Sep 21, 2026 · 1 hr 29 min · 11 segments
While we're all nerds who are congregate to think about this game that is Magic: the Gathering, it's not always easy to build a circle of people who enjoy the game in the same way and socialize the…
but i need you kyle no you don't i'll see you tomorrow pulled out through the hole in my pajamas uh i don't know man like it's been a it's been a interesting year so far for playing this game uh as we've approached the bottom of the the year that was universes beyond and the rest of the game right the pie
which which has the the uh stench of universes beyond in some ways
not all of it yeah some the analogy i use for like some people where you know like where i see couples where there's like a real weird mismatch is you can be a cheesecake and and half of a cheesecake and i can be half of a pot pie and our shapes work together
you'll you'll fit in the same
tin
fit in the
same tin but there's really we really shouldn't be doing that a chicken pot cheesecake You know, that's what this year felt like.
Like,
oh, they're the same
shape.
I got I got I got a piece of chicken in my cheesecake and I got a cherry in my in my pot pie.
Yeah.
And it's just kind of smudged together.
But I want I wanted to just like hit you up with something that I've been trying to help us.
uh, help the play group with kind of on my own, which is getting new players in this year was, was something that we've tried.
We've had a number of experiments go on and I think they all have one con, they have, they have different things going on and they have just kind of like a common vector, uh, where they're coming from.
But this year we've played with a lot of new people and, to try to find our eighth player is really where we're at.
Like it's such that, that Kyle and I don't love playing five player games north of five player.
Kyle's okay with five player.
I'm the least okay with it.
I'll, I'll tolerate like one or two a night, but I don't want the whole night to be just straight five player games.
Yeah.
Um, so it's difficult when you've got a lot of people who want to play and the rotation of how they can be here and when they want to be here.
And I, I don't have a way to pull it off.
And if I had eight people at my disposal, I could just do that.
but i need you kyle no you don't i'll see you tomorrow pulled out through the hole in my pajamas uh i don't know man like it's been a it's been a interesting year so far for playing this game uh as we've approached the bottom of the the year that was universes beyond and the rest of the game right the pie
which which has the the uh stench of universes beyond in some ways
not all of it yeah some the analogy i use for like some people where you know like where i see couples where there's like a real weird mismatch is you can be a cheesecake and and half of a cheesecake and i can be half of a pot pie and our shapes work together
you'll you'll fit in the same
tin
fit in the
same tin but there's really we really shouldn't be doing that a chicken pot cheesecake You know, that's what this year felt like.
Like,
oh, they're the same
shape.
I got I got I got a piece of chicken in my cheesecake and I got a cherry in my in my pot pie.
Yeah.
And it's just kind of smudged together.
But I want I wanted to just like hit you up with something that I've been trying to help us.
uh, help the play group with kind of on my own, which is getting new players in this year was, was something that we've tried.
We've had a number of experiments go on and I think they all have one con, they have, they have different things going on and they have just kind of like a common vector, uh, where they're coming from.
But this year we've played with a lot of new people and, to try to find our eighth player is really where we're at.
Like it's such that, that Kyle and I don't love playing five player games north of five player.
Kyle's okay with five player.
I'm the least okay with it.
I'll, I'll tolerate like one or two a night, but I don't want the whole night to be just straight five player games.
Yeah.
Um, so it's difficult when you've got a lot of people who want to play and the rotation of how they can be here and when they want to be here.
And I, I don't have a way to pull it off.
And if I had eight people at my disposal, I could just do that.
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