The Memory Jar

Episode 69 of The Memory Jar, a Magic: The Gathering podcast about the cards, decks, people, and stories that make Magic the game we love. This week is a niiiiice one. This week, we welcome Shivam Bhatt to continue where we left off on episode 52 of his podcast, Casual Magic . We visited Shivam to talk about Invasion, and now Shivam comes to us to finish the block, with a particular eye on the com...

Episode 68 of The Memory Jar, a Magic: The Gathering podcast about the cards, decks, people, and stories that make Magic the game we love. This week, we talk about Magic’s latest set - Dungeons & Dragons: Adventures from the Forgotten Realms. Don’t worry - we didn’t forget the realms, nor did we forget countless facts about the new set. Dungeons! Dragons! Miniature Giant Space Hamsters ! For a...

Episode 67 of The Memory Jar, a Magic: The Gathering podcast about the cards, decks, people, and stories that make Magic the game we love. This week, we’re joined once again by David Lyford-Smith! He’s back because Modern Horizons 2 is a wild set with a billion mechanics that seems stolen from our deepest fever dreams. And who better to talk about it than the creator of The Magic Bracket? We go de...

Episode 66 of The Memory Jar, a Magic: The Gathering podcast about the cards, decks, people, and stories that make Magic the game we love. This week, we hit the random card button over and over and see what happens. That’s it. That’s the show notes. This week’s Random Cards: Zealous Inquisitor , Cancel , Cloud Sprite , Mask of Riddles , Oko’s Hospitality , Hidden Spider , Tempt with Discovery , Ci...

Episode 65 of The Memory Jar, a Magic: The Gathering podcast about the cards, decks, people, and stories that make Magic the game we love. This week, we welcome back professional librarian Morgan Wentworth to talk about magical books that are probably not taught at Strixhaven. Some may be out of date, or too difficult to properly care for. Perhaps some are even…forbidden? We discuss: Barrin’s Code...

Episode 64 of The Memory Jar, a Magic: The Gathering podcast about the cards, decks, people, and stories that make Magic the game we love. This week, we go deep on the most recent standard legal set, Strixhaven: School of Mages! This isn’t a set review - this is The Memory Jar! We talk about some of the callbacks, the reprints, the creature types, and old cards that are now obsolete. We also assig...

Episode 63 of The Memory Jar, a Magic: The Gathering podcast about the cards, decks, people, and stories that make Magic the game we love. This week, we celebrate April Fool’s by playing a trick on ourselves. Presenting the tongue-twistingest card name from each Magic set! This week’s Random Card: Sulfurous Blast ! Intro Music: This Train Doesn’t Stop At Rugby by TRG Banks Outro Music: Sunday Morn...

Episode 62 of The Memory Jar, a Magic: The Gathering podcast about the cards, decks, people, and stories that make Magic the game we love. This week, we go back in time to talk Mirage! We’ve explored some old sets on the show, but this one holds a special place in Magic history. That and David can’t get enough of talking about the olden, olden times. Mirage on Scryfall Notable cards if you’re foll...

Episode 61 of The Memory Jar, a Magic: The Gathering podcast about the cards, decks, people, and stories that make Magic the game we love. This week, we go deep on the most recent standard legal set, Kaldheim! This isn’t a set review - this is The Memory Jar! We talk about some of the callbacks, the reprints, the new creature types, old cards that are now obsolete, and of course we name this set’s...

Episode 60 of The Memory Jar, a Magic: The Gathering podcast about the cards, decks, people, and stories that make Magic the game we love. This week, we talk about plants! Plants have been around since Magic’s very first set. We look at both cards that are plants , and some cards that aren’t but still care about plants . Prepare yourself for some confused ranting about how exactly plants work flav...

Episode 59 of The Memory Jar, a Magic: The Gathering podcast about the cards, decks, people, and stories that make Magic the game we love. This week, we look back at the year that was...2005? That’s right - totally recorded on December 31, 2005, this episode looks back at a wild year for Magic. Bannings! Ninjas! Something called a “Ravnica?” We talk about our favorite decks of 2005 and make predic...

Episode 58 of The Memory Jar, a Magic: The Gathering podcast about the cards, decks, people, and stories that make Magic the game we love. This week, we flash back to the Kaladesh block.  Kaladesh Remastered’s appearance on Arena got us nostalgic for the not-really-so-long-ago days of Energy, Vehicles, and cards being banned in standard. Good thing they don’t have to do that anymore! Also, Ch...

Episode 57 of The Memory Jar, a Magic: The Gathering podcast about the cards, decks, people, and stories that make Magic the game we love. This week, we stroll through 26 years of creature lands! From Mishra’s Factory to Crawling Barrens, we tell you which lands were the best, the worst, and the weirdest. And of course, on which one of these lands would we most/least like to live? This week’s Rand...

Episode 56 of The Memory Jar, a Magic: The Gathering podcast about the cards, decks, people, and stories that make Magic the game we love. This week, THE BOYS ARE BACK! We talk about where we’ve been and where we’re going, plus we play catch-up with an abbreviated factual review of Core Set 2021 and Zendikar Rising! This week’s Random Card, Rushing-Tide Zubera ! Intro Music: This Train Doesn’t Sto...

Episode 55 of The Memory Jar, a Magic: The Gathering podcast about the cards, decks, people, and stories that make Magic the game we love. This week, Pro Tour Champion Eli Loveman comes back to the show to share his Core 2021 Preview Card, PRIMAL MIGHT ! Eli would like to thank Wizards of the Coast for the free preview card. We would like to thank Eli for sharing his free preview card with us. Thi...

Episode 54 of The Memory Jar, a Magic: The Gathering podcast about the cards, decks, people, and stories that make Magic the game we love. This week, we go deep on the most recent standard legal set, Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths! This isn’t a set review - this is The Memory Jar! We talk about some of the callbacks, the reprints, the new creature types, the old cards that Ikoria has made completely ob...

Episode 53 of The Memory Jar, a Magic: The Gathering podcast about the cards, decks, people, and stories that make Magic the game we love. This week, we welcome well-known Shivam Bhatt, host of the Casual Magic podcast, former member of the Commanderin’ MTG podcast, and member of the Commander Advisory Group! Shivam’s here to talk about cards from the Masques block. Why Masques? After this tweet,...

Episode 52 of The Memory Jar, a Magic: The Gathering podcast about the cards, decks, people, and stories that make Magic the game we love. This week, we give you the Top 8 Wind Drakes! That’s right - if it’s a 2/2 flyer that costs two generic mana and one colored mana...it’s eligible for this list. In no particular order, we discuss: Aerial Guide / Trusted Pegasus / Heavenly Qilin Angel of Vitalit...

Episode 51 of The Memory Jar, a Magic: The Gathering podcast about the cards, decks, people, and stories that make Magic the game we love. This week, we go deep on the most recent standard legal set, Theros Beyond Death! This isn’t a set review - this is The Memory Jar! We talk about some of the callbacks, the reprints, the new creature types, the old cards that Theros Beyond Death made completely...

Episode 50 (FIFTY EPISODES!) of The Memory Jar, a Magic: The Gathering podcast about the cards, decks, people, and stories that make Magic the game we love. This week, we celebrate the New Year by picking our favorite cards of the year for each year of the past decade. The Magic world saw a lot in the 2010s, and we take a quick run through the cards we loved the most. 2010: Vengevine & Grand A...

Episode 49 of The Memory Jar, a Magic: The Gathering podcast about the cards, decks, people, and stories that make Magic the game we love. This week, we welcome back Level 3 Judge and Magic Bracket creator David Lyford-Smith to talk STATS! David clues us in to some fascinating facts about where Magic is at and we talk about where it may be going. David gives the hosts some challenges and YOU can p...

Episode 48 of The Memory Jar, a Magic: The Gathering podcast about the cards, decks, people, and stories that make Magic the game we love. This week, we talk about about Mystery Boosters! We participated in a bunch of Mystery Booster events at Mythic Championship/Magicfest Richmond, and we interviewed our fellow Mystery Boostie drafters to see what cards they were excited about. Featuring intervie...

Episode 47 of The Memory Jar, a Magic: The Gathering podcast about the cards, decks, people, and stories that make Magic the game we love. This week, we go deep on the most recent standard legal set, Throne of Eldraine! This isn’t a set review - this is The Memory Jar! We talk about some of the callbacks, the reprints, the new creature types, the old cards that Throne of Eldraine made completely o...

Episode 46 of The Memory Jar, a Magic: The Gathering podcast about the cards, decks, people, and stories that make Magic the game we love. This week, we bring back listener favorite Ryan Overturf to talk about another one of his cube creations - The Spooooooky Cube ! This unique cube is curated to creates tension in both the draft and the gameplay. You loved Ryan’s Grixis Cube on Magic Online, so...

Episode 45 of The Memory Jar, a Magic: The Gathering podcast about the cards, decks, people, and stories that make Magic the game we love. This week, we’re joined by Magic’s 2018 Rookie of the Year Sam Ihlenfeldt! Sam joins us for an absurd amount of complete nonsense, and we also get around to remembering the eight cards in his personal Signature Spellbook, which includes: Silvos, Rogue Elemental...