Casual Compliance

We liked interviewing people so much, we're doing more of it! Now in a dedicated format, we bring you Casual Chats: interviews with interesting folks with some relation to Magic: the Gathering.

In our first instalment, Gramps talks to RubeePlays of Cozy Magic Club fame. They discuss her journey of discovering Magic, rediscovering it after moving to a new city, and building the kind of community and content she wants to see in the world.

Check Rubee and Cozy Magic Club out at these links:
https://linktr.ee/RubeePlays
https://linktr.ee/cozymagicclub

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If you ask Gramps, a little bit of land destruction never hurt anybody. There are some powerful lands out there and sometimes you just want them gone. But what if there was a card that made it extremely difficult to keep basic lands on the battlefield? Enter: Sundering Titan. This big boy hates basic land types and is the latest card that Gramps will try to save from remaining banned in Commander.

Disclaimer: we recorded this episode prior to the September 2024 Commander banlist update. We're planning to put an episode together soon to talk about all of that, but between our busy schedules right now and wanting to wait for more to be known about how that all plays out, we're not ready yet. Stay tuned for more on this.

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Local Elevator by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1300012

Artist: http://incompetech.com/

This episode of Casual Compliance is a special one, as you're getting two cards for the price of one! Well, two cards with identical ban reasons, so we just decided on-the-fly to do them as a single episode. Just in time too, because this week saw 4 more cards get added to the Commander banlist in the September 2024 update (we'll talk about it eventually, chillybin is finally in the process of moving house right now).

Check out Cozy Magic Club and all the wonderful things they do to make Magic more accessible: https://www.youtube.com/@CozyMagicClub

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Everyone loves a tutor in Magic the Gathering. You've got a card in mind, you play a little spell, you go get that card and put it in your hand or on top of your library. What's that? There's a spell that let's you just put it straight into play? Surely, there's no way something like THAT can be abused, right? Uh oh, it's Tinker time.

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A pattern we've started to notice with the Commander banlist is cards that can easily or reliably give you infinite amounts of anything will usually end up banned. This episode's card is one of those types of cards. Time Vault is a funky little artifact that seems like it has a downside attached to it giving you an extra turn, but tune into this one to find out how real that downside actually is.

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