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Magic The Flavouring - Podcast

Magic The Flavouring

Andy and Nathan discuss the flavour highs and lows of the world's greatest card game, Magic: The Gathering. Join them as they talk through world building, lore, mechanics and art, on a meandering quest to explore the relationship between storytelling and gameplay.

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Update frequency
every 16 days
Average duration
73 minutes
Episodes
156
Years Active
2020 - 2025
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Ep.16 Magic Without The Gathering/Ikoria Spoilers

Ep.16 Magic Without The Gathering/Ikoria Spoilers

The guys run through the small steps you can take to engage with the game of Magic when you can't actually sit down and play it. With almost everyone around the world unable to get a face to face gam…

00:58:11  |   Fri 03 Apr 2020
Ep.15 What's That Coming Over The Hill?

Ep.15 What's That Coming Over The Hill?

The guys talk through their predictions for Ikoria: Lair Of Behemoths and breakdown some of the hints given out by the Mtg Creative team in regards to its mechanics and creature types. What creature …

00:42:47  |   Thu 26 Mar 2020
Ep.14 Legendary Potential

Ep.14 Legendary Potential

Coming to you from what can only be assumed is some sort of cavernous Hall of Legends on account of all the echos, the guys talk through what qualities make a Legendary Creature in the game of Magic,…

01:13:45  |   Tue 17 Mar 2020
Ep.13 Flavour Builds: Scarab God/Grenzo

Ep.13 Flavour Builds: Scarab God/Grenzo

The guys run through some of their most flavourful commander decks and talk about the different levels of building with theme and flavour. What is the balance between form and function and what choic…

01:24:35  |   Tue 10 Mar 2020
Ep.12 The Great Snake Debate

Ep.12 The Great Snake Debate

It's time to settle this once and for all! Is a Naga a Naga or is it a Snake? Well before they can answer that question, the guys have to go through every other humanoid race in Magic and find out wh…

01:15:02  |   Fri 06 Mar 2020
Ep.11 Tourist Traps Of The Blind Eternities

Ep.11 Tourist Traps Of The Blind Eternities

What new Planes do the guys want to see as a future setting in a main MTG set and which ones are they sick to death of visiting? Do the main characters matter more than the world they inhabit or is i…

01:16:01  |   Fri 28 Feb 2020
Ep.10 Walking With Flavour

Ep.10 Walking With Flavour

The guys talk about Planeswalkers, both in their role as MTG story's heroes and as some of the games most powerful cards. 

Are Planeswalkers too bound by the needs of each set or would making each one…

01:07:09  |   Tue 18 Feb 2020
Ep.9 State Of The Story

Ep.9 State Of The Story

The guys dig deep into one of the most hot button issues of recent magic, the handling and delivery of Mtg Story. 

In the past 12 months there have been so many twists and turns that sometimes it is h…

01:22:24  |   Tue 11 Feb 2020
Ep.8 Going Green- Green

Ep.8 Going Green- Green

Rounding out their cycle of colour pie episodes, the guys talk through Green and its perceived domination of battle cruiser magic. Does a format's popularity effect how a colour is represented in the…

01:22:21  |   Tue 04 Feb 2020
Ep.7 Theros Beyond Death Flavour Review

Ep.7 Theros Beyond Death Flavour Review

The guys breakdown Theros Beyond Death. From Titans to Demigods, this set has a dense lore and only one set to fulfill some high flavour expectations.

What challenges come with returning to a fan favo…

01:31:40  |   Tue 28 Jan 2020
Ep.6 Lightning Bolt Round- Red

Ep.6 Lightning Bolt Round- Red

The guys discuss the colour Red and quickly uncover that there is more to this section of the colour pie than destruction and chaos. From Goblins to Dragons, from fury to joy, Red is one of the most …

01:22:58  |   Sat 18 Jan 2020
Ep.5 The Colour Of Spite- Black

Ep.5 The Colour Of Spite- Black

Do the ends always justify the means? If you're anything like Andy and you play mostly Black, then you may subscribe to winning at all costs! Andy and Nathan breakdown the major tenets of Magic's mos…

01:23:14  |   Fri 10 Jan 2020
Ep.4 Second The Best- Blue

Ep.4 Second The Best- Blue

Continuing with their cycle of Colour Pie Episodes, Andy and Nathan breakdown what is often thought to be Magic's best colour, Blue.
Through looking at the colour's key principles and at its history s…

01:16:22  |   Fri 10 Jan 2020
Ep.3 The First Is The Worst- White

Ep.3 The First Is The Worst- White


In the first installment of MTF's cycle of Colour Pie episodes, the guys tackle the big question: Is White the worst colour of Magic?
Walking through White's main tropes and characteristics and how th…

01:26:39  |   Thu 09 Jan 2020
Ep.2 Throne Of Eldraine Flavour Review

Ep.2 Throne Of Eldraine Flavour Review

A legendary success, or a grim failure? How much flavour is packed into Throne Of Eldraine? Well, as it is the storybook set, the guys guess quite a bit actually!
Andy and Nathan unpack the set and ta…

01:13:10  |   Thu 09 Jan 2020
Ep.1 What Is Flavour?

Ep.1 What Is Flavour?


This show is all about MTG flavour, but what is flavour anyway? Today the guys give an introduction to how Magic: The Gathering tells storys through the cardboard and how the game expresses itself ou…

00:50:48  |   Thu 09 Jan 2020
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