Magic the Gathering

About ManaNation

Man­a­Na­tion is a weekly video pod­cast for the Magic: the Gath­er­ing gam­ing com­mu­nity. It’s aimed at pro­duc­ing a high qual­ity weekly prod­uct that we’d want to down­load to our iPods and watch. Because let’s face it, pod­casts aren’t all great, some actu­ally do suck. Hard. We don’t. And if we ever do, we’ll quit.

Magic: the Gath­er­ing (often just called ‘Magic’) is a game cre­ated by Richard Garfield and is owned by Wiz­ards of the Coast (a sub­sidiary of Has­bro). It’s a game in what has come to be called “Col­lectible card games” or “CCGs” and some­times “TCGs” which is short for “Trad­ing Card Game.” And many may think that Magic is a copy­cat of Poke­mon or some of the other games when in fact Magic: the Gath­er­ing is the old­est of these style of games. It has watched many come and go while it has held the only true stay­ing power in the industry.

The show’s title, Man­a­Na­tion, comes from a very key piece of the game, some­thing which every deck has — “mana.” Mana is the fuel or cur­rency in the game of Magic. And as such, it is what unites every player of the game, it’s the one true cen­tral point around which the “nation” is formed. Sec­ondly we mim­ic­ked the name of another extremely pop­u­lar video pod­cast, Dig­gNa­tion. Hey, we’re not ashamed to admit it.

The site has grown beyond its small begin­nings, launch­ing with just a video pod­cast and now a site with a staff of free­lance writ­ers, a ded­i­cated com­mu­nity, and an ever grow­ing rep­u­ta­tion in the Magic the Gath­er­ing com­mu­nity. With thou­sands of vis­i­tors a day ManaNation.com is proud to con­tinue to teach, explain, and improve the Magic community.