This week I'm joined by my dear dear friend Ben Ulmer, member of the Loading Ready Run collective! We talk about improv, and pets, and being friends!

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This time I take a trip down memory road to talk to my dear friend Karen Chu, host of the incredibly popular and long running trivia podcast Good Job Brain!

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This week we have Pro Tour commentator Mani Davoudi talking about his road to the desk and what it's like to cover Magic tournaments!

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This week we're joined by Mike Bani, aka cEDH Dad, to learn about his methods of introducing folks to the most powerful tables of Commander, and how to get people to the tables they want to be at. We also discuss the CEDH-U discord server and the CEDH teaching box.

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Today I'm joined by Sahar Mirhadi, British legacy and modern grinder, and we have a far reaching conversation about Modern, Legacy, tying your identity to your hobby, the challenges of being a minority in our hobby, and how sweet Scapeshift really is.

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This episode I'm joined by Game Grumps Co-host and long time internet personality Egoraptor. We talk about everything from internet culture to Urza's Saga, and everything between. And in the Outro, Arin turns the spotlight back on me, and we have a lengthy bonus discussion about shepherding a format! It's a fantastic discussion with an absolutely lovely guy.

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This week Drew Levin joins me to help me edit and work out the kinks in my Neera Chaos spells deck, and broadly speaks about the process of deck building goals unto themselves.

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Today I'm joined by Commander Sphere Cohost and totally not a wolf man Dan Sheehan to talk about the joys of lasagna tier magic! We explore the joys of playing with weird old cards and talk about his amazing Squee story.

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Today, Spike Feeder Alex returns to discuss Rule Zero Commander decks, with his delightful Assemble the Legion deck as our model. We look at ways to build non-standard commander decks and why you'd want to, and celebrate the joys of working within limitations.

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Today I'm rejoined by Magic soundtrack producer and youtube musician extrordinaire Jonathan Young, to talk about the joys of Commander and Explorer!

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Today I'm joined by Loading Ready Run's resident judge Nelson Sahalub to discuss deck building, parenting, streamer life, and more.

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Today I'm joined by Meghan Wolff and Maria Bartholdi of Good Luck High Five! We discuss their journey into Magic and Content Creation, how heavy an Emmy is, and much more!

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This week I'm joined by former WotC R&D member Tom LaPille to talk about Cube, Archenemy, and Queer representation in Magic! 

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Today we're joined by Andrew Thompson, aka @SchmandrewArt, to discuss pop art, his kickstarter, Commander decks, and really pretty tokens!

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Today I'm joined by TappyToeClaws as we go over the summer of cons, and talk about great dos and don'ts for enjoying yourself!

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On this week's episode I'm joined by Nicholas Hammond, Director of Monarch Media, to discuss CEDH and Tournament EDH, including the recent Marchesa tournament.
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Today I'm joined by fellow content creator and CAG member DeQuan Watson, as we talk about his remarkable life and what it was like to own his own store, and playing commander through the years! He also gives a ton of great advice on becoming a successful content creator.

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Today I'm joined by actor, streamer, and host of Tabletop Jocks, Joseph Johnson. We talk a lot about the minority experience in playing Magic, and about how important it feels to know you belong.

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Today I'm joined by Magic broadcaster, tournament pro, and entrepreneur Cedric Phillips to talk about his work with Coalesce Apparel and Design and what it's like to call tournaments!

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Today we are rejoined by the incredible Cosplayer, Crafter, and CAG friend Olivia Gobert-Hicks to discuss how EDH has evolved recently!

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Today I'm joined by Magic Judge, activist, and diversity consultant Amanda Stevens to talk about ways to make our game more welcoming, as well as lots of fun EDH chat.
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Today I'm joined by James Hsu, host of the interview podcast Humans of Magic! We discuss his life in Shanghai, his work outside the game, and why he wants to interview folks. We also get real deep into the inside baseball of the art of the interview and share tips back and forth.

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This week we're joined by the ever delightful Carmen Klomparens to talk about the cards and stories of Modern Horizons 3! Note- we don't talk about Nadu! 

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Today I'm joined by my dear friend Jason Wilson (@jason_wilson), a veteran video games journalist, long time RPG fan, and newcomer to Magic, to discuss Magic, D&D and learning the game.

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Today we are joined by Ben Brode, former director of Hearthstone, currently of Second Dinner, and diehard Commander player, to talk about designing decks for streams and entertainment. We also talk about digital card game design and the challenge of making magic electronically.

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Today I'm joined by Corey Bowen, lead set designer for Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate! We discuss the mechanics of the set as well as my experiences playing with it.
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This week we're joined by Ben Schnuck, AKA BenMakesStuff, the proxy vaporwave artist who got to see his work become a Secret Lair! We talk about the process of how he got discovered and what it was like to work on a project for Wizards.

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Today on Casual Magic, Loading Ready Run's Adam Savidan joins me to talk about streaming, mental health, and finding happiness in ourselves.

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Today's guest is Magic Game Designer Chris Mooney, sharing stories about cards from the Streets of New Capenna Commander decks, as well as the state of White in Magic!

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Today I'm joined by Arch-Vorthos Loreley Weisel-Librizzi to talk about the story, writing flavor text and giving voice to New Capenna!

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Today I'm joined by Orcish Librarian, a twitter vorthos cosplayer and fiction writer, and we talk about our shared history in Video Games instead!

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Today I'm joined by Educator and Nerd Faciliatator Mike Wildspeaker to discuss the Magic and Gaming club he runs at his High School, and the importance of games for kids.

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Today I'm joined by BlackGirlMage Lexi, a TTRPG and Magic content creator and streamer, and we discuss the fine art of learning and exploring highly complicated games as a new player.

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This week I'm joined by one of the winningest players in CEDH, Ian Flannery, to discuss playing high level tournament commander and still being casual about it!

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Today I'm joined by Mental Health Advocate and Podcaster HobbesQ, as we discuss the pandemic and coping with the impacts on our games and social skills.

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Today I'm joined by MTG Goldfish's Budget Commander, Tomer Abramovici, to discuss commander builds, D&D, MTGO and more!

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Today I'm joined by Magic Senior Designer Gavin Verhey to talk about topics ranging from Not-GP Vegas to the state of Commander in 2022 to Kamigawa!

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Today on Casual Magic, my friend The Hermit Druid comes and teaches me about the wonders of Dargo in CEDH and of matchmaking and finding our place in the format. We also talk a lot about food.

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Today I'm joined by indie musician, producer, multi-instrumentalist, youtuber, and commander fan Jonathan Young to discuss the Kamigawa Soundtrack and how he put it together! Also about the struggle of creation as well as chatter about Pioneer and Historic. This show brought to you by CoolStuffInc, Coalesce A+D, and Archidekt!

Today's episode turns Casual Magic into Business Casual! I'm joined by toymaker Alex Kessler to discuss the toy industry, Hasbro's place in it, and what it means to be an Activist Investor. This is a really long and fascinating episode, brought to you by CoolStuffInc, Coalesce Apparel, and Archidekt!

Ben Wheeler returns to join me for day 1 analysis of Kamigawa Neon Dynasty, mainly so that we can just gush about how rad this set is.

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Today on Casual Magic I'm re-rejoined by Ben Wheeler to discuss Kamigawas old and new, including the stories, the formats, notable cards, and lots of nonsense.

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Today I'm joined by Alex of the Spike Feeders to discuss content creation, putting on a show, and being empathetic during play.

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Today I'm joined by Chris of Commander Mechanic to discuss the fine art of tuning a commander deck to make sure it is always doing what you want it to do, and not just leaving you with halves of random combos with no payoffs. This episode was brought to you by CoolStuffInc, Archidekt, and Coalesce A+D!

This week we're joined by Esports evangelist and content creator Travis Gafford, and talk about Magic vs other games and how much better our Cons could be!

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Today I'm joined by host of the Commander Sphere Podcast and my CAG Colleague, Rachel Weeks. We talk about her philosophy towards the social challenge of commander.

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Today I'm joined by EDH Endboss Sheldon Menery to discuss the Rules Committee's thoughts on the future of Commander and the expansion of the Advisory Group and Rules Committees.

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Today I'm joined by my dear friend Alex Kessler for a conversation about Modern and Pioneer in 2021, as well as some delving into Spider Man and Dragonball, alongside the usual meanderings of two long time friends sitting to chat.

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