The Mana Pool – Details, episodes & analysis

After all this time, the dorks are finally closing the door on the Heirs of Trivester. Did you want a big boss fight? Because we've got a big boss fight!

We started this journey back in 2016, though the seeds were actually planted in 2009. To celebrate, I've gathered up all the episodes from before the show was posted on YouTube, made them into videos, and created a playlist of the whole RPG saga! 

Heirs of Trivester RPG playlist - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLU7fCFJm8PYRvsDeLcuHNxOtIRW0oU9qP

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The dorks take a look at one of their favorite game genres - Role-Playing Games! We're bouncing around between games that we've loved over the years, both video and tabletop, and talking about why we feel how we do about them. Plus Chewie has to rant about how video game genres are complete nonsense (because they totally are - guess who writes these show notes?)

Tell us about your favorite RPGs!

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The dorks return from their longer-than-intended hiatus to finally take our first (and probably only) look at Outlaws of Thunder Junction. We're hitting the mechanics and then taking a look at all the cards the pooligans in the TMP Discord recommended for us. You should join it too so you can tell us what to do!

OTJ Mechanics - https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/feature/outlaws-of-thunder-junction-mechanics
OTJ Card Image Gallery - https://magic.wizards.com/en/products/outlaws-of-thunder-junction/card-image-gallery

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Cheevos For Charity my big charity stream happening March 23 & 24, from Noon to Midnight Eastern time each day. I'm going after randomly chosen achievements while taking donations for Trans Lifeline and giving away Steam games from a list of over 900. Come join me, help support a great cause, and get some video games!

The dorks return with a random assortment of of nonsense! We begin by making fun of two accents, then introduce ourselves and our hair. After that Chewie makes the big Cheevos For Charity announcement (more on that below). Then we go into a lengthy conversation about other card games we've played throughout the years. That leads into a discussion about power creep in long-running games. Then it's briefly talking about new consoles and nerding out about Dune.

Cheevos For Charity my big charity stream happening March 23 & 24, from Noon to Midnight Eastern time each day. I'm going after randomly chosen achievements while taking donations for Trans Lifeline and giving away Steam games from a list of over 900. Come join me, help support a great cause, and get some video games!

Come join us in the future! The show is live on Thursdays around 8pm(ish) Eastern time on Twitch

Become a Lifeguard on Patreon! – www.patreon.com/themanapool

Podcast RSS Feed: https://themanapool.libsyn.com/rss
YouTube: www.youtube.com/TheManaPool
The Deep End: https://www.youtube.com/@TheDeepEndTMP
Twitch: www.twitch.tv/themanapool
Discord: discord.gg/7da7T6s
Twitter: @TheManaPool
BlueSky: themanapool.bsky.social
Threads: @TheManaPool
Email: dorks@themanapool.com

Support TMP on Humble Bundle! – www.humblebundle.com/store?partner=themanapool

Intro & Outro Music: Diamond by Swift – https://open.spotify.com/artist/0vAs5HIBkUPbuoN5b5GWTE

Remember Fallout? You know, the video game series with radiation and Nuka-Cola and Ron Perlman's voice and power armor and Vault Boy? That game series that hasn't had a good game release in almost a decade? Sure you do! And of course, Magic is releasing some Commander Decks for it under the Universes Beyond label!

The dorks are diving into the first batch of reveals from the Fallout decks and focusing, as we do with these UB sets, on how the cards relate back to the source material. Since two of us have lots of experience with the IP, we're gonna be explaining things to the other two. This was a fun one! Be sure to let us know what you think, and how much Fallout you've played!

Mechanics - https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/feature/magic-the-gathering-fallout-mechanics
Card Image Gallery - https://magic.wizards.com/en/products/fallout/card-image-gallery

Come join us in the future! The show is live on Thursdays around 8pm(ish) Eastern time on Twitch

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Twitter: @TheManaPool
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The dorks take a look at the Ravnica: Clue Edition Evidence cards, meaning the suspects, weapons, and rooms that come from the board game Clue. After that we're taking a look at the Murders at Karlov Manor Commander deck commanders. Then we go back to doing our usual thing where we bounce around and look at whatever catches our eye or whatever Twitch chat directs us to. 

Would you choose silence or snitch?

Card Image Gallery - https://magic.wizards.com/en/products/murders-at-karlov-manor/card-image-gallery

Come join us in the future! The show is live on Thursdays around 8pm(ish) Eastern time on Twitch

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The Deep End: https://www.youtube.com/@TheDeepEndTMP
Twitch: www.twitch.tv/themanapool
Discord: discord.gg/7da7T6s
Twitter: @TheManaPool
BlueSky: themanapool.bsky.social
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The usual suspects are here, and they're dorks. We're taking another look at Murders at Karlov Manor! After going through the mythics we do our usual thing of bouncing around the set looking for cool stuff to talk about, and there's a LOT of cool stuff to talk about.

Card Image Gallery - https://magic.wizards.com/en/products/murders-at-karlov-manor/card-image-gallery

Come join us in the future! The show is live on Thursdays around 8pm(ish) Eastern time on Twitch

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Twitter: @TheManaPool
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Support TMP on Humble Bundle! – www.humblebundle.com/store?partner=themanapool

Intro & Outro Music: Diamond by Swift – https://open.spotify.com/artist/0vAs5HIBkUPbuoN5b5GWTE

The game is afoot! The dorks are investigating The Murders at Karlov Manor for the first time! We'll be looking at all the usual suspects - the mechanics article and the card image gallery. The mechanics are especially neat this time around. We've got Morph+ and the bizarre lovechild of Quests & Sagas being my two high points. Let us know what you think of the new stuff!

And it's KARLOV Manor. Yeah, we know. Especially Brian.

Mechanics - https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/feature/murders-at-karlov-manor-mechanics
Card Image Gallery - https://magic.wizards.com/en/products/murders-at-karlov-manor/card-image-gallery

Come join us in the future! The show is live on Thursdays around 8pm(ish) Eastern time on Twitch

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YouTube: www.youtube.com/TheManaPool
The Deep End: https://www.youtube.com/@TheDeepEndTMP
Twitch: www.twitch.tv/themanapool
Discord: discord.gg/7da7T6s
Twitter: @TheManaPool
BlueSky: themanapool.bsky.social
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Email: dorks@themanapool.com

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Intro & Outro Music: Diamond by Swift – https://open.spotify.com/artist/0vAs5HIBkUPbuoN5b5GWTE

This is it! The dorks are doing the final pre-Mythic expansion, Eventide, for Mythic Conscription! This was a fun one, as we have a lot of nostalgia for Eventide. There's also a really good discussion about swapping the power level for two hybrid cycles from the previous set. Be sure to let us know what you think!

This is really bizarre to say. We started Mythic Conscription waaaaay back in 2015. We are still going to do something with base/core sets, but absolutely not all of them. But as far as regular expansions go...we're done. It's so weird to not have a list of sets to fall back on.

Come join us in the future! The show is live on Thursdays around 8pm(ish) Eastern time on Twitch

Become a Lifeguard on Patreon! – www.patreon.com/themanapool

Podcast RSS Feed: https://themanapool.libsyn.com/rss
YouTube: www.youtube.com/TheManaPool
The Deep End: https://www.youtube.com/@TheDeepEndTMP
Twitch: www.twitch.tv/themanapool
Discord: discord.gg/7da7T6s
Twitter: @TheManaPool
BlueSky: themanapool.bsky.social
Threads: @TheManaPool
Email: dorks@themanapool.com

Support TMP on Humble Bundle! – www.humblebundle.com/store?partner=themanapool

Intro & Outro Music: Diamond by Swift – https://open.spotify.com/artist/0vAs5HIBkUPbuoN5b5GWTE