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Join Brian, Mike, Dirk and Chewie as they discuss all things Magic: The Gathering. Since there are plenty of tournament and strategy podcasts out there, we've decided to focus on the fun of...

This is what happens when there's no Dirk and when the Pooligans don't give us a direction. You can't just leave us to our own devices! We c...

The dorks return to Magic to take a look at Secrets of Strixhaven, the new set that amazingly isn't based on some other IP! Two of the dorks...

We've done it! We're made it to three quarters of four figures! To celebrate doing this for over 18 years (not quite half our lives) we're g...

And then it all came crashing down. After Overwatch, the Devil Himself took over and ran decades of goodwill into the ground in the pursuit...

We pivoted away from our second Blizzard show to save Brian's mental health, but we'll do it very soon! Instead we're doing a DJC that start...

Remember when Blizzard was great? Warcraft, Starcraft, and Diablo were some of the most powerful IPs in gaming, and they all came from a sin...

The dorks (most of them anyway) return to do exactly one (1) episode on the TMNT MTG set. There are improved versions of old mechanics, vide...

The dorks are joined this episode by our old buddy and former Monday Night Magic host Squee! Or Bill, if you prefer. And we're talking about...

The dorks dive into the idea of crossovers, when intellectual properties show up in other intellectual properties. We're placing examples on...

The dorks return for our second week on Lorwyn Eclipsed, which is officially more than Wizards of the Coast spent previewing the entire set....

It all comes full circle eventually. We first went to Lorwyn waaaay back in 2007, when The Mana Pool started, and we haven't been back since...

Hey it's the first episode of 2026! And the dorks are back in force, with a big look at the different types of aliens and how they're depict...

For the last episode of 2025, the dorks (except Dirk) spend an entire episode inadvertently discussing a lot of nostalgic stuff. It kicks of...

Welcome to Supply Lines, a running feature here on TMP where the dorks will be looking at resource management in games. What games? All game...

The dorks are discussing the different types of vehicular transporation you can find in video games. From the cutscene/background only vehic...

The dorks continue checking out the Avatar set! And it's just after Chewie's 45th birthday! What is going on here? Where is the Avatar? What...

Yup, the dorks are looking at the Avatar: The Last Airbender set. And it's our 18 year anniversary! Holy crap! Mechanics: https://magic.wiza...

The dorks (except Mike) get together to discuss what we've been playing lately along with a bit of personal nonsense. You know how it is, we...

Since it's Halloween time the dorks thought they'd get into the spirit of things by telling you all about some spooky stories. These come fr...

Welcome to Supply Lines, a running feature here on TMP where the dorks will be looking at resource management in games. What games? All game...

On this fictional episode of The Mana Pool, the dorks are taking a look at books that don't actually exist. Whether they're macguffins that...

The dorks dive back into the Spider-Man (and the Through the Omenpaths digital nonsense version) Magic set to pick out a mess of cards to ta...

The dorks swing over to both the Spider-Man set and the Arena non-Spidey version at the same time to discuss what the new set looks like. Sp...

The dorks called an audible this week, so here's the Dorks Just Chatting that resulted. We're all over the place this week, talking about We...

The dorks take on the existence of creatures that science doesn't support, known as cryptids. We're picking out some of them to talk about i...

The dorks head back into the Edge of Eternities gallery, poking around at cards in the set that are neat and tripping into tangents along th...

The dorks return to take their first (and possibly only) look at Edge of Eternities! Because of real life we haven't actually seen terribly...

With Brian still on a boat, the remaining dorks return to just talk about whatever comes to mind! We touch on the recent celebrity deaths be...

The dorks are looking back at their years of playing video games and choosing some of their favorite weapons to share! Sometimes it's for th...

The dorks couldn't settle on a topic for this week, so we turned to our Discord community of Pooligans for some ideas! We're answering three...

Most of the dorks are back! This week we're talking about world events that happen every four years...for some reason? Then Chewie talks abo...

The dorks return to finish up with the Final Fantasy Universes Beyond set! Along with the usual tangents and distractions, of course. It is...

The dorks are back, bouncing around the Card Image Gallery for the Final Fantasy Universes Beyond set! As usual for UB, we're primarily chec...

Now that the full previews have begun, the dorks dive back into card from the upcoming Universes Beyond Final Fantasy set! We're hitting the...

Originally we were going to make this episode about everything Star Wars other than the movies, but it turns out we spent WAY too much time...

Welcome to Supply Lines, a new running feature here on TMP where the dorks will be looking at resource management in games. What games? All...

What exactly is a roguelike? Well it's a video game...genre? Sort of? Genres are all made up and stupid. In this episode, the dorks will div...

Oh hey, the set about dragons has a bunch of dragons in it! Weird. Guess we should probably take a look at some of them huh? Card Image Gall...

The dorks are back! First Chewie recaps Cheevos For Charity 2025, which was a glorious time that raised over $1500 for Trans Lifeline! After...

If you've ever been slept, poisoned, charmed, stunned, slowed, or...made an atheist (?) then this episode is for you! The dorks are talking...

The dorks couldn't come up with something to talk about this episode, so we asked the Pooligans in our Discord community for some ideas! Myc...

The dorks take their first look at the long-awaited Final Fantasy Universes Beyond MTG set! We're all FF dorks to one degree or another, so...

No, you're not hallucinating and you haven't fallen into a time portal (unless you're coming from the future, in which case SAVE US!). It's...

To celebrate the fake retail holiday Valentine's Day (which was the day after we recorded this), the dorks wanted to shift gears away from t...

The dorks take a look at the mechanics and gallery of Aetherdrift. You know the drill, we do this sort of thing all the time. Sorry we misse...

Gamers, amirite? Whether it's opponents across the table, friends next to you, or randos online, eventually they're all going to do somethin...

The dorks take a look at the main antagonists & final bosses of the first six Final Fantasy games! These range from just nothing to one of t...

The dorks kick off 2025 by looking back at the stuff that happened to us over the last year. Life events, games we played, shows we recorded...

The dorks round out 2024 by finishing up our Castlevania discussion! We're hitting all the remaining games, which includes the Game Boy Adva...

The dorks are doing something a little different this episode. We're taking a look at the Castlevania franchise as a whole! Castlevania is a...