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327 - Keyforging with Friends

November 10, 2025·37 min·3 clips

Miggy's game ends with a lateral shift revealing nothing but six creatures, leaving both players laughing.

Whirlyball comes first, obviously. Sidney opens with the kind of community spillover this show is built for, bringing Miggy into the conversation after a KFC weekend full of plans, captains, brackets, and barely contained chaos. Miggy has not been on before, so the top of the episode has that bright meet-the-friend feel. Sidney is clearly glad to have her there. Also, somehow, the plan actually worked. After that, the episode keeps hanging out while the KeyForge talk starts moving fast. Mog takes some friendly heat, mostly the kind that comes from a table where everyone likes the game enough to roast the cards properly. A big beefy creature can do work and still be nobody's favorite. Alliance becomes the main pressure point. Miggy talks through seeing huge boards, especially Donut's dad on a Thrall Duma build that could drag the game out and force five keys. It is ridiculous in exactly the right way. The rules math gets the good kind of dramatic. Break Key had three Amber pips, the check climbed to just shy of 20 Amber, and Duma pulled the total down to exactly six. Sidney reacts like someone watching the whole thing happen from the rail, which helps the technical stuff stay alive instead of turning into a list of plays. Then Dorian hits the story button. Miggy's third game becomes a lottery-ticket sequence, with correct calls on Asking Later Returns and Rage Reset trapped underneath it. The cycling gets ugly. Miracle Wormhole into Traumatic Echo lands at the worst possible time, with Punk in hand, Logos creatures exposed, and Cloud of Genesis waiting somewhere in the shuffle. Brutal, but clean. By the end, the episode has folded back into the weekend itself: Snap Forge, KFC, JT saying everyone should try Whirly Ball, and the recording drifting out with the rough edges still on. It sounds like friends still at the table after the game should probably be over.

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A loose KeyForge hang that turns a weekend recap into real card-game stakes.

This episode keeps its feet on the floor: weekend chatter, tabletop logistics, KFC, and then a KeyForge stretch that sounds like people who actually know the game. The Alliance recap does most of the work.

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You want Whirlyball chaos and a finals-run KeyForge breakdown.

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