The PDH Pod

This week, the crew waxes lovingly about the Midrange archetype! What are its strengths and weaknesses in Pauper Commander and why, for the love of god, can't we stop playing it?? Socials Support the show HERE Email the show HERE Follow the show HERE Watch the Saturday Morning Streams HERE

This week, we're whooping butt as early as turn ONE as we build decks around a few of the coolest 1-mana commanders in PDH! Socials Support the show HERE Email the show HERE Follow the show HERE Watch the Saturday streams HERE

Even more new cards to talk about! This time, at least, the set is pretty sweet and offers a lot of common and uncommon options for Pauper Commander! Socials Support the show HERE Email the show HERE Follow the show HERE Watch the Saturday Streams HERE

This week, Liam and Sprngr dive into all the changes surrounding the Zeta downshifts and Arena changes! Socials Support the show HERE Email the show HERE Follow the show HERE Watch the Saturday Streams HERE

This week, Macbeefious joins us in the studios to discuss the various and sundry ways to have fun in all your games of Pauper Commander! Socials Support the show HERE Email the show HERE Follow the show HERE Watch the Saturday Streams HERE

This week, we're finishing our discussion on the Pillars of deck-creation with Pillars 3 & 4, affectionately known as How to Not Die and How to Not Run Out of Gas. Socials Support the show HERE Email the show HERE Follow the show HERE Watch the Saturday Morning Streams HERE

We've had countless 3x3's and 4x4 deckbuilding episodes where we use the Pillars to guide us through our decisions, but what do those actually mean? BeachBod god joins us in the studio this week to discuss the meaning and implications of Pillars 1 & 2 of PDH deck construction. Socials Support the show HERE Email the show HERE Follow the show HERE Watch the Saturday Morning Streams HERE

This week, we're continuing our deckbuilding trip around the color pie with mono black! Get Gorx'ed and listen to why Bison thinks black is Magic: The Gathering's best color! Socials Support the show HERE Email the show HERE Follow the show HERE Watch the Saturday Streams HERE

This week, Paul (the Scarecrow) joins the crew to revisit a topic we talked about 400 years ago - Deckbuilding Theories and Best Practices! Socials Support the show HERE Email the show HERE Follow the show HERE Watch the Saturday Morning Streams HERE Play some cPDH HERE and HERE

Whew! I was getting worried that we weren't going to get a new set this week. Thankfully, WotC came through, as they always do, to satisfy our content needs. Let's see what this small set has to offer the Pauper Commander format. Socials Support the show HERE Email the show HERE Follow the show HERE Watch the Saturday Streams HERE

This week, we've got an all-star lineup of combo players to bring back our 4x4 for PDH Combo decks! Socials Support the show HERE Email the show HERE Follow the show HERE Watch the Saturday Morning Streams HERE Play some Pauper Commander Leagues games HERE

It's time for another PDH Pod game show! Alkadron is back with a Pauper Commander version of Um Actually! Socials Support the show HERE Email the show HERE Follow the show HERE Watch the Saturday Morning streams HERE Get in some Means Girls of PDH HERE

This week, Daxx sits down with the crew to talk about myriad ways to spice up your Pauper Commander decks with some of the most underrated cards in the format! Socials Support the show HERE Email the show HERE Follow the show HERE Watch the Saturday Morning Streams HERE

This week, the crew revisits a previous conversation topic: is the juice worth the squeeze. How much synergy do you need to have to add a card, or suite of cards to your deck and what are the benefits? Socials Support the show HERE Email the show HERE Follow the show HERE Check out the Jalapeno Paupers YouTube HERE Show the Mean Girls some love HERE Watch the Saturday Morning streams HERE

It's time for another Mean Girls takeover of The PDH Pod! This week, they've brought a slew of super-happy-smile time-awesome announcements! What the heck is a PDHPalooza, anyway?? Socials Support the show HERE Email the show HERE Follow the show HERE Check out all the happenings with the Mean Girls of PDH HERE and HERE

With Break the Rules Month (July 2026) right around the corner, we decided to build some decks centered around said broken rules. In just a couple short weeks, all colorless commanders can be given a single color pip of your choice! Socials Support the show HERE Email the show HERE Follow the show HERE Watch the Saturday Morning Streams HERE

Hey... know what? It's time for new cards again. And we're here to talk about them! Between commons and uncommons, MCU is giving us ~300 cards to choose from, and we try to whittle those down to a consumable chunk of only the best cards for Pauper Commander. Socials Support the show HERE Email the show HERE Follow the show HERE Watch the Saturday Streams HERE

A long time ago, on a YouTube channel far, far away, (okay, not "far", but it would've sounded weird otherwise) -- The Jalapeno Paupers ranked and drafted all the best mana rocks in Pauper Commander. It only felt right to record our own version of a mana rock tier and draft list! Socials Support the show HERE Email the show HERE Follow the show HERE Watch the Saturday Morning Breakfa...

We're still working our way through the color pie with a Mono Red 3x3. Red has gotten a ton of new toys lately, and we're here to exploit every damn one of them! Socials Support the show HERE Email the show HERE Follow the show HERE Watch the Saturday Morning Breakfast Serial streams HERE

Recently, a patron asked Alkadron the question "What's up with Rhystic and Mystic being banned in Pauper Commander". To answer that question, Alk replied, "Well, why don't you come on the show and we'll talk about it!" So that's what we did :) Socials Support the show HERE Email the show HERE Follow the show HERE Watch the Saturday Streams HERE

The Patrons have spoken! This week, Daxx hit us with an episode topic-suggestion: build a deck without knowing the commander until it too late - muah hahaha! We polled our discord patrons for commander options and Fridge was brought aboard to present them to us. Socials Support the show HERE Email the show HERE Follow the show HERE Watch the Saturday Morning Streams HERE

Fresh of his trip to MC Vegas, Lobbert joins the pod to talk about all the do's and don'ts of travelling to high-profile conventions and what to expect if you're attending your first! Socials Support the show HERE Email the show HERE Follow the show HERE Watch the Saturday streams HERE Check out Lobberts videos HERE

This week, the Professional Human himself, Derek, joins the crew as we revisiting one of our earliest 4x4 deckbuilding episodes with the Spellslinger archetype! We've gotten a lot of new toys and tools that make this archetype really zing, so let's see what we've come up with. Socials Support the show HERE Email the show HERE Follow the show HERE Check out Derek's deckbuilding stre...

The BBB (on the TPP) was a deckbuilding competition hosted through Ginger's Wanderer's Pauper Commander League. The goal was to build the most unique deck around a mono-colored, 6+ mana commander. There were a ton of great decks this time around, but only ONE can take home the Baloney Trophy. Socials Support the show HERE Email the show HERE Follow the show HERE Watch the Saturday streams...

This week we officially hit 200 episodes! This is where a proper episode would get a description, but we cover myriad casual conversations, so... enjoy? Socials Support the show HERE Email the show HERE Follow the show HERE Watch the Saturday Streams HERE