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 latest stats released show Magic to be played by over 15,000,000 players around the world, while it is published in nine different languages!

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!