Spawning Pool 1- Something Sphinx Around Here
January 14, 2014

By Calvin AKA CaptainRedZone

Spawning Pool 2- 6 Pack Set Review
January 28, 2014
Hello everyone out there! This week on the Spawning Pool, we’re trying something a little different. We wanted to know what would happen if you combined Eric, Calvin, two 6 packs of beer, a random Magic set, an open Commandercast studio, and some free time? Well, what we ended up with was The 6 Pack Set Review!!!
So if you’re into drunken Magic talk continue on! Also…. BYOB.
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Spawning Pool 3 – From the Vault: Textless
February 11, 2014
Posted By Chris-B
Announcing From the Vault: Textless. Harness the savage power of fifteen of the most brutally complicated and wordy Magic cards ever unleashed. These limited-edition, black-bordered textless creations are legal in many tournament formats and they will have your opponent calling “Judge!” in no time. Sweep all that messy text right off the card and confuse other players into oblivion.
Contents and Details
- 15 Premium foil cards, all with new art, and many available with no text for the very first time.
- An exclusive Spindown™ life counter.
- A collector’s guide with no text.
- Each card has been printed using a foil process in order to curl your cards up like a delicious tortilla.
- From the Vault: ______ will be available world-wide in English only, and will have an extremely limited print run.
- All cards are black bordered and tournament legal. This means that these cards are legal for use as long as you have a cellphone with no signal to try to look up oracle wordings.
Why use a legible easy to read card when you can sleeve up one of these wordless monstrosities. Read on to see all 15 cards!
Spawning Pool 4- 90 Minutes with Nole (or “Why we Play Commander”)
February 25, 2014

Spawning Pool 5- Old Fogey Cast
March 11, 2014

By Chris B and J Marshall
This week in Spawning Pool we present to you: Old Fogey Cast!
Chris B and I have been playing this wonderful game of Magic for a 15+ years, which has given us a different perspective as to how things have changed and what we think of Magic today. In this inaugural episode, we start laying the ground work for our perspectives: Old favorites, New Favorites, and why we like multiplayer politics. We hope you enjoy listening to it as much as we did recording it! Notes after the dinosaur (which you can click to download).
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Spawning Pool 6- Inside the Commander’s Studio: An Intimate Evening with Maelstrom Wanderer
April 22, 2014
By Nole Clauson
Editor’s Note: So in an alternate universe. Nole never wrote (Social) Contract from Below. Instead, he was a flavor writer, writing about the stories that get told as we play. (In another universe he is Batman, but that is not relevant to this story.) Please enjoy this look into the “colorshifted” world of Nole Clauson, flavor writer, with his article series “Inside the Commander’s Studio”