Hello everyone and welcome to CommanderCast! This week we continue ourblack tie affair with Mark and Adam as the guys do the second 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 this year. What card won Most Needed Reprint? Which card won Most Nearly Playable ? What card won Best Card Not For Commander? Which O.G. character had the Best Callback Card? Find out today on part 2 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

Posted: December 28, 2020

Intros: 

Adam

Mark 

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This seemed like the most appropriate holiday image we could have used, honestly.

The Categories 

Best card that’s nearly playable

• Enigmatic Incarnation
• Ingenuity Engine
• WINNER: *Twinning Staff*
• Yidaro, Wandering Monster

Best card that’s not for our format

• Sea Gate Stormcaller
• WINNER: *Scourge of the Skyclaves*
• Uro, Titan of Nature’s Wrath
• Klothys, God of Destiny
• Allosaurus Shepherd

Best new thing Green does now

• Protection from dogs (Feline Sovereign)
• WINNER: *Artifacts matter (Ich-Tekik, Salvage Splicer)*
• Triple mana (Nyxbloom Ancient)
• Cascade (cascade, cascade, cascade) Apex Devastator
• Double landfall triggers (Ancient Greenwarden)

Best new boring Simic value card

• Imoti, Celebrant of Bounty
• Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy
• Uro, Titan of Nature’s Wrath
• Keruga, the Macrosage
• WINNER: *Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait*

Best Needed Reprint

• Oubliette
• WINNER: *Mana Echoes*
• Rings of Brighthearth
• Scroll Rack
• Ugin the Spirit Dragon
• Command Beacon

Best Out-of-Nowhere Reprint

• Grim Tutor
• Zur the Enchanter
• Runed Halo
• WINNER: *Cuombajj Witches*
• Fluctuator

Best mythic reprint no one was asking for (The Tree of Redemption Award)

• Majestic Myriarch
• Vengevine
• Vorapede
• Soul of Innistrad
• WINNER: *Comet Storm*

Best better than functional reprints (i.e., Best new reason to stop running X (Clone/Divination/Darksteel Ingot/etc.—)

• WINNER: *Skyclave Relic*
• Glasspool Mimic
• Nighthawk Scavenger
• Return to Nature
• Bala Ged Recovery

Best O.G. Callback to an old card/character 

• Ghost of Ramirez Di Pietro
• Nevinyrral, Urborg Tyrant
• Akroma, Vision of Ixidor
• Tormod, the Desecrator
• WINNER: *Krark, the Thumbless*

Interstitial fodder, part 2

• Best Christmas movie
  • Home Alone
  • WINNER: *It’s A Wonderful Life*
  • Rise of the Guardians
  • Love, Actually
  • National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
  • Scrooged
  • Elf

• Best Non-Christmas movie that takes place during Christmas
  • Die Hard
  • WINNER: *Gremlins*
  • Harry Potter series
  • Lethal Weapon
  • Batman Returns
  • Trading Places

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
• + The Pink Panther (the movie, not the cartoon)