Commander Crunch - Episodes Tagged with “Commander Culture”

Episode 40 – Celebrating the Year of the Crunch!

Sam Watson and Al Caynes — Mon, 12 Jul 2021 21:00:00 +1000

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 cmdrcrunchpodcast@gmail.com, we'd love to hear from you.

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!

Twitch - MTG Lexicon

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

Episode 29 – Let's talk about Mental Health (and Strixhaven)

Sam Watson and Al Caynes — Tue, 23 Feb 2021 22:45:00 +1100

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 treatments (big thumbs up), before linking to the big topic; Mental health and how it connects with us and Magic. We discuss normalising mental help conversations, how connection through Magic has been a huge support network, and our experiences.

As mentioned in the episode, we absolutely need to reinforce that if anyone needs help whatsover to contact your relevant hotline: Lifeline if you're in Australia on 13 11 14
Suicide hotlines in US: 1800 273 8255 and Canada: 1833 456 4566
Trans lifeline in US and Canada - 1877 330 6366
Remember, someone is always listening, and you matter.

Send us feedback, questions, pictures of Cephalids to cmdrcrunchpodcast@gmail.com, we'd love to hear from you.

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.

Episode 27 – Let's talk about the social contract

Sam Watson and Al Caynes — Wed, 03 Feb 2021 16:00:00 +1100

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 many more episodes on just that topic), and having healthy discussions to establish expectations in commander games. We run through some ways to make that discussion easier whilst establishing power levels, plus dissecting the difference between power in cards and intent of the player. We manage to cover some lofty topics, but look to continue discovering a range of perspectives on these matters as we continue our guest profiles ahead. Enjoy!

Sheldon Menery's Star City Games article about Rule 0 can be found here

Send us feedback, questions, pictures of Cephalids to cmdrcrunchpodcast@gmail.com, we'd love to hear from you.

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.

Episode 06 – Effective Cards for a Positive Table

Sam Watson and Al Caynes — Mon, 10 Aug 2020 22:00:00 +1000

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 that embody the spirit of positive table interaction, and provoking a conversation, whilst remaining effective to your game plan - that is to say not having to fall into the extremes of chaos, or group hug. We've opened this up as an open ended theme to continue to explore and discuss, and hope you consider some of the ways you get your table involved in your next commander game (whilst still aiming to win!). Enjoy!

Send us feedback, questions, pictures of Cephalids to cmdrcrunchpodcast@gmail.com, we'd love to hear from you.

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

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

Music by TRG Banks