Welcome back friends! We're joined at the breakfast table this week by the brilliant Andy & Nick from Scrap Trawlers, an edh stream featuring budget deck challenges built around themes, and featuring regular guests from the commmander community. Andy & Nick have been fantastic advocates in the community for positive and creative commander play, using challenges to discover interesting cards and dynamics in the game, whilst promoting the idea that the game shouldn't be cost prohibitive...

Greetings wizards! We're joined at the breakfast table this week by the wonderful Lenny Wooley, known around the commander community as Ajani's Gay Pridemate, to hang out and run through his never ending list of reputable and exquisitly creative deck brews and personal philosphies for cultivating fun in Commander. We also take a left down tangent lane to chat great board games, and the link that often exists to themes and concepts in playing edh with social interaction, plus we run Lenny...

The Crunch is back to continue exploring our magical conversations with the commander community for 2021! We welcome our favorite Canadian cracker of packs Mr Bevers to the breakfast table this week to hang out and discuss the addictive nature of the humble booster pack and our relationship with value, and his latest project of Cracking for a Cause which pairs opening packs with donating to charities. We also run through latest commander brews, with Chesh building Averna and MrB's project to...

Welcome back to the Crunch for the last time this year breakfast denizons, we made it! To end the year on the most positive note possible, we're joined by one of the most joyous smiling faces in the commander community we could think of, it's Colin o'clock! Colin hangs out with us to chat about streaming commander with a focus on creativity and positivity, our forays into the epic commander sealed league, thoughts on the first previews of Kaldheim, and wrap it all together with huge...

Welcome back friends! We've got a super special guest for another mammoth episode this week, he's an exquisite alterest of cards, advocate of Brash Taunter and good times, hosts of legendary podcasts Commander Cookout and Commander AdPopulum, joining us live from the great Prairies of Saskatchewan it's Ryan Peneff! We promptly crack a beer and kick it with Ryan with chats about Australia and Canada in the global Magic scene and how it can improve, what living with nature has taught about...

Welcome back friends of the breakfast table! This week we continue our explorations into the essence of edh with a very special MTG (and well, Hearthstone) community member and all round wonderful Canadian Joel, aka Enthralimund from the Hearthstone podcast Squelch! Joel brings years of magic and life experience to the table with great perspectives as an art teacher, family man, and advocate for reinforcing the positive side of why we play card games. We run through the release of Commander...

We sure love those folks from MTG Lexicon, so much so that the epic conversations continue this time with Brandon, producer, control player, paragon of creative spicy brews and absolute media fiend! Brandon joins us to discuss his creative process to brew unique lists, what community means in 2020 and how that's been at the heart of the MTG Lexicon ethos, and some of the background of how the MTG Lexicon meta has developed and influenced building in a positive way for the best possible fun...

Welcome back coffee wizards! This week we're joined at the breakfast table by our good friend Dave Kosin, CoolStuff Inc writer, EDH voice and Personal Trainer to the MTG community. We sit down to chat about why we play EDH for enjoyment, how Commander is going in 2020, including some Commander Legends chatter, plus some good discussions around the difference between card issues and people issues, product release fatigue, and the volatility of the hype cycle in the magic community. We also run...

It's beginning to look a lot like (Commander) Christmas! We can't wipe the grins off our faces this week as we both got our first experiences opening and playing Commander Legends at prerelease weekend. Chesh runs through some stories and experiences from playing the primary intended way to play limited; draft, whilst same heads up some observations from playing the format sealed. All in all we're finding this could be one for the ages, and we've never seen anything quite like it. All that...

This week we welcome another Commander Legend to hang out and discuss all things Commander Legends, it's Brandon from Create Commander! Brandon creates fantastic content focusing on creative deck brews and guides for players beginning their journey into the expansive world of commander, we run through some of his channels beginnings and deck building philosophies, as well as diving back deep into the huge pool of new cards we have to absorb from the upcoming Commander Legends set. Enjoy! ...

They are Commander Legends, and we're talking Commander Legends! We're joined this week by the magnificant Andy and Coyle, paragons of positive commander, from the Guardian Project Podcast. Stick around for a free-for-all roundtable on all of the amazing spice we've seen in the first wave of Commander Legends previews, including the good, the janky, and of course, the controversial, it's gonna get wild! All that plus some solid Star Wars chat, Pumpkin spiced lattés, and the uncomfortable word...

'Mornin Breadlords! Continuing our trend of discussions with Commander community members and content creators, we're joined for breakfast this week by the wonderful Chain from Chain of Commander. Chain's a new name of the EDH creator scene, and responsible for an already solid library of creative, insightful and fun commander content, which continues to release regularly. We run through his early impressions and feelings of this year in content creation, what creativity and joy in commander...

Welcome back Cereal Warriors, We're joined this week by James and Paul from the Commander at Arms Podcast to share some edh thoughts over a hearty Australian breakfast. We run through Chesh's upgrades and thoughts on the new Zendikar Rising Commander Precons, Some collective thoughts and discussions on the problematic Commander Legends leaks recently, The origins and vision of The Commander at Arms Podcast, and of course some inspired food chat because what else would you expect from the most...

Good morning breakfast lords, its been a hot minute! We're joined this week by the great Thirteen of Riptide Project Laboratory to get stuck right in to the proverbial elephant in the Magic room, The Walking Dead Secret lair. We offer some thoughts and objective point of views and potential ramifications, before moving into some broader chats about content creation, mental health, what Magic means to us, and the greatest card type created, the almighty Equipment! Enjoy friends. You can find...

Greetings Cereal Cephalids! We've got a nice dainty episode between community guests this week, where Chesh and Sam run through some of their thoughts, experiences and considerations for deckbuilding with webcam/SpellTable play in mind. We run through some card types that may best not to include, as well as some that may work better than expected - and as a general rule, communication is key, and a healthy integral part of commander play. Rounding out this concept is a look a nice new...

We're joined at the breakfast table today by the great Brandon Crane aka Booster Tutor - limited enthusiast, creator of great unboxing videos, commander player, and most importantly known for his content scouring online listings and flea markets for hidden gems of forgotten magic card collections. We venture through some epic tales of magic card discovery in the wild, Brandon's origins of magic, thoughts on the state of the game in 2020 and of course our usual barrage of nonsense questions we...

Welcome to Zendikar Breakfast Lords! Thanks to the Zendikar Rising Preview Show this past week, we were inundated with so much magic news about Zendikar Rising, and the year of magic ahead, that we couldn't quite process all thats going on. We run through all of the announcements of upcoming specs and speculation on what we may see (fetch lands hmmmm?), then bring it closer to the present for a run through of everything released so far about our foray back to the beloved jungle wonderland of...

We're joined at the breakfast table this week by an extremely special guest this week, Commander afficiando, hero of the people, crafter of the very cards and sets we love, and receiver of more “print this card” requests than perhaps anyone else. It is of course Gavin Verhey, Senior Designer and Writer at Wizards of the Coast, and he joins us to talk all things Commander culture in 2020 and the future, the exciting synthesis of draft and commander in the upcoming set Commander Legends, and...

You're in for a breakfest treat this week jank lords, we're joined by Jeff from MTG Lexicon, the internet's very own Dive Bar of Magic. We discuss everything from the background of MTG Lexicon, what 'The Gathering' means to us, culture, beer, anime, prog rock, and oh yeah some new Commander product just released! It's a mammoth episode, that goes on all kinds of wonderful and mysterious tangents, but seriously, when the conversation is this good you just keep recording – we hope you enjoy. ...

Mornin' breakfast lords! We're excited to be joined for breakfast this week by artist, content creator and all-round wonderful person Meghan, aka Sheepwave. We dive deep on what it means to be self expressive at the commander table, including the discussion of social contracts in Commander, the use of proxies and artistic inspiration, plus of course the related financial implications and complexities of our favorite social format. Enjoy! You can find Sheepwave and her awesome artwork at: ...

Greetings commander jank lords! This week we're opening up a discussion about a theme of positive table interaction in commander. A couple epsiodes back JR from SpellTable brought up the idea of playing cards that result in some table chatter, which got us thinking about what it is that really helps make a commander game enjoyable and positive for eveyrone, and the heart of it is interaction. In the spirit of promoting the best sides of the game we love, we take a look at some specific cards...

Welcome back Commander Addicts! This week we resist the urge to have yet another guest, and instead learn to talk among outselves about the latest juicy commander release this year, the Ikoria themed Commander 2020 precons. Thanks to Wizards of the Coast, Chesh received one of each of the decks from mothership to produce a series of sponsored videos showing an upgrade path for each of the precons. We run through Chesh's thought processes for each of the deck upgrades, outlining key deck...

Welcome coffee fiends! This week's esteemed guest is responsible for the very platform that is keeping us connected virtually for paper magic through these weird and wacky times - it's Jonathan Rowny from SpellTable. JR runs through with us the beginnings of SpellTable, the uncanny timing of it's success, observations on commander culture, and then we go right down the rabbit hole for barrage of wild topics, including NHL, NBA, Rocket League and Surf Ninjas - Enjoy. You can find JR and...

We're super excited to chat this morning to Chase Carroll, aka ManaCurves - she's known for her articles on TCGPlayer, awesome twitch commander deck brewing sessions, being an incredible figure in the Magic community, and for her work and writing around mental health and how that relates to Magic. We get right into topics of commander deck brewing and some of Chase's latest deck articles, inclusive culture in Magic and your LGS, Chase's work in the mental health field, and a great deal of...

Today we're joined at the breakfast table by none other than Jason Alt, known around all corners of the Commander websphere for his works with Brainstorm Brewery, EDHREC.com, writing at MtG Price and CoolStuff Inc, and most recently from the Film Hooligans podcast, as well as a great little term we know of eternally in EDH as the '75% Theory'. We run through everything from Commander philosophy, latest product releases, the future of magic and work as we know it, film and the state of...