The Threshing Floor

Episode 87: The First Domino Has Fallen

On this week's episode, we celebrate the official arrival of tournament season as the first State tournament of the year is in the books - Shout out to Connecticut! We also review the latest seasonal promo, along with the state and regional promos for the season. Deck of the week features Joe Schaefer and his Neopolitan deck before we wrap up the episode with the community mailbag.
 
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Episode 86: New Rules and New Tools

On this episode, we review and discuss various hints from the elder team regarding a new rules update. We also provide details on a couple of new ventures for the podcast with the introduction of Player of the Month and the Monthly Meta Forecast. 
 
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Episode 85: Reviewing the Gauntlet

On this loaded episode, we review Baboony Tim's Gauntlet in addition to going over other news and notes. We also provide details on the seasons first major tournament and give an update on the 8 man Mr. Classic tournament. Plus... playtesting the new set?

Episode 84: 2024 - Year in Review

On this episode, we take a look back at the 2024 calendar year before looking ahead to what 2025 will bring. Join us as we prepare for the best year in the history of our game!
 
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Episode 83: Back in Production

On this return from hiatus episode, we go over recent community news including results from the recent TJC Memorial Tournaments that happened in Michigan and Texas. There's also details on the current running deck building contest over at Land of Redemption, and we provide some very early information on the FIFTH annual Christmas Card Swap!
 
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Episode 82: Fresh off Nationals

On this episode of the podcast, Jake and I share about our Nationals experience and what that was like for each of us. We also have a spicy new Seasonal Promo spoiler to go over before jumping into a loaded Mailbag. Thanks for listening!
 
As always, thanks for listening. If you are enjoying the podcast, please consider supporting our sponsors at Your Turn Games.

Sounds of Nationals 24: Day One

Short inteviews and sound clips from day one of Nationals. Enjoy!

Episode 81: The Man Behind the Game

On this episode, we reveal our suprise guest that we have been hinting at for weeks as the owner and creator of Redemption joins us to talk about how the game got started and how it has progressed through the years. 
 
There was plans to include some conversation with Jake reviewing recent spoilers and talk about our expectations for Nationals, but unfotunately the audio we recorded was substandard so we are not releasing that. I considered holding off on sharing the interview with Rob until I could frame a better complete episode around it, but didn't want to withhold it from you all. 
 
Rob did reach out after we recorded to ask me to clarify a couple of things he touched on. Please see below from Rob:
 
Thank you for putting this together.  I wish to clarify two things I said yesterday that may not be clearly understood.
 
First, I have no desire to misrepresent or be unfair to Angel Studios.  They are doing many good things.  My statement that the Chosen and Angel Studio have parted ways is based on this video by Dallas Jenkins:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2jsFfYPcmk&t=801s
 
In other words, the video presents Dallas Jenkin’s position.  Angel Studios likely has a different perspective.
 
Second, I touched on Scattergories so briefly that listeners may get the idea that I created Scattergories.  The creator of Scattergories is Gunther Degen.  The company I was working for back in the late 80’s is Cactus Services, Inc.  I was one of three people at Cactus. I was the junior member of the team (being only 24) when we licensed Scattergories to Milton Bradely (now part of Hasbro).  I was Mr. Degen’s agent until 1999 when I left Cactus Services, Inc. to focus full time on Cactus Game Design.
 
In 2018 Cactus Services and Gunther Degen asked to come back as agent to represent Scattergories.  I have been under contract with Cactus to do this since 2018.
 
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Episode 80: Jayden the Wise?

On this week's loaded episode, Jayden Alstad fills in for Agur and helps us bring you the most recent news and tournament results as we provide our final Power Rankings update prior to Nationals. We also feature Flooded Red's Midwest Regional Tournament winning deck in our Deck of the Week before answering your questions with the Community Mailbag. 
 
Deck of the Week available here.

Episode 79: Tyler the Creator

This week's episode features an extended "Agur the Creator" segment with special guest Tyler Stevens who is the lead set designer for the game. We pick his brain on design philosophy and review some of his favorite cards he has created before wrapping up with designing (in theory) a new Agur card for the modern game. In addition to this, we have a ton of tournament results to go over which shook up our Power Rankings. 
 
**We did experience some issues with our recording that made its way into the final edit as there was no way to completely work around it. The issue may be from our setup for Jake or could be an issue with our recording platform as they just added a ton of features that may have created some bugs. What you will hear is degraded audio in small clips (1-2 seconds usually) when Jake speaks. Longer sections of audio are clear, but you will get the degraded audio from time to time. 
 
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