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Season 2 and Season 3 have shorter episodes and no overarching plot but the characterizations are still the same and they maintain continuity.

In 2012 it got its own SpinOff, ''Friday Nights'', which is based around the group's love of ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' and is sponsored by ''Creator/WizardsOfTheCoast''.

* CouchGag: The ''Friday Nights'' opening sequences features the cast in custom ''Magic: the Gathering'' joke cards whose details change each episode. In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gt--dN3uxsQ Unusual]]", an episode focused around official joke set "Unstable", these cards are reasonably balanced and wouldn't look mechanically out of place in an official set. In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0USlyIy8vXQ The Exile Zone]]", an homage to [[Franchise/TheTwilightZone exactly what you're thinking of]], instead of featuring the ''cast'', the opening consists of un-edited cards thematically appropriate to the episode.

-->'''Alex''': Swing for 37...
-->'''Alex''': And I mill your whole deck...
-->'''Alex''': Six makes ten poison counters...
-->'''Alex''': Now you can't cast spells, ever.

-->'''Alex:''' My commander is Sheoldred. ...The name of my deck is "I'm Not Saying She's a Gravedigger, But She Certainly Pulls Creatures Out of the Graveyard With Startling Efficiency."
-->...
-->'''Graham:''' My commander is Ezuri, he's an elf, the deck is full of elves, elves that go looking for other elves, I call the deck "Seriously You Guys, Look at All These Friggin' Elves."

--->'''Graham:''' I need you to be straight with me. Is magic real, and are you a wizard.
--->...
--->'''Graham:''' Well, you still cheated at ''Magic''. The game.
--->'''Alex:''' ''(reading a book; all cards have vanished from the table)'' Did I?

* YouDoNotWantToKnow: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7l0pRm-VRU Politics]]" combines this trope with NoodleIncident.

'''Graham:''' ...You don't want to know.
** This turns into a BrickJoke at TheStinger.
--->'''James:''' ...I went in the Moonbase.\\

* EntertaininglyWrong: The main joke whenever Beej shows up is that he knows absolutely nothing about ''Magic''. For instance, he doesn't know about sets so he sorts cards by collection number and then color (in alphabetical instead of WUBRG order). He also shows up once in a variant of the "phases" shirt, only the phases are replaced by random nonsense.
** In the final episode, when Graham goes to him for advice, Beej finally shows off his real knowledge of Magic: The Gathering... ''Puzzle Quest''.

* GroundhogDayLoop: In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojrVOgTDUxQ Time Walking]]", Jer obtains a copy of Time Walk for his singleton deck to play against Alex, and whenever he plays it, he finds himself back in his bed at the start of that morning.
** Invoked by Alex four years later in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGHvPdXVtIs Lockdown]]" with the same Time Walk card. Turns out he's been stuck trying to beat Kathleen's turn one Steppe Lynx for a while. [[spoiler:He succeeds, and fades out of existence as he's finally freed from his loop.]]

* TheseusShipParadox: An episode-long gag has Paul duck out of a Commander game to tinker with his deck. When he returns he explains all of the changes he made, only to find nobody wants to play against it. He then pulls out his backup deck... which is exactly the same as his original deck, having swapped out every single card over the course of tinkering.

* AnswerCut: Used aplenty as a means to transition between side plots in an episode.

* CreditsGag: Occasionally, such as with "Sir James von Landlord" in "The Arms Race", and Kathleen as "Anchor-Wrangling Technician" in "Sickness", both referencing events from the episode.

* ConversationCut: ''Friday Nights'' uses this trope a lot for scene transitions.

* TwoScenesOneDialogue: Uses this trope a lot for scene transitions.

** Alex and the Steppe Lynx ''[[RuleofThree again]]''. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGHvPdXVtIs It's a two-fer]], since it also brings back the Time Walk he took off Jer years ago.

* GroundhogDayLoop: In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojrVOgTDUxQ Time Walking]], Jer obtains a copy of Time Walk for his singleton deck to play against Alex, and whenever he plays it, he finds himself back in his bed at the start of that morning.
** Invoked by Alex four years later in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGHvPdXVtIs Lockdown]] with the same Time Walk card. Turns out he's been stuck trying to beat Kathleen's turn one Steppe Lynx for a while. [[spoiler:He succeeds, and fades from time as the loop is broken.]]

* LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: Done in ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=incxTxWJB3Y The Meal]]'' when the ominous ''Exile Zone'' music starts up and Cam yells at Graham to change his ringtone.

* TheLoonie: Adam's Commander deck in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YA-izEO-v8c Hold Priority]] is designed solely to disrupt everyone else's strategies and combat. He openly admits he doesn't even know how it could win.

** In "Two Heads are Better", Graham is looking for a partner for the Two-Headed Giant prerelease for "Oath of the Gatewatch." This ensues as he interviews every player he knows who hasn't partnered up yet.
** In "Assortment", Graham goes looking for a partner for the "Battlebond" prerelease, only this time it's framed like a SpeedDating program. This is also how they introduce newcomers Ben and Adam.