Hello everyone and welcome to CommanderCast Episode 422! This week Mark and Adam planning and scheming as they try to take down the ruling class to see who deserves to be… The Monarch! The lastest set, Commander Legends, brings back one of the most popular mechanics from the Conspiracy summer sets and this seems as good of a time as any to talk about the way Monarch can change a normal game of Commander into one full of unexpected attacks, bloodshed, and table dealing. But first we need to talk about WotC’s latest plans on what to expect from the Secret Lairs product coming down the pipeline.

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

CommanderCast Episode 422

Posted: December 14, 2020

Intros: 

Adam

Mark 

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Community

“Secret Lair’s 2021 Plans Revealed: Focus on Artists and Superdrops”

Artists:

• Kaja & Phil Foglio
• Johannes Voss
• Fiona Staples

Interstitial fodder: 

• Ryan Reynolds’ “Match Made In Hell”
• Worth reading: “The long war between animation and live action has landed on Netflix” (which includes a sweet mini-doc on Max Fleischer’s rotoscope animation technique)
• Always put salt in your coffee (but not in your eyes).
• Immortal Hulk
• Graves vs. Danzig + Ozzy vs. Dio

Strategy

Monarch!! How have we not done a whole segment on this yet?

718. The Monarch

718.1. The monarch is a designation a player can have. There is no monarch in a game until an effect instructs a player to become the monarch.

718.2. There are two inherent triggered abilities associated with being the monarch. These triggered abilities have no source and are controlled by the player who was the monarch at the time the abilities triggered. This is an exception to rule 113.8. The full texts of these abilities are “At the beginning of the monarch’s end step, that player draws a card” and “Whenever a creature deals combat damage to the monarch, its controller becomes the monarch.”

718.3. Only one player can be the monarch at a time. As a player becomes the monarch, the current monarch ceases to be the monarch.

718.4. If the monarch leaves the game, the active player becomes the monarch at the same time as that player leaves the game. If the active player is leaving the game or if there is no active player, the next player in turn order becomes the monarch. If no player still in the game can become the monarch, the game continues with no monarch.

Technology

The new Monarch cards in Commander Legends (that aren’t “Courts”)

• Archon of Coronation
• Azure Fleet Admiral
• Crimson Fleet Commodore
• Dawnglade Regent
• Emberwilde Captain
• Fall from Favor
• Feast of Succession
• Jared Carthalion, True Heir
• Staunch Throneguard

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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