The Vorthos Cast

We're rustlin' up some grub with the flavor gems of Thunder Junction! Were you wondering about some of these Western tropes, curious about how many of these legends have been seen round these parts before, or just want to know where you can get some Halo out on the range? Bring your own tin can and we'll serve up some answers on this week's episode. If you want to leave your servers a nice tip, you can do so by joining our Patreon at Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast, where $1 a month gets you access to our Discord channel and $3 a month means you can listen to us record live! If you can't spare any coin, you can always leave us a review wherever podcasts can be reviewed, and we'll enjoy that just the same.

The ending has come to Outlaws of Thunder Junction, and it brings with it the start of something new. This week we're covering the two-part epilogue to the Outlaws of Thunder Junction story and the real ending of the Omenpath Arc of Magic Story, finally getting answers for Jace and Vraska's escape from Phyrexian influence and their plans for the future of their family and the multiverse. We also discuss some of our thoughts about this arc in general, and specifically the state of Magic story as it goes into the Dragonstorm Arc. You can subscribe to our Patreon, where $1 a month gets you access to our Discord server and $3 a month means you can listen to us record our episodes live! You can find us at Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast. You can also find us on Twitter at @TheVorthosCast, or email us with thoughts, questions, comments, coupons for free cheese dip at TheVorthosCast@Gmail.Com.

The main story of Outlaws of Thunder Junction is finished, but before we can watch our outlaws ride off into the sunset, we have to tell tale of Annie Flash with "Blood Is Thicker Than Venom" by H. E. Edgmon. Then we see what happens when you put the most untrustworthy scoundrels of the multiverse together for one big job, and you know it ain't a happy ending. Read Episode 5, "High Moon": https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/magic-story/episode-5-high-moon Read Episode 6, "The Ballad of Thieves and Thunderslingers": https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/magic-story/episode-6-the-ballad-of-thieves-and-thunderslingers Read "Blood Is Thicker Than Venom": https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/magic-story/blood-is-thicker-than-venom Then, you can subscribe to our Patreon, where $1 a month gets you access to our Discord server and $3 a month means you can listen to us record our episodes live! You can find us at Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast. You can also find us on Twitter at @TheVorthosCast, or email us with thoughts, questions, comments, coupons for free cheese dip at TheVorthosCast@Gmail.Com.

The train's pulling up to the station and you have to face the choice: Do you listen to us discuss episodes 3 and 4 of the main story and the side story "A Pleasant Family Outing," or do you tuck tail and run away? We're continuing our discussions of the Outlaws of Thunder Junction stories by Akemi Dawn Bowman this week with the two main story episodes, "A Train to Prosperity" and "Finding Tarnation." But halfway through "Finding Tarnation," we got waylaid by the dastardly Seanan McGuire once again with her side story, "A Pleasant Family Outing"! Read Episode 3, "A Train to Prosperity": https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/magic-story/episode-3-a-train-to-prosperity Read Episode 4, "Finding Tarnation": https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/magic-story/episode-4-finding-tarnation Read "A Pleasant Family Outing": https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/magic-story/a-pleasant-family-outing Then, you can subscribe to our Patreon, where $1 a month gets you access to our Discord server and $3 a month means you can listen to us record our episodes live! You can find us at Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast. You can also find us on Twitter at @TheVorthosCast, or email us with thoughts, questions, comments, coupons for free cheese dip at TheVorthosCast@Gmail.Com.

We have to free previews from Outlaws of Thunder Junction, including one plot-pivotal story spotlight that doubles as a nasty removal spell (we always have to get one) and one very sharp-dressed and sharp-clawed desperado! You can see full cards and art on our Twitter @TheVorthosCast!

What's this? A special bonus episode of The Vorthos Cast? That's right! We had the incredible opportunity to invite Isaac Fellman, author of "No Tells," the side story for Outlaws of Thunder Junction that introduces Yuma and his little cactus baby Kirri to Magic! We talk all about the experience of writing for Magic as an outsider to the IP, our favorite noir films, and the ways in which our lives influence our writing and our writing influences our lives. Isaac Fellman is the author of the upcoming novel, Notes from a Regicide, as well as Dead Collections, The Two Doctors Górski, and The Breath of the Sun. You can follow him on Bluesky (isaac-fellman.bsky.social) and subscribe to his newsletter at https://isaacs-law.ghost.io/. You can support The Vorthos Cast at www.Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast! For $1 a month you get access to our Discord server, and for $3 a month you can listen as we record episodes live every week! Sometimes, like this week, you can even get two episodes live! That's such a bargain!

Two worlds collide in this episode of the unofficial Magic story podcast, The Vorthos Cast, as we have on the hosts of the official Magic Story Podcast, Harless Snyder and Natalie Kreider! We talk all about making a Magic story podcast, what makes Magic story so incredible, and how important it is to provide access to the stories that make Magic great to all audiences. Go check out The Magic Story Podcast anywhere you can listen to podcasts! They're everywhere! It's hard to miss them. If you'd like to support the unofficial Magic story podcast, The Vorthos Cast, you can do so at www.Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast, where $1 a month gets you access to our Discord server, and $3 a month will get you into our live listens, where you could have heard us gab with Natalie and Harless all about cats and horses before and after our recording. Also, if you hear audio issues in this episode, it happens! They won't be in the next episode.

We got caught unawares out on the trail as a whole band of Outlaws showed up from the brush, thunder rifles drawn. We're here this week to cover the first two episodes of the main story of Outlaws of Thunder Junction, by that dastardly Akemi Dawn Bowman, and no lawman or outlaw is going to keep us from doing it. Read the first episode here: https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/magic-story/episode-1-an-offer-of-revenge And read that second episode, too: https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/magic-story/episode-2-the-jailbreak Then mosey on down to the Patreon saloon and toss your favorite lore podcast a coin or two so we can keep making these episodes, ya hear? www.Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast

We're heading into the wasteland today (not the Tempest one) to talk all about the CRAM-packed flavor gems of the Fallout commander decks! Here's all you need to know about the biggest flavor bombs of the set, including a lot of backstory for the Fallout franchise that may help you appreciate the retro-futuristic sci-fi post-apocalypse dark comedy of the post-2077 American Wasteland! If you want to support The Vorthos Cast, you can do so at Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast! This will get you access to our Discord server, where Vorthoses from around the world are excited about Outlaws of Thunder Junction! It's only $1 a month for access, and $3 a month to listen to us record the podcast live!

A little over a week ago, The Vorthos Cast was in Chicago for MagicCon Chicago! We did a full live episode you can now watch on YouTube called WANTED: Scoundrels of the Multiverse! It's a good one! Go watch it and share it with all your friends. Here's a link to it: https://youtu.be/721mpoC5aC8 This week's episode is a recap of our time in Chicago, including how we created our panel and the experience of being a guest for one of the biggest Magic events of all time.

With our trip to MagicCon Chicago only days away, we sit down to talk about the short epilogue to the Murders at Karlov Manor story, as well as a broad discussion on ways to grow Magic story and make it more popular to a broader audience of Magic players. If you're reading this on the day of release, it's probably too late to decide to go to MagicCon Chicago. If you're reading this after the MagicCon, it's definitely too late. If you're reading this before the day it's posted, you're a time traveler and can probably go to any event you want at any time! If that's the case, join The Vorthos Cast Live on Saturday at 11am on the Mana Stage! We've got a great show planned for y'all! If you want to support The Vorthos Cast, which is how we can actually afford to get the entire podcast out to Chicago for this event, you can do so at Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast! This will also get you access to our Discord server, where folks (including us) will probably be organizing hangouts and games while in Chicago. It's only $1 a month for access, and $3 a month to listen to us record the podcast live!

This week we're joined once again by the incredible Seanan McGuire, author of the Murders at Karlov Manor story! She answers our questions about writing a murder mystery, the importance of planeswalker friendships, and killing your darling planeswalkers and friends. If you'd like to support The Vorthos Cast, check us out on Patreon at Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast, where all of our patrons get access to our Discord server!

This week we return with our favorite flavor gems from Murders at Karlov Manor! We discuss references to 90-year-old mystery novels, famous TV detectives, and '90s era anti-drug school programs. It's a bit all over the place, honestly. If you'd like to support us with money, you can do that! You still get all the episodes we release even if you don't, but if you do give us $1 a month on Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast, you'll get access to our Discord server, which is a cool place. $3 a month will let you listen to us record the show live on Thursday evenings, which is a very cool thing to do.

With the killer revealed, we know the who and how but not the why... In this episode, we discover what misguided beliefs may have led one of the speakers for the world soul of Ravnica itself to lash out with malice against the guildmasters (and goblin) with murderous intent. We also discuss our overall feelings of this set's story, and why we all really think you should read it. If you'd like to support us with money, you can do that! You still get all the episodes we release even if you don't, but if you do give us $1 a month on Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast, you'll get access to our Discord server, which is a cool place. $3 a month will let you listen to us record the show live on Thursday evenings, which is a very cool thing to do.

Thank you to Wizards of the Coast for our three free preview cards for Murders at Karlov Manor! We were given three excellent story spotlights from the newest story, which you can (and should!) read here: https://magic.wizards.com/en/story For full images of our cards, including alternate arts, check out our Twitter! https://twitter.com/TheVorthosCast

As the case heats up, our plucky detectives fight their way through moss-eating assailants, Rakdos assassins, and Gruul mole gods. In the end, the clues fall into place and the identity of the killer is revealed. Who could be responsible for such brazen assassinations? And will the Guildpact survive if the killer of guildmasters is a guildmaster all their own... MNUGKY3LEBRGCY3LEB2G63LPOJZG65ZA MF2CA3TPN5XCAZLBON2GK4TOEB2GS3LF EB2G6IDTMVSSA33VOIQHI2DSMVSSAZTSM VSSA4DSMV3GSZLXEBRWC4TEOMQGM33S EBWXK4TEMVZHGIDBOQQGWYLSNRXXMIDN MFXG64RMEBUW4Y3MOVSGS3THEBQXE5B APFXXKIDNMF4SA2DBOZSSA43FMVXCAY TFMZXXEZI= If you'd like to support us with money, you can do that! You still get all the episodes we release even if you don't, but if you do give us $1 a month on Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast, you'll get access to our Discord server, which is a cool place. $3 a month will let you listen to us record the show live on Thursday evenings, which is a very cool thing to do.

Karlov Manor, the home of esteemed Orzhov guildmaster Teysa Karlov, is the site of the party of the year... and also of two terrifying murders. As the mystery deepens, it's up to Ravnica's Most Famous Detective (a very real accolade) Alquist Proft and former Orzhov guildmaster Kaya Cassir to lead their own independent investigations into the heart of these grisly crimes. Clues pile up, motives abound, and yet one question still remains: Whodunnit? This week we're covering the first four episodes of the Murders at Karlov Manor story by Seanan McGuire! If you'd like to support us with money, you can do that! You still get all the episodes we release even if you don't, but if you do give us $1 a month on Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast, you'll get access to our Discord server, which is a cool place. $3 a month will let you listen to us record the show live on Thursday evenings, which is a very cool thing to do.

In the Ravnica justice system, the people are represented by, well, actually it's kind of complicated. Are the people represented? How are laws made? Is murder actually legal? The answer may surprise you! Or it won't, considering this is Ravnica we're talking about, and crimes really depend on your guild affiliation... This week we're covering everything we know about laws, crimes, and murders on Ravnica to prepare you for the Murders at Karlov Manor. If you'd like to support us with money, you can do that! You still get all the episodes we release even if you don't, but if you do give us $1 a month on Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast, you'll get access to our Discord server, which is a cool place. $3 a month will let you listen to us record the show live on Thursday evenings, which is a very cool thing to do.

We've made it to the end step of the year! Now it's time to cleanup with our thoughts and feelings about all things Vorthos in the year 2023. The end of a multi-year arc, the start of a whole new world of stories, and so many products we couldn't even dare cover them all. We'll see you all in 2024 for a jam-packed year of murders, cowboys, and adorable little animals. Thank you all so much for your support over the year! If you'd like to support us with money, you can do that! You still get all the episodes we release even if you don't, but if you do give us $1 a month on Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast, you'll get access to our Discord server, which is a cool place. $3 a month will let you listen to us record the show live on Thursday evenings, which is a very cool thing to do.

Magic now has its own multiverse spanning collection of delicious recipes! Cuisines of the Multiverse by Victoria Rosenthal and Jenna Helland released recently and we sat down to read not just the incredible recipes created by Victoria Rosenthal, but also the wealth of lore blurbs written by Jenna Helland. This book contains 12,000 words of real flavor text, giving some tasty tidbits to each recipe, including some commentary by Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar and a tale of Tyvar's heroics. New Capenna didn't make the cut for this book, but luckily we have an excerpt for you: New Capenna Dinner 1) Order a pizza If you want to support Victoria Rosenthal, you can find more about her and her cookbook collections at https://pixelatedprovisions.com/ Support us on Patreon at Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast, where $1 a month gets you access to our Discord server and $3 a month gets you early access to the podcast as it's being recorded!