Brought to you by FacetoFaceGames.com, Canada’s number 1 source for Magic singles and products!   Chris, Will and Travis try to get a grasp on some slippery ol’ Bogles and try to spot some hard-to-see Stalkers in classy hats as they tackle the Aura-based decks that have been doing well in Modern and Standard...

  Brought to you by FacetoFaceGames.com, Canada’s number 1 source for Magic singles and products!   Chris, Travis, and Adena start the new year off right by catching up with their listener emails and discussing deck ideas across the formats. Horde of Notions fans sent in some rather combo-licious deck ideas, so the hosts are...

  Brought to you by FacetoFaceGames.com, Canada’s number 1 source for Magic singles and products!   Chris, Will and Travis get together to discuss what they want out of Magic in 2013. From bannings and unbannings to GP locations and new products, find out what the guys are wishing for!     Your Hosts: Chris,...

Brought to you by FacetoFaceGames.com, Canada’s number 1 source for Magic singles and products!   This week, in preparation for GP Toronto and the upcoming PTQ season, HON tackles the archetypes in the Modern format.  Chris, Adena, Will, and Travis discuss what the best decks are, how they win, how to play them, and what...

  Brought to you by FacetoFaceGames.com, Canada’s number 1 source for Magic singles and products!   Special guest and five color afficionado ALI AINTRAZI joins Chris, Will, and Adena for an exciting episode filled with deck ideas, metagame trends, and crazy stories.  Ali tells us how he devised his deck, which placed in the top...

  Brought to you by FacetoFaceGames.com, Canada’s number 1 source for Magic singles and products!   Happy Thanksgiving from Horde of Notions! There’s so much to be thankful for in the magical world, and our listeners top the list. Join us for another exciting episode filled with format analysis.   The gang reunites after several...

Brought to you by FacetoFaceGames.com, Canada’s #1 source for Magic singles and products!   Chris and Travis welcome fan favourite Brad Nelson back to the show for a ton of Standard talk! Unfortunately, Chris managed to Lansdurdle away the first half hour of the cast somehow, so apologies are due. The rest is pure gold,...

  Chris and Will do another two-man show, this time brewing a GB deck around Vraska the Unseen that ignores all the stalling and lifegain in the current format. Will also tricks Chris into brewing a deck with Parallel Lives, and they have a discussion about Disney buying everything.   Will also launches the Award...

Brought to you by FacetoFaceGames.com, Canada’s number one source for Magic: the Gathering singles and products.   The gang assembles to discuss Adena’s performance at GP Philadelphia (SPOILERS: she didn’t win). Will recounts his Game Day against some marshmallows and Chris regales us with tales of his two Game Days. They go on to take...

Brought to you by FacetoFacegames.com, Canada’s #1 source for Magic: the Gathering singles and products!   The gang’s all here, as Chris, Will, Travis and Adena attack the modern format, discussing what new cards in Return to Ravnica will make an impact on the format. Since Eggs is the deck to beat, they start brewing...

Brought to you by FacetoFacegames.com, Canada’s #1 source for Magic: the Gathering singles and products!   Chris, Will, and Adena discuss their escapades at States / Provincials. They explore both perspectives, since Will and Adena competed, and Chris judged. Then they discuss the recently released Ravnica event decks, for both playability and economic value.  ...

Horde of Notions is brought to you by Face to Face Games, Canada’s #1 source for MTG singles and products.   Chris, Will and Travis look at the first week of New Standard and break down some of the successful decklists while providing suggestions for States and Provincials this week.   http://www.starcitygames.com/events/coverage/1229_top_32_standard_decklists.html   Man “cut”...

Horde of Notions is brought to you by Face to Face Games, Canada’s #1 source for MTG singles and products.   Normally to remove Scars you need surgery, but in Magic all you need is for a new block to come out! Chris, Adena and Will discuss the cards they are happy to see the...

He’s baaaaaaaack! Writer, podcaster, commentator, community stalwart and now self-help guru Michael J Flores joins us for a second time, and if it’s even possible this outing might be even better than his legendary appearance on the still-popular episode 11.   Topics discussed with The Sensei include: Coffee Magic coverage Story Time with Mike And...

Hard to believe it, but Horde of Notions has reached episode 50! Half a century in and we’re nowhere near done. Joining Chris, Adena, Will and Travis for this episode is Sam Black, one of the world’s best deckbuilders and PT Philadelphia semifinalist. Also making a special appearance is the one and only Jack LaCroix!...

Chris, Will, Travis and (briefly) Adena are joined by former Player of the Year, famed MtGO grinder and SCG personality Brad “fffreak” Nelson for one of the best, most entertaining and yet most strategy-filled episodes of Horde of Notions ever! Brad teaches us about fundamental turns and curve theory while giving us scumbag stories AND...

With Will on his way home from a triumphant performance in the car having scrubbed out of GP Boston, the team discuss Infect. What archetypes are there, how can it be beaten and how else can it be built? We also talk about our personal FNM rituals: preparation, execution and approach.   Infect decklists: GW...

Chris, Will and Travis are tired of being victimised by the Zombie horde, so they pool their resources to construct the Standard Zombie Survival Kit! The crew then works on a mono-green deck the likes of which you have never seen, and Chris and Travis go gaga over a white-green concoction they brew up on...

Brought to you by LegitMtG.com! With the World Magic Cup and FNM Championships only a few short days away, the crew are joined by friend of the show Rich to talk predictions. There’s talk of Standard, Modern and Galaxy Quest, and a discussion on the relative merits of Anne Hathaway, Mila Kunis and Natalie Portman...

It’s event deck time, so of course we have the full review of Repeat Performance and…errr…the other one. Also in this episode, Chris loses his mind over a BW ZombiePod list and Will make us all very proud! Zombies decklist: http://magic.tcgplayer.com/db/deck.asp?deck_id=1032001 Event decks: http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/arcana/1022 Horde of Notions playmats! http://www.inkedplaymats.com/collections/frontpage/products/horde-of-notions-playmat Your Host(s):...

Chris, Will, Adena and Travis discuss the weekend’s results and decks, including Travis’ performance at GP Columbus. They take a crack at brewing another deck for Gavin Verhey’s ReConstructed column and discuss the recently-announced Return to Ravnica prereleases. And Will proves again that he cannot pronounce Magic card names! Colin Mochrie does Star Wars: http://www.toplessrobot.com/2012/07/here_is_a_grown_man_playing_with_star_wars_toys.php...

Brought to you by LegitMtG.com! Chris, Adena and Will welcome the new fourth member of the cast…Travis Hall! The crew talk about their thoughts after the M13 prerelease, discuss some archetypes they like after M13 becomes legal and take a shot at Gavin Verhey’s latest challenge. Gavin’s challenge: http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/rc/202 Stark vs Lannister…WITH LIGHTSABERS! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17W4QMNwm-c Your...

Brought to you in association with LegitMtG.com! Chris, Will and Adena are joined by Josh, Adena’s man. We discuss our plans for standard after M13 and talk about fun decks we’d play before M13 becomes legal. Nerdpolish blog: http://nerdpolish.wordpress.com/ Gavin’s mothership article: http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/rc/201 Carbonite Han Solo! http://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/kitchen/e845/ Your Host(s): Chris, Jack, Adena, and Will Show’s...

Brought to you in association with LegitMtG.com! What’s this? Chris all by himself? Fortunately the internet comes to his rescue, and he is joined by squirrelophile Travis Hall (@travishall456) and level 2 judge and PTQ grinder Arthur Halavais (@ahalavais) to talk M13 and do some brewing with Tezzeret. Baleful Tezzeret decklist: http://www.wizards.com/magic/magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/deck/992 Bacon cinnamon rolls:...

Brought to you in association with LegitMtG.com! Chris, Jack and will get together for an intense brewing session but mostly to see Jack off. Yes after 40 episodes and just over a year, Jack is taking an indefinite hiatus from the cast to focus on real life. Stay tuned at the end of the show...