email your salty stories to thehowlingsaltmine@gmail.com!

Buy DragonShield products and our custom sleeves from our affiliate link! Use code "staysalty" all lowercase, all one word for a discount!

Pick up one of our HSM hats!

Find HSM shirts on our website and our Bonfire site!

Get HSM playmats from our friends at Jank Mats! Use our affiliate link!!

Find links to all our social media pages on our Linktree!

Check out our Moxfield!

Podcast art by the talented Devin Burnett! @j.d.burnett

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Stomped by Lazerpants, What's Priority Sam?, and No Good Very Bad Games | HSM 223 Oct 01, 2026

Show notes

Pantlaza has a normal game while stomping and flickering in Vegas, understanding how priority works does in fact matter, and sometimes you just have a horrible, no good, very bad string of games.

Also Tony discusses the best seat in the house for watching streams, and tries to say he's an angel who fights inner demons but loses (he is lying).

Stay Salty!

Sam, Mike, & Tony

Timestamps!:
00:00:00 Intro!
00:01:32 Chairs and Inner Demons
00:16:47 What is Salt?
00:18:51 Story 1: Stomped at Vegas by Lazerpants
00:29:45 Story 2: What's Priority Sam?
00:43:44 Story 3: Terrible, horrible, no good, very bad games
00:53:29 Salty Card of the Week!
01:05:46 Outro!

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Have you ever been salty while playing Magic the Gathering? This is the show for you.

Join Sam, Mike, and Tony each week as we delve into the salty, salty mines of the community, put some salt in our mine cart, and bring it right back up to our dear prospectors listening at home.

____

Email your salty stories to thehowlingsaltmine@gmail.com!

Buy DragonShield products and our custom sleeves from our affiliate link! Use code "staysalty" all lowercase, all one word for a discount!

Pick up one of our HSM hats!

Find HSM shirts on our website and our Bonfire site!

Get HSM playmats from our friends at Jank Mats! Use our affiliate link!!

Find links to all our social media pages on our Linktree!

Check out our Moxfield!

Podcast art by the talented Devin Burnett! @j.d.burnett

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

The Reality Fracture Set Review! | HSM 222 Sep 24, 2026

Show notes

Today we walk through some of our favorite cards from the set including echo pairs, color shifted cards, potential cEDH cards, and of course, the cards we think will make people salty.

Also whether you are a lore head or not, BUCKLE UP because Sam takes us on a mini deep dive because hey, he's a lore guy now.

Stay Salty!

Sam, Mike, & Tony

(also thanks to WotC for letting us be a part of the #mtgambassador program again!)

Timestamps!:
00:00:00 Intro!
00:01:09 MTG Ambassadors
00:04:57 Episode Structure
00:05:35 Reality Fracture Lore Lesson
00:12:52 Favorite Echoed Pairs
00:29:31 Favorite Color Shifted Cards
00:49:16 Favorite cEDH Cards
01:11:37 Salty Cards!
01:19:53 Honorable Mentions
01:30:34 Outro!

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Have you ever been salty while playing Magic the Gathering? This is the show for you.

Join Sam, Mike, and Tony each week as we delve into the salty, salty mines of the community, put some salt in our mine cart, and bring it right back up to our dear prospectors listening at home.

____

Email your salty stories to thehowlingsaltmine@gmail.com!

Buy DragonShield products and our custom sleeves from our affiliate link! Use code "staysalty" all lowercase, all one word for a discount!

Pick up one of our HSM hats!

Find HSM shirts on our website and our Bonfire site!

Get HSM playmats from our friends at Jank Mats! Use our affiliate link!!

Find links to all our social media pages on our Linktree!

Check out our Moxfield!

Podcast art by the talented Devin Burnett! @j.d.burnett

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Scooping While Goaded, ThreeDH Collusion, and Valgavoth is Cracked | HSM 221 Sep 17, 2026

Show notes

The ethics of scooping when you're goaded, the karma of colluding in a tournament of three player games, and a story where Sam searches for the salt.

Valgavoth is best friends with Sire of Insanity, Dan Lewis is a card, and fancy icecream.

Stay Salty!

Sam, Mike, & Tony

Timestamps!:
00:00:00 Intro!
00:01:18 Game Recaps! Valgavoth and Dan Lewis
00:31:20 What is Salt?
00:33:26 Story 1: Scooping While Goaded
00:43:22 Story 2: ThreeDH Tournament Collusion
00:57:00 Story 3: A Hint of Salt... Maybe?
01:06:58 Salty Card of the Week! - Chaotic Edition
01:19:03 Outro!

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Have you ever been salty while playing Magic the Gathering? This is the show for you.

Join Sam, Mike, and Tony each week as we delve into the salty, salty mines of the community, put some salt in our mine cart, and bring it right back up to our dear prospectors listening at home.

____

Email your salty stories to thehowlingsaltmine@gmail.com!

Buy DragonShield products and our custom sleeves from our affiliate link! Use code "staysalty" all lowercase, all one word for a discount!

Pick up one of our HSM hats!

Find HSM shirts on our website and our Bonfire site!

Get HSM playmats from our friends at Jank Mats! Use our affiliate link!!

Find links to all our social media pages on our Linktree!

Check out our Moxfield!

Podcast art by the talented Devin Burnett! @j.d.burnett

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

With Zach the Bold! Proxied Bracket 4 Urza and the Deflecting Dollar | HSM 220 Sep 10, 2026

Show notes

Zach the Bold joins us in the mine today for a special guest episode!

A player definitely isn't salty about their friend's proxied Bracket 4 Urza deck, how tracking games can lead to a spiral of salt to try to chase those wins, and removal spell is deflected with a new free spell: bribery (not the one you're thinking of).

Also Zach loves Code Red, Jake and Amir does it again, and QuiGon wigs.

Stay Salty!

Sam, Mike, & Tony

Timestamps!:
00:00:00 Intro!
00:01:23 Zach the Bold talks CLOTHES
00:08:10 Zach's Magic origins, getting salty, and D&D!
00:32:50 What is Salt?
00:35:35 Story 1: Proxied Bracket 4 Urza & Friends
00:53:42 Story 2: The Tragedy of Tracking Games
01:08:10 Story 3: Deflecting Dollar
01:20:54 Salty Card of the Week!
01:34:19 Outro!

Have you ever been salty while playing Magic the Gathering? This is the show for you.

Join Sam, Mike, and Tony each week as we delve into the salty, salty mines of the community, put some salt in our mine cart, and bring it right back up to our dear prospectors listening at home.

____

Email your salty stories to thehowlingsaltmine@gmail.com!

Buy DragonShield products and our custom sleeves from our affiliate link! Use code "staysalty" all lowercase, all one word for a discount!

Pick up one of our HSM hats!

Find HSM shirts on our website and our Bonfire site!

Get HSM playmats from our friends at Jank Mats! Use our affiliate link!!

Find links to all our social media pages on our Linktree!

Check out our Moxfield!

Podcast art by the talented Devin Burnett! @j.d.burnett

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Samwise vs Prowess, Sam vs Chipmunks, and Our Longest Story Ever | HSM 219 Sep 03, 2026

Show notes

Two modern players hit a salty stalemate with a Samwise food deck and a prowess deck, an incredibly long 5 player game provides us an incredibly long salty story, and a sudden win from the graveyard leads a particularly gross scoop.

Also Sam is battling chipmunks in his garden, and Mike is battling on Arena to get a Hobbit Collector Box.

Stay Salty!

Sam, Mike, & Tony

Timestamps!:
00:00:00 Intro!
00:01:15 Sam loves gardening and hates chipmunks
00:16:40 Mike wins a Collector Booster Box!
00:20:21 What is Salt?
00:21:56 Story 1: Samwise vs Prowess Stalemate
00:38:07 Story 2: The Longest Story about the Longest Game
01:12:06 Story 3: Surge to Victory, Spit to Scoop
01:19:10 Salty Card of the Week!
01:30:34 Outro!

Have you ever been salty while playing Magic the Gathering? This is the show for you.

Join Sam, Mike, and Tony each week as we delve into the salty, salty mines of the community, put some salt in our mine cart, and bring it right back up to our dear prospectors listening at home.

____

Email your salty stories to thehowlingsaltmine@gmail.com!

Buy DragonShield products and our custom sleeves from our affiliate link! Use code "staysalty" all lowercase, all one word for a discount!

Pick up one of our HSM hats!

Find HSM shirts on our website and our Bonfire site!

Get HSM playmats from our friends at Jank Mats! Use our affiliate link!!

Find links to all our social media pages on our Linktree!

Check out our Moxfield!

Podcast art by the talented Devin Burnett! @j.d.burnett

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.