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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.

ManaNation is video podcast about Magic the Gathering, it is copyright of its owner CoolStuffInc LLC and Patrick Jarrett. Magic the Gathering, and all related graphics are owned by Wizards of the Coast.