Two intrepid Magic: The Gathering players brave the past to read official MTG books. We learn lore, discuss characters, and comment on the crazy, wild backbone of this popular card game. (And I confuse Time Spiral and Time Warp...let the correcting comments flow forth.)
Updates every other week!
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Episode Sixteen of the Flavor Text Podcast sees a completely normal peace talk where nothing bad happens at all ever. Also, Ashnod did nothing wrong.
0:00 - Rusko, Rusko, Rusko, Rusko...
14:50 - Chapter Summaries and Flavor Text
28 Nov 2022
Episode 15- A Book Worth Marrying a Princesses For
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Episode Fifteen of the Flavor Text Podcast begins part two of the Brother's War and shows us what each of the brother's fates have become! We also have a very, very special guest with us today, we can't believe we got him on air with us. Check out his voice here:
https://youtu.be/hjyil6X4bGY
Also check out the concept art of the Brother's War here: https://www.mtg-multiverse.com/concept-art#/the-brothers-war-2022/
0:00 - Intro and MTG News
8:43 - Chapter Summaries
1:12:57 - Sunny's Comic Corner
10 Nov 2022
Episode 14 - The Brother Battle Book by Dr. Seuss
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Episode Fourteen of the Flavor Text Podcast brings us to childhood's end for our titular brothers. We lose a character, we discuss a character that might never have been lost, and also think about roach flour cookies. Mmm, roach flour.
0:00 - Intro and MTG News
9:37 - Chapter Summaries
57:49 - So Much Flavor Text (New Brother's War Cards!)
20 Oct 2022
Episode 13- Tocasia's Archeological Summer Camp for Wayward Youths
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Episode Thirteen of the Flavor Text Podcast starts us off with the first chapters of the infamous Brother's War! We see a frankly staggering jump in writing quality as well as consider a planeswalker who is just a rock.
0:00 - Intro and MTG News
7:39 - Chapter Summaries
55:54 - Sunny's Comic Corner
7 Oct 2022
Episode 12- Heart to Heartstone (The Thran FINALE)
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Episode Twelve of the Flavor Text Podcast wraps the Thran up. We look at the Thrilling Conclusion, Related Cards, and how clown tribal is connected to everything. (It's not.)
Go ahead and click here (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1C1LCFN3TIj_lnJpazTFPqeOZsRW4TI9o/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=109528985751658612468&rtpof=true&sd=true) if you'd like to see all of the Thran-related cards we discussed in today's episode!
0:00 - Intro and MTG News
22:32 - Chapter Summaries
48:54 - The Thran Flavor Text Compendium
21 Sept 2022
Episode 11- ...and One for Yawgmoth!
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Content Warning: The chapters discussed here today involve situations depicting drugging and non-consent. If these topics bother you, consider skipping the chapter summaries this week.
Episode Eleven of the Flavor Text Podcast involves desperately trying to sandbag horrible chapter content with the birth of clown tribal. Elesh Norn is a confirmed horse girl.
0:00 - Intro and Flavor Text Requests
13:27 - Chapter Summaries
58:00 - Warhammer and UNF Discussion
8 Sept 2022
Episode 10- Gaslight, Gatekeep, Yawgboss
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Episode Ten of the Flavor Text Podcast is about kinkshaming dead planeswalkers. Oh, and Yawgmoth dies. He's totally dead. 1000% dead.
0:00 - Intro and Flavor Text Requests
23:25 - Chapter Summaries
52:49 - There is No News and We Must Scream (Sheoldred Elk Card When?)
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25 Aug 2022
Episode 9- How to Stop Worrying and Love the Charge Stone
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Episode Nine of the Flavor Text Podcast is watching us completely screw up character names and remove knives from our frontal lobes.
0:00 - Intro and Flavor Text Requests
20:00 - Chapter Summaries
48:40 - Dominaria United and Other News
11 Aug 2022
Episode 8- Oops! All Machines
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Episode Eight of the Flavor Text Podcast is watching Halcyon go down the drain in 48 hours or less or your money back guaranteed. Happy Birthday to Magic the Gathering! If you'd like to read along with our little birthday surprise, follow the link below!
https://www.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/75t4r6/found_a_review_of_magic_the_gathering_circa_its
28 Jul 2022
Episode 7- Phyrexian Watersports
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Episode Seven of the Flavor Text Podcast is worse than the title suggests. If you're surprised by now, you haven't been reading! We also discuss some recent card revelations for probably way too much of the episode.
14 Jul 2022
Episode 6- Deus Ex Dyfed
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Episode Six of the Flavor Text Podcast brings us to the halfway point of the Thran! Target book planeswalks, and we discuss the Color Purple.
See the writeup of the purple cards here, as well as a brief summary of Yawgmoth Lead Theory:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ugi23vZaoqCnAlhgvh7aeOaDsY_f_e_H/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=109528985751658612468&rtpof=true&sd=true
1 Jul 2022
Episode 5- With Apologies to J. Robert King
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Episode five of the Flavor Text Podcast has us apologizing to J. Robert King for getting it all wrong. We've misunderstood him this whole time. We were so, so wrong.
Also, Yawgmoth is an absolute chad on main.
Take a glance at the forbidden back cover of the Thran (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51HWkdgIxhL.jpg) and send us your opinions: who the heck is on the back here???
16 Jun 2022
Episode 4 - Sadako versus Norn
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Episode four of the Flavor Text Podcast has us reading through Chapter Ten of The Thran! Part Two has a whole lot of Yawg loving and a whole lot of questioning just what goes on in the Caves of the Damned.
You are Legally Required to submit your answers to this poll regarding today's WWE-worthy matchup.
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26 May 2022
Episode 3- R E V O L U T I O N
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Episode three of the Flavor Text Podcast finally sees the REVOLUTION. Will Gix overthrow the establishment? Will Yawgmoth have a consistent personality? Will Rebbec stop making an ascension metaphor for five seconds? Join us and find out!
TW: Light discussion of rape (J Robert King come find me)
11 May 2022
Episode 2- Yawg, What is in Your Heart?
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Episode two of the Flavor Text Podcast has us reading Chapters Three through Five of The Thran! We are introduced to the budding Revolution and a growing need for every protagonist in this book to attend an empathy class.
Click the link below for the document/links about the history of The Thran and Yawgmoth in card depictions:
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A big thanks to everyone from the MTGVorthos subreddit for commenting and listening!
30 Apr 2022
Episode 1 - Stupid Sexy Yawgmoth
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Welcome to the pilot episode of Flavor Text: A MTG Lore podcast!
Here we read the Magic: The Gathering books, chapter by chapter and give summaries and comment on how flawless these stories are.
Join Marena (she/her) and Sunny (they/them) as we read the prologue, first and second chapters of the 1999 book The Thran by J. Robert King
Email us at: theflavortextpodcast@gmail.com
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