Hello everyone and welcome to CommanderCast! This week we finish up our black tie affair with Mark and Adam as the guys do the final part of our CommanderCast Award Show. With 26 different product releases this year, the guys are going from Theros Beyond Death to Commander Collection: Green and giving out Awards on all the things we got last year. What card won Best New Boros Card? Which cards won the Most Flexible and the Most Linear Awards? What cards won Best New Land Cycle? What card won Newest Staple Card? Find out today on part 3 of our Awards Show!

All that, plus our usual interstitial fodder, and all you have to do is Click the IB!!!

1st Annual CommanderCast Awards – part 3

Posted: January 4, 2021

Intros: 

Adam

Mark 

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The Categories 

Best new honorary Cronenberg

• WINNER: *Abomination of Llanowar*
• Woe Strider
• Fiend Artisan
• Vitality Hunter
• Grimdancer

Best New Boros Card

• Verge Rangers
• Keeper of the Accord
• Wyleth, Soul of Steel
• Akiri, Fearless Voyager
• WINNER: *Winota, Joiner of Forces*

Best new land cycle

• Triomes
• MDFC lands
• Pathways
• Thriving cycle
• WINNER: *Crowd/Battlebond Lands*

Best new staple

• Hullbreacher
• Opposition Agent
• War Room
• WINNER: *Dryad of the Ilysian Grove*
• Feed the Swarm

Most linear new commander

• Umori the Collector
• Kaervek the Spiteful
• WINNER: *Kangee, Sky Warden*
• Rin and Seri, Inseparable
• Sethron, Hurloon General

Most flexible new commander

• WINNER: *Araumi of the Dead Tide*
• Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh
• Archelos, Lagoon Mystic
• Sakashima of a Thousand Faces
• Obeka, Brute Chronologist

Most “Commander” card (i.e., the “Spirit of the Format” award)

• WINNER: *Omnath, Locus of Creation*
• Triples stuff cards (Fiery Emancipation, Nyxbloom Ancient)
• Reshape the Earth
• The Ozolith
• Fierce Guardianship

Our favorite new commanders of the year

Adam:

• WINNER: *Araumi of the Dead Tide*
• Brallin, Skyshark Rider and Shabraz, the Skyshark
• Tinybones, Trinket Thief
• Xyris, the Writhing Storm
• Zirda, the Dawnwaker

Mark:

• WINNER: *Neyith of the Dire Hunt*
• Moraug, Fury of Akoum
• Purphoros, Bronze-Blooded
• Siona, Captain of the Pyleas
• Yurlok of Scorch Thrash

Interstitial fodder, part 3

• Best Christmas movie short
  • “The Grinch Who Stole Christmas”
  • “Frosty the Snowman”
  • “Rudolf the Red-Nosed reindeer”
  • “Charlie Brown’s Christmas”
  • “Mickey’s Christmas Carol”

Adam & Mark’s top 3 (video games, comics, and movies of 2020)

• Adam
  • Game – Breath of the wild again, axiom verge 2, messenger, age of calamity
  • Comic books – x-tinction agenda, immortal hulk, swamp thing, ginseng roots
  • Movie – literally did not watch any new movies, soo…Metropolis?

• Mark
  • Final Fantasy VII Remake, Ghost of Tsushima (worth reading: a solid think piece about the game, Kurosawa, and the myths & actual history of the samurai on Polygon)
  • Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits, by David Wong
  • Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)

Outtro/Contacts:

CommanderCast  – Email: commandercast(at)gmail(dot)com // twitter: (at)CommanderCast

Calvin – Email: captainredzone(at)gmail(dot)com  // twitter: (at)CaptainRedZone

Mark – Email: mahlerma(at)gmail(dot)com

Adam – (at)squire9999

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And a big thanks to everyone here at the CommanderCast Network. We’ll see you next week with more community, strategy, and technology. Until then, LET’S GET IT!

*Musical transitions shamelessly borrowed from the following ‘60s TV shows:

• Thunderbirds
• Hawaii Five-O
• Batman
• The Green Hornet
• My Favorite Martian
• The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
• The Munsters
• The Addams Family

(And also from The Karate Kid & 2001: A Space Odyssey)