The Howling Salt Mine

Latest Episodes:

Stomped by Lazerpants, What's Priority Sam?, and No Good Very Bad Games | HSM 222 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.

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

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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.

The Collector Box Problem, Just Call a Judge, and Backseat RogSi | HSM 218 Aug 27, 2026

Show notes

Tony and Sam kick it off with a chat about Collector Booster boxes and the state of the cost of Magic these days. Then, a prerelease deal to split a box is changed, another prerelease is soured from a niche rules interaction, and a Blue Farm player backseat drives their RogSi friend in a cEDH tournament.

Also Tony is clearly not 1337, and HSM has too many calendars.

Stay Salty!

Sam & Tony (Mike is out of town)

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

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.

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

Iroh's Big Turn, The Misplay Jar, and Super Zelda Bros | HSM 217 Aug 20, 2026

Show notes

Today, Uncle Iroh has a big turn and ruins the game night vibe, a salty friend leaves his commander in exile and leaves the commander playgroup, and an opponent casts a Worldpurge in a 12 person game to create a true nightmare of a game.

Also the boys chat about the Ocarina of Time remake, and Sam is confidently wrong about Super Smash Brothers.

Stay Salty!

Sam, Mike, & Tony

The Howling Salt Mine is a comedy advice podcast where we read salty stories from the Magic the Gathering community about games gone wrong. It's a cross between AITA posts and Magic! If this is your first time here, enjoy the show!

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!!

Email your salty stories to thehowlingsaltmine@gmail.com!

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.

Missed Your Untap, That Braids Player, and RIP Selvala | HSM 216 Aug 13, 2026

Show notes

Today, a "judge" at the LGS makes you skip your untap step, a braids player is that braids player, and a player fudges some rules at an edge of eternities prerelease event.

Also, Sam and Mike give Selvala the ideal send off she deserves (without Tony).

Stay Salty!

Sam & Mike

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!!

Email your salty stories to thehowlingsaltmine@gmail.com!

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.

Sam Pubstomps, Eggs Break, and Shroofus Did Nothing Wrong | HSM 215 Aug 06, 2026

Show notes

Today a foolish opponent board wipes into an Atla Palani deck, learning magic from a sweaty vintage player, and an LGS full of disrespectful players leads to a salty day.

Also, Sam pubstomps in Bracket 3 and takes 20 minute turns.

Stay Salty!

Sam, Mike, & Tony

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!!

Email your salty stories to thehowlingsaltmine@gmail.com!

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 MagicCon Amsterdam Recap Special! | HSM 214 Jul 30, 2026

Show notes

Today we are recapping our time at MagicCon Amsterdam! Join us as we walk through each day at the con, the games we played, the people we met, and the fun we had!

Thank you to all the European prospectors that showed up and made this convention so special for us. We love y'all!

Also, Joe and Juice, signed Sky Diamonds, and shower beers!

Stay Salty!

Sam, Mike, & Tony

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!!

Email your salty stories to thehowlingsaltmine@gmail.com!

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