Commander Crunch

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. Cheers!

Send us feedback, questions, pictures of Cephalids to [email protected], we'd love to hear from you.

Follow us on twitter at: @cmdr_crunch

You can find the Commander Crunch crew with MTG Lexicon late each friday night (PT) for our wild fun talk show, Lexicrunch: Thunder from Down Under, come hang out!

Chesh's Youtube content, including Deck Techs and Commander: The Distancing Series can be found here

This Podcast is sponsored by PureMTGO.com as well as Josh & Pat's MTG Bazaar

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 incredible work as ICETEP.

You can find Gabe and his music at:

Send us feedback, questions, pictures of Cephalids to [email protected], we'd love to hear from you.

Follow us on twitter at: @cmdr_crunch

You can find the Commander Crunch crew with MTG Lexicon late each friday night (PT) for our wild fun talk show, Lexicrunch: Thunder from Down Under, come hang out!

Chesh's Youtube content, including Deck Techs and Commander: The Distancing Series can be found here

This Podcast is sponsored by PureMTGO.com as well as Josh & Pat's MTG Bazaar

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:

You can find Fitz's gameplay channel Arena of the Ancients at:

Send us feedback, questions, pictures of Cephalids to [email protected], we'd love to hear from you.

Follow us on twitter at: @cmdr_crunch

You can find the Commander Crunch crew with MTG Lexicon late each friday night (PT) for our wild fun talk show, Lexicrunch: Thunder from Down Under, come hang out!

Chesh's Youtube content, including Deck Techs and Commander: The Distancing Series can be found here

This Podcast is sponsored by PureMTGO.com as well as Josh & Pat's MTG Bazaar

Intro Music by our very own DJ Cheshy Chesh, purveyor of the tastiest beats.

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 at:

DJ's Gonti deck needs to be experienced at:

You can find the Brainstorm Brewery Podcast at:

Send us feedback, questions, pictures of Cephalids to [email protected], we'd love to hear from you.

Follow us on twitter at: @cmdr_crunch

You can find the Commander Crunch crew with MTG Lexicon late each friday night (PT) for our wild fun talk show, Lexicrunch: Thunder from Down Under, come hang out!

Chesh's Youtube content, including Deck Techs and Commander: The Distancing Series can be found here

This Podcast is sponsored by PureMTGO.com as well as Josh & Pat's MTG Bazaar

Intro Music by our very own DJ Cheshy Chesh, purveyor of the tastiest beats.

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 and DnD Adventures in the Forgotten Realm. All that plus Joe's answers to our profile questions gauntlet; with topics spanning the incredibly important activist Fred Hampton, A24 movies, and Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild. It's truly an epic episode, get comfy and enjoy!

You can find Ginger Joe at:

Send us feedback, questions, pictures of Cephalids to [email protected], we'd love to hear from you.

Follow us on twitter at: @cmdr_crunch

You can find the Commander Crunch crew with MTG Lexicon late each friday night (PT) for our wild fun talk show, Lexicrunch: Thunder from Down Under, come hang out!

Chesh's Youtube content, including Deck Techs and Commander: The Distancing Series can be found here

This Podcast is sponsored by PureMTGO.com as well as Josh & Pat's MTG Bazaar

Intro Music by our very own DJ Cheshy Chesh, purveyor of the tastiest beats.

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 scheme. All that plus latest EDH happenings, and we run Nick through the guest gauntlet of profile questions. Enjoy!

You can find Nick S at:

and the great MTG Lexicon at:

Send us feedback, questions, pictures of Cephalids to [email protected], we'd love to hear from you.

Follow us on twitter at: @cmdr_crunch

Chesh's Youtube content, including Deck Techs and Commander: The Distancing Series can be found here

This Podcast is sponsored by PureMTGO.com as well as Josh & Pat's MTG Bazaar

Intro Music by our very own DJ Cheshy Chesh, purveyor of the tastiest beats.

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 great discussions and stories about record collecting, Neutral Milk Hotel, and interesting dinner guests. Enjoy!

You can find Dana Roach at:

You can find the CMDR Central podcast at:

You can find the EDHRECast at:

Send us feedback, questions, pictures of Cephalids to [email protected], we'd love to hear from you.

Follow us on twitter at: @cmdr_crunch

Chesh's Youtube content, including Deck Techs and Commander: The Distancing Series can be found here

This Podcast is sponsored by PureMTGO.com as well as Josh & Pat's MTG Bazaar

Intro Music by our very own DJ Cheshy Chesh, purveyor of the tastiest beats.

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 and actionable concepts we can think about and action in life and magic. All that and of course the lighter hearted influences gathered from our profile questions, where we chat Mr Robot, The Avalanches and Brandon Sanderson Novels. It was the best of times. Enjoy!

You can find Nick aka G3 at:

G3's Decklist Lexicon can be found:

and the great MTG Lexicon at:

Send us feedback, questions, pictures of Cephalids to [email protected], we'd love to hear from you.

Follow us on twitter at: @cmdr_crunch

Chesh's Youtube content, including Deck Techs and Commander: The Distancing Series can be found here

This Podcast is sponsored by PureMTGO.com as well as Josh & Pat's MTG Bazaar

Intro Music by our very own DJ Cheshy Chesh, purveyor of the tastiest beats.

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 into something to positive and powerful, practicing self-worth and what it means to feel truly happy. We also get regaled with tales from across Erin's history in the game, plus we of course fill up our quota of non magic content, delving in to Erin's influences including Super Mario RPG, Caro Emerald and Korean cinema. It's a fantastic time, enjoy!

You can find Erin at:

and the Magic Mics podcast at:

Send us feedback, questions, pictures of Cephalids to [email protected], we'd love to hear from you.

Follow us on twitter at: @cmdr_crunch

Chesh's Youtube content, including Deck Techs and Commander: The Distancing Series can be found here

This Podcast is sponsored by PureMTGO.com as well as Josh & Pat's MTG Bazaar

Intro Music by our very own DJ Cheshy Chesh, purveyor of the tastiest beats.

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 Clippy?) and just generally nerd out with one of the coolest kiwi's imaginable about everything from Lord of the Rings, Queen and Captain Planet. It was a fantastic time, and we're super excited for what the future of the game with such a big player making moves with community in mind. We hope you enjoy!

You can contact Josh via:

You can find BinderPOS at:

Send us feedback, questions, pictures of Cephalids to [email protected], we'd love to hear from you.

Follow us on twitter at: @cmdr_crunch

Chesh's Youtube content, including Deck Techs and Commander: The Distancing Series can be found here

This Podcast is sponsored by PureMTGO.com as well as Josh & Pat's MTG Bazaar

Intro Music by our very own DJ Cheshy Chesh, purveyor of the tastiest beats.