Pie Break // Commander Sphere

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! 

In this podcast, the host and Mark Rosewater discuss the color pie theory in Magic: The Gathering. They explore color identities, behaviors, children's interpretations of songs, ingredients, and personal color identities. The podcast also touches on the depth of the color pie in Magic and the importance of listener support through Patreon.

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 to what many could speculate is a conclusion (at least for the time being). Enjoy this in-depth look at a character near and dear to many.

Explore the underappreciated aspects of the Green color in Magic: The Gathering, delving into its uniqueness, power, and potential for innovation. Learn about the evolution of Green cards and the importance of balancing its strengths to keep it relevant in the game's meta.

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 decks but as a means of introspecting and learning what we as individuals want from our games. This is Sizzle & Steak.

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 so that you can jump on board the lore train just in time for all the payoff!

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.