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Rival's Duel
Rival’s Duel is a Bi-weekly Podcast that pits Eric Bonvie, stand-up comic and self-proclaimed Commander “Bad Boy” against Nole Clauson, enforcer, judge, and juror of the EDH social contract and all around good guy. Every episode, these two talk about the newest happenings in commander, as well as pick a topic that they disagree upon and fight it out between themselves. This is all interwoven with a great deal of self-deprecating humor and terrible puns.
Episodes
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Rival’s Duel 80: Back in the Habit- Amonket Set Review
Hello…. Hello… Is anyone there? Damn it’s dusty in here. Can you hear me? Hello? *Blows dust off microphone*. Hi, it’s time for another episode of Rival’s Duel. In the most exciting news, we are not dead! We had some personal life stuff get in the way (more on that inside this episode) but we are...
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Rival’s Duel 79-A Rival’s Duel 2 for 1 Sale
Hello and welcome to another edition of Rival’s Duel. With the leak of Dawn//Dusk, a new card from Amonket, setting the online mtg community ablaze, Eric and Nole got to thinking about other times WotC has printed multiple cards on the same piece of cardboard. We review split cards, flip cards…
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Rival’s Duel 78- Let’s Build: King Macar edition
Hello everyone and welcome to another episode or Rival’s Duel. Eric and Nole are back to trying to build a deck, this time with King Macar, the Gold Cursed. Vehicles from Kaladesh breathed some fresh life into the commander and now they have come together to see what they can come up with. Do you...
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Rival's Duel 77: Battle of the Gods
Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of Rival’s Duel. With the Amonket packaging and art dump release, we know that gods are coming back to magic. This got us feeling nostalgic for the last set of gods. To scratch that itch, it’s time for another gauntlet, this time with all 15 of the...
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Rival’s Duel 76: An Aetherly Revolting Set Review
Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of Rival’s Duel. We apologize for the delay, but we assure you it is worth it. This episode is Aether Revolt review time. This set brings a lot of neat stuff for Commander, as well as other formats. Give us a listen and let us know what cards from...
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Rival's Duel 75- 2017: Don't Call it a Comeback
Hello and welcome to 2017. Finally, it planet-wide cluster that was 2016 has finally come to a close and so does the awkwardness for Rival’s Duel. The world is looking good and we are back to providing the twice monthly content that you know and love. Before we can bravely ride into this new…
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Rival’s Duel 74- Let’s Build Live!
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Rival’s Duel 73- Commander 2016 Set Review
Welcome to another episode of Rival’s Duel. We Are Back and it’s the most wonderful time of the year for commander players. The new Commander pre-cons are out and we finally have 4 color legends so Eric can actually build his “anything but blue” deck. We dedicate this episode to all the people…
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Rival’s Duel 72- Pitching a Tentpole
Hello and welcome to another episode of Rival’s Duel. This week, the rival’s return to their roots. The episode is shorter and (dare I say) sexier, and more to the point, Eric and Nole are at each other’s throats with a good argument like the days of old (like before WtoC put out a new product...
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Rival’s Duel 71- Gremlins Ate Our Set Review
Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of Rival’s Duel. It’s that time again. We are off to a new plane and that means a new set and a slew of brand new cards. This time we are off to Kaladesh. Does this Indian inspired steampunk plane get Nole and Eric’s engines running? Is there a card...
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Rival's Duel 70- Yet Another Announcement Day Episode
Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of Rival’s Duel. Another two weeks, another…batch of spoilers, I guess? WotC’s announcement day has come and gone, giving us a new slew of products to speculate about. Kaladesh spoilers have also started, giving us new legends and planeswalkers to…
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Rival’s Duel 69- A Nearly Incomplete (but Much More Timely) Conspiracy Set Review
Hello and welcome to another episode of Rival's Duel. It's back to back set reviews as Conspiracy: Take the Crown has been (mostly) spoiled. The last Conspiracy set had lots of cool new cards for Commander and this set is no different. We also talk about some other products that has come out…
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Rival’s Duel 68: Let’s Tweak- We Love Mono Red Edition
Hello and welcome to another episode of Rival’s Duel. This week, Eric and Nole are playing doctor and looking at a fan’s decklist. This decklist tickles both of them in all the right places, as it’s somewhat unexpected, a control deck (Nole’s favorite flavor), and Eric’s 5 favorite colors (Red,...
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Rival’s Duel 67- Over the (Eldritch) Moon
Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of Rival’s Duel. Sorry for the delay in release, our boss Kozilek was upset that we were once again complaining about the eldrazi and and held us up in post. Fortunately, we were able to remind him that he was destroyed in the last set and he has...
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Rival’s Duel 66- We’re Not Tournament Legal
Hello and welcome to another another episode of Rival’s Duel. Well WoTC finally went and did it. In their latest scheme to kill Magic, WotC has taken a concept from unglued (the famously large B.F.M) and translated it into real, black bordered magic. Since the door has been opened for silver...
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Rival’s Duel 65- A Time Traveling Eternal Masters Review
Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of Riva’s Duel. We are back! Sorry we missed our spot two weeks ago. Due to the worst possible timing on some jokes, our episode was unfit to air (We go into this in depth on the podcast. Long story short, we made a bunch of jokes about guns, gun...
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Rival’s Duel 64- Four Colors of Speculation
Hello and welcome to another episode of Rival’s Duel. While we were gone (sorry about that, still cleaning the Eldrazi spawn out of my circuit breaker) WoTC announced a whole bunch of stuff. So much that we have a bunch of stuff to baselessly speculate about. We cover all the announcements from...
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Rival’s Duel 63- This Episode Should be Banned
Hello and welcome to another episode of Rival’s Duel. To follow up from last episode (and hopefully make it that we don’t have to talk about it for a while) we are wrapping up the banned list discussion by discussing what cards we (and you the listeners) feel should be on the banned list. Think…
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Rival’s Duel 62- This Episode is Banned
Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of Rival's Duel. This episode is an episode that promises to be controversial, despite the fact that Eric and Nole pretty much agree on the topic at hand. This is an episode that has been a long time coming, tonight the Rival's take on the banned…
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Rival’s Duel 61- Shadows Over Innistrad Commander Review
Hello and welcome to another episode of Rival’s Duel. There is a chill wind blowing, and that thing lurking in the darkness is starting to move. Therefore, it is time for the Rivals to breakout their magnifying glasses and search the spoilers for clues to what cards will be good for commander in...
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Rivals Duel 60- The Planeswalker’s Guide to the Multiverse
Hello and welcome to another episode of Rival’s Duel. This time, Eric and Nole are picking where to take their planeswalker vacation, as they are arguing about the best plane in the multiverse. Both have picked their favorite and are duking it out over which one is the best. They also take an...
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Rival’s Duel 59- Let’s Build: Naya Walkers Edition
Hello and welcome to another episode of Rival’s Duel. In this episode, Eric and Nole are taking their own unique take on “superfriends” decks, AKA cramming as many walkers as you can in a deck. Their take: Let’s cut two colors and that will make it better… There are times when we question Eric…
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Rival’s Duel 58- The Color Free Free-for-All
Hello and welcome to another episode of Rival’s Duel. This week, Eric and Nole a running another gauntlet. What is the gauntlet you might ask? While most of our arguments here on Rival’s Duel are a 1-vs-1 affair, the gauntlet is our version of a free for all, where we take all (or most) of a…
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Rival’s Duel 57-The Super Undistorted, Super Late, OGW Review Show
Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of Rival’s Duel. Apologies for the lack of an episode last time, it seems Kozilek distorted the audio into sometHing unrecognizable to anything but his eldritch brood. HowEver, after a brief negotiation with our new “business partners” (and I’m typing...
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Rival’s Duel 56- The Last 2015 Review You’ll Ever Need
Hello and welcome to another episode of Rival’s Duel. The week, Eric and Nole are wrapping up 2015, from everything from WotC’s product releases, to changes to the commander rules, to the state of Commander. We also talk about our resolutions from 2015 and what you can expect from us in the next...
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Rival’s Duel is a Bi-weekly Podcast that pits Eric Bonvie, stand-up comic and self-proclaimed Commander “Bad Boy” against Nole Clauson, enforcer, judge, and juror of the EDH social contract and all around good guy. Every episode, these two talk about the newest happenings in commander, as well as pick a topic that they disagree upon and fight it out between themselves. This is all interwoven with a great deal of self-deprecating humor and terrible puns.
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Rival’s Duel is a Bi-weekly Podcast that pits Eric Bonvie, stand-up comic and self-proclaimed Commander “Bad Boy” against Nole Clauson, enforcer, judge, and juror of the EDH social contract and all around good guy. Every episode, these two talk about the newest happenings in commander, as well as...
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