Hey gang, chillybin here

You might have noticed we missed our regular release window this weekend. That's intentional and we're ok!

I got pretty sick for the last couple weeks in a way that prevented us from recording, and then we got too close to PAX Australia to be able to try and slot something in that we'd be happy with. Rather than rush something out, we're gonna take a break until later this month to allow us to focus on PAX and to give the launch of Phase 2 of Casual Compliance the effort it deserves.

As a bit of a teaser: we will be fully rebranding the show with the launch of Phase 2 and if you see me at PAX, I'll show you what the new logo and branding looks like. It's pretty fucking sick.

See y'all soon!

- chillybin

And thus, our watch has ended.

We've finally reached the end of the banlist, and after a little creative calendar shuffling, we were able to line up one of the luminaries of Commander to join us to talk about Black Lotus: Shivam Bhatt. We have both separately been guests on Shivam's interview podcast Casual Magic, so this completes that particular cycle, as well as the cycle of us talking about banned cards in Commander.

We're so grateful to Shivam for so generously giving us his time, and we're very excited for what comes next for us.

Stay tuned.

- chillybin

We shot this during the edit for the Primeval Titan episode with Violet, just in case we needed to buy ourselves more time to handle that edit. Thankfully, we didn't, but it's still helpful in buying time to line up the guest for our final episode. Want to know who that is? Watch this video to find out, but also to find out what we're doing AFTER the banlist.

- chillybin

We first met Violet back at PAX AUS 2025 when I interviewed the Good Games Morley team, so I was so stoked to finally get her on the show. She was an absolute sweetheart and we had so much fun recording this one, which I think really came through in the edit. I think it''s a good sign that I laughed as much as I did just editing it.

This was also our first attempt at remote recording a full episode of the show. We've done similar things for our livestream setups, but this was something else entirely. The recording situation used similar tech to our livestreams, with a couple of additions that were intended to enable a more flexible post-production, but we ended up with a whole heap of audio drift on each video track that had to be manually resynced. This was a GNARLY edit.

Anyway, we've got one more card on the banlist left to go, and for that one we've lined up a guest who is even further away from us geographically speaking. Don't worry, we've got plans to tighten the recording setup by then too. At least, I sure hope we can figure that out, for my sake.

- chillybin

Hey, so, Ante sucks. What do you mean someone else is gonna take one of my cards home? These things are so expensive!

We almost forgot about Ante being on the banlist, because like Conspiracy, it's not a single card sitting on the list alongside the others. Ante as a whole is banned in Commander. We've got thoughts on why. You know the drill. Come check it out.

- chillybin