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The Command Zone

Collected Company & Studio71

Hobbies, Leisure, Games

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🗓️ 23 December 2025

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Losing a Commander game is a lot like history—those who don’t learn from it are doomed to repeat it. But what if real-world historical conflicts could help you avoid suffering more losses at game night? This episode, we’re taking a look back at The Great War, dissecting its complexities for lessons you can use on your own MTG Commander battlefields. -------- JOIN 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 -------- AG1: Head to http://www.drinkAG1.com/command you’ll get the welcome kit, a Morning Person hat, a bottle of Vitamin D3+K2, a AG1 Flavor Sampler and you’ll get to try their new sleep supplement AGZ for free. 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: Dan Carlin's Hardcore History: https://www.youtube.com/user/dancarlinpodcaster/videos The Best Cards of 2025 | The Command Zone 717: https://youtu.be/QG5KDhlmFRI?si=F-nO-8H7wbYm8MYH The Guns of August (by Barbara Tuckman): https://www.amazon.com/Guns-August-Pulitzer-Prize-Winning-Outbreak/dp/0345476093 The Christmas Truce: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_truce -------- 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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0:00.0	This episode is sponsored by AG1. Traveling for the holidays, braving crowded malls.
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0:26.7	including a welcome kit, flavor sampler, and more.
0:45.0	Greetings, humans. You have entered the Command Zone, your destination for all aspects of Elder Dragon Highlander. Enjoy your stay.
0:50.2	Welcome back, everybody, to another episode of the Command Zone podcast. I'm your host, Rachel Weeks. How is it? It's Josh Lee Kwai. Rachel, I'm excited about this one. It's so fun. So it's a super, super busy time right now. Yeah, we've done a lot of really big episodes. The Zonis, if you haven't watched them, the best cards of the year episode. A ton of extra work was put into that one.
1:10.9	Our team's been putting in a lot of overtime and putting out a lot of great stuff.
1:15.4	But this time of year is always busy just because there's a lot of really big episodes.
1:18.6	So in order to sort of give them a break, we are doing a special thing here today, which is we are doing a remastered version of my favorite episode of the podcast that we've
1:28.5	ever done.
1:29.2	And I don't say that lightly.
1:30.3	We've done over 700, almost 800 episodes of the podcast now.
1:35.0	Yep.
1:35.3	And this one's back all the way to number 190.
1:38.6	Yeah.
1:38.9	So it was a while ago.
1:40.0	It's in the mold of, I know a lot of people liked our Sun Tzu Art of War.
1:43.7	We did one on the Prince
1:45.2	we we sometimes take these real world things and kind of translate them through the lens of
1:50.0	commander and this episode is I've always find it fascinating game theory and maybe people don't know
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