Each month, $10 Patrons get an exclusive episode. This is one of those episodes. As I record season 2 of the show, I'm unlocking those special episodes to the public. This one is a lovely discussion with Council of Colors member Megan Smith about GREEN! Enjoy!
Each month, $10 Patrons get an exclusive episode. This is one of those episodes. As I record season 2 of the show, I'm unlocking those special episodes to the public. This one is a lovely discussion with Council of Colors member Corey Bowen about Black! Enjoy!
Apologies for the audio irregularities on my end this week, I changed office setups and the recording session auto-grabbed my webcam instead of my podcast mic. Big shoutout to Jake Browne for helping make it listenable. This week, I'm joined by my buddy Casey Malone and we share a lovely chat about THE MUPPETS.
When I heard Jim was super into Battlebots, I knew we had to do this episode. Jim and I opened the episode talking about why the rest of the world needs to catch up to the quality of Canadian PSAs and it only got goofier from there. Enjoy!
Andrew Orvedahl joins me to talk about the color identity of various comedic genres. Is ventriloquism blue? Is podcasting black? Only time will tell!
K. Arsenault Rivera (The Tiger's Daughter, Oath of Fire, Magic Story Team) joins us to talk about the color identity of Pop Girlies! We cover 30 years of pop sensations and figure out where they fall on the color pie. We're basically scientists!
Had a great time talking to Sam about Elden Ring for this episode! It's a source of great passion for both of us and it shows!! Here's that blog Sam found! https://bogleech.com/souls/er01-landsquirt
One of my best pals Tyler Snodgrass came on the show to talk about our mutual love of insane Midwestern foods. We talk about the objective best part of the country and discuss our favorite foods it's produced. Enjoy!
Rachel comes back to the show to talk about the color identity of various dog breeds! She was a Kennel Club obsessive as a kid so she knows her stuff! We also stumble across one of the best, most well hidden, copywriters in history.
We have Magic: The Gathering Story Lead, Writer, and all around Nice Guy Roy Graham on the show today discussing the color identity of Fast Food. One of the show's first Five Colors makes its appearance here and the world will never be the same.
Today I chatted with illustrator and comics artist Sage Coffey about the color identity of slasher villains! It's a Halloween spooktacular!
Newly minted PT Magic Player and Commander Sphere editor and friend of the show Jake Browne is here to talk about competition reality shows! We also go on a 15 minute digression about how Castaway is an anticapitalist text. Wow!
Welcome to Pie Break! A show where a guest and I take something from the real world and figure out where it falls on Magic's color pie. This show is all about the point of intersection between the game we all love and the things we love outside it. This has been an ambitious project and it only felt right to start it with a bang. So, I talked to Magic's foremost Color Pie scholar: Lead Designer, Mark Rosewater! Mark is an incredibly passionate person and I was thrilled to be able to get an hour ...
Been missing regular podcast episodes from the Commander Sphere feed? Well miss it no more, PIE BREAK, Dan's new show about the color pie starts this Tuesday! Take a quick listen and learn more!
Due to his role in a number of different multiversal threats, the silver golem Karn has been the butt of jokes for years. But beneath the jokes and oversimplification lies a richly built but ultimately tragic character. Karn is trying his best to improve a broken world, all while indelibly marked by the sins of his father, Urza. While other characters have since taken the forefront of Magic's story, Karn has been a crucial part of it since the beginning and his overall arc was recently brought t...
The uniqueness and versatility of Magic's color pie is a crucial part of the game's success over the years. It's impossible to imagine the game without the constant interplay and competition between the five colors and their conflicting philosophies. But, in this humble writer's opinion, one of these colors has been given a bad deal as of late: It's Green, baby. Green is often maligned as too homogenous or too powerful. Enfranchised players often view it as too simple, or maybe even boring. But ...
For about as long as Commander has been a format, power level discourse has been ubiquitous. The more the format grows, the less the standard 1-10 scale of discerning a deck's power level can be relied on. In this video, I discuss the fact that maybe it's time to we stopped trying to evaluate decks and started trying to evaluate the people piloting them. This episode looks at the different things players value and places them into two camps, not as a means of describing the power level of their ...
Excited for March of the Machine but don't have enough time to catch up on 30 years of lore? Looking for a quick brush up on the basics? Look no further! This Spring, Magic is going to be more fun if you know the story behind the cards and in just about five minutes, we'll get you caught up! Magic's lore has surrounded Phyrexia and Phyrexian influence for nearly all of its 30 year life span and looking at the totality of the stories told can be intimidating. Take a seat and get a birds eye view ...
Give me fifteen minutes and I'll convince you to concede more Commander games
Rachel says farewell to the show, the show says farewell to Rachel. We celebrate the only way we know how: being really goofy and gross.
As Commander Sphere comes to a close, Rachel and Dan take a look at the ways in which the game, the format, and their own philosophies about both have changed in the last three years.
We have some big news! Rachel has accepted a full-time position at The Command Zone! We're incredibly excited for her to finally become a full-time content creator and we hope you'll join us in celebrating the start of this hard-earned new chapter of her career. Unfortunately, this means that Rachel can no longer host Commander Sphere. She will appear in two final episodes releasing on December 5th and 12th. After that we'll say a fond farewell to Rachel and this iteration of the show will come ...
It's been three years and it's time to thank some folks.
We're trying something new here! Dan recently released his second video essay, a discussion about the cathartic process of breaking down and rebuilding your old decks. We're making it available in audio form! This is the first in a new series of digestible 10-15 minute essays tackling topics Magic players might find interesting. We hope it makes a great companion for your commute.
It's always hard to choose who should draw your ire first in a commander game. We put together a list of fifteen players that you should be focusing your attention on in the early-game.
We talked about our overall impressions of The Brothers' War and give you ten cards we're excited to see played!
We talked about the ruling bodies behind Commander and the role they play in shaping the format!
Things are getting pretty SpOoOoOoOoOoOOoky around here! We rated a bunch of Magic villains to figure out who the ultimate halloween monsters are!
Unfinity is on the way and we wanted to make a guide explaining how to approach building a Rule Zero deck! We break down the five crucial things to consider when building a deck that doesn't follow Commander's core rule set
It's exactly what the name says! Woah!
