CommanderCast S7E2 – Macabre Waltz: The Nightmare Maker™

August 20, 2012

This entry is part 2 of 14 in the series Podcast Season 7

Posted by ANDY aka GHoooSTS
CARDS: WE PLAY WITH ‘EM. But what the hell is that phenomenon that covers the top half of the card? …’art’ or something? Hmm… let me get a specialist on the jack to discuss this briefly for our Free-For-All Roundtable. To help keep at least some small amount of my crushing ignorance at bay, I tagged in my man Rick aka PolishTamales to back up myself, Andrew, and Gibson this week as we lay down some more science on the track for CommanderCast. Rick is a government-certified baller who got screwed by WotC for producing high-quality free promotional material for them on his DeviantArt page, so he got sweet revenge by ballin’ it up elsewhere and making Sorin and Jace touch each other (presumably). These days you can find Rick laying down his thug thizzle on his like eight outlets, all of which are linked below.

You know my man stay reppin them silly-ass moonfolk b

What are we talking about this week? Well, if the art fight isn’t enough, how about creatureless decks? Maybe a little discussion on making single decks work for multiple playgroups? Also, Secret Tech has the vault topped off by nine new club bangers.

Show notes and pertinent links below. Enjoy.


SHOW NOTES

00:00 to 05:32: Introduction: Hey guys it’s internet radio, how sweet is that

COMMUNITY SEGMENTS

05:44 to 21:17: Free-For-All Roundtable: ART FIGHT: What do you know about art? How about WotC’s policy on Magic art? This week Andrew was all ‘let’s talk art since Rick is an artist’. Is it a Commander topic? Not necessarily, but whatever. This week we discuss how Magic’s art has changed and whether we like it or not, including some discussion on Magic’s olde-tyme artists and where they went.

21:33 to 46:32: Baselines for Civil Play: Rick done did it. And by ‘it’, I mean ‘joined a new playgroup that doesn’t try their hardest to ruin each other’s fun all the time’. Thusly, he’s been forced into developing a whole new jam in terms of mindset: he needs to have more than one way to play a single deck. While a lot of people figure you should just build multiple decks to scale for different groups, this week we discuss some baselines on building a deck with multiple play groups in mind.

STRATEGY SEGMENTS

46:49 to 54:18: Archetype Rundown: Creatureless Decks: Decks without mans: LETS DO THIS. In this segment, Gibson wanted to talk about building decks with no creatures, which is an experiment he’s still working on. This week we discuss the ways to build and play decks with no creatures, and Rick is basically silent. We touch on things like the important colours to have, choosing a Commander, and different archetypes that function without creatures pretty well. What kind of decks do you fare well against, and which ones wreck you? What kind of skills do you need to have to pilot this deck well?

TECHNOLOGY SEGMENTS

54:34 to 1:13:11: Secret Tech: Gibson, Andrew and Rick all throw their choice joints into the Secret Tech Vault.

OUTTRO

1:13:26 to closing: Outtro: Thanks for listening!

CONTACT INFORMATION

  • Andy: E-Mail: CommanderCast(at)gmail(dot)com // Twitter: (at)CommanderCast
  • Rick: E-Mail: polishtamales(at)gmail(dot)com // Twitter: (at)polishtamales
  • Andrew: Twitter: (at)a_magrini
  • Gibson: Twitter: (at)KaipaLin
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  • http://twitter.com/walkingtowork Alex Lin

    Although I think the 10th Edition Art is fine, “It could have been the Wrath of the Air Force” was a great line :D

    (Quinton Hoover original is obviously the best though)

  • http://twitter.com/GUDoug Judson Gruber

    it wasn’t vanishing but I caught a Zur player w/ their pants down once and put my Flickerform on his Zur. Zur never got to attack again. It was pretty awesome.

  • Mightily_Oats

    For the curious, DiTerlizzi is Tony DiTerlizzi. He is one of my favorite artists of all time. His Magic art isn’t his best work (I attribute it to being constrained by the art director’s style guide). He made quite a name for himself by being the main artist for Dungeon and Dragons: Planescape. In my mind, he single-handedly gave the entire set a timeless style that I still get all giddy about to this day. Check it out here: http://diterlizzi.com/home/games-gallery/

    • http://twitter.com/GUDoug Judson Gruber

      Sweet he made Goblin Warbuggy and Workhorse!

    • http://twitter.com/duneecho Kirsin Koch

      I spoke with Rebecca Guay at GenCon in 2001 or 2002. She confirmed her last name is pronounced “gay.”

      And Mightily_Oats is correct, DiTerlizzi’s best art was in the Planescape boxed set. He single-handedly defined that entire campaign’s crazy feel with his art.

  • http://www.facebook.com/andrew.mantha Andrew Mantha

    Hate to be captain buzkill, but Equilibrium doesn’t work the way you think. It triggers while your creature spell is still on the stack. It’s still really really good though.

    • GHoooSTS

      RULES: U KNOW EM
      Thanks homie I’ll fix that up when I get some quality time with my computron.

  • http://www.facebook.com/allister.m.blossfeld Allister Michael Dodgson Bloss

    seeing the mono red Slobad Life gain deck makes me want to build a quirky deck of my own.

    • Mightily_Oats

      DO IT, SON! CARPE CHEESEBURGER!

  • Mark

    I don’t really know much about the ‘art world’ and stuff, but is it possible that the ‘classic’ MtG artists are now established enough to charge beyond WotC’s budget for art commissions? I apologize if this is a totally ignorant statement, so I’d like to hear from people who are in the know about stuff like this.

  • http://www.facebook.com/richard.cortez.564 Richard Cortez

    Please God no more Talrand, that’s all there is at armada anymore.

  • Nathan McKay

    My favorite card for creating a creature hostile environment is humility. With the recent tendancy to use creatures with enter the battlefield abilities for enchantment removal it is often very hard for people to remove. It provides a secondary torpor orb effect if you are in white. The added effect of helping defend you as creatures only deal 1 damage is great too. It can often make you a target though as people often fear what they don’t understand. However when everything is a 1/1 being a target isn’t all that bad.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=50300736 Shawn Hudson

    People that refuse to play with cards based on old, non-realistic art remind me of the folks who’d scoff at your Wii: “I only play games where I can count the bone fragments in my enemy’s exploding skull. Wii games are cartoons.”

    News Flash: All games are cartoons. Also, don’t be hatin’ on the Foglios.

  • Andrew Hartsell

    I really wish that Drew Tucker still did cards. He was one of my favorites.

  • Small Child

    I can’t believe the average age of a magic player isn’t in the 20′s. I’m seventeen and I’m very young compared to *everyone* else at my LGS. I barely ever see anyone younger than highschool age in the game, and very few who are in highschool as well.

  • Jeremy Owens

    Mainly because I enjoy their whimsical art and their current webcomic, I feel I should point out that Phil and Kaja are husband and wife, not brothers.