I'm pulling my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for another drive to work.

Okay, so today's podcast is based on a head-to-head that I did in December, which is recent for me,

a little less recent for you guys. But it was all about possible changes to Commander.

Okay, so what I'm going to do is I'm going to, I think this is going to be two podcasts.

I'm going to go over the 16 different possibilities.

What I want to do is I want to examine Commander from the vantage point of a game designer.

And so I'm going to talk a bit about commander. Let me make a few

caveats here before I begin. But the point of today's podcast is I'm going to go through the 16

changes that were talked about in the head-to-head and then give my opinion on them from my perspective.

Okay, so a couple of caveats before I begin. Number one, Wizards of the Coast

does not run the commander format. There's a whole team that's in charge of the rules and the

band list and all that is not done by Wizards. So first off, anything I say today is my opinion

and it's me talking about my thoughts on it. It is not really going to impact anything.

I have zero say on this. So first off, just because I talk about something or I recommend something

or I like something doesn't actually mean it's going to change. I have zero input on the changes.

Two is I am not, I do not play a lot of commander.

I mean, I have played commander.

I do not play a lot of commander.

So a lot of this, as is true for most formats, the nature of my job.

So being the fact that I have a family, when I'm not at work, I don't play a lot of magic.

My son and I play with pre-constructed decks every once in a while, but I don't play a lot of magic outside the office.

I play a little bit on Magic the Government Arena, but I don't play a lot outside the office.

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