The Howling Salt Mine

Oct 24 2024 128 ep. 72 mins 123
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A comedy/advice podcast reading salty stories from the Magic the Gathering community. Stay Salty!

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HSM 123: Upholding Priorities and Dumb Plays with Goldsabertooth!

Oct 24 2024 104 mins  
Welcome to Episode 123! Our good friend Tim Goldsabertooth, artist extraordinaire and cEDH player, joins us in the mine today! We hear a story about losing your cEDH group because you upheld your priorities, being berated for making a stupid play, and a saga of a salty bird and a frustrating deal from a cEDH event. Also, Tim's art, Tony's salt, and Garth's accolades. Go follow Ti

HSM 122: Sam's Scoop, Mr. Know It All, and the Don Quixote Defense

Oct 17 2024 82 mins  
Welcome to Episode 122! Sam kicks this one off with his own salty confessional, and its a doozy. We also talk about a game with a rules lawyer and a rules outlaw, hiding your salt behind your favorite book (with marginal success), and disagreeing with a play so much that you... kingmake? Okay I guess so. Stay Salty! ____ Find HSM merch on our website and our Bonfire site! Get HSM p

MagicCon Vegas Announcement! LIVE SHOW!

Oct 16 2024 9 mins  
MagicCon Vegas is around the corner and the Salty Boys have a jam packed schedule including our FIRST LIVE SHOW ON SATURDAY! Here is where to find us! The biggest announcement we have is our live show that we are doing on Saturday from 11 am to noon in the community panel center! If you will be there, send us a salty story with "Vegas" in the title. We will pull from those from the

HSM 121: Ripped Apart, Does it Resolve, and Salt-Colored Glasses

Oct 10 2024 74 mins  
Welcome to Episode 121! We're back in our studio with today's episode! Today, we have a stories where an opponent loses the game and loses their mind, being asked if you have responses while you're getting pubstomped, and when you're so full of salt that everything someone does pisses you off. Also, a video game chat and Sam boils corn incorrectly. Stay Salty! ____ Find HSM merch o

HSM 120: Big Bans and Kaiba Trades with Mod Anon MTG!

Oct 03 2024 109 mins  
Welcome to Episode 120! Our buddy Dan from Moderately Anonymous MTG (and our rival podcast, The Herald's Horn) joins us in the mine today in place of Tony! We're talking about the new bans and digging into our mail bag for some salty stories featuring these banned cards. We hear a story about a trade straight out of YuGiOh, a cEDH tournament that needed more AC and more snacks, and

HSM 119: The Commander Sealed 2024 Recap Special

Sep 26 2024 61 mins  
Welcome to Episode 119! We have a special episode for you as Tony and Mike recap their recent trip to the Commander Sealed charity event in Rochester! That's right, it's a Tony and Mike special! The guys will be talking about the ups and downs of the main event and all the other fun (and not so fun) things they did. Also, long drives, dumplings, and Tony gets salty about... everyt

HSM 118: Deckbuilding Slump, Kaalia of the Past, and Jack

Sep 19 2024 78 mins  
Welcome to Episode 118! Today, we talk about Tony’s nightmare pod, playing a 2011 precon in 2024, and an LGS interaction with a black lotus and an unexpected ending. Also, Sam talks about his deckbuilding slump. Stay Salty! ____ Find HSM merch on our website and our Bonfire site! Get HSM playmats from our friends at Jank Mats! Use our affiliate link!! Email your salty stories to

HSM Bonus: The Salty Cards of Duskmourn

Sep 17 2024 70 mins  
Welcome to a very special episode of HSM! We're officially #sponsored by Wizards of the Coast to be a part of their new #MTGAmbassador program for Duskmourn! WE DID IT Y'ALL. So of course we're bringing our salt expertise to talk about the saltiest cards in Duskmourn! Join us as we become obsessed with the Mindskinner, double the meat, barb some flares, and watch a freaky dog ride

HSM 117: Nah Nadu, Get Sunhomed, and Killin' Kinnan

Sep 12 2024 83 mins  
Welcome to Episode 117! This episode was recorded LIVE in the new HSM Studio! (aka Sam's spare room) Today, we talk about everyone's favorite bird wizard, spreading salt with a special land, and what all Kinnan players fear (a lot of cEDH players fear it tbh). Also Tony's travel, a Boston mouse, and little monsters. Stay Salty! ____ Find HSM merch on our website and our Bonfire s

HSM 116: Shrodinger's Forest, Moral Victory, and Sam is Back?

Sep 05 2024 79 mins  
Welcome to Episode 116! Sam is back from paternity leave! Through the magic of backlogging episodes, you may not have noticed, but Sam is back to dive into the SALT. Today, we talk about whether forests really die or not (they do), if a draw is a moral victory, and the classic dilemma of the "upgraded" precon. Also Mana Drain pain, sheet plastic pizza, and Pink Plankton Club. You'