Our guest this week is Tyler, aka Rope Arrow! Rope Arrow is the first Magic artist to guest on the podcast (Draw Your Hand Secret Lair). Tyler brought an Alesha, Who Smiles at Death Commander deck with some very fun cards. Neale and Vinny talk about the hype for the Zeta set before it came out.
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Cole joins us on Untapped Libraries with his Odric, Blood-Cursed commander deck. It’s not just keyword soup but a blinking, graveyard, and artifact machine. Vinny and Neale talk about the charity Secret Lairs, slam dunking cards, and being on the same wavelength.
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This week’s guest is Lyght with their chomp-tastic keyword commander, Indominus Rex! We learn the best abilities to put into this keyword stew. The Untapped Gems are a mana rock and a saga, but which ones? Neale and Vinny talk about slathering ourselves in Magic, having difficulty with simple math, and altering cards.
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Untapped Libraries is going sideways. Because this week’s guest, Modular Cocoon, has brought an all-horizontal Commander deck for us to peruse. What’s an “all-horizontal deck”? Let’s find out! Vinny and Neale talk about a new Magic format based on Rainbow Vale, feeling checked out from Magic, and exploding corpses.
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Untapped Libraries welcomes Fiona to talk about her Doctor Who precon, Masters of Evil. We discuss what it’s like to enter the world of Magic: the Gathering and learning to connect with the game. Vinny and Neale talk about whales, cathode ray tubes, and leaving other players to deal with the aftermath of your Magic shenanigans.
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Paige TheMaverickGirl joins Vinny and Neale to explore the Pauper format and its evolution with two Elf decks, one from 2018 and another from this year to pick apart how they work and what’s changed. Vinny and Neale talk about their Secrets of Strixhaven prerelease, argue about saying Yes in improv, and introduce a new segment: “Untapped Gems”!
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Joining the crew on this week’s episode is Judge Bones and he’s brought Eiganjo Drift, a Vehicles-themed Cube! We go deep on being inspired by cubes, pilots, and TV News Vans. Vinny and Neale talk extensively about the Fast & Furious movies.
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This week on Untapped Libraries we talk to… each other! We’ve had a few requests to get to know us better on the show so we’re exploring Neale’s Commander deck featuring, Darien, King of Kjeldor. We also talk Arena Standard, taking a scalpel to magic cards, and the least interesting colour of Magic.
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This episode we delve into the uncommons-only format, Clover, with its creator, OnionBug! OnionBug walks us through the format and her General Kreat deck. Neale and Vinny talk about building commander decks in all colour combos, being explosive and terrible on Arena, and quasi-Partners.
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Our guest this week is Del! He’s the co-host of the Planeswalker Traffic Report and builder of this week’s deck: Uncle Touchy (a Patton Oswalt reference). Uncle Touchy seems like it should be a beast to play against. And it is. And that’s the point. It’s built to produce the most incredible nightmare game of commander possible (with everyone’s consent). Neale and Vinny talk about our Local LGS, combo in a casual meta, and “the thirteen guy”.
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