Goblin Lore Podcast

Hello, Podwalkers, and welcome to the Goblin Lore Podcast! In our seventeenth episode, Erin Campbell ( @OriginalOestrus on Twitter) of the Magic Mics Cast joins the guys to talk about her own experiences in competitive Magic: the Gathering, what it truly means to "tilt", and how emotions are not only not a weakness – they are a strategic and social strength that need to be embr...

Hello, Podwalkers, and welcome to the Goblin Lore Podcast! In our sixteenth episode, Joe tries out a new episode format where we take listener suggestions for a piece of Magic: the Gathering lore and draw parallels between it and something completely unrelated. Can Joe survive an Iron Chef-like secret ingredient showdown... with himself? This episode, we were suggested to talk about less...

Hello, Podwalkers, and welcome to the Goblin Lore Podcast! In our fifteenth episode, we flashback to our final episode of GP Minneapolis this year where the guys had the distinct pleasure of discussing cosplay yet again, this time with Jackal Costuming's  Matt and Gin. Allow our cosplaying colleagues to regale you with tales of their con mishaps, their proudest moments in creation,...

Hello, Podwalkers, and welcome to the Goblin Lore Podcast! In our fourteenth episode, the guys get together with former law clerk Scott Peitzer (a.k.a. The Booze Cube ) to unwrap the many layers of convoluted Ravnican law in the lead-up to the fall Magic: the Gathering expansion "Guilds of Ravnica". Have a parking ticket for your wolf steed? Got a disorderly conduct citati...

Hello, Podwalkers, and welcome to the Goblin Lore Podcast! In our thirteenth episode, Alex and Joe discuss the highs and lows of expectation and hopes in the context of Magic: the Gathering's upcoming Return to Return to Guilds of Ravnica set. When you've visited a plane before, you have a certain idea of what things should be like when you come back. But things don't always go how...

Hello, Podwalkers, and welcome to the Goblin Lore Podcast! In our twelfth episode, Magic: the Gathering cosplayers Sydney Stafl ( @TappyToeClaws ) and Olivia Gobert-Hicks ( @goberthicks ) join the guys to talk about the art and artifice of making MTG's characters come to life at GP Minneapolis. Sydney and Olivia explain their processes of creation, how much the craft is presentation vers...

Hello, Podwalkers, and welcome to the Goblin Lore Podcast! In our eleventh episode, Morgan Wentworth ( @MTGValkyrie ) and the Orcish Librarian ( @BibliovoreOrc ) join the guys to talk books and literature in Magic: the Gathering. This is the second part of a two-part episode series, begun in Episode 10. After a thrilling re-telling of  Un-Set classic Jane Air &nb...

Hello, Podwalkers, and welcome to the Goblin Lore Podcast! In our tenth episode, Morgan Wentworth ( @MTGValkyrie ) and the Orcish Librarian ( @BibliovoreOrc ) join the guys to talk books and literature in Magic: the Gathering. After a thrilling re-telling of Un-Set classic Jane Air and reliving the textual noir adventure of Shadows Over Innistrad , Morgan and Orc share their expertise on...

Hello, Podwalkers, and welcome to the Goblin Lore Podcast! In our ninth episode, Michelle Rapp ( @BalefireStrix  on Twitter) of  Card Kingdom  and  The Loregoyfs!  joins the guys to talk about how we can understand Magic: the Gathering's color pie through real-world art movements. In this episode, they talk about Green philosophy in art, the pop ar...

Hello, Podwalkers, and welcome to the Goblin Lore Podcast! In our eighth episode, Michelle Rapp ( @BalefireStrix on Twitter) of Card Kingdom and The Loregoyfs! joins the guys to talk about how we can understand Magic: the Gathering's color pie through real-world art movements. After some brief shenanigans, Michelle takes the guys to art school, as they touch on artistic analogi...

Hello, Podwalkers, and welcome to the Goblin Lore Podcast! In our seventh episode, the guys run down the lore of artificial planes , including Rath, Phyrexia, Mirrodin, Serra's Realm, and Nicol Bolas's Meditation Realm. Hobbes then brings us into a discussion about mindfulness and making your reality what you want it to be, so you too can feel like a planeswalker in your daily life. Fina...

Hello, Podwalkers, and welcome to the Goblin Lore Podcast! In our sixth episode, Joe Redemann introduces the lore  we have about  Krenko, the Ravnican goblin mob boss who is a fixture of Commander/EDH decks and may be a face we see in the Guilds of Ravnica block (Fall 2018). After that, the guys discuss real-world analogies to Krenko and put his philosophy into the context of a...

Hello, Podwalkers, and welcome to the Goblin Lore Podcast! In our fifth episode, Joe Redemann and Hobbes Q. dive headfirst into the history of Magic's legendary rules , how they affect both gameplay and flavor, and how they've changed over the years. Thanks to A.E. Marling of Gathering Magic for an awesome breakdown of these changes! They also compare legends in the game to their ow...

Hello, Podwalkers, and welcome to the Goblin Lore Podcast! In our fourth episode, Alex Newman and Hobbes Q. elaborate on their extensive experience at Magic Grand Prixs and conventions in general. We offer helpful tips for first-time GP-goers, what to look for and do for each personality type, and discuss how introverts or those with social anxiety who are concerned about going to a big...

Hello, Podwalkers, and welcome to the Goblin Lore Podcast! TW: trauma, PTSD, sexual violence, rape, combat violence, child abuse, death, suicide, social anxiety, depression. In our third episode, we continue our discussion of trauma in the Magic Multiverse. Alex Newman explains where Magic: the Gathering – like a lot of media – both succeeds and fails in using trauma as a...

Hello, Podwalkers, and welcome to the Goblin Lore Podcast! TW: trauma, PTSD, sexual violence, rape, combat violence, child abuse, death, suicide, social anxiety, depression. In our second episode, Hobbes Q. explains what trauma is and how it differs from – but relates to – post-traumatic stress disorder (PSTD), and describes the resilience people find to work through a traumati...

Hello, Podwalkers, and Welcome to the Goblin Lore Podcast! In our first episode, we discuss our favorite bits of nonsense in the Magic: the Gathering multiverse, as well as the big reveal of the first story in the Core 2019: Chronicles of Bolas cycle, "The Twins". We also introduce the MTG psychographic profiles – Timmy/Tammy, Johnny/Jenny, Spike, Mel, and Vorthos – and explain how we interac...