Goblin Lore Podcast

Hello, Podwalkers, and welcome to the Goblin Lore Podcast! In our forty-second episode, we give away STUFF! We finally reached our 400-follower goal on Twitter a few months ago, so we are giving TWO playmats away to our lucky Twitter followers. In addition, thanks to the incredible support of our Patreon subscribers, we're giving away a playset of Jeff Miracola-signed Raging Goblins and...

Hello, Podwalkers, and welcome to the Goblin Lore Podcast! In our forty-first episode, the goblin crew concludes its second Magic: the Gathering artist interview with Australian artist (now in Germany)  Adam Paquette ( @AdamPaquette )!  Adam explains his vision for what an Australian-centric plane would look and feel like, his influences in the art world, his relationship with...

Hello, Podwalkers, and welcome to the Goblin Lore Podcast! In our fortieth episode, the goblin crew hosts its second Magic: the Gathering artist interview, with Australian artist (now in Germany) Adam Paquette ( @AdamPaquette ) coming onto the show to talk about his work imagining and illustrating the Multiverse! Adam explains his relationship with MTG, ponders his dream commission from...

Hello, Podwalkers, and welcome to the Goblin Lore Podcast! In our thirty-ninth episode, the goblin crew is back together to talk about the magical, mystical Planeswalker spark  and what potential it holds both for Magic: the Gathering lore and our own lives. We discuss Space Jam, Malcolm Gladwell, defenestration, road rage, and one Mr. N. "Nicky B" Bolas's machinations, as we give a...

Hello, Podwalkers, and welcome to the Goblin Lore Podcast! In our thirty-eighth episode, Hobbes Q. enlightens us on the importance of S.M.A.R.T. goals as a motivational and achievement tool, while explaining how Nicol Bolas almost certainly used those kinds of goals to help his long-term planning. But they're not just for interplanar dragon terrorists; you can also make your goals more e...

Hello, Podwalkers, and welcome to the Goblin Lore Podcast! In our thirty-seventh episode, Magic: the Gathering ethnographer Adrienne Reynolds and Hindu pandit and co-host of the Commanderin' Podcast Shivam Bhatt join the goblins for an extremely deep exploration of how Magic lore and design has handled religion over the years. Through the practices of Judaism, Hinduism, and Christianity,...

Hello, Podwalkers, and welcome to the Goblin Lore Podcast! In our thirty-sixth episode, Joe wraps up the cast's coverage of War of the Spark with a top-six ranking of the most unique planeswalker skills and magic types in Magic lore. This episode is the debut of a new episode format for the show, so please let us know what you think! ____________________________________________ We have l...

Hello, Podwalkers, and welcome to the Goblin Lore Podcast! In our thirty-fifth episode, Hobbes and Joe discuss their favorite beverage – coffee – and how it's made and where it comes from on the plane of Ravnica. Thanks to the card Experimental Frenzy , we know it exists in this world, giving us a peek into some of the worldbuilding information that fleshes out one of the most popular pl...

Hello, Podwalkers, and welcome to the Goblin Lore Podcast! In our thirty-fourth episode, your friendly neighborhood gob-slugs get prepared for Magic: the Gathering's War of the Spark when emergency planner Renee ( @mtgreiunicorn ) arrives at ground zero and realizes how utterly outdated their disaster plans are. In a flipped-order episode, Renee gives invaluable advice for how to prepare...

Hello, Podwalkers, and welcome to the Goblin Lore Podcast! In our thirty-third episode, your friendly neighborhood gob-slugs try to get inside the mind of the "mad artificer" himself, Urza Planeswalker, as they discuss the elements of chance and planning that went into the device that saved Dominaria – the Legacy. In conversation with this, Alex and Joe talk through their own ways of pla...

Hello, Podwalkers, and welcome to the Goblin Lore Podcast! In our thirty-second episode, your friendly neighborhood gob-slugs put their thinking caps on and study up for their Philosophy 101 quiz. Alex flies solo here, exploring the intricacies of philosophical axioms and how they relate to original Weatherlight crew member Orim, the Samite healer . ______________________________________...

Hello, Podwalkers, and welcome to the Goblin Lore Podcast! In our thirty-first episode, your friendly neighborhood gob-slugs take a crack at unraveling the mysteries of the War of the Spark (#MTGWAR) teaser trailer's tantalizing stained-glass windows , which depicts all 36 planeswalkers that will be in the upcoming set. With a little help from other sources , Hobbes Q. and Joe do a ranki...

Hello, Podwalkers, and welcome to the Goblin Lore Podcast! In our thirtieth episode, your friendly neighborhood goblins unpack why they've been away so long (they did miss you!) and the topic of "burnout", which is easy to experience when life changes collide with Midwestern U.S. winters. As a lore reference, elven animist and planeswalker Nissa Revane and her breaking of the Gatewatch i...

Hello, Podwalkers, and welcome to the Goblin Lore Podcast! In our twenty-ninth episode, Hobbes and Joe solicit responses from YOU the listeners on what your careers are, and they discuss which guilds on Ravnica would be in charge of those jobs! ____________________________________________ We have launched our new  Patreon ! You can join currently at the $1 tier, which gets you acces...

Hello, Podwalkers, and welcome to the Goblin Lore Podcast! In our twenty-eighth episode, your friendly neighborhood goblins drill down on the "Elder" creature type that has been used more frequently on cards in the last few years and try to figure out if it just means those creatures are old or if Alex and Joe should be treating Hobbes with more respect. We discuss the Elder Dragons of D...

Hello, Podwalkers, and welcome to the Goblin Lore Podcast! In our twenty-seventh episode, Hobbes and Joe invite on two people with their fingers on the pulses of both the Vorthos and competitive Magic: the Gathering scenes – Nick Prince and Ally Warfield – to weigh in on some of the major events of 2018 in a new game called "YEET or Yikes"! We talk about humans, moths, lamps, The Last Je...

Hello, Podwalkers, and welcome to the Goblin Lore Podcast! In our twenty-sixth episode, Milwaukee Public Schools teacher Mike Lawton joins Hobbes, Alex, and Joe to discuss the education systems that exist in the Magic: the Gathering Multiverse and explain how he brings Magic to his students in the form of a high school gaming club. The guys discuss social-emotional development, how to ge...

Hello, Podwalkers, and welcome to the Goblin Lore Podcast! In our twenty-fifth episode, Alex and Joe riff on a card from Magic: the Gathering's original set – Alpha – and draw parallels between it and something completely unrelated. Can the boys survive an Iron Chef-like secret ingredient showdown... with themselves? This episode, we decided to talk about Swords to Plowshares  and h...

Hello, Podwalkers, and welcome to the Goblin Lore Podcast! In our twenty-fourth episode, Alex and Joe talk about the Magic: the Gathering world of Rabiah, the setting of the expansion set Arabian Nights and based on the real-life folktales of The 1,001 Arabian Nights. They discuss how Magic has handled sets drawing upon real-world cultures throughout its history, and both the r...

Hello, Podwalkers, and welcome to the Goblin Lore Podcast! In our twenty-third episode, the guys talk with Magic: the Gathering artist  Titus Lunter , who not only has done plenty of illustrations for Magic cards – he also has been a member of the concept team for at least two sets (Amonkhet and Guilds of Ravnica). This is the third episode in a three-part series. In this episo...

Hello, Podwalkers, and welcome to the Goblin Lore Podcast! In our twenty-second episode, the guys talk with Magic: the Gathering artist  Titus Lunter , who not only has done plenty of illustrations for Magic cards – he also has been a member of the concept team for at least two sets (Amonkhet and Guilds of Ravnica). Titus elaborates on his own process of becoming an artist, the...

Hello, Podwalkers, and welcome to the Goblin Lore Podcast! In our twenty-first episode, the guys talk with Magic: the Gathering artist Titus Lunter , who not only has done plenty of illustrations for Magic cards – he also has been a member of the concept team for at least two sets (Amonkhet and Guilds of Ravnica). Titus discusses with us the purpose of nostalgia in establishing the...

Hello, Podwalkers, and welcome to the Goblin Lore Podcast! In our twentieth episode, the guys talk with Sam Tang of the Kitchen Table Magic Podcast about how to foster the community of Magic: the Gathering in a healthy and wholesome way, what happens when forces work against that greater good, and how simply listening to each other (without necessarily agreeing) can go a long way to...

Hello, Podwalkers, and welcome to the Goblin Lore Podcast! In our nineteenth episode, the guys talk about that warm, squishy feeling known as friendship or camaraderie in relation to Slobad, goblin tinkerer of the Mirrodin cycle of stories . They talk about "Known Associates" and how simply being an acquaintance to a group can relieve some of the social pressure of friendship, as we...

Hello, Podwalkers, and welcome to the Goblin Lore Podcast! In our eighteenth episode, Erin Campbell ( @OriginalOestrus  on Twitter) of the  Magic Mics Cast  joins the guys to answer questions about emotions and group dynamics in Magic: the Gathering, how to help your playgroup avoid "tilt" or "salt", and how emotions are not only not a weakness – they are a strat...