Casual Compliance

In the last instalment of Casual Compliance Nights, we discussed Wizards of the Coast taking over management of the Commander format, and teased that we'd be back for Part II of that discussion with s...

20 Dec 202446min

Like Emrakul in our previous episode, Braids is a character that has cards in Magic: the Gathering both in and out of the Commander banlist. The banned one - Braids, Cabal Minion - is the subject of t...

6 Dec 202431min

It finally happened! In our 13th episode discussing cards on the Commander banlist, we hit Emrakul, the Aeons Torn. Gramps has this as his favourite card in all of Magic, and yet it has been banned in...

22 Nov 202434min

This one has been a month in the making - it's finally time for us to talk about the September 2024 Commander banlist update and the waves of fallout that followed. We've got a lot of ground to cover ...

8 Nov 202457min

He's big. He's bad. He's Griselbrand. You've probably heard the name at some point if you've been playing Magic for even a little bit, but did you know he copped an almost immediate ban in Commander a...

25 Okt 202428min

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 extreme...

10 Okt 202431min

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 e...

28 Sep 202435min

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 ...

14 Sep 202427min