The Universus Academy Podcast: Recent Episodes
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The official podcast of the Universus Academy. We'll be putting out a variety of content each week about different aspects of the My Hero Academia CCG from Jasco Games!
Matt and Chris go over the first 4 characters that have been previewed for set 6, Jet Burn. Lots of spicy cards in set 6 and we're here to breakdown our thoughts on them!
Matt and Chris start the discussion about the Pro-Hero Nationals meta will look like. What is good? What is bad? Who knows!?
Matt and Chris sit down to talk about all the BIG news that UVS Games shared about the future of the game. Also today is our two year anniversary and we have launched a Patreon to add new ways to connect to our community!
We are deep in Set 6 preview season and the UA boys are here to give you their thoughts on which characters are HOT and which ones are NOT!
Matt and Chris go over all the new Pro Hero Nationals information. Spoilers it's all good news and the promos look AMAZING!!!! Make sure to like, subscribe, and leave a comment letting us know which promo you are most excited for!
Matt and Chris catch up after an unexpectedly eventful month in the world of Universus. Let us know your thoughts in the comments and if you enjoy the video, do all the algorithm things.
Matt and Chris catch up about the recent events and talk set 5 pre-release/release. What are you most excited to test out from set 5? Let us know in the comments below.
Chris and Matt sit down to catch up on all things MHA CCG! Kanas City RLE, Set 5 news, a new banned card, and MORE!
Matt and Chris talk about the Sheffield RLE, Set 5, and more! You know...just another week at the Universus Academy.
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Matt and Chris sit down to catch up and discuss the set 4 meta now that the first RLE has happened.
John and Matt are joined by Andrew Holder (Unfunstuff) and Tim Keefe (Cetonis, Top Deck Heroes) to discuss the recent OP, uh, announcements.
John, Matt, and Chris are back catching up on some news and taking a look at the recent League of Villains previews!
John, Matt, and Chris are back to catch up on the recent(ish) events and news, including the bans and errata.
Then they guys take some time to look back on the first full year of the MHA CCG and reflect on the positives, the negatives, and give some feedback about what could be done to make this game we all love even better in the coming year!
We'd like to take this time to sincerely thank all of our listeners out there for tuning in and supporting us! Hopefully this game continues to grow and we'll have more opportunities to hang out in person in 2023. Happy Holidays and we wish everyone a very merry Chrissmith!
John, Chris, and Matt are joined by special guest Pippa to discuss a variety of topics from the online National Championship, Pippa's sick ass Midnight deck, Thanksgiving food rankings, and whatever else comes to mind!
John and Chris are joined by Tim Keefe and Keenan Meadows are they recap the MHA NA Nationals tournament
The UA pod is back with another fantasy character draft! Join John, Chris, Tim, Keenan, Dave, and defending champion Andrew as they draft all the mhaccg characters.
Today we're recapping Pasadena and following it up with a very special interview with Luohan Wei!
Today we have a special episode! John is joined by Ryan, Andrew Holder from GoBeyondGaming, Dave Wagoner, Chris Smith, and Tim Keefe to draft some characters! John deep dives the scoring at the beginning of the video and then we roll through and make some RIDICULOUS selections. Enjoy!
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This week on Take 10, Chris Smith and Rob Snyder REUNITE to bring you a taste of the old school, the Guile Treatment! What's Rob up to these days and how's the card slinging going? Dive in and find out!
Head Game Designer, Tim Friedlieb, joins us to talk about the recent bans to Frog Lashing, Amphibious and Unwavering Slash. Then, we dive into some design intent behind their favorite characters from Set 3!
John, Matt, and Chris wrap up GenCon as well as the rest of the previews minus the Endeavor starter.
Chris is joined today by Clint Badger to talk about his journey from but a man to a important member of the Jasco team. Hop in and enjoy the stories and fun!
John, Matt, and Chris give you the run down all GenCon, ALL the upcoming provisionals AND RLEs, then jump into some new promos. Enjoy!
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WE BACK YALL, John, Matt, Ryan, and Chris talk about our trip to Orlando and our experiences on the trip!
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Matt and Ryan talk about their Origins experience with John and the second half of the pod we're joined by Tim Keefe to talk about...the Life Symbol?
Some lingering audio issues on this episode, we apologize!
Today, we got another Deck Spotlight from Chris featuring All Might 3!! Enjoy!
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Today Chris brings you a few decklists from Neito Monoma! Enjoy!
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John, Ryan and Chris get together to talk about the results of the RLE#2, News announced during the RLE#2, RLE Season 2 promos and Provisional season 2 promos. Hop in and enjoy!
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Dive into the mind of Chris as he walks you through his Chaos Midnight deck with Set 2 additions! What do you think? Anything you'd change? Let him know!
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Matt John and Ryan get together to talk about the character's we're most excited to play in Set 2!
Today, Ryan and Chris are going through each and every Ultra Rare in Crimson Rampage to give our completely arbitrary ratings to the card's art and play-ability. The ratings will change, they wont matter, it's all made up! Enjoy!
Ryan, John, and Chris are joined by Keenan Meadows and they jump into more thoughts on the Omaha Provisional as well as thoughts on where the format is right now.
Enjoy!
John, Ryan, and Matt get together and talk about the Omaha Provisionals and the upcoming Set 2, Crimson Rampage Prerelease!
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John and Matt talk about the RLE prizing as well as wrapping up the last few previews for Set 2, Crimson Rampage!
Today, John and Matt get together and talk about some more Crimson Rampage previews as well as the slate of upcoming provisionals. Tune in and enjoy! https://www.facebook.com/UniversusAcademy https://www.universusacademy.org https://www.twitch.tv/UniversusAcademy
John, Matt, and Ryan get together to talk about last week's news and previews, starting with the remainder of Uraraka's kit. Let us know what your thoughts are below! Enjoy!
John, Chris, and Ryan get together to finish up talking about last weeks previews diving into the Gran Torino kit as well as seeing what Present Mic is screaming about! Enjoy!
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Today, John, Ryan and Chris get together to talk about Crimson Rampage previews for the My Hero Academia Collectible Card Game! We finish up talking about the Todoroki kit and see some previews from Toga and Ojiro!
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John, Chris and Ryan talk about the second MHA CCG provisional, the provisional promos, and the results of the tournament! Tune in and enjoy!
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Welcome back everyone, this week John, Ryan and Matt get together and talk about these sweet new previews for Midoriya and Todoroki. Hop in and enjoy!
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Welcome back everyone, this week John, Ryan and Matt get together and talk about some current events in the tournament scene and jump into the previews for the Hero Killer, Stain!
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Today, we bring you the next part of our Crimson Rampage Preview season with our VERY OWN previews provided by the fine folks over at Jasco Games. We're taking a look at some of Midoriya's kit including 2 attacks and a foundation. Hope you enjoy! https://www.mhacardgame.com _______________________________________________________________________ https://www.facebook.com/UniversusAcademy
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Today Ryan and John talk about the last few character reveals for Crimson Rampage and take a peek at the rest of Bakugo's kit that we've seen so far!
00:30 - Fourth Kind
04:50 - Ectoplasm
10:00 - Snipe
16:00 - Brutal Explosion
20:05 - Finishing Blast
24:00 - Howitzer Impact Cyclone
27:20 - Internship With Best Jeanist
30:59 - Self-Propulsion
34:30 - Who are we exited for?
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Ryan and John chat about the Kirishima errata as well as the Coordinated Effort ban and how we think it'll shake up the meta!
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Ryan, Matt, and Chris get together to talk about all of the new previews we've gotten for Crimson Rampage!
00:45 - Toga
10:20 - Ibara Shiozaki
15:00 - Tetsutetsu Tetsutetsu
24:45 - Present Mic
28:10 - Gran Torino
35:00 - Cementos
39:45 - Fumikage Tokoyomi2
44:05 - Dabi
48:30 - Ingenium
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This was recorded pre-Kirishima errata/CE ban so sorry for some outdated conversation!
Welcome back everyone, today Ryan, Matt and Chris talk about our tournament experiences and what we think will happen with the elephant in the room! How'd you all do? Let us know in the comments!
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Ryan and Matt throw out some predictions about the upcoming provisional with some probably super incorrect takes. We'll see how things play out!
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Today John, Ryan, and Matt are talking about some previewwwwwwwws! That's right! Join us as we go through the second set of character reveals with:
00:30 - Uraraka3
09:15 - Mineta2
14:55 - Endeavor
22:10 - Mina2
26:50 - Sero2
32:15 - Shinso
39:15 - Hatsume
45:20 - Monoma
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Today John, Ryan, and Matt are talking about some previewwwwwwwws!
That's right! Join us as we go through the first 5 character reveals with:
00:30 - Midoriya2
06:10 - Bakugo2
12:40 - Todoroki2
17:00 - Stain
21:55 - Iida3
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Today John, Ryan and Matt talk about the Provisional Promos coming down the pipe and are they even good? Enjoy!
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Editor note: We recorded this before the expanded player pool and announcements about cards being available on redemption.
Today John, Ryan and Matt get together to talk about the first provisional, the 128 player cap and availability of promos. Tune in and hear our thoughts!
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This week John, Ryan and Matt get together to talk about some current events as well as answer the question of "What is a Meta?" for you newer players. Enjoy!
Today, John and Ryan sit down with Tam Cardwell to get a bit of his history with card games, how he got into Universus and discusses the recipe for success when breaking into content creation. We caught him the morning before the PPG 1k, so we dont have any talk about that but we got the inside scoop on the Origin story! Check it out, and enjoy!
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John, Ryan, and Matt get together and rerank the Set 1 characters after 3 months of action!
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This week John and Ryan get together to discuss our final symbol of the symbols of peace series. Join us as we talk about the Life symbol!
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If you watch our Youtube channel, these videos will be coming out broken up into multiple parts throughout the week. So if you've already caught our Good character discussion on Youtube, skip ahead!
This week Ryan and Matt get together to talk about the Good symbol characters, attacks and foundations. Enjoy!
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We got a bonus episode where John and Ryan go over all of the organized play announcements, the new mulligan rules, and the new first turn rules. Enjoy!
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Another light week in news but the Plus Ultra B kits have arrived, we check in to see what kind of content YOU want to see, and we check out the AIR symbol!
Check back next week for Good!
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Hey everyone, this week we're light on news again but Plus Ultra packs are out and we're talking about the Water symbol!
Check back with us next week for AIR!!
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This week we recap our Thanksgiving and a slow holiday week. We jump into the Chaos symbol and all it has to offer.
Big shout out to our friends over @ https://vre.show, they have a really unique Tabletop RPG podcast where they try to randomize as many aspects of the game as possible from the jump. Check them out!
Check back next week for the WATER symbol!
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Hey everyone! This week we're talking a little bit about the new rule book that dropped this week before we dive into the All symbol. Check back next week for CHAOS.
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This week, John, Ryan, and Matt get together to talk about the final results of the Omaha 1k, recap the Joffice, and dive deep into the Evil symbol! Enjoy!
Come back next week when we talk about ALL!
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This week John and Ryan get together and talk about some of the results from the Omaha Smash, thoughts on Diversity in the game and wrap things up going over the Death symbol!
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This week John, Ryan and Matt talk about the Void symbol! The most powerful character base yet, but how do they play together? Check us out!
Come back next week for DEATH!
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John and Ryan are joined by Chris Smith this week to talk about Earth!
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In this episode Ryan and John talk about what decks they're playing, things they're excited about and Fire's current state in the MHAo format.
In this episode we explore the Order symbol and its strengths, weaknesses & cool cards it has access to. Tune in next week for our episode on Fire!
In this episode Matt, John, and Ryan breakdown the characters into their respective tiers based on games they've played and past experiences. Do you agree?