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Episode 258 - Into the Red Zone Dec 12, 2012

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We are joined this week by Calvin Russell, also known as Captain Red Zone, from the Off Color Cast. If you've ever listened to that show, you'll know that he has a tendency to sort of run off at the mouth and end up talking to himself, which is perfect for our show! We initially brought him on to talk about battle strategies or something, and he did...at first. It was thoroughly entertaining though, so we hope you guys enjoy it as much as we did.

That's not all though! Before we cut Calvin loose, we had a lot to do. Chewie spoke for a bit about Grand Prix Charleston, because believe it or not this is the first time we've recorded since then! Incidentally, have you heard about playing Magic with The Stack? It's pretty freakin' great. There's a bit of news, with Duels 2013 getting a new deck pack featuring Orzhov and Gruul decks. Also, there's a recent rash of card shop robberies in central California. If you're out that way, beware.Off Color Cast: http://www.offcolorcast.comCalvin during the GP stories: http://i.imgur.com/tCp90.gifDuels 2013 Deck Pack #2: http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/arcana/1118Central California card shop breakins: http://www.kmph.com/story/20269093/thieves-target-game-shops-steal-magic-cards

Oh we're not done yet! Brian had a very special (and ESPECIALLY HILARIOUS) Christmas-themed Magic Mad Lib. Seriously, this one was great. Not just because of the Mad Lib itself, but because of the circumstances surrounding it. I mean damn.

And if you manage to make it all the way to the end, you can hear Chewie being not gracious at all as he thanks a few listeners for their generosity as well as Dirk complaining about his students. That last part is pretty funny. I'm just sayin'.

Intro & Outro Music – Diamond by Swift – http://www.myspace.com/swiftband Break Music - Warp Zone Music from Super Mario SunshineCalvin's New Jam created by Andy of CommanderCast fame, used with Chris's permission. Sorta. Whatevs.

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Episode 257 - Go Vacuum (Live) Dec 04, 2012

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Hey look, another live episode already! Yeah, it turns out that the week after the week we took off due to Thanksgiving, Brian decided to go to Disney World and forget to remind us. We determined that he was missing...about an hour or so before starting. Since having Brian around was pretty essential for the topic we had in mind, we panicked. Thus, I bring you the live episode we recorded just last month!We start off with a nice and sorta quick Commander game. Then we have a particularly brutal (and therefore short) Archenemy game played with 60-card casual decks.Of course, we can't have two short games without having one stupidly long one. Taking up fully half of the unedited time, we played a game of Planechase. If I remember correctly...nope, I don't. I've blocked it. But don't worry, this game isn't actually all that bad. This definitely wasn't the worst game we played that day. Hope you enjoy!

Intro & Outro Music – Diamond by Swift – http://www.myspace.com/swiftband Break Music 1 - Flash Man from Mega Man 2 on the Nintendo Entertainment SystemBreak Music 2 - Dust Man from Mega Man 4 on the NES

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Limited_Resources_158 Nov 22, 2012

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The latest Limited Resources, posted here because MTGCast is full, and because Marshall is such a great guy that I finally got to meet. Also, Jon Loucks is SUPER dreamy!

Episode 256 - Don't Stop Living In the Red Nov 22, 2012

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We begin this episode by giving a quick rundown of the last EDH game that we played at Brian's house a few weekends ago. It was glorious, and terrible, and bizarre, and epic, and ridiculous. Yes, all those things. Consecutively or concurrently, it doesn't matter. Then we have to tell you all about the crazy first game we played that weekend. It was not an ordinary game of Magic, and it involved yet another of Brian's crazy inventions. I'm sure you guys will enjoy it though, I know we did.Mad Lib! Your filth has freed us!Then we come to the good part. There were some SERIOUS internet connection issues going on here. We invited our old friend Professor J onto the show! TheJaceKid. Jace. Javier. He's almost on par with Eric here, holy crap! The problems were pretty bad, but we soldiered through to give you a big discussion about the color Red in multiplayer. We touched on lots of the big things Red can do, and why that does or does not work in multiplayer. Of course, the discussion is a bit fragmented due to the constant dropoffs, but I think it's still good. Be sure to follow Professor J on Twitter @JacevBeleren

Intro & Outro Music – Diamond by Swift – http://www.myspace.com/swiftband Break Music - Red Tide by School for Heroes - http://www.myspace.com/schoolforheroes

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Monday Night Magic #337 - The GP Charleston Episode Nov 21, 2012

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Episode 255 - The Unintentional Star Wars Episode Nov 13, 2012

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On this episode, we end up talking a lot about Star Wars. Yeah, Disney bought LucasArts, or LucasFilm, or whatever the big thing is named and that's what kicked it all off, but we just went on about it for way too long. We're dorks, we can't help it. We also did another Magic Mad Lib, because they're entirely too much fun and we can't help ourselves.

Then we got into the meat of the episode. We each ranked the guild mechanics of Return to Ravnica in terms of multiplayer usefulness. Of course, as always happens when all 4 of us do something like this, we got VASTLY different results. I love it. So of course we have to discuss (argue) about each mechanic and why this one is better than that one. It's a good one as usual.

Intro & Outro Music – Diamond by Swift – http://www.myspace.com/swiftband Break Music - Duel of the Fates by John Williams - http://www.johnwilliamscomposer.com/

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Episode 254 - Planechasing and Stuff Live Nov 06, 2012

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So here it is, the long-lost live episode of The Mana Pool! Well, not so much long-lost as recorded-and-not-needed. We recorded this way back in late June when Chewie, Mike, and Brian all got together to play some Magic. Dirk was all up in Denver and stuff at the time. So we played some Planechase, some EDH, maybe some other stuff? I don't know, we're all learning this together. There's never much to say with a live episode, so I hope you guys enjoy!

Also, don't forget that Chewie, along with his Monday Night Magic cohost Jack, will be at Grand Prix Charleston gunslinging! That's November 16, 17, and 18! Here's the link:http://phoenixgamesinc.com/calendar/icalrepeat.detail/2012/11/16/1455/-/mtg-grand-prix-charleston

Intro & Outro Music – Diamond by Swift – http://www.myspace.com/swiftband Break Music 1 – Korobeiniki by Ozma - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozma_%28band%29Break Music 2 - Double Dragon Stronghold by The Minibosses - http://minibosses.com/Break Music 3 - Who Do You Voodoo, Bitch? by Sam B - http://deadisland.deepsilver.com/dead-island/deadisland.php

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Episode 253 - Modern Multiplayer Masters Oct 29, 2012

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This episode is brought to you by: Bling!We recorded this episode the night before the full reveal of Commander's Arsenal, so forgive us the lack of all the details. I do, however, believe that most of what we discussed still applies, so just listen to the episode. We have a nice big discussion about price points, and Commander, and greed, ballin' & flossin' and...I dunno, white people? It's been a few days, give me a break. Here's the entire Commander's Arsenal though, we'll get to it next episode.http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/feature/218cAlso, here's the article on CommanderCast that Chewie mentioned:http://www.commandercast.com/generally-speaking-32-commanders-arsenal-not-actually-for-commander-playersFrom there, we went on to the Modern Masters announcement. More price points, greed, ballin' & flossin', and white people, this time with a Modern bent. Ballin' I say!http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/feature/218This led us quite naturally into a multiplayer version of Modern Masters. So we dug through Gatherer and found a whole lotta buncha Modern-legal cards from the Modern Masters reprint pool that we just LOVE for group games of Magic! Let us know what we missed!Intro & Outro Music – Diamond by Swift – http://www.swift-band.com Break Music – Mo Money Mo Problems by The Notorious B.I.G. featuring Mase & Puff Daddy

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Episode 252 - Rotated (and Touched) Oct 22, 2012

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As we tend to do with every Standard rotation, we're going to take a look at all the things that we won't be hearing about any more. Scars of Mirrodin, Mirrodin Besieged, New Phyrexia, and Magic 2012 are all gone, and that means no more Titans, Infect, Elesh Norn, Bloodthirst, Heroes, Slagstorm, Ponder, Swords, and ALL KINDS of other stuff!To help us out with this discussion, we brought on everyone's favorite podcaster, Chris Lansdell (@lansdellicious). And I'm glad we did, because this show was entirely too much fun.You may notice a very small difference in the intro. That's all for you, Myke Okuhara!Oh yeah, be sure you hang around until the end. Trust me on this one.Chris Lansdell on Mana Deprived: http://manadeprived.com/author/chris-lansdell/Grand Prix Charleston Information: http://phoenixgamesinc.com/calendar/icalrepeat.detail/2012/11/16/1455/-/mtg-grand-prix-charlestonIntro & Outro Music – Diamond by Swift – http://www.swift-band.com Break Music – The Touch by Stan Bush - http://stanbush.com/

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Episode 251 - Prerelease! (I'm Out of Control!) Oct 15, 2012

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Hey look, we're finally gonna talk about the Prerelease! Oh shut up, it was worth the wait to have Squanto on episode 250 and you know it. As you may know, ALL FOUR of the host dorks were at the Return to Ravnica prerelease! Dirk (of all people) even did TWO! We had Azorius, Rakdos, and Golgari represented at the one we all did together at Lucky's Card Shop in Greensboro, NC. How'd we all do? Well you're gonna have to listen for that one, aren't you? And that's the majority of the episode, of course.

That's not all though! We also took a look at the new Standard now that RTR is available. Of course this isn't anything in-depth or even useful, we just wanted to poke at it and see what's changed. My old favorite Kamikaze deck is still alive and kicking, in three different major variations!

We also have major problems with time dilation, time slipping slipping slipping, into the future, and Time Reversal being more than just a card.

Also, I got a ridiculously awesome gift from Wizards of the Coast and 360 Public Relations, and I have to take my final thought to explain it and thank everyone that might have had anything to do with it! It's a Tablet of the Guilds print signed by a bunch of RTR's Design and Development team members! Holy crap! You can click on the link down there that says "This episode's post" to see the picture!

Also, I reveal the source of all my power!

Intro & Outro Music – Diamond by Swift – http://www.swift-band.com Break Music – Release! by Timbaland - http://www.timbalandmusic.com

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