The Vorthos Cast

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!

Archangel Elspeth Tirel, hero of March of the Machine, the nightmare of Phyrexia: how did she become the angel she is today? This week we cover the many lives and deaths of Elspeth and the hints laid forth from her very inception that she would one day wear the wings of an angel. Next week is our 250th episode! We'd love to answer questions from our listeners about all things Magic and Vorthos Cast! If you have a question, you can reach out to us on Twitter, @TheVorthosCast, you can join our discord through supporting us on Patreon (Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast), or even just shoot us an email at [email protected]! It's really easy to find us on the internet.

It's time for the aftermath of our flavor gems! Or, wait, the flavor gems of the aftermath? March of the Machine: The Aftermath is a special, story-driven booster product with only 50 cards, and we're talking about each and every one of them. There are some real tasty gems in this set, giving us a vision of what the multiverse looks like immediately after the Phyrexian invasion, and what it might look like going forward... 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!

We are now in the Aftermath of March of the Machine, and we've got two incredible stories to discuss that hint at the major consequences of the Phyrexian invasion and the future of the multiverse as we know it. And, more importantly, a lot of yuri. 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!

We're wrapping up our flavor gems for March of the Machine this week with a look at all of the new battle cards. Spanning 36 planes, with some of the deepest cuts of the set, we had our hands full for this episode! 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!

We have our first part of our flavor gems for March of the Machine! There's so many we couldn't possibly fit all of them into one episode! This week we cover the planeswalkers, the corrupted, and the defenders of the multiverse! 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!

We return to our regularly scheduled episodes to talk about all eight of the March of the Machine side stories in one episode! What terrors were delivered to the planes of the multiverse that we didn't see in the main story? How did the denizens of Ravnica deal with the eruption of Realmbreaker through the Undercity? Was there a soul saved on New Capenna? All these answers and more can't be found in this episode! But you can learn what happened, how we felt about it, and what we think might happen next! 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!

We were unable to record a regular episode of the podcast this week, so Chris reached out to friend of the show and former Magic Story writer, Yichao, who lapsed out of following the story after War of the Spark and wanted a "quick" rundown of what he's missed. Well, this isn't very quick, but it sure is a rundown! Listen along as Chris explains four years of the story to a very bewildered former narrative team member. We'll be back next week with a real episode 244 of the podcast! Until then, please enjoy this bonus episode! If you'd like to support the podcast, you can find us 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 show recorded live! If you'd like more episodes where Chris and Yichao rant about Magic story, you might have to wait four more years.

We have K Arsenault Rivera on the podcast this week to talk about writing the end of a multi-year arc to Magic story and what it meant to be the author who brought the end to Phyrexia. We also talk about what Magic means to her, and us, and the important roles it can play in our lives. We also make K cry (positive). If you want to support the podcast, you can find us on Patreon at Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast, where $1 a month gets you access to our Discord server, and $3 a month will let you listen to us make authors cry live!

We finish our summary and discussion of the March of the Machine story by K Arsenault Rivera with episodes 7 through 10, where we see the rise of Archangel Elspeth and the fall of the Phyrexian machine. How can an unstoppable force of infection be brough to heel? Try cutting off its head. And then, of course, there are its consequences... 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!

Thank you to Wizards of the Coast for these four free preview cards! We're excited to share with you Invasion of Ergamon, Tribute to the World Tree, Beamtown Beatstick, and (Daretti's) Deadly Derision! If you enjoy this episode, make sure to follow us on Twitter, @TheVorthosCast, to get full card arts! You can also support us on Patreon at Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast!

We begin discussing the story of March of the Machine with episodes 1 through 6 by K Arsenault Rivera, picking up after the failed strike at the heart of Phyrexia where our heroes failed and the multiverse's fate seemed sealed to annihilation, and ending with the return of hope in the protector in white. With the multiverse hanging in the balance, how will the march of the machine be stopped? 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!

We've brought on Phyrexian language expert, Bella Guo, from Wizards of the Coast to teach us about the language of our favorite bionecromechanical horrors! Listen along as we attempt to speak the names of Phyrexians and their compleated masterpieces with our fleshy, weak mouths!

MagicCon Philadelphia gave us our first glimpse at the culmination of the New Phyrexian Invasion arc in March of the Machine. We go plane by plane and discuss the major players for each target of Elesh Norn's invasion, what team ups we've seen so far, and how the planes can fight back against the terror that's on its way.

It's the fifth anniversary of the podcast! This week we get a little self-indulgent and talk all about our trip to MagicCon Philadelphia, where we had the opportunity to talk on the main stage about the story of Magic! You can find out presentation on YouTube (linked below), but this is the story of how we applied for the panel opportunity, how we made our presentation, and how our trip went! You can watch our panel here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xmyx7AyLsgU And since it is our fifth anniversary, you can give us a little birthday present by supporting us over on Patreon at Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast! We appreciate all our supporters, and as little as $1 a month gets you into our Discord server. Five years is a long time to do a podcast, and we wouldn't be able to do it without you.

This week we continue discussing the story of the set Phyrexia: All Will Be One with a recap and discussion on the five incredible side stories, including getting into the mind of a Phyrexian, understand the true nature of the Autonomous Furnace, and how incredibly moving Teferi's story has become. If you enjoy our show and you're going to be at MagicCon Philadelphia this weekend, we're doing The Vorthos Cast Live! We'll be on the main stage Sunday at noon to talk all about the story from War of the Spark until March of the Machine! And if you want to support the podcast, you can find us on Patreon at Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast!

This week, we make a glistening vinaigrette and devour some delicious flavor gems of Phyrexia: All Will Be One! We're going to be at MagicCon Philadelphia! If you're going to be there, make sure to join us on the main stage Sunday, February 19th, at noon! We'll be covering the story of what's happened from War of the Spark to March of the Machine! If you want to support the podcast, consider joining us at Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast, where $1 a month gives you access to our Discord server, and $3 a month lets you listen to the show as it's recorded every week!

The time has come to compleat the main story of Phyrexia: All Will Be One. We give our customary summary of the full story of the set while sharing our thoughts on the overall direction of the story, how well we think this dark period of the story was told, and how the future of the multiverse will unfold. If you enjoy our show, consider supporting us on Patreon at Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast. For $1.00 a month, you get access to our Discord server. For $3.00 a month, you can listen as we record live! It's always a lot of fun!

This week, the author of the main story for Phyrexia: All Will Be One has joined us to talk Nahiri, Tyvar, and the heartbreaking fates of some of our favorite planeswalkers. Seanan McGuire is a Hugo Award-winning author of "more books than is actually healthy for a single person," including the Wayward Children series and, as Mira Grant, the Newsflesh and Parasitology series. Her story for ONE is the first main story collection she's written for Magic, but you may recognize her from "Homecoming," the story of Liliana and the Raven Man from Dominaria United, or the Hugo-nominated "Tangles" from Midnight Hunt. 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!

Thank you to Wizards of the Coast for our free preview of Phyrexia: All Will Be One! We're happy to introduce you to Expand the Sphere, Gleeful Demolition, and Resistance Skywarden! These three uncommons can be found in the upcoming set, Phyrexia: All Will Be One, which releases February 10, 2023! You can head to your local game store the weekend of February 3rd to play in the prerelease to get your hands on these uncommon cards early!

All Will Be ONE... starting next week, when we cover the stories of Phyrexia: All Will Be One. This week, though, we're taking you through all eleven members of the strike team that's had a rough landing on New Phyrexia. Some are safe for now, like Kaito and Koth, and others, well... But who are these eleven intrepid planeswalking heroes and why are they the ones delving through the nine hells of biomechanical horror? We introduce you to each of them and what they bring (or brought) to the team. If you enjoy our show, consider supporting us on Patreon at Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast. For $1.00 a month, you get access to our Discord server. For $3.00 a month, you can listen as we record live! It's always a lot of fun. A lot of what we record is left on the cutting room floor, and you don't have to miss any of it if you listen live!

We're back! After a long holiday break, the cast is back together with a very special author interview: Jay Annelli, author of Magic the Gathering: The Visual Guide, an in-depth exploration of Magic's lore full of character details, gorgeous art, and even some hints at the upcoming return to New Phyrexia. If you want to support the podcast, you can join our Patreon at Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast! You could also support Jay's book by ordering it from your local bookstore. You can also buy it on some big websites but, like, don't you want to support your local bookstores, especially comic and gaming shops? It's not like you need this book today. You can wait a little while, it's okay.

The year of 2022 comes to a close! With some of the greatest Magic story content in recent history, 2022 was an incredible year for Vorthoses around the world. We get the whole cast together before our mandated two-week paid holiday vacation time. We discuss our thoughts on all the juicy story content that started with Kamigawa and ended with a sibling rivalry for the ages. If you enjoy our show, thank you! We really do deeply appreciate it when you tell us you like the show or show it to your friends. If you wanna give us a gift, you could subscribe to our Patreon at Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast, where $1/month gets you on our Discord server to talk about compleated planeswalkers or Boom! comics or the newest story releases. But since it's a traditional time of year to give gifts to people you love, consider maybe tossing $12 at someone and telling them to sub to us for a whole year. That's some free gift advice from your ol' pal, editor Chris. It's a real cheap and easy way to give two gifts at once. Anyways, this is our last episode until January when we'll be back to talk about Jay's new book and Phyrexia: All Will Be One! You can hang out with us on Discord, but you won't get any new episodes for a few weeks.

The second major arc of the Boom! Studios Magic comics has come to its close, and we're covering issues 16 through 20! Chandra, Garruk, and Niko must gather allies and return to Ravnica to save their friends and the multiverse from Tezzeret's (somewhat familiar) diabolic plans to become a god once more! How good are these comics, though? They're really incredible work. If you enjoy the Boom! comics, go buy them from your local comic book shop! If you enjoy our podcast, go buy our love by giving us between $1 and $3 a month on Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast! We won't love you, but you can pretend we do!

It's time for our flavor gems of The Brothers' War! This set, and it's accompanying Commander release, is so full of flavor that it's truly a triumph of storytelling through the cards alone. We cover as many important characters and their cards as we can and traipse through all 40 of the Story Spotlights in their chronological order. If you think we missed out on any of your favorite flavor gems of the set, let us know which cards you think were the most delicious! If you want to support the Vorthos Cast, you can just give us a five-star review on your app of choice, share our podcast with a friend, or just tell some stranger you meet on the street how cool you think we are. You can also give us some money, the highest form of flattery, at www.Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast!

The story of the Antiquities War, the war between Urza and Mishra, between the two brothers whose conflict shaped the future of Dominaria and the multiverse as we know it, is well documented. Records of their battles and the machinations have been held close for millennia. But this story, the five episodes written by Miguel Lopez, tell the story of the war outside of the lives of the two brothers, the war that ravaged the land of Terisiare and its people for decades. This is what happens in those stories, though you should read them yourselves. If you want to support the podcast, consider joining our Patreon at Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast. If you want to find us on social media, well, listen to the end of the episode! We're still on Twitter, for now, at twitter.com/TheVorthosCast.

We're joined this week by the author Reinhardt Suarez, writer of the stories set in the present of the Magic story! He shares with us the experience of bringing these characters together, working with the story team at Magic, and how he got ready to write monumentally important characters for such a pivotal story. If you want to keep up with Reinhardt's writing, check out his website, www.thereinhardtexperience.com. If you want to support the podcast, you can find us on Patreon at www.Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast, where $1 a month gets you access to our Discord community, and $3 a month gets you on our live listen tier where you can listen to the show recorded live, and sometimes extra content that's cut from the final release!

The story of The Brothers' War echoes through time as the past confronts the present and the present slips back into the past. This week we're covering the present day stories by Reinhardt Suarez. While Teferi grapples with the past, Elspeth must battle with the present as the Coalition's planeswalkers must defend their bastion of hope. If you enjoy our podcast, please consider supporting us at Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast! You can also follow us on Twitter at twitter.com/TheVorthosCast!

As the story of the Brother's War set has wrapped up, we look at the legends of the time period, from the warring brothers themselves to their loved ones and those few brave souls who tried to stand between them. Learn of the origins of the Golgothian Sylex, the first spellcasters of Terisiare, and the greatest artificers, and toymakers, of all Dominarian history. If you would like to support the podcast, follow us on Twitter at twitter.com/TheVorthosCast! You can also join our Patreon at www.Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast, where just $1 a month gets you access to our Discord server!

We sent a message out through the galaxy and our psionic trail has lead Ethan Fleischer, designer for Magic: the Gathering and long-time fan of Warhammer 40k, to our podcast. But we're not hear to discuss power-levels, color identity, or card designs. We need to take in all the lore possible to learn about the world of Warhammer, before the Tyranids absorb our biomass. If you'd like to support The Vorthos Cast, follow us on Twitter at www.Twitter.com/TheVorthosCast! If you're looking to throw a few bones our way and fund our intergalactic empire, check out our Patreon at www.Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast.

This week, we discuss The Brothers' War that was, the 1998 novel by Jeff Grubb and the surrounding card sets and stories that told aspects of this monumental moment in Magic history, both in the story and outside of it. To know what to expect in the upcoming Magic set, you should know what's already been scribed into the annals of history. If you too want to be scribed into the annals of history, consider supporting us on Patreon at www.Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast!

As if reliving some ancestral memory, Beyond the Multiverse returns! In this episode, we have special guest Jay Annelli on to talk all about the lore of the Assassin's Creed just after Magic the Gathering announced that they'll have a special partnership with the long-running game series next year! Learn all about jumping from tall buildings, communing with alien spirits, and fist-fighting the pope! If you enjoy our show, join our Patreon at www.Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast where you can get access to our Discord server and give us suggestions for future Beyond the Multiverse episodes!

This week we're wrapping up all the stories from Dominaria United by discussing the three remaining side stories! We talk all about Squee's long relationship with death, the fall of the Weatherlight, and Niambi's work for peace. If you want to support the podcast and get access to our Discord server and more, join us at www.Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast!

It's time for the traditional Flavor Gems episode! This time we're going over our favorite gems from Dominaria United, a set with so many legends that we couldn't possibly cover them all, so we have to do our best to get as many delicious gems as we could into one episode. These gems have so much flavor. You should try some. Just take a bite. It's okay*. If you want to support the podcast and get access to our Discord server and more, join us at www.Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast! *Our lawyers want us to mention that you should not eat the delicious gems, regardless of how many planeswalker sparks they may or may not contain.

We're taking a quick detour away from the world of Dominaria and Magic's main canon storyline to cover the full miniseries of The Hidden Planeswalker from Boom! Studios Comics! Liliana and Tezzeret fight over the future of a planeswalker with a mysterious past, and we learn what it means to be a villain, and what it takes to be a hero. If you enjoy our podcast, consider supporting us on Patreon at Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast where $1 a month gets you access to our very cool Discord server where Vorthoses from around the world are talking Magic story and comics!

Brian, Cary, and Chris join forces and tackle the final two episodes of the Dominaria United main story, "A Brutal Blow" and "A Whisper in the Wind," then share their honest opinions about the story, including how they felt about certain deaths and resurrections. But first, unhinged speculation! If you want to support Jin Gitaxias' wedding registry, go to https://www.patreon.com/thevorthoscast and pledge a dollar a month to get access to our discord!