Mike Lester, Zach Kagan, Tor Uggen, and Micah (aka Belly) are four pals with varying degrees of experience in stand up comedy and fantasy card games. In I Love You Mana, they discuss Magic: The Gathering and its surrounding culture in a manner accessible to almost anyone, with a level of accuracy that will leave pedants with plenty to correct them on.
Belly takes Mike to Salt Court over a recent game of commander and their differing views on the meaning of "taksies backsies". The proceedings begin at (20:47) with Tor presiding as judge and Zach as…
It's another chaos episode--Tor, Zach, Mike, and Belly talk about life, death, marriage, rebirth, the cycle of life...the angelic quartet is joined by a new, utterly perplexing character from the dee…
There is no structure to this episode. It's a formless blob of words. A cuttlefish removed from it's natural habitat. We have outdone ourselves here and we can assure you that we will continue to low…
Mike, Zach, Tor & Belly ride the zeitgeist sandworm and talk Denis Villeneuve’s Dune (2021). This is a SPOILER HEAVY episode so if you haven’t read Frank Herbert’s Dune or watched any of the Hollywoo…
The THRILLING conclusion to the most ambitious ILYM role playing extravaganza, Back to School: Adventures into the Orbsah School of Wizardry (completely original and unique concept), is here! In the …
In the fallout of the "I Love You, Mana Live! III" podcast show, Mike and Belly are left to pick up the pieces. Without the bosoms of Zach and Tor to keep them warm, M&M search for answers in this ne…
We welcome Sierkovitz—limited data specialist, frequent 17lands.com and channelfireball.com collaborator, and actual ILYM listener—to the I Love You, Mana HQ for an incredibly scholarly jaunt. To Zac…
Mike, Tor, Belly, and Zach attempt to answer one of life’s most enigmatic questions: What is Jank?
Mike and Belly start out the ep questioning Zach’s alibi and (4:45) reliving Mike’s week of EDH and…
In the most ambitious ILYM role playing extravaganza to date, the Holy Trinity embarks on a new quest of self discovery at the Orbsah School of Wizardry (completely original and unique concept). For…
We welcomed the hosts of The Memory Jar Podcast, David P. and Christian W., to the ILYM HQ for a special, crossover podcast bonanza. David and Christian dazzled Mike, Zach, Tor and Micah (Belly) with…
That’s right, folks. we’re bringing back ILYM PRESENTS—a series that, in a departure from the chaos of our main feed, hones in on a specific topic related to the children’s card game we all know and …
With Mike Lester’s official return, the gang adventures into the Cave of The Mad Podcaster and attempts a “Roll a Nat 20” approach to covering Magic, The Gathering content. Other topics that the ange…
With Mike and Ricky Ramen still on the run, Micah, Zach, and Tor eat from the forbidden fruit (attempt to record a straight MTG episode) and are subsequently cast out from everlasting paradise. The p…
Folks, this one’s pretty loose—an inexplicable free-flow of content from the deep recesses of the I Love You, Mana multiverse. Zach, Tor, and Micah are joined by special guests Aaron Isaacs (@AaronIs…
Zach, Micah (Belly), and Tor talk about chunking strategies, Zach’s wonderful man-child-plumbing story, Uber_Chewy’s various OP EDH decks, and pivoting to become either the first conspiracy theory MT…
DEBUTING THE JOE LESTER SESSIONS (exclusively on the ‘I Love You, Mana’ Patreon)—A series of raw and uncut recordings of Mike Lester with the being that sired him, Joe Lester. That’s right, folks. Mi…
Zach, Tor, and Belly (Micah) discuss viruses, prestige television, the labor shortage in the fast food industry, anime, Alan Dershowitz, and the upcoming Magic the Gathering Jumpstart: Historic Horiz…
In the Belly’s return, Mike, Zach, and Belly (Micah) discuss weddings, Micah’s list of gripes, the AFR Commander Precons, MTGA fatigue, and the long awaited WINNER of the RANDOM RARE GIVEAWAY. In th…
I had to stay up to edit this and now I'm not going to get stuff i need to get done today done. Fuck writing descriptions.
Mike's lovely mother shares some of her immeasurable wisdom with us. Lots of fun little stories about weed, Mike's run-ins with the law, and her marriage to Mike's father.