MTG in 2025 - Year in Review | 719

The Command Zone

Collected Company & Studio71

Hobbies, Leisure, Games

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🗓️ 31 December 2025

⏱️ 206 minutes

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2025: the year where Magic finally let you equip Doc Ock with Summon Materia so he could hop in a racecar and fly into outer space to fend off an attack from the Fire Nation. It’s been a crazy year. But now it’s time to look back over the cards, events, controversies, and changes from the last 365 days of MTG that made this one of the biggest (but also most polarizing) years in the game’s history. Jimmy, JLK and Rachel discuss everything that made 2025 one to remember: the goods and bads, the highs and lows, what worked, what didn’t, and what we hope to see in years to come. -------- SUPPORT OUR PATREON: Support the show and become a Patron! Be a part of our community, receive awesome rewards, and more! https://www.patreon.com/commandzone -------- FACTOR: Eat smart with Factor. To get 50% off your first box plus free breakfast for one year, use code command50off at: https://www.factormeals.com/command50off SHOPIFY: Power your business with Shopify. Start your one-dollar-per-month trial period today by going to: https://www.shopify.com/tcz ZOCDOC: Stop putting off those doctors appointments! Find and instantly book a top-rated doctor today by going to https://www.zocdoc.com/command #sponsored -------- CARD KINGDOM: The Command Zone is sponsored by Card Kingdom! If you want to receive your cards in one safe package and experience the best customer service, make sure to order your Magic cards, sealed product, accessories, and more at Card Kingdom: http://www.cardkingdom.com/command ARCHIDEKT: Discover, build, catalog, and playtest on Archidekt, the deck-building website that makes it easy to brew brand new lists or manage your old favorites. Go to http://www.archidekt.com/commandzone to get started today! ULTRA PRO: Huge thanks to Ultra PRO for sponsoring this episode! Be sure to check out their amazing APEX sleeves and super classy MANA 8 product line. If you want to keep your cards protected and support the show, visit: https://ultrapro.com/command -------- Relevant Links: Aetherdrift w/Christian Navarro | Game Knights 76: https://tinyurl.com/33nhbvbe Mark Rosewater on Aetherdrift: https://tinyurl.com/4v52mrn6 Final Fantasy Earnings: https://tinyurl.com/mv57xe2a Beyond the Edge of Eternities: An MTG Movie: https://tinyurl.com/bdz5kuu4 Edge of Eternities w/ Bosco & Irene The Alien | Game Knights #79: https://tinyurl.com/yr39caew Vehicles as Commanders: https://tinyurl.com/2zv229e4 Jim Davis: Twitter: @JimDavisMTG YouTube: @JimDavisMTG Limited Resources: YouTube: @LimitedResourcesPodcast Blake Rasmussen's Response to Survey Feedback: https://tinyurl.com/mtre384h We Rank Every Precon from 2025 | The Command Zone 713: https://tinyurl.com/4pmbyeyx WOTC on Secret Lair x Monster Hunter: https://tinyurl.com/fn948fmy The Story of Ghazban Ogress: https://tinyurl.com/3tc6db3s Mark Rosewater's Response to Ghazban Ogress: https://tinyurl.com/ynvvasxc Magic: The Gathering Movie: https://tinyurl.com/3z9s2746 We Like The Hybrid Change, Actually | The Command Zone 708: https://tinyurl.com/2duppunp Sheldon Menery: Current Commander Concerns: https://tinyurl.com/4r97826a Why Not To Play Commander: https://tinyurl.com/2cmdj2ku Pigs & Slop: https://tinyurl.com/yjc6ar94 What are we even doing? | The Command Zone 702: https://tinyurl.com/7efnnjjs -------- Follow us on TikTok: @thecommandzone Follow us on Instagram: @CommandCast Follow us on Bluesky: @commandcast.bsky.social Follow us on Twitter: @CommandCast @JoshLeeKwai @jfwong @wachelreeks Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/commandcast/ Email us: commandzonecast@gmail.com -------- Commander Rules and Ban List: https://magic.wizards.com/en/banned-restricted-list Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:45.2	Elder Dragon Highlander. Enjoy your stay.
0:50.6	Hello everybody and welcome back to another episode of the Command Zone podcast. I'm your host,
0:54.8	Rachel Weeks. I'm Jimmy Wong. How is it? It's Josh Lee Kwai. That's right. There's all three of us
0:59.3	because it's a big episode. This is the episode of the year. And the 2025. The biggest episode of
1:06.4	the year. Yeah, probably the longest too. Yeah. So this one we're going to go through all of the highs,
1:11.2	all of the lows, everything that happened in 2025. What we think about the sets, the controversies,
1:17.3	the hottest button issues of the year that we just got through. And there are going to be a few
1:21.6	that you forgot about. Yeah. Every time we do this, I'm like, oh yeah, that happened this year.
1:27.0	It's been a long year. I will say like just before we get started, I'm like, oh yeah, that happened this year. It's been a long year. I will say, like, just before we get started, this was a year of very high highs, maybe the highest highs we've ever had, and very low lows, maybe the lowest lows we ever had. So the gap between the tops and bottoms is pretty big. Yeah, I agree. I'm excited to get into it and talk about all this stuff.
1:45.1	Yeah, not everything went great,
1:46.0	but a lot of stuff did go really well.
1:47.9	I guess we should just kick it off with the thing that I forgot happened. Yeah, we're gonna start with the big one. Well, we all forgot. The first thing in the year, so it's the longest away from right now that we can be. In this Rod Remastered, released on January 24th.
1:59.3	Mm-hmm.
2:00.0	It was a reprint set.
2:01.1	It had the really cool old, old movie poster frames.
2:04.5	Mm-hmm. mastered released on January 24th. It was a reprint set. It had the really cool old, old movie
2:02.9	poster frames. Most importantly, everyone will remember Edgar Markov finally got reprinted.
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