The Manaverse Podcast
By Tom Traplin
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Episodes: 170
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The Manaverse Podcast is a podcast created for you, the gamer with aspirations of building your own local game store (LGS), the entrepreneur running an LGS who wants to grow their business, and the player who wants a behind the scenes look into their favourite hobby. If you’re looking for inspiration, new ideas, and interesting perspectives then Tom Traplin has you covered. Learn the business of selling some of the best games in the world including MTG, Warhammer, Pokémon, Dungeons and Dragons, board games and Euro games from some of the best retailers in the industry. Hear from some of the most successful business owners in the tabletop game industry and learn about the strategies, tactics, and systems that make their businesses so effective.
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MVP165: The Secret Lantern - Why Community Is Not a Marketing Strategy at This Game Store
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Sep 04, 2026 |
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MVP164: Brass Dragon Games - Building a Game Store Around People, Not Product
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Jun 08, 2026 |
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MVP163: Tariffs, Trade, and the Future of Tabletop
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Mar 25, 2026 |
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MVP162: Mastering Your Store's Google Business Profile with Bill Hibbler
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Jan 31, 2026 |
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MVP161: Q5 - The Secret Shopping Surge After the Holidays
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Dec 10, 2025 |
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MVP160: Game Store Strategies for Black Friday Weekend
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Oct 20, 2025 |
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MVP159: Is Your FLGS Ready For Q4?
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Oct 03, 2025 |
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MVP158: David Finn On The De Minimis Exemption Removal And Its Impact On Tabletop Games
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Sep 04, 2025 |
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MVP157: Cardmill - Scan. Sort. Done. - Behind the Scenes with Jonathan Domanus
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Jul 08, 2025 |
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MVP156: SortSwift - The Ultimate TCG Ecosystem
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Jun 13, 2025 |
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MVP155: eBay, TCGplayer & the Syracuse Union Showdown
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Jun 07, 2025 |
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MVP154: 23 Budget Friendly Marketing Strategies For Your LGS
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May 28, 2025 |
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MVP153: Unlocking Media Coverage For Your Local Game Store
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Apr 29, 2025 |
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MVP152: What Board Game Retail Really Looks Like in 2025
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Apr 08, 2025 |
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MVP151: Game Stores, Community, and Conventions – The LFG Con Origin Story
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Feb 04, 2025 |
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MVP150: The Biggest Lie in the Tabletop Games Industry
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Jan 27, 2025 |
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MVP149: The Future of 2nd Hand Geek: Updates, Features, and Benefits for Game Stores
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Sep 20, 2024 |
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MVP148: Local Game Stores Can Save The World
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Aug 29, 2024 |
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MVP147: Category One Games and How Scott Church Built a Business on "Dead" TCG's
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Aug 07, 2024 |
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MVP146: Millennium Games - Building the Biggest Game Store in the USA
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May 15, 2024 |
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MVP145: Manapool.com - The Marketplace for Magic Cards
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Apr 23, 2024 |
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MVP144: Michael Bahr on Selling Your Game Store
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Mar 01, 2024 |
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MVP143: Behind the Scenes of Altered TCG: A Conversation with Game Designer Marcus Kearsey
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Jan 30, 2024 |
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MVP142: The Deck Box - Josh Pyle-Carter on 10 Years of Building Halifax's Premier Local Game Store
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Jan 20, 2024 |
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MVP142: Part 4 - The Deck Box: Pros and Cons of Online Card Sales, and How To Win With a Local First Approach
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Jan 19, 2024 |
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MVP142: Part 3 - Innovative Inventory and Pricing Strategies in Games Retail - Learn from The Deck Box
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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MVP142: Part 2 - Unlocking Retail Success With Personalized Client Service - Insights from The Deck Box
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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MVP142: Part 1 - Joshua Pyle-Carter on The Deck Box, Clients vs Customers, Being Profitable From Day One, and Building Halifax's Premier Local Game Store
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Jan 16, 2024 |
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MVP141: Altered - The Game Aiming To Change the TCG Industry
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Jan 04, 2024 |
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MVP140: He's Doing $500k/Year In Online Sales, So Why Open A Game Store?
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Dec 05, 2023 |
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MVP139: Brendan Carrion on Lorcana Reprints, Restocks, and the Future of the Game
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Nov 08, 2023 |
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MVP138: 2ndHandGeek.com - The Marketplace That Supports Your FLGS
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Oct 30, 2023 |
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MVP137: How To Create Video Content and Why It's One of the Most Powerful Ways To Market Your Game Store
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Oct 08, 2023 |
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MVP136: The Commander Nexus
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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MVP135: The Mind Behind Mindtaker Miniatures
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Jun 16, 2023 |
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MVP134: Brendan Carrion on Athoria Games and Marketing in the Modern Age
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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MVP133: Jamison Sacks On 10 Years At Common Ground Games
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May 06, 2023 |
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MVP132: 95 Game Center and Growing The Business Into An MTG Singles Online Powerhouse
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Apr 21, 2023 |
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MVP131: Is Wizards of the Coast Killing The Golden Goose?
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Apr 11, 2023 |
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MVP130: The Return of Erik Bigglestone, Website Accessibility and ADA Lawsuits, and What Game Store Owners Need to Do To Protect Their Businesses in 2023
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Apr 03, 2023 |
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MVP129: The First 100 Days
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Mar 29, 2023 |
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MVP128: Cosmic Games and the Art of Selling Singles and Retro Video Games
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Mar 29, 2023 |
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MVP127: The Game Chest Is Raising The Bar On The Tabletop Industry
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Mar 21, 2023 |
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MVP126: How David Finn Is Building A Giga Empire - Giga-Bites Tabletop Cafe and Bridge Distribution
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Mar 08, 2023 |
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MVP125: Modern Table Top Gaming
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Feb 26, 2023 |
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MVP124: Breaking Down the Barriers to Entry for Your LGS with Critical Hit Games
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Feb 14, 2023 |
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MVP121: Versus Games and the Secret Sauce
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Dec 22, 2022 |
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MVP120: Welcome to the Spellenhuis!
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Nov 22, 2022 |
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MVP119: Gnome Games and The Gnoshery, Tales From the Head Gnome Pat Fuge
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Nov 01, 2022 |
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MVP118: Rob Gruber The Elf King on Good Times Games
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Oct 24, 2022 |
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MVP117: Digital Accessibility Lawsuits Are Here, What You Can Do To Protect Your Game Store
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Oct 15, 2022 |
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MVP116: Magic 30th Anniversary Beta Packs, Game Cafes vs Game Stores, The Future of the Industry
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Oct 07, 2022 |
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MVP115: Running a Hands Off Game Store with Jason Garvin from Total Escape Games
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Sep 20, 2022 |
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MVP114: Is the FLGS Business Model Dead?
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Sep 14, 2022 |
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MVP113: The Secrets of Unplugged Gaming's $14K Grand Opening Day
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Mar 04, 2022 |
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MVP112: How to Generate Free Traffic From Google That Turns Into Customers and Sales For Your Game Store
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Feb 21, 2022 |
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MVP111: BGE Tabletop and Dustin Staats on Launching a Game Store in 2022
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Jan 14, 2022 |
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MVP110: The Three Biggest Lessons of 2021 and a Look at 2022
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Jan 08, 2022 |
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MVP109: The Most Important Pieces of Content Every Game Store Website Should Have
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Dec 30, 2021 |
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MVP108: How Much Is Your Email List Worth?
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Dec 29, 2021 |
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MVP107: The Most Successful Game Stores Have Mastered Digital Marketing, Here's How Your Store Can Do The Same
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Dec 20, 2021 |
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MVP106: RPG Travel - How to Create The Ultimate Gaming Adventure
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Nov 26, 2021 |
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MVP105: Athena Games, The TARDIS of Norwich
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Nov 08, 2021 |
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MVP104: The Allocation Situation
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Sep 02, 2021 |
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MVP103: Marketing Strategies That Move The Needle In 2021
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Aug 17, 2021 |
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MVP102: 7 Ways To Avoid The Supply Chain Problems of 2021
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Aug 08, 2021 |
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MVP101: Is SEO Worth It For Your Game Store?
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Jul 21, 2021 |
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MVP100: The Road To WPN Premium Status
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Jun 30, 2021 |
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MVP099: Curt Covert From Smirk and Dagger Games on Publishing Games and What We Can Learn From Other Industries
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Jun 26, 2021 |
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MVP098: Wizards Announces the End of Professional Level Play
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May 14, 2021 |
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MVP097: Molly Zeff on Flying Leap Games, Wing It, and What She Learned By Visiting 250+ Game Stores
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Apr 28, 2021 |
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MVP096: Dized - How To Automate Your Board Game Demo Table and Sell More Board Games
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Apr 13, 2021 |
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MVP095: GAMA EXPO 2021 Review
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Apr 08, 2021 |
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MVP094: Hold The Line! One Star Reviews, Speculators, and Pricing To The Market
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Mar 11, 2021 |
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MVP093: Grow Your RPG Community with StartPlaying.Games
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Mar 03, 2021 |
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MVP092: How To Run Magic Tournaments Online With Melee.gg
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Jan 06, 2021 |
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MVP091: How I Would Improve Star City Games Marketing
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Nov 04, 2020 |
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MVP090: Knight Watch Games on the New Gamer Demographic of 2021 and Beyond
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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MVP089: How Games Unlimited Raised $11,085 in Under 24 Hours
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Aug 06, 2020 |
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MVP088: The Mana Boardgame Tavern is Open For Business
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Jul 28, 2020 |
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MVP087: Three Major Changes for Qualifying as a WPN Premium Store
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Jul 11, 2020 |
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MVP086: Now Is Not The Time To Open a Game Store, Do This Instead
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Apr 12, 2020 |
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MVP085: Resources and Advice For Staying In Business During The Covid-19 Pandemic
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Apr 03, 2020 |
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MVP084: Get In Front of More Customers with WeTabletop
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Mar 29, 2020 |
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Coronavirus Is Here, Now What?
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Mar 11, 2020 |
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MVP083: Justice Has Been Served
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Apr 22, 2019 |
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MVP082: Pete Hoefling on Star City Games
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Feb 20, 2019 |
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MVP081: Chatbots: What They Are And Why You Should Care
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Jan 20, 2019 |
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MVP080: How Gordon Johansen Sold $36,000 Worth Of Product In One Day
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Jan 14, 2019 |
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MVP079: The State Of The Games Industry
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Jan 06, 2019 |
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MVP078: The Death Of Magic Online
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Dec 06, 2018 |
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MVP077: Are Your Building A Business Or Are You Building A Community
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Nov 22, 2018 |
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MVP076: Marketing Strategies That Drive Sales
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Nov 12, 2018 |
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MVP075: Starting A Movement
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Oct 13, 2018 |
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MVP074: When To Give Up And When To Push Through
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Sep 10, 2018 |
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MVP073: Round Table – The Rise Of D&D And The Impending Doom Of Magic
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Aug 22, 2018 |
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MVP072: The Gamer’s Paradox And Dealing With Burnout
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Aug 18, 2018 |
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MVP071: Round Table – Distribution… It’s Not Just The Games That Are Analog, It’s The Industry
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Dec 14, 2017 |
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MVP070: Round Table – MTG Arena And Counterfeit Games
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Sep 20, 2017 |
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MVP069: 3 Growth Hacks For Your Game Store That You Can Implement Today
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Sep 14, 2017 |
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MVP068: The Future Of MTG E-Commerce
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Sep 05, 2017 |
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MVP067: The New Dueling Grounds
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Aug 27, 2017 |
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MVP066: How To Build A Winning Team
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Aug 16, 2017 |
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MVP065: Personal Development And Tools For Success
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Aug 08, 2017 |
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MVP064: Round Table – The Games Industry Is Changing
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Jul 23, 2017 |
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MVP063: How To Craft An Exceptional Experience
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Jul 01, 2017 |
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MVP062: Marketing Your Game Store
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May 29, 2017 |
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MVP061: Building Mind Sculpt Games From The Ground Up
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May 16, 2017 |
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MVP060: The GameBoard – How To Make Your Customer The Hero With Lynn Potyen
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May 01, 2017 |
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MVP059: Guardian Games and Fostering a Magic Community with Gene Joo
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Apr 19, 2017 |
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MVP058: Business is War – Mark Koh on MegaCorp
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Jan 30, 2017 |
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MVP057: Round Table – Breakout Games, Surprise Winners, Unexpected Stinkers, And The Lessons Of 2016 Round Table
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Jan 09, 2017 |
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MVP056: November In Review, Plus A Special Announcement
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Dec 14, 2016 |
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MVP055: Round Table – How To Move/Renovate Your Local Game Store Without Going Insane
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Dec 06, 2016 |
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MVP054: Round Table – Why Game Stores Fail
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Oct 17, 2016 |
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MVP053: The Problem With Pucatrade
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Oct 03, 2016 |
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MVP052: Optimizing Your Product Mix
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Sep 28, 2016 |
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MVP051: Round Table – Top 5 Favourite Games
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Sep 09, 2016 |
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MVP050: Ecommerce for Game Store Owners
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Aug 12, 2016 |
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MVP049: Gary Sproul on the Haunted Game Cafe
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Aug 06, 2016 |
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MVP048: Round Table – Does your game store need a website?
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Jul 26, 2016 |
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MVP047: GeekyGami’s with Allen Hicks // Nerdish Haven has evolved!
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Jul 18, 2016 |
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MVP046: Round Table – Game Cafes
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Jul 08, 2016 |
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MVP045: Round Table – Creating a Business Plan That Works
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Jun 22, 2016 |
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MVP044: Round Table – Will Magic Digital Next Make Magic an E-Sport
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Jun 14, 2016 |
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MVP043: Round Table – Will Local Game Stores Survive?
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May 11, 2016 |
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MVP042: Round Table – Wizards of the Coast Sued By MTG Judges
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May 01, 2016 |
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MVP041: Travis Parry and The Nerd Store
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Apr 22, 2016 |
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MVP040: Round Table – How To Run Great Events That Grow Your Game Store
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Apr 15, 2016 |
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MVP039: MiniWarGaming.com – From LGS To YouTube
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Apr 10, 2016 |
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MVP038: Round Table – The GAMA Trade Show
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Apr 01, 2016 |
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MVP037: Tom Traplin and the Manaverse Podcast are back!
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Apr 01, 2016 |
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MVP036: Checkmate with Black Knight Games
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Oct 30, 2015 |
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MVP035: Player 2 Press Start – KW Vintage Games
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Oct 23, 2015 |
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MVP034: The Nerd Haven Update – 5x The Haven
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Oct 17, 2015 |
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MVP033: Face To Face Toronto – How To Run Massive Magic Tournaments And Other LGS Secrets With Kelly Ackerman Part 2
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Oct 09, 2015 |
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MVP032: How To Run Massive Magic Tournaments And Other LGS Secrets With Kelly Ackerman Of Face To Face Toronto Part 1
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Oct 02, 2015 |
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MVP031: Captain Canada Talks Being On The Pro Tour, Content Creation, And Building ManaDeprived.com
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Sep 25, 2015 |
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MVP030: The Methods Card Kingdom and Mox Boarding House Use To Reach Hundreds Of Customers Each Week
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Sep 18, 2015 |
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MVP029: Rainy Day Games And Building An LGS That Stands The Test Of Time Part 2
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Sep 11, 2015 |
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MVP028: Rainy Day Games And Building An LGS That Stands The Test Of Time Part 1
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Sep 04, 2015 |
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MVP027: Meeples Games, Welcome To The Thunderdome!
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Aug 28, 2015 |
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MVP026: Derium’s CCGs Part Two
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Aug 21, 2015 |
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MVP025: Derium’s CCGs Part One
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Aug 14, 2015 |
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MVP024: Bampot Tea, The Trendiest Board Game Cafe In Toronto
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Aug 07, 2015 |
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MVP023: Nerdish Haven – The Story Of How To Start An LGS With $500 And A Laptop
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Jul 31, 2015 |
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MVP022: How Your LGS Can Crush It With Player Progression
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Jul 24, 2015 |
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MVP021: The Crazy Squirrel Game Store Is Plotting World Domination
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Jul 17, 2015 |
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MVP020: Black Diamond Games, Gary Ray, and the Magic Bubble
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Jul 10, 2015 |
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MVP019: Games of Berkeley, California’s Premier FLGS
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Jul 03, 2015 |
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MVP018: Pat’s Games And The Castle That Magic Built
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Jun 26, 2015 |
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MVP017: Pistols at Dawn! Wayne Mittlestead on Dueling Grounds
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Jun 19, 2015 |
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MVP016: Redcap’s Corner with Benn Roe and Adam Friedman
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Jun 12, 2015 |
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MVP015: Exploring The Little Shop Of Magic With John Coviello
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Jun 05, 2015 |
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MVP014: How To Get Your Game Idea Published While Playing Magic On The High Seas
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May 29, 2015 |
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MVP013: Metal Galaxy, A Ninja Star In Space
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May 22, 2015 |
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MVP012: Building a Massive Magic Community at the Dragon’s Lair
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May 15, 2015 |
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MVP011: The Advantage Of Selling Magic Cards Over The Internet With CardAdvantage.ca
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May 08, 2015 |
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MVP010: Battling the Minotaur Inside Labyrinth Games
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May 01, 2015 |
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MVP009: Rock The Dragon With Jenn Haines
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Apr 23, 2015 |
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MVP008: Gordon Johansen Talks About Building The 13 000 Square Foot Mecca Of Gaming
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Apr 17, 2015 |
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MVP007: How Perseverance And Determination Can Build The Foundation For A Successful LGS With Gabe Escobedo and Game Haven STL
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Apr 10, 2015 |
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MVP006: The Power Of The Acronym, JBC And Just By Chance Games
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Apr 03, 2015 |
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MVP005: The 411 On 401 Games
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Mar 27, 2015 |
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MVP004.5: Special PucaTrade Edition
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Mar 22, 2015 |
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MVP004: Michael Russo Introduces The Universe Of Universe Games
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Mar 20, 2015 |
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MVP003: Adventurer’s Wanted, Quarter Available
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Mar 13, 2015 |
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MVP002: Meet Dan Hoffman, the Canton of Canton Games
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Mar 04, 2015 |
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MVP001: A World Far, Far Away With Brad Ashton Haiste
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Mar 04, 2015 |
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MVP000: Welcome to the Manaverse Podcast!
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Mar 04, 2015 |