All Episodes
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Episode 19 - Lutri, the Spellchaser
We're pleased to resume our regularly scheduled programming with a look at another card on the Commander banlist - and this time we brought the wheel back to choose it...
Talking all things anime and Magic: the Gathering with Tomlin
Gramps is back in the interview host chair, this time chatting with Tomlin. We met Tomlin playing together on a live Commander game for Cozy Magic Fest 2024 and have b...
Episode 18 - Conspiracy
Get your tinfoil hats and Reddit logins ready, it's Conspiracy time! A special case on the Commander banlist, Conspiracy refers not to the card named Conspiracy, but t...
Meet your new favourite Magic creator: RubeePlays
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 relatio...
The Commander Brackets Beta is here
Oh boy, an emergency Casual Compliance release! Earlier today, we were treated to a major update from Gavin Verhey, on behalf of the Commander Format Panel. This updat...
Episode 17 - Paradox Engine
(Editor note: due to a scheduling snafu at our new recording space, there was someone recording guitar in the next room while we recorded this one. We didn't realise u...
Episode 16 - Panoptic Mirror
You might be familiar with the Imprint mechanic from our repeated mentions of Isochron Scepter. Our card from the banlist this episode is another Imprint classic in Pa...
Episode 15 - Coalition Victory
There are many ways to win a game of Magic - at least 20 - but one of them has been on the Commander ban list for a long time. We take a look at that very card in this...
Discussing the Commander Format Panel with AttackOnCardboard
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 ...
Episode 14 - Braids, Cabal Minion
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, C...
Episode 13: Emrakul, the Aeons Torn
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 Mag...
September '24 Banlist Update and WOTC taking over Commander
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...
Episode 12: Griselbrand
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 al...
Episode 11: Sundering Titan
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 ther...
Episode 10: Falling Star & Chaos Orb
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...
Episode 9: Tinker
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 libra...
Episode 8: Time Vault
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. Thi...
Episode 7: Biorhythm
Gaea's Cradle has appeared on our show before, as a powerful way to generate mana if you have a lot of creatures. This episode's featured banned card, Biorhythm, asks ...
Episode 6: Sway of the Stars
Sometimes, what a good game of Commander needs is a board wipe of some kind. But what if we take that idea further? What if, instead of a board wipe, we effectively re...
Could a rating system work for Commander?
Last time on Casual Compliance Nights we spoke about "Rule Zero" and in that episode we briefly discussed a system known as Spirit of the Game. This is a rating system...
Episode 5: Prophet of Kruphix
Just like speed limits, tapping creatures and lands is something put there by THE MAN to slow you down and stop you from doing things when you want to. Prophet of Krup...
Episode 4: Tolarian Academy
Gaea's Cradle takes the fact that green loves having lots of creatures and asks "what if they all generated mana?" Now, imagine that same design was applied to blue, a...
Episode 3: Gifts Ungiven
Who doesn't like getting exactly what they need? What if you could have two of exactly what you need? Someone made a Magic card that does something like that in Gifts ...
Casual Compliance Nights: Let's talk about "Rule Zero"
There's been a lot of talk online lately about "Rule Zero" and its place within Commander. We're going to try and unpack the main themes of that discourse here in this...
Episode 2: Recurring Nightmare
You've probably heard of reanimate effects in Magic: the Gathering before, but you've probably never seen one quite like this. Come and see what we thought of this sne...
Episode 1: Rofellos, Llanowar Emissary
Here it is: the first episode proper of Casual Compliance. In this, the main format of the show, we take a look at the Commander banlist one card at a time. We'll tell...
Episode 0: Start from Scratch
Welcome to Casual Compliance, a new show about Magic the Gathering's popular Commander format, but through an Australian lens looking at topics like:- what's on the ba...