The Vorthos Cast

It's time for the flavor gems of Secrets of Strixhaven, a show where we look at all the most flavorful cards of the set and talk about art, callbacks, and lore you may have missed! This set is full of callbacks to the first time we were on Arcavios and new mini-stories hidden in the card art and mechanics! There's also Noxious Newt!

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This week we're joined by Wizard and author of the story for Secrets of Strixhaven, K Arsenault Rivera! She's contributed to the Magic Story since Innistrad: Midnight Hunt and has been a frequent guest of the podcast over the years since. We talk about writing the students of Strixhaven, as well as catching up with Chandra and Ajani after they've both been through so much.

We had to do some very unusual recording for this episode, so if things sound weird, I did my best!

If you'd like to support the show, you can find us on Patreon at Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast! All supporters get access to our Discord server, where Vorthoses around the world are telling stories and discussing Magic with each other! All patrons get access to early episode releases, and patrons at our $3/month tier can listen to us record episodes live!

This week is the final episode discussing the web fiction of Secrets of Strixhaven, including the two side stories for Silverquill and Witherbloom! The stories explore the rocky relationships between the people of the world and tackling grief and loss in different ways. You should read both of them, because they're so good! We also give some thoughts about the overall experience of the stories for this set, and what we're looking forward to in the future.

Read "Winnowing Season" by Emma Mieko Candon: https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/magic-story/secrets-of-strixhaven-winnowing-season

Read "Down to the Lake, Alone" by Isaac Fellman: https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/magic-story/secrets-of-strixhaven-down-to-the-lake-alone

If you'd like to support the show, you can find us on Patreon at Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast! All supporters get access to our Discord server, where Vorthoses around the world are telling stories and discussing Magic with each other! All patrons get access to early episode releases, and patrons at our $3/month tier can listen to us record episodes live!

Secrets of Strixhaven's main story may have concluded with a tremendous cliffhanger, but the side stories begin with one, as we meet Rootha on the literal edge of a cliff! From there we explore Coin Empire ruins with Quint and the perilous world of post-grad life with Zimone. Listen along as we give a summary of what happened in the side stories, and talk about how the characters have grown and changed in the years since Strixhaven.

Please read the side stories!

"A Living Flame" by Aysha U. Farah: https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/magic-story/secrets-of-strixhaven-a-living-flame

"Field Studies in a Future Tense" by Seanan McGuire: http://magic.wizards.com/en/news/magic-story/secrets-of-strixhaven-field-studies-in-a-future-tense

"The Math of More" by Alison Lührs: https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/magic-story/secrets-of-strixhaven-the-math-of-more

If you'd like to support the show, you can find us on Patreon at Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast! All supporters get access to our Discord server, where Vorthoses around the world are telling stories and discussing Magic with each other! All patrons get access to early episode releases, and patrons at our $3/month tier can listen to us record episodes live!

The story for Secrets of Strixhaven is complete, and this week we're going to talk about just what happens with the rampaging archaic, the mysterious Oracle, and the tangle in reality that we're all about to jump into. This is a story you do not want to miss, and you can read all of it at MTGStory.com! So go do that! It's really good!

If you'd like to support the show, you can find us on Patreon at Patreon.com/TheVorthosCast! All supporters get access to our Discord server, where Vorthoses around the world are telling stories and discussing Magic with each other! All patrons get access to early episode releases, and patrons at our $3/month tier can listen to us record episodes live!