Hello and welcome to the ETH RETCast, where we're all about Commander, Dada, and Dad

Jokes.

I'm Joey Shulton, I'm joined by my fantastic co-host.

In light of the upcoming Spider-Man and Magic Together and Crossover,

he would like to remind you all that with great power comes great in responsibility.

It's Dana Roach.

I got to meet the guy who invented Altoids this week.

He gave a speech thing at my local college.

It wasn't like that interesting, but he did make a mint.

All right. I'm glad that you're staying fresh and on top of your dad jokes here, Dana.

Imagine having that for your claim to fame. Like, that would be all right. If that was your

market, I'm like, I'm in a minute, Alta. It's made a bunch of money. Like, that would be all right. If that was your market, I'm in an adult.

It's made a bunch of money.

Like, that's kind of a bro being bro moment there. If that was your claim to fame in this world. Listen, it'd be cooler than, you know, having Magic the Gathering YouTube channel as your claim to fame. Just if we can get real self-deprecating here. Absolutely. No humor like self-depriending humor right anyway

Dana it's you and I on

this episode. What are we chatting about today? We're talking about the embarrassment of riches that is

currently the state of commander. Yeah, you put this idea forward, and I am so fascinated by this

concept, and I'm really excited to get into it with you.

There is kind of this saturation point that it seems that we've hit with a lot of different types of card designs in Commander and how many options there are for those.

And so you've got a whole bunch of examples that you wanted to put forward and to chat about about the number of options that we have to put into commander

decks and the ways that that makes deck building sometimes easier but also more difficult

at the same time, which is really confusing and weird. So, dude, let's get into it. Yeah,

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