{"id":9437,"date":"2026-11-13T19:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-14T01:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/?p=9437"},"modified":"2026-11-13T10:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T16:01:08","slug":"dad-v-son-episode-3-the-rat-king-rematch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/dad-v-son-episode-3-the-rat-king-rematch\/","title":{"rendered":"Dad v Son \u2013 Episode 3: The Rat King Rematch!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dad may have won the last battle in <a href=\"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/dad-v-son-another-mtg-showdown\/\">Episode 2<\/a>, but Alex isn&#8217;t about to let him get too comfortable! It&#8217;s time for a rematch, with Dad commanding <strong>Rat King, Verminister<\/strong> and Son bringing <strong>Katara, the Fearless<\/strong> into the fight. This time, Alex comes out swinging, rallying Katara and her allies to take on Dad&#8217;s army of rats. Will Dad defend his victory, or will Son turn the tables and knock the old man down a peg? Let&#8217;s just say the rats are in for a rough day!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NWogV6kckhI?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Who do you think won?<\/strong> Watch the match, leave a comment, and subscribe to <a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/@DadvSon\">Dad v Son on YouTube<\/a> for more chess, Magic: The Gathering, and random father-son challenges!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Proudly sponsored by <strong>Mischief Night<\/strong>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Check out the books at <a href=\"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/MischiefNight\">StLouisDad.com\/MischiefNight<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dad may have won the last battle in Episode 2, but Alex isn&#8217;t about to let him get too comfortable! It&#8217;s time for a rematch, with Dad commanding Rat King, Verminister and Son bringing Katara, the Fearless into the fight. This time, Alex comes out swinging, rallying Katara and her allies to take on Dad&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,276,7],"tags":[1396,1397,1370,1398],"class_list":["post-9437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-family","category-inside","tag-challenges-2","tag-dad-v-son-2","tag-family-2","tag-magic-the-gathering-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5JMKA-2sd","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Thumbnail-MTG-EP03.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9437"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9445,"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9437\/revisions\/9445"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}