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With the end of Outlaws of Thunder Junction, we also finished the first story arc since the end of March of the Machine! We've got Roy Graham, Story Lead at Wizards of the Coast for Magic, on the podcast this week to talk about leading the story through the omenpaths and into a new era, including creating and growing Kellan, setting up the BIG reveal, and what we can expect going forward. If you like our podcast, thank you! We like you, too! If you want to support us as we continue to make weekly episodes, you can find us at Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast, where $1 a month gets you access to our Discord server and $3 a month gets you the chance to listen to us record our show live!

With Modern Horizons 3 on, well, the horizons, we're turning our vast and endless eye upon the story of the Eldrazi, cosmic horrors from the blind eternities whose purpose--if it exists--remains unknown. To know your enemy, you must know their history, and this week we'll discuss the story of the Eldrazi in Magic, as well as what we know to be true about these terrors from beyond the thin veil of reality. If you want to support The Vorthos Cast you can do so at Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast! This will also get you access to our Discord server, where folks are discussing the slow trickle of previews for Modern Horizons 3 and the future of Magic story. It's only $1 a month for access, and $3 a month to listen to us record the podcast live!

We're rustlin' up some grub with the flavor gems of Thunder Junction! Were you wondering about some of these Western tropes, curious about how many of these legends have been seen round these parts before, or just want to know where you can get some Halo out on the range? Bring your own tin can and we'll serve up some answers on this week's episode. If you want to leave your servers a nice tip, you can do so by joining our Patreon at Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast, where $1 a month gets you access to our Discord channel and $3 a month means you can listen to us record live! If you can't spare any coin, you can always leave us a review wherever podcasts can be reviewed, and we'll enjoy that just the same.

The ending has come to Outlaws of Thunder Junction, and it brings with it the start of something new. This week we're covering the two-part epilogue to the Outlaws of Thunder Junction story and the real ending of the Omenpath Arc of Magic Story, finally getting answers for Jace and Vraska's escape from Phyrexian influence and their plans for the future of their family and the multiverse. We also discuss some of our thoughts about this arc in general, and specifically the state of Magic story as it goes into the Dragonstorm Arc. You can subscribe to our Patreon, where $1 a month gets you access to our Discord server and $3 a month means you can listen to us record our episodes live! You can find us at Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast. You can also find us on Twitter at @TheVorthosCast, or email us with thoughts, questions, comments, coupons for free cheese dip at [email protected].

The main story of Outlaws of Thunder Junction is finished, but before we can watch our outlaws ride off into the sunset, we have to tell tale of Annie Flash with "Blood Is Thicker Than Venom" by H. E. Edgmon. Then we see what happens when you put the most untrustworthy scoundrels of the multiverse together for one big job, and you know it ain't a happy ending. Read Episode 5, "High Moon": https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/magic-story/episode-5-high-moon Read Episode 6, "The Ballad of Thieves and Thunderslingers": https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/magic-story/episode-6-the-ballad-of-thieves-and-thunderslingers Read "Blood Is Thicker Than Venom": https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/magic-story/blood-is-thicker-than-venom Then, you can subscribe to our Patreon, where $1 a month gets you access to our Discord server and $3 a month means you can listen to us record our episodes live! You can find us at Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast. You can also find us on Twitter at @TheVorthosCast, or email us with thoughts, questions, comments, coupons for free cheese dip at [email protected].

The train's pulling up to the station and you have to face the choice: Do you listen to us discuss episodes 3 and 4 of the main story and the side story "A Pleasant Family Outing," or do you tuck tail and run away? We're continuing our discussions of the Outlaws of Thunder Junction stories by Akemi Dawn Bowman this week with the two main story episodes, "A Train to Prosperity" and "Finding Tarnation." But halfway through "Finding Tarnation," we got waylaid by the dastardly Seanan McGuire once again with her side story, "A Pleasant Family Outing"! Read Episode 3, "A Train to Prosperity": https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/magic-story/episode-3-a-train-to-prosperity Read Episode 4, "Finding Tarnation": https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/magic-story/episode-4-finding-tarnation Read "A Pleasant Family Outing": https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/magic-story/a-pleasant-family-outing Then, you can subscribe to our Patreon, where $1 a month gets you access to our Discord server and $3 a month means you can listen to us record our episodes live! You can find us at Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast. You can also find us on Twitter at @TheVorthosCast, or email us with thoughts, questions, comments, coupons for free cheese dip at [email protected].

We have to free previews from Outlaws of Thunder Junction, including one plot-pivotal story spotlight that doubles as a nasty removal spell (we always have to get one) and one very sharp-dressed and sharp-clawed desperado! You can see full cards and art on our Twitter @TheVorthosCast!

What's this? A special bonus episode of The Vorthos Cast? That's right! We had the incredible opportunity to invite Isaac Fellman, author of "No Tells," the side story for Outlaws of Thunder Junction that introduces Yuma and his little cactus baby Kirri to Magic! We talk all about the experience of writing for Magic as an outsider to the IP, our favorite noir films, and the ways in which our lives influence our writing and our writing influences our lives. Isaac Fellman is the author of the upcoming novel, Notes from a Regicide, as well as Dead Collections, The Two Doctors Górski, and The Breath of the Sun. You can follow him on Bluesky (isaac-fellman.bsky.social) and subscribe to his newsletter at https://isaacs-law.ghost.io/. You can support The Vorthos Cast at www.Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast! For $1 a month you get access to our Discord server, and for $3 a month you can listen as we record episodes live every week! Sometimes, like this week, you can even get two episodes live! That's such a bargain!

Two worlds collide in this episode of the unofficial Magic story podcast, The Vorthos Cast, as we have on the hosts of the official Magic Story Podcast, Harless Snyder and Natalie Kreider! We talk all about making a Magic story podcast, what makes Magic story so incredible, and how important it is to provide access to the stories that make Magic great to all audiences. Go check out The Magic Story Podcast anywhere you can listen to podcasts! They're everywhere! It's hard to miss them. If you'd like to support the unofficial Magic story podcast, The Vorthos Cast, you can do so at www.Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast, where $1 a month gets you access to our Discord server, and $3 a month will get you into our live listens, where you could have heard us gab with Natalie and Harless all about cats and horses before and after our recording. Also, if you hear audio issues in this episode, it happens! They won't be in the next episode.

We got caught unawares out on the trail as a whole band of Outlaws showed up from the brush, thunder rifles drawn. We're here this week to cover the first two episodes of the main story of Outlaws of Thunder Junction, by that dastardly Akemi Dawn Bowman, and no lawman or outlaw is going to keep us from doing it. Read the first episode here: https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/magic-story/episode-1-an-offer-of-revenge And read that second episode, too: https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/magic-story/episode-2-the-jailbreak Then mosey on down to the Patreon saloon and toss your favorite lore podcast a coin or two so we can keep making these episodes, ya hear? www.Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast

We're heading into the wasteland today (not the Tempest one) to talk all about the CRAM-packed flavor gems of the Fallout commander decks! Here's all you need to know about the biggest flavor bombs of the set, including a lot of backstory for the Fallout franchise that may help you appreciate the retro-futuristic sci-fi post-apocalypse dark comedy of the post-2077 American Wasteland! If you want to support The Vorthos Cast, you can do so at Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast! This will get you access to our Discord server, where Vorthoses from around the world are excited about Outlaws of Thunder Junction! It's only $1 a month for access, and $3 a month to listen to us record the podcast live!

A little over a week ago, The Vorthos Cast was in Chicago for MagicCon Chicago! We did a full live episode you can now watch on YouTube called WANTED: Scoundrels of the Multiverse! It's a good one! Go watch it and share it with all your friends. Here's a link to it: https://youtu.be/721mpoC5aC8 This week's episode is a recap of our time in Chicago, including how we created our panel and the experience of being a guest for one of the biggest Magic events of all time.

With our trip to MagicCon Chicago only days away, we sit down to talk about the short epilogue to the Murders at Karlov Manor story, as well as a broad discussion on ways to grow Magic story and make it more popular to a broader audience of Magic players. If you're reading this on the day of release, it's probably too late to decide to go to MagicCon Chicago. If you're reading this after the MagicCon, it's definitely too late. If you're reading this before the day it's posted, you're a time traveler and can probably go to any event you want at any time! If that's the case, join The Vorthos Cast Live on Saturday at 11am on the Mana Stage! We've got a great show planned for y'all! If you want to support The Vorthos Cast, which is how we can actually afford to get the entire podcast out to Chicago for this event, you can do so at Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast! This will also get you access to our Discord server, where folks (including us) will probably be organizing hangouts and games while in Chicago. It's only $1 a month for access, and $3 a month to listen to us record the podcast live!

This week we're joined once again by the incredible Seanan McGuire, author of the Murders at Karlov Manor story! She answers our questions about writing a murder mystery, the importance of planeswalker friendships, and killing your darling planeswalkers and friends. If you'd like to support The Vorthos Cast, check us out on Patreon at Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast, where all of our patrons get access to our Discord server!

This week we return with our favorite flavor gems from Murders at Karlov Manor! We discuss references to 90-year-old mystery novels, famous TV detectives, and '90s era anti-drug school programs. It's a bit all over the place, honestly. If you'd like to support us with money, you can do that! You still get all the episodes we release even if you don't, but if you do give us $1 a month on Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast, you'll get access to our Discord server, which is a cool place. $3 a month will let you listen to us record the show live on Thursday evenings, which is a very cool thing to do.

With the killer revealed, we know the who and how but not the why... In this episode, we discover what misguided beliefs may have led one of the speakers for the world soul of Ravnica itself to lash out with malice against the guildmasters (and goblin) with murderous intent. We also discuss our overall feelings of this set's story, and why we all really think you should read it. If you'd like to support us with money, you can do that! You still get all the episodes we release even if you don't, but if you do give us $1 a month on Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast, you'll get access to our Discord server, which is a cool place. $3 a month will let you listen to us record the show live on Thursday evenings, which is a very cool thing to do.

Thank you to Wizards of the Coast for our three free preview cards for Murders at Karlov Manor! We were given three excellent story spotlights from the newest story, which you can (and should!) read here: https://magic.wizards.com/en/story For full images of our cards, including alternate arts, check out our Twitter! https://twitter.com/TheVorthosCast

As the case heats up, our plucky detectives fight their way through moss-eating assailants, Rakdos assassins, and Gruul mole gods. In the end, the clues fall into place and the identity of the killer is revealed. Who could be responsible for such brazen assassinations? And will the Guildpact survive if the killer of guildmasters is a guildmaster all their own... MNUGKY3LEBRGCY3LEB2G63LPOJZG65ZA MF2CA3TPN5XCAZLBON2GK4TOEB2GS3LF EB2G6IDTMVSSA33VOIQHI2DSMVSSAZTSM VSSA4DSMV3GSZLXEBRWC4TEOMQGM33S EBWXK4TEMVZHGIDBOQQGWYLSNRXXMIDN MFXG64RMEBUW4Y3MOVSGS3THEBQXE5B APFXXKIDNMF4SA2DBOZSSA43FMVXCAY TFMZXXEZI= If you'd like to support us with money, you can do that! You still get all the episodes we release even if you don't, but if you do give us $1 a month on Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast, you'll get access to our Discord server, which is a cool place. $3 a month will let you listen to us record the show live on Thursday evenings, which is a very cool thing to do.

Karlov Manor, the home of esteemed Orzhov guildmaster Teysa Karlov, is the site of the party of the year... and also of two terrifying murders. As the mystery deepens, it's up to Ravnica's Most Famous Detective (a very real accolade) Alquist Proft and former Orzhov guildmaster Kaya Cassir to lead their own independent investigations into the heart of these grisly crimes. Clues pile up, motives abound, and yet one question still remains: Whodunnit? This week we're covering the first four episodes of the Murders at Karlov Manor story by Seanan McGuire! If you'd like to support us with money, you can do that! You still get all the episodes we release even if you don't, but if you do give us $1 a month on Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast, you'll get access to our Discord server, which is a cool place. $3 a month will let you listen to us record the show live on Thursday evenings, which is a very cool thing to do.

In the Ravnica justice system, the people are represented by, well, actually it's kind of complicated. Are the people represented? How are laws made? Is murder actually legal? The answer may surprise you! Or it won't, considering this is Ravnica we're talking about, and crimes really depend on your guild affiliation... This week we're covering everything we know about laws, crimes, and murders on Ravnica to prepare you for the Murders at Karlov Manor. If you'd like to support us with money, you can do that! You still get all the episodes we release even if you don't, but if you do give us $1 a month on Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast, you'll get access to our Discord server, which is a cool place. $3 a month will let you listen to us record the show live on Thursday evenings, which is a very cool thing to do.

We've made it to the end step of the year! Now it's time to cleanup with our thoughts and feelings about all things Vorthos in the year 2023. The end of a multi-year arc, the start of a whole new world of stories, and so many products we couldn't even dare cover them all. We'll see you all in 2024 for a jam-packed year of murders, cowboys, and adorable little animals. Thank you all so much for your support over the year! If you'd like to support us with money, you can do that! You still get all the episodes we release even if you don't, but if you do give us $1 a month on Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast, you'll get access to our Discord server, which is a cool place. $3 a month will let you listen to us record the show live on Thursday evenings, which is a very cool thing to do.

Magic now has its own multiverse spanning collection of delicious recipes! Cuisines of the Multiverse by Victoria Rosenthal and Jenna Helland released recently and we sat down to read not just the incredible recipes created by Victoria Rosenthal, but also the wealth of lore blurbs written by Jenna Helland. This book contains 12,000 words of real flavor text, giving some tasty tidbits to each recipe, including some commentary by Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar and a tale of Tyvar's heroics. New Capenna didn't make the cut for this book, but luckily we have an excerpt for you: New Capenna Dinner 1) Order a pizza If you want to support Victoria Rosenthal, you can find more about her and her cookbook collections at https://pixelatedprovisions.com/ Support us on Patreon at Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast, where $1 a month gets you access to our Discord server and $3 a month gets you early access to the podcast as it's being recorded!

We take a relaxed stroll through the market of Ixalan and pull out some tasty flavor gems from the set that show off the new lore and genre tropes of the world. Support us on Patreon at Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast, where $1 a month gets you access to our Discord server and $3 a month gets you early access to the podcast as it's being recorded!

This week we had the absolute privilege of interviewing Valerie Valdes, author of the Lost Caverns of Ixalan story! This interview covers a wide range of topics, including how to approach writing a story with multiple points of view, honoring and respecting the histories of people whose stories you are telling, the insidious reaches of imperialism and colonialism, and fun magical girl TTRPGs. You can read the Lost Caverns of Ixalan stories at magic.wizards.com/en/story. Support us on Patreon at Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast, where $1 a month gets you access to our Discord server and $3 a month gets you early access to the podcast as it's being recorded!

When Huatli asks her lover, Saheeli, to take her place in a clandestine plot to avoid another war, she finds herself in the middle of a tense negotiation between the most influential people on the surface of Ixalan. Will the former planeswalkers be pawns on the board, or will they be among the hands that move them? Also, we discuss our thoughts on the story of The Lost Caverns of Ixalan as a whole, and how the new age of story is shaping up after its first two major releases. You can read the Lost Caverns of Ixalan stories at magic.wizards.com/en/story. Support us on Patreon at Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast, where $1 a month gets you access to our Discord server and $3 a month gets you early access to the podcast as it's being recorded!

The factions from Ixalan's surface break through into the core and discover the Oltec people, but this also gives Vito and the vampires their chance to come face to face with their god, Aclazatz. While the vampires assault Chimil, the core of the plane, in the air, the Mycotyrant assaults from the ground. How will our heroes save the plane from eternal night and unending fungi? You can read the Lost Caverns of Ixalan stories at magic.wizards.com/en/story. Support us on Patreon at Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast, where $1 a month gets you access to our Discord server and $3 a month gets you early access to the podcast as it's being recorded!

Move over grandpa! We're introducing our two free preview cards courtesy of Wizards of the Coast: Kutzil, Malamet Exemplar and Zoyowa Lava-Tongue! Listen to learn all about these two cards from the Lost Caverns of Ixalan set!

The Lost Caverns of Ixalan stories are out, and we're starting our coverage with the first three episodes of the main story by Valerie Valdes! We've returned to the plane (and continent) of Ixalan as Quintorius Kand, recently sparked planeswalker and Lorehold student, is called in to help Huatli open a mysterious door that leads into the depths of the plane. Meanwhile, contingents of vampires from the Dusk Legion and pirates of the Brazen Coalition are also independently racing into the interior of this world on their own quests! You can read the Lost Caverns of Ixalan stories at https://magic.wizards.com/en/story. Support us on Patreon at Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast, where $1 a month gets you access to our Discord server and $3 a month gets you early access to the podcast as it's being recorded!

The Lost Caverns of Ixalan story is available to read in its entirety! But if you're a bit lost and need a refresh of what Ixalan was like the last time we visited the plane, we're taking this week to give background information through the lens of the four major factions of the plane. Who are the Dusk Legion, the Sun Empire, the Brazen Coalition, and the mysterious River Heralds? And how do their movements and actions influence the surface of this plane? This week, in lieu of supporting us on Patreon, we ask that our listeners donate to the Palestinian relief charity of their choice.

The Story Circle has turned its attention to the first fiction appearance of Ob Nixilis, the planeswalker turned demon turned demonic planeswalker, as he claws his way into the heart of Zendikar searching for a path back to power. Dreams of the Damned is the first of two stories by Nik Davidson that introduces us first to the present and then the past of a fan-favorite character. It's also the first of our Story Circle pieces to slot into a larger, set-spanning story arc. How is Ob's character developed in such a short piece, and how does this story's role as a part of a broader fiction color our reading of it? This episode features a full reading of the story from about 9:30 to 18:47. This story was lost from the Wizards Magic website during a site migration, but it can be found on the Wayback Machine and through the MTGLore website here: https://mtglore.com/web-fiction/dreams-of-the-damned. Remember, preserving media is an integral part of appreciating media. If you enjoy this episode, you can let us know on Twitter at Twitter.com/TheVorthosCast, or you can join our Patreon at Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast and share your thoughts on our patron-only Discord server.

We're going beyond time and space and into the world of Doctor Who with this special Beyond the Multiverse episode! Friend of the show and long-time Resident Doctor Who Expert on our Discord, Evan (@heavenlyevan on most social media) joined us today to give us a beginner-friendly guide to this 60-year-old British TV show. If you've never seen an episode of Doctor Who and want to know what's up with all these oddly dressed medical professionals with screwdrivers, this is the Beyond the Multiverse for you! If you'd like to be a companion for our show, you can support us on Patreon at Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast, where $1 gives you access to our discord, a small amount of support that gets you into something much bigger on the inside, and you can even use that access to pester Evan with questions about the Doctors and all their companions! For $3 a month, you can listen to us as we record these episodes live. If you want to hear Evan discuss one of his all-time favorite moments from Doctor Who, you can listen to their guest spot on The Moment podcast at https://www.themomentpod.com/1-04-but-you-still-have-to-choose.

The Story Circle meets once again to discuss one of Magic's heaviest stories, Cowardice of the Hero by Matt Knicl. This story from 2014 tackles incredibly heavy themes of family abuse and trauma, while serving as a preview article for a forgotten rare from a small, middle set of the Theros block. We ask: What does this story want to tell us? Would this story be published today? This episode includes a full reading of the short story, from about 9:09 to 26:07. You can also read the full story on the Magic website at https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/magic-story/cowardice-hero-2014-01-22. Unlike previous Story Circle texts, this story is still available where it was originally posted, but this may not always be the case. Preserving media is an integral part of appreciating media. If you enjoy this episode, you can let us know on Twitter at Twitter.com/TheVorthosCast, or you can join our Patreon at Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast and share your thoughts on our patron-only Discord server.

Our Story Circle continues as we discuss another long-lost piece of Magic web fiction: Eater of the Infinite, from the Encyclopedia Dominia. This piece of web fiction was shared online in 1996 and written by an unknown author. It tells the story of why the Serendib Efreet looks like that, and it stands as an example of some of the earliest worldbuilding done for a Magic setting outside of Dominaria. This episode includes a full reading of the short story, from about 6:45 to 16:01. You can also read the full story archived on the Wayback Machine, or on the MTGLore website at https://mtglore.com/web-fiction/eater-of-the-infinite/. This story was once made available on the Wizards Magic website, but has since been lost. If you enjoy this episode, you can let us know on Twitter at Twitter.com/TheVorthosCast, or you can join our Patreon at Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast and share your thoughts on our patron-only Discord server.

This week we're beginning our Story Circle, a series of episodes aimed at reading and discussing pre-Origins Magic fiction, including some pieces of what may be considered lost lore. For our first episode, we read and discuss War's Wage, a piece of web fiction released in the lead-up to Saviors of Kamigawa in 2005, written by famous early Magic author Jeff Grubb. This episode includes a full reading of the short story, from 5:45 to 25:12. You can also read the full story archived on the Wayback Machine, or on the MTGLore website at https://mtglore.com/web-fiction/wars-wage/. This story was once made available on the Wizards Magic website, but has since been lost. If you enjoy this episode, you can let us know on Twitter at Twitter.com/TheVorthosCast, or you can join our Patreon at Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast and share your thoughts on our patron-only Discord server.

You might be shocked to learn that a set with a strong Food theme has a lot of Flavor Gems! We dive into this bounty of tasty cards and come out stuffed to the gills with gems to share with you. Hopefully you're satiated by this veritable feast of fairy-tale themed cards! If you enjoy our podcast, consider supporting us on Patreon at Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast, where just $1 a month gets you access to our Discord channel where Vorthoses from around the world are reacting to the incredible story unfolding every day. For $3 a month you get access to our live listen, where you can hear the unedited podcast as we record it days before it goes live!

Seanan McGuire joins us once again, but this time not as (Hugo Award Winning) author of (Hugo Award Nominated) Magic Story, but instead as a subject matter expert on Fairy Tales! Seanan has a degree in fairy tales and herpetology, or as she calls it, a "degree in dragons." We discuss some of the history behind the fairy tales represented in Eldraine, including a short aside about venomous snakes and venomous candies. Thanks to rough internet connections, some audio may be hard to hear or skip a bit. We're sorry, but trying to control the whims of the internet is like trying to court a fae. We're just glad no one was turned into an elk. If you want to support our show, you can contribute to our Patreon at Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast, where $1 a month is an incredible bit of support that we will appreciate so very much, and it also gives you access to our Discord server! For $3 a month, you can listen to us record live, and if Seanan is our guest you're likely to see a cute kitten!

We are joined once again by Magic author (and Star Wars author, and novelist, and all around very cool person) K Arsenault Rivera! Fresh off her incredible story for March of the Machine, Arsenault Rivera gave us yet another excellent installment of Magic fiction with Wilds of Eldraine. We discuss what it's like writing such different stories back to back, how she put some of herself into Kellan, and why she named the goose Albiorix. Also, yes, we talk about Star Wars for the first 10 minutes of this podcast. Listen to figure out why! If you want to support our show, you can contribute to our Patreon at Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast, where $1 a month is an incredible bit of support that we will appreciate so very much, and it also gives you access to our Discord server! For $3 a month, you can listen to us record live, where we sometimes spend 20 minutes just talking about The Jersey Shore before recording.

Kellan must defeat the final two witches in order to save Eldraine from the Wicked Slumber, while Rowan comes face to face with her brother and all the mistakes she's made. The cast discusses the story, the implications of Kellan's birth father's identity, and possibilities for the future of Magic story with this first foray into the new world of Omenpaths. If you like our podcast and would like to support us on our quest to summarize and discuss all things Magic story, you can do that at Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast! But more importantly, you should go read the stories for the set. They're quite good. Episode 4: Ruby and the Frozen Heart - https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/magic-story/episode-4-ruby-and-the-frozen-heart Episode 5: Broken Oaths - https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/magic-story/episode-5-broken-oaths

The Kindly Lord Talion, High Lord of the Fae, has sent us on a quest to discuss the story of Wilds of Eldraine! This week we're discussing the first three episodes of the story as Kellan, half-fae adventurer from origins as mysterious as they are sheepish, takes on the task of defeating three witches who maintain a choking slumber on all the realms. Meanwhile, Rowan is having a very bad time. If you like our podcast and would like to support us on our quest to summarize and discuss all things Magic story, you can do that at Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast! But more importantly, you should go read the stories for the set. They're quite good. Episode 1: Pure of Heart - https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/magic-story/episode-1-pure-of-heart Episode 2: Wandering Knight, Budding Hero - https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/magic-story/episode-2-wandering-knight-budding-hero Episode 3: Two Great Banquets - https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/magic-story/episode-3-two-great-banquets Actually reading the story is the best way to support the story, which is the best way to support us (outside of throwing money at us, which we also appreciate).

At GenCon, Wizards of the Coast announced Magic products going all the way out to 2026! There were so many exciting sets announced that we wanted to do an episode covering all of them, including some sets that don't even have names yet! Can we interest you in a Cowboy Oko? Maybe a Shilgengar? How about a Final Fantasy set for you Warriors of Light? Also, since the story for Wilds of Eldraine is ongoing (and we'll talk about it next week!) we wanted to do a very brief backstory on the plane as we know it. That comes much later in the episode, so if you want to just hear that Eldraine talk, jump to 42:30. If you enjoy what we do here and want to be a part of supporting us (and also talking endlessly about Baldur's Gate 3), you can throw us $1 on Patreon (Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast) for access to our Discord server! For $3 you can listen to us record live, getting you the episode 4 days early!

Commander Masters had everything a Vorthos could want: Exciting new art for our favorite legends, new flavor text with bits of lore, new cards for old characters, and also there's Commodore Guff. That's right, me, Commodore Guff, finally got my own card! How does that make you feel, Chris? You said it would never happen, and yet here I am, writing your episode description, pointing out how wrong you were once again. You'll learn to respect your elders some day. What was I saying? Oh yes, this is another one of their flavor gems episodes. Please enjoy it, or whatever it is you do with these casts of pods. If you like their silly show, and you want to support them for some reason or another, you can sign up for their Patreon at Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast. They never show me, Commodore Guff, any respect, even though I outrank every single one of them. But you can show them a few dollars a month.

Two hosts, two topics! This week, Cary and Chris look back on the Boom! Studios run of Magic comics, what they believe made these comics great and what could have been done better. They also discuss Adrift, A Lost Planeswalker Zine, a project by Cary to showcase Magic fanworks about underserved planeswalkers. What makes exciting Magic fanfiction, and why is the Magic multiverse a perfect world for fanfiction authors to explore? If you enjoy our podcast, please support us at Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast, where $1 a month gets you access to our Discord server! We have a channel just for custom card designs, fanfiction, fanart, and queso recipes!

School's back in session and this week we're giving you what you need to know about Planeswalkers! What you'll need to know for the quiz: What is a planeswalker? How have planeswalkers changed over the years? Who are some of the major planeswalker characters? Does Ajani use a litter box? If you enjoy our podcast and want to support it, you can do that at Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast where $1 a month gets you access to our Discord server, a great place to go with questions you may have about the story of Magic to get real answers from cool people! $3 a month will get you in on our live listen, where you can listen to us record every week!

Thank you to Wizards of the Coast for our preview cards for Commander Masters! Shelter, with new art from Alayna Danner, and Urza, Lord High Artificer, with a new borderless profile art by Grant Griffin!

This is one of our most exciting episodes yet! The cast chats with Story Lead for Magic the Gathering Roy Graham about how the story is made and the trials of March of the Machine and its Aftermath. We get answers to some of the most pressing community questions, including why the narrative was best served by the Great Desparkening and how the future of story opens up with the Omenpaths. We'll be back next week with more Magic Story 101! And if you're confused why we bring up pineapples so much in this episode, it's our codeword for when interviewees want us to cut the conversation to avoid any major spoilers. No pineapples were cut in the making of this episode. If you'd like to support our podcast, please do! We can be found on Patreon at Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast, where $1 a month gets you access to our Discord server and $3 a month gets you into our live-listen tier, where you can hear the episodes recorded live! This week, live-listeners got to hear about Roy's League of Legends history.

Where exactly do you start reading Magic story? We're going to give you suggestions on where you should start your Vorthos journey and all the different paths you can take to enjoying the 30 year history of Magic's story! This is part 1 in a multi-part series covering the basics of Magic story! Look out for more episodes this summer as we cover the basic story facts you'll need to get into the story with Wilds of Eldraine! If you enjoy our podcast, consider supporting us on Patreon at Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast! Jay's Reddit post on where to get started: https://www.reddit.com/r/mtgvorthos/comments/yynavh/magic_story_resources_read_this_first/ Cary's Website and Where To Start guide: https://mtglore.com/where-to-start-with-magic-story/

The March of the Machine left holes in the very fabric of the multiverse, and the future looks uncertain in big and small ways. We're taking this week to discuss what these changes might mean for the future of the multiverse and its inhabitants. What does a future of Omenpaths look like? How does knowledge of a multiverse challenge the foundation of a plane's religions? We'll find out soon enough, but for now, we speculate! If you enjoy our podcast, consider supporting us on Patreon at Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast, where even $1 a month gets you access to our Discord server and helps us keep our episodes coming out. For $3 a month, you can hear the episodes recorded live, and all the fun conversations before and after the show that get cut!

We're not really qualified to give in-depth lore tidbits about Lord of the Rings cards. So we didn't. If you liked what this was, you can support us on Patreon at Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast! $1 a month gives access to our Discord server, and $3 a month means you can listen to us record episodes of the podcast live.

We knew we had to have Don Marshall (@DonMarshall72 on TikTok and every other platform) on the show as soon as we knew we were going to be talking about Lord of the Rings! Don is an incredible source of Lord of the Rings lore facts on TikTok, and also just a delightful human being. In what turned into one of our longest episodes yet, we talk about Lord of the Rings, Magic: the Gathering, a little Warhammer, and aside about what it means to be positive in a culture so inundated with negativity, and then Loreley gives a full plot summary of Foulmere, the Magic short story that gives us the planeswalker Vram. If you want to follow Don, you should! You can find him on TikTok at www.tiktok.com/@donmarshall72! He's got some really rad pride merch with profits benefiting the Trevor Project and you can buy it by following his linktree: linktr.ee/DonMarshall72 If you want to support our podcast, you can do that on Patreon! Find us at Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast. We appreciate all of you so much. You're all strands of Galadriel's hair to us.

It's time to celebrate our 250th episode by taking questions from you, our listeners, once again! This episode has only the hottest takes and most scandalous Vorthos thoughts, such as which planeswalkers would cronch rocks. It's an incredible experience releasing our 250th episode of the Vorthos Cast and our eighth mailbag episode! And we've got so many more lore episodes planned and coming your way! Thank you all so much for your support. We'd never have gotten to episode 250 without our listeners. If you want to support the podcast, you can find us on Patreon at Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast! Joining our $1 a month tier gets you access to our Discord server, and with the $3 tier you can listen to the episode as we record it live!