1st Annual CommanderCast Awards – Part, the First
December 21, 2020
Hello everyone and welcome to CommanderCast Episode! This week is a black tie affair with Mark and Adam as the guys do a CommanderCast Award Show. With 26 different product releases this year, the guys are going from There Beyond Death to Commander Collection: Green and giving out Awards on all the things we got this year. What card won Most Over Hyped? Which tribe got the most love and support? In a year full of unexpected hardships, what was the Most Rage-Inducing Act from WotC? Which mechanic won Biggest Swing and A Miss? Find out today on part 1 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 21, 2020
Intros:
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Mark
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Sets that came out this year:
- Theros Beyond Death
- Secret Lair Drop Series: Year of the Rat
- Secret Lair Drop Series: Theros Stargazing
- Unsanctioned
- Secret Lair Drop Series: International Women’s Day
- Secret Lair Drop Series: Thalia – Beyond the Helvault
- Mystery Booster Retail Edition
- Challenger Decks 2020
- Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths
- Commander 2020
- Secret Lair Drop Series: The Godzilla Lands
- Secret Lair Drop Series: Summer Superdrop
- Secret Lair: Ultimate Edition
- Signature Spellbook: Chandra
- Core Set 2021
- Jumpstart
- Double Masters
- Secret Lair Drop Series: Prime Slime
- Secret Lair Drop Series: Every Dog Has Its Day
- Zendikar Rising
- Zendikar Rising Expeditions
- Zendikar Rising Commander Decks
- Secret Lair Drop Series: Extra Life 2020
- Commander Legends
- Secret Lair Drop Series: Secretversary
- Commander Collection: Green
The Categories
Best new trend from WotC
- Mystery booster reprints
- Charity Secret Lair drops
- Modular double-faced cards
- WINNER: *White can finally start drawing cards again*
- Return of the Partner mechanic
- Bringing back mana burn (Yurlok)
Biggest swing-and-a-miss
- The Party mechanic in ZR
- Kaervek the Spiteful
- WINNER: *Companion mechanic*
- Mutate mechanic
- Lutri, the Spellchaser
Most Raging-Inducing Act By WotC
- Commander is now a draft set
- WINNER: *You got some Walking Dead in my Magic*
- Godzilla cards
- Bajillion-dollar Fetch Land Secret Lairs
Most forgettable product
- Jumpstart
- Secret Lair Drop Series: The Godzilla Lands
- Commander 2020
- Signature Spellbook: Chandra
- WINNER: *Unsanctioned*
Tribes that got most love this year
- Beasts
- Dogs & Cats
- Oozes
- WINNER: *Pirates*
- Sharks
Most Over-Hyped Card
- WINNER: *Jeweled Lotus*
- Chromatic Orrery
- Lithoform Engine
- Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy
- Opposition Agent
Most Underrated New Card
- WINNER: *Teferi’s Ageless Insight*
- Shiny Impetus
- Nyx Lotus
- Shadowspear
- Witch of the Moors
Interstitial fodder, part 1
- Alan Moore’s Saga of the Swamp Thing
- Adrenaline OD
Outtro/Contacts:
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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