Hello everyone and welcome to CommanderCast Episode 405! This week Mark and Adam want to ask… does the”pushed” cards made by WotC actually make a difference in Commander? Sure there are some but are they the exception to the rule? Then later we go over Discard and try to see if we can find a place for it. We wrap it up a quick look at some of the non legendary cards from the new Jumpstart product and evaluate where they go.

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

CommanderCast Episode 405

Posted: July 6, 2020

Intros: 

Adam

Mark 

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Community

Controversial opinion?: “Pushed” cards don’t often make much of an impact in EDH

• Mythics & Rares from the past three years
• Top cards in Standard
• Top cards in EDH

Exceptions to this pattern:

• Assassin’s Trophy
• Dovin’s Veto
• Golos, Tireless Pilgrim
• Growth Spiral
• Settle the Wreckage
• Bolas’s Citadel

Interstitial fodder: 

• Worth Watching: Once Upon a Time in the West; seasons 1 & 2 of Dark
• I’m pretty early in to say for sure, but Doom Patrol might just be bad (the comics, not the show).
• FF5 and job systems and why they suck

Strategy

Discard revisited? (Tinybones reconsidered)

• Turning symmetrical discard into asymmetrical discard

• Aggro-control?

Technology

New non-Legendary Jumpstart cards that might be worth a damn in EDH.

• Allosaurus Shephard
• Archaeomender
• Blessed Sanctuary
• Branching Evolution
• Immolating Gyre
• Spiteful Prankster
• Trusty Retriever
• Towering Titan
• Witch of the Moors

*See also: All 27 of the non-Legendary, non-reprint cards

Hmmm, I wonder where they got that Blessed Sanctuary art from?

Outtro/Contacts:

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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!