Welcome back for some new year Crunch! Super excited to be back for another year of magical delights and awesome guests. We're joined this week by Vorthos Mike to chat about the role of flavour and expression in magic, his role curating magic art shows, and some musings about what Secret Lairs we'd make if we could. Enjoy! You can find Vorthos Mike at: Twitter Cool Stuff Inc Send us feedback, questions, pictures of Cephalids to [email protected], we'd love to hear from...

Greetings legends! We're back again this week for a lofty guest feature with another nice Canadian, it's Cole from the Uncommon Commander podcast! We hang out to chat through his journey in content creation, finding a niche with brewing and appreciating more alternative commander choices, and a good run through of the Crimson Vow previews to date. All that plus Cole's epic guest profile, including nerding out about Megaman, the Tales series, Divinity 2, and Blue Stahli. Enjoy! You can find...

Greetings Brekky' mates, it's been a hot minute! We return from a few weeks break for a cracking guest episode joined this week by someone who's miraculously in our own timezone here in Melbourne! It's our great friend, creater of things, and cultivator of gratitude in EDH, Rodrigo aka The King of Engineers! We dive into the barrage of recent Secret Lairs, including the wins and the controversies, plus the importance of understanding in EDH and day-to-day with perspectives on life on the...

We're joined this week by Co host of Commander Sphere, Designer for CFB, Comedian, and Member of the Commander Advisory Group, it's the wonderful Rachel Weeks! We hang out to chat about the RC and CAGs effect on the game and community, finding the right language to find mutual understanding in commander, wacky deckbuilding, drowning your neighbours in The Sims, and some excellent comedy recommendations. All that and so much more in this mega chat, enjoy! You can find Rachel...

Howdy cereal denizons! This week we had the priviledge to hang out with the great Charlotte Sable, Level 3 Magic judge, Commanders Herald writer and member of the Commander Advisory Group, to chat about the recent banlist updates, some favorite cards from Innistrad Midnight Hunt, Charlotte's journey with Magic, judging and the CAG, fun magic memories, and a whole lot of nerding out with ancillary topics. Enjoy! You can find Charlotte at: Twitter Commanders Herald Plus, discussed on the...

Howdy Breakfast Friends! We're back again this week with another ripper guest feature, this time with commander community voice Chris von Doom to hang out and chat all things magic and life. We delve into our relationships with the game and product fatigue and how to keep it healthy, plus some discussions on the importance of social connection in our game. We also induldge many a side track to chat about the New York Knicks, Hopes for the MCU, evocative horror cinema, great music influences...

Welcome back cereal sentinels! This week we hang out with the lovely Dan aka Moderately Anonymous MTG, known for great cEDH content and community cultivation, and being a positive voice for mental healh and queer representation in Magic. We hang out for a great chat about cEDH, including the misconceptions, the creativity, the positive community and how money should never be the gateway to play. All that plus we get Dan's awesome perspectives on all things life and magic including prog rock,...

Greetings! As Chesh takes a well earned break this week, Sam hangs out with the legendary Cowboy Kyle from One More Mana aka The Mana Squad to chat originality in EDH, the orgins of The Mana Squad, appreciation for Canadian Highlander, and all things life and family and how this game has allowed connections across the world. Enjoy! You can find Cowboy at: Twitter and all the incredible content from One More Mana at: Youtube Twitter Send us feedback, questions, pictures of Cephalids to...

Welcome back breakfast champs! We're joined this week by our good friend JRo aka Unsummoned Skull, streamer, teacher, judge, host of the Quote of Arms podcast, community cultivator of the Skull Symbol discord and knower of more unsummon effects than anyone we know. We hang out with JRo to hear his story about his pathway into magic, the pro tour, becoming a judge and finally to the community focus of current day. We also run through some recent updates to Wizards' support in ANZ, and an array...

Welcome back cereal warriors! This week we welcome the wonderfully positive MJ from the MTG in Quarantine Podcast to the breakfast table to share experiences on creating a positive podcast outlet, perspectives gained, and what keeps us excited to talk about this game every week. All this plus we delve in to MJs influences, with chats about basketball rivalries, iconic Seattle music and Pokemon games. Enjoy! You can find MJ at: Twitter Spotify Send us feedback, questions, pictures of...

Welcome back Breakfast friends! This week we're celebrating 1 year since we started this rewarding passion project, so we figured we'd take a look back at the year that's been for Commander Crunch including some great stories, favorite moments with our incredible guests, and what it's all meant to us with the perspectives we've gained from the amazing discussions. It's been a blast, and we look forward to another year of celebrating the culture, creativity and community of commander....

Greetings heros! This week we're joined by our good friend Gabe aka ICETEP, composer, producer and creative edh mind. We discuss keeping commander exciting with the community and creative brewing , notably Gabe's latest Ruxa list, some under the radar cards from MH2, plus plenty of the tangential life stuff including Gabe's work in music and screen, and some amazing album recommendations. Enjoy! Big shoutout to Gabe for producing the intro music for this week, be sure to check out his...

Welcome back legends! This week we welcome our dear mate the Canadian woodsman Fitz, host of new EDH gameplay channel Arena of the Ancients and all round community all star, to hang out to chat through our picks from Modern Horizons 2, dive into his story and edh philosphies, plus discuss the important stuff like Canadian Bacon, Mega Man and technical death metal. It's a bloody fun time, enjoy! You can find the lovely Fitz at: Twitter You can find Fitz's gameplay channel Arena of the...

Greetings folks! With Chesh out with an injury from the top rope this week, Sam hangs out with one of the most entertaining voices in magic finance, co-host of Brainstorm Brewery and Magic financier, Douglas (DJ) Johnson. DJ runs us through his personal play style in EDH, his incredible unsleeved Gonti deck, stories from his life in Magic finance, and some epic tangents spanning parkour, Soul Calibur, New York pizza and being a morning person. Enjoy! You can find DJ...

Welcome back legends! We're excited to welcome Ginger Joe Hofmann to the Crunch today, a much loved name in the commander community renowned for sharing empathy and good vibes. Joe regales us with some philosophies and stories of what culture and community mean to us in magic, and how those special bonds endure way beyond the game. Joe also shares his edh perspectives, some creative brewing ideas and cards; what makes this game special, plus a big chat about product releases particularly MH2...

Thanks for the patience friends, been a little while between breakfasts! This week we welcome the wonderful Nick S from MTG Lexicon to the Crunch to chat about balance in magic and life, some MTG Lexicon lore and history, including Nick's years leading the show, Chesh wonders about some of the changing of the guard impacts from the mothership affecting product releases and errors, plus shares thoughts about the end of creator program and Australia's lack of love or opportunities in the grand...

Welcome breakfast friends! We're joined by the illustrious Dana Roach on the Crunch this week, co-host of amazing podcasts CMDR Central and the EDHRECast, plus writer for Commanders Herald and EDHREC. We chat about how Dana keeps such a busy schedule whilst keeping commander exciting and fresh, plus the evolving commander landscape, Strixhaven commander deck reveals, and how community involvement has changed in the spelltable era. We of course delve right into the off topic zone with some...

Welcome Cereal fans! We welcome a very dear friend of ours to the cast this week as Nick G aka G3 from MTG Lexicon hangs out at the breakfast table to chat all things life and magic. We run through G3's commander and MTG Lexicon origins, his intensly detailed deck brewing documentation and style, what it's been like managing the MTG Lexicon community and the support we've been grateful for, and we take a trip on the vessel of our minds to discuss the deep esoteric themes of cognitive science...

Welcome Breakfast Dredge Fiends! We're very excited this week to be graced by the presence of Magic royalty, she's the host of Magic Mics, the former host of groundbreaking podcasts The Deck Tease and The Girlfriend Bracket, it's Dredge Queen Erin Campbell! We hang out to chat about approaching commander from competitive eternal formats, and the lessons learned and creativity found in both; plus what it means to be an influencial community figure in Magic, including channelling negativity...

It's an absolute honour this week to welcome Joshua Grant to the breakfast table to discuss the merger of BinderPOS and Channel Fireball including Josh's history with BinderPOS, plus the positive vision of placing power back in the hands of the people at the heart of the game, the LGS'. We also run through the future of events, including the idea of more representation for the Magic community on this side of the world, some wacky ideas for universes beyond crossovers (Microsoft's ever helpful...

Welcome back breakfast friendos! As Chesh departs this weekend on official trading card business, we fill the grinning Chesh-sized void with an extra special guest to share some hearty conversations with, it's none other the CMDR Central's Max Crandell! Max joins us to challenge the great trophy of longest guest feature (previously held by Jeff from MTG Lexicon), and absolutely delivers. We start with discussions on Wizards' latest announcements on Universes Beyond, including the...

Greetings friends! This week we tackle two meaty topics with more in common than you may think... Firstly we run through the first Strixhaven offerings to be revealed this week, including the discussing the flavour of the set, what the school houses are leading on for relatability, and why Chesh feels particularly problematic with some of the trope-driven depictions of some of the school houses. On a big positive, we also run through the stunning new showcase and japanese exclusive card...

Thanks for joining us at the breakfast table friends! This week we enlisted the brilliant mind of the always charming Peter aka MonoWhiteBorder to discuss building not only in mono white, but also generally to optimise enjoyment and originality. We run through the ever present topic of what exactly constitutes enjoyment for everyone at a commnder table, some discoveries from Peter's deep dives into the workings of mono white, plus even some Skeleton Ship appreciation! All that plus we cover...

Greetings friends! We're taking a little intermission between guest features this week to spend some time chatting about the social contract, and showing consideration in Commander. Inspired by our previous guests the Scrap Trawlers recently, some discussions started around how do we all show kindness in commander, which led to our run through on this episode touching on our perspectives on navigating the social contract in commander, including a little about Rule Zero (we could easily do...