This week we're joined by the #1 Fan of Jace Beleren, Radley! He's here to talk to us about the enigmatic wielder of mysteries, including delving into some of his current motivations in the story and some larger themes that surround one of Magic's longest running characters. If you don't follow Radley online, you can find him at @SpaceBeleren on Twitter, or follow his Vorthos blog at wielderofmysteries.tumblr.com. Radley's extensive knowledge of Jace means you'll see more of him on the podcast in the future as the narrative moves towards a showdown with the iconic blue planeswalker. If you'd like to support the podcast and get access to our Discord server where we're talking all things Duskmourn and looking forward to the announcement of future sets, you can do so at Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast! Every member at the $1 a month tier gets access to the Discord and early episode releases, and for $3 a month members can listen to us record the show live!

Duskmourn is one giant, flavorful homage to horror movies of the modern age. This week we're diving into our favorite flavor gems of the set, including the very clever designs of the story's main characters and the best references to the horror movies we all love (except for Chris, who is on record for not really loving horror movies). If you'd like to support the podcast and get access to our Discord server where we're talking all things Duskmourn and looking forward to the announcement of future sets, you can do so at Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast! Every member at the $1 a month tier gets access to the Discord and early episode releases, and for $3 a month members can listen to us record the show live!

It's time to dig into the many treats on offer from Bloomburrow! We're talking legends, baguettes, and fistfighting giant pandas on this installment of our flavor gems series! I promise it all makes sense if you listen! If you like our show, consider subscribing to our Patreon at Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast, where $1 a month gets you access to our Discord server, and $3 a month means you can listen to our show live as we record it! We also post early episode releases on the Patreon when we can, so it's never a bad time to join!

The story of The Brothers' War echoes through time as the past confronts the present and the present slips back into the past. This week we're covering the present day stories by Reinhardt Suarez. While Teferi grapples with the past, Elspeth must battle with the present as the Coalition's planeswalkers must defend their bastion of hope. If you enjoy our podcast, please consider supporting us at Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast! You can also follow us on Twitter at twitter.com/TheVorthosCast!

As the story of the Brother's War set has wrapped up, we look at the legends of the time period, from the warring brothers themselves to their loved ones and those few brave souls who tried to stand between them. Learn of the origins of the Golgothian Sylex, the first spellcasters of Terisiare, and the greatest artificers, and toymakers, of all Dominarian history. If you would like to support the podcast, follow us on Twitter at twitter.com/TheVorthosCast! You can also join our Patreon at www.Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast, where just $1 a month gets you access to our Discord server!

We sent a message out through the galaxy and our psionic trail has lead Ethan Fleischer, designer for Magic: the Gathering and long-time fan of Warhammer 40k, to our podcast. But we're not hear to discuss power-levels, color identity, or card designs. We need to take in all the lore possible to learn about the world of Warhammer, before the Tyranids absorb our biomass. If you'd like to support The Vorthos Cast, follow us on Twitter at www.Twitter.com/TheVorthosCast! If you're looking to throw a few bones our way and fund our intergalactic empire, check out our Patreon at www.Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast.

This week, we discuss The Brothers' War that was, the 1998 novel by Jeff Grubb and the surrounding card sets and stories that told aspects of this monumental moment in Magic history, both in the story and outside of it. To know what to expect in the upcoming Magic set, you should know what's already been scribed into the annals of history. If you too want to be scribed into the annals of history, consider supporting us on Patreon at www.Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast!

As if reliving some ancestral memory, Beyond the Multiverse returns! In this episode, we have special guest Jay Annelli on to talk all about the lore of the Assassin's Creed just after Magic the Gathering announced that they'll have a special partnership with the long-running game series next year! Learn all about jumping from tall buildings, communing with alien spirits, and fist-fighting the pope! If you enjoy our show, join our Patreon at www.Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast where you can get access to our Discord server and give us suggestions for future Beyond the Multiverse episodes!

This week we're wrapping up all the stories from Dominaria United by discussing the three remaining side stories! We talk all about Squee's long relationship with death, the fall of the Weatherlight, and Niambi's work for peace. If you want to support the podcast and get access to our Discord server and more, join us at www.Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast!

It's time for the traditional Flavor Gems episode! This time we're going over our favorite gems from Dominaria United, a set with so many legends that we couldn't possibly cover them all, so we have to do our best to get as many delicious gems as we could into one episode. These gems have so much flavor. You should try some. Just take a bite. It's okay*. If you want to support the podcast and get access to our Discord server and more, join us at www.Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast! *Our lawyers want us to mention that you should not eat the delicious gems, regardless of how many planeswalker sparks they may or may not contain.

We're taking a quick detour away from the world of Dominaria and Magic's main canon storyline to cover the full miniseries of The Hidden Planeswalker from Boom! Studios Comics! Liliana and Tezzeret fight over the future of a planeswalker with a mysterious past, and we learn what it means to be a villain, and what it takes to be a hero. If you enjoy our podcast, consider supporting us on Patreon at Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast where $1 a month gets you access to our very cool Discord server where Vorthoses from around the world are talking Magic story and comics!

Brian, Cary, and Chris join forces and tackle the final two episodes of the Dominaria United main story, "A Brutal Blow" and "A Whisper in the Wind," then share their honest opinions about the story, including how they felt about certain deaths and resurrections. But first, unhinged speculation! If you want to support Jin Gitaxias' wedding registry, go to https://www.patreon.com/thevorthoscast and pledge a dollar a month to get access to our discord!

This week we continue our summaries of the stories of Dominaria United with episodes 2 and 3, "Sand in the Hourglass" and "The Locked Tower" by Langley Hyde! We establish the major players of the story, see Karn's planeswalking prowess, and see Magic's take on John Carpenter's The Thing. The Phyrexians are here, and they're coming in force! If you enjoy our show, consider supporting us at https://www.patreon.com/thevorthoscast/ where all patrons will get access to our Discord server!

We're welcoming back Valerie Valdes this week to talk about her work on writing the Bloomburrow set story! Valerie has been on the show before to talk about writing the story for Lost Caverns of Ixalan, and this week she's back to talk about the very different experience in writing Bloomburrow, including her influences for the story that combines epic quests with wholesome family dynamics. If you like Valerie as much as we do, you can keep abreast of her writings on http://valerievaldes.com/, check out recent release Where Pease is Lost, and look forward to her work in the upcoming anthology Beating Hearts and Battle Axes and her novel coming out next year, Mage You Look! If you like our show, consider subscribing to our Patreon at Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast, where $1 a month gets you access to our Discord server, and $3 a month means you can listen to our show live as we record it! We may begin posting early episode releases on the Patreon when we can, so it's never a bad time to join!

The cast sits down to talk about the first episode of Dominaria United and the Raven Man reveal in Homecoming. With Chris and Loreley away, the cast has on special guest VorthosNick!

One of our most exciting episodes yet, this week we're talking with Jeff Gomez, CEO of Starlight Runner Entertainment, and one of the most influential writers of early Magic lore. Jared Carthalion, the Shard of Twelve Worlds, Tevesh Szat, and more: all iconic elements of Magic lore as important today as they were almost 30 years ago, and all brought to us by Jeff Gomez. We discuss what it was like writing for Magic in its early days, creating the Armada Comics stories, and how important transmedia storytelling has become to media of all kinds today. We also talk, briefly, about the side story "The Education of Ulf" by Brian Evenson, which features Jared Carthalion and Geyadrone Dihada, both first seen in the Armada comics line, You can follow Jeff Gomez on Twitter @Jeff_Gomez. If you enjoy our show and want to support us, you can become a patron at https://www.patreon.com/thevorthoscast! Everyone who supports gets access to our Discord server.

We have a special free preview for Dominaria United, provided to us by Wizards of the Coast, who wanted to watch us, specifically, suffer. We are sadly introducing everyone to the terror that is the Sheoldred's Restoration and the heartbreak of Extinguish the Light. Check out our Twitter at twitter.com/TheVorthosCast for full card images and art! If you want to support the cast, you can join us at www.patreon.com/thevorthoscast! We won't be compleat without your support!

The last part of our Dominaria retrospective series. This week we're looking at the Great Mending and the first time we returned to Dominaria after a long time away, the 2018 Dominaria set with story by Martha Wells. If you've appreciated our series on the history of Dominaria and want to support the show, you can join us on Patreon at www.patreon.com/thevorthoscast!

This week, Brian and Chris are left alone to tell you the story of the first Phyrexian invasion, the one detailed in the Invasion block of sets and the Invasion novels: the end of Urza Planeswalker, the end of Yawgmoth, the beginning of Phyrexia's long, slow crawl back to Dominaria's shores in Dominaria United.

Once upon a time, long ago, a man used a powerful artifact to lay waste to an opposing army and most life on an entire continent. He then went on to be even worse. This week we're telling the story of Urza from the sylex blast to the beginning of the Weatherlight Saga. As they say, if it wasn't for Yawgmoth, Urza would be the greatest villain in Dominarian history... If you, too, want to dunk on Urza and support our show, you can join us on Patreon at www.patreon.com/thevorthoscast!

This week we're joined by the one and only Amanda Stevens, an expert in all things Zhalfir, to talk Jamuraa, Teferi, and all the mistakes made by wizards and Wizards that's left this slice of Dominaria out of the story for decades. You can find Amanda on Twitter at @AmandaTNStevens for more of her insight into DEI, Esports, and building Simic commander decks! If you'd like to support The Vorthos Cast, you can find us on Patreon at www.patreon.com/thevorthoscast! We appreciate all of you so, so much!

While it's one of the hottest summers on record, we're keeping it cool by talking all about The Ice Age, one of the lesser known periods in Magic's history. From the moment Urza detonates a magical nuke to well after one of his descendants smashes a mirror on some task mage's head, we discuss the thousands of years of history that got Dominaria from The Brothers' War to the plane as we mostly know it still today. If you enjoy The Vorthos Cast, consider supporting us on Patreon at www.patreon.com/thevorthoscast! We appreciate all of you so, so much!

This week, the original Vorthos Cast crew has come together with storied Dominarian historian Ethan Fleischer to talk all about the complete history of Dominaria in lore. Not all the lore of Dominaria, but the lore of the lore of Dominaria. We're talking short story collections, licensed video game player guides, magazine articles, and even flash animations you'll never get to see again. A truly can't-miss discussion for any fan of Magic's story.

Dominaria served as the setting of almost all of Magic's earliest lore, and we're going to cover a lot of the Time of Legends in this week's episode! Jay, Loreley, and Chris talk the Armada comics, the Legends Cycle books, and some of the weirdest legendary creatures you might have missed in the Legends set. If you want to get your name into the legends of Magic Vorthos Podcasts, support us on Patreon and get access to our discord server, you can do that at www.Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast! We appreciate every single one of you.

The story of Bloomburrow is only five episodes long, but they're five great episodes and give us a lot to talk about! This week we're wrapping up the set's story and sharing our thoughts on this start of a new arc, the world of Bloomburrow in a wider Magic context, and where things might go from here. You can find all episodes of the Bloomburrow story right now on the Magic website for free! Just go to magic.wizards.com/en/story and read about the most lovable frog since Kermit! If you want to support us and help us keep making this podcast, check out our Patreon at Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast, where $1 a month gets you access to our Discord server, where we're talking all things Bloomburrow right now, and $3 a month lets you listen to us record each episode live, usually on Thursday evenings at 7pm.

This week the podcast embarks on a mission to revisit Dominaria, where we began years ago, but with a modern and updated vision. This week, we cover a broad view of the world of Dominaria, including the major regions and some of the world-shattering (and mending) events. Get out your map of Dominaria (or globe, you know who you are) and follow along with Jay, Loreley, Brian, and Chris! If you want to support us on Patreon and get access to our discord server, you can do that at www.Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast! We appreciate every single one of you.

This week, Cary and Chris cover issues 11 through 15 of the Boom! Studios Magic comics! With the former main trio trapped on Ravnica, three new planeswalkers take center stage with a new adventure to save their friends. Villains return, guildmasters die, and someone loses their tail! If you want to support us on Patreon and get access to our discord server, you can do that at www.Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast! Patrons and Discord members got first dibs on our playmat, but now it's open to the public! If you want one, go check out our Twitter at twitter.com/TheVorthosCast

This week we're pouring over the pages of all the Magic story since War of the Spark to get caught up with what's been going on. We cover all the main Magic story and discuss what we might be leading up to with the next year of story and what we can expect from all this oil that's popping up everywhere... If you want to support us on Patreon and get access to our discord server, you can do that at www.Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast! Patrons and Discord members will get first dibs on our new playmat!

This week, we roll for initiative and enter the turn order as Jay, Brian, and Chris go over each of their top ten(ish) flavor gems of the new set, Magic: the Gathering: Commander Legends: Dungeons & Dragons: Battle for Baldur's Gate: The Quickening: 2 the Streets! You should make sure to tell Jay all about how much you enjoying sacrificing your Burnished Hart! If you want to support us on Patreon and get access to our discord server, you can do that at www.Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast! But you really don't have to. It's okay. We won't cast any dissonant whispers your way. Take a minute and fill out the survey about our upcoming new playmat release so we can decide how and what and how many to print: https://t.co/gGBtN8quHZ

This is the last week of Streets of New Capenna story! We cover "The Family Man" by K. Arsenault Rivera, "Alley Cat Blues" by Rhiannon Rasmussen, and the totally-related-to-Capenna-we-promise "Garden of Flesh" by Lora Grey! There's a fun vampire wedding, a smuggling cabaret cat, and body horror nightmares! A normal set of Magic stories. If you want to support The Vorthos Cast, you can become a patron at Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast! Your support will go towards the costs of weeding our pristine porcelain annex! Also, check out our Twitter at twitter.com/TheVorthosCast where you can see the new playmat art! It's only got a little phyresis!

This week, Brian, Chris, and Cary talk all about the first three side stories of Streets of New Capenna! We're back in the big city, baby! We've got a chatty sphinx, a pile of metal bones, and a rhino man that's definitely not a platypus or secret agent! If you want to support The Vorthos Cast, you can become a patron at Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast! If you support us, Falco won't ask you to have a chat on his balcony.

Last week was full of surprises as Magic announced their "Pride Across the Multiverse" Secret Lair! Coming with this wonderful release was also a short story written by none other than the amazing Alison Lührs, and we have her on for the very first time to talk all things Huatli and Saheeli, writing queer Magic stories, fandom, our favorite cursed ships, and... Robert Pattinson? To learn more about Pride Across the Multiverse, visit the Magic website here: https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/feature/first-look-pride-across-multiverse-2022-05-02 If you want to read Alison's fabulous story about Huatli and Saheeli in a two-person love triangle, check it out here: https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/magic-story/note-stranger-2022-05-02 To support the Vorthos Cast, visit our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thevorthoscast

We've gathered to present to you the most delectable of flavor gems from Streets of New Capenna. Only the finest cuts, the highest quality flavor. We got them from a pal of ours over at the docks who said they fell off a ship. You're not some kinda Broker, are you? If you want to support The Vorthos Cast, you can become a patron at Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast! Your support goes towards the totally legal creation of this podcast.

We take a small detour this week to discuss the first issue of the spin-off mini-series from the Boom! Studios Magic comics, The Hidden Planeswalker! This is an incredible first issue written by Mairghread Scott and illustrated by Fabiana Mascolo, picking up the story where Liliana left off at the end of the first arc of the main Magic series. Mysteries abound and Liliana holds the key to unravel it all. If you want to support The Vorthos Cast, you can become a patron at Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast! You can find more about the Boom! Studios Magic comics at www.boom-studios.com! And you should, because they are so very good.

It's our 200th episode! That's a lot of episodes! We're celebrating this achievement by answering as many listener questions about Magic lore as we could fit into an hour long episode. The gang's all here and we're all bringing our expertise to tackle the hard-hitting questions like "Is Gix alive?" and "What kind of bird person would you be?" Sadly, cut for time was "Does Ajani use a litterbox?" I can assure you he absolutely does. If you want to support The Vorthos Cast for our next 200 episodes, you can become a patron at Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast! We appreciate every one of you! We wouldn't have made it this far without you.

We're back from our vacation to start talking all things Bloomburrow story! This week we're covering the first three episodes of the story by Valerie Valdes, what we think about the first glimpse of this new world, and what animalfolk we think the Lorwyn Five and friends would be on this plane! You can find all episodes of the Bloomburrow story right now on the Magic website for free! Just go to https://magic.wizards.com/en/story and read about the most lovable frog since Kermit! If you want to support us and help us keep making this podcast, check out our Patreon at Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast, where $1 a month gets you access to our Discord server, where we're talking all things Bloomburrow right now, and $3 a month lets you listen to us record each episode live, usually on Thursday evenings at 7pm.

While Loreley is still hiding out from the law and Jay is lost in the glitz and glam of his new internet fame, Brian, Cary, and Chris discuss the final two chapters of the main story of Streets of New Capenna. Was the story a runaway success, or did it end up spinning its tires on the final lap? If you enjoy listening to The Vorthos Cast, consider supporting us at www.Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast! And while you're at it, follow us on Twitter @TheVorthosCast.

This week we have a never before attempted double-feature of the Vorthos Cast! We're starting off with a history of Elspeth, one of Magic's most storied heroes with the least amount of actual story. We cover everything in her life, from her first planeswalk to her first death. Then, we move on to a summary and discussion of the first three episodes of the Streets of New Capenna story by Elise Kova! What's going on in this mysterious city with its gilded skyscrapers surrounded by the lost history of Phyrexian devastation? If you're enjoying The Vorthos Cast and want to connect with other Vorthoses around the world, you can support us on Patreon at www.Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast! For $1 a month you get access to our discord server where we're discussing new story releases, and for $3 a month you can join our live-listen tier where you get to hear the episode recorded live!

While the novella for Theros Beyond Death was never released, we at the Vorthos Cast slipped a few bucks to a hungry intern at WotC and got a link to the UNRELEASED recording of the Audiobook! This has incredible implications for the story of Streets of New Capenna! Publisher: Infinite Vorthosium Recordings Music: Steven O'Brien, "Epic Theme No. 2" https://soundcloud.com/stevenobrien/majestic-epic-orchestral-piece

You come to us, on the day of the release of the Streets of New Capenna story, and you ask us a favor, to tell you all about the illustrious history of organized crime in the lore of Magic: the Gathering? This is a favor we cannot refuse. Our lawyers have instructed us, though, to remind you that we are legitimate business Vorthoses and all of our books are clean, you see? Stop asking so many questions. If you enjoy The Vorthos Cast, consider supporting us on Patreon at www.patreon.com/thevorthoscast! It's a family business, you see? We're a family here.

After a week off, we've returned to give you a history of two of Magic's most popular (and sometimes controversial)creature types! We're talking Angels and Demons this week, and not the Dan Brown novel from the year 2000. Magic's two most consistent iconic representations of White and Black mana have been in the game since Alpha, and it looks like we'll be seeing quite a bit more of them in Streets of New Capenna, so it's time to get caught up on everything you need to know. If you enjoy The Vorthos Cast, consider supporting us on Patreon at www.patreon.com/thevorthoscast! You'll also get access to our Discord server, where Vorthoses from around the world are sharing their theories of what the heck is happening on New Capenna. There's never a better time to join than when a new and exciting story is on the horizon!

Wow, four years have gone by so fast! To celebrate the fourth birthday of The Vorthos Cast, we have Jay, Loreley, Brian, Chris, and Cary all on at once to answer questions about the podcast, while also sprinkling in thoughts on Magic lore and some behind the scenes looks at how the cast is put together.

This week, we have the author of Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty's main story and Kaito Origin story, Akemi Dawn Bowman, on to talk all about her experience writing for Wizards of the Coast, including the daunting task of writing such a pivotal story set in an 18-year-old world for a 30-year-old franchise! We also cover Kaito being a good boy, Tamiyo's compleation, and how the robot uprising will flatten Jay's house first. If you enjoy The Vorthos Cast, consider supporting us on Patreon at www.patreon.com/thevorthoscast!

This week, Cary and Chris tackle all three of the remaining side stories of Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty. They also discuss the overall release schedule for story this set and what they believe was great and what should be revisited for the next set! This is a long one with three story summaries, reactions, and conversation. If you enjoy The Vorthos Cast, consider supporting us on Patreon at www.patreon.com/thevorthoscast! For links to the stories, check out magic.wizards.com/story, or follow us on Twitter at @TheVorthosCast!

A new set means more delectable, mouthwatering, irresistibly tender flavor gems! Of course, an offering of such a tasty treat like Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty has enticed Jay back to the cast to sit and really chew on the newest cards with Loreley and Chris. Our legal counsel has instructed us to remind you to not eat the delicious cards. If you enjoy The Vorthos Cast, consider supporting us on Patreon at www.patreon.com/thevorthoscast!

We may have covered the compleat story of Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty last week, but we skipped over the origin story of our newest planeswalker, Kaito! Listen along as Loreley and Chris tell you all about how the ninja's spark ignited while being just as distracted by delicious smelling food as Kaito.

Thank you Wizards of the Coast for our free preview cards for Bloomburrow! We're happy to introduce the world to our two all-star uncommons, Mabel's Mettle and Quaketusk Boar! You can find full images of the cards and art on our Twitter at Twitter.com/TheVorthosCast

Thank you Wizards of the Coast for this free preview card and the opportunity to introduce Spinning Wheel Kick to the world! Now go Plague Wind Kick your opponents out of the game!

Loreley, Cary, and Chris cover the full five episodes of the Kamigaw: Neon Dynasty story! If you haven't read all five episodes of the story written by Akemi Dawn Bowman, you should do that now, because there are a lot of spoilers ahead! If you enjoy The Vorthos Cast, consider supporting us on Patreon at www.patreon.com/thevorthoscast!

We welcome back Jed MacKay, author of the Boom! Studios Magic comics, to discuss the end of the first big story arc! LOTS of big spoilers in our conversation! Many apologies for the audio as there were some connection errors while recording. If you enjoy The Vorthos Cast, consider supporting us on Patreon at www.patreon.com/thevorthoscast!